The Immortal Cultivation World of Male Inferiority and Female Supremacy-Chapter 169. Release of the Heavenly Sword Daily

The meeting that took place on Heavenly Sword Peak that night was unknown to anyone except the high-level members of the Heavenly Sword Sect.

Fang Zhou, the initiator, was unaware that his suggestion had caused quite a stir amongst the sect’s leadership.

These past few days, Fang Zhou had been reading the Treasure Atlas, noting down many interesting or useful magic treasures for future collection.

Apart from the Mystic Crystal Jade, which could function as a smartphone and tablet, the Heavenly Demon Ring bore a resemblance to the illusion Fang Zhou faced during the Heavenly Sword Sect entry-level trials.

Such items were akin to AR devices, perfect for creating deep-immersion virtual games.

If he could get his hands on the Heavenly Demon Ring in the future, making a cultivation version of Sword Art Online would be quite fun.

Fang Zhou noted all these down to avoid forgetting them later.

After finishing the Treasure Atlas, Fang Zhou finally found a few magic treasures capable of copying comics, with the most suitable being one called the Wanhua Mirror.

It is said that the true Wanhua Mirror is an immortal artifact capable of perfectly duplicating anything reflected by it, even creating an identical world.

However, the versions circulating in the Cultivation World were counterfeit products, producing only superficial copies, unable to replicate living beings. freewёbnoνel.com

Due to their poor quality, these degraded Wanhua Mirrors were very cheap and easy to find.

For Fang Zhou, this was just right; comics were essentially just paper, not complex at all.

However, the Heavenly Sword Sect did not have such an item at the moment, and Fang Zhou was inconveniently unable to search for it outside; he had to wait a while to see if Ling Xiaoyue might bring one back, or look for it at the sect’s upcoming trade fair.

Fang Zhou also spent quite some time in the gourd space, with the help of the Gourd Children producing a batch of charcoal pencils.

Cheng Xing initially found it hard to adapt to drawing with charcoal pencils but soon realized their advantage, creating comics that were ninety percent similar to those Fang Zhou had seen in his past life.

Apart from comics, Fang Zhou asked Cheng Xing to compile the novels serialized in the Wangyue Daily into books to be sold bundled with the comics.

Leaving the gourd space, Fang Zhou encountered Wei Yuanling, who had come to the Moon Viewing Peak.

She brought good news; the Heavenly Sword Sect had completely agreed to Fang Zhou’s suggestion and planned to sell the Heavenly Sword Daily throughout the Cultivation World using the sales channels Fang Zhou could freely utilize.

Fang Zhou wasn’t surprised by the sect’s agreement; the benefits of his suggestion were obvious, and the sect would have had to be brainless to refuse.

Compared to the allure of improving the sect’s prestige and influence, Fang Zhou’s use of the sales channels was just a minor issue.

With both parties reaching an agreement, the next step was mass production.

Wei Yuanling mobilized the entire workforce to create tools for movable type printing, simultaneously using the sect’s resources to gather various contents for publication.

Just as Fang Zhou’s initial creation of the Wangyue Daily, the Heavenly Sword Sect aimed to make the Heavenly Sword Daily an instant hit, gaining widespread fame, ensuring it would not fall short compared to the Wangyue Daily, thus providing Wei Yuanling with ample support.

Days later, the first issue of the Heavenly Sword Daily was finally released.

Fang Zhou had sold the first issue of the Wangyue Daily from a small stall on Yujian Peak, but the Heavenly Sword Sect made a grand spectacle of the release date.

The release site was set on Heavenly Sword Peak, with branches selling on the other three main peaks, ensuring the newspaper reached the entire sect promptly.

Simultaneously, in Yunshan City, the Heavenly Sword Sect established dozens of external sales counters, covering the entire city.

The most aggressive strategy was the sect’s extremely low pricing; a single newspaper cost only ten copper coins, yet its content was double that of the Wangyue Daily, comprising two pages.

While newspapers were a new phenomenon sold solely by the Heavenly Sword Sect, making a high price acceptable, the sect chose a low-cost, market-capturing approach.

This minor expense was manageable for them; the market was more important.

Fang Zhou initially planned to go to Yujian Peak to buy a copy but before he could leave, Yu Qing personally brought one to him, even before she herself had read it.

Fang Zhou and Yu Qing found a spot by the waterfall to sit and read the Heavenly Sword Daily together.

A lone man and woman meeting in the wilderness to read and study together - what a wholesome scene.

Upon opening it, the four large characters of "Heavenly Sword Daily" were written fluidly, with an elegant flair.

Upon asking Yu Qing, Fang Zhou learned that True Master Yu Jian had written those characters, being the best calligrapher in the entire sect.

The Sect Master originally wanted to write them, but was collectively rejected.

Fang Zhou continued to read; the headlines and the first section were news, contrasting with Fang Zhou’s fabricated sensational news; the Heavenly Sword Daily’s news was formal, reporting significant recent events in the Cultivation World.

According to Wei Yuanling’s reveal, even before the first issue’s production began, the sect had dispatched over a hundred swift-footed disciples to gather news from all over the Cultivation World.

Although there would be a delay of ten days to a month before the news was published and sold, compared to the slow information flow in this world, it was a remarkable improvement.

Following the news section was the cultivation section, where elders published cultivation insights, compared the pros and cons of mainstream techniques, noted important aspects to consider during cultivation, and provided plenty of valuable content.

Jokes and anecdotes were not abandoned, with plenty of new content added, delivering entertaining tales and various amusing stories, along with the local customs of different places in the Cultivation World.

The final section was serialized novels; the largest portion covered Yu Qing’s new novel, "Phoenix Dust Calamity," a title suggested by Fang Zhou.

Fang Zhou himself serialized a short story titled "The Fierce Battle of the Yamen" under his pseudonym, occupying slightly less space than Yu Qing’s novel.

The remaining sections were filled with disciple submissions, mostly romance-themed, prompting the consideration to copy a section of Qi Transformation, to correct the disciples’ love-focused mindset.

Overall, while the Heavenly Sword Daily lacked some of the intrigue found in the news portion compared to Wangyue Daily, other sections were expanded and enriched, making it more diverse.

With its lower price compared to Wangyue Daily, combined with the sect’s distribution channels and content resources, the Heavenly Sword Daily was likely to be as popular, if not more than the Wangyue Daily.

The Heavenly Sword Sect had ample talent, and the collective efforts were comparable to Fang Zhou’s solo efforts.

Seeing her novel finally published in the newspaper, Yu Qing blushed slightly, lacking any intense reaction but clearly feeling excited.

Fang Zhou congratulated her; rather than the Heavenly Sword Daily’s sales, he was now more interested in what reaction Yu Qing’s novel would stir within the Heavenly Sword Sect.