Chapter 3402 The Road to Fame

The Xiang River is long and the plum grove is picturesque. Xu Yi is lying on the edge of the bamboo house, playing with the wish-fulfilling beads in his hand. Two white cranes are dancing around the plum grove in the sky.

Huangmei leaned next to Xu Yi and squinted at Xu Yi, "Yes, these guys pretended to be really good. I really underestimated you. I thought you would be defeated by those five Xuanhuang Essences, but you didn't." I think you managed to hold on. However, I said you won’t get addicted to pretending and forget about the real thing.”

Xu Yi said calmly, "The quality of the words that come into your mouth has deteriorated. I don't have time to talk nonsense with you, so I'm going to sleep first." After saying that, he closed his eyes, not knowing whether he fell asleep or was falsely asleep.

At this moment, his face was calm but his heart was agitated.

After pretending for several months, it finally came to fruition.

Since that day, after questioning the case in Sanxianyuan, he understood the path that Yu Dushixin pointed out to him, a path to becoming a celebrity.

After being promoted to the position of Gong Cao, he has already hit the ceiling of promotion. There is little point in continuing to suffer in Sanxianyuan.

After all, Xu Yi's pursuit is different from that of ordinary officials. Ordinary officials want to have great power. By guarding this lucrative position, they can easily reap benefits for a long time.

Xu Yi's only pursuit was resources, resources for cultivation, and the purpose of obtaining an official position was still for resources.

He has now reached the Great Consummation of the Yangyu Realm. If he continues to move forward, the only thing he lacks is resources, a large amount of Xuan Huang Jing.

To obtain these resources, it would take at least decades of effort if he relied solely on his position as a meritorious official. He couldn't afford to wait.

On the contrary, it is more feasible to take the path of becoming a famous person. If he is a meritorious person, he can only come into contact with lower-class people. If he is a famous person, he can be friends with people like Yu Duzhi. Undoubtedly, it is easier to become a big shot when you are with big shots. What leaks out from the fingers of a big man is enough for a small man to accumulate in his lifetime.

Xu Yi has walked the road of celebrities before, but this time, he decided to play a more high-end game.

He has learned that there are not many celebrities in today's world. You may be able to become famous quickly by relying on words alone, but it may be difficult to stand out and become famous.

This requires strategy.

Xu Yi's strategy is to superimpose celebrities and hermits. After this combination of punches, if you don't believe it, you can't get ahead.

Facts have proved that these months of pretending were not in vain. He gradually rose to fame and will definitely reach a very high level after the birthday of Mr. Fu'an today.

By this time, the harvest season is not far away.

As he expected, since that day when Lord Fu'an Zuo Jian talked about his birthday, people almost came in droves. With his exquisite perception, he would naturally not give people the chance to meet him by chance.

He moved around the Xiangshui River several times, and the matter became a good talk again.

After several twists and turns, no one could see him, and gradually, no one bothered him anymore.

However, the popularity of Kongke has not dropped because of this, but has become higher and higher. There has always been an unbreakable truth: what the world lacks, it will pursue.

There are even high-ranking families who send out fifty Xuanhuangjing to invite empty guests to come and stay for a while.

At that time, Xu Yi was so greedy that his saliva drooled all over the floor, and he was about to bite his steel teeth into pieces.

Since then, people in the world have completely stopped thinking about empty guests.

More than a month later, Kongke and Liu Guancen appeared without warning at the banquet of Gao Bohou, the judge of the Grain Academy. The scene almost exploded. Celebrities from all walks of life gathered together for a while, making Gao Bohou earn a lot of face.

During the entire banquet, Xu Yi was dressed in white, and his talking and laughing level was no less than that of the party in Xianlin City. He sang three poems with the theme of the moon, which attracted earth-shattering cheers.

After drinking three glasses of wine, Xu Yi said goodbye to his master, Uncle Gao, who prepared a generous gift. Xu Yi did not refuse, took it calmly, and walked away gracefully.

Xu Yi's arrival was sudden, and his departure was even more unexpected. Especially when he accepted Gao Bohou's gift calmly, many people were stunned, thinking that it was Xu Yi who was invited by Gao Bohou with a lot of money.

Gao Bohou quickly said, "Kong Kong's guest came suddenly. I didn't invite him. I'm not afraid of everyone's jokes. What I prepared for Kong's guest was only five pieces of Xuan Huang Jing. If this was considered a heavy gift, I didn't know at that time. What does Mr. Kuang Ming’s recommendation as a false immortal have to do with the Fifty Mysterious Huang Jing on the banks of the Xiang River that day?”

Five pieces of Xuanhuangjing were of course a great gift, and Gao Bohou was also a little bit hurt. The key was that Kong was a guest, which gave Tian a great face. If he didn't express it, he would probably make others laugh. Thinking about it carefully, these five pieces of Xuan Huang Jing were considered a lot for others, but they were not much for Kong Ke. He was superior to someone and made a lot of money.

The crowd didn't get the answer at Gao Bohou's place, so they went to surround Liu Guancen again.

Liu Guancen said, "Gentlemen, the situation is like this. Today Kongke and I were fishing by the Surabaya River. There were monks who frequently went south. I asked the monks passing by and learned that Lord Gao was hosting a banquet today. Kongke said that he was short of money. I wanted to sell some poems and articles, so I came here, and I followed."

As soon as these words came out, the whole place fell silent.

After a while, someone said loudly, "As expected of an empty guest who visited Liu on a snowy night. He did what he did spontaneously. I admire him. I admire him."

For a time, everyone in the house was filled with admiration.

No one noticed that a shadow slipped out. After half a stick of incense, it turned into a ghostly shadow and chased Xu Yi.

"Tsk, tsk, you are still good at playing. No one can do this trick like you do. You are obviously shamelessly cheating on Xuanhuang Jing, but those guys say that you are so fresh and refined, and they take the initiative to advocate for you. You kid really went out of his way to play."

Luangmei fell in the nest, joking in a strange way.

Xu Yi sighed, "It's true that I held back and didn't reach out."

At the beginning, when he was outside the Xiang River, he did not take the fifty pieces of Xuanhuang Essence, just to give his reputation a golden body.

With this golden body, he had taken five pieces of Xuanhuang Essence at this moment, and everyone commented overwhelmingly on his willful behavior and the demeanor of a celebrity.

Even the most demanding fellow celebrities did not dare to find fault at this time and could only sit back and watch with red eyes as Xu Yi stood and made money.

From then on, people began to come to the Xiang River to invite Xu Yi to banquets. However, Xu Yi would never accept the invitation.

Often every other month or so, he would come uninvited to a banquet, chat and laugh with the guests, sing poems, accept the writing materials prepared by the host, and then leave.

The ceremonial gold that Uncle Gao prepared for that day became a red line. After Xu Yi attended the banquet, he never received less than five coins.

What's more, the heroic master, after receiving Xu Yi's wonderful words, brought out twenty Xuan Huang Jing on a tray on the spot.

I'm afraid of comparison in everything. If someone takes the lead, someone will take the challenge. However, in just one and a half years, Xu Yi collected more than 250 Xuan Huang Jing.

After refining more than a hundred Xuanhuang Essence, he vaguely felt that the barrier was about to open, so he stopped attending the banquet and stopped preparing to attack the Divine Map Realm.