That night, someone posted a message in the largest metaphysics forum in Xia Country:
[How come I see a female celebrity playing as Taoist Master has high traffic? Is today’s live broadcast of ghost hunting real or fake?]
Although the female celebrity was not named, because it was so direct, anyone who surfed the Internet knew that this post was about Gu Zhisang.
There was suddenly a heated discussion below about Gu Zhisang’s suspected ghost-hunting scene at the end of today’s group competition.
Most outsiders think it was fake and was simply the show’s effect:
[I used to believe that she was real, but the more I watched the show, the more fake it became. How could someone be so strong? How old is she? She is not an immortal…]
[Anyway, I have relatives who can see things in my family. Every time they invite a ‘shaman’ to perform exorcisms, they have to prepare for a long time. And they have to rest for a long time after doing something, so there is no program. It’s not so easy!]
[Hey, she is a celebrity, after all. Once the marketing starts, it will be overwhelming. It is too much.]
[……]
On the contrary, some serious outsiders fell silent after seeing those posts.
Not long ago, they had the same thoughts as these netizens.
Gu Zhisang was just a young lady with no white hair at all, but she had a lot of abilities!
But the messenger announcement from the underworld slapped the Taoist Masters hard in the face.
Nowadays, few people doubt that Gu Zhisang is an ‘earth’ level profound master. What they wanted to know more was, what exactly was her level of cultivation.
Why does she have such profound Taoism at such a young age, and what does she have to do with the underworld?
Some Taoist Masters have complicated moods and reply:
[This person has real and some unusual powers. I advise you to delete these extreme remarks.]
[Never mind her nature, Gu Zhisang is indeed an evil genius.]
After refreshing twice, the poster and the layman in the forum replied: [Idiot fan.]
The Taoist Masters: “???”
*
At 10:30 the next day, the live broadcast of the “Spiritual Affairs” program team started on time.
Since the time was not that early, and after the warm-up the day before, the number of people in the live broadcast room only increased after the broadcast started.
Host Liu stood in the open space with a microphone in his hand and said with a smile on his face:
“Good morning, dear audience friends. After a night of waiting, our 6 contestants have now been voted into the corresponding positions. The current rankings are as follows -“
The order shown by the program team from the top was: Gu Zhisang, Daisy, Xun Yiqing, He Mitu, Xi Haihong, and Bai Ci.
For a moment, some fans in the live broadcast room were happy and some were sad.
The most nervous ones were Bai Ci’s fans, who repeatedly canvassed for votes in the live broadcast room, saying that Bai Ci was not weak in ability, but just specialized in the art of healing, and that he was the best healer among contestants.
Host Liu said: “Contestants who are temporarily lagging still have a chance to come back. We will start a second vote after the extra round today. I wonder if the ranking results will change again. Let’s wait and see.”
As he spoke, he glanced sideways behind him and said:
“Have you already made any guesses when you see the mountains behind me? Yes, the place where I am standing is at the border of Southern Province. The mountains here are rolling, the environment is beautiful, and the people are simple. As long as you cross this mountain range, go over to the other side of the mountain, and cross a border less than two kilometers away, will be the territory of a neighboring Southeast Asian country.”
“And this is the venue for today’s extra match!”
While Host Liu was talking, the cameraman in charge of the live broadcast steadily controlled the camera and deflected the lens to the streets behind him and the mountains in the distance.
The contestants have already arrived.
The group live broadcast they participated in yesterday was filmed around the hotel.
“Next, we invite the help-seekers from today’s extra match to appear!”
Four help-seekers who had prepared in advance came to the shooting location under the leadership of the staff.
They were a pair of elderlies with gray hair among the four.
The elderly gentleman among them was quite agile and could walk on his own with crutches and did not need support from the staff, but his wife had inconvenient legs and feet and was pushed up in a wheelchair.
The people pushing the wheelchair behind were a younger couple, they looked to be in their thirties or forties, both wearing sportswear.
After walking on the stage, several people greeted Host Liu.
Audiences who followed sports news in the live broadcast room were surprised to find that the woman pushing the wheelchair was a celebrity!
“Hello everyone, my name is Zheng Xiaona, and I am the person asking for help today.”
[Hey, has this woman been on TV before? I seem to have seen her on the news!]
[Isn’t this Zheng Xiaona! She is an athlete who won a silver medal in the international fencing competition last year. Why is she on this show?]
[After searching on the Internet, I came back. This lady has a rich resume and has won several medals. However, even though she is on the show, everyone still treats her sister as an ordinary person asking for help. What is important is the incident she wants to seek help for, not her identity.]
“Hello Xiaona, please introduce your family members.”
Zheng Xiaona nodded and said: “These two are my parents, and they are also asking for help today. The matter we want to ask for help is a private matter of my maternal family. This is my husband, he is here to accompany us to participate in the show.”
“I’ve been thinking for a long time about whether to ask for help on the Internet for this matter. If it weren’t for the fact that there was no other way, we wouldn’t have thought of trying the power of metaphysics.” She said with a wry smile.
Host Liu nodded and looked at the camera:
“What happened to Zheng Xiaona’s family that makes them still linger on and grieve about it to this day? How is this connected to the mountain and the land behind us?”
“Next we will invite all the contestants to see what they can see from Zheng Xiaona’s family!”
The format of this playoff was a bit like when they went to Popo Mountain. All the contestants acted and observed together, and everyone had an electronic board in their hand to prevent peeping.
During the observation process, contestants can try their best to write what they see on the question board, and finally, the person asking for help will reveal the answer.
After the six contestants came on stage one after another, Host Liu described what Zheng Xiaona’s family wanted as it related to the land and the mountains, and said:
“Everyone has a maximum of ten minutes to observe and write down their answers. Let’s start now!”
By this time, all the contestants knew in their hearts that no one present was a fake master who fished in troubled waters, and all had good metaphysical abilities.
They gathered together on this program because they all discovered that this program could accumulate many viewers and gather ‘mind power’ which was conducive to spiritual practice.
The higher the final ranking, the more ‘mind power’ absorbed, and everyone was a competitor.
Although the undercurrent was surging, they were all kind and humble on the surface.
The six contestants lined up according to each designated number. When Gu Zhisang arrived, she walked up to the four help-seekers.
In her eyes, the faces of every help-seeker were like mountains, rivers, and lakes. Every detail and pattern on them was useful ‘written’ information about their past and future.
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