When Yan Qi descended from the sky and landed right in front of him, Zhang Yan couldn’t help but feel overjoyed, his face breaking into a bright smile.
Not only had he encountered this peerless beauty again, but he’d also received a generous reward of ten “airplanes” from his stream’s audience. Who wouldn’t be happy about that?
However, noticing the sharp edge in Yan Qi’s tone as she questioned him, Zhang Yan quickly realized she was displeased. He immediately wiped the grin off his face and scrambled to come up with an excuse.
“It’s just… I didn’t realize earlier that you were the one who saved me, and I forgot to thank you properly. I didn’t want to leave any regrets, so I rushed over to express my gratitude.”
“Really?” Yan Qi eyed him skeptically.
“Of course! Truer than gold itself.” Zhang Yan put on his most sincere expression.
Yan Qi frowned but couldn’t spot any obvious lies in his demeanor. Deciding not to press further, she simply said, “Fine, I’ll take your word for it. But don’t let it happen again.”
“Understood, my savior.”
While the two were talking, the flesh cocoon maintaining the black barrier finally succumbed to the scorching power of Yan Qi’s Samadhi True Flame. With a final, ear-piercing shriek, it crumbled into ashes within the blue fire.
“Whoa, what the hell was that? So loud!”
“Probably the leader of those monsters.”
“What even are these things? Failed mutant experiments from the U.S.?”
“Bro, we’re in Xia Country. How would American experiments end up here?”
“Hey, is that blue fire the beauty’s doing? The monsters are all burned to nothing, but the flames still aren’t going out. Is this the legendary Azure Lotus Purification Flame?”
“I don’t know about that, but if this fire doesn’t die down soon, it’s gonna cause a disaster.”
“Streamer, can you ask the beauty to put it out?”
The bone-chilling scream had snapped the viewers out of their daze. Now, faced with the terrifying sight of the unrelenting blue flames, they grew anxious and flooded the chat with pleas for Yan Qi to extinguish the fire.
Noticing the shift in the comments—and feeling the intense heat radiating from the flames despite the distance—Zhang Yan turned to Yan Qi.
“Uh, Savior… that fire behind you is getting a bit out of control. If it keeps burning, things might get bad. Could you… maybe put it out?”
Hearing this, Yan Qi sensed the weakening of the black barrier now that the flesh cocoon was dead. Her Samadhi True Flame had served its purpose.
Remembering that Zhang Yan had been live-streaming the whole time—and realizing she needed reputation points to draw or exchange for new transformation cards—she glanced at the camera and replied softly,
“Sure. Watch.”
With those simple words, she raised a hand and casually snapped her fingers.
Before the viewers could process what she’d done, the raging blue inferno behind her vanished without a trace. If not for the lingering heat, no one would believe a sea of flames had been there just moments ago.
“Done. That settles it.”
Without even turning to check, Yan Qi flashed a confident smile at the camera.
“Damn, she’s amazing! Just a snap of her fingers, and the fire’s gone!”
“I wish I could be that powerful someday.”
“Maybe if you get isekai’d and handed a cheat skill, you’ll have a shot.”
“Her confident smile is killing me—ahh, I can’t take it!”
“AHHHH SHE’S SO GORGEOUS! I WANNA HAVE HER BABIES!”
“Babies? Dude, you’re a guy.”
“Excuse you, I’m a woman.“
“Wait, since when do women watch this stream?”
Unaware of the chaos her snap and smile had caused in the chat, Yan Qi knew it was time to head home. She quickly composed herself and addressed Zhang Yan and the viewers.
“Alright, the situation’s resolved. I’ll take my leave now. Until next time.”
Without giving them a chance to react, she took off into the sky, vanishing like a shooting star.
The moment she left, clips of the livestream—especially the parts inside the black barrier—spread across the internet at an alarming rate, sparking massive discussions.
People debated whether the footage was real or just promotional material for a new movie. But more than anything, one question dominated the chatter:
Who was that breathtakingly beautiful woman in blue?
…
Meanwhile, Yan Qi—completely unaware of the storm she’d stirred—flew back to her home in this world.
Slipping into her bedroom through the window, she reverted from her transformed state, shrinking back into her petite form.
Collapsing onto her soft bed, she couldn’t help but smirk as she recalled how effortlessly she’d shown off in front of everyone.
“Man, showing off in front of people really is the best.”
Remembering that this little excursion must have earned her a decent amount of reputation points, she called up her system.
“System, how many reputation points do I have now? And where did they come from?”
[Dear Host, you currently possess 3,462 reputation points, all earned from Zhang Yan and his livestream audience.]
“Zhang Yan… so that’s the unlucky streamer’s name. 3,462 points, huh… System, how much does a 10-pull summon cost?”
Wanting to gauge the system’s pricing, she asked the next logical question.
The system responded emotionlessly:
[A 10-pull summon requires 100,000 reputation points.]