OFR – Chapter 331 Who Has Spoken (part 1)!

The entire livestream page was packed to the brim.

An overwhelming number of users, fans, rich patrons, and mega-wealthy supporters from the livestreaming industry had flooded into this annual Wind and Cloud Gala, hosted primarily by Quanmin TV!

Every year at this time, it set new records for both the highest viewership and single-day virtual gift spending in the livestreaming world.

Last year, the number of viewers peaked at 37 million, and the single-day gift revenue reached a staggering 1.96 billion yuan — numbers that fully lived up to the term “grand event.”

Now, this annual Wind and Cloud Gala had become just as significant in the livestreaming world as the “Double Eleven” shopping festival in e-commerce.

It was the most high-profile and fiercely competitive day of the year for every platform!

As of now, the viewership for this year’s event had already reached over 35 million, and it was expected to easily surpass last year’s numbers in another hour or two.

The gift revenue would likely break records as well!

“Welcome everyone to the 2019 Annual Top Ten Wind and Cloud Anchor Awards! I’m your livestream commentator, Xiao Wenyun.”

“Welcome everyone to the 2019 Annual Top Ten Wind and Cloud Anchor Awards! I’m livestream commentator Zhang Yuner.”

At this moment, on Quanmin TV’s main broadcast page, two of the most well-known hosts in the industry had taken the stage to present this grandest of all industry events!

Both of them looked slightly excited for being chosen to host such a prestigious occasion. With smiles on their faces, they greeted tens of millions of viewers watching from their mobile screens.

The entire livestream page was already flooded with a barrage of bullet comments. Fans of every major streamer were frantically cheering for their idols!

Even with part of the comments filtered or disabled for ordinary users, the screen remained completely covered.

Many viewers had to turn off bullet comments entirely just to be able to watch the stream properly.

Even so, that only barely made the stream watchable.

Top-tier noble-class users from Huya, Douyu, Panda TV, YY, Huajiao Live, Quanmin Live, etc., all had bullet comments that couldn’t be filtered out.

This was one of the privileges exclusive to the highest-ranking nobles — alongside being immune to bans or being kicked from chatrooms.

However, these top-tier patrons, long used to elite treatment on their respective platforms, didn’t spam like the average fans. They carried themselves with composure.

Only a few dozen of them posted comments expressing excitement for the Wind and Cloud Gala.

At this moment, sitting on the guest sofa of his Xuanwu Zhongshan villa, Mu Bai quietly listened to the commentators’ enthusiastic remarks on his phone while making himself a cup of hot tea.

He knew this gala would likely run from morning till night, so he wasn’t in a hurry to find a breakthrough for the side mission “Sole Sovereign” or the random mission “Who Shall Be King.”

He just sat quietly and listened.

After brewing the tea, Mu Bai returned to the sofa and glanced again at the Quanmin TV livestream on his phone.

The two hosts on the main screen were both recognized for their professionalism and charisma.

In just two or three minutes, they had already stirred enthusiasm among over 30 million viewers, especially when the industry’s most popular anchors started joining in and hyping the crowd further.

Huya’s Guxing and Mengtu, Douyu’s Timo and Daxian, Quanmin Live’s Lu Xueqi, Huajiao’s Miao Miao, YY’s Ye Wudao and A Zhe—each of their livestream rooms flashed across the screen as they sent in their greetings to the event.

These individuals weren’t just strong contenders for the Top Ten Wind and Cloud Seats, but also for the Newcomer Awards. They were, without question, the stars of the show.

Their appearances instantly caused the entire audience to erupt. Even the elite god-tier nobles couldn’t help but comment excitedly.

Many of these top-tier patrons were fans of these streamers, and some of the powerful backers from big guilds had also worked closely with them in the past.

As a result, even users who had disabled all bullet comments couldn’t avoid seeing thousands of dazzling messages from the top patrons:

“Haha, Xueqi is as stunning and elegant as ever!”

“Mid-lane queen vs. the king of solo queue? I’d love to see Wen Tian face off against Lu Xueqi in a solo match!”

“Still obsessing over King of Glory stuff? Aren’t you guys all worth millions by now? So childish.”

“True, but Lu Xueqi could probably switch to beauty streams and still crush it. I heard she’s entering showbiz.”

“Wow, look! It’s Little Cold from Douyu! So pretty! People say she uses filters and voice changers, but she looks gorgeous on camera.”

“Timo’s in too! And Daxian, Lingxue, Xiaoyuan… Douyu’s bringing their top-tier streamers!”

“No doubt, if we exclude short-form video platforms, Douyu really is leading the livestreaming world right now!”

“Yeah, anyone remember last year’s Top Ten Rich Lords? Douyu had five of them, dominating half the list! And one of them — ‘A Bit Cold’ — even dethroned the legendary Qian God!”

“A Bit Cold? Don’t hype him up. He’s destined to be a shooting star — bright for a moment, gone the next.”

“Exactly. Qian God was just keeping a low profile. Otherwise, how would he lose to A Bit Cold?”

“A Bit Cold doesn’t deserve a spot in the Top Ten Rich Lords, and his Dust & Glory team doesn’t deserve to be one of Douyu’s top teams. Just a bunch of clowns who got lucky.”

“Didn’t A Bit Cold once arrogantly claim: ‘Dust & Glory is a name you will one day only be able to look up to’? Well, since this is the industry’s biggest event, we — and every team in our alliance — would love to see just how we’re supposed to ‘look up’ to you.”

Watching all this unfold on his screen, Mu Bai keenly noticed that when his ID “A Bit Cold” appeared in the bullet comments, the frequency noticeably increased.

This could only mean one thing — nearly all the top-tier patrons from Douyu had joined in the comment war.

Yes, Mu Bai understood very clearly: no matter what, regardless of anything else, in today’s fight for the Top Ten Wind and Cloud Seats and the Newcomer Awards, Douyu’s God-Tier Alliance, a force so powerful even the platform’s officials deferred to it, wanted to make one thing crystal clear:

In their eyes, Douyu should have only one voice that can call and command the masses.

And Mu Bai, along with his Dust & Glory team — also Douyu streamers, also attending this industry event — had become the biggest obstacle to that idea.

Which is why, sooner or later, Douyu’s God-Tier Alliance and Dust & Glory would clash in a brutal showdown.

Since that was inevitable, the alliance saw no further need to hide its hostility. The real battle had already begun.