As Ding Yun’s mind was racing, the Perfect Idol System popped up a mandatory learning task.
"Grand Celestial Master Mission Activated"
【Due to all your current fans believing you are a Grand Celestial Master, even though the fan count isn't enough to unlock mandatory tasks, a 100% fan endorsement allows for a mandatory learning task to be initiated.】
“There’s knowledge of this, and I can even learn it?”
“But aren’t ‘Grand Celestial Master’ terms that I fabricated with my psychic power? So, the system’s real purpose is to cultivate the host towards the persona they've created? As long as the persona is real, it won't collapse, and if it doesn’t collapse, the Perfect Idol status will be more stable?
I kind of feel like this isn't a cheat that helps the host.
It feels more like a product for academic excellence, like a scholarly cultivation device.
Specifically designed to urge the host to become better? Big Wind Novel Network
But what if later on, there are too many fans, and their demands on the idol become more and more stringent?
Wait, isn't this creating a god?
Mortals grant a deity divinity and characteristics. Afterward, whatever the mortals imagine that deity to be, and whatever personality they believe it should have, that completely mortal-belief-shaped deity becomes exactly that.
Is this definitely a Perfect Idol System?
Or is it a system for cultivating a divine being through faith?”
Looking at the new mandatory learning task, Ding Yun couldn't help but complain with a sense of helplessness. This type of cheat was definitely one of her least favorite because she truly disliked being forced to do something.
Except for going to work…
But since the system was activated, it couldn't be turned off. So, Ding Yun had no choice but to accept the arrangement and begin her studies.
Meanwhile, the evidence of Bai Yueguang and Li Anna's illegal activities had finally been fully collected. Since Bai Yueguang was not a public figure, her judgment was quickly made. As for Li Anna, her recent popularity meant that her disappearance for several days had already drawn numerous inquiries from fans.
Therefore, the Special Events Management Department had spent a considerable amount of time negotiating with the local public security bureau.
Only then were some of her crimes managed to be…
After being de-emphasized, processed into content that excluded the metaphysical aspects and was acceptable to the public, and then disclosed to the outside world through the local public security bureau’s official account, other departments also simultaneously listed her as a disgraced artist.
Works involving her were either removed or blurred and edited.
Effectively making her disappear in a very short period.
When other celebrities encountered trouble, some mentally challenged fans might still twist the truth and blindly support them, acting as if the whole world was trying to harm their idol.
But Li Anna was different. Not to mention that the Feng Shui arrangement that directly propelled her to fame had already been dealt with by the relevant departments, and the plundered destiny had all been returned. The fans who had become her followers due to factors like her increased luck were easily disillusioned, and some even turned against her.
Just the news of her causing several deaths was enough.
No one dared to defend her.
Or rather, no decent person would defend her.
The vast majority of netizens even called her the ceiling of celebrity scandals, or rather, a collapsed mountain. Yes, 'scandal collapse' wasn't enough to describe it; it had to be a 'mountain collapse.'
One person raised the crime rate in the entertainment industry.
Simultaneously lowering the bar.
What was workplace bullying compared to this? She had directly engaged in workplace intrigue, and a deadly one at that!
The related incident remained on the hot search for three days.
The heat gradually dissipated, replaced by other events, but the profound impact of this incident could not be eliminated anytime soon.
While the entertainment industry wasn't in a state of panic, many rivals were indeed more vigilant towards each other. Some fans became anxious if they didn't receive news from their idols for two or three days, fearing they were being harmed or arrested.
And this was just the surface phenomenon. A deeper implication was that the Special Events Management Department conducted a thorough investigation into the entertainment industry. As a result, while not many celebrities were arrested, a significant number of behind-the-scenes figures like management company owners and agents were apprehended.
Most bizarrely, through this investigation, they discovered dozens of demons within the entertainment industry.
Dozens of demons who had been thriving by accumulating incense and faith.
According to their confessions, mortals were becoming increasingly difficult to deceive. Not only was the faith they provided complex and impure, but their demands were also astronomical. In comparison, although the faith provided by fans wasn't great, they at least didn't have so many demands. Purifying their faith was actually simpler than for their devotees.
And their numbers were greater than their believers.
The incense and faith gained from a few years in the entertainment industry were more than what they had accumulated in eighty to a hundred years of pretending to be gods and ghosts. The efficiency was incredibly appealing.
They were simply unwilling to leave the entertainment industry.
After being arrested, they each swore oaths, proclaiming they were good demons who had never harmed any fans or colleagues. They even paid their taxes down to the last cent, claiming to be benevolent demons!
After the Special Events Management Department investigated and verified their claims, they only detained two fox spirits who frequently met with fans privately to absorb their vital essence, regardless of gender. The rest were warned and released.
After all, they hadn't actually broken any laws, and there wasn't any law stating that demons couldn't be celebrities. As long as those demons didn't violate any regulations, the department chose to turn a blind eye.
However, those two who had violated regulations were dealt with differently.
All arrested and tasked with atoning for their crimes.
This earthquake in the entertainment industry lasted for a month before it ended. During this month, Ding Yun, apart from checking the situation online when the judgments for Li Anna and Bai Yueguang were announced, had no time for the internet. She spent her days diligently studying at home.
She truly didn't know until she started learning, and then she was shocked.
It wasn't until she studied the Grand Celestial Master courses provided by the system that she realized how much knowledge was required to become a Grand Celestial Master: Feng Shui exploration, star divination, prophecy, Qi refinement, demon subjugation, exorcism, talismans and formations, alchemy and artifact forging, summoning deities, praying for blessings…
In short, anything outside of the lower three grades of unorthodox practices was unknown to a Grand Celestial Master.
Even with the lower three grades of unorthodox practices, a Grand Celestial Master needed to have some understanding, knowing how to break them at the lowest cost.
Although Ding Yun had some knowledge of these things, her understanding was limited, and it wasn't compatible with the local practices. Therefore, she naturally had to start from the beginning and study everything to pass.
Even though she studied very hard, even using her psychic power to enter the learning space for study while her body rested, it still took her a full month to fully integrate and comprehend the knowledge.
She passed the Perfect Idol System’s assessment.
Successfully completing this mandatory learning task.
Following this, as Ding Yun hadn't yet decided on a method to increase her influence, and the money left by her original body's grandmother was depleted after holding a decent funeral for her, even with the baseline salary from the Special Events Management Department, it was only enough for Ding Yun to rent a decent place. Her daily expenses still required her to dip into her savings.
After much deliberation,
She ultimately decided to take on several missions from the Special Events Management Department first, to earn a few hundred thousand to a million as supplementary income, and then consider other matters once her short-term financial needs were met.
Consequently, the Special Events Management Department discovered that the Celestial Master expert, who had been registered for over a month without working, had suddenly begun to accept missions of extremely high difficulty.
And completed them rapidly in a very short period.
In less than a month, she perfectly and thoroughly resolved nine hell-level difficulty missions that they might not have completed in a year, or even at the cost of many lives.