Work Prophet
Chapter 288 - 46: Let’s Get Started!

Chapter 288: Chapter 46: Let’s Get Started!

The first to take the stage was a Sabbath named Yadun, who was also one of the surviving members of the Weiting Family, and furthermore, the eldest among them, now well over two hundred years old.

However, his body remained robust, otherwise, he would not have been able to weather five years of imprisonment and the subsequent hardships of displacement.

Upon taking the stage, he first bowed to Li Yu, then paid his respects to Ireya, thereafter he picked up the microphone from the stand and began his sermon.

Li Yu had some impression of Yadun; before joining the Double Rest Sect, the Weiting Family had always worshipped the Sea God Claudius, and the religious organization dedicated to Claudius on the Bratis Continent was known as the Sea God Temple.

The Weiting Family always served as the biggest benefactor behind the Sea God Temple, donating considerable wealth to it each year. In return, the sea women of the Sea God Temple would pray for the Weiting Family’s seafaring vessels and warriors, granting them the power to fearlessly face the waves.

Yadun was the person responsible for this matter on the Weiting Family’s behalf, and although he was not a Divine Officer, regular dealings with the Sea God Temple meant he was familiar with all sorts of ceremonial and ritual processes, despite not having "eaten pork, he had seen pigs run."

After becoming a Sabbath, he imitated those sea women during his sermons, but the effect could only be described as mediocre. The main issue was the lack of synergy between Saturday and Claudius, and the Sea God Temple’s methods did not quite fit within the Double Rest Sect.

For instance, Yadun insisted on preaching barefoot, an approach that, when employed by the sea women, was quite attention-grabbing, especially standing before a crowd of vigorous sailors. But Yadun was already over two hundred years old; his feet held no allure, and with the West being so cold, his habit of constantly walking around with bare legs concerned people who feared he might contract frostbite any time.

Perhaps inspired by the encouragement Li Yu had provided earlier to not limit the forms of expression, Yadun has indeed concocted some new antics this time, aside from just going barefoot.

He brought a bucket of water onto the stage and carved the totem of the Double Rest Sect onto it, all the while murmuring incantations.

Then, he asked for an egg from the believers in the audience, dropped it into the bucket, and in the next moment, a miracle occurred—instead of sinking, the egg simply floated on the water’s surface!

This miraculous scene elicited gasps of astonishment from everyone, and even Miss Rabbit couldn’t help but crane her neck to check if there was some trick hidden within the bucket.

As if knowing what others were thinking, Yadun smiled slightly and tipped over the wooden bucket. There was nothing inside but clear water.

Afterward, Yadun picked up the bucket again and displayed it inside and out for everyone to see, but none could find anything out of the ordinary. In the end, Yadun even broke the egg that he had requested, with both yolk and white intact; there was no deception.

Miss Rabbit was the first to raise her scoring board, 10 points. It had to be 10 points!

Adelle hesitated, but then awarded a high score of 8 points; Hera was the third to hold up her board, also an 8. As for Li Yu, he saw at a glance that this was a buoyancy experiment.

Yadun had likely added salt to the water to increase its density, thus making the egg float instead of sink.

In the universe where he came from, this was basically common knowledge, but in Bratis, without nine years of compulsory education, ordinary people would not flippantly use salt for experiments, so being fooled was not surprising.

Li Yu guessed that this was probably one of the Sea God Temple’s little tricks; living by the sea, they would have been much more likely to notice such phenomena, and now Yadun had stolen their method.

Li Yu, personally, did not oppose this approach, because the teachings of the Double Rest Sect stated that Saturday had already scattered some of his Divine Power into the world, and what people needed to do was to discover ways to utilize this Divine Power.

It was Yadun’s skill to have found this, the only flaw being that his sermon’s content and the revealed miracle were not well integrated, which was the reason Li Yu only gave him 7 points.

But the cheering from the audience was still enthusiastic, reaching ninety decibels, which translated to a public score of 25 points; Yadun’s final score was 58 points, a rather impressive result.

Yadun’s face visibly displayed his awareness of this, and with a trace of joy, he bowed in thanks, placed the microphone back on its stand, and went offstage to put on his boots.

Following him was the young Sabbath, nicknamed Hua Meiniao.

He still carried his Layakin with him. He had chosen to perform his missionary work through singing, which when heard by Quintus, infuriated the latter to no end.

Quintus couldn’t accept such a frivolous method of preaching, and moreover, he had heard that Hua Meiniao sang off-key last time, eliciting laughter from the surrounding crowd.

And this time, as soon as he stepped on stage, the believers who had heard his previous sermon couldn’t help but let out a laugh.

Hearing the laughter, Hua Meiniao couldn’t help feeling nervous again and quickly strummed his seven-stringed zither a couple of times.

With the melodious sound of the zither, his spirit relaxed once again.

Hua Meiniao believed that he wouldn’t be as embarrassed as the last time, for he had changed since then.

He spent the past dozen days burying himself in hard practice, studying the high-traffic short videos that Li Yu had brought from another universe, continuously absorbing nutrients from them, and feeling greatly benefited.

What was more critical was that at a young age, he had grasped the shortcut to creativity, which is plagiarism—the universal truth of this universe.

And here it was, his new song had arrived.

As the familiar prelude sounded, everyone was waiting for Hua Meiniao to start singing, but on the other hand, Li Yu’s legs had started shaking uncontrollably.

There was no helping it, it was a conditioned reflex, the power of a viral TikTok song is just like that.

You could say it’s devoid of substance, or that it’s not even music, but the problem is, it’s enchantingly addictive; once you hear that melody, it will be etched into your very bones.

It’s like being hit with a strong curse that you can’t shake off.

The song Hua Meiniao was singing now was the cream of the crop among such earworms, the king among kings, "Wild Wolf Disco" from the old uncle.

It was quite a feat for him to be able to produce such a dynamic melody on the Layakin.

As Hua Meiniao’s voice echoed on the stage with the lyrics "Come to the left and draw a sunshade with me, to your right let’s draw a beach!" the northeastern rap made its first appearance on Green Field!

When future musicians look back on this day, they will affirm that Hua Meiniao was the one who started a new era in the music history of Bratis Continent at this moment.

But being a pioneer and trailblazer always comes at a cost.

Leaving the widely affected Li Yu aside, to everyone else it didn’t seem like Hua Meiniao’s singing was particularly pleasurable. Instead, it felt odd; while passionate, the melody was too simplistic and lacked variation.

After the song ended, Hua Meiniao was drenched in sweat and exuding passion, but the audience below was utterly silent.