MTLNOVEL Chapter 487: Shameless Publicity Stunts
The value of the newspaper is evident. Nowadays, if you want to place an advertisement in the Heavenly Sword Daily, you have to send a large sum of money to the Heavenly Sword Sect, and even then, you'll owe them a favor—it's truly infuriating.
Recently, the Male Right Vanguard has been on the rise. Although it consistently promotes male dominance, making many people unhappy, it still sells quite well.
It's not on par with the Heavenly Sword Daily, but aside from it, there are no rivals, as these are the only two newspapers in the entire Cultivation World, and both are produced by the Heavenly Sword Sect—it's truly maddening.
When the Male Right Vanguard began to be sold, many people reached out to connect with Gou Cheng, hoping to pay for advertisements in the Vanguard, but Gou Cheng rejected them all.
Now, Fang Zhou has brought forth the opportunity to advertise in the Vanguard, and it's even free, so one can imagine its allure.
Among the 308 invitations sent, all the invited sects immediately replied in agreement. Only individuals who needed to consider or reject did so as they had few promotional needs.
Fang Zhou believes those who need to think it over will soon agree because although they don't need it themselves, they can sell the advertising opportunity or gift it as a favor.
This is a free golden opportunity, and the only requirement is to join the Male Right Association. Those who outright reject it will soon regret it, but there's no turning back after the bow is drawn.
Once most of them agreed, Fang Zhou immediately had Gou Cheng announce it in the newspaper.
As soon as this edition of the newspaper came out, the entire Cultivation World was in an uproar.
Aside from sects, there are actually countless other organizations within the Cultivation World.
The most famous is naturally the Righteous Alliance, the undisputed top organization, with countless sects from the Righteous Camp joining its ranks.
According to the Righteous Alliance's own propaganda, it has 980 members, all of which are medium-sized or larger sects; the Alliance disregards smaller ones.
Second is the Alchemy Association, with a total of 572 members.
Third is the Artifact Refining Alliance, totaling 351 members.
The members of these two organizations are of high quality; without a certain level of strength, one cannot join.
The rest include associations related to Heavenly Materials, Earthly Treasures, and Exotic Beasts, mainly for commercial communication, with even fewer and often overlapping members.
Beyond that are various chaotic organizations like Sword Cultivators, Spells, and Southeast Mutual Aid, which are utterly tangled and impossible to organize—anyone can start a group.
Strictly speaking, the Avenger Alliance created by Fang Zhou and Gou Cheng is also classified as one of these garbage organizations, and others hardly give it any serious regard.
In this context, when the Male Right Vanguard announced that the Male Right Association had over 200 members join, it caused such a stir.
With 200 members, the Male Right Association instantly jumped to become the fourth largest organization in the Cultivation World, right after the Righteous Alliance, Alchemy Association, and Artifact Refining Alliance.
Moreover, the Male Right Association is recognized as a member of the Righteous Alliance, enjoying membership benefits, which none of the Chicken Associations have. The Righteous Alliance only acknowledges very few organizations to date.
This move by Fang Zhou has maximized the prestige of the Male Right Association and himself, completing an achievement renowned in the Cultivation World.
Following the Male Right Vanguard's announcement, the entire Cultivation World is talking about Fang Yuanhang and his Male Right Association.
Being able to transform the newly founded Male Right Association into the fourth largest organization in the Cultivation World at once probably isn't something even the Five Constants could accomplish.
Although the members joining the Male Right Association are just small sects, they at least have fame and scale; they're no random cats and dogs.
While the association members are scattered across the land, their influence has instead increased. If they were all together, it would just be a small circle's self-indulgence; expanding influence is what a mature association should do.
Now, if anyone dares to call the Male Right Association a Chicken Association, Fang Zhou will definitely use ten thousand sword shadows to turn them into a hedgehog.
The Heavenly Sword Sect is also astonished by Fang Zhou's audacious move, initially thinking the association was just a small endeavor he toyed with, never expecting him to play it so big.
The fourth largest organization in the Cultivation World—this isn't child's play.
Initially, the Heavenly Sword Sect found Fang Zhou's behavior of dragging Qin Yunzhu and three other real people into the Male Right Association to be rather a headache—oh no, it should be a pain in the nethers.
But now there are no objections. Holding honorary roles in the fourth-largest organization in the Cultivation World is an enviable position.
Of course, if the Male Right Association has any trouble in the future, the Heavenly Sword Sect must fully support it—there's no taking benefits without offering help.
In the ten days that followed, as the fervor over this matter decreased, the Male Right Vanguard once again promoted the condition for over 200 members joining the Male Right Daily—a chance to advertise for free.
The excitement surged again, but this time it wasn't met with amazement and praise, but with scorn.
Numerous individuals criticized the Male Right Association for using blatant financial transactions to gain members, calling it illegal bribery that would corrupt the ethos of the Cultivation World.
They also condemned those sects that joined the Male Right Association for the sake of an advertising opportunity, labeling them as a group of opportunistic flies.
There were even people who specifically wrote letters to the Righteous Alliance, demanding the cancellation of the Male Right Association's membership.
Those who discriminate against males and dislike the association and the Vanguard criticized the fiercest.
"Boss, is it okay for them to scold us like this?"
Lu Qiuling asked worriedly, her nimble little hands massaging Fang Zhou's shoulders.
Here was the Male Right Association's branch office located in Taobao Mall, with the door closed, there was no fear of being seen.
Initially, Fang Zhou had rejected such small benefits from his secretary, but Lu Qiuling's little hands were too skillful; she had even gone to learn acupoint massage techniques from an old doctor, making it extremely comfortable.
Fang Zhou could only righteously warn the little secretary about attempting to bribe her leader—this time would be forgiven, but it must not happen again.
"Hehe, let them scold. They're just helping us maintain popularity. If a single bit of negative effect turns up, consider me lost."
Fang Zhou crossed one leg over the other, placing his foot on the desk, like a degenerate capitalist who has things for his secretary to do if busy but keeps his secretary busy if not.
Don't be fooled by the Cultivation World's current harsh criticisms; those people can only bark. They don't have newspapers; no matter how loud they shout, others can't hear them.
The sects labeled as flies haven't chosen to leave the association. Instead, after learning they could gain free advertising from joining, even more sects sent letters, requesting membership with the Male Right Association.
If all these sects were accepted, the Male Right Association leaping to the second-largest organization in the Cultivation World wouldn't be impossible.