Speaking Frankly

Good news: I had become a novel character. At the very least, I was the protagonist of a Primordial Wilderness novel. Da Luo was guaranteed, Sage was within reach, and my future was limitless.

Bad news: the novel had been discontinued. There was nothing after that.

Of course, bad news was not necessarily bad news...

Fang Xun quickly adjusted his mindset and prepared to build good relationships with these big shots.

Even when they had just been born, they had possessed the highest investment and networking value. Let alone now, when they had already reached their peaks?!

The problem was his own position. With his current cultivation and status, he did not even seem qualified to befriend them. He was truly at the bottom of the group...

What was someone at the bottom of the group supposed to do? Throw tantrums and beg to be kept? Spam repeated messages, chatter in the group, and snatch red packets?

Ye Fan: "This phenomenon of information from All Heavens intertwining is quite interesting. On my side, I found several novels related to the other Dao Friends."

Ye Fan: "Dao Friend Fang Xun, have you also read all our stories?"

With things having reached this point, Fang Xun could only nod in response.

Fang Xun: "I have read the stories of all four of you."

Naturally, Fang Xun could not guess what the four big shots on the other side were thinking, but it was probably much the same as his own thoughts.

Meng Qi: "Then we're even. Neither brother can laugh at the other."

Meng Qi: "As for you, you should have something special as well. At the very least, this Chat Group seems to revolve around you."

Meng Qi had brought the topic to the main issue.

To people such as himself, Ye Fan, Ji Ning, and Hong Yi, the Myriad Heavens Chat Group offered a possibility.

A possibility of breaking through some invisible boundary they currently could not surpass.

Within the Perfect Treasure Light behind Meng Qi's head grew a fruit that contained all things and all Daos.

That fruit could not be described or defined in terms of shape or color. To speak of it was wrong, to think of it was absurd. It was profound and unfathomable, wondrous beyond words.

Unfortunately, this Dao Fruit was ultimately somewhat illusory and unreal. It had not truly condensed into form.

After the New Epoch had been established, Meng Qi had often worried over how to transcend. He had even formulated a plan to spend at least three epochs separating the Three Pure Ones' symbols one by one, but that would take far too long.

Yet he had never been a Mang Jingang who followed the conventional path... Ah, no! He was the Primordial Emperor!

And now, as Meng Qi gazed upon the Chat Group screen that could not be located by the Cause of All Fruits, he could not help thinking of a faster, more perfect path.

The Primordial Wilderness had the Three Pure Ones—living Three Pure Ones who had not yet run off!

Of course, whether he could shift this burden onto them would require careful planning.

Perhaps even more distant schemes could now be considered.

Meng Qi: "There is another point worth noting. In the novel on my side, you do not have this Chat Group."

Ye Fan: "+1"

Ji Ning: "+1"

Hong Yi: "I have already investigated it. That novel is a very conventional Primordial Wilderness novel. Even its author never considered adding Chat Group elements."

Clearly, Yi Zi had investigated the author of that book from top to bottom. He might even have resurrected him right in front of himself and searched through his memories.

That was good... Fang Xun, who saw this message, suddenly relaxed.

Fang Xun: "That means my future has already changed. I hope all of you big shots will guide me in the future! If there is anything I can help with, I will never refuse."

Hong Yi: "In that case, let us speak frankly."

The Other Shore Great Thousand, Yi Jing Lou.

Yi Zi, who had made the Great Vow that All Beings Are Like Dragons, had been enlightening the human world for an epoch.

Today, he finally withdrew his gaze from The Other Shore and looked toward the screen before him.

He was also quite surprised. He had never expected that his Blessing Source, which seemed heaven-defying in ordinary people's eyes, could bring him an opportunity from beyond this world.

It was not just him. He could vaguely guess that this Chat Group was also an excellent opportunity for the other three Dao Friends in the group, one that should be grasped.

Fang Xun: "Naturally!"

As far as Fang Xun was concerned, he was more than willing to establish this tone. There could be friendship and personal sentiment between Group Friends, but their interests also had to be clearly divided.

He could shamelessly beg for things, and he could probably obtain the Heavenly Emperor Fist, Ultimate Sword Dao, or something else. But that was never a long-term solution.

His mind swiftly ran through his own advantages, and he made his decision.

Fang Xun: "Before all of you big shots, I probably have only two advantages. One is the Primordial World I am in, and the other is this Chat Group."

Fang Xun still had some self-awareness. The plotlines he knew were already useless, but judging from those plotlines, his four Group Friends were not evil people. That meant there was room for discussion.

Meng Qi: "Those two points alone are enough."

Meng Qi: "The Chat Group's functions are still in their initial stage. Once it improves, functions such as red packets, group files, inviting new members, and even crossing worlds will gradually emerge."

Meng Qi indicated that he had already played this entire set of tricks to death, so explaining it came without pressure.

After all, he had such a massive Myriad Worlds Universal Sphere in his hands. When he established the New Epoch, he had even left a sliver of hope for every living being. He had played with plenty of things like Chat Groups.

Meng Qi: "Does Dao Friend Fang Xun have any ideas on how to upgrade the Chat Group?"

Under Meng Qi's guidance, Fang Xun's thoughts immediately became much clearer. He carefully sensed the Chat Group core within his primordial spirit and roughly understood its characteristics.

Fang Xun: "Upgrading the Chat Group requires three conditions. First, my realm. Second, the activity level of all you big shots. Third, interaction between worlds."

The requirements were simple. The other four all nodded slightly, countless thoughts arising in their minds. If Fang Xun were in their worlds, he would likely reach a cultivation realm close to transcendence after a single thought.

Meng Qi figured he could just toss him into the source of the River of Time and cook him up in no time. At the very least, he would reach Creation Perfection, and after finding the right time, he could ascend to The Other Shore!

Who could stop him? Who would dare stop him?

The others could do the same.

Unfortunately, they were ultimately not in the same world.

Ye Fan: "Activity should not be a problem. We can easily raise it afterward by holding Dao Debates with several Dao Friends. World interaction can proceed step by step. Right now, the easiest issue to solve is your cultivation advancement."

The easiest issue to solve was cultivation advancement... Fang Xun's mouth twitched fiercely, and he could not help complaining.

Fang Xun: "Let that Ye Fan who is about to break into the Four Extremes Secret Realm come out and say that!"

Before these big shots from All Heavens could greatly interfere with the Primordial World, Fang Xun's situation was truly far from ideal.

Ye Fan: Uh, that was my mistake.

The others also smiled. Who had not gone through difficult times while raising their cultivation?

Meng Qi had Fate Severing, Ji Ning had the Dao Integration Tribulation, Hong Yi...

Oh, Hong Yi had already sat down!

With Fang Xun's interruption, the atmosphere in the group inexplicably relaxed somewhat, no longer as solemn as before.

Ji Ning: "Could you introduce the Primordial Wilderness you are in? That novel may not have been entirely accurate."

Kindhearted Ji Ning stepped in to smooth things over and brought the topic back.

Fang Xun: "Of course! It is currently after the Dragon-Han Calamity. After a Tribulation comes a new climate, and some Innate Divine Saints have already begun moving about the Primordial Wilderness..."

Fang Xun: "I am currently a True Immortal. Above that are Heavenly Immortal, Golden Immortal, Taiyi, Da Luo..."

Fang Xun shared all the information he had obtained with his Group Friends.

In truth, the information he possessed was very brief. It mainly came from the Dao Rhyme of the Innate Dao Tree, but how much could a tree growing in the wilderness possibly know?

It was also Buzhou Mountain, though not its main range, merely one corner of it.

Yet even a corner of Buzhou Mountain possessed terrain and a formation that stood at the limit of the Heavenly Dao throughout the entire Primordial Wilderness. Myriad Daos descended as divine chains, naturally forming a grand Time-Space formation. Endless Dao Rhyme gathered from across the Primordial Wilderness and formed a womb, within which two Innate Divine Saints were being nurtured.

Within the womb was the first wisp of Primordial Yin-Yang Qi produced by heaven and earth. Its yang qi rose while its yin qi sank, and the Dao Rhyme of Heaven and Earth Splitting flowed within it.

These were the Innate Divine Saints of Buzhou Mountain, transformed from Primordial Yin-Yang Qi: Fu Xi and Nuwa!

"Brother," Nuwa, with a human body and a snake's tail, suddenly awoke from cultivation and gazed toward a corner of Buzhou Mountain.

"What is it?" Fu Xi, who had a human body and a dragon's tail, also emerged from his cultivation state and looked at Nuwa.

"I seem to have sensed an opportunity." Nuwa frowned slightly, her mind unsettled.

For such a thing to happen to her was inconceivable.

"If Heaven grants it and you do not take it, you will instead suffer for it," Fu Xi said. As an Innate Divine Saint, he was extremely familiar with the feeling of a gift bestowed by heaven and earth.

"No, this time is different. Perhaps it is..." Nuwa closed her eyes and sensed carefully. "...an Opportunity for Enlightenment."

"What?!" Fu Xi's eyes abruptly widened. Somewhat irritably, he said, "Then why aren't you going to take it?! Are you showing off to me?"

"No. The strange thing is that my Destiny has become obscured. Once I make a choice, my future will be greatly affected."

If it truly was an Opportunity for Enlightenment, then it was indeed worth celebrating. Yet just the day before, Destiny had told her that her Opportunity for Enlightenment still lay in the distant future.

But now, the future had arrived?

No, this opportunity had appeared too suddenly, leaving Nuwa unable to decide.

"Then let me divine it!" Fu Xi's expression turned solemn as well. He took out his companion Spiritual Treasure and began calculating, but strangely, he found nothing.

"We need to go and see it for ourselves." The two Innate Divine Saints exchanged a glance and made their decision.

The two Innate Divine Saints had already reached the peak of the Taiyi Realm. In the entire Primordial Wilderness, the only ones who could openly stand alongside them were likely the Three Pure Ones of Kunlun Mountain.

The Twelve Ancestral Witches, the Golden Crows of the Sun Star, and the pair of senior and junior brothers in the west were all half a step weaker.

The two traveled together. Even the dangerous places throughout Buzhou Mountain could not stop them, and they soon arrived in an unnamed valley.

This valley contained only some innate spiritual herbs and Dao Trees. There was not even anything worthy of being called a spiritual root.

"It is him." Nuwa's gaze locked onto a True Immortal sitting cross-legged on the ground.

"Your Opportunity for Enlightenment is a True Immortal?" Fu Xi frowned. His fingers unconsciously moved as he calculated. The Great Dao became threads, woven by him into a net that gathered, organized, and deduced every piece of information nearby.

Nuwa said nothing more, merely watching this True Immortal who had just completed his Transformation.