[System: Welcome Ye Hei to the Chat Group.] [System: Welcome Xiao Yan to the Chat Group.] [System: Welcome Emperor Yongle to the Chat Group.]
Three system notifications appeared in quick succession.
"Chat groups may come and go, but Ye Hei and Xiao Yan are forever."
Seeing this, Li Qingxu couldn't help joking to himself.
In the chat-group novels he'd read in his previous life, these two were heavyweight regulars, almost as unavoidable as Pangu's blood essence in system rewards.
By comparison, Emperor Yongle was a rather unfamiliar face.
Before he could recover from that thought, new messages were already popping up in the chat window.
[Ye Hei: Where the heck am I? Is this still the Burial Emperor Star? ∠(°ゝ°)]
Shading the Heavens World, Divine City.
Divine King Jiang had prepared ten million jin of source for Ye Hei and was protecting him, helping him break through the Four Extremes Realm on the night of the full moon and shatter the curse that kept the Sacred Body from cultivating.
He had just left Miaoyu Nunnery and was about to head for the Dragon Transformation Pool in Divine City when he unexpectedly received an invitation to the Myriad Worlds Chat Group. Driven by curiosity, he tapped it, and an invisible interface appeared before his eyes.
[Xiao Yan: Same question.]
In the back hills of the Xiao Family in Wutan City, Xiao Yan was working hard to cultivate for his Three-Year Agreement with Nalan Yanran. He was just as bewildered.
He'd used a chat group before transmigrating, but he hadn't expected a Myriad Worlds Chat Group to appear now that he was in the Dou Qi Continent—and this one had appeared directly in his mind.
[Emperor Yongle: What is this chat group? Why have I never heard of it?]
Great Ming, Yumuchuan, inside the central army tent.
On the dragon bed, Zhu Di slowly opened his cloudy eyes, his breathing weak.
He had led five campaigns beyond the Great Wall, hoping to win decades of peace for his descendants. But Heaven had other plans. A blizzard struck, and the tide of a battle that had been going well turned in an instant.
Under cover of the snowstorm, Oirat, the Tatars, and Uryankhai launched a surprise attack on the Red-Clad Cannon positions, wiping out the entire artillery force. The Ming Army had no choice but to retreat for the time being.
Zhu Di couldn't let go of his children and grandchildren, and he was worried about the situation. But his body could no longer hold out. Strength was rapidly draining from his aged frame, and even breathing had become a struggle.
He had intended to wait alone in the tent for the end of his life, but a Myriad Worlds Chat Group interface suddenly appeared in his mind.
Li Qingxu watched the three newcomers' questions in the chat group, knowing it was time for him, as group leader, to fulfill his "duty of guiding newcomers."
[Qingxu Daojun: This is the Myriad Worlds Chat Group. I am its group leader, Qingxu Daojun. You are all from different worlds across the heavens, gathered here by my summons.]
[Ye Hei: Tsk... Connecting all the worlds across the heavens with a single thought? Even the legendary Great Emperors probably don't have such heaven-defying abilities, do they?]
[Xiao Yan: This is way beyond anything I could imagine. Big shot, please carry me!]
[Emperor Yongle: The group leader's title sounds rather like the deities worshipped by my Great Ming. Perhaps he truly is one of the legendary Immortals and Spirits.]
As he watched everyone in the chat group praise him, Li Qingxu's gloomy mood gradually lifted. He immediately decided to send a red packet as a gesture of welcome and test the system's functions at the same time.
Though he was currently only an Acquired Human at the Refining Essence into Qi stage, with pockets emptier than his face, the Primordial World was one of the highest-ranking Great Thousand Worlds beneath the Great Dao.
Even a blade of grass or a tree touched by the aura of the Primordial World would be an unimaginable treasure to people from other worlds.
Li Qingxu glanced around the stone hut, then crouched by the corner and plucked three leaves from a weed growing in a crack in the stone.
"System, if I send these three leaves to the group members as a red packet, it won't cause their worlds to collapse, will it?"
Just as Li Qingxu was about to send the red packet, he suddenly remembered something important.
The worlds Ye Hei and Xiao Yan lived in were at least Medium Thousand Worlds, capable of accommodating three leaves from the Primordial World.
But Emperor Yongle's world was only a low-level Small World. Li Qingxu was worried that the Primordial aura clinging to the leaves would wipe it out entirely.
"Rest assured, Group Leader. Anything you give to group members will be adjusted to their worlds' rules, ensuring it remains within what their worlds can withstand."
The system promptly responded.
Reassured by the system, Li Qingxu opened the red packet interface and put the three leaves inside.
"If Sea God Tang Si were still the group leader, even dogs would turn their noses up at the red packets he sent."
"This group leader position belongs to this Daojun."
As Li Qingxu prepared the red packet, he didn't forget to sing his own praises.
[Qingxu Daojun: Since you have just joined, I'm sending a red packet to welcome you.]
[Xiao Yan: There's a red packet too? Senior, you're so generous! (｡･ω･｡)ﾉ♡]
[Xiao Yan: Let's see if twenty years of being single has given me the speed to snatch it first!]
[Emperor Yongle: A gift from the Immortal Master must be no ordinary thing. I shall await it here and offer my thanks in advance for your gracious blessing.]
[Ye Hei: Wherever there's a red packet, I'm there ԅ( ¯་། ¯ԅ)]
[System Notification: Group Leader Qingxu Daojun sent a red packet.]
[Ye Hei claimed the red packet and received a leaf*1.]
[Xiao Yan claimed the red packet and received a leaf*1.]
[Emperor Yongle claimed the red packet and received a leaf*1.]
In less than a second, Li Qingxu's red packet had been snatched up.
Shading the Heavens World.
When Ye Hei first saw the system notification, he'd been somewhat puzzled.
The group leader was an existence beyond the Great Emperors, able to communicate with all the worlds across the heavens with a single thought. Why had he sent a red packet containing nothing but three leaves?
But in the next instant, a crystal-clear leaf, like green jade and radiating the aura of the Great Dao, appeared before him.
Chaos Qi swirled around the leaf. Every vein followed the principles of Heaven and Earth, and it contained a vast, surging aura of life.
The dense Dao resonance spilling from the leaf alone made him feel as though his body were being cleansed and reborn, as if he were about to shed his mortal form and ascend to immortality.
Staring at the leaf before him, Ye Hei was utterly stunned.
He'd been to the Ancient Forbidden Land, eaten one of the Nine Wonders Divine Medicines, and even unearthed a seed of the Kirin Divine Medicine. He'd also entered Immortal Mountain and obtained Dao-Enlightenment Tea Leaves.
But even these legendary Immortal Divine Medicines were nowhere near comparable to the leaf before him.
"This isn't some ordinary leaf—it's a true immortal medicine!"
When Ye Hei came to his senses, he hurriedly put it into the Mother of All Things Cauldron to keep its aura from leaking out.
"Sure enough, he's an existence beyond the Great Emperors."
"To Senior Qingxu, a Supreme Treasure like this is nothing more than an insignificant leaf."
Only then did Ye Hei understand. It wasn't that Senior Qingxu was "stingy"; he was simply so far above them that they weren't even on the same level.
With the full moon hanging high in the sky, the appointed time with Divine King Jiang had arrived. Ye Hei forced down his excitement and flew toward the Dragon Transformation Pool.
The news of the Sacred Body's breakthrough had already spread far and wide.
Experts from many holy lands and ancient families had gathered.
Among them were the Patriarch of the Ji Family, the Feng Clan patriarch, the Great Xia Emperor, as well as the Yaoguang Holy Son, Xia Jiuyou, and the Golden-Winged Little Peng King.
Some hoped Ye Hei could break the shackles imposed by Heaven and Earth and restore the Sacred Body's ancient glory. Others wanted to witness him being wiped out by the Heavenly Tribulation.
The Yaoguang Holy Son, Xia Jiuyou, and the Golden-Winged Little Peng King planned to wait until the Sacred Body broke through the Four Extremes Realm before fighting him.
After all, Divine King Jiang had already declared that once Ye Hei broke through to the Four Extremes Realm, any member of the younger generation could challenge him, with no regard for life or death.
In addition, even more experts were concealed in the shadows.
They had already decided that if Ye Hei showed any sign of successfully breaking through, they would immediately intervene, make him suffer a backlash, and kill him.
Meanwhile, Crimson Dragon Daoist, Peacock King, Green Flood Dragon King, and an elder of the Feng Clan guarded the four directions, protecting Ye Hei.
Under the gazes of the crowd, Ye Hei arrived at the Dragon Transformation Pool, dressed in white and looking graceful and otherworldly as he walked calmly beneath the moonlight.
Looking at the people gathered around him, Ye Hei remained composed, showing no sign of nervousness.
When he'd left Miaoyu Nunnery, he'd indeed been uneasy, uncertain whether he could break through to the Four Extremes Realm despite the prohibition imposed by Heaven and Earth.
But now, with the immortal leaf bestowed by Senior Qingxu, he had nothing left to fear.
Those who hoped to see him fail his breakthrough, or even be erased by the Power of Rules, were destined to be disappointed.
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