King Crimson

Lu Changsheng closed the Chat Group, then immersed his mind in exploring the mysteries of the Saint realm.

Saints were supreme beings who were undying and indestructible, existing eternally through the ages. They transcended calamities; with a single thought, they could appear anywhere in space and time, freely stir the timeline, and remain impossible to track. With a raised hand, they could create countless worlds. If a Saint wished it, no one across the myriad heavens and worlds could remember anything about that Saint. They could also exist at any point in the river of time, commonly known as transforming into freedom.

To completely master a Saint's power and become familiar with the realm was not something that could be done in a short time.

Moreover, Lu Changsheng had attained enlightenment through his own efforts and forcibly broken through the threshold to become a Saint.

What he could comprehend was far greater than that of ordinary Merit Saints or Primordial Chaos Saints.

In the outside world, a thousand years passed in the blink of an eye. The fervor surrounding the search for the new Saint had never diminished, and countless cultivators wished to pay their respects to the new Saint. Ten thousand full years had passed within the Mysterious Yellow Pearl, yet Lu Changsheng remained in seclusion.

No one knew how long had passed. The system was practically about to put on women's clothing to amuse itself when Lu Changsheng finally opened his eyes, an unfathomably profound aura radiating from his entire body.

[Honey, you finally woke up!]

"Not bad. I have now completely mastered the power of a Saint."

Lu Changsheng spread open his hand. Within his palm, countless kingdoms seemed to be born and perish. With a gentle flick, cranes took flight in unison, birds sang amid fragrant flowers, as though it were a Divine Kingdom.

With a flash, he appeared outside the Mysterious Yellow Pearl.

With a light snap of his fingers, he retrieved all the formations he had previously set up outside.

However, the moment he emerged, he heard violent energy fluctuations and the booming roar of explosions nearby.

Lu Changsheng looked over in confusion. The entire world instantly became countless colored lines. He brushed the lines with his fingers and immediately understood what had happened three hundred miles away.

Back when he had traveled outside to gain experience, he had laid down layers of formations at the place where he underwent his tribulation. After completing the tribulation, he had never removed them.

Now, some unlucky fellow had stumbled into them. The thirty-two Heavenly Dipper Earthly Fiend Killing Arrays had connected to the Underground Dragon Vein and erupted in a terrifying explosion, triggering the outer Heaven-Inducing Thunder Array as well. Countless bolts of heavenly lightning struck down.

"Tsk, tsk. This is why one must be careful when acting in Hong Huang." Lu Changsheng shook his head.

[Now that you've come out of seclusion, why not check the Chat Group and change your mood?]

Seeing that Lu Changsheng seemed to have forgotten the Chat Group even existed, the system could not help reminding him.

"Then I'll take a look."

Lu Changsheng was also rather curious about what the Chat Group had become during the years he had been in seclusion.

Had all the group members died out? After all, when Saints went into seclusion, ten thousand years was merely the starting point. It was perfectly normal to outlive a large batch of group members.

However, when Lu Changsheng opened the Chat Group and checked the records, he discovered that not much time seemed to have passed within the group.

"System, how much time has passed in the group since the last time I checked it?" Lu Changsheng asked instinctively.

[Um... about three minutes.]

"Three minutes?" Lu Changsheng's face was expressionless. The Chat Group really did not treat Hong Huang's time as time at all.

He had guessed that the Time Flow Rate in Hong Huang and the Chat Group would differ, just as ten thousand full years had passed within the Mysterious Yellow Pearl while only a thousand years had passed in Hong Huang.

But he had not expected that only three minutes had passed in the group.

Inside the group—

Takanashi Rikka: Three minutes! The newcomer has been silent for a full three minutes already!

Shinobu Kocho: Is the newcomer still here? If you follow the method I mentioned above, you'll be able to speak.

Mumen Rider: Could True Lord of Future Expectations's world be one completely without technology?

Passerby Kamen Rider: Undoubtedly, the newcomer does not know how to type.

Iron Man: Hey, not necessarily. Don't forget that when Bruce joined the group, he clearly knew how to type, yet he lurked for an entire month. He observed us for so long before saying his first word.

Batman: Still much better than when you first joined the group. If everyone in the Chat Group had ulterior motives and abilities, you would definitely have brought disaster upon your own world.

Iron Man: Nonsense, I was...

As the group watched Iron Man and Batman bicker, they recalled that the two had joined at the same time. After joining, Iron Man had remained online and constantly chatted, while Batman had waited a month before speaking. During that time, who knew how many times he had spent Points in the shop to exchange for items? Even afterward, Batman rarely spoke and had always been silently watching the chat.

Lu Changsheng looked at the chat records from these group members and blinked. Their names gave him an oddly familiar feeling, as if he had seen them before.

But Lu Changsheng was certain that he had never encountered anyone bearing these titles in Hong Huang.

For a Saint, never forgetting anything he saw was merely a low-level ability. As long as he wished, he could directly imprint something into the depths of his soul.

Lu Changsheng closed his eyes and recalled the past. Very quickly, he remembered the memories from when he had been an ordinary person.

They were memories of days spent with no regrets over anime and yearning for superheroes.

"So that's it. Characters from anime?" Lu Changsheng watched with interest.

Compared to the deceit and scheming of Hong Huang, where entire families were wiped out at the slightest disagreement, changing things up once in a while was not bad.

True Lord of Future Expectations: Hello, everyone. I'm a newbie. Please take care of me.

Yatogami Tohka: Huh! The newcomer has appeared!

Shinobu Kocho: Ah, welcome, newcomer~

Passerby Kamen Rider: Newcomer, post a photo. Your world works too.

True Lord of Future Expectations: Ahem, I was busy before, so I did not pay much attention to the Chat Group. I've taken a rough look now and generally understand some of the situation. Still, if I want to understand things in greater detail, could everyone tell me about your own circumstances? Um... I'll introduce my own situation too.

He remembered the memories of his youth. Batman, for example, had many different versions, and he wanted to know which versions the people in the group were from.

Mumen Rider: Ah, sure. The world I live in is a world full of heroes. Monsters often appear, and when that happens, heroes need to step forward. I am not particularly talented, but I am the number one C-Class hero, Mumen Rider!

Iron Man: I'm a Superhero too. After taking off my armor, I'm also a philanthropist and entrepreneur... You can call me Stark.

Everyone in the group briefly introduced their respective circumstances.

Without coordinates or special means, among so many worlds, it would likely be impossible to find the worlds where the other group members lived except through the Chat Group.

But Lu Changsheng was different. By using the group members' messages as points of reference and employing a Saint's power to search in reverse, then eliminating possibilities one by one based on their introductions, he could easily find the coordinates of the worlds where the group members lived.

However, Lu Changsheng did not intend to visit the group members' worlds for the time being.

True Lord of Future Expectations: The world I live in is called Hong Huang, I suppose. Most people here are cultivators—those who absorb Spiritual Energy to grow stronger and can move mountains and overturn seas with their bare hands. The stronger ones have limitless lifespans, and those above them can create worlds. As for me, I'm merely an ordinary, unremarkable cultivator. However, because of my kind nature, people call me a Saint.

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