The Group Owner Is Already Dead

Passerby Kamen Rider: Cultivators? Infinite Lifespan?

Yatogami Tohka: Creating worlds? That sounds amazing!

Takanashi Rikka: Xiang Bao, this isn't a matter of whether it's amazing or not. It's more like... anyway, my Evil Eye of the Tyrant King is willing to call you the strongest in the group.

Iron Man: How is this almost like Thor? If I remember right, Thor with Mjolnir also had a pretty long lifespan, but yours is infinite. That's just absurd. From a scientific perspective...

Mumen Rider: True Lord of Future Expectations must be an incredibly powerful cultivator, right? With such strength, you must be a respected hero in your world. I'm so envious.

Batman: Moving mountains and overturning seas? That puts you on par with Kryptonians. Are you sure you're a cultivator and not actually a Kryptonian?

Deep Sea Otaku: Ho! The newcomer's world is pretty strong, ho!

Shinobu Kocho: You can even create worlds in the end? Just hearing that sounds incredible. What kind of power could accomplish something like that?

Shinobu thought of her own world. Even demons capable of regenerating were difficult to deal with, especially Demon King Muzan, who had always been the Demon Slayer Corps' greatest enemy.

True Lord of Future Expectations: It's my world that's impressive, not me. I'm just an ordinary cultivator.

Shinobu Kocho: Ordinary? Then, True Lord of Future Expectations, what level of figure are you considered in your world?

True Lord of Future Expectations: An Immortal. I got lucky and barely stepped into the Immortal Realm. My lifespan is infinite, and my strength is passable, I suppose.

Iron Man: ???

Mumen Rider: An Immortal?! In the legends of my world, Immortals are incredibly powerful beings!

Takanashi Rikka: Group friends between long-lived species and short-lived ghosts.JPG

Daigo: Huh? A newcomer joined the group?! I looked through the chat history—an Immortal?!

Ever since Lu Changsheng had joined the group, three members had remained silent.

Now, one of those three group members had finally spoken up.

Iron Man: Yo, yo, yo, Mr. Crash King finally came online.

Daigo: Sigh... I was fighting monsters just now, and my Fighter Jet crashed. Afterward, they made me stay behind to repair it, so I had no time to come online. I only logged in after finishing the repairs. (Sad)

Batman: I don't really get it. Why repair a crashed Fighter Jet? Can't you just spend money to get a better one?

Iron Man: I agree with the bat on this one.

Daigo: The world of rich people really is different. 🐮

Shinobu Kocho: Mr. Daigo is online too... but the most shocking thing today has to be learning that the newcomer is actually an Immortal.

Takanashi Rikka: Emmm, when Daigo joined before, Ultraman was pretty shocking too. So I'm really the only ordinary person in this group, huh? The rich people in the group play with technology, the poor rely on mutation, and Immortals just absorb the Spiritual Energy of heaven and earth. (She started crying as she spoke)

Seeing that Daigo, who had remained silent all this time, had finally surfaced, Lu Changsheng continued by voicing another question.

True Lord of Future Expectations: Everyone, I have another question.

Mumen Rider: Please speak, Immortal.

True Lord of Future Expectations: I looked at the member list. Aside from the two group members who still haven't spoken, what's with the vacant Group Owner position at the top? Does this group not even have a Group Owner?

Iron Man: Good question. There was a Group Owner at first, but then something happened, and the Group Owner was gone.

Yatogami Tohka: I remember it seemed to have something to do with Dark Souls? I had only just joined the group then, so I didn't really understand.

Batman: Ashen One.

Mumen Rider: Actually, before you joined, Immortal, there was another group member whose world was pretty insane too. But one time, he encountered danger and used a Quest Scroll to request support from the group.

Shinobu Kocho: Then the Group Owner volunteered to go, saying he could handle it alone.

Batman: In the end, both the Group Owner and that member died.

Daigo: That happened? I had no idea at all!

True Lord of Future Expectations: I see, no wonder... Hold on, I have something to take care of. I'll stop chatting for now.

Shinobu Kocho: Huh? Take care, Mr. Immortal.

Iron Man: Don't tell me you're about to have an Immortal battle? True Lord of Future Expectations, remember to use those Immortal boots of yours and beat the hell out of your opponent! Spank him three thousand times!

Mumen Rider: Ah, if that's really the case, all I can do is pray for True Lord of Future Expectations. It's a pity my strength is too weak to help.

Shinobu Kocho: It feels like only Mr. Daigo's power could take part in an Immortal battle, right? After all, he can move mountains and overturn seas.

Deep Sea Otaku: Hoho!

Iron Man: Little Shinobu, have you heard of firepower saturation?

Batman: If it's only moving mountains and overturning seas, technology can do that too. Shinobu, don't underestimate anyone. When facing an opponent, you need to go all out as a sign of respect.

Shinobu Kocho: Got it!

Hong Huang—death and opportunity went hand in hand.

Lu Changsheng was sitting in a tavern. This place was within the territory of his sect.

However, even though it was his own territory, no one recognized Lu Changsheng. The reason was the same as always: he never showed his true face, and he avoided leaving the sect whenever possible.

"The Group Owner actually died before I joined the group. I'd been thinking of taking a stroll through the Group Owner's world." Lu Changsheng blinked.

[What were you going to do in the Group Owner's world?] the system asked in confusion.

"Based on my past memories, aren't there often unscrupulous Group Owners who rely on having watched a few anime to fool the members? I wanted to go show off my divinity a little, but who knew the Group Owner was already dead?" Lu Changsheng shook his head.

[Was it really just to show off your divinity?] The system was quite suspicious. This man always put on a disguise whenever he went out. Every time he underwent a Thunder Tribulation, he had to go to his enemies' territory and use the tribulation lightning to wipe them out. Basically, if he stayed in, nothing happened; once he went out, death followed, and someone was bound to have bad luck.

"Of course. What do you take me for?" As soon as he finished speaking, Lu Changsheng suddenly looked up toward the myriad stars beyond the sky.

[Wolves, tigers, leopards, and panthers? Even they don't compare to you.] The system muttered softly.

Lu Changsheng rose to his feet, tossed some money for the wine onto the table, and left the tavern. His figure vanished in an instant, while the people there continued doing what they had been doing, completely unaware that someone had teleported away despite the air-restriction formation.

Saint Movement, instantaneous **.

In the blink of an eye, Lu Changsheng arrived among countless stars, standing in the void.

[What is it? Why did you suddenly teleport out here?]

"I sensed something."

Lu Changsheng used a supreme divine ability to gather all the nearby stars together.

This was a Saint's intuition, and also what was known as opportunity. When an item fated to be connected with him appeared, an idea would arise in his heart, telling him where to go and which way to head.

(⌯︎¤̴̶̷̀ω¤̴̶̷́)✧︎ (Look into my sincere eyes)