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"Ding, welcome 'Newbie Low-Rank God,' 'Demonic Sect Enchantress,' and 'King of Earth and Mountains' to the group."

Slug Sage: Welcome, newcomers.

Sister Bao: Welcome, newcomers. @Lin Feng, stop sleeping. Get up and greet the guests.

Lin Feng: །-_-། Sister Bao, don't slander me. I was practicing just now.

Lin Feng: Welcome, newcomers. If there's anything you don't understand, check the group announcement.

Kuina: Welcome, newcomers. @Lin Feng, can you guess their identities this time?

Heavenly Emperor Ye: Oh, more newcomers have joined? Listen well, newcomers. I am Heavenly Emperor Ye, destined to suppress all enemies in this world.

Lin Feng: The chuunibyou syndrome upstairs is getting worse and worse. @Kuina, let me see... King of Earth and Mountains? Are you Xia Mi or Fenrir?

In another distant world, Xia Mi's pupils shrank, and every hair on her body stood on end. She had never expected her identity to be exposed already. Who was on the other end? Was it that bastard Odin, or one of the Vinster King's contingencies? Was this so-called Chat Group a trap aimed at her?

The thought made her restless, as though invisible eyes were watching her from every direction. At that moment, she could only be grateful that she had not returned to Nibelungen and brought danger to her brother.

King of Earth and Mountains: Who are you?

Lin Feng: Hmm, probably not Fenrir. Are you Xia Mi?

Though his tone carried uncertainty, everyone else in the group could sense that he seemed to have already confirmed her identity.

After a while, seeing that she did not reply, Lin Feng spoke again: Xia Mi, don't worry. I'm not that old bastard Odin. More precisely, I'm not even from your world. You've read novels before, right?

King of Earth and Mountains: What do you mean?

Lin Feng: That's right, exactly what you're thinking. I've read a novel about you.

King of Earth and Mountains: So I'm a character from some work?

Lin Feng: Yes. Not just you—everyone in the group, including myself, is like that.

King of Earth and Mountains: Then what's your situation?

Lin Feng: A transmigrator. Get it? Not sure whether you've read Demi-Gods and Semi-Devils, but I'm currently in the world of Demi-Gods and Semi-Devils.

King of Earth and Mountains: You're being this candid? As far as I know, shouldn't transmigrators use their foreknowledge to seek benefits?

Lin Feng: What you know is outdated. What year are you in right now? Not sure whether novels of the Chat Group genre have developed where you are. At first, Chat Group stories loved writing transmigrators pretending to be prophets in the group to gain benefits. But later, readers felt that kind of thing was too easy to expose. It was basically treating everyone else in the group as idiots—and treating readers like idiots too.

Lin Feng: Later, the candid approach became popular. Everyone cooperates for mutual benefit. Of course, that requires certain things from group members. They can't be selfish, self-serving major villains.

Heavenly Emperor Ye: Precisely, precisely. The Chat Groups popular where I am now all follow the prophet approach, treating us readers like idiots. There are clearly other modern people in the group, yet they don't even know Journey to the West.

King of Earth and Mountains: All right, I understand.

Lin Feng: Good. I'll privately send you the plot details I know later. Also, can the other two come out and say hello? @Newbie Low-Rank God @Demonic Sect Enchantress

Lin Feng: I can't figure out which worlds you two are from either. Low-level God? Plenty of early Western fantasy settings have that realm. As for Demonic Sect Enchantress, that goes without saying. In Eastern fantasy, immortal cultivation, and martial arts settings, wherever there's a righteous path, there's a demonic path. How could I possibly guess which world you're from? Why don't you two tell us about your worlds?

Richard had been lurking for a while and had roughly figured out the situation in this Chat Group.

Overall, it was a relatively harmonious Chat Group. The members were fairly friendly with one another, and there was a transmigrator who followed the candid approach.

Five people had joined before him, and he had roughly guessed their identities.

The Slug Sage from Hokage, Feng Baobao from Under One Person, Kuina from One Piece, the Demi-Gods and Semi-Devils transmigrator Lin Feng, and the chuunibyou Ye Zhen from Mysterious Recovery.

Hmm, one of the people who had joined alongside him was a Scummy Dragon King, the strongest Second Generation Dragon, Xia Mi, King of Earth and Mountains. The other person was still uncertain. Just as Lin Feng had said, there were too many worlds with Demonic Sects. Who knew which world that Demonic Sect Enchantress came from?

Still, he was in no hurry to speak in the group. He would first see what the other person had to say.

Demonic Sect Enchantress: What kind of immortal technique is this? Are you immortals? This humble Wan Wan greets you immortal masters.

Lin Feng: Oh, it's Wan Wan. Your master is Zhu Yuyan, right? Wan Wan, has the Sui Dynasty fallen? Is Sui Yang Emperor Yang Guang dead yet?

In the Twin Dragons of Tang World, a strange and lively young girl sat atop a small tree. Her bare feet swung now and then, while her brows occasionally knitted tightly. Anyone could see that something was troubling her.

Wan Wan had not expected this person to truly know her identity.

And he had even asked whether the Sui Dynasty had fallen. Would the Sui Dynasty fall? It probably would. The realm already showed every sign of a dynasty at its end.

Sui Yang Emperor? That sounded like a posthumous title. So was that Yang Guang's posthumous title after the foolish ruler's death?

Could this person truly be an immortal with boundless abilities?

Demonic Sect Enchantress: Great Sui? It hasn't fallen yet, though it should be soon, right? The foolish ruler Yang Guang has already gone to Yangzhou, and rebellion banners are flying across the land.

Lin Feng: A foolish ruler? Yang Guang doesn't really count as one, does he?

Demonic Sect Enchantress: Someone like Yang Guang doesn't count as a foolish ruler? Debauched and licentious, endlessly levying taxes and conscripting labor—he could nearly rival Tyrant King Zhou of Shang. And he still doesn't count as a foolish ruler?

Lin Feng: @Heavenly Emperor Ye, chuunibyou, you tell her. Does Sui Yang Emperor count as a foolish ruler?

Heavenly Emperor Ye: I'm warning you, stop calling me chuunibyou, or don't blame me for not warning you beforehand. Yang Guang? Little Yang shouldn't count as a foolish ruler, right? Building the Grand Canal, launching three campaigns against Goguryeo, and establishing the imperial examination system were not mistakes. His only mistakes were being too hasty and underestimating his enemies. He looked down on the great clans and aristocratic families, and in the end, they ruined him.

Lin Feng: @Demonic Sect Enchantress, did you hear that? That's how later history evaluated him.

Demonic Sect Enchantress: Then why does everyone in the world call him a foolish ruler?

Lin Feng: And who exactly says that? Ordinary commoners only care about having food and drink every day. The emperor is too far removed from them. Who has the time to care whether the emperor is wise or foolish? Doesn't it all come from the great clans and aristocratic families?

Wan Wan fell into thought. It did seem to be true. Who could withstand the condemnation of scholars? Yet in today's world, scholars were the representatives of the great clans and aristocratic families.

Demonic Sect Enchantress: So it was all slander by the great clans and aristocratic families?

Lin Feng: It doesn't exactly count as slander. Yang Guang really didn't treat ordinary commoners like people, but the great clans and aristocratic families were no different. When the two sides fought, it was always the commoners who suffered. If you want to know, I can privately send you the later plot of your world.

Lin Feng: Now, I'd like to have a chat with our final friend. @Newbie Low-Rank God, how about it, friend? You've observed for a while now. Have you figured out the situation?

Richard really had figured it out. Overall, it was a very ordinary Chat Group. It had a red packet function, allowing members to send red packets to one another.

It had a group file function. Members could choose to upload their cultivation techniques and secret manuals. The Chat Group would assess their value and reward them with points, and whenever a group member downloaded them later, the uploader would continue to benefit.

Finally, there was its most important function: group transmigration. Group members could travel to one another's worlds, with each trip costing a thousand points.

He had not found a group check-in function. He did not know whether there was none or whether it had not been unlocked yet.

He did find where to change his name in the group, so he casually changed it to Richard. Wasn't the candid approach popular in the group? He thought it was quite good too.

Richard: There's nothing I can't say. I'm from the Coiling Dragon World and have just become a Wind Element Low-level God.

Lin Feng: Oh, Coiling Dragon.

Lin Feng: No, something's off with you. You're a transmigrator too?

Lin Feng had just nodded when he realized something was wrong. Was "Coiling Dragon World" something a native could say?

Richard: Yep. I've been transmigrated into this world for hundreds of years. I even cultivated into a god before my cheat finally arrived.

Slug Sage: Eh, a second transmigrator? And a god at that?

Heavenly Emperor Ye: A god? Are you strong? We can spar sometime.

Demonic Sect Enchantress: You've cultivated for hundreds of years? You became an immortal? Do immortals truly exist in the world?

Richard: @Demonic Sect Enchantress, why are you so surprised? I'm not the only one in the group who has lived a long time.

Demonic Sect Enchantress: Then who else is there?

Richard: That depends on whether they're willing to say so themselves.

King of Earth and Mountains: So you know our stories too?

Richard: I do indeed know them.

Slug Sage: Unbelievable. Lin Feng, didn't you say transmigrators should be very rare? @Lin Feng.

Lin Feng: They really should be rare. But having one more transmigrator is a good thing. I can't guarantee that all future group members will come from worlds I know. With Richard here, at least we can learn the plots of more worlds. @Richard

Richard: I didn't watch that many anime or other works in my previous life, so don't expect too much from me. If you don't know something, I probably don't either.

Lin Feng: It's fine. At least we have another powerhouse now. Richard might even be the strongest person in the group at the moment.

Kuina: The strongest? Stronger than Slug Sage? Stronger than Ye Zhen?

Lin Feng: Probably. I haven't fought him, so I'm not sure. But based on the original plot's descriptions, Low-level Gods in Coiling Dragon aren't weak.

King of Earth and Mountains: Really? I don't believe he's stronger than me.

Lin Feng: Forget it, you Scummy Dragon King. The strongest Second Generation Dragon? You struggle to destroy even a city. How do you have the nerve to call yourself a Dragon King?

Demonic Sect Enchantress: Dragon King? Isn't she human?

King of Earth and Mountains: Ahhh! You're courting death! Don't let me run into you, or I'll beat the shit out of you!

Lin Feng: Nope, she's a Scummy Dragon King who's lived for who knows how many tens of thousands of years.

Slug Sage: I'm not human either.

Kuina: Tens of thousands of years? I thought Slug Sage living for over a thousand years was already incredible. I didn't expect there to be someone even more incredible.

Lin Feng: What's so surprising about that? When it comes to lifespan, Richard's world is the most impressive. In his world, Saint Domain experts are theoretically immortal and can live for tens of millions, even hundreds of millions, of years.

Richard: Only in theory. In the Material Plane where I am, the longest-lived Saint Domain expert only lived a few million years. Although Saint Domain experts are theoretically immortal, being unable to make any progress for tens of thousands, hundreds of thousands, or even millions of years is enough to drive anyone mad. In the end, they all leave the Material Plane and go to the Divine Plane to take a chance.

King of Earth and Mountains: They can live that long? What realm is this Saint Domain? Is it strong?

Lin Feng: Uh, didn't I say?

King of Earth and Mountains: Did you?

Lin Feng: All right, I really didn't. Since Richard is a transmigrator himself, I don't need to send him the plot. Then let me explain the power system of Richard's world.

Lin Feng: In Richard's world, there are two supernatural paths: Warrior and Mage. From low to high, the levels go from Level 1 to Level 9. Above Level 9 is the Saint Domain. A Saint Domain expert can become a god by comprehending a single Profound Mystery of a law. Gods are divided into Low-level Gods, Mid-level Gods, and High-level Gods. Above High-level Gods are Chief Gods, above Chief Gods are the Supreme Gods of Rules formed from the Four Rules, and above the Supreme Gods of Rules is Hongmeng, who created the world.

Lin Feng: Saint Domain experts have some status in the Material Plane, but in the Divine Plane, they can only be considered the very bottom. They don't even have basic human rights, because those below the Saint Domain simply cannot survive in the Divine Plane.

Lin Feng: In terms of power, Saint Domain experts should be stronger than you Dragon Kings, right? Dragon Kings are talked up as something incredible, but they always fall short in battle. It feels like destroying a city is already difficult for you? But even the weakest Saint Domain expert can easily destroy a nation, right?

King of Earth and Mountains: ...

Xia Mi was truly shocked. Was Richard's world really this absurd? Saint Domain experts were already this strong, so what about Low-level Gods? Mid-level Gods? High-level Gods? She could hardly imagine it.

But then she reconsidered. If she built a good relationship with this Low-level God named Richard, wouldn't she have a powerful outside ally available whenever she needed one?

It was not just Xia Mi. Everyone else in the group was shocked as well. They knew Richard had already become a Low-level God. If Saint Domain experts could easily destroy a nation, then couldn't Low-level Gods destroy worlds?

Even Feng Baobao, who had been lurking and barely speaking, was shocked. After she told Xu San and Xu Si about the Chat Group, the two had instructed her to speak less in it.

And she absolutely could not agree to let anyone else come to her world.

At that moment, Xu San and Xu Si were frantically racking their brains to analyze whether what Lin Feng said was true. If it was, what impact would it have on them? Could they gain any benefits from it?

Richard: That's roughly how it is, which is why I don't dare go to the Divine Plane easily. A Low-level God is only cannon fodder at the bottom in the Divine Plane. I won't go to the Divine Plane until I become a High-level God.

Lin Feng: That's true. A Low-level God can live very comfortably in the Material Plane. Isn't it good to lord over everyone in the Material Plane? Why make things difficult for yourself by going to the Divine Plane to live a precarious life? That kind of gap in status is no small thing. You'd fall directly from the very top to the very bottom.