You could see the sparrow's frustration between the lines.
As soon as he extracted his nest, it was fixed to a huge tree. There was no way to move it!
Today, he'd fallen into a hidden location specifically meant for upgrading nests. It went without saying that nests had to be important.
But his was gone!
A row of ellipses appeared on the Scroll.
Rabbit Doesn't Eat Lang: "Same here!"
His rabbit hole was underground! How was he supposed to move it?
A group of people who had chosen the Demon Cultivator Dao Path flooded the chat.
They'd suddenly turned into beasts, and even moving around was extremely difficult. Who would carry a nest around with them?
People flooded the chat with questions. Then another message from the sparrow popped up.
"!! The statue in here can talk."
Rain Seeker: "I recommend running!"
He Uses Nunchucks: "Seconded."
Teammate Please Open Eyes: "It wouldn't hurt to make sure you have a way out, then explore a little more."
Master of Cloud Stack Cave: "Listen carefully. There might be some hidden pattern."
Zhu Jiusi was genuinely trying to help. When you first entered the Mountain God Temple, the statue explained everything clearly about nests.
Most people simply ignored it. They only understood after suffering a heavy loss later on.
Thousands of people had thousands of different instructions, but the sparrow didn't reply again for a long time.
His avatar hadn't gone dark, but he said nothing.
Daoist Number 323: "@Master of Cloud Stack Cave, do you know what's in the temple? What happened to that bird?"
Master of Cloud Stack Cave: "?"
The Mountain God Temple could not only upgrade nests, but rebuild them as well. The sparrow had probably gone quiet because he was rebuilding his nest. During the process, beasts were unconscious.
But he couldn't possibly say that.
The Laws of Journey Survival numbered in the hundreds. But there was one rule that wasn't written among them, and yet no one dared violate it later.
Precognition!
Journey Survival allowed no being with the power to see the future.
Divination, prophecy... Anyone who dared covet such powers would die without fail.
You could make reasonable deductions based on reality, but you were absolutely forbidden from possessing the power of precognition!
Although Zhu Jiusi figured that, having started over, he was probably following the official route, he still didn't want to challenge Journey Survival's bottom line.
Until he saw the Mountain God Temple, he wouldn't say a single thing about it.
Zhu Jiusi kept quiet, but some people just wouldn't give up.
Heart Without Darkness: "@Master of Cloud Stack Cave, there's no need to hide this kind of information, is there?"
Master of Cloud Stack Cave: "?? Why would I know anything about it?"
Looking at their names, Zhu Jiusi could tell these two were clearly targeting him.
His reply had already been extremely blunt.
Yet they acted as if they couldn't understand.
Daoist Number 323: "@Master of Cloud Stack Cave, you must've gotten a reward for compiling the Laws. The rewards for Laws should have something to do with Journey Survival's rules, right? It's not like we're asking for your stuff. It's just some survival information. You can't even share that?"
Heart Without Darkness: "It's just some unimportant information. Can't you do your fellow humans a small favor?"
Zhu Jiusi narrowed his eyes slightly.
Last time around, he'd been nothing but an ordinary human, struggling to survive. People like this hadn't targeted him. But now he'd triggered two announcements in a row, drawing their attention!
I want to beat him to death! He marked them for later. Once he got a Dao Discussion Card, he'd have a proper discussion with them.
The path beneath your feet in Journey Survival was the Great Dao of cultivation. A Dao Discussion Card could temporarily make two paths run alongside each other, allowing two Path Seekers to meet and discuss the Dao.
As Zhu Jiusi wondered how to curse them out, someone in the chat room spoke up.
Rain Seeker: "My education won't let me curse people out, but why are there always people like this? Did the Cave Master refuse to help?"
"The Cave Master was the one who figured Journey Survival would give us a chance to live and told us how to escape the pond. He was also the one who figured out the survival rules and immediately flooded the chat with warnings—and back then, those rules hadn't even become official Laws. He didn't know there'd be a reward!"
"If the Cave Master hadn't warned us, how many Demon Cultivators would've died? You think he'd know what to say and then keep it to himself?"
Orchid Pavilion Scholar: "Come on, you aquatic types, step aside. Leave the cursing to me. Let's see what kind of trash these bastards are!"
"They're trying to guilt-trip people now? When your mother gave birth to you, did you not look back to see if you'd left your morals behind in the placenta? Or did your dad forget to bring them along when he injected you?"
Orchid Pavilion Scholar went all out in an instant.
Daoist Number 323 didn't reply. Instead, he privately messaged a few people: "Speak up together! We agreed to say it together, so why am I the only one talking?"
By sheer coincidence, nearly everyone he messaged was someone Zhu Jiusi had blacklisted first.
At last, someone else in the chat group spoke up.
Bright Moon Illuminating People: "This counts as guilt-tripping? Wouldn't it be better if one or two more people survived because someone shared some unimportant information?"
Heart Without Darkness: "Shh! Maybe someone else already has a group in private, and this is confidential information for the group. @Master of Cloud Stack Cave, what does it take to join?"
"Trying to stir things up!"
Orchid Pavilion Scholar grew even more interested. "Now we're talking! What fun is it when just one or two people argue? It's more exciting with a crowd. Come on, let's fight!"
The road was boring anyway. A battle of words with trash was just the thing!
Rain Seeker: "I want to curse them out, but I don't know how!"
He flapped his fish tail as he rode his Skateboard along the road. Suddenly, a private message came in.
He opened it and saw that Master of Cloud Stack Cave had sent him a steamed bun.
Master of Cloud Stack Cave: "Help me keep a record of all the villains' names. Thanks!"
Rain Seeker froze, his round fish eyes widening. A big shot was a big shot—he'd already labeled those people villains.
"No problem, boss! I don't need any pay. If you hadn't warned me, I would've died under the Heavenly Tribulation on day one. I sent you supplies to thank you, but you wouldn't accept them!"
Master of Cloud Stack Cave: "No need to be polite. It was just a casual guess, nothing to thank me for. Keep the bun. It's a win-win!"
Rain Seeker: "Then... I won't stand on ceremony! I'm seriously starving to death..."
Master of Cloud Stack Cave: "Thumbs-up.jpg"
The carp on the skateboard flicked his tail, excitedly accepting the task.
Zhu Jiusi had run all night and had no energy to argue with them. There was no point cursing people in Journey Survival; killing was what mattered. He privately messaged them one by one, copied Orchid Pavilion Scholar's insults, and sent them over. Then he tossed them into his blacklist and ignored them.
He put away the Scroll and slowly closed his eyes. The corners of his mouth still held a hint of humanlike amusement,
Rain Seeker... Now he remembered. He'd thought the name sounded familiar earlier.
Wasn't he the secretary to the big boss in the Lai Mountain Secret Realm?
He was some kind of scholar!
At first glance, Journey Survival seemed no more than a narrow path. In truth, the world was unimaginably vast, Secret Realms were as plentiful as oxen's hair, and opportunities were beyond counting.
Rain Seeker had probably landed a job in the Lai Mountain Secret Realm. By the time Zhu Jiusi went in, Rain Seeker had already become practically an NPC. He'd been working there.
Anyone who could land a job like that had to have some special quality.
Zhu Jiusi figured he ought to keep recalling information from his previous life whenever he had time.
Wasn't a regressor's greatest advantage the information no one else knew?
The only problem was that his current nature stat was only 5, so his brain was working a bit slowly.
He needed to find a way to raise his nature and life stats.
Thinking this, Zhu Jiusi gradually fell asleep.
Time passed little by little.
But Zhu Jiusi, fast asleep, failed to notice that the forest beneath him was quietly changing.
Some plants appeared out of thin air, and even the road gradually widened, as if two paths were merging.
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