Seeking the Dao Card

One could sense Sparrow's frustration between the lines.

The moment he extracted his bird nest, it became fixed to a large tree; he couldn't move it at all!

He had fallen into a secret location today specifically designed for remodeling nests, so it was obvious the nest was of great importance.

But it 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 that?

A group of people who had chosen the path of the Demon Cultivator flooded the chat.

Suddenly transformed into beast forms, they found even basic movement difficult; who would carry a nest around?

As the group flooded the chat with questions, another message from Sparrow popped up.

"!! The statue in here can talk."

Rain Seeker: "I suggest you run!"

He Uses Nunchucks: "Same suggestion."

Teammate Please Open Eyes: "Secure your retreat, then exploring a bit further wouldn't be bad."

Master of Cloud Stack Cave: "Listen carefully; there might be some underlying patterns."

Zhu Jiusi was offering a well-intentioned reminder. Regarding information about the nest, the statue would explain everything clearly the first time one entered the Mountain God Temple.

It was just that most people ignored it. Only after suffering a major loss later did they realize what they had missed.

A thousand people offered a thousand different commands, but Sparrow didn't reply for a long time.

His avatar wasn't greyed out, yet 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: "?"

Beyond remodeling nests, the Mountain God Temple could also be used for reconstruction. Sparrow wasn't speaking likely because he was in the middle of rebuilding his nest; during the reconstruction period, beasts entered an unconscious state.

But he couldn't say that.

There were hundreds of rules in Journey Survival, but there was one rule not written down that later became a taboo no one dared to violate.

Precognition!

The existence of any precognitive ability was forbidden within Journey Survival.

Divination, prophecy... anyone who dared to covet such powers would surely die.

You could make reasonable deductions based on reality, but you were absolutely forbidden from having the ability to foresee the future!

Although Zhu Jiusi felt that since he was "restarting," he should be following the official channels, he still didn't want to provoke the bottom line of Journey Survival.

If he hadn't seen the Mountain God Temple, he would never utter a single word of information about it.

Zhu Jiusi wouldn't speak, but some people refused to give up.

Heart Without Darkness: "@Master of Cloud Stack Cave, there's no need to hide information like this, is there?"

Master of Cloud Stack Cave: "?? Why would I know anything?"

Zhu Jiusi looked at this person's name; it was clear these two were targeting him.

Zhu Jiusi's reply was already extremely blunt.

Yet they seemed unable to understand.

Daoist Number 323: "@Master of Cloud Stack Cave, you definitely get rewards for summarizing the rules. The rewards for rules should be related to the regulations of Journey Survival, right? We aren't asking for your items, just some survival information—can't even share that publicly?"

Heart Without Darkness: "Can't you look out for your fellow man regarding some trivial information?"

Zhu Jiusi narrowed his eyes slightly.

Last time, he was just an ordinary human struggling to survive. These self-righteous hypocrites couldn't target him then. But this time, two consecutive announcements had drawn their eyes toward him!

He really wanted to beat them to death! He marked them mentally; once he obtained a Dao Discussion Card, he would go and have a proper "discussion" with them.

In Journey Survival, the path beneath one's feet was the Great Dao of cultivation. A Dao Discussion Card allowed two paths to run parallel temporarily, letting two Path Seekers meet to discuss the Dao.

As Zhu Jiusi thought about how to curse them out, someone else in the chat room spoke up.

Rain Seeker: "The education I received doesn't allow me to curse, but why do such people always exist? Did the Master not look out for us?"

"The one who deduced that Journey Survival would provide a glimmer of hope and told us how to leave the pond was the Master, and the one who summarized the survival rules and flooded the chat with warnings was also the Master—back then, it hadn't even become a 'rule' yet, and we didn't know there were rewards!"

"If the Master hadn't given that reminder, how many Demon Cultivators would have died? If the Master could say it, would he hold back?"

Orchid Pavilion Scholar: "Come, come, you aquatic creatures step aside, leave the cursing to me. Let me see what kind of trash these grandsons are?"

"Still trying to use moral kidnapping? When your mother gave birth to you, did you not look back to see if you left your morality in the placenta? Or perhaps your father didn't even bring that stuff along when he injected you!"

Orchid Pavilion Scholar went all out instantly.

Daoist Number 323 didn't reply; instead, he privately messaged a few people: "Speak up together! We agreed to speak together, so why am I the only one?"

Coincidentally, the people he private messaged were basically the first batch of people Zhu Jiusi had blocked.

Someone in the chat group finally spoke up.

Bright Moon Illuminating People: "Is this even moral kidnapping? What's wrong with making some insignificant information public so one or two more people can survive?"

Heart Without Darkness: "Shh! Perhaps others have already formed organizations in private, and this is just internal information that isn't being made public. @Master of Cloud Stack Cave, I wonder what the requirements are to join your organization?"

"Stirring up trouble, are we!"

Orchid Pavilion Scholar became even more interested: "That's more like it! What's the point of one or two people bickering? It's only fun when there are many. Come on, fight!"

Since the journey was boring anyway, he would engage in a war of words!

Rain Seeker: "I want to curse someone, but I don't know how!"

He flapped his fish tail, riding his skateboard along the road, when suddenly a private message came in.

Opening it, Master of Cloud Stack Cave had sent him a steamed bun directly.

Master of Cloud Stack Cave: "Help me record the names of all the villains, thanks!"

Rain Seeker was stunned for a moment, his fish eyes bulging round. A big shot is truly a big shot; he defined these people in one go.

"No problem, big shot. I don't need payment. If you hadn't reminded me, I would have died under the Heavenly Tribulation on the first day. I tried to send you supplies as a thank you, but you didn't accept them!"

Master of Cloud Stack Cave: "No need to be polite, it was just a guess. Don't thank me. Take the bun; it's a win-win cooperation!"

Rain Seeker: "Then... I won't be polite! I was really about to starve to death..."

Master of Cloud Stack Cave: "ThumbsUp.jpg"

The carp on the skateboard flicked its tail, excitedly accepting the task.

Zhu Jiusi had run all night and had no energy to bicker with them. In Journey Survival, bickering was meaningless; killing was the only thing that mattered—he private messaged them one by one, copied the insults from Orchid Pavilion Scholar to send over, and then threw them back into the blacklist, ignoring them further.

He put away the Scroll and slowly closed his eyes, a hint of a human-like smile lingering at the corners of his mouth.

Rain Seeker... he remembered now. He had felt the name was familiar earlier.

Wasn't this the secretary to the big boss in the Lai Mountain Secret Realm?

He was a scholarly type of character!

Journey Survival might look like a narrow sheep-track at first glance, but the world was unimaginably vast, with secret realms as numerous as the hairs on an ox and countless opportunities.

Rain Seeker must have secured a job in the Lai Mountain Secret Realm. When he had entered, Rain Seeker was already a semi-NPC, working there.

Anyone capable of securing such a position must have unique strengths.

Zhu Jiusi felt he should recall information from the previous cycle whenever he had the chance.

Wasn't the greatest advantage of a reincarnator the information others didn't know?

The only problem was that his Intelligence was currently only 5, making his brain run a bit slowly.

He had to find a way to increase his Intelligence and Life.

Thinking this, Zhu Jiusi gradually fell asleep.

Time passed bit by bit.

Zhu Jiusi, deep in sleep, did not notice that the forest beneath him was quietly changing.

Some plants appeared out of thin air, and even the road was gradually widening, as if two paths were merging into one.