Speaking Frankly (Please Follow)

[Pang Bo: I've changed it!]

[Cao Cao: I am Cao Cao, Cao Mengde. Greetings, everyone!]

[Yue Buqun: I am Yue Buqun of the Mount Hua Sect. Greetings, everyone!]

[Li Feiyu: Junior Li Feiyu greets all the seniors!]

Seeing the first three messages, Lu Qingshan could not help but think, Just as expected. Then, a trace of regret rose in his heart.

After all, when he had first joined the chat group, he had hoped to use it to increase his own strength.

Although he had originally planned to take it easy after breaking through to become an immortal, if one could reach the summit on one's own, who would be willing to cling to someone else's thigh?

But there was no need to mention the worlds Cao Cao and Yue Buqun came from. They definitely could not offer him any help.

The world Pang Bo came from, Shrouding the Heavens, was of quite a high level and contained many powerful experts, but its cultivation path was completely different from that of the Swallowed Star world!

Though the Great Dao of all worlds might ultimately lead to the same destination, that was something to consider only after reaching the pinnacle of one's own world.

Lu Qingshan was merely a minor immortal god now. He was far too distant from such a realm!

But when he saw the final message, Lu Qingshan smiled to himself before feeling delighted.

This so-called "Li Feiyu" was definitely Han Li from A Record of a Mortal's Journey to Immortality.

As for why he was not the real Li Feiyu?

Hadn't the original name made everything clear?

A fledgling cultivation rookie like Li Feiyu had no spiritual roots at all. He simply could not cultivate immortality!

The reason Lu Qingshan was delighted was naturally because of the Heavenly Palm Bottle in Han Li's possession!

When Lu Qingshan thought of the Heavenly Palm Bottle, what he valued was naturally not its ability to nurture green liquid that ripened spiritual medicines. After all, the Swallowed Star world had existed for endless ages, and the universe was incomparably vast. Obtaining rare treasures of any desired age was an extremely simple matter.

In truth, ripening spiritual medicines was merely the Heavenly Palm Bottle's most insignificant ability.

In fact, the Heavenly Palm Bottle had accompanied the birth of the Heavenly Dao. When chaos gave rise to the world in A Record of a Mortal's Journey to Immortality, it had been the first Profound Heaven treasure to appear!

Within the Heavenly Palm Bottle were not only all the Heavenly Dao laws of that world, but even remnants of chaos laws.

Later, the Hall Master of Reincarnation, who cultivated the Laws of Time, had been outmatched in his decisive battle against Gu Huo Jin, the Dao Ancestor of Time, and had suffered a crushing defeat.

Yet just as the Hall Master of Reincarnation was about to be slain by Gu Huo Jin, he dispersed all the power of the Laws of Time he had cultivated over countless years, exhausted every temporal Dao rune and crystal thread, and gathered that terrifying power of time, unseen since antiquity, into the Heavenly Palm Bottle. Only then did the Heavenly Palm Bottle gain the true ability to reverse time and space.

Afterward, the Heavenly Palm Bottle carried the Hall Master of Reincarnation across endless ages back into the unimaginably distant past. But during that journey through time and space, the Hall Master of Reincarnation had already exhausted his strength and could no longer control the Heavenly Palm Bottle. As a result, it was lost in the river of time and eventually obtained by Han Li!

And that meant the mysterious green liquid nurtured within the Heavenly Palm Bottle was a product of the Laws of Time!

What Lu Qingshan needed in order to continue growing stronger now was to further comprehend the origin laws of time!

Even if the powers of law in the two worlds differed to some degree, the mysterious green liquid born from the Heavenly Palm Bottle would definitely be of tremendous help to Lu Qingshan!

With that thought, Lu Qingshan immediately replied to Han Li.

[Lu Qingshan: Fellow Daoist Han Li, rest assured. This chat group poses no threat to you, so there is no need to use a false name!]

Inside the allied army's command tent.

After introducing himself, Cao Cao had continued watching the messages from the others in the chat group.

"Yue Buqun of the Mount Hua Sect? Li Feiyu? The way this Li Feiyu speaks is rather strange!"

All kinds of thoughts flashed through Cao Cao's mind. "Han Li? So Li Feiyu was actually an alias? Why hadn't I thought of that?"

It was not really Cao Cao's fault!

To him, a name was merely a designation. Faced with a chat group that had suddenly appeared in his mind, there was no real difference between using his true name and an alias.

But for Han Li, who lived in a cultivation world filled with all kinds of curse arts, caution was only natural.

"However..."

Cao Cao thought to himself, "That 'immortal god' Lu Qingshan actually knew that Han Li was using an alias, and he seems quite familiar with this chat group from the way he speaks. Could he really be a god? Did he create this chat group?"

Within Yellow Maple Valley of the Yue Kingdom.

Han Li was startled when Lu Qingshan exposed his identity. He then quickly followed the chat group's guidance, changed his name, and replied.

[Han Li: Please calm your anger, Senior! This junior had no intention of offending you. I beg Senior's forgiveness!]

[Lu Qingshan: Hahaha!]

[Lu Qingshan: Fellow Daoist Han, there is no need to panic. I bear you no ill will!]

[Lu Qingshan: And the other three as well! @Cao Cao, @Yue Buqun, @Pang Bo! I joined this chat group at the same time as all of you. I simply know a little more information than you do!]

[Lu Qingshan: This chat group is actually like a more advanced form of long-distance voice transmission. Its range is simply broader, allowing it to connect people from different worlds.]

Among the people in the chat group, Pang Bo should have had the strongest ability to accept this, since he had surely used QQ groups before leaving Earth.

As for the other three, they definitely did not understand chat groups very well. Naturally, Lu Qingshan needed to explain things a little.

Sure enough, after hearing Lu Qingshan's explanation, Pang Bo quickly reacted.

[Pang Bo: @Cao Cao, are you Cao Cao, Cao Mengde—the Great Han Chancellor and Emperor Wu of Wei who defeated the Yellow Turban Army, destroyed Yuan Shao, and "held the Emperor hostage to command the feudal lords"?]

[Cao Cao: I did indeed follow General Lu Zhi in defeating the Yellow Turban Army, but Yuan Shao is my friend, and his strength and reputation far surpass mine. Why would I destroy him? As for such a treasonous act as "holding the Emperor hostage to command the feudal lords," I, Cao Mengde, could never possibly do such a thing, let alone accept an usurping title like "Emperor Wu of Wei"!]

[Pang Bo: Lord Mengde, I'll explain it to you later. @Yue Buqun, Mister Yue, do you have a senior disciple named Linghu Chong, as well as a daughter named Yue Lingshan?]

[Yue Buqun: Linghu Chong is indeed my senior disciple, and my daughter is indeed named Yue Lingshan. But how did you know this?]

[Lu Qingshan: There is no need for concern, everyone! To Pang Bo and me, all of you are like characters from storybooks and biographies. Do you understand what I mean?]

[Lu Qingshan: For example, Mengde, your story has been recorded as a biography. Everyone except Han Li should have heard your story!]

Inside the allied army's command tent.

As he looked at the chat records, Cao Cao was slightly stunned.

As a man well versed in historical records, he was naturally no stranger to biographies, but...

"Could it be that I truly destroyed Yuan Shao in the future, held the Emperor hostage to command the feudal lords, and even eventually usurped the Han and proclaimed myself ruler? And succeeded?"

[Lu Qingshan: Mister Yue is the same. Your deeds were recorded in a wuxia novel called The Smiling, Proud Wanderer. Pang Bo and I have both read this novel, so we know quite a bit about you.]

[Pang Bo: @Lu Qingshan, you know so much about me. Does that mean I'm also a character in a novel?]

[Lu Qingshan: That's right! Not only you—Fellow Daoist Han Li is as well!]

[Pang Bo: Hahaha, I knew I was the protagonist! I knew it! Since I encountered such a fortuitous opportunity, my future is definitely extraordinary! @Lu Qingshan, hurry up and tell me—did I become an immortal patriarch in the future?]

[Lu Qingshan: Well... @Pang Bo, I have indeed read the novel that records your story, but you aren't actually the protagonist!]

[Pang Bo: This is impossible.JPG. If I'm not the protagonist, then who is?]

[Lu Qingshan: You'll understand later.]

Seeing the others fall silent, Lu Qingshan quickly continued explaining.

[Lu Qingshan: There is no need for everyone to overthink this! None of you are fictional characters. Those biographies and storybooks merely happened to record the worlds you live in because of various coincidences!]

[Lu Qingshan: Take me, for instance. I transmigrated into a novel world I was very familiar with in my previous life, but I have cultivated here for more than eight million years already. I am certain this world is incomparably real, so there is no need for anyone to worry because of what Pang Bo and I have said!]

[Pang Bo: Holy shit! Eight million years? You've really lived for eight million years? @Lu Qingshan]

For a time, Cao Cao of the late Han, Yue Buqun on Mount Hua, and Han Li within Yellow Maple Valley were all shocked by the information Lu Qingshan had inadvertently revealed.

Someone who had lived for eight million years?

When had they ever seen such an inconceivable figure?

[Lu Qingshan: There is no need to be too surprised! In the world I inhabit, cultivation takes ordinary people an extremely long time. I have lived for more than eight million years, yet I am still only a youngster in this world!]

[Lu Qingshan: Oh, right. I just looked through the chat group's many functions and discovered that I am the group owner, while the four of you are all administrators. It should be because we were the first to join this chat group.]

[Lu Qingshan: I imagine everyone has many questions right now, so I'll first upload the biographies and novels concerning your worlds to the group files. I believe they will help everyone better understand what I have said.]

[Lu Qingshan: Of course, the biographies and novels I upload cannot record every event in your lives. Furthermore, now that you have joined the chat group, your fates have changed again. So as for the futures described in those biographies and novels, you only need to use them as a slight reference!]

System notification: Group owner Lu Qingshan uploaded Romance of the Three Kingdoms. Upload successful.

System notification: Group owner Lu Qingshan set Romance of the Three Kingdoms so that only administrator Cao Cao could view it. Other group members must obtain Cao Cao's permission to view it.

Lu Qingshan had considered this before uploading the novels.

After all, those biographies and novels contained some of their private matters—for example, Yue Buqun's experience of castrating himself to practice swordsmanship, or Pang Bo's experience of gnawing on a coffin lid, and so on...

If he did not impose restrictions, he would not be helping them—he would be making enemies.

Although Lu Qingshan's current strength meant he had no need to care about what Yue Buqun and the others thought, they all came from different worlds and were relatively equal within this chat group.

Besides, Lu Qingshan would need help from the other group members in the future, so naturally he had to take their feelings into consideration.

As for whether they would allow others to view the biographies and novels about themselves after reading them, that was their own business.

System notification: Group owner Lu Qingshan uploaded The Smiling, Proud Wanderer. Upload successful.

System notification: Group owner Lu Qingshan set The Smiling, Proud Wanderer so that only administrator Yue Buqun could view it. Other group members must obtain Yue Buqun's permission to view it.

System notification: Group owner Lu Qingshan uploaded A Record of a Mortal's Journey to Immortality. Upload successful.

System notification: Group owner Lu Qingshan set A Record of a Mortal's Journey to Immortality so that only administrator Han Li could view it. Other group members must obtain Han Li's permission to view it.

[Pang Bo: What about mine? What about mine?]

Seeing that everyone else's biographies and novels had been uploaded, Pang Bo immediately grew anxious.

[Lu Qingshan: Don't rush!]

System notification: Group owner Lu Qingshan uploaded Shrouding the Heavens. Upload successful.

System notification: Group owner Lu Qingshan set Shrouding the Heavens so that only administrator Pang Bo could view it. Other group members must obtain Pang Bo's permission to view it.

[Lu Qingshan: Everyone, these biographies and novels are quite lengthy. You may as well finish dealing with the matters in your own worlds before reading them. We can continue our discussion later.]

[Pang Bo: Brother, thanks a lot. I'll repay you generously someday!]

[Cao Cao: Many thanks, Group Owner!]

[Yue Buqun: Many thanks, Group Owner!]

[Han Li: Many thanks, Senior!]

Thanks to reader You Wu Shen Qi for the 100-point reward, and thanks to reader Tian Can Hua Jian for the 500-point reward.