Prehistoric: I Am the Innate Gourd Vine, Joining a Chat Group
Chapter 10

Bai Suzhen Seeks Help

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After the group's bustle died down, Bai Suzhen, who had been silent for a long time, finally spoke.

White Snake Successor: @Immortal, Immortal Senior...

White Snake Successor: This junior has an unreasonable request. I wonder if it would be possible...

Immortal: Speak freely.

White Snake Successor: Senior, you have seen this junior's script of fate. This junior cultivated for eighteen hundred years, relying entirely on instinct to absorb and exhale the spiritual energy of heaven and earth. I have never had any systematic cultivation method.

White Snake Successor: Now that calamity is approaching, this junior wishes to ask Senior for guidance in cultivation. When facing the calamity... this junior does not wish to lack even the strength to resist.

After sending those words, she watched the screen anxiously.

She knew this request was far too much.

She and "Immortal" were complete strangers. He had no obligation to help her.

But she truly had no other way.

After eighteen hundred years of cultivation, she knew better than anyone what she was capable of.

Without outside help, she feared she would not even be able to withstand Fahai's golden alms bowl, much less resist him.

The group fell silent for several breaths.

Then, "Immortal's" reply appeared on the screen.

Immortal: Miss Bai.

White Snake Successor: This junior is here!

Immortal: This poor Daoist can help you.

Bai Suzhen's heart lurched, and even her fingers trembled.

White Snake Successor: Senior...

Immortal: But this poor Daoist has one condition.

White Snake Successor: Please speak, Senior! So long as this junior can do it, I will not shrink from death ten thousand times over!

Immortal: There is no need to be so solemn. You need only share with this poor Daoist the cultivation method you have practiced for eighteen hundred years—or rather, your cultivation insights, breathing techniques, and method of taking human form.

The group fell silent again for a moment.

Xiao Yan: Huh? Big Brother Daoist, you want Sister Bai's cultivation method?

Xiao Yan: But Sister Bai's cultivation method probably isn't as powerful as yours, Big Brother Daoist, is it?

Immortal: Not so.

Immortal: What this poor Daoist seeks is not a cultivation method, but cultivation approaches from different worlds. Furthermore, the cultivation methods of this poor Daoist's world are unsuitable to give to all of you, and likewise unsuitable for your worlds.

Immortal: This poor Daoist must draw upon them for reference and grasp one thing through another before I can deduce cultivation methods suited to each of you. This will also benefit my own cultivation.

Zhang Sanfeng: Fellow Daoist Immortal speaks most truly! This old man cultivated for a hundred years and has also studied the scriptures of Buddhism, Daoism, and Confucianism. Though the three schools differ, the Great Dao is interconnected. This is precisely the way of learning from one another's strengths and gathering the best of all schools.

Huang Rong: So what Big Brother Daoist means is—Sister Bai gives you her cultivation method, and you help Sister Bai deduce a better one?

Immortal: Precisely.

Immortal: Based on Miss Bai's cultivation insights and combining them with cultivation methods from other worlds, this poor Daoist will deduce a cultivation method suitable for the Demon Race.

Bai Suzhen's heartbeat quickened as she read those words.

A cultivation method specifically deduced for the Demon Race?

In her world, that was something no one would even dare dream of.

When the Demon Race cultivated, they either relied on instinct or secretly learned human cultivation methods and awkwardly modified them. Never had any great powerhouse specifically created a cultivation method for the Demon Race.

White Snake Successor: Senior's great kindness cannot be repaid by this junior!

White Snake Successor: Senior may take this junior's cultivation insights as you please! It is only that this junior's cultivation methods are crude and rudimentary. I fear they may not be worthy of Senior's notice...

Immortal: It matters not. This poor Daoist has said so already. Miss Bai, first organize your cultivation insights and send them to this poor Daoist in a red packet. This poor Daoist will cover the points needed to send it.

Immortal: Can group points be transferred?

Senior-Year Powerhouse: They can.

Senior-Year Powerhouse: The group owner and administrators have permission to transfer points. But I have not set an administrator yet.

Senior-Year Powerhouse: @Immortal, if I make Fellow Daoist an administrator, you will be able to transfer points.

Xiao Yan: Administrator! Big Brother Daoist is going to be an administrator!

Huang Rong: What is an administrator?!

Sun Wukong: What does an administrator do? Can they fight?

Senior-Year Powerhouse: Administrators can manage group affairs, such as transferring points, muting people, and approving newcomers.

Senior-Year Powerhouse: Fellow Daoist Immortal, do you agree?

Beside the screen, Li Yuxuan was filled with nervous anticipation. She had finally used this opportunity to bring the Immortal into the fold; she just did not know whether he would agree!

Yang Xuan looked at the message and thought to himself, Now that's more like it!

Administrator!

This status had come sooner than he had expected.

He had originally thought he would have to wait a while, until the group owner trusted him enough, before being made an administrator.

He had not expected it to happen so quickly.

What did that mean?

It meant the group owner, "Senior-Year Powerhouse," was very clever.

She knew her cultivation was insufficient, and she knew the "Immortal" in the group needed a certain degree of authority to be able to play a better role.

Rather than clinging tightly to power, it was better to delegate authority to someone capable.

That would both win people over and lighten her own burden.

Immortal: Since that is the case, this poor Daoist will respectfully accept.

Senior-Year Powerhouse: Good.

Senior-Year Powerhouse: Setting an administrator requires a vote from the group members. I'll start the vote now.

As Li Yuxuan initiated the vote, the atmosphere in the chat group instantly became lively.

[System Notification: Group owner "Senior-Year Powerhouse" has initiated a group vote—"Do you agree to appoint 'Immortal' as a group administrator?"] [Current votes: 0/7]

Xiao Yan: Do we even need to vote on this? Of course we agree! With Immortal Senior around, if anyone dares bully our group in the future, we'll follow the internet cable over and chop them down!

Zhang Sanfeng: Good. Fellow Daoist Immortal deeply understands the Great Dao. If he oversees the group rules, he will surely lead us onto the proper path. This poor Daoist seconds the motion.

Huang Rong: I don't understand what an administrator is, but I agree!

Sun Wukong: Agree, agree!

On the screen, the green tally representing "for" rapidly climbed, becoming 7/7 in the blink of an eye.

Passed unanimously!

[System Notification: Voting has ended. Congratulations to "Immortal" on becoming this group's first administrator!]

Li Yuxuan let out a long breath as she watched the interface complete the operation.

Phew... finally got it done.

Though she was only a high school student, as the group owner, she still had this much political awareness.

"Immortal" was such a massive thigh to cling to. If she did not give him some real authority, what if he became unhappy and left the group one day?

Besides, the shock of that sword strike was still echoing in her heart. She had to hold tightly to this thigh!

Primordial World.

Yang Xuan watched the system notification, and his leaves unfurled slightly.

This administrator status... hehe, it's rather interesting.

As soon as the group chat ended, he focused his attention on the administrator privileges.

With a light touch of his consciousness upon the glowing screen, the details of [Group Administrator Privileges] unfolded like flowing water.

His gaze passed over such insignificant functions as "mute" and "kick," settling upon the special privilege at the very bottom: [Cross-World Projection].

Hm? What is this?

Yang Xuan examined it carefully.

[Cross-World Projection: An administrator may consume points to project a strand of their divine sense or a magical treasure into the world of a group member. The duration depends on the number of points consumed.]

Wonderful!

Yang Xuan was overjoyed.

Earlier, when he had tried to send that weed, the system had notified him that "transmission failed." That was because his authority had been insufficient, leaving him unable to locate the coordinates.

But now that he had administrator privileges, along with this "Cross-World Projection" function, it was equivalent to the system opening an official back door for him!

It seems this administrator role is not merely a status—it is official endorsement.

In high spirits, Yang Xuan promptly transferred another hundred points to Bai Suzhen.

After Bai Suzhen claimed the points, she quickly sent a red packet, then returned the remaining seventy points.

White Snake Successor: Immortal Senior, this is too many points. I'm returning the rest to you.

Yang Xuan could not help but smile at the red packet Bai Suzhen had sent, titled "White Snake Cultivation Insights," along with the seventy points.

Immortal: No need. Keep the points. You can browse the points store and purchase some medicinal pills to improve your cultivation.

Looking at the returned points, Bai Suzhen could not help but feel deeply moved.

The Immortal's kindness can never be repaid!

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