Mooching Food and Drink

System notification: Administrator Zhang Sanfeng gifted a Wudang longsword.

System notification: Administrator The Ancient One gifted the essentials of cultivating qi.

System notification: Administrator Daigu gifted a single-use Divine Light Stick.

Zhang Sanfeng: At the Great Emperor's rate of progress, he'll thrash the Undying Heavenly Emperor in a hundred thousand years.

Zhang Sanfeng: The big shots in this group have rubbed off on me too much. I'm a young man nearly a hundred years old, and I'm already tossing around "a hundred thousand years." It's gone to my head.

"Hahahaha." Meng Chuan saw Zhang Sanfeng's comment and laughed. "Today, we have the young Zhang Sanfeng, nearly a hundred years old."

Meng Qi: When the dragon won't roar and the tiger won't howl, little Undying makes himself a joke.

Daigu Madoka: Little Meng, when did your mute get lifted?

Meng Qi: I went offline just now to take my punishment at the Discipline Academy. It lifted automatically when I came back.

Meng Qi: The one who got muted was the Meng Qi who was online earlier. What does that have to do with the Meng Qi online now?

Meng Qi: Is the Great Emperor going to the Jiang Family? I'd love to see the Hengyu Furnace's divine might.

"I don't want to talk to you, you lunatic." Meng Chuan looked at the imposing buildings appearing in the distance and the figures flying toward him as he answered Meng Qi.

Daigu Madoka: Are they coming to welcome the Great Emperor?

Zhang Sanfeng: Naturally.

Jiang Daoran looked at Meng Chuan with a complicated expression. In the end, he bowed slightly. "Greetings, Great Emperor!"

"Greetings, Great Emperor!"

"Brother Jiang, nine hundred years have passed, and you've grown even more remarkable." Meng Chuan spoke to Jiang Daoran, who was still a Quasi-Emperor.

Jiang Daoran smiled bitterly. What was remarkable about a man who had lost on the road to becoming an emperor?

"Has the Great Emperor come to the Jiang Family with a decree?" Jiang Daoran asked.

Meng Chuan shook his head. "I've only come to trace Emperor Hengyu's footsteps. In years past, he stood against the Primordial Ancient Mine and pressed the Life Forbidden Zones to heel. He deserves admiration."

"And I've come to see you, Brother Jiang."

At those words, Jiang Daoran welcomed Meng Chuan into the Jiang Family and showed him several places where Emperor Hengyu had secluded himself to comprehend the Dao. Meng Chuan demonstrated his arts, letting them clash with Hengyu's Dao traces without damaging those traces in the slightest. He gained something from it as well.

Jiang Daoran then led Meng Chuan to the Jiang Family's main hall, where the family brewed Enlightenment Tea. Besides Jiang Daoran, several of the family's Great Sage elders and a young prodigy he valued most had originally been there to accompany their guest.

Once inside the main hall, Meng Chuan asked them to leave. Only he and Jiang Daoran remained, seated across from each other.

Daigu Madoka: Has anyone else noticed how imposing the Great Emperor is?

Daigu Madoka: Apart from that Jiang Daoran, everyone treated him with such respect. They even seemed careful about every word they said to him.

Daigu Madoka: Nothing like Meng Qi!

Meng Qi: Daigu, are you picking a fight with me? @Daigu Madoka

Meng Qi: You're hardly any better when you talk to the Great Emperor!

Meng Qi: The Great Emperor's Stare.JPG

Meng Chuan: So much for the bond we forged reading and learning together!

Daigu Madoka: Such a drama queen...

Zhang Sanfeng: Great Emperors in the Shrouding the Heavens World are far too lonely.

Zhang Sanfeng: In ten thousand years, the Great Emperor might not have a single familiar face left.

The Ancient One: "The whole world falls silent"? Is that how it goes?

The Ancient One had learned a few new expressions from Meng Qi. While roaming the Multiverse, she had also made a point of watching for them. Put another way, she had been secretly studying up!

Meng Qi: Good thing the Great Emperor still has us treasures of groupmates!

Meng Chuan saw the comment. His expression did not change, but his fist tightened. Treasure, my ass!

Daigu Madoka: I wonder what the Great Emperor would be like if he acted just as imposing in the group.

Meng Qi: @Daigu Madoka, have you ever seen anyone keep a solemn, dignified face while chatting with online friends?

Meng Qi: Lord Tiga, what an impressive show of authority!

Daigu Madoka: When I start a livestream, I'm definitely muting you!

Daigu Madoka: Why hasn't Demon Buddha broken free of his seal yet? I want to go give him a hand!

Meng Qi: Demon Buddha, your friend.

Meng Qi: Little Meng, your dearest friend.

Meng Chuan ignored the comments from these so-called treasures of groupmates and rose with a smile. "I'll take my leave for now. When there's time, Brother Jiang, I'll come back and we can share a drink and talk to our hearts' content."

Jiang Daoran escorted Meng Chuan out of the Jiang Family estate. Only after Meng Chuan repeatedly asked him to stop did he stand and watch him depart.

Once Meng Chuan had vanished, a Jiang Family elder looked at Jiang Daoran. "Family Head, why did the Great Emperor come to the Jiang Family?"

"Only to see the traces our ancestor left behind. With his standing as a Great Emperor, would he covet anything the Jiang Family owns?" Jiang Daoran said without expression.

The Jiang Family elders fell silent. After a moment, one said, "That Dao Beginning Great Emperor became an emperor too quickly. Otherwise, Family Head..." His voice brimmed with resentment.

Jiang Daoran did not answer the elder, but he silently thought, Yes. Far too quickly...

Meng Chuan had become an emperor at six hundred. When he had done so, the other prodigies—even the few at the very top—had only just reached the Quasi-Emperor stage!

That speed of attaining the Dao was enough to drive anyone to despair. Even the Forbidden Zone Supremes had not had time to react before Meng Chuan survived his Great Emperor Tribulation. He passed through three great tribulations in succession and became an emperor outright!

According to the account of Meng Chuan's fate that The Ancient One had uploaded, the Forbidden Zone Supremes would not emerge to unleash the Dark Turmoil until he was seven hundred years old.

But because Meng Chuan had crossed into this world, he had become an emperor at six hundred. Unless they could no longer hold out, Forbidden Zone Supremes generally would not choose to unleash a Dark Turmoil while an ultimate Dao powerhouse still lived.

Meng Chuan could even be said to have prevented a Dark Turmoil without anyone noticing...

Zhang Sanfeng: Great Emperor, where are you going next?

Meng Qi: Go to a forbidden zone! If you don't flatten one or two to prove yourself, how can you call yourself a Heavenly Emperor level master?

Meng Chuan shook his head when he saw Meng Qi's message. With his current strength, he could wipe out one or two forbidden zones under ideal circumstances.

But forbidden zones could flee. If Meng Chuan fought his way into one and crushed the Supremes inside as easily as a storm swept away dead leaves, the other Life Forbidden Zones would certainly flee far away.

"I'll visit the Ji Family next. The Void Emperor is worth the trip."

This time, Meng Chuan did not make his way to the Ji Family at a leisurely pace. One moment he was leaving the Jiang Family estate; the next, he had arrived.

The instant Meng Chuan appeared at the Ji Family's entrance, someone inside sensed him.

Meng Chuan had never restrained his aura.

The person who emerged was a woman. She was not dazzlingly beautiful, but her looks grew more appealing the longer one looked, and she carried herself with the bearing of a heroine.

Ji Lianxing looked at Meng Chuan and raised an eyebrow. "Shouldn't the Great Emperor be at Jade Lake? What are you doing at my Ji Family estate?"

Meng Qi: Is something going on? Why does she think the Great Emperor should be at Jade Lake?

Zhang Sanfeng: Love?

Daigu Madoka: You know about love, Master Zhang?

Zhang Sanfeng: Do I look like I do?

Zhang Sanfeng had once dreamed of a beautiful romance. Unfortunately, he was still a virgin after nearly a hundred years.

In the group, Zhang Sanfeng was nothing like an old man from ancient times now. During Meng Chuan's long periods of seclusion, the other four had all changed a great deal from when they had first joined.

Zhang Sanfeng did not shy away from talking about his past, either. He had poured his heart out to the others... It was a pity Meng Chuan had not been there.

Meng Chuan paid little attention to the comments that had abruptly changed course. His groupmates had no need for love. It would only slow down their chatting!

"I've just come from Jade Lake and the Jiang Family," Meng Chuan explained.

"Now I've come to visit the Ji Family."

Ji Lianxing shot him a sidelong glance. "Here to mooch some tea?"

Meng Qi: He sure is! He drinks tea everywhere he goes!

Looking at the woman before him, who paid no heed to his status as a Great Emperor and had never changed the way she spoke, Meng Chuan smiled. She really was a tigress. Back when they had walked the road to becoming emperors, almost everyone had been on the receiving end of that sharp tongue!

"The Void Emperor's deeds shook the heavens. He quelled the Dark Turmoil, held the Undying Mountain in check, fought the Extraterrestrial Gods, and secured an era of peace for humanity. I ought to come and pay my respects."

And the Void Emperor deserved Meng Chuan's respect.

Seeing how serious Meng Chuan was, Ji Lianxing's eyes shifted. He did not seem to have come looking for trouble, so she led him into the Ji Family estate.

After paying his respects at the relics left by the Void Emperor, Meng Chuan found himself faced with another cup of Enlightenment Ancient Tea...

How did this happen? I'm a Great Emperor, yet I really do look like I came just to mooch tea!

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