Newcomers

Meng Qi: Zhang Sanfeng, you just let them go?

Meng Chuan: Shouldn't you have hacked them to death?

Daigu Madoka: The price they paid was rather light, considering how important the occasion was.

The Ancient One: I think it was fine!

Zhang Sanfeng: It suddenly felt pointless. There was no sense in making an issue of it.

Meng Qi: Zhang Sanfeng, you've really seen through the Mortal World...

Meng Qi: Come to my Shaolin Temple!

Meng Chuan: And you still claim your heart isn't set on Shaolin Temple!

Zhang Sanfeng: No, no. Being a Daoist suits me just fine.

As they chatted away, the system suddenly sounded a string of notifications.

"Ding! Welcome Loser to the Chat Group!"

"Ding! Welcome First Divine General of the God Realm to the Chat Group!"

"Ding! Welcome Essence-Sucking Old Man to the Chat Group!"

"Ding! Welcome I Want a Beautiful Relationship to the Chat Group!"

"Ding! Welcome the Formerly Renowned Ruthless Judge of the Twenty-Six Provinces of Guandong and Guangxi to the Chat Group!"

After the five dings, another three notifications followed.

System Notice: Group Livestream unlocked! (Unlocked ahead of schedule)

System Notice: Group Gatherings unlocked!

System Notice: Group Quests unlocked! Check them at your leisure!

Daigu Madoka: That was a lot of dings all at once. Anyway, welcome, newcomers!

Meng Chuan: A lot of what? Dings? Ding-dings? Terrifying. Welcome, newcomers!

Meng Qi: Newcomers, post your pictures! Don't be scared. None of us here are good people!

Meng Chuan: I really want to kick you out, you bastard.

Zhang Sanfeng: Welcome, newcomers!

The Ancient One: Welcome to the Chat Group, everyone!

Meng Qi: Here I am. Kick me out if you can! Now I'm gone. Now I'm back. Kick me out if you can!

System Notice: Administrator Meng Qi muted Administrator Meng Qi.

Meng Chuan: ???

System Notice: Administrator Meng Qi unmuted Administrator Meng Qi.

Meng Chuan: Muting yourself once doesn't mean the rest of us won't mute you!

First Divine General of the God Realm: What is this place? There is nowhere like it in the Six Realms. Somewhere beyond the heavens? Hmm, this title of mine...

Essence-Sucking Old Man: Greetings, everyone. Why—why is my title like this?!

Meng Chuan: Fellow Daoist, your tastes are a little... unusual.

Meng Qi: I understand, I understand. It's nothing to be ashamed of.

Formerly Renowned Ruthless Judge of the Twenty-Six Provinces of Guandong and Guangxi: Immortals? Demons?

Meng Chuan: I think I know who you are. @Formerly Renowned Ruthless Judge of the Twenty-Six Provinces of Guandong and Guangxi

I Want a Beautiful Relationship: What is this? Have I been hit by a spirit ability?

Loser: I know I'm a loser, but isn't this name a bit too blunt?

Zhang Sanfeng: Everyone, don't panic. This is a respectable place. Let this old Daoist explain.

Meng Chuan: I've already had the Chat Group send them the basic information. You don't need to explain, Zhang Sanfeng.

Meng Qi: Stealing another chance for me to show off? Drop dead!

First Divine General of the God Realm: An exchange group connecting different worlds, with mine only one among them? How marvelous. Then perhaps an opponent worthy of fighting me will appear...

Meng Qi: @Meng Chuan, someone's looking for you.

Meng Chuan: You can change your names just by willing it.

Meng Chuan: Stop tagging me. I don't want to talk to you.

Yao Chen: What a wondrous place.

Daigu Madoka: Sir, your name has rather a transcendent air about it. What a pity, what a pity.

Everyone in the group caught the implication behind Daigu's "what a pity."

Inside a ring lived the hazy figure of a soul. That soul was close to losing his mind. He had only absorbed battle qi for a few years! How had that made him an Essence-Sucking Old Man?!

Yao Chen: It's not like that. Let me explain.

Meng Chuan: Mm.

Meng Qi: Mm.

Lu Mingfei: Mm.

Daigu Madoka: Mm.

Yao Chen: Fine. I don't want to explain anymore.

Bibi Dong: A place like this actually exists? I've never heard of it before!

Yan Chixia: Greetings, fellow Daoists. This humble Daoist is Yan Chixia.

Fei Peng: I am Fei Peng!

Meng Qi: @Meng Chuan, Great Emperor, they're all "old acquaintances"!

Bibi Dong: Do I know you?

Meng Qi: You don't know me, but I know you.

Meng Chuan: We're friends. We can still say hello.

Daigu Madoka: Ah, I've heard that song!

Zhang Sanfeng: We've gone off track. Back to business.

Meng Qi, currently eating sand in the Vast Sea, looked at the new group members and broke into an inscrutable grin.

"Senior brother, senior brother, what are you thinking about? Why are you smiling so creepily?" asked an adorable young monk beside Meng Qi, his bright eyes wide.

Meng Qi's smile froze. He tapped Zhen Hui's little bald head. "I taught you that word, and now you use it on me?"

"But you really do look creepy!" Zhen Hui rubbed his head, his face full of earnest conviction.

"And you say it again!"

"Zhen Ding, don't bully your junior brother," said the tall, thin monk ahead of them, his face lined with sorrow.

"Yes, Master." Meng Qi glared at Zhen Hui. You little brat. Just see whether I save you next time!

Meng Qi: Everyone, I have something extremely important to tell you. Lives are at stake!

Fei Peng: What is it?

Beside the Heavenly Gate, Fei Peng sat on the ground and gazed toward the distant horizon. He doubted that this rather excitable group member, Meng Qi, could say anything concerning his life. No, his divine life.

After all, they weren't even in the same world.

Meng Qi: The truth is, you're all characters in novels and television dramas~

Fei Peng: What are novels and television dramas?

Bibi Dong: What are novels and television dramas?

Yao Chen: What are novels and television dramas?

Yan Chixia: I know what storybooks are, but what is a television drama?

Meng Qi: ...

Meng Qi: I'm such a fool. I really am.

Meng Chuan: @Meng Qi, your attempt to show off has failed. Next dreamer, please! @Zhang Sanfeng

Lu Mingfei: No way! I'm a living person!

Meng Chuan: You are alive, but there's also a novel that tells your story.

Lu Mingfei: Oh, oh, oh! I think I get it. Like the stuff written in novels!

Meng Chuan: A promising student.

Meng Chuan then explained it to the other gods, ancient people, and people from other worlds. They came to understand the concepts, including what a Fate Instance was.

Meng Qi: Great Emperor, Ancient One, have mercy! Give me a chance!

Meng Qi: I want to earn some points!

Only Meng Chuan, Meng Qi, and The Ancient One knew those stories. The first two were transmigrators, while The Ancient One was simply extraordinarily well-informed.

After the Chat Group's last upgrade, the shop and points had appeared. Uploading Fate Instances earned points too.

Zhang Sanfeng: This humble Daoist was poor before, and this humble Daoist remains poor.

Daigu Madoka: I don't know mine either, Zhang Sanfeng. It's fine.

Zhang Sanfeng: But you have money.

Amid the system's notifications, Meng Qi uploaded five Fate Instances in one go and made a tidy little profit.

Zhang Sanfeng: A smile peeks through the poverty.JPG

At the sight of the newly uploaded instances, everyone dove straight into their own Fate Instance.

Before long, Fei Peng emerged first.

Fei Peng: I have no regrets. It's only a pity I couldn't stay with her until the end.

This Fei Peng was the peerless divine general from Chinese Paladin 3.

Meng Chuan: General, you take it in stride!

Fei Peng: Hahaha. I must look foolish to you, Great Emperor.

Fei Peng had heard the longtime members call Meng Chuan that, so he followed their lead.

Bibi Dong: How could things turn out like this?!

On Douluo Continent, within Spirit Hall.

A slender, graceful girl of breathtaking beauty stared in disbelief. Deep in her eyes, murderous intent slowly gathered.

Meng Chuan and Meng Qi said nothing. Of the newcomers, Bibi Dong arguably had it worst.

Yan Chixia: It was accurate. The events were much like what this humble Daoist experienced.

Meng Qi: Have you already lived through your whole story, hero?

Yan Chixia: Yes.

Meng Chuan: That's a pity, though you don't have any regrets, hero.

Yao Chen: I never imagined it. The boy whose essence I'm absorbing now...

Yao Chen: The boy whose battle qi I'm absorbing will achieve so much!

Daigu Madoka: A boy, even!

Meng Chuan: Terrified.JPG

Meng Qi: Terrified.JPG

The Ancient One: That's rather provocative.

Yao Chen: ...

It's not what you think!

Lu Mingfei: Help me help me help me @Everyone!

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