Across-Time Chat Group, Demon Armor, and Young Bibi Dong Joins the Group

Suotuo City, Shrek Academy.

"Splash..." Cold water came pouring down from above,

jolting him awake.

He sprang up from the ground and wiped the water from his face.

"What the hell... where have I ended up?"

The scene before Li Qiu looked strangely familiar.

It seemed like the setting of some anime or novel.

"Come back to life, my love..."

It seemed to be the world of that famous scene.

A flood of memories rushed into his mind.

His head swam,

but once the memories settled,

he realized he had crossed over to the Douluo Continent.

While still in a daze, he had let Flender talk him into coming to Shrek Academy. Flender had said that, as a student, Li Qiu could earn Gold Soul Coins by suppressing Ma Hongjun's Evil Fire, and his tuition, fees, food, and lodging would all be free.

But after he arrived,

he received no Gold Soul Coins for suppressing the fatty's Evil Fire.

Worse, he had to heal the other students and teachers whenever they were injured at the Soul Fighting Arena.

He had muddled through years of cultivation without gaining much Soul Power. He had not even broken through level twenty, making him Shrek's weakest student.

Gradually,

he became the errand boy everyone at Shrek ordered around.

Then someone doused him with cold water, and he woke up.

He had thought he had only just crossed over,

but he had actually spent twelve years in a daze.

Perhaps the daze had been some aftereffect of crossing over, and the cold water had finally snapped him out of it.

[Ding! Binding the Past and Present Chat Group.]

[You may currently invite one random person from another time and space to join the chat group for cross-time conversation.]

[As the group levels up, its functions will gradually unlock.]

[For example: sending items across time and space, taking photos, recording videos, and more.]

[Currently unlocked function: sending items across time and space.]

[Each time the chat group levels up, the host may draw one prize. Chatting and sending items across time and space increase activity; the group will level up when activity reaches a certain threshold.]

[Activity rankings are calculated once every seven days. The member in first place and the host will each receive one prize draw.]

[The higher the activity value, the better the chance of drawing a treasure.]

[Congratulations, host! You have received a beginner's gift pack.]

[1: Your First Martial Soul has evolved.]

[2: You have obtained a Second Martial Soul: Demon Armor.]

The system notifications thrilled Li Qiu. His First Martial Soul had evolved, and he had even gained Demon Armor as his Second Martial Soul.

Demon Armor. Now that was good!

One day, he would chase Ma Hongjun and Dai Mubai down and cut them up.

Once his excitement subsided, he scrambled to his feet, put on an eager smile, and said,

"Brother Dai, I'll heal you!"

He summoned his Martial Soul to treat the wound on Dai Mubai's arm. Green Life Energy flowed from the Green Bead and enveloped it.

The wound on Dai Mubai's arm soon closed, and the bruising faded.

"Hurry up! Quit dragging your feet! Your Lord Fatty can barely hold it back. Do you want me to..."

The fatty had already grown impatient.

He had arrived first,

yet Li Qiu had treated Dai Mubai before him.

It left him deeply annoyed.

But he could not beat Dai Mubai and did not dare lose his temper with him,

so he could only vent his anger by roaring at Li Qiu.

In the end, he never finished his threat.

The Green Bead in Li Qiu's hand turned into the Ice-Blue Bead, releasing waves of cold that enveloped Ma Hongjun.

Ma Hongjun's feverish agitation and crimson eyes gradually calmed, and the bloodshot veins in his eyes faded.

His Evil Fire was temporarily suppressed.

By the time Li Qiu finished, he was nearly spent. This body was absurdly weak.

"Brother Dai, Lord Fatty, I'm exhausted. I'll go rest for a bit!"

Beads of sweat hung from Li Qiu's forehead as he spoke. He bowed and nodded to them with a respectful smile.

"Mm. Go on!" Ma Hongjun turned and left.

Dai Mubai ignored Li Qiu and headed outside the academy to prepare for the new-student recruitment.

Once they were gone, Li Qiu ran back to his dorm, wiped the cold water and sweat from his body with a cloth, changed into clean clothes, and lay down on his bed with the curtain drawn.

His gaze turned cold.

Had he let Shrek's monsters bully him

only because his mind had been muddled and barely working?

Now that he was clearheaded, he would have to endure it for the time being, swallow his anger, and wait until he grew stronger. Then they would pay.

With the Past and Present Chat Group system as his cheat, how hard could it be to grow stronger?

At that thought, he opened the chat group window.

The interface before him looked much like a mobile QQ group chat.

Li Qiu tapped the button to invite a random member.

[Ahem...]

The notification chime for a new member rang out.

[Spirit Hall Saintess has joined the chat group.]

Li Qiu stared at the message in confusion.

At this point in Spirit Hall's timeline,

Hu Liena had not yet been named Saintess.

Qian Renxue was posing as Xue Qinghe and lying low in the Heaven Dou Imperial Palace. She was Spirit Hall's young mistress.

Then could this Spirit Hall Saintess be from the past?

The name Past and Present Chat Group certainly suggested it.

Could she be Bibi Dong from thirty-odd years ago?

Li Qiu only knew that Bibi Dong had been the previous Saintess. The author had not written about the more distant past.

[Spirit Hall Saintess: What is this? It can turn thoughts into words?]

[A Leaf Knows Autumn: This is the Past and Present Chat Group. I'm its owner, Li Qiu. It lets me chat with you across time and space.]

[Spirit Hall Saintess: Across time and space? Interesting. Hello, Li Qiu. I'm Bibi Dong. I was appointed Spirit Hall's Saintess not long ago!]

Li Qiu looked at the messages. The Saintess really was Bibi Dong.

And she was Bibi Dong as a young girl. At this age, she was innocent and romantic, devoted to cultivation, yearning for love, and a little lonely.

Qian Xunji would not let her make friends, so she had always cultivated alone.

Otherwise, she might never have met Yu Xiaogang while traveling the continent later

and fallen in love with him.

The Bibi Dong of the present was an adult.

She should have been between fourteen and sixteen when she was appointed Saintess.

So was she fourteen now?

[A Leaf Knows Autumn: That's right, across time and space. To me, you're someone from more than thirty years ago.]

Young Bibi Dong stared at the messages in the translucent chat window before her, stunned for several seconds.

They could communicate across more than thirty years?

How had this person done it?

Could he be one of the gods from legend?

This god seemed quite approachable.

He was chatting with her, a mortal Saintess, without putting on any airs.

But perhaps not.

Perhaps Li Qiu was just an ordinary person

who happened to possess a miraculous tool for communicating across time and space.

She wore a purple dress that traced her graceful figure. Her skin was pale and smooth as cream, and her breathtaking face still held a youthful softness. Her lively, phoenix-shaped eyes fixed on the chat interface.

Curiosity filled them.

Perhaps this group would bring a little enjoyment to her dull, grueling days of training.

Eager to find out, she immediately asked,

[Spirit Hall Saintess: Since you know I'm from more than thirty years in your past, tell me what's happening in my time. Maybe then I'll believe you.]

[A Leaf Knows Autumn: You're Spirit Hall's Saintess. You should be about fourteen now, right?]