Chapter 75: The Destiny Trajectory of the New Group Member

【Breaker of the Void: Where is this place? Are you immortals? How did you appear in my mind?】

Laughing at the Jianghu, atop Huashan Peak.

When Yue Buqun saw the new member’s message in the group, he was momentarily stunned.

He knew his greatest dream was to break the void and see if there were even greater worlds beyond the Laughing at the Jianghu realm.

Yet now, this newcomer had already achieved everything he dreamed of—just after joining the group.

Moreover, this person opened with “immortals,” meaning their strength must be immense.

“Could this person’s strength rival the group owner’s?” Yue Buqun thought silently.

【Pang Bo: Immortals? It seems the new member is very strong! @Breaker of the Void, we have no immortals here—only the group owner is a true immortal deity!】

【Xiao Yan: New member, this group connects different worlds. If you have any questions, ask the group owner—he will give you answers!】

【Breaker of the Void: Different worlds? Immortal deity?】

【Lu Qingshan: @Breaker of the Void, @Exceptional Sword Talent, this group is simply a platform for us to communicate. Why don’t you both change your names first, then we’ll continue? Just think of your new name, and the group will guide you through the change!】

At this moment, Lu Qingshan had no idea who these two newcomers were, so he naturally guided them to change their names first—this would give him more clues to guess their identities.

…

In the True Spirit Continent, within the Tianmeng War Hall.

Ye Chen, who had just broken through to the Baoyuan Realm, stared blankly as messages kept appearing in his mind.

The group chat!

What a familiar yet strange name.

In his past life, he had been a physics student at university, and after an accidental explosion during an experiment, his soul had been transported to the True Spirit Continent.

That was why he was still very familiar with group chats.

But now that he had been reincarnated into the True Spirit Continent, this group chat had still found him—it was utterly unbelievable!

And who were these people in the group?

He didn’t know Lu Qingshan, Pang Bo, or Xiao Yan, but he recognized Cao Cao and Yue Buqun—though he wasn’t sure if they were the same people.

Just as he was about to ask questions, he suddenly saw the group owner Lu Qingshan’s message.

So he could only change his name first, then speak up.

【Ye Chen: Fellow group members, I’ve changed my name! @Cao Cao, are you Emperor Wu of Wei, Cao Cao? @Yue Buqun, are you the Sect Master of Huashan Sect, Yue Buqun?】

【Cao Cao: Huh? Another newcomer who knows my story! I am indeed the Cao Cao you mean, but with the help of the group owner and other members, I no longer intend to become Prince of Wei—and certainly won’t become Emperor Wu of Wei!】

【Yue Buqun: I am indeed the Sect Master of Huashan Sect. How did you come to know this?】

In the Universe of Tunshixingkong , inside the spaceship’s rest room.

Lu Qingshan, viewing the newcomer’s name and chat logs, quickly searched his memory for details about this person.

“Ye Chen? Knows Cao Cao and Yue Buqun? Exceptional Sword Talent?”

After reviewing the gathered information, Lu Qingshan quickly guessed: “Could this be the Ye Chen from Sword Dominance?”

Thinking this, Lu Qingshan immediately asked in the group chat.

【Lu Qingshan: @Ye Chen, are you Ye Chen of the Liuyun Sect on the True Spirit Continent?】

【Ye Chen: Are you the group owner? How do you know my name?】

【Yue Buqun: @Ye Chen, the group owner is a true immortal deity—he knows everything!】

【Lu Qingshan: That’s an exaggeration! @Ye Chen, I know your name for the same reason you know Cao Cao and Yue Buqun’s names—do you understand my meaning?】

【Ye Chen: Group owner, are you saying I’m just a character from a novel, like Sect Master Yue?】

Before his reincarnation, Ye Chen had been a physics student who had read some novels about parallel worlds, and since his soul had truly been transported to the True Spirit Continent, his ability to accept these ideas was quite strong.

【Lu Qingshan: Correct! But don’t worry too much—you may be a character from a novel, but you are also real. This group chat connects people from countless worlds, allowing mutual aid and shared growth.】

【Ye Chen: So that’s how it is! I’ll rely on your help from now on! By the way, could you tell me the plot of the novel I’m from? I’m willing to pay a reward!】

【System Prompt: Group owner Lu Qingshan uploaded “Sword Dominance.” Upload successful.】

【System Prompt: Group owner Lu Qingshan set “Sword Dominance” to be viewable only by Ye Chen—other members need Ye Chen’s permission to view it.】

【Lu Qingshan: @Ye Chen, this is the story of your life. Since you just joined, no reward is needed!】

【Ye Chen: Thank you, Group Owner!】

…

In the endless void, Meng Huan, having just approached a vast world, stared blankly at the messages appearing in his mind.

Though he was a cultivator who had lived nearly four hundred years, once he learned not everyone in the group was an immortal, his heart quickly calmed.

Yet Meng Huan noticed Ye Chen had joined the mysterious group at the same time—and already fit in so quickly.

Unlike Ye Chen, who recognized others in the group, Meng Huan knew nothing about any of them.

Especially the group owner’s talk of “group chat,” “different worlds,” and “novel plots”—he barely understood any of it.

But silence wasn’t appropriate, so he quickly spoke up in the group.

【Meng Huan: Group owner, what do you mean by “novel plot”?】

“Meng Huan?”

Seeing Meng Huan’s name, Lu Qingshan was slightly startled.

His memory held almost no information about this person.

But “Breaker of the Void”?

“Could it be him?” Lu Qingshan suddenly had a thought.

【Lu Qingshan: @Meng Huan, is your father “Frost Sword” Meng Yiqiu?】

Upon reading Lu Qingshan’s message, Meng Huan became extremely excited.

【Meng Huan: Group owner, do you know my father? Do you know where he is now?】

Seeing Meng Huan’s reply, Lu Qingshan shook his head slightly.

Clearly, Meng Huan now thought he was from the Sword Quest world—after all, that world contained many smaller realms, and Meng Huan had once broken the void and ascended.

But now that he knew Meng Huan’s identity, these details were trivial.

Thinking this, Lu Qingshan acted quickly.

【System Prompt: Group owner Lu Qingshan uploaded “Sword Quest.” Upload successful.】

【System Prompt: Group owner Lu Qingshan set “Sword Quest” to be viewable only by Meng Huan—other members need Meng Huan’s permission to view it.】

【Lu Qingshan: @Meng Huan, this is the story I know about you—but the protagonist is your father, so your own experiences in it are limited.】

【Lu Qingshan: After reading this story, you should understand what I meant earlier.】

…

In the Sword Quest world, beyond the Mingyao Great World.

Looking at “Sword Quest” uploaded by Lu Qingshan, Meng Huan frowned in confusion.

A story about him?

The protagonist was his father?

At this moment, Meng Huan didn’t fully understand Lu Qingshan’s words, but he decided to read “Sword Quest” first.

Soon, Meng Huan opened the book viewable only to him—and with the group’s aid, the entire content of “Sword Quest” flooded instantly into his mind.

“No wonder my father was only an ordinary genius before he was poisoned—but afterward, his cultivation surged forward, allowing him to break the void and ascend in mere decades!”

After finishing “Sword Quest,” Meng Huan felt sorrowful: “So I’m merely my father’s adopted son!”

Meng Huan never imagined that the father he had idolized since childhood—Meng Yiqiu—no, Qin Yun—was only his adoptive father.

Of course, even after learning he was adopted, his feelings for his father remained unchanged—his father had raised and trained him since infancy, and decades of companionship could not be erased, though he felt a deep sadness.

Moreover, in the later plot of “Sword Quest,” though he appeared rarely, his father treated him and his “sister” Qin Yiyi with no difference.

“But this group chat…”

After finishing “Sword Quest,” Meng Huan realized the astonishing opportunity he had encountered: “According to the group owner, everyone else in the group must be from other worlds—this is utterly unbelievable!”

For Meng Huan, even a Soul Transformation immortal was beyond his reach.

Above Soul Transformation lay the Nine Layers of Heavenly Immortal, Great Golden Immortals, even the Dao Ancestor of the Dao Realm…

Perhaps even higher beings existed beyond the Dao Realm.

And this group chat spanned countless worlds—such an opportunity was astonishing to him!

“I never imagined my father’s path was so arduous—and his future achievements so extraordinary!” Meng Huan murmured, regaining his composure.

Since “Sword Quest” mostly detailed his father Qin Yun’s story, Meng Huan now understood his father far better.

…

While Meng Huan read “Sword Quest,” Ye Chen in the Tianmeng War Hall also finished reading “Sword Dominance” with the group’s aid—and was profoundly shaken.

Before this, he had only known the realms: Qi Refining, Baoyuan, Star Pole, Spirit Sea, and the Sovereigns of Life and Death…

But he never imagined Life and Death Realm had nine layers, and the ninth layer was called Supreme Sovereign…

Above Supreme Sovereign lay Half-God, above Half-God lay True God, above True God lay Master God…

His exceptional talent was because, during his soul’s transit, one of the world’s supreme Qiangzhe —the Sword God—had infused a strange light into his soul.

That strange light was a rare artifact from chaos; the Sword God had split it into two parts—one infused into his soul, the other into the newly arrived Heart Sword Saint of Heaven.

This was the Sword God’s plan: when he and the Heart Sword Saint met, only one would survive—and the survivor would gain immense power.

“I never imagined my world was so incredible!”

Ye Chen silently sighed: “Yet even with such a wondrous world, reaching the peak still requires steady cultivation.”

Though in the original plot of “Sword Dominance” he became the Chaos Sword God, he had faced countless dangers along the way.

…

In the chat group.

【Lu Qingshan: I assume the two of you have already read the novel’s plotlines concerning yourselves—what are your thoughts? @Meng Huan, @Ye Chen!】

【Ye Chen: @Lu Qingshan, thank you, group master, for revealing the plot of “Solitary Master of the Sword Dao.” Should you ever need my help in the future, please don’t hesitate to ask!】

【Lu Qingshan: @Ye Chen, no need for formalities. Since we’ve all been fortunate enough to join this group, we must help one another!】

【Meng Huan: I never expected my father’s future achievements to be so astonishing. Thank you, group master, for revealing this to me. Should you ever require my service, I shall give my utmost!】

【Lu Qingshan: Hahaha! Meng Huan, since you’ve joined this group, perhaps one day you’ll shine as brightly as your father, Qin Yun!】

Upon hearing Lu Qingshan’s words, everyone in the group—except Meng Huan and Tianmeng Bingcan—felt a stir within.

After all, in any world, a son typically bears his father’s surname.

But Meng Huan, the new member, had a father named Qin Yun—and the group master had previously said Qin Yun was the protagonist of “The Sword That Asks the Dao.” Naturally, this piqued their interest.

Tianmeng Bingcan felt nothing not because Huo Yuhao bore his mother’s surname, Huo, but because it simply hadn’t considered such matters at all.

In the Sword Dao world, Meng Huan, upon reading Lu Qingshan’s words, also felt a momentary daze.

After all, at the end of “The Sword That Asks the Dao,” after the Dao Realm experts departed the Three Realms, his father Qin Yun became the true supreme ruler of the Three Realms!

Though rarely mentioned, Meng Huan himself certainly had not broken through to the Golden Immortal realm.

Yet now the group master claimed he might one day rival his father—this was utterly unbelievable!

Thinking of this, Meng Huan became utterly exhilarated.

【Meng Huan: Group master, is this truly true?】

Seeing someone question Lu Qingshan, Yue Buqun—who had been closely monitoring the group messages—spoke first.

【Yue Buqun: @Meng Huan, the group master’s strength is unfathomable—how could he deceive you? I was once merely a lowly Post-Heaven cultivator, but with the group master’s aid, I even cultivated my own martial art to achieve a Martial Golden Core!】

【Cao Cao: Correct! I was once an ordinary person, yet now, with the group master’s help, I’ve reached the Grandmaster realm! Don’t doubt him—he wouldn’t lie to you!】

【Pang Bo: Brother Mengde, you really dare say that? You, a warlord who controls countless lives, call yourself an ordinary person? Logically, I’m the one who should be ordinary!】

【Han Li: @Pang Bo, Brother Pang, you’re a descendant of the Demon God—we all knew that when you joined! If anyone’s ordinary, it’s me!】

Watching the group members tease each other, Lu Qingshan couldn’t help but smile.

【Lu Qingshan: Actually, all of you are very powerful—I’ve merely taken a step ahead.】

【Lu Qingshan: @Meng Huan, I say you might one day shine as brightly as Qin Yun because you can obtain all kinds of resources from our group members, and you can use the Group’s Enlightenment Boost feature. Once you become more familiar with the group’s functions, improving your cultivation will be far easier than before!】

【Meng Huan: So that’s how it is—thank you, group master, for the guidance!】

Though he knew he had encountered a rare opportunity, he still harbored doubts.

At that moment, Meng Huan finally arrived at a Transcendence Platform within the Mingyao Great World.

Normally, those who shattered the void from lower realms and ascended were guided to Transcendence Platforms—only rare exceptions deviated.

In the Mingyao Great World, one who grasped the Dao’s essence could aspire to enter the Pre-Heaven Golden Core realm.

But in Meng Huan’s original world, grasping the Dao’s essence barely allowed one to enter the Pre-Heaven Void Core realm; only by reaching the Ultimate Limit could one hope to become a Pre-Heaven Solid Core, and to become a Pre-Heaven Golden Core, one had to attain Dao Entry first.

Since Meng Huan had shattered the void and ascended in broad daylight, he had long since attained Dao Entry.

Thus, the moment he appeared on the Transcendence Platform, he immediately drew the attention of numerous superpowers in the Mingyao Great World.

Many superpowers even dispatched true Immortals to the Transcendence Platform, hoping to recruit Meng Huan into their sects.

In the original plot, Meng Huan joined the Yu Ding Sect of the Yuan Shi lineage, while his father Qin Yun was a cultivator of the Ling Bao lineage, eventually becoming a disciple of Ling Bao Tianzun, the founder of that lineage.

Thus, Meng Huan had originally intended to join a sect under the Ling Bao lineage.

Yet among the Mingyao Realm’s thirty-two top powers, only two belonged to the Ling Bao lineage—and neither had sent an Immortal to recruit Meng Huan.

After much deliberation, Meng Huan ultimately joined the Yu Ding Sect—the same sect he joined in the original plot.

After all, in the original storyline, his treatment within the Yu Ding Sect had been quite favorable!

(End of chapter)