Chapter 138: A Whole Year of Cheating

After Song Shuhang uploaded the works related to Zhang Chulan, Dou Dou said to Song Shuhang, "The people in your group are no joke. There's even a Miss Kelaien — he's been a wildly popular male lead online lately."

Song Shuhang nodded and said, "I've read that book too. Unfortunately it's still being serialized, so I read a bit and bookmarked it. I plan to wait until the author finishes before going back to it."

At this point, Song Shuhang's eyes lit up. "I saw Lord of the Mysteries in the files shared in the group — now I can read it straight through."

A starlight-like gleam flickered in Bai White Zunzhe's eyes. He smiled faintly as he looked at the chat log above, and suddenly thought, "Shuhang, do you suppose we might also be characters in some work?"

"Ah! That—" Song Shuhang exclaimed. But then he figured it wasn't entirely impossible. According to the other group members, information about one world might be received by another and appear in the minds of sentient beings. And this Earth, it seemed, had many different parallel worlds — or rather, countless Earths among the myriad heavens.

"Very interesting!" Bai White Zunzhe nodded. "Dou Dou, have you found any info on that administrator yet?"

"Nope." Dou Dou wagged his tail. "The Light God online is either some final boss or a tired old mini-boss. Honestly, nobody writes that element anymore — it's out."

"For the name Su Lin, I found one BL novel, one romance, and one domineering-CEO story. None of them are it."

"Yi Leina is the protagonist of a light novel and manga from the island nation. I hear there's a good chance it'll be adapted into an anime."

That was everything Dou Dou had scraped together from last night until now.

As for the Purple-Gold Divine Dragon, Song Shuhang thought it over and decided not to upload Shrouding the Heavens for now. If it triggered some bad chain reaction, that wouldn't be good. Senior Bai had reached the same conclusion after learning the details.

After all, they had no idea how far the story of Shrouding the Heavens had progressed.

Song Shuhang: "Any of you senior group members have info related to me?"

Zhang Chulan: "Nope."

Zhang Chulan grabbed his phone and searched online — there were no related works.

Ye Fan: "Nope. To be honest, I didn't read much before either. I only left Earth in '10."

Especially Especially Especially Xiao Yan: "I transmigrated in '09. All I read was Gu Long, Jin Yong, that sort of thing."

Miss Kelaien: "Su Lin said he knows you guys, so there should be something, right?"

Dou Dou leapt onto Song Shuhang's shoulder and urged him on. "Quick! Ask your administrator — is there a book called Dou Sect Strongman, or maybe Dog-Demon Emperor's Rise?"

Song Shuhang's brow twitched a few times involuntarily. Even if it's not me, it sure as hell isn't you.

I think it's more likely Senior Bai. Song Shuhang glanced over, then quickly looked away. Bad — almost fell for it again.

Song Shuhang: "@Su Lin, Senior, could I trouble you for a moment?"

Su Lin had just turned on his computer and fully subscribed to a novel called Cultivation Chat Group. Seeing the messages in the group, the corner of his mouth twitched.

Su Lin: "Don't call me senior — you're the senior here."

Song Shuhang's body jolted. He had no idea whether he'd somehow offended this administrator.

Bai White Zunzhe watched from the side, puzzled. "Why does this administrator's attitude feel a little strange?"

Song Shuhang: "Senior Su, what do you mean by that? I'm merely a First-Gate cultivator whose Eye Aperture hasn't even opened."

Su Lin: "You won't be, come next year."

Ye Fan: "What's going on? Is this newbie seriously going to become immortal next year?"

Especially Especially Especially Xiao Yan: "Damn, brothers, we've got a cheater among us!"

Han Li: "I'd better stop reading the group chat — I don't want it disturbing my Dao heart."

Han Li glanced up at Zhong Li undergoing yet another tribulation over there and sighed, then looked back at the group chat. Hanging around this crowd, he really had to stay on guard against pride and impatience at all times. He'd better cultivate Gu Tianwang some more.

"Dou Dou. What are you doing?" Song Shuhang's face was pinned in place by the Pekingese's two paws.

"I'm trying to figure out where on that silly mug of yours you look like a male lead."

"Nobody said the male lead was me, either." Song Shuhang grabbed Dou Dou's paws to stop the dog from smacking his face any more, but he still felt a small thrill seeing the group records. "Does it mean I'll level up really fast, just like the protagonists in those stories?"

"Can I reach Fifth Gate within ten years?"

Song Shuhang had named a speed he considered wildly exaggerated.

"Shuhang, focus — I can't see the chat log anymore," Bai White Zunzhe reminded him.

"Oh, right, got it." Song Shuhang hurriedly fixed his attention on the chat group in his mind. The spell didn't cost much, but it required sustained focus.

Yi Leina: "What do you mean — is this Song Shuhang going to be really powerful in the future?"

Lu Mingfei: "That should be the idea."

Zhang Chulan was flipping through a manga, and the chat group records caught him by surprise. So this Song Shuhang was the same — there were works about him in other worlds too.

【Su Lin uploaded (Cultivation Chat Group)】

Miss Kelaien: "That many chapters? Over three thousand."

Lu Mingfei: "I'm still catching up on Ye Zhetian."

Lu Mingfei: "This is way too long."

Ye Fan: "Why another chat group?"

Ye Fan: "Doesn't this guy have two chat groups on him?"

Song Shuhang: "That one's a QQ group."

Especially Especially Especially Xiao Yan: "Good lord."

Who would've thought cultivation could keep up with the times like this.

Song Shuhang turned to the first page. So he really was the protagonist — his heart fluttered with a small thrill. He tamped down his excitement, cleared his throat, glanced at Dou Dou, and said, "Ahem, just luck, just luck."

Bai White Zunzhe watched Song Shuhang with an amused smile, thinking this young friend was quite something. "Shuhang, focus."

The text scattered again.

Miss Kelaien: "Must be an extremely long cultivation story."

Zhang Chulan: "Amazing — another big shot!?"

Especially Especially Especially Xiao Yan: "I just want to know — between Song and Su, who's the bigger cheater?"

Especially Especially Especially Xiao Yan: "Anyone selling a cheat to me?"

Ye Fan: "What's this story roughly about? Give me a spoiler. I'm about to undergo tribulation right now — I'll come back and read it properly once it's done."

Su Lin: "An ordinary college student stumbles into a cultivators' chat group. Through his own relentless effort, he goes from a cultivation newbie to the Heavenly Dao within a year."

Ye Fan: "?"

"Woof!?" Black Emperor suddenly barked out: "Ye kid, what are you going crazy about!? The array patterns aren't even laid out yet! If you can't control it, don't cross the tribulation!"

Ye Fan stood dumbly in place, the aura that had originally been brimming and held in check suddenly leaking out a sliver.

Su Lin: "Then I happened to break through to the Separation stage along the way."

Ye Fan was silent for a moment, then said to Black Emperor: "Another day, then."

Especially Especially Especially Xiao Yan: "?"

Miss Kelaien: "?"

Han Li: "?"

Purple Gold Divine Dragon: "????????????????"

Song Shuhang: "?!!!!!"

Su Lin: "Have to admit, the current you is the more 'hung up' one."

That's it for tonight, this is all I can manage lately, I'm on a business trip next week…

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