Chapter 31: Newcomers Join the Group

With this, for quite a long stretch of time afterward, Su Lin developed the good habit of saving up.

Smoke what smoke, just honestly get back to work.

A few days later, Su Lin sat in the Wangshu Pavilion with one leg crossed over the other, studying spells, and occasionally checking the group for any news.

The chat group today was buzzing with conversation, even though the time was the wee hours of the morning.

Especially Especially Especially Xiao Yan: "Young man, let me tell you, a harem, a harem is the true way, understand? Who cares about routes or futures, joining the chat group is all about changing the future! In the past you could only pick one, take a word of advice from your Brother Xiao, take them all down."

Weigong Shilang: "No... didn't we just say we need to find a way to purify the Holy Grail?"

Especially Especially Especially Xiao Yan: "That's exactly why I'm telling you, harem! Do you understand the value of a Happy End?!"

Especially Especially Especially Xiao Yan: "Actually, how about we just go for the hidden route? I personally quite like Xun'er calling me Brother Especially Especially Especially Xiao Yan, hehehe."

Weigong Shilang: "What hidden route."

Especially Especially Especially Xiao Yan: "That little girl named Dada Liya."

This is way too criminal.

Ye Fan: "Brother Especially Especially Especially Xiao Yan, how have you been these past few years? Xun'er is at Jianan Academy, I miss her so... so... much that I want to chop you up~."

Luffy: "What's a harem? Is it tasty?"

Su Lin: "In a certain sense, very tasty."

Weigong Shilang: "......"

Weigong Shilang was making breakfast at home, glancing back at Saber as he did.

He'd get chopped to death, wouldn't he.

If he hadn't joined this chat group, which route would he himself have taken?

"Shilang?" Saber noticed Weigong Shilang's gaze.

"Ah, it's nothing."

Weigong Shilang turned his head and continued making breakfast.

He had joined the chat group the night before last in this world — after being pierced through the heart by Lancer's spear, he was saved by Tosaka Rin, and after stumbling home in a daze, he had wanted to check what this chat group that had appeared in his field of vision was, only to be dragged into a magicians' ritual called the Holy Grail War.

Group friends from various worlds, and his own world and experiences had been drawn into manga in other worlds, and supposedly into anime and games too.

Thanks to this chat group, Weigong Shilang learned of his own future in advance.

Having learned the whole reason behind everything and his future, Weigong Shilang felt both anger and unwillingness, itching to immediately rescue his junior and end the Holy Grail War, to save the biological daughter of his foster father.

But his abilities were limited; even though he knew that his Parallel World self could grow stronger, right now he was nothing more than a rookie magicians.

Not to mention there was a future version of himself watching the present him from Tosaka's side.

Still, he wasn't too worried.

Although only two days had passed in this world, every day he crossed over to other worlds to cultivate for a full three months before returning to his own.

Everyone was very kind, and willing to help him train.

Just that some of them weren't quite proper.

Especially Especially Especially Xiao Yan: "@Brother Ye Fan, I was just joking. Don't tell Xun'er I said any of this."

Ye Fan: "Bah."

Ye Fan: "Besides Xu Xian, you're the second man I, Ye Fan, truly admire. Do you dare to do it but not own up to it?"

Especially Especially Especially Xiao Yan: "Nothing has even happened yet, on what grounds are you slandering my innocence?!"

Ye Fan: "I personally saw you in the novel before joining the group, getting all tangled up with that Little Doctor Fairy and Yun Zhi."

Especially Especially Especially Xiao Yan: "Can that even be called getting tangled up?! That... that was just a coincidence, yes, a coincidence. Novels don't count! The current me is wholeheartedly devoted to Xun'er!"

Su Lin: "What about cute Xiaoxiao, you don't want her anymore? Such a cute daughter."

Ye Fan: "Shame on you as a father!"

Especially Especially Especially Xiao Yan: "I have some stuff to do, logging off."

In a corner of the future, within the Endless Fire Domain.

Especially Especially Especially Xiao Yan, who had become the Great Overlord, was tending a pill furnace while leisurely chatting with his wife.

Suddenly he sensed a slight ripple in the river of time concerning his past self.

"Huh?" What was this memory, a divergence in the timeline?

Inside the chat group, the troublemaking Especially Especially Especially Xiao Yan retreated and logged off under the barrage of verbal condemnation.

Han Li: "Don't listen to Especially Especially Especially Xiao Yan's nonsense. Right now you ought to be cautious above all. Even with the chat group's help, your foundations in every aspect are still very weak. Finding a way to raise your own strength is the pressing matter at hand."

"Ye Zi, why are you grinning so sleazily?"

Pang Bo scratched his head, a little puzzled.

"My wholesaler will be able to supply goods in a while, when the time comes bro will take you to get rich, hehehe."

"You mean that red-haired kid from the Eastern Lands you brought back before?"

Earlier Ye Fan had somehow brought along a person from the Eastern Lands named Weigong Shilang, keeping him by his side to cultivate for three months.

Yesterday Ye Fan hadn't seen him around, and said he had gone back.

How to put it, whether it was his method of cultivation or other things, it all felt a bit strange.

"I'm leaving for a while first, when the time comes you and Black Emperor just... "

Pang Bo nodded, not asking why — he trusted Ye Fan unconditionally anyway.

The announcement of the Various Heavens Chat Group abruptly popped up a notification.

【Chat Group Notice: Lu Mingfei has joined the chat group, Zhongli has joined the chat group, Miss Kelaien? Mo Leidi has joined the chat group】

Su Lin was slightly startled, set down the jade in his hand, and looked at the chat group notification.

After a gap of six months, new members had joined again.

Actually for him, the ones arriving this time were also considered "familiar faces."

Su Lin occasionally wondered whether he might run into some people he didn't know.

After all, the world was so vast.

Maybe in the future he'd meet someone who'd joined the group pretending to be a prophet.

Thinking about it was still rather amusing.

Zhongli: "Truly wondrous. I never imagined there could be such a marvel."

Lu Mingfei: "A chat group? It couldn't be run by that penguin, could it."

Miss Kelaien hurriedly rushed into the bathroom, returned above the gray fog to divine, and only dared to speak after confirming he hadn't been polluted by some Outer God; he'd originally thought he was hallucinating.

Miss Kelaien: "That penguin you mentioned—does he top up...?"

Lu Mingfei: "The kind that chases you down asking if you want some Q coins."

Miss Kelaien: "I get it now."

Su Lin: "I get it too."

Ye Fan: "Those who get it, get it."

Especially Especially Especially Xiao Yan: "So many victims, boohoo."

Zhongli: "Penguin, Q coins—what manner of things are those?"

Luffy: "Are they tasty?"

Su Lin uploaded *Dragon Raja*, *Lord of the Mysteries*, and the *Genshin Impact Setting Collection*.

For the contents of *Lord of the Mysteries*, Su Lin deleted and redacted a portion, spending a full three hours on it, and after checking it over repeatedly several times, sent it into the group.

He also instructed Miss Kelaien to read it above the gray fog, to guard against any oversights; if he saw something he shouldn't, he was to wipe his memory before leaving the gray fog.

Two days after Su Lin uploaded the relevant novels and game settings into the chat group.

After the people whose routes were relevant finished reading

Lu Mingfei: "Don't want to play anymore. Destroy it all. Next wish, let's just have Road Mingze destroy the world."

Miss Kelaien: "I want to take a vacation. If it's really like what's written in this book, wouldn't I be even more miserable than a 007 work schedule?"

Especially Especially Especially Xiao Yan: "A life with an extremely high salt content."

Zhongli: "A world both brilliant and perilous. I salute your future, pioneer of the road ahead."

Zhongli took a sip of tea in reality and continued flipping through the others' stories.

This was a bit more interesting than today's opera.

As for his own story, and that pile of game settings, there was no need to bother with them; in the future he could personally try out the 'game' on those phones they kept talking about and see what it was.

Weigong Shilang: "The world depicted in *Dragon Raja* isn't very friendly to the protagonist."

After finishing the *Dragon Raja* novel, Weigong Shilang always felt a vague, inexplicable tightness in his chest.

Lu Mingfei: "I've watched gameplay videos of FSN. In a certain sense, you with your dozens of bad endings aren't much better off."

Weigong Shilang: "?"

Lu Mingfei: "You're not much better yourself."

Weigong Shilang nearly choked on his food while eating.

That miserable? Those three routes are only a part of the future.

Cold sweat slowly trickled down from his forehead.