Ordinary Group Owner: "Ohhh~~~"
Ordinary Group Owner: "Now I get it."
Ordinary Group Owner: "But speaking of which, wasn't the Holy Lord sealed away? He came out and then got sealed again not long after. Did he really have the mood to learn about Daoist sects?"
Ordinary Group Owner: "How does he even know Lü Dongbin is from Quanzhen?"
Richest Man: "What kind of question is that? After he was resurrected, obviously he had to check if the Eight Immortals were still around and gather information about them."
Richest Man: "Confirm their situation before deciding whether to emerge."
Richest Man: "How embarrassing would it be to come out and immediately get thrown back in?"
Richest Man: "He just didn't expect Lo Pei to show up and seal him again."
The Most Ancient Godslayer: "His skills were inferior. He reaped what he sowed."
The Most Ancient Godslayer: "What I'm more curious about is how strong Lü Dongbin is in your world."
Holy Lord: "What? First Zhang Sanfeng, now Lü Dongbin."
Holy Lord: "Have you even considered whether you're strong enough?"
Uchiha Dance King: "He's that powerful?"
Come Be My Son: "Kurararara! We all know how strong the Holy Lord is. To be able to subdue him, his strength must naturally be above that."
Holy Lord: "His swordsmanship gave me the threat of death."
Though demons were essentially immortal and could only be sealed, Lü Dongbin was an existence who could truly kill them.
Even though the Holy Lord had ultimately survived, that didn't mean he could forget the threat of death that had touched his very soul.
He strongly suspected that if the other seven immortals had possessed the ability to kill demons rather than merely seal them, and if Lü Dongbin hadn't wanted to stand out by revealing that he actually could kill them, he would definitely have died.
Ordinary Group Owner: "Patriarch Lü is that strong?"
Ordinary Group Owner: "Forgive me—when I watched Eight Immortals Cross the Sea back then, I was more focused on Lü Dongbin's love story than his strength. I don't think the show really displayed that stuff anyway. And I haven't really read the related mythology either. CoverFace.jpg"
Ordinary Group Owner: "The only person I know from Quanzhen is Wang Chongyang, and that's only because of Legend of the Condor Heroes."
Ordinary Group Owner: "I never expected Lü Dongbin to have any connection to Quanzhen."
Roxie Vale spoke somewhat sheepishly. She only knew a little bit about Chinese mythology, and most of that came from novels like Journey to the West and Investerta of the Gods. A lot of it even differed from actual mythological legends. But she couldn't help it—without an interesting story, it was hard for her to get curious about these things.
Boil Dagu Into Soup: "He could make the Holy Lord feel death? Doesn't the Holy Lord have the Dog Talisman?"
Boil Dagu Into Soup: "Immortal and indestructible, right?"
Holy Lord: "How should I know?"
Himouto Umaru: "Why are we hung up on this? Shouldn't we be focusing on the newcomers' worlds?"
Himouto Umaru: "I want to watch the newcomers' memory replays."
Kasumigaoka Utaha: "Have you finished watching all the previous ones?"
Kasumigaoka Utaha: "There are so many. I haven't even finished them."
Himouto Umaru: "I'm watching Bleach right now. I just got to the part where Ichigo is about to go to Soul Society to save Rukia."
Himouto Umaru: "Is Aizen about to show up after this?"
Himouto Umaru: "And all of this was part of Aizen's plan? Even Rukia and Ichigo's meeting?"
Himouto Umaru: "That's insane!"
How does someone's brain even work like that? If you asked her to come up with something like that, there was no way she could.
Kasumigaoka Utaha: "I know, right? And normally, someone pursuing power would just focus on making themselves stronger. But Aizen deliberately cultivated an opponent for himself."
Kasumigaoka Utaha: "Even though Ichigo is the protagonist, I really wanted Aizen to win."
Richest Man: "The way the strong think is definitely different from normal people. I really wish that purple potato head was the same kind of person as Aizen—cultivating the protagonist, then getting destroyed by them."
Fifth Division Captain: "..."
Aizen didn't quite know what to say about their discussion.
He had watched the Bleach memory replay, but he still couldn't guess what his true thoughts had been at that time.
Had he lost his reason to continue? Or had Ichigo Kurosaki's displayed strength been so inconceivable that it made him doubt himself?
He was genuinely curious about the answer. He even entertained the idea of replicating the same situation from the memory replay.
But in the end, he gave up on that thought.
Even if he replicated it, it would be meaningless. After joining the chat group, his mindset was definitely different from his past self's. Given the same script, their choices would be noticeably different.
He didn't want to fail. And he wouldn't fail.
Because he had already found a higher direction. And before that—he would truly ascend to the Heavenly Throne.
Ordinary Group Owner: "Alright, I'll upload Zhang Sanfeng's, Zhang Zhiwei's, and Cooking Master Boy's memory replays now."
Ding. The Group Owner has uploaded a memory replay.
Ding. The Group Owner has uploaded a memory replay.
Ding. The Group Owner has uploaded a memory replay.
Ordinary Group Owner: "Heaven Sword and Dragon Saber isn't anything special. It's pretty much a martial arts world like The Smiling, Proud Wanderer."
Ordinary Group Owner: "Zhang Sanfeng is the ceiling of that world. His strength is unfathomably deep."
Ordinary Group Owner: "It's just a shame he never made a move. Otherwise, Zhang Cuishan wouldn't have died."
Roxie spoke with some regret. She really would have liked to see Zhang Sanfeng take on all the other sects by himself.
Those sect people—whether it was Shaolin, Kunlun, or Emei—if they all came at him together, they'd still get absolutely demolished.
But while fighting would be easy, his reputation wouldn't sound so good afterward.
Zhang Sanfeng wouldn't have cared. But Zhang Cuishan couldn't bear it. Yet he also refused to betray Xie Xun, so he could only choose suicide.
After Yin Susu told Zhang Wuji that "they are all your enemies," she followed him into death as well.
Later, Roxie had expected that once Zhang Wuji grew up, he would take revenge or something. But instead, he turned hostility into friendship and... let it go?
When she was young, she hadn't felt anything was wrong—just a vague sense that something was off.
But thinking about it as an adult, Zhang Wuji was gentle to a fault. To be able to let go of something like that... she definitely couldn't do it.
Ordinary Group Owner: "Oh, right. @Zhang Sanfeng, I haven't even asked which world's Zhang Sanfeng you are. Maybe you're from actual recorded history."
Ordinary Group Owner: "In that case, it wouldn't be the sam—"
Zhang Sanfeng: "What?! Cuishan is dead?!"
Ordinary Group Owner: "So it really is Heaven Sword and Dragon Saber after all."
Ordinary Group Owner: "The plot doesn't seem to have started yet. Watch the memory replay and you'll see."
Ordinary Group Owner: "It should be fine."
Zhang Sanfeng: "Thank you, Group Owner."
When it came to Zhang Cuishan, Zhang Sanfeng didn't waste words. He immediately opened the memory replay and began watching.
— End of Chapter —