GA: Chapter 44 – The Group Owner Silenced Again, What Does Youth Look Like?
But the principle behind Yu Ma's version of the "Absorbing Star Technique" in The Smiling Proud Wanderer was different from all the others. So why did the content end up being exactly the same?
Or maybe the difference in settings doesn't actually affect the content at all?
Opening his eyes, Bai Xuan shook his head. It didn't really matter—he was just curious. Regardless of the principle behind this version of the technique, it didn't concern him.
After all, gravity is part of nature. If he wanted to accelerate the absorption of spiritual energy, he could just channel it into his body himself.
There might be slight differences, but nothing too significant.
But it was meaningless. His speed of growth was already fast enough. Cultivation manuals might even slow him down.
Just like the Foolish Orange after Kamen Rider became a god—did he really need a transformation device? Such a device would only limit his power.
Personally, he wanted to create a universal cultivation method that could accelerate growth for everyone.
After all, thanks to the [Natural Authority], whenever humans or mutated creatures grew stronger, he would grow proportionally. His growth rate was linked to all life on Earth.
If that was the case, there was no need to hold back.
Yet, it was still impossible.
He would have to wait until the chat group introduced new functions, which might allow these manuals to be optimized for cultivation in every world.
Dongfang Bubai: "@Child of Nature, does Ren Woxing's Absorbing Star Technique work?"
In the chat group, Dongfang Bai asked curiously.
After all, different worlds intrigued her—could the internal cultivation methods of her world work in Bai Xuan's world?
And that energy called "spiritual qi," seemingly the purest essence of heaven and earth, similar to internal energy but a higher form of it. Even a single pearl of spiritual qi could raise one's cultivation level by more than one stage, directly into the late innate stage.
At this level, aside from her master, no one could defeat her.
Not even Feng Qingyang of Mount Hua could match her. Before her breakthrough, he had been equal to her. Afterward, he didn't even have the qualification to challenge her.
If it weren't for the chat group, would she have fallen for Linghu Chong?
Dongfang Bai's gaze grew complex. She could understand why her future self would like him.
But that was impossible now. She wasn't the kind of woman to let love cloud her judgment. Knowing her imperfect future through memory copies, how could she fall into that trap?
Besides, was he truly worthy of her affection?
His heart probably would never forget his junior sister anyway.
Child of Nature: "It's useless. Interestingly, its content is exactly the same as what I found through a browser search."
Child of Nature: "Probably just a setting change."
Ordinary Group Owner: "Wow, that's such a rip-off!"
Ordinary Group Owner: "So that means any future manuals transmitted here won't be cultivable?"
There were a few martial arts manuals she hoped to cultivate once the system was stabilized.
Especially Zhang Sanfeng's Taiji Fist—perhaps she could derive some supreme path from it.
But it seemed impossible for now.
Child of Nature: "Isn't there still the chat group? Once it unlocks new features, maybe it'll be possible."
Ordinary Group Owner: "The chat group?"
Ordinary Group Owner: "I thought it was just a chat tool. Turns out it has sign-ins and lotteries too, and even more features."
Ordinary Group Owner: "This garbage chat group."
Ding! "Unknown error detected. Group owner muted for thirty minutes."
Turn Da Gu into Soup: ""
Turn Da Gu into Soup: "This is the second time, right?"
Most Evil Spirit: "She might be the first group owner ever muted by the chat group."
Child of Nature: "Not only that—she's probably the first group owner in history to get muted."
Lighthouse Tycoon: "Group owner's just lame."
Glory of the Northern God: "So you're very brave then?"
Lighthouse Tycoon: "I'm joking. I'm super brave, okay?"
Glory of the Northern God: "Then show us your performance."
Lighthouse Tycoon: ""
Lighthouse Tycoon: "The original line wasn't like that. Shouldn't it be 'let me see'?"
Lighthouse Tycoon: "You damn Shiba Inu, playing tricks on me!"
Glory of the Northern God: "Shiba Inu smirks devilishly."
Glory of the Northern God: "Shiba Inu's disdainful gaze."
Glory of the Northern God: "I am Thor, the God of Thunder! Glory of the Northern God!"
Lighthouse Tycoon: "You damn Shiba Inu, once I finish making the Anti-Thor armor, you'll be kneeling and calling me father!"
Most Evil Spirit: "Are you trying to be Hong Qigong?"
Dongfang Bubai: "He should be glad Thor's dad is human. Otherwise, he'd be trying to be a dog."
Uchiha Dance King: "Then whose dog is he trying to be?"
Be My Son: "Kurala-la-la, of course, he's my dog!"
Child of Nature: "???"
Child of Nature: "What did Su Yunqing teach you all while I was away from the chat group?!"
Why were there memes from the modern era—even "Jiege"?
What had this woman done to her chat group?!
Glory of the Northern God: "Shiba Inu is thinking."
Glory of the Northern God: "A lot, a lot."
Lighthouse Tycoon: "But most of it is incomprehensible."
Lighthouse Tycoon: "Sometimes when I anger her, she asks me to go hiking."
Lighthouse Tycoon: "What does that mean?"
Child of Nature: "Asking you to go hiking?"
Bai Xuan's eyelids twitched. Unsurprisingly, she probably wants a fight.
But daring to ask Iron Man to go hiking—where does that courage even come from?!
Turn Da Gu into Soup: "Sometimes she says 'grandpa's youth returned—what's that?"
Most Evil Spirit: "Seems like ' My youth returned.' Dad once posted a video of him fighting Kaido. Every time the special effects of the Gomu Gomu Fruit appeared, the group owner would post this."
Most Evil Spirit: "Is youth her dad's?"
Most Evil Spirit: "@Child of Nature, you and the group owner come from the same country in the same world. In your world, what does youth mean?"
Hearing Tokisaki Kurumi's question, Bai Xuan fell silent.
Memories surfaced in his mind.
Child of Nature: "Youth…"
Child of Nature: "It's a blond kid shouting he wants to become Hokage, a man in a straw hat shouting he wants to become Pirate King, a wand turning to dust in the sky, a pink hat drifting in the wind, a tennis ball hitting the ground…"
Child of Nature: "It's a time almost without worries, a period nearly free from any troubles."
In memory, their youth was long—infinitely long—with countless anime supporting them year after year.
Yet it also felt short. Before they could even look back, adulthood had arrived.
The anime of their youth, too, had quietly reached its conclusion.
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