On this day, Si Kou Luo sent a mysterious mantra to Zhu Changyang through the jade tablet.
Zhu Changyang: [Excuse me, what is this? ]
Si Kou Luo: [I added a new function to the Jade Book. But I need to refine the Jade Book again. This is the formula for refining it. It has not been officially announced yet. Please try it first.]
Zhu Changyang: Got it, mobile phone upgrade code.
This is an invitation for him to participate in the internal test.
However, this jade communication tablet is Si Kou Luo's most proud work in his life and is one of the most exquisite magical instruments in the world of cultivation.
Is it overestimating him to just let him upgrade on his own
What if the upgrade fails and the system crashes
While he was muttering, another message came from Yudie.
Si Kou Luo: [Don't worry. If it breaks, just go to our branch and get another one. I've already sent the order. You can get the jade certificate for free.]
Zhu Changyang: “…”
It must be said that Sect Leader Sikou knew a little about him.
With the three-guarantee after-sales service, Zhu Changyang felt more at ease. He lit the spiritual fire and began to refine the jade edict for the second time according to the formulas and instructions sent by Si Kou Luo.
This upgrade is not complicated. After a while, a special rune appeared on the back of the jade tablet, and the refining was completed.
But apart from this, there were no other changes in the jade tablet.
Zhu Changyang looked left and right but couldn't figure out what functions had been added, so he sent a message to Si Kou Luo.
Zhu Changyang: [Master, I have finished refining. What is the new function? ]
As soon as the message was sent, a text prompt immediately appeared on the jade tablet: Si Kou Luo invites you to join a group of people who love and care for each other.
Zhu Changyang: “…?”
Wait, this isn't going to work?!
Soon, his guess was confirmed.
Qi Tongchen: [Brothers have joined the group. Welcome, welcome]
Hai Qingshan: [Welcome to join our big family. You can talk freely with all of our fellow disciples here in the future.]
Elder Cen: [You are indeed a genius at refining weapons. You have refined the Jade Edict so quickly.]
Si Kou Luo: [My fellow Taoists suggested to me earlier that we add a group chat function to the Jade Book. It suddenly opened my eyes. After days of thinking and studying, I finally succeeded in developing it. Thank you very much]
Nan Rongbo: [Brothers, this is a good idea. This function is very interesting.]
Zhu Changyang: “…”
Zhu Changyang: [Brother Nanrong, you are also in the Jijin Sect group? ]
Nan Rongbo: [. ]
Zhu Changyang just said this as a joke, but as soon as he sent it out, Si Kou Luo's message immediately appeared.
Si Kou Luo: [Nan Rong and I are already Taoist companions. We should be in the Jijin Sect group.]
Nan Rongbo: [. ]
Zhu Changyang: “…”
I’m full.
Jun Shu was just watching silently at the side, but when he saw this, his brows suddenly knitted slightly and he said, "I want to join the Jijin Sect group, too."
Zhu Changyang was silent for a moment, then asked in confusion: "Why?"
Jun Shu is not usually keen on socializing, or rather, he has an innate sense of distance from everyone except Zhu Changyang.
When Jun Shu was staying in Ji Jin Sect for a while, he didn't interact much with the disciples in the sect. After he left, he was too lazy to even reply to messages.
Every time there was a festival, the people of the Jijin Sect would send greetings, but it was still Zhu Changyang who reminded him, and Jun Shu would lazily reply: "I wish you happiness too."
Without even changing the words.
Polite, but perfunctory.
Very cool.
Therefore, Zhu Changyang thought that Jun Shu should have no interest in this kind of group.
Jun Shu pointed at the last message sent by Si Kouluo and said with a look of unwillingness: "They are Taoist couples, and we are also Taoist couples."
In other words, Si Kou Luo's Taoist partner is in the group, and he is Zhu Changyang's Taoist partner, so he should also be in the group.
Zhu Changyang: “…???”
Brother Jun’s logic is always so powerful. He was about to say that this is the Jijin Sect’s group, and if you want to join, you should join our Industrial Sect’s group.
At this time, Si Kou Luo sent another message.
Si Kou Luo: [Please help Jun Daoyou refine his jade tablet. I will add him to our group.]
Zhu Changyang was silent for a moment, then turned to look at Jun Shu. Sure enough, he saw that Jun Shu had taken out the jade tablet at some point and was sending a message to Si Kou Luo. The content of the message was also very simple and crude.
Jun Shu: [I want to join the group]
Zhu Changyang: “…”
What could he say? He could only wipe his face, sweat dripping from his hands, and took Jun Shu's jade tablet and upgraded him.
After the upgrade was completed, Jun Shu quickly entered the Ji Jin Sect’s group.
After a while, another prompt popped up on the jade book: Qi Tongchen changed the group name to "Two Clans of Love and Dear".
Qi Tongchen: [Brothers. How about you refine Jie Xiaoyou's jade book as well and invite him to join the group. This way, we will have all the members of both sects.]
Hai Qingshan: [Right, right, right. Our two clans are as close as one family.]
Zhu Changyang: “…”
Qi Tongchen is worthy of being the eldest senior brother. He has high emotional intelligence. He even changed it to "people from two sects". The gap between the sects is a little bit big.
Zhu Changyang looked at the countless people from the Ji Jin Sect in the group and felt for the first time so clearly that the population of their Industrial Sect was really small.
They are so weak that the Industrial Sect seems like undercover agents who have infiltrated the big family of the Provident Fund Sect.
No matter what, Jie Li joined the "two loving sects" and integrated into the big family of Jijin Sect without any pressure.
The internal testing of the group chat function received a good response, and no obvious bugs were found. Soon, Ji Jin Zong officially released the 2.0 version of the Communication Jade Certificate, and new users can directly purchase the latest version of the Jade Certificate.
As for old users, as long as they pay some additional spirit stones, they can exchange their old items for new ones in the branches opened by Ji Jin Sect in various places, or ask the disciples in the store to refine and upgrade them. The costs of the two options are slightly different.
Once this function was launched, it was immediately welcomed by the market.
The natives of the cultivation world who came into contact with the group chat mode for the first time showed great enthusiasm for this new way of socializing.
There were long queues in front of Ji Jin Sect’s stores every day, all of them were users who went to upgrade their jade certificates. Ji Jin Sect made a lot of money because of this, and the sect’s reputation reached a new level.
Because there were too many people upgrading, Ji Jin Zong was too busy to handle it all at once, and there were also scalpers queuing on behalf of others and unofficial services.
Seeing the profitability, some weapon refiners from other sects pieced together the techniques of the Ji Jin Sect through various channels and stole them. They then privately upgraded their products for the majority of Yudie users at a lower price.
However, the spells they pieced together might have flaws, or their own skills might be insufficient, so refining failures often occur. Once a failure occurs, the user's original jade tablet will become an ordinary jade brick, which is a huge loss.
This chaos continued for more than a month, and the situation was only alleviated after most people's jade certificates had been upgraded.
As more and more people completed the jade certificate upgrade, Zhu Changyang would receive new group-joining notifications almost every day.
Chang Fengchi from Baigongmen, Ying Shuangze from the mermaid tribe, Fei Shiqian from Changpingjing and others all sent invitations to join the group.
Every group is full of lively conversations, which is normal. Modern chat software was also very lively when the group function was first launched.
Zhu Changyang was very calm about this and very skillfully ignored all kinds of water groups.
But some people are really annoying.
[Shen Zha invites you to enter the Nine Realms to find a confidant]
Group members: Shen Zha, Ming Rusu, Hua Qingdai, Chang Fengchi, Zhu Changyang, Jun Shu.
[Shen Zha invites you to enter the Changpingjing branch of Shen's Restaurant]
Group members: Shen Zha, Zhu Changyang, the restaurant owner, and all the restaurant’s major VIP customers.
[Shen Zha invites you to join the Nine Realms Sword Cultivator Exchange Group]
Group members: Shen Zha, Zhu Changyang, Jun Shu, and sword cultivators from various sword sects in the nine regions.
Jun Shu frowned even more and asked, "What kind of group is this?"
Zhu Changyang: "Mr. Shen invited me blindly. Don't worry about him. Just withdraw."
Jun Shu: “Oh.”
The two were about to quit when the group chat started quickly.
Sword Cultivator A: [Welcome new Taoist friends. I wonder which sect these two Taoist friends are from.]
Shen Zha: [These two are friends of the Industrial Sect]
Sword Cultivator B: [What kind of sect is the Industrial Sect? How come I have never heard of it?]
Sword Cultivator C: [I know. It is a new sect founded by the industrial pioneer, Master Zhu Changyang.]
Sword Cultivator Ding: [Aren’t Master Zhu weapon refiners? How did you join our sword cultivation group?]
Shen Zha: [You may not know this. Fellow Daoist Jun of the Industrial Sect uses a sword. Fellow Daoists also know a little bit of swordsmanship. So I invited them in to exchange ideas with each other.]
Shi Ziwu: [Fellow Daoist Shen may have misunderstood the purpose of this group. Our group is full of elite sword cultivators from the Nine Regions. We are all exchanging profound sword techniques. You can't just learn sword techniques and join. If your sword techniques are not up to the threshold, I suggest you quit.]
As the strongest fighting force in the cultivation world, sword cultivators are usually very arrogant.
Although Zhu Changyang was famous, he was only a weapon refiner after all. And the martial arts value of weapon refiners of the same level was far inferior to that of sword cultivators.
However, Zhu Changyang, with his not-so-high realm, became famous in the Nine Regions in a short period of time, far surpassing many sword cultivators. It was inevitable that some sword cultivators were dissatisfied with him.
Jun Shu was about to quit the group, but when he saw this message, he immediately started writing.
Jun Shu: [Then you should leave the group]
Shi Ziwu: What do you mean
Jun Shu: [You know]
It was just three short words, without any obscene words, but somehow they revealed a sense of sarcasm.
The atmosphere in the group suddenly became more stagnant.
Shi Ziwu: [A swordsman from a weapon refining sect. He sounds arrogant. If you can, tell me what you have accomplished. If you can beat me, I will withdraw from this group.]
Zhu Changyang was sweating profusely as he watched the group start to quarrel. He hurriedly tried to dissuade them, but at this moment another message appeared.
Wanli Zheng: [If I remember correctly, the immortal demon corpse cultivated by the Yuxu Sect was killed by Jun Daoyou]
After these words were spoken, the group fell into a long silence.
Everyone in the Nine Realms knew that it was Master Zhu’s beautiful friend who killed the Undead Demon Corpse, but they didn’t know that this friend had joined the Industrial Sect.
Although it was rumored that the undead demon corpse died by exploding, it was a fact that Jun Shu held the Water-Repelling Sword and blocked the attack of the undead demon corpse.
Based on this record alone, Jun Shu would be accepted without examination in any sect he wanted to join, even top sword sects like Kunlun and Zhan Cang would be his choice.
No matter how you think about it, you shouldn't join a newly established weapon-refining sect.
This is like top scientific researchers going to Peking University instead of Peking University.
It seems like fake news anyway.
It just so happened that this news was released by Wanli Zheng, the most famous disciple of the new generation of Kunlun. Wanli Zheng was famous for his seriousness and he never joked.
This is a bit embarrassing.
The swordsman named Shi Ziwu didn't expect to hit a wall, and it took him a while to write the new message.
Shi Ziwu: [He just relied on the power of the Water-Repelling Sword. I could do it if I had a sword like that.]
Jun Shu: [You are dead]
Shi Ziwu: [What do you mean? What do you want to do?]
Jun Shu: [When I see you one day, I will chop you with my water-repelling sword. Then I will grab you and put you on the sewing machine.]
Shi Ziwu was obviously confused: [What does it mean to step on a sewing machine?]
Jun Shu was too lazy to answer, so he simply left the group and complained to Zhu Changyang: "These people are so boring."
Zhu Changyang was just about to comfort Jun Shu when he saw Jun Shu take out a notebook and pencil, open a page, and write down Shi Ziwu's name stroke by stroke.
Zhu Changyang was silent for a moment: "What is this?"
Jun Shu said succinctly: "Blacklist."
Zhu Changyang: “…”
I only knew that the demons hold grudges, but I didn't know they hold grudges so well.
Jun Shu was writing halfway when he suddenly thought of something. He glanced at Zhu Changyang and added, "Don't worry, I'm just trying to scare this guy. If I run into him someday, I'll just beat him up, but I won't really chop him."
Zhu Changyang: “…”
Brother Jun is trying hard to be a good person.
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The Jade Message was just updated not long ago, and a big news came out along with Tianjizi’s daily news, which quickly detonated all major chat groups.
The Six Seal God of Jingtian Palace sent messages to the leaders of all major sects, but no one knows what he said.
Afterwards, the leaders of the major sects jointly issued an announcement, announcing that the sect competition would begin in three months.
As the name suggests, the Sect Competition is a competition among disciples from various sects and schools in the Nine Realms. It is also the most watched event in the Nine Realms over the past thousands of years.
For the sect, this is an important battle to assess the strength of new disciples and enhance the sect's status.
For newcomers, this is an extremely rare opportunity to show themselves.
Anyone who stands out in the competition will not only quickly gain fame, but also receive valuable rewards such as spirit stones and magic weapons.
The person who wins in the end will have another chance to enter Jingtian Palace and talk with the Six-Seal God.
The Six-Seal God can predict ghosts and gods, and his words often contain extremely important opportunities that can help cultivators break through obstacles and seek the great way.
Therefore, as soon as the news came out, the nine regions were in an uproar.
The newcomers from various schools and factions were excited, but also a little caught off guard.
The sect competition has always been held every twenty years, and the last one was seventeen years ago. Normally, the next competition should be held three years later. I don't know why it was brought forward.
And in such a hurry.
There were many rumors for a while, but unfortunately Jingtian Palace was very secretive about it, and the leaders of the major sects also kept their mouths shut.
Zhu Changyang was also very curious, so he tentatively sent messages to Si Kou Luo and Hua Guangbai.
In the end, the two people's replies were exactly the same, only four words: [There is a change in the star Shen]
When Zhu Changyang saw the word "Shenxing", his heart was moved and he inexplicably thought of the voice that had been appearing in his dreams these days.
"Under the star Canopus is Yongze."
These words were first said to him by Jun Shu, but the voice that spoke in the dream was not Jun Shu's.
He wanted to ask more, but Hua Guangbai and Si Kou Luo didn't say anything. He didn't know whether it was inconvenient or they didn't know either.
Hua Guangbai then asked with concern: [Speaking of which, you are also a rookie in the Nine Regions. Are you interested in participating in the competition?]
Zhu Changyang replied without hesitation: [Of course! I get excited just thinking about the competition! ]
As an excellent anchor, how could I not join in the fun
Hua Guangbai: [Very good. Young people should have this kind of drive.]
Zhu Changyang: [Go for it! ]
Hua Guangbai: [Why do you want to rush?]
Zhu Changyang: “…”
Zhu Changyang: [Too excited, accidentally injured]
The author has something to say:
Hua Guangbai: Owner of Changchun Tower
Nan Rongbo: The only son of the master of Hehuan Palace
(End of this chapter)