Chapter 63: Skip, Skip, Skip Them All (Monthly Ticket Bonus Chapter)

The Three Demonic Cults? Chu Zhu was unclear about these three; in reality, they were demonic sects that controlled extraordinary power...

Because in his understanding, according to the former official classification—these three cults were collectively referred to as heretical cults!

"I didn't mess with you in the main timeline, yet you take the initiative to provoke me?" Chu Zhu muttered inwardly. How utterly audacious!

He bit down expressionlessly, the poison spreading in his mouth before he swallowed it into his stomach.

There was no pain, nor did it cause any violent internal or physical reaction... After all, this poison was strictly selected by Chu Zhu! At this moment, he could only feel his body gradually growing weak and limp.

"How could you... wait a minute!" Ning Linglong's expression suddenly changed drastically. She stepped forward, grabbed Chu Zhu's wrist, and stared intently at his complexion. "Why is your face so pale... No, you've been poisoned? When, when did that enemy strike... Dammit, why didn't I notice it at all?"

"That's impossible!" Li Kang's expression also changed. He rushed forward at lightning speed and first touched the down jacket. "It hasn't been punctured, so there's no way you could have suffered a knife or stab wound... Was it the air? But why are we completely fine..."

Neither of them ever imagined that Chu Zhu had committed suicide, so no matter how hard they racked their brains right now, they couldn't figure out what was going on.

Ning Linglong visibly flushed with anger. After a brief silence, the brilliant radiance between her brows flared once again, illuminating almost her entire skull as it spread out in all directions.

"Wait! If you push yourself to such an overload..." Li Kang blurted out in shock.

"...Good grief!" Chu Zhu's final thought in his mind was that Ning Linglong had truly broken down and lost control this time...

Because he even heard the surrounding neighbors discussing in panic.

"What's going on? What is this light!"

"Could it... could it be a supernatural event?"

"Nonsense! Something must have gone wrong. Is, is there an explosion?"

Oh dear, has Ning Linglong completely thrown away the principle of extraordinary secrecy?

Well, although it can be remedied with memory deletion later, the effort required for that... Tsk!

Chu Zhu's vision went black, and he lost his sight. His sense of touch gradually faded as well, and he felt as though someone had hoisted him onto their shoulder. It seemed someone was telling him to hold on?

Then...

Everything, everything was reversing!

...

The light before his eyes suddenly flared brilliantly.

Chu Zhu narrowed his eyes and looked around. Familiar base! Familiar movie.

As usual, close the movie, clear the background processes, and confirm the time is exactly six o'clock!

Then, call Li Kang, go to the guild headquarters, calm the unrest, and issue a martial law order.

After resolving everything, without waiting for Li Kang to seek him out, he called Li Kang again and instructed him to state his demands when contacting his superiors.

Moreover, having already experienced it once, this time Chu Zhu sped through the plot to the absolute limit. This directly resulted in the meeting time no longer being set at two-thirty in the afternoon, but moved up to ten o'clock in the morning.

...

Half-past ten.

Chu Zhu walked out of the administrative hall. He raised his head and stared at the sun; at this moment, the sun hung high, casting blazing rays. He reached out his palm toward the sun, casting its shadow over his brow.

And this...

Was what Li Kang, Ning Linglong, Guan Fei, Bi Xuan, and the others saw as they walked out.

"...Th-this is way too overpowered!" Bi Xuan silently wiped the cold sweat from his forehead. Even when recalling everything that had happened just now, he still felt a sense of unreality.

Although Bi Xuan had experienced everything that happened this morning from beginning to end, until now he still hadn't figured out what was actually going on—

It was as if he had completely turned into a marionette, only capable of executing one command after another issued by Chu Zhu.

What left the deepest impression on Bi Xuan was that shortly before, Chu Zhu had called Li Kang, precisely recounting the current situation and his own negotiation terms, and stated with absolute certainty that an unimaginably high-ranking leader would soon communicate with him directly—

Furthermore, Chu Zhu had declared right then and there that the high-ranking leader would definitely agree to his conditions! Once agreed, there would be no need to call him again—and this very phone call had directly settled the meeting time!

And in the end, it turned out that Chu Zhu hadn't miscalculated a single step.

This is too absurd!

Are you, senior, actually a prophet in disguise?!

In fact, it wasn't just Bi Xuan. Ning Linglong had the exact same feeling.

Guan Fei was very calm; as a hardcore fan of Mr. Bamboo, whatever Chu Zhu did was completely normal in his eyes. As for Li Kang...

"The charlatan is showing off his power again!" Li Kang sighed. "Although I've experienced it many times before, no matter how many times I see it..."

I still can't help but feel heartfelt shock and awe!

"However, I haven't seen Ah-Zhu take things this seriously in a long time... Well, that makes sense," Li Kang quickly came to terms with it. "It would be strange if this incident didn't piss Ah-Zhu off, wouldn't it?"

"Um..." Ning Linglong hesitated for a moment and stepped forward.

"I don't have time to have lunch with Elder Ning today. Let's just grab a working lunch later! Consider your matchmaking task completed and go back to report on it." Chu Zhu continued to nip the trouble in the bud.

Ning Linglong: "..."

She was choked into silence.

"Right!" Chu Zhu suddenly thought of something and said leisurely, "By the way, 'The Dao that can be told is not the eternal Dao. The name that can be named is not the eternal name.'"

Chu Zhu didn't directly ask what the other person meant; he simply uttered these words and intently observed Ning Linglong's expression.

He could clearly perceive surprise, astonishment, confusion, and doubt emerging on her face.

Li Kang's pupils first widened, and then he said, "Are you a member of the Natural Daoist Sect? No, when did you join? How come I didn't know?"

"Natural Daoist Sect? You mean Daoism, right?" Chu Zhu frowned. In this dream world where religions flourished, it was naturally impossible for there to be only the God-Worshiping Cult—

As far as Chu Zhu knew, religions existing in the real world probably all had counterparts here, such as Daoism, Buddhism, and even more absurdly, Confucianism had even become the Confucian Cult in the dream world...

There were also some whose origins could be traced back to the Hundred Schools of Philosophers during the Warring States period in the real world, sects named after those various schools—

The Agricultural-Medical Cult, the Mohist Cult! Even including the three major cults he knew well from Li Kang in the previous timeline—Sect of Joy, Five Poisons, and Omnipotence.

However, aside from the Sect of Joy, Five Poisons, and Omnipotence, the official authorities collectively referred to all other sects as Orthodox Sects!

"You didn't know?" Ning Linglong reacted, looking somewhat dazed. "Then how do you know this line... Could it be that someone from the Natural Daoist Sect has been in contact with you? And told you this?"

Well, indeed they had! Chu Zhu nodded. Ning Linglong looked like she belonged to the Natural Daoist Sect, so wasn't that precisely the case of someone from her sect being in contact with him and telling him this?

"...Never mind then."

Chu Zhu continued his questioning, "So, what is the specific situation with the Natural Daoist Sect?"