At the same time, Sovereign, along with few others, sense a shift in the energies across all dimensions. Sovereign quickly checks his magic talisman transmission device.
The magic talisman transmission device was not an ordinary method to communicate.
This is because it offers something nothing else can - the ability to converse with other cultivators across dimensions.
This allows important messages to be sent faster than imperial messengers using teleportation to personally relay a message.
On top of that, the magic talisman device allowed multiple cultivators to converse directly with each other.
It was by using that local chat, when one singular anonymous text stirred a mix of emotions into the whole world.
The recipient and the sender were anonymous… since it was hidden with a form of anonymity concealment.
"<[Encrypted recipient]> I know this is very sudden, but I just can't get you off my mind lately.
I know it may seem silly considering how I've only known you for a week and the fact that I only see you on this magic talisman transmission device channel.
But what I'm saying is the truth.
In the short span of time that I've known you, you've managed to occupy a significant space in my heart.
The depth of my emotions for you is surprising, even to myself.
You've become the most important person to me, surpassing anyone I've ever known. Your presence, albeit in the digital realm, manages to bridge a gap that has remained untouched by others.
Seeing you on this magic talisman device brings a sense of safety, while your absence leaves me with a hollow feeling that's hard to shake.
You've managed to awaken emotions within me that no one else ever has.
I can't imagine a world without you, and if such life exists, I would rather die.
And I just can't contain these feelings any longer.
I understand that this sentiment might not be mutual, but I wanted to be honest about my emotions.
Regardless of how you feel, I couldn't keep these thoughts hidden any longer…"
However, since this was a public channel, confusement quickly arrived, along with laughter.
"One week is all it takes, seriously?", a person nicknamed as Study Partner asks.
Meanwhile, two other individuals simply copied that speech, possibly as a way to mic this public confession.
"This has to be satire.", Study Partner says.
"Study Partner, you are just jealous.", says the anonymous person in the channel.
One person, who then found themselves to be identified as the recipient of this message, appeared in the channel.
His name was Earl Zuwei.
"So basically I've had a stalker for a week now,
Good to know.
Anyway, I got the message and my reply is
Ok."
To the other ones who copied that message, he simply said:
"We ( me and my demons)
Would like to inform you that you do not qualify yet.
Please try again later."
It was still early in the afternoon, where the sun shined bright in the sky.
Most cultivators were still cultivating in silence during that time.
Naturally, under the flow of time and messages, even this confession decayed and threatened to disappear into the depths of the magic talisman device.
Few hours pass.
The sun was now soon to set, though hidden behind the white clouds.
At the same time, the blue mountains were rising.
A person nicknamed Beware replied to the message of the anonymous sender.
"You are so brave for sharing this…"
Seeing the nickname reference and picture representing their personas, Venerable Light entered the channel.
"[Encrypted] [Encrypted] are always smart."
Another hour passes.
Now, the sun has started to set.
The clouds, although slowly falling apart, have a deeper color of grey now.
Sovereign, after noticing the shift of energies across the universes, enters the magic talisman channel as well.
Seeing Light's statement, he also notices that part.
"Unbelievable, Sovereign just realized it was [Encrypted] as well."
During that time, the anonymous sender of the text enters the chat as well.
"What does this mean…?"
"Venerable Light, it seems they failed in finding a Dao companion."
A different cultivator nicknamed Tsl7 also enters.
"I could bet 40 thousand spirit stones that person is a male as well.
So hilarious, they should have saved themselves from this public humiliation ritual, haha."
Meanwhile, the channel goes back to other mundane discussions.
Sovereign is amused, however.
He recognizes a mortal in this channel, it was Hide after all.
"Haha haha… how about you become my Dao companion, huh?", Hide tells Izumi, a different cultivator in the channel.
Izumi only leaves a reaction of blushing to be seen in the channel.
Sovereign thinks of an idea to entertain the mortal Hide, despite Hide's earlier wasted efforts.
"It is Hide, the man who holds the most charisma in all of humanity!"
The Sovereign said this while disguising his nickname in the channel.
Hide, at the same time, spots another individual who he had taken an interest in.
"Charm her with your unmatched charisma, Hide, you can do it."
"Haha, Senior, I am trying to charm YOU instead!"
"But still, I shall demonstrate my esteemed charisma, hehe!"
Izumi, hearing this, asks:
"Hide, didn't you just fail an attempt to use your charisma on two individuals?"
"Tsk, Izumi, you need to learn how to be more like Senior, he is doing tremendous work!"
"As for you, once in a millennia beauty, how about a Peach banquet this evening?"
It seemed in this attempt, though it took longer and also had the guidance of Senior, Hide managed to arrange a meeting with the person.
Now, another hour had already passed, it was now evening, the crescent moon starts to shine bright, revealing and illuminating the darkness in the deep forests.
The anonymous creator of the text had again started to speak.
"Tsl7, I heard you have been uttering nonsense to my name?"
"Did I?"
"Do not feign ignorance now…"
"I am not?"
"You sent a magic talisman message tarnishing my reputation at [Encrypted] time."
"For saying to go directly to his magic talisman private channel to say such things?"
"So you admit you have been tarnishing my image?"
At the same time, Study Partner speaks his opinion as well.
"It was the worst confession ever.
Who even takes the confession to the public?"
Sovereign, while observing and still hidden with a nickname, reveals his own standpoint as well.
"It worked for another individual, to think causality would be boundless to this extent, incredible, this is a real recalibration of perspectives for me, as for you Light, how did you pull it off?!"
Study Partner replies.
"Okay, but what are the pros of doing this in public?"
"Inspiration", disguised Sovereign answers.
"My confession was not lame. You lot simply do not comprehend it.", the anonymous writer says.
"Humans truly are amusing."
"I was not against your confession either, it was just wrong to declare it in public.
What are you, a mere vegetable unfit for consumption?", Tsl7 replies.
Study Partner agrees with Tsl7.
"How blind can you all be, saying it was lame to take it to the public eye instead of sending it to the private channel? "
"He made me feel a certain way no one else ever did…", the anonymous person adds.
Study Partner laughs in the channel.
"So, if someone makes you experience a new feeling, you will write a confession for them, haha!"
Tsl7, on the other hand, is slightly annoyed.
"Who even are you, just send it to their private channel instead of telling us that…"
Sovereign, who has been observing, thinks to himself.
"Incredible. This is simply amazing."
A new person entered the channel to speak their opinion, they were nicknamed Rommie.
Replying to Tsl7 and Study Partner, they asked:
"Why be judgemental on the magic talisman transmission device.. it is pointless.."
Tsl7 then says:
"Whatever, whatever. Let us just forget this."
Study Partner, who seems rather amused by this conversation, asks with curiosity.
"I just want to know what the guy replied with and
if it was reciprocated or not."
"I don't quite know… I suppose he is leading me on?"
Disguised Sovereign replies to Study Partner in the channel:
"That doesn't matter, it's something mortals of this realm except for few individuals like Venerable light can comprehend, he quickly used that inspiration and showcased some of his own success."
The anonymous person asks the people in the channel.
"I do not see what your problem is… why does my confession bother you o so much?"
Study Partner replies: "Because the publicity ruined the whole aspect of the confession."
"You may have planned to manipulate my heart, but unfortunately for you, I do not have a heart that can be manipulated.", the anonymous person declares.
A few moments of silence pass to the weight of this declaration.
"Whatever, all we said were go to his private channel, which is better for your privacy, and simply move on..", Tsl7 says.
At the same moment, Study Partner sends a message in the channel.
"I am looking for strong people to grind Heavenly Battle Arc with, looking to reach top 30 ranks.
And that person, just leave her, she is clearly dunce."
Sovereign, upon hearing this, could not tolerate the slander of Study Partner towards the other person.
"Impudence, combined with the highest level of ignorance. If you fail to recognize intellectual talent, don't even open your mouth!"
In these moments, Venerable Light also enters the channel, and asks very simply: "What?", after seeing his name being mentioned.
"You speak of my ignorance but you simply just don't realise because my sense of awareness is beyond your scope", Study Partner defends.
"The creator of the emotional yet intellectual masterwork which deeply inspired you to achieve great merit yourself is here, Light."
"This is the third time now, stop leading me on, you always say this.", the anonymous person says, although the meaning seems unclear.
"So my suffering has become a comedy now? What has this world come to? Humans are truly strange.", the person says.
Subsequently , Sovereign articulates his doubts.
"Tsl7 and Study Partner, attempting to copy a different style, yet extravagantly failing.
Truly, this kind of work requires peerless adaptive intelligible, which you mortals, naturally lack.
Your ignorance shall be forgiven, if you fail to recognize your mistakes, however, you shall face divine intervention…"
Tsl7 responds: "You are talking too much, I don't even understand what you are saying."
Study Partner says that style is not befitting to their own grace.
"Light, the discrepancy was never a lie after all…"
The anonymous person speaks again.
"I knew all about fear born through pain.
I knew the terror and misery of being weak. I'd seen people destroyed by it before my eyes, time and time again.
But eventually, I stopped feeling fear. Instead, I just felt cold, because I'd come to realize that no matter how much suffering or despair others experienced, the same would never happen to me.
And, once again, people fail to reach my level."
Study Partner then says:
"Well, I at the very least do not confess in public."
To which disguised Sovereign replies:
"This humble one has already warned you before not to carelessly spout words with the ignorance you hold, you dare question the validity of divine intervention???"
Tsl7 asks, even more annoyed than before:
"Brother Study Partner, who is that person, he is like an unskippable ad."
To Sovereign's warning, Study Partner calmly reflects: "Oh please you hold no sovereignty over me, know your place child…"
Sovereign reveals his identity.
"Before you stands the primordial true first sovereign of origin, supreme judge of the grand heavenly cosmic order.
Feigning ignorance while spouting nonsense, are you courting divine intervention or immediate judgement?"
Upon hearing this, it seemed that the lower cultivators were frightened… for now.
The topics quickly switched back to mundane matters after periods of silence.
In amidst of all the mundane noise, Sovereign then says, as though he were saying it to himself and those in resonance.
Now, the evening has turned into night, and besides the crescent moon, a new constellation of myriad of stars shine, bringing new light to the deep forests.
"In the end, a discrepancy could not disperse in such a short time, as long expected. Ignorance, albeit not inherently a bad thing, continues to roam the skies of the blue mountains, while many individuals of worthy talent remain hidden and looked down upon in the shadows of the vast darkness. I feel a complex state of emotions towards this chain of events, though words cannot quite describe it yet. Perhaps, in a new state of flow of consciousness under the guidance of the Dao, heavens will allow this sovereign to enlighten again?"