Chapter 665 - 665: Asking for Pics and for Dual Cultivation

However, for the time being, Zhao Yuan had no plans to release the Ant Thieves' location.

Because during this period, the Ant Thieves, after being relentlessly pursued, had become as skittish as startled birds, changing their location every day. Sometimes, they would even switch locations two or three times in a single day.

Under these circumstances, revealing the Ant Thieves' new location would likely have little effect.

After all, it would take time for Cultivators to receive the news and rush to the location. By then, the Ant Thieves would have probably long since fled.

So Zhao Yuan decided to wait a while. He would release their new location only after the Ant Thieves thought the heat was off and stopped changing locations so frequently, in order to achieve the maximum impact!

In order to level up his alternate account quickly, Zhao Yuan was diligently spamming and flooding the forum.

To avoid getting banned or losing points, every post and reply he made had substance. They weren't meaningless spam posts like "Bump," "I support the OP," or "1024, good karma to you."

In some threads that involved discussions about cultivation, he even selected short excerpts from the answers given on the Information Leaf and posted them as replies. It was precisely because of this that the night-owl Cultivators who frequented the forum were quite impressed.

"Spamming like this... I'm impressed!"

"I thought some malicious spammer had shown up and was about to report him, but after seeing the content of his replies, I realized I was wrong about him! Where the hell did this guy come from? He's incredible! Every single one of his replies is so insightful, really hitting the nail on the head. Especially in this discussion thread about cultivation—that reply he posted was absolutely brilliant!"

"Agreed, I think so too. That guy with the ID 'Little Ghost MM,' his reply was as precise and ingenious as a textbook example. I think this discussion thread can be closed now. Because no one could possibly give a more insightful answer than him!"

Little Ghost MM was the name of Zhao Yuan's current alternate account.

When he first registered, to avoid suspicion, he had chosen Witch Priest for his Cultivation School, which is why he picked that name.

The "Little Ghost" part represented Witch Priest, because people of this school often dealt with Ghost Souls. The "MM" at the end, of course, was not the pinyin abbreviation for *meimei* (younger sister), but an abbreviation for the English 'medicine man' of a Witch Doctor...

Of course, Zhao Yuan was probably the only one who knew what the abbreviation meant.

For instance, right now on the Cultivator Forum, quite a few people were misunderstanding.

"Little Ghost MM, does that name mean the poster is a girl? Post a pic! Be my Dual Cultivation Companion!" a Cultivator from a Dual Cultivation School asked excitedly, posting several drooling emojis in a row.

"Why assume it's a girl? Just because of the 'MM'? What if it's some gross dude pretending to be a girl?" someone questioned. He clearly played online games and had some stories to tell.

"Never mind a gross dude, it's obviously a 'trap'!" This reply was clearly meant to derail the thread.

Seeing these replies, Zhao Yuan's face turned green.

'Motherfucker, aren't you Cultivators supposed to be a little more serious? Why is every single one of you just like a regular netizen? No, wait, you're a million times more ridiculous than regular netizens!'

He furiously typed out a message and posted it in the discussion thread: "I'm a guy, not a girl. Please stop guessing."

Zhao Yuan thought his reply would immediately put an end to the speculation about his gender. But he never would have imagined that people's imaginations and headcanons were boundless.

"What? A guy? I'm so tired, I can't love anymore!"

"On the internet these days, girls like to call themselves 'dudes,' while guys often say they're cute girls. According to this rule, I deduce that Little Ghost MM's real identity is definitely a girl!"

"I don't care if they're male or female, I still want Little Ghost MM to be my Dual Cultivation Companion!"

'Dual Cultivation my ass. Cute girl my ass.' Seeing these ridiculous replies, black lines formed on Zhao Yuan's forehead. 'Motherfucker, are these people idiots? Can't they understand plain language?'

His muttering and cursing disturbed the White Cat, who was sleeping soundly beside him.

The White Cat opened its eyes and shot him a sidelong glance, its expression filled with the utmost scorn, as if to say: 'Are you an idiot?'

Zhao Yuan didn't notice this, however. After a few more curses, he couldn't be bothered to argue with the ridiculous trolls derailing the threads on the forum and focused single-mindedly on his task of spamming the boards to level up his account.

Finally, after a few hours, his account was upgraded from the lowest level, 'Junior Daoist,' to the second level, 'Master.'

"Finally, I don't have to watch them derail threads anymore." Zhao Yuan let out a breath, rubbed his wrists, and backed out of the "Jianghu Gossip" section, clicking into the Rakshasa Ghost Market.

This time, he successfully entered the Rakshasa Ghost Market section, no longer blocked for having an insufficient level.

The layout of the Rakshasa Ghost Market section was a completely different style from Jianghu Gossip. It was more like a shopping website; when he clicked on an item for sale, it came with both pictures and a description. For a moment, Zhao Yuan thought he had gone to the wrong site and ended up on Taobao...

But the things sold here were not things you could find on Taobao.

Elixirs, Magical Artifacts, Spirit Talismans, tamed Poisonous Insects and Fierce Beasts, and Spiritual Materials... All sorts of precious and rare items could be found here, a truly dazzling and eye-opening array. Zhao Yuan also saw that next to the "For Sale" section, there was a "Wanted" section.

The two sections were for buying and selling respectively, but they had one thing in common: after finding an item you were interested in, you could click to contact the other party and leave a message to haggle over the price.

'Let's see... To forge the Thunder Fang Saber using Raccoon Power fangs, I'll need Spiritual Materials like Thundercloud Crystal Stone and Black Gold Iron Sand. I'll search the Rakshasa Ghost Market and see if anyone is selling them.'

Zhao Yuan quickly typed the name "Thundercloud Crystal Stone" into the search bar. It turned out they really did have it, and more than one person was selling it.

'This is great! This place is so convenient. In the future, if I need to craft Magical Artifacts, I can just buy the materials here instead of wasting time and effort searching for them outside.'

Overjoyed, Zhao Yuan clicked on one of the posts selling Thundercloud Crystal Stone and was about to contact the seller.

However, after clicking the "Chat with Seller" option, Zhao Yuan discovered that he had once again run into an "insufficient permissions" error.

"A Master may browse items for sale and wanted items in the Rakshasa Ghost Market, but to contact a seller or buyer, you must upgrade your account to the Third Level, Spirit Cultivator."

Looking at the pop-up window, Zhao Yuan couldn't hold it in any longer and cursed, "What the fuck, are you kidding me?"