Chapter 667 - 667: Spamming? No, This Is a True Inheritance Secret Technique

As Zhao Yuan flooded the boards with answers, the night owls on the Cultivator Forum began to notice something was amiss.

At first, they thought some newbie who didn't understand the rules was spamming the "Morning Enlightenment, Evening Death" section. Without even clicking in to take a closer look, they started posting threads to discuss and mock the situation.

"Hey, look! Some newbie is spamming the Morning Enlightenment, Evening Death section!"

"Hahaha, another newbie messing around without reading the rules. Moderator, hurry up and get to work! Ban them!"

"These newbies nowadays really don't have any sense of propriety!"

"Hey, you, the poster above, stop pretending to be an old-timer. Your account isn't even a year old. You're a newbie too, alright!"

"Damn, the one spamming the Morning Enlightenment, Evening Death section seems to be Little Ghost? What a waste, what a waste. Wouldn't it be better to just be a top spammer in the General Chat section? Why go looking for trouble in Morning Enlightenment, Evening Death?"

"I take back my request for Dual Cultivation. With an IQ like that, they'd just drag down my Cultivation!"

Of course, all these threads were posted in the General Chat section.

As people who frequented the forums, they knew the rules like the back of their hands. They knew that if they went to the Morning Enlightenment, Evening Death section and made posts or replies unrelated to discussions or questions, they'd get points deducted and a temporary ban at best, or an outright account ban at worst.

They'd spent a long time building up their accounts and couldn't bear to get them banned so easily.

Besides discussing and mocking the user in General Chat, these people also sent private messages to the moderator.

And what do you know, they actually managed to summon a moderator. "What? Someone's spamming the Morning Enlightenment, Evening Death section? I'll go ban their account right now!"

"Go, go!"

"We support the mod's ban!"

"The spammer is a cute girl who doesn't know the rules. Mod, please show mercy—and don't forget to IP ban them while you're at it!"

"After the first half of that sentence, I was about to start flaming you, but then you finished and I realized you're one of us!"

"Sergeant, bring me my Italian... pasta! Let our ally have a taste!"

This moderator was the type who loved an audience. Seeing everyone paying attention and supporting him, he puffed out his chest, ready to go into the admin panel and issue the ban.

But before he took action, the moderator suddenly remembered something. 'Wait, I should click in and see what they actually replied with. I'll take a screenshot as evidence to avoid any disputes later!'

With that in mind, he paused the banning process, opened the Morning Enlightenment, Evening Death section, and clicked on one of the threads.

The thread was a question posted by a Cultivator who had run into a problem while learning to draw the Five Ghosts Transport Talisman.

Normally, a regular account would have to pay to see the answers below the post. After all, the person asking the question had put up a valuable treasure as a reward for the best answer. If anyone could just click and see the replies for free, wouldn't the original poster be at a huge loss?

The fee for viewing the post would be split between the person who asked the question and the person who answered it.

However, the moderator's account had special privileges, allowing him to view the answers and replies without paying.

'Huh, this person is also learning the Five Ghosts Transport Talisman? The problem he's facing is the exact same one I ran into before.'

This moderator came from a Cultivation Family. Although he had encountered the same problem, he hadn't asked for help on the forums because the elders in his family had already helped him solve it long ago.

At this moment, the moderator scrolled down the page, muttering, "This problem involves the core design of the Five Ghosts Transport Talisman. Unless you're a Talisman master, it's impossible to answer..."

As he spoke, he scrolled down to Zhao Yuan's answer. Without even looking at it, he was about to take a screenshot for evidence.

'Hm? Wait, what's this?'

After taking the screenshot, the moderator glanced at the answer Zhao Yuan had provided. His first reaction was that there were a lot of words; it didn't look like malicious spam. His second reaction was to start seriously reading the content of the answer.

The first time through, he read it with a critical eye, mulling it over as he went. 'The answer isn't all that great, but it has some substance. It's not the random spam I was expecting.'

He quickly finished reading the answer, but the relaxed expression on his face was gone, replaced by a solemn one.

He fell silent, thinking for a long time before muttering to himself, "This answer... it doesn't seem as simple as I first thought... No, I have to read it again."

He then read it a second time, a third time, an Nth time...

In the end, he was astonished to discover that not only was the answer not simple, it was actually more ingenious and brilliant than the solution his own family elders had given him!

This discovery left the moderator utterly shocked.

To verify its authenticity, he immediately got to work, drawing a Five Ghosts Transport Talisman according to the method in Zhao Yuan's answer.

More than half an hour later, having successfully drawn the Talisman and tested its power, the moderator was dumbfounded, looking as if he'd just seen a ghost.

After being stunned for a good while, he completely forgot about the dead of night and roared, "Holy fucking shit! Not only does the solution in this answer perfectly solve the problem, but it also increases the success rate of Drawing the Talisman and the power of the Talisman itself! This method is countless times more brilliant than the Secret Technique passed down in my family for generations!"

He had only shouted a few times when his door was pounded upon—BANG! BANG!—accompanied by the angry voice of a middle-aged man. "Yan Yang, what are you screaming about in the middle of the night? Even if you're not sleeping, don't disturb others who are trying to rest and cultivate!"

Yan Yang immediately fell silent. He rushed to the door, opened it, and grabbed the furious-looking middle-aged man standing there, pulling him into the room. "Dad, I just saw a post on the Cultivator Forum about the Five Ghosts Transport Talisman. The solution someone gave is countless times better than the method our family has passed down for generations!"

Yan Changming frowned, not believing his son's words. "Better than the method passed down through our family? Are you kidding me? Our ancestor, Yan Pu, studied under Grand Celestial Master Zhang Lu of the Five-Grain Dao. And the Five-Grain Dao, as a branch of the Zhengyi Dao, is the most skilled at Drawing Talismans and Chanting Incantations. All of the Yan Family's Secret Techniques are from the direct lineage of the Five-Grain Dao. There aren't many people in this world who are better at Drawing Talismans than our Yan Family!"

"Dad, you'll know once you see it."

Yan Yang didn't waste any more words. He pulled Yan Changming directly to the computer and pointed at Zhao Yuan's reply for him to see.

"Hmm, this is a bit interesting..."

Yan Changming glanced at the screen, and his eyes were immediately glued to it, unable to look away.