Perfect: Many children, many blessings! Join the chat group!

At this time, Shi Hao had followed Zhu Chen's advice and arrived at the Kunpeng Nest in the North Sea. He also successfully found the two extreme cultivation sites hidden at the bottom of the Kunpeng Nest through the Ten Great Grotto-Heavens.

He originally intended to come to the group to thank Zhu Chen, but instead saw the few comments Zhu Chen had sent in the group earlier.

He was very curious. Zhu Chen was about the same age as him, but the other party had a much broader range of knowledge than Liu Shen.

He had never heard Liu Shen mention those foreign lands and dark turmoil before.

Zhu Chen was just about to reply to Shi Hao when someone sent a message in the group first:
[Xiao Yan: Brother Shi Hao, you don't know this yet, do you? The world we live in is actually a fictional world created by someone else, and we are the protagonists in that fictional world...]

[Shi Hao: The World of Novels? What is a novel? What exactly are you talking about?]

Shi Hao was completely confused by what Xiao Yan said.

He grew up in the desolate Stone Village, where he spent his days either raiding bird nests or milking animals.

I've never been exposed to books or anthologies, let alone novels.

[Xiao Yan: No way? Brother Shi Hao, don't tell me you haven't been to school either...]

[Lin Dong: Fourth Brother, isn't that "also" a bit too much? You're clearly making a veiled attack.]

Lin Dong couldn't sit still any longer.

It was no secret in the group that he had never been to school.

And he didn't care.

Because in his eyes, studying was far less important than self-cultivation.

But Xiao Yan was using him as a topic of conversation in front of Shi Hao, which made him a little unhappy.

So what if I haven't been to school?
Could reading books possibly produce a martial ancestor?

[Xiao Yan: Fifth Brother, don't get agitated. I was just saying that out of habit; I wasn't deliberately targeting you.]

Xiao Yan quickly offered an explanation in the group chat.

He had the closest relationship with Lin Dong in this group, and he didn't want this incident to cause a rift in their 'bromance'.

[Shi Hao: I grew up in a remote village where there was no school, but the chieftain would often teach us to read...]

At this moment, Shi Hao also sent a comment.

To change the subject, Xiao Yan quickly picked up the conversation:
[Xiao Yan: I see. It seems your childhood was quite difficult. No wonder you didn't even know what a novel was.]

[Shi Hao: So what exactly is a novel?]

[Xiao Yan: Simply put, a novel is a storybook, and the plot revolves around one person, who is the protagonist of the whole story...]

In order to help Shi Hao understand what a novel is, Xiao Yan could only explain it to him in the simplest and most understandable language possible.

After hearing Xiao Yan's explanation, Shi Hao was completely stunned.

He never imagined that he would be living in a novel world created by someone else.

Everything he had done before, including the people he had met, were all characters fabricated out of thin air by others.

This is unbelievable. However, what shocked Shi Hao even more than all of this was Zhu Chen's identity.

Zhu Chen is not only a time traveler, but he has also read novels featuring these people as protagonists.

It is no exaggeration to say that the other party is an existence that transcends all the heavens and myriad realms.

He does not belong to any one world, yet he is intimately connected to all worlds.

Because he knows everything that has happened in the past, present, and future of the world.

No wonder the other party knows so much about their world, even knowing that dark turmoil will occur in the future.

[Xiao Yan: By the way, Brother Shi Hao, we both asked our elder brother for copies of our novels before. You can ask him for a copy too. You can learn about future events and people you'll meet through your own novel, which will greatly help your future cultivation. The biggest advantage is that you can avoid many detours.]

[Xiao Yan: Take me for example. In my own novel, I'm a womanizer surrounded by beautiful women. But only I know that those women were actually women I unintentionally attracted on my cultivation journey. Taking them in was never my intention. It was only after reading that novel that I learned how to avoid those kinds of things...]

[Xiao Yan: Now I not only get rid of all those messy relationships, but my cultivation has also improved significantly. More importantly, after reading that novel, I have a thorough understanding of the resources in my world. Some cultivation resources that I missed before, I can now acquire in advance, which greatly saves me cultivation time...]

Seeing that Shi Hao had fallen silent, Xiao Yan sent a few more comments in the group chat.

He advised Shi Hao to also ask Zhu Chen for a copy of his novel, as this would definitely make his future cultivation journey smoother.

[Lin Dong: Fourth Brother is right. It's really necessary to understand this world in advance. I only got the cultivation resources of the Heavenly Flame Ancient Tomb and the Great Desolate Stele ahead of time because I read the novel that Big Brother gave me. And I got them all by myself, no one came to compete with me. The harvest couldn't be more amazing!]

[Han Li: Since ancient times, knowing yourself and your enemy is the key to victory in every battle. Using novels to help you better understand the world you live in can only benefit you.]

[Wang Lin: But you must remember, from the moment you choose to read your own novel, your future will become distorted from the future in the novel. The future in the novel can only be used as a reference; you must never blindly believe it.]

[Qian Renxue: Actually, our future had already changed when this chat group appeared, and it wasn't entirely because we read the novel!]

[Luo Feng: Although the future in the novel may change, the established powers and resources will remain the same. If we make good use of this, we can quickly become stronger and even nip future enemies in the bud, minimizing the danger...]

The others in the group also strongly agreed with Xiao Yan's suggestion.

They felt that if Shi Hao could also understand his own world through novels, his cultivation speed might be much faster than it is now.

Looking at the suggestions given by his fellow group members, Shi Hao fell into deep thought.

It's easy to see from the comments that these people have already asked Zhu Chen for their novels and have gained huge benefits from them.

But the problem is...

Is it really a good thing to know your future in advance?

"Do not……"

Shi Hao seemed to have been stimulated by something and suddenly shook his head.

Gazing at the flashing text in the group chat, his previously bewildered eyes gradually cleared.

"No one can control my future except myself..."

Even if this world has already been arranged by someone else, created by someone else's pen and ink, I will still walk my own path to a great future...

...(End of chapter)