How did you bunch of silly group members also time travel?

A perfectly normal working person.

The performance of that somewhat contrived mountain savage looked a bit clownish and awkward to watch.

Even passersby were only slightly puzzled, without any intention of mocking him. Their actions of glancing at him and then going inside only highlighted his clown makeup.

This situation is somewhat both reasonable and unexpected.

But thinking about it, it makes sense. Although the process feels very familiar, it is ultimately reality. It won't be like a wish-fulfillment novel where the protagonist is full of resentment and would deliberately step on an ant.

Moreover, a quick scan with his spiritual sense revealed that Chen Shao's fiancée was already inside, smiling and behaving intimately with him, showing no obvious resistance.

In other words, this hermit from the deep mountains came uninvited.

"That makes it less interesting."

The mountain hermit was clearly not shameless enough; seeing that things weren't going as he expected, he just stood there dumbfounded and did nothing.

There was no sudden influx of power that rendered everyone stupid, and then the anticipated real-life feel-good story began to unfold.

In that case, there's no need to freeload at this banquet; I can just go home, wash up, and go to sleep...

"Why are you shaking your head and sighing like that? Are you looking down on me?!"

As if grasping at a straw, the mountain savage noticed Miss Fox shaking her head and swaying her body, and immediately rushed over aggressively.

Just by looking at her face and her unique, cosplay-like outfit, I felt awkward again, and the lines I had prepared just wouldn't come out.

It seems they've chosen Miss Fox as one of the female protagonists.

"The assessment is that he's read too many novels."

Miss Fox bluntly commented that she didn't even know who she was commenting on.

In short, since there's nothing she wants to see here, there's no need to even go in.

So, Miss Fox simply took out the pass card from the invitation she had received, casually tossed it into the hands of the mountain savage, and left without looking back...?

Seven-Colored Leopard Leaps Over Maoyu: Is Fuli really gone like this?

Sirin Kaslana: Gone.

Silver hair is the best: like walking

Newbie just filling in the numbers: ∠( ? 」∠)＿

Have they left? Yes, they have!

However, the spirit was still secretly watching, seeing the wild man in the deep mountains grit his teeth and go in to cause trouble.

At first, nothing unexpected happened. Both Chen Shao and his fiancée were normal. Even if it was an unwilling marriage, they knew they had to do it. Even if it was just an act, there was no overt resistance.

So the commotion caused by the wild men in the deep mountains was just a clown show, and not many people cared. They just marveled at the charm of Chen Shao's fiancée.

But after only a short while, things started to go wrong.

It was as if everyone had been hit with a hammer, and everyone's intelligence had become abstract.

First, the fiancée was actually persuaded and began to express her dissatisfaction with the arranged marriage. Chen Shao also suddenly made a personal attack on the mountain hermit, and the other guests joined in the mockery, their expressions all seeming out of control.

Miss Fox: ?

Something's not right. The images that my spirit spied back don't look right at all!

I just praised her for being a normal person, and then this happens?

Celine Kaslana: It seems this happened after the mother had left for a while?

Fallen Saint Black Cat: I know the answer to this question. Someone's hiding in the Shameless Elf's lair, doing something sneaky.

Everyone here is my wife: It couldn't be more obvious, probably due to some third-party force as speculated.

Newbie here to fill in: But here's the question: What exactly does this third-party force want to do? What's the point of this wish-fulfillment plot?

The effect of the brain-degrading technique is not remotely controlled like that of the man in the black robe, but rather it is inherent in the wild man deep in the mountains.

This is what Miss Fox discovered after secretly using her spiritual sense to investigate.

There's just one thing I don't quite understand. Logically, this "brain-degrading aura" should have already taken effect when the mountain savages approached, but at the time, Miss Fox, who was present, only saw abstract mountain savages and normal passersby.

Isn't this right?

Celine Kaslana: Mom, try spying openly!

Fallen Saint Black Cat: ...This contradictory statement is quite fitting to describe the shameful elf's actions.

Seven Returning to the Moon: emmmmmm...

Qi Pu Gui Yue: Does a fox ever have a time when she doesn't act openly and secretly, as if she's afraid others won't notice her spying?

Grief: Now is the time~

Newbie who just wanted to fill a spot: Bug's suggestion is great, I have an idea.

After thinking it over, the only reason why the previous brain-lowering treatment didn't work was because she was present.

Therefore, it is very necessary to implement Celine's suggestion.

So, Miss Fox stopped hiding her spiritual awareness and openly notified those who were able to perceive it that she was watching.

But the effect seemed to be ineffective, having no impact on the people on the field whose intelligence had been reduced; their behavior remained abstract.

Moreover, the "plot" is nearing its end, with the wild man from the deep mountains about to take Chen Shao's fiancée away.

Miss Fox thought for a moment, then, unusually, lowered her profile and quietly opened a door to blend in with the guests.

As soon as she passed by, it felt like something had been punctured, and everyone around her shuddered, the noisy environment suddenly becoming quiet.

The guests all noticed something was wrong.

"Come on, let's leave this place. I don't even consider the Chen family a threat!"

Only the wild man in the deep mountains didn't notice anything amiss. He reached out with great satisfaction, wanting to take the man's fiancée away from the engagement banquet.

He didn't notice the confusion in his fiancée's eyes.

"..."

The brain-depressing effect stopped working, and her intelligence regained its dominance, inevitably putting Chen Shao's fiancée into an emo state.

Because her behavior when she was mentally challenged was so problematic, although it didn't lead to a complete breakdown, it created a rift that was hard to mend in the short term.

This put them in a dilemma, with the wild man's hand in front of them.

On the one hand, the destruction of the Heavenly Dao Sect meant that the extraordinary power that the family had painstakingly held onto was lost overnight. Furthermore, the fact that the Heavenly Dao Sect had previously endorsed and cooperated in suppressing the official family meant that the family's future situation would definitely not be good. All the aristocratic families that had participated were now in a critical moment. In fact, this little incident could be easily resolved by simply vomiting some information.

On the one hand, even if this is let go, it won't actually improve the family's future situation, because the Chen family is also a participant and will be purged sooner or later. The wild man in the deep mountains was someone she discovered by chance, an existence with extraordinary power outside of the Heavenly Dao Sect, and her original intention was to obtain a trump card.

Unexpectedly, things developed this way. Either focus on the present, join forces with the Chen family, and force the officials to hastily transfer assets and flee because they cannot handle the situation in a short time.

She could take a gamble and hope that this guy from the deep mountains could save her family from being punished, or even help them regain what they lost due to the destruction of the Heavenly Dao Sect.

"I..."

"It's so hard to choose, maybe we shouldn't choose at all."

Her hand was grabbed, and she suddenly appeared amidst a group of elaborately dressed women at a banquet.

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## Update later

Yeah, I've been studying the fog god mechanics and light pollution for days, it's exhausting. All that memorizing, I'm totally out of it (out of it 3.0).

Then I went to a raid, and um, what's the mechanic again? (I speedrunned it)

It died, revived, and then killed ( ).

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Chapter 1577

What is the main purpose of this engagement party?

Whether you ask the engaged couple or the guests who are there to witness the event, there is only one answer: go together.

The sudden demise of the Heavenly Path Sect transformed what was originally a celebration of a partial victory into a meeting where members banded together to discuss how to evade or resist the reckoning.

The two engaged couples are both the main characters and not the main characters.

Even if they could successfully invite the key figure who destroyed the Heavenly Dao Sect to the banquet, then all the participants and even the organizers would no longer be the main characters.

Now, that special situation has occurred, and the key figure has suddenly appeared on the scene.

The important figures were very excited, putting on friendly smiles and eagerly wanting to come forward.

"Boom!"

Does it sound good? If it sounds good, that’s a good start.

All the important figures who wanted to move forward were blocked by an invisible wall, unable to take a single step.

The smiles on their faces could hardly be maintained.

Isn't this invisible barrier also a form of rejection?

Miss Fox didn't care about the lives or deaths of these powerful figures; she only cared about her purpose in coming here.

"W-What did you do?!"

The wild man from the deep mountains, being stared at intently, felt a strange sense of crisis and took several steps back.

Silence fell the instant Miss Fox approached him.

Her spiritual sense could see very clearly that the spiritual energy circulating within the mountain savage's body stopped the moment she approached, its path shifted, and the effect of reducing his intelligence seemed to have been lost, which also seemed to have restored the mountain savage's rationality.

I always felt that the spiritual energy within him had a kind of self-awareness.

But this isn't a good place for research. Let's take the person away first and bring them somewhere where no one will be so ungrateful as to bother us.

For example, the headquarters of the Tiandao Sect, which she has already taken over.

Open a door, take a step forward, and you'll be dragging the mountain savage to the ground.

"What on earth are you——"

"Shut up."

Using her spiritual power to sew up the mouth and bind the limbs, Miss Fox had no intention of having much interaction with the wild man from the deep mountains.

The person who was deliberately arranged to have a fortuitous encounter, and then became a pawn in the other side's scheme, knew even less than she did.

"Route deviation...the meridian closure used in the original route...the intelligence is quite high?"

Miss Fox illuminated the spiritual energy circulation map on the body of the mountain hermit and carefully observed the circulation.

Compared to the route at the banquet, the current operating route is completely different. Not only has the original operating route been completely closed in just a moment, as if it had never been developed.

If you're not careful, you might easily be fooled by this situation at first glance, thinking you've simply misjudged it.

That's pretty amazing.

However, this miraculous power is built upon the life of the cultivator.

The established route was forcibly restored, and a disguised route was quickly created. The process was so exhausting for cultivators that it was completely disregard for their lives.

The last one or two times have been alright; I've just given back the benefits of these serendipitous encounters by giving up a healthy body, but I haven't fallen to the point of being sickly.

But it was bound to happen sooner or later.

"The encounter was truly extraordinary, but the trap was also truly treacherous. It's hard to say whether you were lucky or unlucky in a short time."

Although they became pawns, they genuinely gained extraordinary powers.

In theory, as long as the hidden functions of the technique are not triggered, it has basically no drawbacks except for reducing intelligence.

After all, this intelligence reduction doesn't just affect oneself, but is an aura that reduces intelligence for everyone, so whether one's own intelligence is reduced or not doesn't matter.

"The principle is to spread a special magnetic field to inhibit thinking, thereby achieving a brain-depressing effect..."

It can also trigger the secretion of hormones in the body, making people more emotional.

"Alright, now, whether this person is a lucky one or an unlucky one, you have two choices."

After breaking the seal on the mouth of the mountain savage, Miss Fox believed he should understand the situation.

She analyzed the problem without hiding it from him.

"Do you want me to heal you so you can go back to being an ordinary person, or do you want to keep this power?"