Chapter 544 - 544: Breakthrough

It was past eleven at night, but plenty of Cultivators were still hanging out on the forum.

Not long after Zhao Yuan posted his thread, someone clicked on it. They discovered that not only was the title baffling, but the content was also quite strange. Besides more than a dozen addresses, there was nothing else.

Although the title and content both stated that these dozen-plus addresses were the headquarters and senior member locations of the Ant Thieves, no one believed it.

The Ant Thieves had been around for many years. Countless people in the Cultivation Realm wanted to root them out and destroy them, but no one had ever been able to track them down. This included powerful Sects and Extraordinary experts!

If even these great families and supreme experts couldn't find the Ant Thieves, how could a brand-new account that had just been registered reveal the addresses of their headquarters and high-ranking members? What a joke!

Mocking replies came instantly: "Shocking my ass! Unbelievable my foot! This is the Cultivator Forum, not some clickbait headline! Even if the 'Idle Banter' section is for shitposting, you shouldn't be posting this kind of harmful, fake stuff!"

"This 'Small Witch Meets Big Witch' is a brand-new alt account. He's obviously just grandstanding and trying to get attention!"

"If these addresses you gave are really the Ant Thieves' headquarters and senior member locations, I'll eat my computer!"

In just two or three minutes, Zhao Yuan's thread had several replies.

However, every single reply questioned him. No one believed the addresses he provided were real.

The doubtful replies kept coming.

'This is bad, the thread's getting derailed.' Zhao Yuan frowned and muttered, 'If I can't make these guys believe me, this post will have been pointless!'

At that moment, he casually hit F5 to refresh the page. He then saw an ID with a moderator title reply to his post: "A warning for a first offense. Repeat offenses will result in a mute and account ban!"

'Peerless Sword Immortal? I feel like I've seen that ID somewhere before.' Zhao Yuan thought for a moment and remembered. 'Isn't that the moderator from last time, when I borrowed Hao Li's alt account? The one who tried to call me out but ended up getting schooled instead.'

'Running into you twice in a row... must be fate. Alright, you'll be my breakthrough!'

At the same time, in a villa community in Chang'an Prefecture, Sun Lei had just finished his Cultivation and was lying in bed with a tablet, browsing the forum while chatting in several group chats.

This tall, thin man in his thirties was "Peerless Sword Immortal," a moderator on the Cultivator Forum.

He was currently in the moderator group chat, complaining to the other Cultivator Forum moderators. "The quality of these newbies nowadays is terrible. They join the forum and start posting nonsense without even learning the rules and etiquette first."

Someone with the ID "Dragon Tiger Mountain Grand Celestial Master" replied, "Are you talking about that 'Small Witch Meets Big Witch' who just posted the Ant Thieves' addresses in the 'Idle Banter' section? I looked at his post. The addresses are very detailed. Maybe they're real."

"How is that possible? You think getting the Ant Thieves' addresses is that easy?" Sun Lei was completely unconvinced.

Another lurker popped up and said, "What if it's some Great God's sock puppet account? Just like that incident with the Pill Master exam questions."

Zhao Yuan's corrections to the Pill Master exam questions had not only won over the Pill Masters on the Cultivator Forum but also their masters and families. It led everyone to unanimously believe that the alt account, "I Just Like to Eat," definitely belonged to some Great God of the Alchemy Dao.

Seeing this message, Sun Lei hesitated, but his reply couldn't show weakness. "Impossible. How can there be so many Great Gods in the Cultivation Realm these days!"

The words had barely left his mouth when a notification for a new message flashed in his forum inbox.

Sun Lei casually opened it. The first thing he saw was the sender's name, which made him pause. 'Small Witch Meets Big Witch? Why is he sending me a private message? To admit he was wrong?' He swiped, and the message content appeared before him. It wasn't many words, just a single sentence.

But that one sentence made Sun Lei leap up with a start, shouting involuntarily, "Fuck! Who the hell is this Small Witch Meets Big Witch?!"

The reason for his outburst was that the sentence in the message was his current, exact address!

'How does he know my address? And in such detail? Is it really one of your alt accounts?' Countless questions flooded Sun Lei's mind. He frantically opened the moderator group chat, tagged everyone, and asked, "Which one of you is 'Small Witch Meets Big Witch'? This joke isn't funny at all!"

"What's wrong?"

"What happened?"

"I'll say it first, that alt isn't mine. I specialize in the Martial Dao; I don't know anything about Witch Priests!"

The lurkers in the moderator group all surfaced. Even the forum's admin was drawn out, asking Sun Lei what had happened.

Sun Lei answered, "I just received a forum PM from Small Witch Meets Big Witch. It listed my current, exact address!"

The group chat fell silent for a moment, then erupted in an even more fervent discussion.

"For real? Does he know you?"

"How did he get your address? Tailing you? Divination? Or some other method?"

"Holy crap, if that's the case, then the Ant Thieves' addresses he posted are very likely real too, right?"

Several moderators immediately sent private messages to Zhao Yuan. And Zhao Yuan didn't disappoint, finding their locations within minutes and sending them back in replies.

If one correct address could be a coincidence, then two, three, or even more was definitely not a coincidence!

The Dragon Tiger Mountain Grand Celestial Master said excitedly, "I get it! This Small Witch Meets Big Witch must be a reclusive Great God from the Witch and Priest School! He couldn't stand the Ant Thieves, that cancer on the Cultivation Realm, so he used a Divination Technique to find the addresses of their headquarters and senior members!"

Many people agreed with this statement.

The admin made a swift decision and ordered, "Quick, pin and feature Small Witch Meets Big Witch's post! I've hated the sight of the Ant Thieves for years, but I could never track them down to punish those bastards. Now that we have these addresses, I'm not afraid we won't be able to catch them. You guys get on it. I'm taking people to the nearest Ant Thieves' nest to me. I'm going to try and catch them completely off guard!"

The moderators immediately got busy. They not only pinned and featured Zhao Yuan's post but also posted the Ant Thieves' addresses directly as a banner at the very top of the forum, so it was the first thing anyone saw upon entering.

This sudden reversal left everyone who had been flaming Zhao Yuan for posting fake news completely dumbfounded.