Hearing the message in his mind, Lin Chen was stunned for a moment, then his lips curled up wildly; he was finally about to join the Chat Group as well.
"What nickname should I use? And what background story should I set for myself?"
Lin Chen's mind raced, thinking about how to best fool the goddesses in the group.
At the same time, all the Diary Instance Owners also received the message that the Chat Group was about to upgrade.
[Chat Group conditions met: Diary Owner Lin Chen has sufficient strength, and Chat Group activity is high. Now upgrading to a Level Five Chat Group. Old members, please be prepared and welcome the joining new members.]
Hearing the mechanical System voice in their minds, the Chat Group members were quite excited and thrilled, knowing that new members were about to join.
At this point, they were all prepared. After all, they had gone through this process three times already and were as familiar with it as could be.
New members entering here would first be skeptical, then after reading the chat history and diary content, they would be shocked and incredulous. Finally, after regaining their composure and realizing this was a massive Opportunity, they would be joyful and happy.
Once the new members reacted, the old members would send out red envelopes as a gesture.
They had this process down pat; it couldn't be more familiar, as some of the sisters in the group had come in exactly like that.
After a while, blood-red text appeared one after another on their diary instances.
[The Chat Group has officially upgraded to Level Five. The number of Chat Group members has increased, and group chat benefits have increased.]
[Rule Three changed: The number of monthly lucky draw winners has increased from twelve to eighteen.]
[The diary instance hidden reward mechanism is canceled and replaced with an extra intimacy reward mechanism. The higher the intimacy, the more generous the daily, weekly, monthly, and yearly check-in rewards.]
[Beginning to invite new members to join the Chat Group family.]
Immediately following that.
Across the continent, mechanical sounds rang out in the minds of the Diary Instance Owners.
"Welcome 'I Am Not a Big Cat' to the Chat Group!"
"Welcome 'Goddess Under the Moonlight' to the Chat Group!"
"Welcome 'What to Do If Brother Is a Tsundere' to the Chat Group!"
"Welcome 'Where Are Mom and Dad' to the Chat Group!"
"Welcome 'Gossip Girl Who Wants to Eat Melons' to the Chat Group!"
Five mechanical voices rang in the minds of the old members, representing that a total of five new members had entered the Chat Group this time.
Including the old members, the number of Chat Group members reached twenty-seven.
And the number of winners for the monthly lucky draw actually increased to eighteen, further increasing the winning probability. Every time there was a lucky draw, two-thirds of the members could win; just thinking about it made them happy.
In addition, the old members of the Chat Group also discovered that the diary instance hidden reward mechanism had disappeared.
The Chat Group had changed it to an extra intimacy reward mechanism, and Lin Chen's confidantes raised both hands in approval of this move.
No members were more satisfied with this mechanism than they were. This mechanism should have been changed long ago; this way, the rewards they received could multiply several times over.
[My Surname Is Not Yu: The number of monthly lucky draw winners has increased to eighteen. I don't believe my luck is so bad that I can't win with a two-thirds probability.]
[Pope of the Spirit Hall: This change to the hidden reward is great. Being in the Spirit Hall, it was originally hard for me to get that reward. Now that it's changed to an extra intimacy reward mechanism, I can just lie back and get rewards.]
[Purple Has Much Charm: This is fine. I can get significant rewards whether it's changed or not. After all, I am Lin Chen's capable helper.]
[I Am the Little Princess: This is hard to take. I've become a total clown. Before the change, I could still show my face in front of Lin Chen and pluck some hidden rewards.]
[I Am the Little Princess: But now, it's changed to extra intimacy rewards. How am I supposed to get my intimacy with Lin Chen above 80? The Chat Group must have made this mechanism specifically to target me.]
[Cat Longing for Freedom: Yes, exactly.]
[Yanzi Will Return: Plus one.]
...
[Cold Melon-Eating Girl: Plus one.]
Regarding the issue of the Chat Group changing its mechanism, the younger members were very sad. This reward was completely prepared for those older sisters; they couldn't even get a drop of the profit.
In the Lin Sect, inside Lin Chen's palace.
A chat box appeared on Lin Chen's diary book. As soon as he joined, he figured out how this Chat Group worked.
So, he went to scroll through the chat history in the group. Without scrolling, he wouldn't have known—it turned out that almost all the members in the Chat Group were lusting after him.
Except, of course, for a certain tsundere loli.
The members who were already fully developed were discussing how to take him down. From the group's perspective, it seemed Bo Saixi had recently been trying to win him over.
So, his intuition wasn't wrong? Bo Saixi actually really liked him.
The members who weren't yet fully developed, such as Ning Rongrong, Dugu Yan, and others, were playing a grooming game?
Huh? He was being groomed? Once he's fully developed, they're going to take him down immediately?
Besides this, Lin Chen also learned the rules of the Chat Group: daily, weekly, monthly, and yearly, as long as they kept reading his diary, they could get check-in rewards.
However, it seemed this rule had just changed slightly; the higher the intimacy with him, the more generous the check-in rewards.
Seeing this, Lin Chen began to look into how intimacy was categorized.
But after understanding it, he rolled his eyes at the System. Truly indecent; to break 80, they actually had to do *that* kind of thing with him.
In that case, wouldn't Ning Rongrong and the others cry themselves to sleep in the bathroom? After all, he was a man of principle.
Besides intimacy, there was also the monthly lucky draw. This was truly the moment that decided between the lucky 'European Kings' and the 'non-chiefs'.
When Lin Chen learned that the Ice Empress had won the lucky draw twice in a row but the rewards were very poor, his lips couldn't help but curl up. That tsundere loli Ice Empress really seemed to be a major non-chief.
While Lin Chen was watching the Chat Group history and learning the rules, the fixed NPCs for the new members appeared.
[I Am Not a Big Cat: Who are you? Why did this thing appear in my mind?]
[I Am Not a Big Cat: I am the Imperial Auspicious Beast of the Star Dou Great Forest, extremely precious. If I suffer any harm, Di Tian will not let you off.]
In the Star Dou Great Forest, a Spirit Beast with golden fur had a black diary instance floating in front of her, emitting an ancient aura.
This Spirit Beast's entire body was like semi-transparent crystal, full of a strange texture. Its overall shape was very similar to a lion, but its four claws were like those of a Dragon, and under each dragon claw stepped a ball of golden flame.
Beneath the fur were fine golden scales. In addition to the normal pair of eyes, there was a third eye, which was a vertical pupil.
The two normal eyes flickered with gold, while the vertical pupil emitted red—a red that carried a hint of eerie mystery.
This Spirit Beast was precisely the Imperial Auspicious Beast who had just spoken in the Chat Group, the Three-Eyed Golden Ni!