Immortal Travel of Longevity

As Chen Changsheng was leaving, he entrusted the Azure Fire to the Sect Master True Man of Xuanjiu Immortal Mountain.

Upon seeing the Azure Fire, the Sect Master True Man turned pale with shock.

"This is..."

Chen Changsheng said, "This is the Azure Fire once refined by True Man Lihuo. It possesses spiritual sentience, and by a stroke of chance, This Chen found it."

The Sect Master True Man stood in a daze. He finally understood what the friend Mister Chen had mentioned actually was. So it wasn't a person after all...

The Sect Master True Man treated the Azure Fire well. Since this was Mister Chen's affair, he naturally took it to heart. Furthermore, because he wielded Baizhi, the Azure Fire put up little resistance to staying there.

One day, Chen Changsheng inexplicably vanished. Just as he had once told the Azure Fire, his departure was entirely silent.

...

When Chen Changsheng returned to Reincarnation, he saw a completely different scene.

Looking down, beneath the clouds lay a Mortal World.

In the past, only the Celestial Court existed here; there had never been a Mortal World.

Now, there was.

Recovering his wits, Chen Changsheng looked back, only to see the Demon Sovereign watching him from a short distance away.

Seeing that Chen Changsheng had noticed him, the Demon Sovereign walked over.

He asked, "How is it?"

"How is what?"

"This world."

"It's all right."

Chen Changsheng glanced at him and said, "Just a bit small."

The Demon Sovereign said, "I am not like you, never considering the consequences. This large is enough."

Chen Changsheng's gaze turned toward that Mortal World once more.

Among the numerous figures, he saw a silhouette whose appearance was identical to his own.

In the blink of an eye, that figure had already grown into a youth.

The Demon Sovereign said, "I sealed his dantian sea of qi and locked away his divine sense. I also rewrote the rules of this Dream Method. He cannot escape."

Hearing this, Chen Changsheng returned to his senses, yet in the next moment, he fell into silence.

The Demon Sovereign observed his reaction. "I advise you to let go of that compassionate heart. Since you could trap me in this Reincarnation, in the future, he will also stand against you."

Chen Changsheng shook his head and said, "Honestly speaking, he did nothing wrong."

"Then are you and I in the wrong?"

"Demon Sovereign."

"Yes?"

"I feel that, perhaps, we should let go of some things."

Chen Changsheng turned to look at him.

The Demon Sovereign frowned.

Chen Changsheng continued, "Over thousands of years, you have schemed an unknown amount, yet This Chen still fails to understand what exactly it is you want. To change the world? But what is the meaning in changing the world?"

"We were born with the heavens and will die with them. To put it simply, isn't what you seek just a wish to die?"

Chen Changsheng said, "If it is not to change the world, but merely to seek a peaceful remainder of your life... But... the people we knew, the old acquaintances we recognized, have all already departed."

"Isn't it already too late?"

Listening to his words, the Demon Sovereign did not answer for a long while.

He paced back and forth, and only after a moment did he say to Chen Changsheng, "I used to be like you, and I thought the same way."

"I was also wondering what I was doing all this for."

"It is just as you said—as if I merely wanted to die, doing all these things like a complete madman."

"Later, I finally understood."

The Demon Sovereign looked at Chen Changsheng and said, "I am indeed a complete madman."

"You do not understand my obsession. The pain I have experienced is far, far greater than yours. I once told you that what drives me is nothing else but hatred."

The Demon Sovereign looked at Chen Changsheng and said, "Over the long years, I have several times forgotten my complex memories. The more distant they become, the more maddening it gets. I didn't do these things to change anything; I just didn't want to completely lose myself in the long river of time."

The Demon Sovereign said, "One day, you will also become like me. When you have endured the ravages of time and want to calm your mind to seek the true interpretation of the Dao, forgetting mortal desires and passions, you will understand what true supreme detachment is. Yet in the end, you will only find that it is all bullshit, nothing at all."

He continued, "It is like a child. When young, they are always happy about many things, but after growing up, that kind of happiness becomes increasingly difficult to find. You should clearly understand what kind of ending we are ultimately heading toward."

Chen Changsheng let out a breath and said, "Perhaps the Heavenly Dao is right. Such a curse was originally devised for our sake."

The Demon Sovereign did not retort. Instead, he said, "Yes. Two thousand years, forgetting everything. Absolutely everything is erased, whether it is one's Cultivation Base or memories. But are you willing to accept that?"

The Demon Sovereign looked at him and asked, "Chen Changsheng, search your own heart. Are you truly willing? If you were, why would you establish the Underworld, and why would you appear here? Aren't you, just like me, always searching for an answer?"

Chen Changsheng said, "This Chen..."

He suddenly found himself somewhat unable to answer.

What he sought was nothing more than an ordinary life, just like a mortal, experiencing what one should experience.

But his old acquaintances had all dissipated over the years, and the people he could miss were becoming fewer and fewer.

Everything he had sought seemed to have become meaningless.

He had grown somewhat lost. That was why he went in pursuit of that illusory Dao, like Jiuxiaozi, to ask why this heaven and earth were heaven and earth, and why nature was called nature.

This was no longer him.

In his early years, Chen Changsheng had always laughed heartily, loved to drink, and enjoyed conversing with others. Now, however, he avoided worldly affairs as if he couldn't get away fast enough.

He was also afraid.

The two stood there. The Demon Sovereign looked at the silent Chen Changsheng, and inexplicably, it was as if he saw his past self.

They were the same person, after all.

"Your state of mind is far, far too poor." The Demon Sovereign shook his head. "Like this, you will ultimately only lose yourself in the long river of time."

Chen Changsheng asked in return, "What counts as a poor state of mind?"

The Demon Sovereign pondered for a moment and said, "You cannot control your own desires and passions. Everything you choose is nothing more than an escape from this outcome. Unable to fully comprehend it, you will only sink deeper and deeper. Chen Changsheng, this is your inner demon."

"Everyone has an inner demon," Chen Changsheng said. "Aren't you the same?"

The Demon Sovereign paused. "I had one, but I slew it with my own hands."

Chen Changsheng fell into deep thought once more.

The Demon Sovereign patted his shoulder and said, "Live well. Even though you and I are in opposing camps, we were always meant to be the same person. Surrendering you to the Heavenly Dao back then was an act of desperation on my part. You endured these sufferings in my place. Now, I will naturally help you."

"Help me?"

Chen Changsheng turned to look at him and asked, "Like those totems on my body?"

A hint of a smile curved the corners of the Demon Sovereign's mouth.

"Is that not good? I said long ago that only hatred will keep us from losing ourselves."

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