Chen Changsheng left Demon Mountain unscathed.
Wang He personally escorted him out.
The words Chen Changsheng had spoken were half-true and half-false, but they had indeed left Wang He deep in thought.
What exactly was the greatest evil in this world?
Perhaps it was the very people who inverted the definitions of good and evil. Such people were even more abhorrent than true villains.
Demons.
They were the self.
They were not the rats scurrying and gasping for survival in the shadows.
Wang He suddenly felt that the things he had been doing all these years weren't so meaningless or laughable after all.
Let good be good, and let evil return to evil.
Everything had a predetermined fate.
...
Leaving Demon Mountain, Chen Changsheng returned to the Cultivation World.
Recalling everything he had seen and heard on Demon Mountain, he too fell into thought.
The world's definitions of good and evil had indeed gone terribly wrong.
Perhaps someone truly needed to step forward and correct this muddled world.
However, that person would not be Chen Changsheng.
He was someone in the middle—neither good nor evil.
He only knew that he had many places yet to go.
Opening the Geographical Maps, Chen Changsheng hesitated for a long time before marking the location of Demon Mountain in one corner. He also listed another place, one that did not belong to this world.
...
After walking for a long time, Chen Changsheng once again vanished beneath the glow of the setting sun.
Within Reincarnation, there was a deathly silence.
This change took Chen Changsheng somewhat by surprise.
He did not find the Demon Sovereign.
Instead, a cluster of consciousness sought him out.
In an instant, the Dream Method manifested.
The Celestial Immortal Court slowly unfurled before Chen Changsheng's eyes like a painted scroll.
A person sat high upon the Heavenly Emperor's throne, looking down at him.
Chen Changsheng's gaze swept over, only to find that the person was not the Demon Sovereign.
It was another version of himself.
"Chen Changsheng, do you admit your guilt!"
As the Heavenly Emperor's voice fell, celestial soldiers and divine generals suddenly converged. The eyes of all the generals in the Celestial Court landed on Chen Changsheng.
How familiar this scene was.
Back then, the Demon Sovereign had subdued him within the Dream Method just like this.
Chen Changsheng looked at him and said, "Has the Immortal Peach from back then already reached this stage..."
The Heavenly Emperor frowned but said nothing.
Chen Changsheng shook his head. "Just go. Since you want to see the flourishing age of the Mortal World so badly, go see it for yourself."
The Heavenly Emperor felt bewildered. He didn't understand why Chen Changsheng put up no resistance at all.
He raised his hand, dismissing all the celestial soldiers and divine generals.
"Why do you not fight?" he asked.
Chen Changsheng shook his head. "The Demon Sovereign always had a knack for learning his lessons. He had countless opportunities to seize This Chen's physical body again, yet he never made another move."
"The outside is not necessarily better than this Reincarnation."
That was what Chen Changsheng told him.
The Heavenly Emperor furrowed his brow, unable to grasp Chen Changsheng's words.
With a mere wave of a hand, the scenery before Chen Changsheng suddenly shifted.
The next moment, he stood inside a prison cell.
The Demon Sovereign lay inside the cell, legs crossed, sizing him up.
"You're here?"
Seeing his casual demeanor, Chen Changsheng gave a helpless smile. "What were you thinking?"
The Demon Sovereign spread his hands. "I wasn't thinking much. Since he wants to go outside and take a look, let him go."
Just like Chen Changsheng, he seemed to have let go.
Chen Changsheng gave a slight nod, sharing the same sentiment.
The Demon Sovereign let out a breath and said, "Tell me, what kind of achievements will he make? Compared to you and me, how will he turn out?"
"Who knows?" Chen Changsheng replied, shaking his head.
"Perhaps he'll surpass both of us, see through that supreme detachment, and truly step into the realm of a True Immortal."
"That would be for the best," the Demon Sovereign said. "Then I won't have to busy myself anymore."
"And This Chen can also enjoy some leisure."
Chen Changsheng thought for a moment, then flipped his hand. A Go board appeared before them.
"Care for a game?"
The Demon Sovereign glanced at it and stood up. "Let's play!"
"This time, it's my turn to slaughter your dragon!"
The two of them seemed exceptionally peaceful inside this prison cell, acting as if they didn't care about these sudden changes at all.
...
Time marched on, and three years passed.
When Chen Changsheng awoke, he looked at the heaven and earth in a daze.
"Is this... the true Mortal World...?"
He was not Chen Changsheng, yet he was more like Chen Changsheng than the man himself.
Having lived through one illusion after another and experienced such a long span of time, he had finally arrived at the truth.
It was just like a cultivator shattering multiple layers of heaven to see the true firmament.
His exhilaration in this moment was beyond words.
What he hadn't expected, however, was for things to go so smoothly. Neither that demon nor Chen Changsheng had put up much resistance.
He had seen it with his own eyes!
Seen everything as it truly was!
Yet he had no idea what he was about to face.
...
Several decades passed in the blink of an eye.
The qi destiny of the Demon Gate suddenly surged.
Wang He carved his sword into Demon Mountain. Over the course of several years, he had improved the cultivation methods of the Demon Gate. The current methods eradicated the influence of demonic qi on a cultivator's divine sense and fundamentally changed their approach to cultivation.
From initially ingesting blood into the body, they transitioned to guiding qi, fundamentally changing the root cause of the chaos sown by demonic cultivators.
Blood vigor, baleful qi, yin qi—all of it no longer needed to be swallowed and refined to supply the body. They simply had to mobilize these energies as if absorbing Spiritual Energy.
He had truly taken Chen Changsheng's words to heart.
From this moment on, the Demon Gate would undergo earth-shattering changes.
...
Meanwhile, in the Mortal World.
As cultivation methods were gradually revealed to the world, seeking the Dao to become an immortal was no longer as difficult as ascending to the heavens. More and more cultivators appeared in the Mortal World. People continuously made their mark, stepping beyond the bounds of mortals.
The Southern Domain also received a great deal of assistance from these cultivators.
But the number of people who truly had the chance to step onto the path of cultivation was still few. In this Mortal World, it was like picking one in ten thousand. If even one out of ten thousand people succeeded, it was already considered quite good.
Without a spiritual root, even possessing Immortal Arts was useless.
Yu Youyu orchestrated one upheaval after another in this Mortal World, disseminating those Immortal Arts. At the same time, she constantly searched for a way for those without a spiritual root to step onto the immortal path.
Yet, over several decades, she made little progress.
Just as Daoist Wuwei had said back then, "This matter is as difficult as ascending the heavens."
To make every person like a dragon was simply far, far too difficult.
Yu Youyu pondered the essence of the spiritual root. Why could this seed-like thing cause someone to undergo an earth-shattering transformation? And why were some people born with it, while others never had the slightest chance?
Because of this, she even went to ask Xiao Dongxu.
However, even Xiao Dongxu—arguably the number one genius in the world—could not give her an answer.
In Xiao Dongxu's eyes, this was fundamentally an act of defying the Heavenly Dao.
Moreover, it wasn't something that could definitely be accomplished just by finding a method.
The karma between heaven and earth was the most difficult thing for cultivators to withstand.
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