ISWI Chapter 1367-1368 (Patreon)

Chapter 1367: The Child Between Ye Chen and Me…

"Ye Chen…"

At this moment, Shen Qingge was so moved that she could no longer speak. Ye Chen merely smiled faintly and said nothing. He simply pushed the divine talisman forward once more, placing it before her. "Fairy Qingge, please accept it. If you refuse, I will simply toss this thing to that Shen Qinghuan. In any case, once I have given something away, I will never keep it."

The moment those words left his mouth, the spectators erupted in another uproar. Ye Chen was truly determined to give it away.

Shen Qinghuan, whose face had already turned green, now flushed purple. Every time Ye Chen gifted something to Shen Qingge and she refused, he said the same thing.

What exactly did Ye Chen take her for? And this time it was before such a large crowd. Quite a few people were already looking at her with mocking eyes.

Furious, Shen Qinghuan spoke in a rage. "I am a peak Ancestral Immortal, capable of breaking through to the Seventh Heaven Origin Immortal realm at any moment. To ants like you who are merely at the Great Luo realm, the Ancestral Spirit Blessed Land is naturally an extremely precious treasure, which is why you keep pushing it back and forth. To me, however, it is not worth mentioning."

She argued angrily for the sake of her own face. Yet neither Ye Chen nor Shen Qingge paid her the slightest attention. Both of them understood it was merely empty talk. Shen Qinghuan was simply flustered.

Shen Qingge looked at Ye Chen with a complicated expression. "Fellow Daoist Ye, what about you? Your talent is extraordinary. If you can raise your cultivation quickly, you may yet have a chance to compete for a place in the Two Realms Prodigy Arena Battles.

"Moreover, your immortal power and Great Luo laws are incomparably powerful. Condensing Ancestral Immortal laws will be far more difficult for you than for me and will take much longer."

Ye Chen shook his head casually. "There is no need to worry about me. I have my own methods. Fairy Qingge, do not waste time. The matters you must accomplish are difficult, and you must raise your cultivation as quickly as possible. Therefore, accept the talisman soon and go cultivate."

Shen Qingge did not know whether Ye Chen's words were true or false. Yet his feelings had already been displayed without the slightest concealment before everyone. If she refused, Ye Chen's actions would only draw greater criticism.

Therefore, she made her decision. She must reach the peak of the Ancestral Immortal realm at the fastest possible speed. If half the time still remained afterward, she could return the talisman to Ye Chen and let him enter the Ancestral Spirit Blessed Land.

Although the Blessed Land could admit only one person at a time, once she no longer needed it, she could naturally change places with him. She had to seize every moment.

At that thought, she hesitated no longer. She grasped the divine talisman and refined it in an instant. At the same time, she offered Ye Chen a solemn curtsy and spoke softly. "I will never disappoint Fellow Daoist Ye. I will raise my cultivation to the perfection of the Ancestral Immortal realm as quickly as possible."

Ye Chen smiled and nodded without the slightest reluctance. "Go now and cultivate well."

His own breakthroughs came far too quickly. Most of the female cultivators around him simply could not keep up. Under such circumstances, the sooner Shen Qingge broke through, the better.

For now, she was only entering the Ancestral Spirit Blessed Land; three years without the ability to give gifts was something he could easily wait out. He could take the opportunity to spend more time in the Immortal Realm and keep his Immortal Realm fiancée and the others company.

Shen Qingge smiled faintly. Ye Chen appeared calm, yet how could he truly be willing to part with her? Still, he forced himself to put on this appearance. It was enough to show that although he loved her, he did not wish to hinder her.

This was the purest and most flawless love. She could not abandon her hatred—neither the bone that had been dug from her body nor the enmity of her mother's murder. Yet if she managed to survive after taking her revenge, she would stay peacefully at Ye Chen's side for the rest of her life and bear him children.

She possessed an Immortal Spiritual Root, and so did Ye Chen. She also had the Longevity Bone, while Ye Chen most likely possessed an extraordinary bloodline divine ability. If the two of them joined together and luck was with them, the child they produced ought to possess talent rare throughout the world.

Thinking this, Shen Qingge gazed deeply at Ye Chen one last time. "Fellow Daoist Ye, the moment I emerge from seclusion, I will come find you." In the next instant, the divine talisman activated. Her full and graceful figure was enveloped by the teleportation radiance and vanished from the spot.

Everyone present understood that Shen Qingge had entered the Ancestral Spirit Blessed Land. The disciples who had come to compete all wore expressions of deep envy. This single departure would save her more than a hundred years compared to them. Most importantly, the right of use had been forcibly gifted to her by Ye Chen. How could they not envy her to the extreme?

The gazes directed at Ye Chen also grew especially complicated. Some sighed over his formidable strength; others mocked him for his foolishness.

Shen Qingge had already dared to bombard him earlier. Once she became an Ancestral Immortal while Ye Chen remained stagnating at the Great Luo Golden Immortal realm, she would only look down on him. Allowing a female cultivator to surpass him meant waiting to be discarded. They all intended to wait three years and then watch Ye Chen make a fool of himself.

On Shen Qinghuan's side, watching Shen Qingge truly enter the Ancestral Spirit Blessed Land where her cultivation would advance a thousand miles a day made her grind her teeth with hatred.

She simply could not bear to see that white-eyed wolf Shen Qingge fare well. Yet matters had already reached this point; further words were useless. In any case she possessed the Longevity Bone. Even if Shen Qingge's cultivation caught up to hers, she would still be unable to rival her radiance.

Moreover, she was already at the peak of the Ancestral Immortal realm, and her flesh and blood had advanced to the Lord level. She needed only a single supreme treasure to promote her flesh and blood to the king level.

The family was already making arrangements for her. Once she advanced to the king level, she would break through directly to the Seventh Heaven Origin Immortal realm. Relying on the Ancestral Spirit Secret Realm, Shen Qingge would never catch up to her.

Drawing a deep breath, Shen Qinghuan spoke with a face full of cold laughter. "Ye Chen, you are so obsessed with a white-eyed wolf. When the day comes that you are no longer useful, there will be a time for you to regret it."

Her attitude toward Ye Chen was exceedingly complicated. She regretted the momentary lapse that had caused her to miss this simp, yet she also hated him for his stupidity and the repeated humiliations he had inflicted upon her. His present behavior was already beyond salvation.

Unless one day Shen Qingge thoroughly ruined him, Ye Chen would never awaken. And by the time he did awaken, he would most likely have already been drained dry by her. Why should she pick up the trash Shen Qingge had discarded?

Ye Chen was strong, yet the War God Academy never lacked prodigies. When the time came, she would certainly seek out a youthful supreme and find an opportunity to suppress Ye Chen and Shen Qingge openly and honorably, letting them know that their performance amounted to nothing more than this.

Having finished speaking, Shen Qinghuan turned coldly and left without sparing either of them another glance.

On Hai Yunxue's side, her expression was especially bitter. Ye Chen treated the one he deeply loved so well. Unfortunately, she was unworthy of him and did not even possess the strength to help him.

At that thought, she turned away in loneliness and quietly departed. Hai Bodong, still sighing over how thoroughly Ye Chen could simp, noticed his sister leaving and hurriedly chased after her. The spectators also gradually dispersed.

At the center of the crowd, Ye Chen paid no attention to anything around him. Only a smile remained upon his face.

Chapter 1368: Kunlun Divine Stone!

A brilliant smile appeared on Ye Chen's face, leaving the remaining spectators stunned. He had just given away the quota, yet he still looked so happy? That was far too much simping. Judging by what they had seen of Shen Qingge's actions, Ye Chen was certain to take a hard fall in the future. They naturally could not be bothered to say anything and, on the contrary, were happy to watch it happen. After all, who would not enjoy seeing a prodigy fall?

What none of them knew was that the system prompt finally sounded in Ye Chen's mind.

"Congratulations, Host. Gift successful."

"Gift: Three-year right of use over the Ancestral Spirit Blessed Land."

"Eight hundred and eighty thousand times feedback in progress…"

"Detected that the gift given by the Host to the recipient…"

"Triggered maximum critical feedback…"

"Triggered critical hit feedback…"

"The recipient achieved an unprecedented experience because of the Host's gift…"

"Triggered special easter egg reward bonus…"

Seeing this, Ye Chen's smile grew even brighter. Ever since he learned that the system still possessed easter eggs capable of triggering special rewards, he had looked forward to them with particular anticipation.

The triggering conditions were clearly extremely difficult, however. The previous time it had only activated after he publicly slapped Shen Qinghuan's face and left Shen Qingge extremely satisfied. Triggering it again afterward would certainly be even harder.

Otherwise, he would not have managed to trigger it only once in all these years. This time Ye Chen had undoubtedly performed so wholeheartedly, precisely for the sake of the special reward. Effort had indeed brought results. Shen Qingge's several sharp rises and falls in emotion had truly triggered the special feedback. Ye Chen continued reading with considerable expectation.

"Feedback: One of the fragmented divine stones of Kunlun Divine Mountain."

Ye Chen raised an eyebrow. Kunlun Divine Mountain? What was that? In his previous life on Earth, there had been quite a few mythological legends about Kunlun. He immediately continued reading.

"Kunlun Divine Mountain: the foremost blessed land of the Primordial Great World…"

"The Kunlun Blessed Land is a supreme cultivation paradise. Cultivating within it reduces the difficulty for immortals to comprehend the three thousand Great Daos by a hundredfold."

"The foremost female immortal of the Primordial Great World, Western Empress, discovered this secret realm, attained the Dao and became an Immortal King, and later used it to achieve the Quasi-Emperor realm."

"Later, Kunlun Divine Mountain was shattered in a great war."

"The Kunlun Blessed Land was thereby destroyed."

"Holding this fragment of Kunlun Divine Mountain allows one to enter a shard of the Kunlun Blessed Land."

"Cultivating within the blessed land shard greatly increases a cultivator's speed of refining Ancestral Immortal laws, raising it a thousandfold…"

Reading the description, Ye Chen immediately raised an eyebrow. It was not only because of the function of this fragment of Kunlun Divine Mountain. It was also because of the name that appeared in the introduction.

Western Empress? His own master was also Western Empress, and she was likewise the foremost female immortal of both the lower realms and the Immortal Realm.

Ye Chen had always believed it was mere coincidence that she merely happened to share the same name as the mythological figure. Yet now it turned out there truly was a Western Empress within the Primordial World, and she was even a Quasi-Emperor?

To be honest, he had never even heard of that realm. Even such an existence had failed to protect her own blessed land. With the Kunlun Blessed Land destroyed, that Primordial Western Empress had most likely met a grim fate as well. Then did the Western Empress of the Primordial Great World have any connection to his own master, Western Empress?

Ye Chen also recalled that during his time in the Immortal Realm, there had been a Heaven Immortal King who was said to wield four swords. He further recalled his eldest senior brother's lineage, the Moral Immortal Venerable, and the technique of transforming one into three avatars. Was there any connection?

If there was a connection, that would be even more absurd. After all, if the Western Empress was a Quasi-Emperor and the Primordial Great World was as he knew it to be, then Heaven and Moral must have been the legendary Immortal Emperors.

Within the Primordial Great World, there were several existences of Heaven's and Moral's level. Such a terrifying Primordial Great World had actually been destroyed? That was far too outrageous.

Ye Chen suddenly felt that the strength of the Nine Heavens and Ten Earths was even more terrifying than he had imagined. Things like the Second Realm through the Nineteenth Realm probably could not represent the true power of the Nine Heavens and Ten Earths. The most terrifying things of the Nine Heavens and Ten Earths most likely all resided in the First Realm.

At that thought, Ye Chen felt a certain pressure. His desire to grow stronger became even more urgent.

The introduction of the Kunlun Divine Mountain fragment was not yet finished. Ye Chen continued reading and then raised an eyebrow.

"Kunlun possesses spirit and will automatically revive."

"Every ten thousand years, the various shattered blessed lands of Kunlun will automatically connect, restoring the blessed land to its former glory…"

"All Kunlun Divine Stones will activate automatically…"

"Holders of the divine stones who are below the Immortal King realm may enter…"

"Killing a divine stone holder allows one to obtain the opponent's divine stone."

"The complete blessed land will last for a hundred years. If within that century no one gathers every divine stone of Kunlun Divine Mountain, the complete blessed land will split apart once more until the next ten-thousand-year cycle…"

Ye Chen's eyes lit up at once. This divine stone actually possessed such a function? Merely obtaining a single fragment already increased the speed of condensing Ancestral Immortal laws a thousandfold. Even the Ancestral Spirit Blessed Land, which claimed a hundredfold speed, in reality only approached that figure and never truly reached it. From this one could see how precious the Kunlun Divine Stone he had received as feedback truly was.

Only now did Ye Chen understand that the most valuable aspect of Kunlun Divine Mountain was this benefit that arrived once every ten thousand years. Through the once-in-ten-thousand-years fusion of the complete blessed land, one could obtain the chance to gather every divine stone. And only those below the Immortal King realm could enter? It suited Ye Chen's needs perfectly.

Immortal Kings were existences who had mastered an entire Great Dao. In a certain sense, they could no longer be called mere immortals; they were living beings of another level entirely, their might unfathomable.

No matter how powerful Ye Chen became, he still held little confidence against them. Below the Immortal King realm, however, he possessed confidence. Moreover, he would continue growing stronger afterward. He was already absurdly powerful now. Once he broke through to the Ancestral Immortal realm and then the Origin Immortal realm, he would practically take flight.

Under such circumstances, so long as he could enter the complete blessed land that opened once every ten thousand years, he was absolutely certain he could sweep aside everyone and obtain every divine stone.

Gathering every divine stone would be equivalent to reassembling the Kunlun Blessed Land. The Kunlun Blessed Land could accelerate one's achievement of the Immortal King realm and deepen comprehension of the Great Dao. If he could gift away the Kunlun Blessed Land, what kind of feedback would that bring?

In short, thinking of this, Ye Chen felt even more that the effort he had expended today had not been wasted in the slightest. It was a genuine windfall. His only worry was whether the last opening of the Kunlun Blessed Land had been too recent.

After all, his breakthroughs came far too quickly. He was somewhat concerned that he might already have become an Immortal King before the complete blessed land opened again. That would be a tremendous loss.

Regrettably, the divine stone gave no indication of the next opening time, leaving Ye Chen slightly disappointed. Since he could not figure it out, he did not dwell on the matter any further. He decided to return to his cave abode first, activate the divine stone, and break through to the Ancestral Immortal realm within the shattered Kunlun Blessed Land before considering anything else.

The Nine Heavens and Ten Earths were even more terrifying than he had imagined. This world ran far deeper than he had thought. Even Quasi-Emperors could die, and Immortal Emperors might be beaten into reincarnation. It was truly a little frightening. The speed at which he raised his cultivation had to become even faster.