[Baiyun County.]
[Outside the county seat was a well-maintained cemetery, with a ring of tall snow-maple trees planted around its perimeter. Their emerald leaves and snow-white petals made this place's scenery truly one of a kind.]
[The Chen Family Cemetery.]
[This was the exclusive graveyard for your Chen family, where your loved ones were buried.]
[There weren't many tombstones here. You didn't recognize most of the people, but there was one grave in the center that you did recognize.]
[Chen Yun.]
[Chen Six had lived quite comfortably in the human world for these past decades.]
[He had married eight wives and fathered dozens of children, turning the Chen family into a thriving, populous clan. In Baiyun County, he was practically a local emperor.]
[The Chen family motto was "strive for excellence, prosper through labor." Not a single person in the entire clan was lazy. No matter how wealthy the family was, everyone used their own two hands to create wealth anew.]
[The descendants of Chen Six and Chen Yun had, through sheer effort, developed Baiyun County into Baiyun City.]
[You arrived at Third Sister's grave and lit a stick of incense.]
["Did she suffer when she passed?"]
["She passed last year, at ninety years of age. She fell ill, probably cancer. I used spells to make sure she felt no pain."]
["Just one year ago... Why didn't you refine some pills to extend her life? That way I could have seen her one more time."]
["I did refine them, but the effects weren't very noticeable. She was an ordinary mortal. She couldn't absorb most of the medicinal efficacy."]
[You believed that Chen Six must have gone all out to save Chen Yun.]
[After all, he had lived together with Third Sister for far longer than you ever had.]
[Though emotions shouldn't be measured, the bond between Chen Six and Chen Yun was indeed deeper than yours.]
[And so, what started as paying respects at a grave turned into you comforting Chen Six.]
["Alright, stop crying. Look forward. Everyone goes through birth, aging, sickness, and death. We have to learn to accept it..."]
["She was my own sister! The person who treated me best in this whole world!]
Those wives of mine, some were after my name, some after my wealth, and some after my looks! They talk about true love, but who the hell knows what they're scheming in their hearts! It's not like I have 'Eavesdrop on Heartstrings'!
Only my sister truly loved me!!
My sister!!
[Ah!! Sister!!"]
[Chen Six wailed in your mind, making your head ache. You had no choice but to let him out so he could cry his fill here.]
["You stay in the human world."]
["Oh? I thought you were going to take me with you. I feel like I'm not much use staying here."]
["You stay here. Black Hand apparently doesn't dare make a move, so the human world can be preserved. You can also remind those heading to the Path to Immortality to take the Death Path 999 times, so the Path to Immortality keeps funneling talent to me."]
[Walking the Death Path 999 times on the Path to Immortality would get you to Fortune Star.]
[From Fortune Star, one could take a special transport to Lingwei Star.]
[If someone wanted to train, they could go to Blazing Star, and use Blazing Star as a springboard to reach other stars teeming with experts.]
[This entire route was under your influence. The Human Race was absolutely safe.]
[You had paved the road ahead for the human world's Ascenders.]
[As long as they grew strong, you, the human Guardians', guardian of the Dao, the human world's Chen Martial God, only needed to raise your arm and call out, and they would certainly support you.]
[So although Chen Six seemed to be living a simple, everyday life in the human world, his role was actually quite important.]
[Afterward, you went to visit Da Chun.]
["Yi Brother? You're the real Yi Brother!"]
[Da Chun instantly recognized that you were the original body.]
[But just as he was about to embrace you, he realized you were only a transparent shadow.]
[You smiled bitterly.]
["Da Chun, the one weeping at the grave over there is also the real Yi Brother."]
["Da Chun knows. He treats me and the entire Chen family very well. And the family rules are extremely strict. He absolutely won't allow any scum to appear in the family. Catch one, and it's extermination of nine generations of the clan."]
["R-right..."]
[The Chen family of today was already very unfamiliar to you.]
[The family residences were too numerous to count, and the family's businesses were spread across the Five Regions.]
[The earliest place you lived, the Chen family compound where six unlucky Winged Clan members had served as guards, no longer housed anyone. It had become a family tourist attraction. Elders of the clan often brought the younger generation here to check in and conduct on-site education, reflecting on past hardships and savoring present comforts.]
["Da Chun, I don't have much time. I still have things to do. You stay here. Be safe."]
["Yi Brother, don't worry. All these years, nobody has tried to harm me."]
["That's because the one weeping at the grave has kept you by his side the whole time. Black Hand doesn't dare."]
[You bid farewell to Da Chun, left Baiyun City, and prepared to head to the Divine Arms Pavilion in Divine Arms County.]
[You didn't use your Guardian authority to teleport directly, nor did you fly at full speed. Instead, you swept across the continent at an ordinary pace.]
[You released your Divine Sense, scanning every inch of land.]
[You didn't conceal your aura. You let this powerful force radiate in all directions.]
[You wondered if this might draw out Black Hand and reveal some trace of his presence.]
[Black Hand wasn't drawn out, but Hua Wuyan was.]
["I was wondering how such a powerful aura appeared in the human world again. So it's Chen Martial God. What brings you to patrol the human world today?"]
[Hua Wuyan thought you were Chen Six.]
[You hadn't told anyone about this trip to the Real Realm, so Hua Wuyan didn't know you had projected back from the Real Realm.]
["I just came out to relax, take in the scenery."]
[A trace of suspicion appeared on Hua Wuyan's face. She sensed something seemed off about you.]
[You changed the subject.]
["Senior Hua, so many people from the human world have already gone to the Real Realm. Are you really not considering it? Going to the Real Realm to take a look? Who knows, you might push past your limits and advance further, and extend your lifespan."]
[Hua Wuyan smiled and shook her head.]
["You're trying to persuade me again. I'm different from my Master. I have no interest in immortality. Life is complete because of death. Calmly accepting death is also a kind of Dao Heart."]
[The Great Demon had an obsession with becoming an immortal and attaining longevity. He would never stop until he achieved his goal. Even after death, he used crooked, heretical means to forcibly keep himself existing.]
[Hua Wuyan, by contrast, completely and calmly accepted the arrival of death.]
[This master and disciple pair were complete polar opposites when it came to how they viewed life and death.]
[In fact, even if Hua Wuyan went to the Real Realm, extending her lifespan would still be very difficult.]
[The lifespan of a peak Qi Transformation cultivator (Martial God), whether in the Real Realm or the Void Realm, was one thousand years for the Human Race.]
[To continue raising the theoretical lifespan cap, one could only rely on comprehending related Divine Abilities.]
[But comprehending Divine Abilities required reaching the Extreme Terrain Realm.]
[In between, one had to cross a Core Formation realm.]
[Even if Hua Wuyan went to the Real Realm, she probably wouldn't have enough time to cultivate to the Extreme Terrain Realm.]
[So her decision was actually quite wise.]
[You wandered around the human world for a while but didn't detect anything unusual.]
[You had no choice but to give up, and prepared to go to the Divine Arms Pavilion to complete the Star Apes' mission.]
[As you passed over the Free and Unfettered Holy Land, you discovered that the Free and Unfettered God was giving a sermon in the Holy Land.]
["The Free and Unfettered God is also a Martial God. Why doesn't he go to the Real Realm either? Don't tell me he still doesn't know the Path to Immortality has appeared?"]
[The Free and Unfettered God often stayed inside the Time Room to prolong his lifespan, so his knowledge of much of the outside world's news lagged behind.]
[Thinking of how he had died in battle in the fifth simulation while resisting the Dragon-Man tribe, he counted as a man of sentiment and righteousness. You decided to go give him a friendly reminder.]

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