Chapter 313: The Great Jing Immortal Dynasty (1)

Inside the Reverse Fate Space, Su Chen gave a self-mocking smile.

"Seventeen lifetimes of accumulation… and the path to immortality lies right before me…"

Yet he had chosen to surrender that path to someone else.

Su Chen even wondered if he had been possessed. He activated the characteristics left behind by the True Immortal within the Immortal Pearl and the Heaven's Mandate Pearl, allowing them to annihilate each other. Perhaps this was the best possible ending.

Su Chen stared at the Reverse Fate Scripture placed before him. He had not opened it in a long time. He simply gazed at it blankly.

A long, long time passed. Only then did he finally place one hand on the Reverse Fate Scripture.

"It's only one opportunity to become an immortal! I still have a hundred lifetimes, a thousand lifetimes… countless chances to start over. Can I really not achieve immortality?"

Su Chen opened the Reverse Fate Scripture.

[Seventeenth Lifetime: Before you awakened your memories, you obtained the True Immortal's legacy treasure, the Heaven's Mandate Pearl. News of it leaked, leading to the extermination of the Jiang Clan. When you awakened your memories in time and faced mortal danger, you chose to merge with the Heaven's Mandate Pearl and become its spirit to survive.

After an unknown stretch of time, you finally woke up. The one who awakened you was an ordinary young man. Seeing him carry the blood feud of his clan's destruction and burn with boundless hatred, and seeing him gain the Heaven's Mandate Pearl's recognition, you decided to give him a chance at revenge. Along the way, you would also study the pearl's wondrous uses.

The young man's name was Dongfang Yunxing. His aptitude was poor. In your eyes, he would likely die one day on the path of cultivation, but you did not care.

What surprised you was that his willpower far exceeded your expectations. No matter how difficult or grueling the training, he persisted. You decided to teach him some techniques so he would not die so easily.

Through Dongfang Yunxing, you gradually understood the uses and activation conditions of the Heaven's Mandate Pearl. This filled you with regret. You were already dead, nothing more than a wisp of soul residing within the pearl.

You watched Dongfang Yunxing rise step by step. You seemed to see your former self in him.

Moved by this realization, you decided to help him further and impart all the knowledge you had accumulated in your lifetime.

You wanted to see how far this young man—who resembled your past self—could go.

Looking at his clear and earnest expression, you simply smiled faintly.

You knew… things were never as simple as the young man imagined.

You were perhaps not a noble person.

The you from the past had already fallen on the road to realizing your ideals.

You watched Dongfang Yunxing gradually lose his youth. He matured from a naive boy into a man. He married, had children, survived the tenth-layer Emperor Tribulation, and stepped onto the path of transcendence.

When master and disciple reunited, a faint warmth stirred in your heart.

Soon, you crushed that feeling.

While in slumber, you discovered a secret concerning the Heaven's Mandate Pearl.

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You chose not to tell Dongfang Yunxing about it. Instead, you hid the pearl's secrets related to the True Immortal. In your mind, a plan to achieve immortality took root. Though the chances of success were slim, you wanted to seize that opportunity.

You orchestrated the death of the only other being who knew of the Heaven's Mandate Pearl's existence.

To prevent the mastermind behind your death in the previous life from discovering you were still alive, you chose to remain dormant within the Heaven's Mandate Pearl. You would not emerge again and would quietly wait for the right moment.

You experienced many things.

Those experiences had long since left you numb.

The only one who knew you still existed was Dongfang Yunxing.

Sometimes, as you watched him, you wondered whether everything was merely an illusion.

You never appeared.

Time… changes a person.

You watched Dongfang Yunxing live through one ten-million-year span after another. The once ignorant youth had become a stranger.

You were pleased. Only then could you scheme without any reservations.

After the great tribulation, you used Dongfang Yunxing as bait to lure out the mastermind who had caused your death in the previous life. Hidden in the shadows, you severely wounded him, stripping away all his means of escape. You succeeded. Watching Great Yang Emperor Lord and Dongfang Yunxing gravely injure each other, you achieved your goal.

You stopped suppressing the True Immortal aura within the Heaven's Mandate Pearl and allowed it to erase Dongfang Yunxing's traces.

You had believed that after endless years, you had become someone who would stop at nothing to achieve immortality—even abandoning your closest kin if necessary.

You had believed that after countless years, Dongfang Yunxing had become like you, his original pure heart long since worn away.

This was a contest for the Dao. Even the closest master and disciple would turn against each other when facing the Great Dao.

You realized you were wrong.

You had taught a "foolish" disciple.

He had never changed from beginning to end… You were the one who had changed.

In the end, you still acted. You made a very foolish move. A foolish master raising a foolish disciple—that was only right.

You died.

In this life, you began with your clan destroyed and yourself on the verge of death. Using a broken body, you controlled events from behind the scenes, scheming everything. The opportunity for immortality was within reach, yet you ultimately chose to shatter your own Dao heart, abandon your path, and help your disciple achieve immortality in a glorious, resounding fashion.

Evaluation: Two Star (Red)

Reward: Two Million Reverse Fate Points]

Red two-star. Two million Reverse Fate Points.

Su Chen should have felt happy.

Yet at this moment, he could not bring himself to feel any joy.

[Talent: 0 (+)]

[Comprehension: 0 (+)]

[Background: 0 (+)]

[Dao Heart: 200,000 ]

If he had become an immortal, he might have walked the path of severing emotions and desires, turning into a heartless immortal who would stop at nothing for the sake of the Great Dao. But in the end, he had rejected that version of himself. He shattered his own Dao heart and perished together with the True Immortal within the Heaven's Mandate Pearl.

"Whatever," Su Chen sighed.

He was not ready to give up on the path of cultivation.

He simply needed to walk a different road.

Talent: 100,000

Comprehension: 1,500,000

Background: 400,000

Su Chen had not left behind a single Reverse Fate Point.

"In this life… I shouldn't end up dead right at the start, right?" he thought.

No one could stay unlucky forever.

Su Chen opened the Reverse Fate Scripture.

Eighteenth Lifetime.

Commencing.

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The Great Jing Heavenly Dynasty was a colossal entity that had once ruled over three thousand provinces. Even in its decline, it remained one of the supreme overlords.

Inside the Heavenly Palace, Su Chen observed the people who had appeared around him. They were all dressed in luxurious attire and emanated profound auras. He was being held in the arms of a graceful and noble consort.

"Imperial Consort… His Majesty is currently waging war in the Barbarian Wolf Heavenly Domain and cannot return to see the Ninety-Ninth Prince…"

Su Chen noticed a trace of loneliness on the consort's face.

"His Majesty is the ruler of the Great Jing Heavenly Dynasty. How could he return to the court over such a trivial matter and delay the war between the Great Jing Dynasty and the Barbarian Wolf Heavenly Domain? That would cause the blood of billions upon billions of the dynasty's citizens to flow in vain."

Only then did Su Chen realize something. He was no longer inside the Void Cosmic Sea. Instead, he had arrived in a land called the Great Jing Heavenly Dynasty.

...

Time passed in a blur.

Su Chen was now three years old, yet he had never once met his father in this life. He did not care. In this lifetime, his name was Chen Chen.

However, his body had developed a small problem. His comprehension was too powerful—one million five hundred thousand points. It had undergone a qualitative change.

This caused his state of mind to plummet, creating complications. His mind could not bear so much at once. In the end, he had no choice but to seal away a large portion of the memories in his sea of consciousness.