Since Chen Jiuyang exposed his Nascent Soul stage cultivation.
His relationships with the several women saw some progress, though the women themselves remained like fire and water when they met.
However, during this year's Spring Festival, the women took turns bringing gifts to visit Chen Jiuyang's parents in Qingzhu Village.
Chen Jianmin and Zhang Xiuzhen were dumbfounded: "How many daughters-in-law does our son actually have?"
The elderly couple had also entered retirement. They had more than enough money, occasionally traveled, and mostly stayed home to cultivate their own land and grow fruits and vegetables.
Chen Jiuyang was happy to see this scene, reflecting that after years of persistence, it had paid off.
Afterward, Chen Jiuyang also provided Yao Zixuan with protective techniques for bow, spear, saber, and sword.
The winds and clouds shifted, and eras changed, all unfolding before Chen Jiuyang's eyes.
Another wave of great storms was arriving.
After the Spring Festival.
On the sixteenth day of the first lunar month, the twenty-third day of the second month.
All people of Dragon Country saw a giant dragon in the sky emit a mournful cry before shattering and disappearing.
The Yan Emperor had ultimately decided to shatter the Human King system, bringing the Guardian system to the forefront and raising the banner of rebellion.
Chen Jiuyang had also advised against it, but the Yan Emperor, along with Wu Mu and Fu Zi, still made this decision, and he could not stop them.
This was perhaps a predetermined trend.
After the Human King system was shattered and the Guardian system rose, demon races began to probe and appear from the Immortal Extermination Cliff, and the Chongming Sea, under the guise of demonic cultivation, began to instigate a war between righteous and demonic factions, or what was called a pseudo-holy war.
Meanwhile, Chen Jiuyang remained seated in the Ping An Bookstore in the old district of Fengcheng.
When he received this news, his heart was calm and undisturbed.
"What do these grand trends have to do with me..."
He had quietly broken through to the middle stage of Void Returning, his cultivation advancing in an orderly fashion.
"However, the Golden Age has truly arrived, and all sorts of prodigies are beginning to take the stage..."
Currently, the most renowned prodigy in Feng Province was Zhu Zhaoming. In just two to three years, he had risen like a meteor, from an ordinary person to the Venerable realm, taking just over two years, with continuous fortuitous encounters.
This was the Martial Dao Venerable realm...
What Chen Jiuyang found interesting was that Zhu Zhaoming had joined the Immortal Alliance, ranking third in the Forbidden City, second only to Xia Daosheng and Jia Fu Ben...
The reason was that his most beloved elder sister, Zhu Yanyan, had died at the hands of the demonic path.
"Perhaps, it is fate playing tricks on people..."
The Chongming Sea, by pushing the shattered Human King system and seeking revival, had inadvertently pushed Zhu Zhaoming, the son of destiny in this Golden Age, towards the Immortal Alliance.
Dragon Country was in turmoil. Prodigies from the Lesser Immortal Realm descended, and within Dragon Country, prodigies from the Immortal Dao, Soldier Dao, Martial Dao, and Demonic Dao factions were all stepping onto the grand stage of this Golden Age.
They fought and schemed against each other, desperately striving to reach the higher scenery.
"However, in a little while, I too will have to make a move..."
The Yan Emperor had brought the Guardians to the forefront, the once glorious Human Kings were gradually fading, and other countries on Earth began to frequently send powerful individuals to probe the borders.
However, before Chen Jiuyang made his move, he was waiting for someone at the Ping An Bookstore.
This person was the Lotus Birth Mother.
On this day, Chen Jiuyang was reading by the entrance, Lin Yuexian was cultivating upstairs, Ji Lengyue was handling cases, and the Lotus Birth Mother, leaning on her cane, arrived at the Ping An Bookstore.
Chen Jiuyang sensed the Lotus Birth Mother's aura, closed his book, stretched, and looked at her, smiling faintly, "You are a rare visitor."
The Lotus Birth Mother looked at Chen Jiuyang, her expression ferocious and terrifying, and said in a deep voice, "If you want me to submit to you, I want to see sincerity!"
Chen Jiuyang's expression was calm, "It seems that even after devouring a portion of the Yan Emperor's destiny, your eight lifetimes of seeking immortality still cannot advance further."
"Whatever sincerity you desire, please ask, and I will answer without reservation."
The Lotus Birth Mother asked in a deep voice, "What is the end of my path, and where does hope lie?"
Chen Jiuyang said calmly, "The end of the path of eight lifetimes of seeking immortality and refining myriad daos is the Quasi-Emperor, and your end is the Martial Dao Great Sage."
"Even if you live for ten thousand more years, it will still be so."
"Hope is very simple..."
"Merge your eight lifetimes of bodies here, then switch to cultivating the Immortal Dao, like me, and cultivate peacefully in this Golden Age. In time, you will naturally see hope of becoming an immortal and an ancestor."
The Lotus Birth Mother's eyes were filled with deep suspicion: "Why are you so certain?"
At this moment, Chen Jiuyang revealed a hint of indifference, "If it weren't for this, I would have already emerged and stirred up trouble. Currently, it's just that the time is not yet right."
How difficult would it be to kill Qing Jue, Qin Shujian, and others!
He had been manipulated for tens of thousands of years, and no one knew of his rage.
If he did not kill them all, how could he be willing to leave the mortal realm and ascend to the celestial realm!
The Lotus Birth Mother pondered for a long time: "How can I believe you?"
Chen Jiuyang said faintly, "In a thousand years, when the Martial Dao Emperor appears, the truth will be revealed."
If the Lotus Birth Mother were not such a talent, with a talent no less than the Yan Emperor's, Chen Jiuyang would never have allowed her to live.
Killing Qing Jue, Qin Shujian, and others was a grand chess game, a scheme to break the final endgame.
As for Qi Wushuang, who descended from the celestial realm, he was probably still searching for the whereabouts of the Book of Life and Death somewhere, trying to find clues from the five great sacred lands, the Chongming Sea, and the several forbidden areas.
"In a thousand years, the Martial Dao Emperor will appear..." The Lotus Birth Mother savored these words several times: "Very well, a thousand years is a time I can afford to wait..."
Looking at the Lotus Birth Mother's life, it was also a tragedy. She had been deceived her entire life, thinking she could exploit loopholes, and with her martial path, truly achieve the status of a Martial Dao Mortal Immortal. It was a deluded fantasy.
The end of the martial path was the Emperor, who would dominate an era.
Where there is sacrifice, there is gain.
The former Chen Jiuyang had also thought for a long time whether to walk the martial path again, to seek the position of Martial Dao Emperor...
But after much deliberation, even if he achieved the position of Emperor and merged with the Heavenly Heart Imprint, he could not completely resolve his enemies.
Besides the mortal realm, there were also the spiritual realm and the celestial realm, and the Martial Dao Emperor was invincible only in this world's universe.
If he couldn't win, he could still escape...
The ferocious and terrifying eyes of the Lotus Birth Mother seemed to have lost a glimmer of light. She turned and disappeared, presumably returning to the Liuxian Clan to merge her eight lifetimes of bodies.
Smart people don't need Chen Jiuyang to say too much.
After the Lotus Birth Mother left, Chen Jiuyang went to the Six Doors headquarters to see Xi Butui: "Lend me your helicopter, I need to go to the Southern Territory to see Zhou Fangzun."
Xi Butui frowned, looking at Chen Jiuyang with a mixture of surprise and uncertainty: "What are you going to do?"
"Within five days, Zhou Fangzun will be in mortal danger. I'm going to help him make a glorious exit."
Xi Butui was even more shocked, staring intently at Chen Jiuyang: "What else do you know?"
There were powerful individuals probing from the coast, coming from the Land of the Rising Sun, heading to the Southern Territory. He had only received this news ten minutes ago, so how did Chen Jiuyang know?
"You've lived long enough, you'll naturally know."
Chen Jiuyang also thought Zhou Fangzun was a genius. In the Era of Dharma Decline, he had glimpsed the secret of the Book of Life and Death and found that the Yao family were descendants of the Three Emperors and Five Emperors. However, he had too little information and had gone down the wrong path.