[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"origin-ancestor-the-times-have-changed":3,"chapter-ancestor-the-times-have-changed-ancestor-the-times-have-changed-chapter-29":6},{"origin":4,"title":5},"chinese","Ancestor, the Times Have Changed",{"chapter":7,"nextChapterSlug":19,"prevChapterSlug":20,"totalChapters":21,"novelImage":22},{"id":8,"novel_id":9,"title":10,"slug":11,"index":12,"content":13,"wordcount":14,"created_at":15,"updated_at":15,"volume":16,"translator":17,"content_hash":18},2299351,4498,"Chapter 29: Ways to Motivate Oneself to Cultivate","ancestor-the-times-have-changed-chapter-29",29,"\u003Cp>Sister?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Is that incomprehensible powerhouse this person’s senior sister?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Young Master, what should we do?” A nearby subordinate asked at an inopportune moment.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>How the hell should I know? The Young Master’s mindset was crumbling.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A tiny town like Xuanjian City—don’t pull this crap, okay? Normally, someone with a Return-to-Space elder as a father should’ve hit his ceiling already, right?! “Are you… my junior uncle?” Chi Jiuyu said uncertainly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“If you’re my senior sister’s disciple, then yes, I’m your junior uncle.” Xu Xing glanced at the two across from her: “Shall I wait for you? But you’d better resolve this quickly.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He really is my junior uncle!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It seems the commotion I caused was too big—it even drew my junior uncle here.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Don’t worry, Junior Uncle! Just two scraps—I’ll handle them fast.” With that, Chi Jiuyu turned back to face the two: “Hurry up!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Young Master, how should we fight?” The subordinate gathered his magic power and asked in a low voice.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Fight your ass!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Thud! The Young Master knelt down with startling decisiveness; Chi Jiuyu was momentarily stunned, but her vigilance didn’t ease—she’d heard of strange demonic arts where bowing could kill a person.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“I surrender. Take me to the Discipline Hall.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Ah? So it wasn’t some demonic art after all.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Seeing their Young Master kneel, the subordinate knelt too—and honestly, he was quite loyal.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“What should we do, Junior Uncle?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“They’re your captives. You decide.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Then just cripple them and send them to the Discipline Hall for interrogation?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Hearing he’d be crippled, the Young Master panicked.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Don’t! Besides helping that old devil sell some beast blood for healing, I haven’t done anything harmful!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“If you haven’t done anything harmful, why hide in this hellhole—and why wear sunglasses?” Chi Jiuyu pointed her sword at them. “Speak! What’s your goal? Are you planning to massacre the city to forge demonic arts?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I massacre your ass!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Xuanjian City may be small, but it’s got a few Soul Transformation cultivators. What the hell am I supposed to use—a Nascent Soul—to massacre a city? And what’s wrong with wearing sunglasses?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“I came here just to forge a sword. Because of my father’s connections, I was assigned here…”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>To save his life and preserve his cultivation, the Young Master revealed everything without hesitation, summarizing what he knew in the briefest terms.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>His father was a Return-to-Space demonic cultivator, one of the elite who participated in the artificial soul cultivation project—not some poverty-stricken Return-to-Space brute who risked massacring cities just to forge a ten-thousand-soul banner.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>His reason for coming to Xuanjian City was to forge a demonic sword using human resentment.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>People like the exploited staff at Xuan Yue Tower, or students forced into endless tutoring classes—all excellent sources of resentment.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This artificial soul cultivation base occasionally produced high-quality resentment as well.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Who still kills people these days? Inefficient and likely to draw attention.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But before the sword was finished, the ancient cultivator’s awakening happened. The old demons sensed trouble and fled with their gear. He couldn’t bear to abandon the nearly-finished sword, so he decided to stay a while longer.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>That stay turned into a problem.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The wounded Dao-Union demonic elder took interest in the formation here that concealed heavenly patterns and spiritual signatures, and came knocking.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And then… everything became what it is now.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Thinking about it makes me cry—I’m just so damn unlucky.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After hearing it all, Chi Jiuyu was disappointed. So they were just two unlucky nobodies.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Go to the Discipline Hall yourselves. Remember to mention my name.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Even a mosquito’s leg is meat.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>To become the sect master of the Sword Sect, you need not only matching cultivation levels but also tangible achievements.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Let’s go, Junior Uncle!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Wait!” The subordinate suddenly shouted.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Huh? Chi Jiuyu turned back in confusion; the Young Master felt his heart tremble—what the hell is this idiot yelling for?!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“You haven’t told us your name!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>…Silence for a moment. “I’m Chi Jiuyu.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This disciple of my senior sister is truly interesting. “Since everything’s settled, let’s go.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>With a faint word, both figures vanished instantly. The equipment room fell utterly silent, leaving only the Young Master and his subordinate.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Just as the Young Master sighed in relief—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Tap! Tap! Sudden footsteps made his heart nearly stop—a towering figure walked in.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Young Master? Big Brother? What are you doing here?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It was another subordinate.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Phew~ “Clean up. Let’s turn ourselves in at the Discipline Hall.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Huh??? The second subordinate looked utterly baffled—what just happened? Why suddenly turn themselves in?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>…………\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Xuanjian City Third Middle School, spectator stands.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>With the crystal card in hand, Xu Xing had no reason to go to anyone’s office—he simply brought Chi Jiuyu to the stands.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Junior Uncle, where are we?” Chi Jiuyu looked around, spotting the arenas in the courtyard. “Hey, isn’t that the Dragon-Elephant Heavens Sect’s ‘Cease War’ arena?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Have you fought on one before?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Of course! These things are fun. Last time my master took me to their sect to crash their event, I even won one back.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“That’s not crashing an event—that’s inter-sect exchange.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Ah, it’s all the same.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Chi Jiuyu watched the courtyard for a while. Nine of the twelve arenas were now active, each blazing with combat.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Only Zhang Yunlu still had no challenger; her arena flag bore a “6,” proving she’d won six matches.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“That one in the middle—was she the one you guided?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Junior Uncle is on the same level as my master. Why would he casually come to watch such a combat test?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Clearly, someone he guided was here.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Everyone else’s skill was pathetic—even worse than scraps. But the one in the middle had no challengers—clearly not on the same level.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Correct. I did give her a small gift.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At that moment, one of the arenas decided a winner.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The arena still mocked both fighters in its usual sarcastic tone. The defending fighter’s face turned red, but unlike Du Qian at the start, he didn’t jump off.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Let it be embarrassing—the ranking matters more.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But the arena wasn’t done with him.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>【Hah】\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A scornful, mocking laugh echoed across the venue. The defending fighter finally cracked and jumped off the arena.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Tsk! Terrible mindset. The evaluation was perfectly fair.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Jiuyu.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Yes, Junior Uncle?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Do many people in the sect want to fight you?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Not just the sect—many from other sects want to fight me too!” Chi Jiuyu said proudly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Since emerging from seclusion, this was the first time Xu Xing had truly been speechless.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“There are advantages to this,” she explained earnestly. “Look, Junior Uncle—if I don’t want people to fight me, I have to cultivate harder. Isn’t that a way to motivate myself?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She’s got a lot of twisted logic.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Xu Xing smiled silently.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>No wonder she’s my senior sister’s disciple.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Above the school, high in the clouds, Zhenjun Zihuan silently gazed toward the direction where demonic energy rose.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He still hesitated—whether or not to go there.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Please collect, please follow!! (End of chapter)\u003C\u002Fp>",1160,"2026-06-20T06:44:12.591Z",1,"Qwen3-Next 80B","ab3ffd89cf2826728b58a7f55cd44975e9db197aff740d8a84aa90b328ae9f7b","ancestor-the-times-have-changed-chapter-30","ancestor-the-times-have-changed-chapter-28",648,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fancestor-the-times-have-changed-cover.jpg"]