[{"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-626":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},2299948,4498,"Chapter 626: Revisiting Xuanjian City","ancestor-the-times-have-changed-chapter-626",626,"\u003Cp>Judging by the time intervals between the previous two batches of mission progress reports, your batch’s report will be out no later than the day after tomorrow.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Zhao Ruohan’s eyes flickered with spiritual light.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Because of that one glance, both of them understood they were both competing…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>If that’s the case, there’s no need to hide it anymore.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After all, she had only just begun learning to integrate cultivation into daily life, and wasn’t yet skilled enough to do it as naturally as Chi Jiuyu.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Deliberately suppressing it would significantly reduce cultivation efficiency.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“There’s no point hiding it now.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It’ll all come out eventually anyway.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Of course there’s a point!” Chi Jiuyu snorted.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It’d be fine if my score wasn’t high among the third batch of Ascension Envoys.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But if my score ranks among the top of the third batch, and I reveal now that I’ve gone two full days without showing off, wouldn’t that be a huge loss?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Besides, if Xiao Zhao finds out, Xiao Ye and Xiao Xuanxuan will find out too.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Then, just maybe, just possibly, their performances might be better than mine.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And I just happened to be a bit too conspicuous during those two days.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Wouldn’t I look like a fool…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She didn’t want to be Xiao Yu the Fool again!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In short, due to a variety of complicated reasons.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Before the mission progress report comes out, she absolutely won’t reveal a single point of her Ascension score to anyone else!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Xiao Yunlu doesn’t count.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She’s my junior sister; she doesn’t fall under the category of “others.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Hmm…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Mainly because she already heard about it from Master on the day I returned, and I can’t stop her.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“What point?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“You’ll find out when the time comes.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Chi Jiuyu answered with a phrase Xu Xing had told her several times before.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Zhao Ruohan raised an eyebrow.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>You’re acting like a riddler now!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Alright, alright, let’s drop this topic.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Chi Jiuyu sat up from the sofa, picked up the sliced fruit platter from the coffee table in front of her, placed it on her lap, and tossed a piece of fruit into her mouth.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Ain’t Dog Brother coming?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Because she was curious how Dog Brother would react upon seeing Xiao Ye, she’d asked Xiao Zhao to bring him along this time.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But she was surprised when Xiao Zhao told her Dog Brother didn’t want to come…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“He’s not coming.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Zhao Ruohan paused, then sat up from her recliner.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“He says he doesn’t know how to face it yet—he needs time to think.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Alright then.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It was just an afterthought anyway; his absence won’t matter much.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The two chatted about other topics for a while longer.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Soon, after Zhao Ruohan challenged Chi Jiuyu to another match again, and Chi Jiuyu happily accepted, they ended the video call.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She placed the fruit platter back on the coffee table in front of her.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She stood up, stretched her neck, and turned to walk out.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She arrived at a custom wooden rack outside the cave dwelling.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>On the rack sat several potted plants, each with leaves and branches emitting a faint glow, some even hanging fragrant spiritual fruits.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But the most peculiar and mystical was the one placed at the very top of the rack.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Xuan Zhu fruit tree, its branches like crystal and glass, its leaves like sheep-fat jade.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Three Xuan Zhu fruits, glowing with white radiance like tiny lanterns, hung from the branches, swaying gently.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Originally, there had been only one Xuan Zhu fruit tree.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Until she met Lin Xuanxuan and Zhao Ruohan.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>One was a genius alchemist from Jishi Valley, the other, due to her innate divine ability, loved cultivating unusual spiritual plants.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>So Chi Jiuyu occasionally received spiritual plants sent by the two.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In return, she’d buy specialty items from the Sword Sect and mail them over.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Chi Jiuyu picked up the watering can beside her, poured a specially blended spiritual liquid from her storage ring into it, and began watering the Xuan Zhu fruit tree.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Watching the plump, round Xuan Zhu fruits swaying in the wind, she felt a pang of frustration.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Carefully calculating, she’d had this Xuan Zhu fruit tree for years since receiving it from the Spiritual Ancestor.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yet after all this time, having poured in countless spirit stones, the tree hadn’t grown an inch…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Sigh~\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At this rate, when would she ever achieve “Xuan Zhu fruit freedom”?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She’d originally planned to raise this Xuan Zhu tree, then use some of its fruits to feed fish.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But judging by the current situation…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She couldn’t even get enough for herself!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Thinking of this, she glanced at the nascent realm seed buried beneath the Xuan Zhu tree, radiating five-colored light.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Compared to before, the external five-colored radiance had dimmed considerably.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yet inside, it had changed greatly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Previously, the nascent realm seed had been filled with swirling, chaotic light—undifferentiated yin and yang.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Now, within it, a faint line seemed to stretch across, dividing it into two clearly distinct colors.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>One side light and ethereal, the other heavy and grounded.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Chaos first splits, clear and turbid separate, the Four Phases manifest, the Five Elements arise…” Chi Jiuyu muttered under her breath.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This was precisely the sign of the nascent realm gradually perfecting, advancing to its second stage.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At the current pace, it would take another decade or so for the realm to fully mature.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>If her cultivation base improved during that time, perhaps even faster.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“The quality of what my aunt gave me is truly exceptional.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Not all nascent realms undergo this process—only those of extremely high quality, with exceptionally complete internal laws, manifest such phenomena of world evolution during cultivation.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A decade or so…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Chi Jiuyu looked up at the horizon, seemingly sighing.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Counting the three years in the Martial Realm’s universe, she was nearly thirty years old—the top prodigy of all worlds.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She needed to act more composed and mature from now on.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Hmm…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I wonder what Xiao Yunlu is doing—maybe I should call her over to play a game later!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Meanwhile, in a city far from the Sword Sect’s main gate, on the edge of Jianzhou.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The same city where Xu Xing stopped after emerging from seclusion.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Xuanjian City.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At this moment, beside the road near the southern gate of Xuanjian City No. 3 Middle School.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Two figures walked side by side, with a third following behind.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It was Xu Xing, Bie Xuening, and Zhang Yunlu.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Master, Auntie, is it really okay for us to just go out like this?” Zhang Yunlu whispered.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>We didn’t even tell Sister.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Only bringing me along—if Sister finds out…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“She’s been busy these days,” Xu Xing said casually. “Looks like she won’t have time to come out with us.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Let’s visit your old school first,” Bie Xuening added. “The timing’s right—I’ll come back for you with your master.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Wealth without returning home is like walking in brocade under the dark.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Besides, Xiao Yunlu is now my disciple—how could I miss the chance to show off?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>If that rebellious disciple had this experience, he’d probably return every year just to show off!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“…Alright.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>If Master said so, what could she say?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Besides, her instinct told her she shouldn’t keep following Master and Auntie.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She’d just be in the way…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Cough!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Coincidentally, she’d missed last year’s school festival due to an emergency—this time, she’d treat it as a make-up visit.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After bowing respectfully, Zhang Yunlu turned and walked toward the Third Middle School of Xuanjian City.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Xu Xing and Bie Xuening also did not linger long, soon leaving the area.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>……\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>……\u003C\u002Fp>",1264,"2026-06-20T06:44:15.330Z",1,"Qwen3-Next 80B","2f8e43784879aa8fb2dd26692957bde7c4afbd86d43dce55315e3c7de41a68e6","ancestor-the-times-have-changed-chapter-627","ancestor-the-times-have-changed-chapter-625",648,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fancestor-the-times-have-changed-cover.jpg"]