Chapter 439: Great Grandfather God · Chen Nan

Reduce to achieve emptiness?

Hermes shook his head, rejecting this path.

Although this path is a highly orthodox method of cultivation through addition and subtraction.

First, add—push to the extreme of existence.

At the extreme of existence, grasp absolute omniscience and omnipotence.

Then subtract—distribute all acquired postnatal gains to others, letting them bear these now burdensome things, dissolving all karmic ties.

Ultimately, beneath this utmost nothingness, grasp the truth of all-being and absolute non-being.

This is a very orthodox cultivation path, but it is unsuitable for him, and he would never attempt it.

He is pure beauty; he pursues all that is beautiful, so he can selflessly guide and protect all he recognizes—but he is also the most selfish.

He is selfish, greedy, wanting to forever hold all this beauty within his arms, eternally, endlessly, never letting go!

This is him—Hermes!

To forge the most selfless path is the purest beauty, yet also the utmost selfishness—he will never give away the most precious treasures in his hands to anyone!

Luo Qianqiu: “Huh? What do Itachi mean by that?”

Luo Qianqiu was baffled—could that old dragon really not stand to see the phoenixes thrive?

Index: “Sister Qianqiu, Itachi’re too close to see clearly.”

Index: “The Candle Dragon refused precisely because the Primordial Phoenix clan rejected him.”

Index: “That old dragon must have secretly contacted the phoenixes before turning down Sister Qianqiu.”

Why did he refuse?

Index didn’t bother speculating—it was probably just one of a few reasons: lack of ambition? Nostalgia for an old master? Thinking Sister Qianqiu’s leg wasn’t thick enough?

In short, all possibilities exist. Index was noncommittal; she thought her sister Qianqiu was just being bored.

She’s already reached the level of a supreme elder—indestructible through countless calamities, eternal in time. She has all the time in the world to nurture. Why bother chasing after those foreign phoenixes with all sorts of weird ideas?

Luo Qianqiu: “...Alright, I was being foolish.”

Luo Qianqiu: “I’ll just focus on properly arranging and cultivating my little Zhend Zhou and the others.”

Luo Qianqiu: “It’s all my fault—I’ve progressed too fast lately and gotten a little cocky. Let those Primordial Phoenixes go to hell...”

Little Index made perfect sense!

She has power, resources, and influence now—she can take her time. Why on earth go after those phoenixes whose minds are already set and who can’t be tamed?

Don’t wait until Itachi’ve fattened them up, only for the returning phoenix elders to lure them away...

Now, Luo Qianqiu snapped back to reality—good thing, as the group’s owner, she didn’t have to worry about resources.

But after recruiting a whole bunch of phoenixes, how much energy would she have left to cultivate her own little shrine maiden?

Hermes: “The Primordial Phoenix clan, though they’ve never produced a Pan Gu-level cultivator, are indeed a top-tier clan with formidable strength. It’s perfectly normal they don’t wish to follow Itachi—a cultivator whose origin is unknown, and who may not even be a true phoenix.”

Hermes: “Still, failing to seize this opportunity is a tremendous loss.”

During this time, when Hermes was backing up Mei and the others, he glanced at Luo Qianqiu.

This fellow countrywoman’s power was truly astonishing—she was now extremely close to the Great Divine Powers; crossing that threshold at any moment wouldn’t be surprising.

Flozer: “@Hermes, I’m almost ready. Once I’ve arranged things for my disciples, I’ll set off with Little Ailu and Little Beichangtan.”

Flozer: “At that time, I’ll need your help.”

Hermes: “No problem. I’ll help Itachi seize partial sovereignty over the Gourmet Cells.”

Hermes: “Full sovereignty over the entire Gourmet Universe is out of reach for now—but just a single planetary system? Easy.”

It’s not that Hermes couldn’t seize full sovereignty over the Gourmet Cells of the entire Gourmet Universe. On the contrary—if he wished, he could, in a single thought, hold the entire universe in his palm like a marble.

But it’s unnecessary.

Sovereignty over the Gourmet Cells is the foundation of the Gourmet Universe. Seizing and stripping it entirely would cause massive problems!

Chen Nan: “Amazing—gathering countless legendary culinary gods in one grand ceremony. Even I’m tempted.”

Chen Nan: “If not for worrying about my little girls, I’d definitely go take a look.”

To say he wasn’t intrigued would be false—he truly longed to witness how dazzling the spectacle would be when legendary culinary gods gathered together.

He had no doubt this ceremony would give birth to unimaginable miracles. Just imagining it made Chen Nan’s expression soften with longing.

Who could refuse such a thing?

Chen Nan suspected even Hermes, this elder, couldn’t refuse.

Aozaki Mikan: “I get the feeling Chen Nan has a bit of a daughter complex.”

Aozaki Mikan: “Ever since he got eight million [daughters], Hakki Chen has fully embraced the role of a doting father.”

Could Hakki Chen’s love really be infinite?

Eight million little girls—and he dotes on each one like a daughter? That’s hard to believe, no matter how Itachi look at it.

After all, every person’s love is finite. Give more to one, and another gets less.

To make an exception, unless...

Chen Nan: “Humans have limits, so...”

Luo Qianqiu: “So Itachi stopped being human?”

Seamless JoJo reference—Luo Qianqiu was curious about her fellow countryman’s current state.

In truth, she too found it hard to imagine—could Hakki Chen’s love truly be infinite? Could he give sufficient love to every black-haired little girl?

Chen Nan: “What kind of nonsense is that?!!”

Chen Nan nearly choked.

He only wanted to give each black-haired little girl a warm home—what’s wrong with that?

He raised all these lovely children as his own daughters—what’s wrong with that?

Chen Nan: “I’ve simply become the [Great Grandfather God] to all the children!”

In the Box World, Zeus once swore before human history: he would become the [Father] to any child who had lost theirs, generously granting them a portion of his near-two-digit-level spiritual status...

Even though this act caused the Olympian king’s spiritual status to plummet endlessly, nearly casting him into oblivion.

Yet precisely because of this, when these children grew up, Zeus became the undisputed [Great Grandfather God].

And now...

Chen Nan, keenly realizing his human love was finite and insufficient to give all the children enough affection, decisively followed Box World’s Zeus—becoming the shared [Great Grandfather God] of all the black-haired little girls!