Chapter 1188: Brother Chen, Let's Pull Off This Job Together

Attending a feast, he ended up injuring himself.

Chen Guanlou returned home in a daze and lay flat!

Sister-in-law Chunxiang came over to take a look and boiled a bowl of hangover soup, placing it on the table for him.

"Remember to drink it!"

"Sister-in-law Chunxiang, when is your Dawang getting married? I must prepare a gift that suits his heart."

"In half a month. No need to prepare anything special; just having the heart is enough."

The boy who was once disliked by both people and dogs had become a big young man in the blink of an eye and was finally getting married.

Sister-in-law Chunxiang originally wanted to nag a few words, urging Chen Guanlou to hurry up and find someone to start a family. Seeing his look of not wanting to say anything, she swallowed all the words that were on the tip of her tongue.

When she was leaving, she still couldn't help but nag, "You should also consider your future!"

Chen Guanlou gave a chuckle. "I am a martial artist; my lifespan far exceeds that of ordinary people. Sister-in-law Chunxiang, no need to worry for me. I will definitely be able to see your Dawang's grandchildren get married; you definitely won't."

Sister-in-law Chunxiang was instantly furious and really wanted to pick up a broom and wave it around to show the mighty dominance of the 'head of the household'.

She endured and endured, spitting out a sentence, "Look at you! Remember to drink the hangover soup!"

Chen Guanlou sat up from the bed, looked outside the door, and was stunned for a moment, as if he were truly drunk.

He let out a breath and shouted, "If you've come, just come in. Sneaking around—if someone who didn't know the situation saw you, they'd think you came to steal something."

"It's impossible for anyone to discover me!"

Zhang Daohe walked in from outside, as arrogant as ever, not steady at all.

Chen Guanlou rolled his eyes, feeling very disgusted and also very disdainful. "Sect Master Zhang, you've graced me with your presence; I don't know what for. My little temple can't afford to host a big Buddha like you. If you have nothing to do, go back where you came from; I have no time to entertain you."

"I just arrived, and you're already chasing me away. Brother Chen, this is not the way to treat a guest."

"You're not a guest either!"

Chen Guanlou yawned and teased, "What's the matter? After ascending to Grandmaster, you found you lost your goal and direction, life became meaningless, so you're looking for some fun?"

"You're wrong! After ascending to Grandmaster, I realized how insignificant I was before, and my goals and directions were all wrong."

Chen Guanlou raised his eyebrows slightly. "I don't understand! Tell me in detail."

"This matter can only be understood, not spoken of."

Chen Guanlou laughed out loud immediately, his mockery reaching its peak. "Playing god and playing ghost! Could it be that after ascending to Grandmaster, you've become an immortal?"

"Although I haven't become an immortal, I have already touched the doorway to becoming an immortal." Zhang Daohe looked mysterious, and his face was practically screaming: Hurry up and ask me, hurry up and ask me.

Chen Guanlou actually became a bit interested.

He straightened his posture. "Tell me, what's going on? Does Grandmaster equal cultivation?"

Zhang Daohe wanted to show off. "Not at all, not at all! Speaking of this, we have to talk about the early Great Yu Dynasty. We've all seen it on the murals in the underground palace; back then, immortals descended to the world and displayed various immortal arts and various magical artifacts in front of the Great Yu Emperor.

Later, because of the changes in heaven and earth, our world lost the qualification for cultivation. That period of time, just thinking about it, was an extremely dark time. From this, it's not hard to guess why there are so few records from the early and middle Great Yu Dynasty, and the records that can be found are also vague and unclear.

Until there was the Martial Path in this world, and people could step onto the Martial Path by relying on their martial pulses, extending their lifespan—a kind of alternative 'cultivation'!"

Chen Guanlou nodded. "What exactly do you want to say?"

"I want to say, could it be that our world hasn't truly lost the qualification for cultivation? It's just that because of environmental restrictions, there are layers upon layers of difficulties."

"Oh? Why would you think so? Did you have some kind of encounter, or did you have some substantial discovery?"

"These past two years, while consolidating my cultivation, I took a trip to the Western Regions, absorbing the strengths of a hundred schools, and I seem to have vaguely touched the edge of cultivation."

"Tell me, I'll analyze it for you." Chen Guanlou was very interested.

Since he started practicing martial arts, and since he learned about the history of the Great Yu Dynasty, he had been thinking about the question of whether one could truly cultivate. Because his martial arts cultivation hadn't reached the peak, he wasn't in a hurry to find the answer.

Now that Zhang Daohe had run over on his own initiative and was talking nonsense with him, they had to have a good chat.

"Brother Chen hasn't ascended to Grandmaster yet, so you might not understand my realization. I vaguely feel that entering the Grandmaster realm is equivalent to getting the stepping stone to cultivation. It's just that I don't know which way the door to cultivation opens, or which way the road goes. What we need to do is find the road and open that tightly closed door."

"How could you have such a realization? Other Grandmasters might not even have this realization after decades. What did you see in the Western Regions?"

"I didn't see anything, but I felt it. I felt that if I reached out, I could touch the edge of cultivation. I even felt that with my current cultivation, even if I went to the cultivation world, I definitely wouldn't be at the lowest end. My cultivation is enough for me to fight against a portion of people in the cultivation world without falling behind. We can't cultivate, but our martial arts cultivation can be understood as another kind of 'cultivation'!"

"You mean to say that the Martial Path and cultivation are two different systems, and after the cultivation level comes up, they are evenly matched and can completely fight and compete with each other."

"Something like that!" Zhang Daohe's face was full of confusion; in fact, he hadn't truly figured out this problem himself and wasn't sure if his direction of thinking was correct. He just temporarily thought this direction of thinking was a breakthrough.

Chen Guanlou, however, raised a question. "According to your idea, then what is the difference between cultivating and not cultivating? Anyway, practicing the Martial Path can also achieve the results of cultivation. For example, longevity, for example, god-like killing methods."

Zhang Daohe shook his head repeatedly, his expression becoming more confused, and there was a trace of unshakeable firmness. "No, it's not like that. I think that martial arts cultivation, even if it reaches the level of Grandmaster, is only equivalent to the strength of a low-to-medium level in cultivation. If you want more powerful strength, you can only cultivate; only by cultivating!"

"From the Martial Path to cultivation, do you think it's possible?" Chen Guanlou asked back.

"Why wouldn't it be possible!"

Zhang Daohe at this moment was like a fanatical religious believer, extreme and dangerous, stubborn and self-centered.

His eyes were shining like light bulbs.

His expression was both excited and pious.

Worthy of being a cult leader, he had the air!

"Brother Chen, before opening the underground palace, how many people said it was impossible and couldn't be done? What was the result? I succeeded! In the underground palace, we obtained the opportunity.

If I'm not mistaken, your current realm is smooth and round, and all obstacles and shackles have been cleared by you. You have already reached a legendary Great Perfection realm. This is the importance of opportunity!

Why did so many people impact the Grandmaster realm and end up falling? It's because their realm cultivation wasn't round enough, and there were various hidden dangers. If there were no opportunity in the underground palace, how many detours would you and I have had to take to reach our current cultivation, and how long would we have had to wait?

Brother Chen, everything is possible! I spent more than a year in the Western Regions and felt a lot. When I determined that I vaguely touched the door to cultivation, you were the first person I thought of. If we brothers work together, we can break metal. How about it? Do you want to pull off this job with me?" ===== CHAPTER 1189 =====