[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"origin-just-stop-using-your-divine-powers":3,"chapter-just-stop-using-your-divine-powers-just-stop-using-your-divine-powers-chapter-52":6},{"origin":4,"title":5},"chinese","Just Stop Using Your Divine Powers!",{"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},2275910,4450,"Chapter 52: Chapter Forty-Five 【Marriage Contract】","just-stop-using-your-divine-powers-chapter-52",52,"\u003Cp>Another world?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Alright, after reading so many web novels, Chen Yan had no trouble understanding this kind of setting involving different worlds.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“You come from another world—a world called the Yu Realm. What’s it like there? Is it just like heaven or immortal realms, filled with cultivators, demons, monsters, and all that?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Chen Yan asked curiously.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“...” Gu Qingyi looked at Chen Yan and shook her head. “How the Yu Realm is isn’t something I need to explain to you now. What I’m about to tell you concerns another vital matter between your Chen family and my Gu family.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Chen Yan said cautiously, “You keep saying ‘Chen family’—I’m not even sure the Chen family you mean has any real connection to me.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“When Old Grandma was alive, she told me I was found and adopted.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“You are naturally a Chen. Otherwise, do you think the Venerable would casually take in just anyone?” Gu Qingyi sneered softly. “You may have been born in this world, but you are unquestionably a Chen. And the Chens originate from the Yu Realm.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Chen Yan sighed and said nothing in rebuttal.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Deep down, he’d already suspected as much.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Old Grandma had once told him stories about his origins—how his biological mother was a white fox and so on.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After obtaining the manual and beginning cultivation, he’d used the Heaven’s Eye Qi-Viewing Technique to examine himself.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>His entire being—from fortune to destiny—was pure, legitimate bloodline of the two-legged terror ape.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>There wasn’t a trace of demonic cultivation lineage!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The white fox tale was merely Old Grandma teasing him—just like countless other times she’d fooled him since childhood.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>That his mother was a white fox, and his father some unknown creature—Chen Yan had always known these were just jokes.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“There is a barrier between the Yu Realm and your world.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Originally, the Dao’s laws forbade any connection between two distinct worlds. But due to complex reasons, in ancient times, the powerful of the Yu Realm discovered fissures and opened gateways linking your world to theirs. Thanks to these gateways, the two worlds became connected.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Bound by the Dao’s laws, the two realms cannot travel freely—the gateways are guarded by cosmic rules. Even a Celestial Sovereign risks death attempting passage.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“But ancient masters established arrays that allow passage between the realms only at specific times and locations.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Chen Yan nodded. “I get it. Like smuggling—there’s no legal path, but with special methods, you can sneak through at certain moments. That’s the idea, right?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Gu Qingyi nodded. “You’ve got it.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Chen Yan thought a moment. “Wait—that doesn’t make sense... When Old Grandma passed away, the two figures in black and white clearly said they were coming to escort her back to assume her post?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Isn’t that supposed to mean the underworld?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“I always thought our world had ghosts, gods, demons, monsters—places like the underworld and such...”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“No. Your world originally had no cultivation, no demons or monsters,” Gu Qingyi shook her head. “Only after the gateways opened did some beings from the Yu Realm, fleeing misfortune or lured by comfort, use various methods to sneak through into your world.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“For example, the old turtle I’ve taken in—his ancestors were demonic cultivators from the Yu Realm who slipped through the gateway and left descendants here.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“As for the underworld you mentioned—the Yu Realm does have a realm where the ghost clan resides, ruled by several Venerables.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“The black and white figures you spoke of—I know them. They’re just field agents of the ghost clan, beings from our Yu Realm.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“So our world has no underworld?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Of course not. I told you—the ghost clan belongs to our Yu Realm. Your so-called underworld is also in the Yu Realm, just not called that.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Then what did they mean when they said Old Grandma was going back to assume her post?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“I don’t know. Perhaps the Elder had been hiding and resting in your world for a while. When the time came, she naturally returned to the Yu Realm to assume her post. The rank of a Venerable is too important to leave idle—there are countless duties to attend to.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Understood!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Our world has no demons or monsters...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>No underworld, no black-and-white elders...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>All of it belongs to another world.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Like... aliens?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Hmm. So ghosts and demons are just aliens who smuggled in from another world?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>No ghosts—just aliens.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Chen Yan glanced at Gu Qingyi and mentally muttered: Your Yu Realm—could it be named “Broadcasting”?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“So you came from the Yu Realm and smuggled into our world—why?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“I’m looking for someone,” Gu Qingyi took a deep breath. “Do you know the name Chen Jue?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Chen Jue? Which jue? Jue as in ‘decision’? Jue as in ‘secret’? Or Jue as in ‘absolute’?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Gu Qingyi slowly extended her toe and traced a character in the dirt: 【Jue】.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Chen Yan’s expression shifted slightly. His gaze flickered, his lips pressed together, and he fell silent.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Gu Qingyi watched him for a moment before Chen Yan finally spoke under her stare.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Chen Jue... Alright, I know that name.” Chen Yan sighed. The last flicker of hope in his eyes finally vanished.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>·\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Chen Jue—Chen Yan did know that name.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>His own name, Chen Yan, bore the Chen surname because of Chen Jue.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Otherwise, why would Old Grandma have given him the surname Chen?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She herself didn’t bear the Chen surname—her ID card said Huang.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Since childhood, Chen Yan had worn a yellow jade pendant around his neck, finely engraved with the characters 【Chen Jue】.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Of course, Old Grandma had hung it on him, saying it was found with him when she picked him up.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As a child, Chen Yan didn’t understand—he just wore it because she told him to. Until one day, while playing with village kids, he fell and the jade cracked into pieces.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Little Chen Yan had rushed home crying, clutching the shards, expecting a beating.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But Old Grandma merely glanced at them, then tossed the fragments into the stove and burned them.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Broken is broken. It’s just an inanimate object.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“When the person is gone, you don’t need to cling to a dead thing as a memory.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Her words sounded remarkably detached.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At that moment, Chen Yan realized: Chen Jue must be... his biological father.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The man was already gone.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>·\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Old Grandma had raised Chen Yan for twenty years, spinning many versions of stories about his biological mother—white foxes, beautiful women, and so on.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But Chen Jue—since the jade pendant had shattered and burned, Old Grandma had never mentioned the name again.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>·\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“If I’m not mistaken, the Chen Jue you mentioned... is my father. And according to Old Grandma’s stories, he’s already dead.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Chen Yan sighed again. “All I know is the name. I know nothing else about him. When Old Grandma was alive, she never uttered a single word about him—rarely even mentioned the name.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Gu Qingyi nodded. “As I suspected. When I went to the village where the Venerable had been in seclusion and examined your family’s belongings, I saw your name, Chen Yan, and immediately guessed you were Chen Jue’s descendant.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She paused, then spoke slowly. “About twenty-five years ago, Chen Jue was said to have committed a grave crime and fled the Yu Realm. Countless others searched for him but found no trace. Some suspected he’d come to your world. But the gateways open only once every many years, so no one has ever found his trail.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Now that the gateway has reopened, I finally had the chance...”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“You say my father, this Chen Jue, committed a grave crime? He must’ve been someone very special,” Chen Yan lifted his eyelids to look at Gu Qingyi. “According to you, Old Grandma was so powerful—thirty-six Venerables...”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Even counting Celestial and Earthly Sovereigns, in your world, she’d rank among the top fifty.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Such a powerhouse would take in a child—surely because of my father?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“If he’s connected to someone like Old Grandma, my father Chen Jue must’ve been no ordinary man.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Gu Qingyi’s eyelid twitched, her tone turning strange. “You’re right. Chen Jue was indeed famous in our world.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Everyone knew: Chen family’s Chen Jue—his crimes were monstrous, his character vile. People would’ve loved to crush his bones and whip his flesh!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Chen Yan froze.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Wait, what?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>What cosmic law did my father break?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Did he crash the Peach Banquet? Smash the Southern Heavenly Gate? Sleep with a Celestial Sovereign’s daughter?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“What exactly did he do...”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“I don’t know. He fled the Yu Realm many years ago. And none of this concerns you,” Gu Qingyi shook her head. “Though the laws of the Yu Realm are strict, they never punish descendants for a father’s crimes. There’s no rule that children pay for their father’s sins. Don’t worry—I’m not here to arrest you.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Chen Yan exhaled in relief—good, she wasn’t here to drag him back to take his father’s punishment.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“When Chen Jue fled the Yu Realm, he likely met some woman in your world and fathered you. As for why the Venerable raised you—her motives are beyond my speculation.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Gu Qingyi’s tone grew solemn. “But I came from the Yu Realm, endured countless hardships, and finally found you—a Chen. All my suffering wasn’t in vain.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Hearing this, Chen Yan felt considerably lighter. “If you’re not here to drag me back to take his punishment, then why are you here today?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“I didn’t have to find you specifically. My mission was to find Chen Jue—if I could, that would be best.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“If Chen Jue couldn’t be found, then any Chen family member—any descendant of Chen Jue—would do.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The girl slowly extended one finger and gently touched her forehead.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The moment her slender, pale fingertip made contact, a golden glow ignited at her brow.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Then, a stream of light spread outward, projecting between the two of them.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In the air floated a translucent golden shape, about a foot long.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>On its square surface, golden characters flickered and flowed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It was unmistakably... a contract?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Gu Qingyi’s voice was complex as she looked into Chen Yan’s eyes:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Chen Yan, this is a marriage contract—my marriage contract with your Chen family!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Chen Yan: “...”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>·\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>【Please vote for me!!】\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>·\u003C\u002Fp>",1694,"2026-06-20T00:04:18.515Z",1,"Qwen3-Next 80B","e4fa2ac6ebc6ae1e3f68ca175a7173779e9284bc643f446685ae6a4520026c3f","just-stop-using-your-divine-powers-chapter-53","just-stop-using-your-divine-powers-chapter-51",174,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fjust-stop-using-your-divine-powers-cover.jpg"]