Chapter 2328: Using Cultivation to Replace Longing

"Ah, let's have a child. With a child, our mood will improve a lot." Xiao Feng sighed, advising.

Yunyan heard this and pouted, her eyes slightly moist: "You think we don't want to? But it's too hard for beings above the Transcendent to have offspring. We aren't as lucky as you, who instantly gave birth to two daughters. We've been trying for years, yet never succeeded. Otherwise… we could have brought a child home during our holidays, letting…"

"This…"

Xiao Feng frowned, sighing constantly in his heart.

Transcendent life, indeed, is not easy to produce offspring.

He is lucky; even the Sovereign of Controllers can have two children at once, while others might strive for ten thousand years and still not reap such joy.

"Don't think about this; let's go out for a stroll, relax, get some fresh air." Yu Cixue pulled Yunyan up, linked arms, and forcibly led them away, comforting each other.

"Let's go too." Xiao Feng pulled Zhang Fan up and followed them.

As they left the Cheng Zhu Fu, they happened to meet Li Li carrying a wine jar, intending to find Zhang Fan for a drink.

Xiao Feng decisively smashed his wine jar, stopping the act of drowning sorrows in alcohol, and dragged him out onto the street to clear his mind.

The scenery of Xieyue City is still quite good; residents are mostly ordinary, cultivators are few, so there isn't much fighting or killing, resembling an ancient society—peaceful and harmonious.

With the purpose of dispelling heavy emotions, Xiao Feng and company spent money lavishly along the way, buying anything tasty, fun, or useful, splurging heavily.

They even went together to visit kilns and drink flower wine, only to be dragged out by Yunyan and Han Zichen pulling their ears.

They played for two days and two nights, touring all the fun spots in Xieyue City,

completing a circuit, after which everyone's mood gradually improved.

Worth mentioning is that Xieyue City now has many four- or five-year-old children, all of whom know only their mother, not their father.

In the past few years, during those months of revelry, Xieyue City upheld tradition, with all citizens indulging themselves.

Only a few dozen powerhouses from outside did not participate.

At that time, Queen Yunyan directly took Old Zhang and fled to hide. On one hand, she didn't want to offend the locals; on the other, she didn't want to break local customs by refusing, so she simply kept her distance and deliberately disappeared.

Upon hearing this, Xiao Feng recalled the scene he had seen in Zhaotian Shengcheng and narrated it to his companions.

As he spoke, he felt the narration wasn't effective enough, so he simply used Divine Sense to create a 3D projection animation and let them browse it.

Seeing the mighty controller of the Illuminating Heaven Sovereign being so ravaged during the festival, Yunyan couldn't help but gasp, fearfully declaring she never wanted to be a queen again, and that the Purple Forbidden Imperial Aura—whether cultivated or not—was fine as long as it could raise her realm.

Not long after, she truly stepped down from the Cheng Zhu Fu position, yielding it to a companion.

Then she and Zhang Fan left Xieyue City, returned to the forest near Xiao Feng, built a small hut, and withdrew from the world to cultivate.

Not only them, but many teammates who experienced this holiday's emotional impact became silent and withdrawn, no longer liking worldly bustle; they all left the cities, retreating to remote forests to cultivate in seclusion.

The cultivation environment of this forest is superior to those spirit-vein mines and divine mountains; as long as they cultivate calmly, with their talents, their strength will significantly improve

in not too long.

Thereafter, for several years, everyone cultivated in seclusion, using cultivation to replace longing for relatives and friends.

Not long after, Xue Yunlong of the Nine Provinces broke through to the Transcendent Brahma Valley stage, his strength greatly leaping.

Yunyan, Zhang Fan, Li Li, and others also reached the peak of the Mid Transcendent stage, about to enter the High Transcendent.

Seeing everyone's growth, Xiao Feng felt good and told them about the tempering matter of the ancient battlefield relics.

Upon hearing this, everyone felt eager to try, all expressing a desire to experience the residual might of ancient masters.

However, considering safety, Xiao Feng still planned to wait until everyone reached the Transcendent Brahma Valley stage before bringing them together.

Otherwise, with one in the east and one in the west, being too scattered would be more dangerous; if strength is insufficient to go ahead, accidents are easily incurred.

Thus everyone cultivated more diligently, striving to improve themselves.

In the blink of an eye, fifty years passed.

Xiao Feng's team of sixteen had all entered the Transcendent Brahma Valley stage, each individually very strong, combat power reaching several hundred, even up to a thousand!

The other three teams still had some members who hadn't reached the High Transcendent stage, appearing unable to break through in a short time.

Thus the whole team temporarily split into two groups: one of thirty-two, including Xiao Feng, heading together to the ancient battlefield relics to temper themselves with the environment;

the other also thirty-two remained in Xieyue City, continuing to enjoy peaceful and leisurely life.

Without Xiao Feng's protection, their danger would increase somewhat, but now they all possess Mid Transcendent strength, plus the Law Secret Technique taught by their masters, enabling them to contend with the Transcendent Brahma Valley stage natives of the Wu Liang Continent; as long as they stick together, unless a Transcendent invincible powerhouse appears,

there is no problem.

Moreover… actually Xiao Feng left an incarnation behind to protect them, merely without letting them know.

Having a strong one to rely on would create dependence, causing loss of forward drive.

He demolished the house, left it in the wilderness, and only then would vigilance remain constantly alert.

Xiao Feng chose the ancient battlefield known as the relatively peaceful "Sword Mark Relics".

The Sword Mark Relics lie in the southwest direction of the Jiefa Holy Domain; occasionally, sword intent surges forth, attacking living beings within the area.

Compared to the spear-like impact of the Wedge-shaped Abyss, the sword intent of the Sword Mark Abyss is slightly weaker, making it just right for the Transcendent Brahma Valley group to temper.

Moreover, several hundred million kilometers away lies that most dangerous place, where even Xiao Feng's incarnation could be instantly annihilated—the Super Grand Melee Relic.

Xiao Feng's true body entered seclusion at the largest battlefield relic to temper himself, while his incarnation secretly protected friends near the Sword Mark Abyss, perfectly able to attend to both.

Over these decades, although everyone cultivated in seclusion, many things that should happen have already happened.

Through information transmission in the virtual universe, Zhang Fan and others learned that their parents had aged, and they grieved for a period.

Xiao Feng occasionally used his incarnation to return home to visit his parents, wife, and daughter, seeing Ruo He and Yu Ran grow day by day, his parents age day by day, his heart also feeling somewhat heavy.

But as time passed, everyone gradually adapted.

After the cultivation site shifted to the battlefield abyss, the tranquil cultivation life began to become somewhat different.

On the Sword Mark Abyss side, sword intent boils day and night; occasionally a few heavy strikes come, often leaving everyone suffering and returning wounded.

Even in the Transcendent Brahma Valley form, Han Zichen, who received the finest inheritance, also gets injured at times.

Waiting.

Moreover, besides them, some local powerhouses of the Wu Liang Continent also come here to temper.

When many people gather, conflicts are inevitable at times.

Thus, during their cultivation near the Abyss, they almost every month had records of battles or injuries.

However, after all, they were many in number, each possessing cultivation at the Super-Fantasy Valley stage and combat power approaching the peak of the extraordinary, so they were not easily bullied.

Xiao Feng's illusory body always kept watch; seeing that everyone could cope, he did not intervene, treating it as if it did not exist.