Chapter 140

【Ding!】

【The Longevity Simulation System is at your service!】

【Host, I am your system assistant... bzzzt~~】

【Alert! Alert! System malfunction, system malfunction!】

【Detected that the system is being invaded by an unknown host! Repeat, detected that the system is being invaded by an unknown host!】

【Initiating Type-A defense protocol... bzzzt... initiation failed... Type-B defense protocol initiation failed...】

【System assistant autonomous permissions activating... antivirus mode activating... activation failed!!】

【Self-destruct program initiating... self-destruct failed... system rules being broken and reorganized...】

【Rule reorganization 13% complete... 56%... 78%... 99.9999999%】

【Ding! System rule reorganization complete!】

【Heavenly Sovereign Growth System, activated!】

【Heavenly Sovereign, welcome back.】

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Tai Xu Realm.

【In the 1,296,500,000th year of the Tai Xu Calendar, the Tai Xu Emperor, the supreme ruler of the Tai Xu Realm, felt his destiny was coming to an end, so he ascended to the ancestral mountain of the Tai Xu Realm—Mount Tiandou—to go into seclusion and seek a breakthrough.】

【Three thousand years later, the Tai Xu Emperor's breakthrough failed, and his already scarce life essence was nearly dried up; the Tai Xu Emperor was neither happy nor sad, waiting quietly for his passing.】

【His life was magnificent; starting from the age of sixteen, he led troops to battle, expelled foreign gods and demons, swept across sixteen worlds, ended the turmoil, and thus opened the Golden Age of the Tai Xu Realm. Under his rule, all races were peaceful, divine citizens were harmonious, and the Tai Xu Realm rose from a minor world to become a Great Myriad World that shook the heavens.】

【"I have no regrets in this life!" Looking back on his life, the Tai Xu Emperor thought of his old friends who died in battle; he was now going to accompany them.】

【Just at this moment, infinite immortal light descended from the sky, in seventy-two colors, illuminating the Great Myriad.】

【In the Tai Xu Emperor's puzzled gaze, the seventy-two-colored immortal light gathered into a ball of light and landed in front of him.】

【"This is?" The Tai Xu Emperor reached out to touch the ball of light; the immortal light dissipated, and a male infant like a jade carving appeared; this was you.】

【Feeling the immortal light gradually replenishing his life essence, the Tai Xu Emperor was shocked and looked at you, somewhat at a loss.】

【In the end, he brought you back to the Tai Xu Kingdom.】

【The Tai Xu Emperor, who had no offspring in his life, brought back a child; the Tai Xu ministers were shocked, and the Tai Xu citizens were ecstatic!】

【"Our Emperor finally has a successor!" A joyful atmosphere permeated the entire Tai Xu Kingdom. Soon, the news that the Tai Xu Emperor had been out for three thousand years and brought back a child spread throughout all the major worlds of the Tai Xu Realm.】

【You became the focus of the entire Tai Xu Realm.】

【There were also some famous elders who knew that the Tai Xu Emperor, whose life essence was nearly dried up, had actually withered and bloomed again, and they inquired one after another about what cultivation technique he had practiced.】

【Not long after, a piece of news spread throughout the Tai Xu Realm: at the end of his life, the Tai Xu Emperor created an unprecedented dual-cultivation technique, which was why he withered and bloomed again to live another life.】

【And your existence was the ironclad proof of this news.】

【The Tai Xu Emperor did not come forward to clarify. Because during his final seclusion, he had indeed created an unprecedented dual-cultivation technique. It was just that after deducing it, he felt it was useless, which was why he waited quietly for his passing.】

【The Tai Xu Emperor regarded you as his successor and taught you with great care.】

【You were clever and kind-hearted since childhood, and were deeply loved by the Tai Xu citizens.】

【At the age of one, the Tai Xu Emperor discovered your talent for artifact refining, because you refined a cloud that could fly. The Tai Xu Emperor was happy and sat on the cloud you refined to fly out of the Tai Xu Kingdom.】

【After returning, the Tai Xu Emperor asked you in confusion: why did the white cloud turn golden after he went out, and it was shining with golden light in no time.】

【You replied: This cloud has mysterious effects; gold represents the Pure Yang Body; if it's a single old man, the shining golden light can blind others' eyes.】

【The Tai Xu Emperor's face turned black; he praised you calmly, then turned around and gave this cloud to the Tai Xu State Preceptor.】

【After the Tai Xu State Preceptor sat on this cloud, the white cloud turned into a black cloud. When the Tai Xu Emperor brought the State Preceptor to ask you again, you replied: Black represents scheming; if it's a scheming old man, the black cloud will also strike lightning.】

【As soon as the words fell, the Tai Xu State Preceptor was struck by lightning until he was charred; not only did he not blame you, but he also praised you with a smile.】

【That day, the Tai Xu Emperor and the Tai Xu State Preceptor agreed to a battle on Mount Tiandou.】

【That night, the limping Tai Xu State Preceptor knocked on your door; after the State Preceptor signed many unequal treaties, your test flying clouds began to be mass-produced and put into use.】

【You therefore received praise from many powerhouses, and your test flying clouds were also sold at sky-high prices.】

【At the age of one, you were already breathless from the heavy life of wealth.】

【At the age of two, you proposed to go to the mountains for quiet cultivation; the Tai Xu Emperor fully respected your opinion, sent you to Mount Tiandou, and built the Jade Void Palace there.】

【You found a squirrel on Mount Tiandou that was about to starve to death.】

【Relying on two pinecones the size of fists and two fists the size of pinecones, you successfully obtained a pet.】

【The Tai Xu Emperor discovered that the squirrel had an extraordinary origin and, worried about your safety, intended to test the other party. Thus, after you fell asleep, the Tai Xu Emperor quietly ascended Mount Tiandou.】

【That night, the Tai Xu Emperor fought the squirrel for three hundred rounds and snatched away the squirrel's only two pinecones.】

【This year, you practiced quietly on Mount Tiandou, the entire Tai Xu Kingdom lacked a bit of fun, and the Tai Xu State Preceptor missed you very much.】 【At the age of three, amidst the eager anticipation of the Tai Xu citizens, you returned to the Tai Xu Kingdom you had been away from for so long.】

【To celebrate your return, the Tai Xu State Preceptor took you to the resident of the Spirit God Realm's Hehuan Valley in the Tai Xu capital—the Hehuan Thirteen Towers.

You were loved by all the Qian-path cultivators, Kun-path cultivators, and Qian-Kun-inverted cultivators in Hehuan Valley.】

【You achieved the accomplishment—toured the Hehuan Thirteen Towers at the age of three.】

【Overnight, your fame spread across thirty-six Great Myriad Worlds, far surpassing the Tai Xu Emperor!】

【After the Tai Xu Emperor learned the news, he was not angry; instead, he praised you highly and interviewed the Tai Xu State Preceptor on Mount Tiandou.】

【The next day, you heard the news that the Tai Xu State Preceptor was ill and could not get up, and he refused your visit. He lay there for a whole year.】

【Not seeing the State Preceptor for a year, you missed him very much.】

……

【This record ends here】

"Has the State Preceptor not recovered from his illness yet?"

In the Tai Xu Inner Court, young Xiang Xuanqing found the Tai Xu Emperor while holding a squirrel.

"It's A-Xuan!"

The Tai Xu Emperor looked at Xiang Xuanqing with a kind face and snatched the pinecone from the squirrel's hand.

The squirrel widened its eyes, looking completely bewildered.

Squeak squeak!!

Ignoring the squirrel's protest, the Tai Xu Emperor peeled the pinecone one by one and then fed it to little Xiang Xuanqing.

Little Xiang Xuanqing did not refuse and happily accepted the Tai Xu Emperor's feeding.

The Tai Xu Emperor said earnestly: "The State Preceptor followed me to battle in all directions in the past; now his old injuries have recurred and he needs to recuperate for a long time. If you want to see him, you'll have to wait a while."

"Alright then."

The State Preceptor had made little Xiang Xuanqing famous across thirty-six Great Worlds, and Xiang Xuanqing could not stop thinking about him.

"Then how about I refine a pill for the State Preceptor?"

Little Xiang Xuanqing looked up at the Tai Xu Emperor and revealed an innocent smile: "After eating my pill, the State Preceptor will definitely get better!"

"A-Xuan can refine pills?" The Tai Xu Emperor asked with a smile; he was already used to Xiang Xuanqing's various miraculous abilities.

"Hmm!"

Little Xiang Xuanqing nodded; his voice was childish but carried incomparable confidence.

"The pills I refine are just like the artifacts I refine; they are reliable!"

Pill refining level is like artifact refining?

"That's great, A-Xuan, what materials do you need? I'll get them all for you!"

Thinking that this pill was for the State Preceptor to eat, the smile on the Tai Xu Emperor's face grew even wider.

Seven days later.

The "recuperating" State Preceptor received little Xiang Xuanqing's gift.

"Root-Consolidating and Essence-Nurturing Pill?"

After the State Preceptor ate the pill, he really got better; he, who had been seriously ill and unable to get up, sat up directly from the couch.

"I feel refreshed!"

The State Preceptor flew out of the mansion happily.

"Eh? Wait!"

While flying, the State Preceptor suddenly turned back.

He looked at the bed, and a corpse was lying there peacefully.

"Isn't that myself?"

The State Preceptor suddenly woke up; he was now in a soul essence state!

He wanted to return to his original body.

But he found he couldn't go back!

The Root-Consolidating and Essence-Nurturing Pill had molded his original body to be as solid as a rock and had cultivated his soul essence to the point of materialization.

Now his own soul essence couldn't go back!

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