"Lingyue, if love between two is true and lasting, what does it matter if they cannot be together day and night?"
Li Lingyue was understanding.
She wasn't just clinging to you; rather, there was a question she had always wanted to ask you.
"Have we met before? When I was very little."
You nodded gently, kissed her forehead one last time, and in the next second, vanished before her eyes.
Li Lingyue walked out of the cave and shouted at the sky.
"Chen Yi! When we meet again, I will definitely have grown strong enough to fight by your side!!"
Inside the Cauldron Realm.
The artifact spirit of the Mountains and Rivers Armor had arrived.
Because he was only in an embryonic form, he was completely transparent and flickered in and out of sight, as if he might disappear at any moment.
Demon Refining Pot: "Oh my!! A Great Dao Immortal Artifact! Such an aloof temperament, such exquisite patterns, such a powerful aura! This is as authentic as it gets!"
Myriad Soul Banner: "Stop kissing up, the one who came this time is a mute."
Nine Ravens Divine Bow: "A mute! A fool! A lunatic! A villain! A eunuch!"
You also entered the Cauldron Realm.
"Mountains and Rivers Armor, go soak in the Star Source."
Da Chun shifted a little in the Star Source pit to make room for the Mountains and Rivers Armor.
Qiankun Mirror complained incessantly.
"Oh my god! We're adding another person? Is this a public bathhouse? There's no more room to soak!"
Myriad Soul Banner was huffing with anger.
"Exactly! Even I, the eldest martial brother, can only drink a little soup by the edge of the pool. I haven't even had a proper soak yet! The newcomer needs to line up!"
Star Source could repair Great Dao Immortal Artifacts, so naturally, it could also repair the Myriad Soul Banner.
It was just that the Myriad Soul Banner had the alternative path of refining souls to repair itself.
Meanwhile, the self-repair process of a Great Dao Immortal Artifact was far too slow; it might not even recover a few percent by the time you died of old age.
Therefore, priority had to be given to providing Star Source to the Great Dao Immortal Artifacts.
Of course, there was no way that old rascal, the Myriad Soul Banner, would behave himself.
As long as there was a chance, he would either trick Da Chun or bully the Qiankun Mirror. In short, he always found a way to get in and have a soak.
As long as this guy didn't take things too far, you turned a blind eye to it.
Your next stop was to find your third brother-in-law, Shen Qingshan.
It was time to help him rise to power!
Returning to the Central Plains from the Southern Frontier, you flew at full speed on your modified Star Shuttle, so it didn't take long to arrive.
According to the memories from your previous simulation, you knew that the current Shen Qingshan had been promoted because you let him take the credit for the Feng Yucheng case.
He was currently serving as a General Banner Officer at the Commandery Demon Slaying Division in Baling Commandery City.
You directly entered the commandery city and covered the entire city with your divine sense.
"There are only two or three Soul Condensation Realm cultivators in the commandery city..."
You could not help but sigh at how fast your strength had improved.
The Great Qian Dynasty's administrative levels consisted of three tiers: Province, Commandery, and County. If the capital and the secondary capital were also considered a tier, then there were four.
Aside from martial artists in sects, other martial artists generally followed the trend of gathering in large cities.
The more prosperous a place was, the more experts it had, and the martial arts families there were also stronger.
With your current strength at the Martial King Realm, you could walk sideways even at the provincial level, let alone in this commandery city.
After finishing his shift at the government office, Shen Qingshan dragged his slightly exhausted body, rode his horse with his saber by his side, and returned to his residence.
Your third sister, Chen Yun, welcomed him at the door.
"Husband, why do you look so exhausted? Are you feeling unwell?"
Shen Qingshan smiled bitterly.
"I thought coming to the commandery city to be a General Banner would allow me to slay more demons. In the end, the number of demons didn't increase, but the trivial matters of officialdom piled up into a mountain."
"If you are unhappy with your work, husband, we can just resign and return to Baiyun County."
Life was not easy, and Shen Qingshan sighed.
"I need this job to obtain cultivation resources, and the family also needs my salary to live. I can give up cultivation, but I don't want the lives of you and our child to get worse and worse."
Right at this moment, your voice came from the sky.
"Brother-in-law! I'll give you a third choice!"
You descended from the sky, dumbfounding Shen Qingshan.
"F-Fourth Brother? Were you flying in the air just now?"
You remained noncommittal.
Shen Qingshan was dumbstruck.
Chen Yun didn't feel any shock; she only felt happy to see you again.
"Fourth Brother, you're finally back! Where have you been all these years? Have you been living well? Have you been hurt?"
Family members didn't care how high you flew; they only cared if you were tired from flying.
"Third Sister, I came back this time to give a great opportunity to my brother-in-law..."
You directly stated your purpose and informed the two of them that Shen Qingshan possessed a special physique, along with everything regarding the Shen family of the Star Domain, including the secret of the Shen family's patriarch attempting to seize his body.
The amount of information was too massive, and Shen Qingshan had a hard time processing it all at once.
"I am of the mortal lineage of the Star Domain's Shen family? I have the Dual Soul Sacred Physique? The Shen family's patriarch wants to seize my body?"
"It's not seizing your body, it's becoming one mind and body with you! You are still you, and he is still him, but the two of you can be seen as one person! How should I put it... You can understand it as gaining a 'Grandpa' cheat at the Martial God Realm, or gaining a 'Pharaoh' who is incredibly good at playing cards!"
Alright, putting it this way made Shen Qingshan even more confused. He had never read web novels, nor had he ever read a comic where every problem was solved by playing cards.
"In short, as long as you are willing to go. From now on, you will be the patriarch of the Shen family, you will be a Martial God, and the entire Star Domain faction will be yours! The annoying matters of the mortal world will no longer have anything to do with you, and Third Sister and Shen Jia will also live a carefree life!"
Shen Qingshan raised his hand and rubbed his forehead.
"Let me process this for a moment..."
Shen Qingshan considered it for three days.
You took advantage of this time to rest and reorganize a bit.
Finally, you discovered that his point of hesitation was what would happen to his family after he left.
Even if what you said was true, he wouldn't turn into the Shen family's patriarch in the blink of an eye. He would definitely have to experience many things in between.
"Take Third Sister and Shen Jia with you, your whole family can go to the Star Domain together! Is there anyone else you want to bring? Even that big yellow dog in the courtyard can ascend to the heavens together with you!"
Shen Qingshan was completely dumbfounded by your domineering words.
"Didn't you say that only I could go up and participate in this Mirror Holder selection, and I couldn't bring my family?"
You smiled faintly.
"That was before."
"There's one more minor issue... If I become the Shen family's patriarch, to my wife, won't her husband have become a different person?"
"Patriarch Shen is a 'mad scientist'. He has spent thirty thousand years studying profound methods. That kind of person has long lost interest in love and romance. When you are facing Third Sister, he definitely won't come out to bother you."
Shen Qingshan had no more concerns.
With such a massive opportunity placed before him, he also wanted to give it a try.
Before leaving, Shen Qingshan decided to go and resign first.
Although you felt it was unnecessary, Shen Qingshan had a strong sense of responsibility.
He felt that since he held the position of General Banner, with over a dozen Minor Banner Officers under him, leaving without a word would cause trouble for the Demon Slaying Division.
"Resign? Shen Qingshan, I only said a few words to you in public the other day, and you are this furious? Do you take the Demon Suppression Division for your own privy, a place you can just come and go as you please?!"
The Chief of the County Demon Suppression Division glared at Shen Qingshan in the hall below, unable to conceal his anger.
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ing gift was a patch of barren land, and disciples were all picked up along the way. He spent fifty years diligently building three "ramshackle little sects," thinking he could finally live a carefree life relying on his disciples. But right at the fifty-year mark, he was suddenly swept away by a spatial rift and exiled to the Chaos Desolation, the Disorderly Ruins. There was no spiritual energy there, only slaughter. Relying on the cultivation feedback from his disciples, Gu Changyuan hacked his way through a sea of blood for eleven hundred years. When the system finally fished him back out, he discovered the ramshackle little sects he'd built back then had developed a rather... unusual style. Hold on... I vanished for a thousand years, so how did my ramshackle little sects become holy lands?!
