Who is not a warrior these days?

Chapter 529 Descendant Loan [Requesting recommendation votes, monthly votes, and subscriptions!]

However, Chen Li showed no sign of being dismissed.

Instead, it was as if a "confession" switch had been pressed, making her even more excited and agitated. She gestured wildly, trying to completely replicate the incredible, immersive experience from her dream and share it with Wang Li, the only person she might believe.

"But Ah Li! That feeling was so real! So real it gave me the creeps! It made me question my existence! I feel like... I feel like I really am that bead!"

My consciousness, my perception, everything about me, is imprisoned inside that round shell!

Inside a terrifying furnace of indescribable size, seemingly capable of melting the entire starry sky and forging the laws of the universe, they were enveloped in flames, endlessly spinning and rolling!

As he spoke, his voice lowered again, and a complex expression appeared on his face, a mixture of extreme fear and barely suppressed excitement, as if he was both afraid to recall the memory and unable to resist describing the shocking scene.

"That little old man, dressed in a Taoist robe, no more than four feet tall, with white eyebrows reaching his shoulders and a bald head that reflected light, was communicating with something... something particularly terrifying, something particularly enormous, something whose very existence froze my 'bead heart'!"

That scene, oh my god, wow...

The heavens and earth collapsed, the Milky Way reversed, and stars were crammed into the alchemy furnace like cheap glass beads.

My heart was pounding so hard it almost jumped out of that dream, out of that furnace!

Wang Li sighed silently, leaning back against the cold chair. She sensed that Old Chen's seemingly absurd dream was probably related to the aftermath of last night's immeasurable and far-reaching spacetime war.

As for that four-foot-tall, white-browed, bald Taoist priest...

May you be blessed with boundless happiness, Heavenly Venerable. I'm truly sorry to have wronged you...

Wang Li rolled her eyes in annoyance and followed up on the other person's still excited tone, asking, "So? There's a sequel to your dream? This time, you not only turned into a bead to watch the gods fight, but you also worked as a war correspondent, broadcasting live? Or... were you picked up by that Taoist priest and refined into some incredible magic weapon? Or were you swallowed whole by that 'terrifying thing'?"

"No, no! Neither! It's a sequel, but the art style has changed so drastically that even my mom wouldn't recognize it!"

Chen Li shook his head like a rattle in a strong wind.

But his eyes shone with an indescribable pride, almost like "bringing glory to one's ancestors" or "the ancestral graves emitting auspicious smoke," which contrasted sharply with his earlier fear.

"I dreamt that I... I seemed to have become an ancestor!"

"No, to be precise, I dreamt of my countless descendants from future generations, so many that they could form a reinforced regiment, who, separated by an endless spacetime barrier as thick as the walls of a neutron star, tried every means, went to great lengths, and even spared no expense to 'offer tribute' to their ancestor!"

"Ah Li, do you think this is outrageous? Absurd?! But I feel... it feels pretty exciting, why is that! It's like the thrill of winning without lifting a finger!"

Upon hearing this, Wang Li immediately sat up straight.

"Oh? Offerings? That's novel. What strange and wonderful things have your bunch of filial sons and grandsons, separated by such a thick 'wall,' offered to your ancestor?"

"There are so many! They're absolutely dazzling and bizarre. There's nothing they can't supply, only things I can't imagine!"

Chen Li immediately perked up, as if he had finally found the best and only confidant. His chubby body leaned forward slightly with excitement as he began to count on his fingers his "tribute list" from the distant future:
"Divine skill! Unparalleled technique! A supreme martial arts inheritance I've never even heard of! They say that as long as I nod, they can instantly enlighten me from afar and grant me mastery!"

"And that ethereal destiny and fortune! They say they can forcibly extend it for me, so I can find money when I go out, stumble upon treasures when I jump off cliffs, and even eat food with dragon liver and phoenix marrow!"

“The most outrageous thing is this—'descendant loans'!” When Chen Li said this term, his expression became extremely interesting, a mixture of absurdity, heartache, and a trace of inexplicable pride. “One of my future great-great-grandchildren, who is particularly prolific, got into some kind of mess and incurred a huge debt of 1182 billion!”

As a result, those brats actually packaged the 'cause and effect' of this debt, including the principal and interest, and stuffed it into my hands as a 'offering'!
It was said that it would let me experience in advance the glorious life of 'achieving a martial arts god through loans'.

Is this some kind of offering or a betrayal of our ancestors?!

He spoke with great familiarity and enthusiasm, clearly immersed in the complex sense of honor of being both the "ancestor" and the "sucker."

"But! The most outrageous, the grand finale, is here!" Chen Li took a deep breath, as if he were about to announce a news that would change the universe.

"They said that once the situation is right and the time is right, they can also give me 'remote assistance'!"
It can directly boost my martial arts cultivation, physical stats, mental strength, and so on! Forcefully elevate them! Ah Li, isn't that terrifying?! Isn't that unbelievable?!

Isn't the future style of my Chen family a bit too peculiar?! It's practically treating our 'ancestors' as a renewable strategic resource to be developed and utilized!

Wang Li listened to this bizarre list of "gifts," which was full of morbid humor, financial traps, and a strange pragmatic logic.

He couldn't help but twitch his lips again, and there seemed to be a solid black line slowly drooping down his forehead. He could even feel his temples throbbing slightly.

He knew exactly what was going on.

Really hammered.

no doubt.

The intense battle I had with "Godslayer Wang Li" in the River of Time last night caused ripples in spacetime and loosening of the rules.

It seems that many demons, monsters, extraterrestrial beings, conceptual life forms, and even some troublemakers who are hiding in the shadows or exist in different time dimensions and other dimensions have secretly gained a huge advantage and found a once-in-a-lifetime loophole.

These guys clearly took advantage of the fleeting moment when he was fully focused on dealing with his future self and had no time to spare, resulting in the spacetime barrier being most unstable and weak, to plant their respective "wedges".

Whether it's the inheritance of power, conceptual projection, information packages, causal loans, or seemingly absurd and unrestrained things like the "causal gifts," "conceptual anchors," and "descendant loan contracts" that Chen Li dreamed about, which may actually contain some special laws or deep purposes.

These are all extremely clever, seizing every opportunity, and perhaps even vying to wedge themselves into their current point in time.

Of course, this doesn't rule out the possibility that there might be an exceptionally filial son in the Chen family who could secure a loan of 1182 billion yuan for his ancestor and then have him repay it on his behalf...

"No matter how real things are in a dream, they are still illusions and cannot be taken seriously. Old Chen's pipe dream of instant success."

Wang Li pointed towards the podium, trying to draw Chen Li's attention back to the reality of the classroom.

Chen Lian was still somewhat dazed, and subconsciously touched his chest, as if trying to feel the weight of the non-existent "1182 billion yuan debt".

It was as if she was anticipating that unattainable "remote assistance," unconsciously muttering to herself, "But Ah Li... that 'IOU' felt so real... it made my heart feel so heavy..."

Wang Li: "..."

"You old Chen, you'll just be drowning in the river of time, clinging to that future 1182 billion yuan in loans to your descendants! (*￣m￣)"

(End of this chapter)