The Last Sentinel

Mount Tai, a mountain brimming with legend, a mountain deeply intertwined with the Great Xia Dynasty.

Also known as Daishan, Daizong, or Daiyue, it has been called "the First Mountain under Heaven" and "the most revered of the Five Sacred Mountains" since ancient times.

From ancient times to the Qin and Han dynasties, more than ten emperors, including Qin Shi Huang and Emperor Wu of Han, performed the Fengshan ceremony here to worship Heaven, symbolizing the "divine right of kings".

"Mom, I just paid my respects to the Eastern Peak Emperor at the Dai Temple halfway up the mountain!"

"Why don't you climb up to the top of the Jade Emperor's Palace and worship the Jade Emperor?"

"The Great Emperor of the Eastern Peak is the native mountain god of Mount Tai!"

"What do you know? The Jade Emperor is the greatest god! And the Southern Heavenly Gate of the Human Alliance is there to guard the Jade Emperor's gate, and there's some kind of expert soldier who's also his gatekeeper! You have to pay homage to the Jade Emperor to get into the Advanced Martial Arts Academy!"

"Mom, keep your voice down! That sentry is a big shot at the High Martial Arts Academy! He's also a top figure in the Human Alliance! Making baseless accusations against the Human Alliance could affect my college admission background check!"

"Okay, now go to Mount Tai again, go to the Jade Emperor Peak to burn incense, I'll wait for you here!"

"But Mom, Jade Emperor Peak is too high! I'm only sixteen, and I haven't received the system's cheat codes yet, so I can't climb that high!"

"Can't climb that high? Heh! Then you'll only be able to be a security guard! See that? That security guard, that's what you'll end up like! What kind of future will you have..."

A mother and son hurried past, grumbling and cursing.

The security guard being pointed at was wearing a faded navy blue security uniform, with his hat brim pulled down slightly, and his figure was as upright as a pine tree.

He casually held a rubber baton in his hand, slowly standing guard at the entrance of the Zhongtianmen parking lot in Mount Tai, his brows and eyes calm, his face wrinkled with the marks of time.

The security guard adjusted the brim of his cap, looked at the mother and child's retreating figures, and shook his head with a sigh, "Is the High Martial Arts Academy that powerful? Are the sentries really that strong? They're just gatekeepers, aren't they? No, I'm much stronger than a sentry. At least I can guard a gate, while a sentry can't even keep an eye on one!"

As the middle-aged security guard finished speaking, he sneezed several times in a row.

The security guard squinted, calculating with his right hand, then suddenly opened his eyes and exclaimed, "This is bad! We've been tricked!"

The security guard turned and left immediately.

"Friend, how have you been?" A gentle male voice came from behind. "I admit, our Sentinel line of work is indeed not very good. The previous generation of Sentinels died in battle, and this generation of Sentinels has been assigned all sorts of tasks. They can't even get through to a Transmigrator's door. Compared to a security guard like you, we Sentinels definitely need to improve."

The middle-aged security guard turned around and saw a young man with long silver hair and a black windbreaker standing under the ancient-style plaque of Zhongtianmen in Mount Tai, his hands in his pockets, looking him over.

The setting sun shone on his long, silvery-white hair, the wind blew gently, and his eyes shone brightly beneath his silver eyebrows.

The middle-aged security guard tugged at his collar, seemingly not wanting to lose face in front of his colleagues.

Ye Feng said, "I've come to get a car."

"I know," the middle-aged security guard said. "Ye Hei's Mercedes, right? There are a lot of people who want that car. You're not the first, and you won't be the last, but no one has ever actually managed to take it away."

Ye Feng asked, "Who has come to pick up this car?"

The security guard rattled off the list as if it were his own treasure: "There are many more. Let me just talk about the big shots after the Three-Body era. Pangu was the first. After Pangu, Nuwa and Fuxi also came together. Further on, the five chairmen of the Human Alliance, including the vice chairman Hughes, also came. There was also the creator of the 'Wanderer Project,' who was your previous sentinel, and so on. But none of them took this car."

Ye Feng said, "It seems that getting Emperor Ye's car is going to be quite a challenge!"

"Of course," the security guard said, pacing back and forth. "Three conditions. The first condition is yourself; you must be able to withstand the ominous backlash from this car!"

"I'm not kidding you. The user of this car is Ye Hei. Ye Hei experienced the backlash from the red-haired man who was affected by the ominous sign, so this car is considered to be infected by the ominous sign. Using this car will definitely lead to infection, 100%! As for the consequences of the five signs of decay and loss of supernatural powers after infection, you should be prepared."

Ye Feng nodded. "What about the remaining two conditions?"

The security guard said, "My second condition is that you pay Ye Hei's parking fee! Ye Hei came back once, but he broke through his defenses and almost suffered a qi deviation, almost losing his Dao heart. He left again in a panic, without paying my parking fee! Since you've come to borrow my car, it's only fair that you pay the parking fee!"

Ye Feng nodded, "No problem, I'll pay the parking fee!"

The security guard raised his hand. "The third condition is to find me a wife! I'm getting old, and I reckon I won't outlive Ye Hei. But to ensure the car is safely delivered to Ye Hei, I need an endless line of descendants. That way, they can inherit the parking lot until Ye Hei returns, returns the car to him, and settles the parking fees too!"

Ye Feng looked at the security guard thoughtfully. "These three conditions don't sound unreasonable. Logically speaking, the powerful figures like Pangu, the fifth-generation Speaker, and Vice Speaker Hughes who came earlier should have met your demands and taken the Mercedes away. How come none of them managed to take the car?"

The security guard smirked. "Noticed something's off? This generation of sentries seems really hard to fool!"

"That's right, these three conditions seem reasonable and without fault, but there's something fishy about them."

"The first condition is the easiest to solve. As long as you are not afraid of death, not afraid of losing your cultivation, and your birth chart is strong enough, then there will be no problem."

"The second parking fee I'm asking for is very expensive because this car doesn't belong to me; it belongs to Ye Hei. I'm letting you use his car behind Ye Hei's back, which is, in a way, a desecration of Emperor Ye Hei, so the parking fee will be very expensive."

Ye Feng said, "Name your price!"

The security guard smiled and said, "Okay, you can go forward and enter the parking lot first."

Without giving it much thought, Ye Feng stepped into the parking lot.

The moment Ye Feng stepped into the parking lot, he saw the security guard in front of him. His worn-out uniform billowed without wind, the hem of his clothes fluttering. A hundred-foot-long golden light shot up from his body, piercing the clouds of Mount Tai. Layers of imperial divine radiance surrounded him, transforming into a dark yellow Taoist robe that covered his body. The simple appearance of the former gatekeeper was completely gone. A powerful fantasy figure dressed in a black robe suddenly appeared!

His once ordinary eyes transformed into two divine suns. Wherever his gaze swept, the wind and clouds swirled, the bells of the Taoist temples in the mountains rang in unison, and the dragon energy of the earth's veins bowed in worship.

He stood with his hands behind his back on the bluestone ground of the parking lot, and the small space beneath his feet transformed into a celestial path, with dust beneath his feet turning into flowing Dao patterns. There were no earth-shattering moves, only a wisp of the aura of a Great Emperor spread out, causing all the peaks and valleys of Mount Tai to tremble, ancient trees to bend, spiritual springs to stagnate, and the surrounding rules of heaven and earth to freeze.

In just a moment, Ye Feng felt an unimaginable and powerful sense of oppression, a terrifying sense of crushing power that came from someone of the same level as the Jiajing Emperor and was equally unknowable!

The hat fell off, light shone, and in an instant, an ordinary man was transformed into a great emperor!

Standing on this small patch of earthly land, the emperor's might can crush ten thousand mountains!

Holding a police baton of the mortal world in hand, yet harboring the imperial heart of eternity in his heart, he guards Mount Tai, a testament to the boundless passage of time.

He looked at Ye Feng with his hands behind his back, "I've waited for billions of years, not to become an immortal, but only to wait for you to return to pay the parking fee in the mortal world. Do you understand my pain?"

Ye Feng felt that he was no match for the Security Emperor in the parking lot. In fact, if the Security Emperor wanted to, he could shatter his human clone with a single thought!

Ye Feng wanted to take a step back, but found himself trapped by the Security Emperor and unable to leave.

Ye Feng said stiffly, "Before I came here, I thought you were a wolf in sheep's clothing, but I didn't expect you to be so good at hiding your strength."

The Security Emperor waved his hand and said, "What kind of strength is this? I can't even beat Ye Hei in his weakest red-haired form. This is only good enough to annoy Ye Hei a bit! To bully my fellow Earthlings!"

Ye Feng said, "Then what about the parking fee you requested..."

The Great Emperor of Security exclaimed, "Divine Source, the Undying Divine Source!"

Ye Feng asked, "What are the woman's requirements?"

The Security Guard Emperor said, "At the very least, she has to be at my level. A high-quality, intelligent male like me, with aspirations in life, can't date someone worse off than himself. Ideally, she should be a rich woman; security guards all like rich women!"

Ye Feng said, "This is a bit difficult."

"That's right!" said the Security Emperor. "The higher you go, the greater the proportion of men among the powerful cultivators, and the fewer women there are. So the third condition is a crucial factor in preventing people from retrieving their cars!"

Ye Feng said, "No problem, I promise you!"

The Security Emperor was taken aback. "Sentry, I know your background, so don't be afraid of me!"

"No way!" Ye Feng patted his chest and said, "I promise I'll find you a woman, a beautiful one, even an empress who's almost as good as Ye Hei's wife, to be your wife!"

The Security Emperor was overjoyed, exclaiming, "A gentleman's word is his bond!"

Ye Feng said, "What's done is done, but you'll have to wait a while."

"No problem!" The security guard, the emperor, walked ahead enthusiastically, waving repeatedly. "Come on, come on, come on! I'll take you to get the car!"

Ye Feng followed the security guard, secretly thinking that once he reached a higher realm, he would find a male powerhouse to transform him into a woman and assign him to this security guard emperor!

Since he didn't insist on it being the original Empress, I'll just get him a secondhand, modified Empress to fulfill my promise.