The Last Sentinel

One by one, the stepfathers returned to their spirit tablets, their divine thoughts rippling like raging waves, constantly surging and crashing.

Ye Feng was caught in the overwhelming mental onslaught of his stepfathers, like a boatman navigating a sheepskin raft across the sea, each wave of their mental energy nearly annihilating his fragile spirit.

"Has this kid awakened his sealed power?"

"It's clear that he's a soul from the future who has returned to a point in the past."

"The lockdown has finally been lifted, a little later than Lin Qilin estimated, but not by too much."

"Luo Feng, you murderous star, don't set a bad example for the children. Cultivation isn't about fighting and killing. Not everyone is like you, Luo Feng, who has a green light all the way, a powerful father protecting him, and an invincible cheat code."

A rebuke interrupted Luo Feng's words, and the speaker was none other than the Fifteenth Uncle [Fang Han of the Gate of Immortality]!

Rarely, Luo the Bully, facing Fang Han, the ultimate cannibalistic demon, wasn't angry but instead mocked him with amusement, "Old Demon Fang, I'll accept it when others say I'm cheating, that I'm a bloodthirsty bastard, because it's true. But what you say about me, I won't stand for it! You killed quite a few people back then! I remember your nemesis was called Hua Tiandu, right? We fought from the newbie village all the way to the Heavenly Court, and then you just swallowed him like a tonic pill. Tsk tsk, you really had a good appetite!"

[Gate of Immortality - Fang Han] The spirit tablet released ripples, "Hua Tiandu only brought this upon himself. I let him go several times, but he repeatedly retaliated and tried to kill me. Killing him was merely an arrangement of the Gate of Fate, and had nothing to do with me. It's like Ye Feng and Charlie, loving and killing each other, yet helping each other grow. When Ye Feng reaches his peak and needs to reach the next level, all he needs to do is sacrifice Charlie to complete his final sublimation!"

Just then, atop the spirit tablet mountain, Chen Nan, the stepfather numbered 003, said, "Alright, enough with the rambling. Everyone's time is precious; we don't have much free time for idle chatter. Let's get down to business!"

As expected of Chen Nan, who was ranked high among the elders, as soon as he spoke, stepfather Fang Han (number 15) and stepfather Luo Feng (number 66) shut up, and all the awakened spirit tablets straightened their postures and looked down at Ye Feng.

Ye Feng was extremely obedient at this moment, kneeling respectfully before the small hill of memorial tablets, waiting for his stepfathers' questions.

[Shenmu·Chennan] said, "Ye Feng, you've already activated your spirit tablet and gone to Sanxingdui, the ruins of the Dragon-Hunting Clan. I suppose you already know about your origins!"

Ye Feng nodded and said, "Father, I know the way I came from, and I know that my name is a fusion of Xuan Yuanfeng of the Yanhuang tribe and Long Qingye, the holy maiden of the Huanlong clan. I also know that I have been asleep for five thousand years. Strictly speaking, I should be a descendant of the Yanhuang era, born in the Three Sovereigns and Five Emperors period after the War of Gods."

"Very good," Chen Nan said. "You've come into contact with Sentinel Lin Qilin's legacy in the future, and I imagine you've also obtained the All-Heavens Club and the Transmigrator Chat Group left behind by Lin Qilin!"

Ye Feng replied, "Yes."

Chen Nan asked, "Have you found the traitor who killed Sentinel Lin Qilin?"

Ye Feng said, "We found one, and there are a few we suspect..."

"Suspicion?" Chen Nan interrupted Ye Feng without hesitation. "Suspicion of whom?"

Ye Feng said, "The people currently active in the chat group are all my suspects."

Chen Nan said, "Reason."

Ye Feng said, "When I first joined the chat group, they often brought up the matter of traitors in front of me."

"A group member who is not a traitor doesn't need to constantly talk about being wary of traitors, unless they are the traitors themselves."

"I became suspicious at that time. They kept testing the traitor's words, which was actually a test of me. They asked me what I thought of the traitor and what my future plans were."

"After I became a trainee administrator, I took over the All-Heavens Club and came into contact with some transmigrators from the myriad worlds. In my conversations with them, I discovered that the myriad worlds had once carried out a collective defection campaign against all the transmigrators in the chat group. The content of the defection was that as long as they promised to sever ties with Sentinel Lin Qilin, they would be allowed to see their hometown, or even return to their hometown."

"Seeing my hometown and relatives, returning to my hometown—isn't this seeing my hometown from the perspective of a human camera?"

"Isn't this everything I've been through?"

"It is obvious that the most affectionate beings in Hongmeng, the master of machinery, the immortal god of magic, and the martial saint, one by one, have all made contracts with the myriad worlds. The myriad worlds also kept their promises and, after killing the sentinel, decisively used me, their successor, to fulfill their promises."

Chen Nan asked, "So, what's the next step?"

Ye Feng laughed. "Put it down."

Luo Feng said, "Let go? That's interesting. How do you mean by letting go?"

Ye Feng said, "In the All Heavens Club, Ouyang told me that Sentinel Lin Qilin is a guy who appears optimistic on the surface but is actually pessimistic. This guy never thought he could complete the 'Wanderer Plan.' He spent his whole life pursuing a glorious moment of falling from grace. Lin Qilin never thought about actually opening up the way back to the anchor point. Everything he did was paving the way for me."

"It would be a lie to say that you're not desperate when a chat group has such a pessimistic leader."

"If I were in the position of Hongmeng or Wuji Demon Lord, I would also express my dissatisfaction with the group leader. If someone told me that as long as I distanced myself from the group leader, they could let me see my parents back home, I would agree without hesitation. After all, it would be merciful of me not to attack the group leader and overthrow him. It was the group leader who was unkind first and I would be unjust later."

Chen Nan said, "I'll say it again, the child wants to go home, and that's not wrong."

"Yes! Father." Ye Feng's eyes were fervent. "The children are right to want to go home. The ones who are wrong are those ancient imperial factions and merit-based ancient clans that are causing trouble, those new generation forces of the universe, and the very origin of this universe!"

Fang Han, from the Gate of Immortality, chuckled, "This kid looks just like me. He's got a big heart and takes everything in stride. There are no absolute enemies or traitors in this world!"

Luo Feng scoffed, "Yeah, in Old Demon Fang's eyes, what enemy, what traitor, aren't they all just food? Blood Furnace activated, Gate of Immortality devours, tsk tsk, he really is someone who eats whoever he doesn't like. The founding ancestor of the cannibalistic transmigrators, his name is well-deserved!"

Fang Han: "Luo Feng, are you trying to cause trouble?"

"What do you mean I want to cause trouble?" Luo Feng said. "I'm just stating the facts."

Chen Nan interrupted the two of them, "Since you have already expressed this opinion, then we will tell you our suggestions and arrangements for you."

Ye Feng respectfully said, "Please enlighten me, everyone!"