Enduring humiliation for three years, seizing the elixir, the treasure, and the holy maiden.

Even the one from the Xuanhuang Continent only stepped into that threshold a thousand years ago thanks to a great opportunity that no one can explain.

Such an opportunity is extremely rare, perhaps only once in a lifetime.

Nobody dared to believe it.

After all, the appearance of such an opportunity could throw the entire lower realm and the cultivation world of the three continents into chaos.

Millions of cultivators were willing to die for it.

If someone else had said it, they would have naturally scoffed.

But the cultivator who spoke was at the Mahayana stage.

Why would this senior person need to tell such a lie?

After all, this senior could destroy the Black Mountain Continent with a mere wave of his hand.

"If that's truly the case, senior."

"We will certainly do our utmost."

The three cultivators at the Void Refinement stage were now green with envy.

He wished he could kowtow to Li Changfeng on the spot and become his disciple.

But even that qualification, they didn't have...

Li Changfeng then nodded.

......

In truth, there was something on Li Changfeng's mind that these three Void Refinement cultivators would never know.

This entire scheme, this whole ordeal of dominating the lower realm, in the end, is all for one thing.

A body!

Three thousand years ago, in a great battle in the upper realm, Li Changfeng's original body was destroyed.

At that time, he was nothing more than a wisp of remnant soul, who took advantage of a gap in the void to fall back to the lower realm.

In Qingzhou, they found an old cultivator whose lifespan was nearing its end and possessed his body.

However, this body's aptitude is average, making it impossible for him to regain his original Great Perfection Mahayana cultivation level.

He can only exert the strength of the early stage of Mahayana.

Until Li Changfeng met Su Chen.

At that time, Li Changfeng was well aware that Wang Mang's cultivation and aptitude were superior to Su Chen's.

Even so, he still accepted Su Chen as his true disciple.

The reason is that Su Chen's body is more suitable for him to possess, and it is compatible with the cultivation techniques he practiced in the Spirit Realm.

Unexpectedly, she found a body that was more suitable than Su Chen's.

It requires a large amount of spiritual vein source as a furnace to slowly, little by little, refine it.

One major spiritual vein in Qingzhou is far from enough.

What he wants is the source of the spiritual veins of the three continents.

Qingzhou, Heishan, Xuanhuang.

Only when three major spiritual veins converge into one furnace and are activated by an array can it be possible.

Li Changfeng gazed at the void rift he had cleaved open, his thoughts drifting for a moment.

Speaking of the Xuanhuang Continent, Master Hongfu, the girl he sealed away for a thousand years, has now emerged again.

A thousand years ago, I went to the Upper Realm, but I was ambushed by a few guys there and lost my body.

By then, it would be too late to help her.

Now, he doesn't have time to pay attention to her.

Once I've forged a new body, I can slowly settle these matters in the lower realm.

......

In just ten days.

On the Black Mountain continent, all the forces submitted.

Those who didn't know their place mostly behaved themselves after Old Ancestor Demon Cloud and a few others stepped in.

Even if someone is really dishonest, Li Changfeng didn't have to put in too much effort.

It was clean and neat, though.

However, Li Changfeng specifically instructed that this matter must not be known in the slightest by the people on the Xuanhuang Continent.

On the surface, the Black Mountain Continent remains the same Black Mountain Continent.

Nothing has changed.

......

The clouds and mist of the Boundless Sea look the same every day.

I can't tell if it's too strong or too weak, I can't tell at all.

Su Chen leaned against the window of the attic, resting his chin on his hand, staring blankly at the clouds outside, lost in thought all morning.

Behind them, on the couch, was a lazy figure, still half asleep.

A section of fair calf peeked out from under the brocade quilt, draped over the edge of the couch, swayed a couple of times, and then stopped.

Su Chen didn't turn around and continued looking outside.

No one knows when it started, but this Holy Maiden began to frequent Su Chen's pavilion.

Initially, there was also the reason of consolidating one's cultivation level.

Later, they stopped asking for excuses and just started lingering.

The image of this Holy Maiden of the Starry Sky Dao Sect has been completely shattered.

At night, he would find all sorts of excuses to engage in dual cultivation with himself, making insane demands.

They practically squeezed Su Chen dry.

Every day when Su Chen wakes up, he finds someone hanging on his arm.

The man had his eyes closed, a slight upturn at the corners of his mouth, and looked completely satisfied.

This morning, Su Chen pulled his arm out and went to the window to think.

He was thinking about what to do next.

Since stepping into the Void Refinement Realm, the sense of crisis that had been hanging over my head for many years has faded considerably.

In this world, he can walk sideways, and few can stop him.

With a lifespan of ten thousand years, isn't that practically immortality?

But unfortunately, there was no way up.

As Master Hongfu once said, the spiritual energy of this world cannot sustain a cultivator at the Void Refinement stage to even take another half step forward.

What's the point of cultivation then?

Su Chen leaned his head against the window frame.

After thinking it over and over, Lin Wanwan's face suddenly popped into my mind.

There are also Wang Yuyan, Li Tianqi, and Wang Mei.

It's been a while since I've seen you.

There's still no resolution regarding the matter with Bai Luwei at Xueyuan Pavilion.

The matter concerning the demon race is still pending.

Su Chen knocked on the windowsill, the confusion in his heart dissipating considerably after all these events.

There's still a lot to do.

Su Chen turned around from the window.

The figure on the bed had turned over, burying their face in the bed, fast asleep.

Su Chen walked over and patted her on the shoulder.

Jiang Shiyu.

There was no movement.

Su Chen patted it again.

"Um......"

Jiang Shiyu frowned and shrank back a little.

Su Chen pulled over a small stool from beside the couch and sat down.

"I'm leaving."

After saying this, there was a moment of silence on the couch.

After a while, the figure slowly turned over.

Her black hair was disheveled and covered half of her face.

Jiang Shiyu opened her eyes, which were still slightly sleepy, and looked at Su Chen.

"Where to?"

"Luoyan City".

Jiang Shiyu stared at Su Chen for a while, then pulled the brocade quilt tighter and wrapped it around herself.

"I know."

"You have three Daoist partners."

These words were spoken casually, neither a question nor a complaint.

It's as if they're talking about something they already knew.

Su Chen was stunned for a moment.

"You already knew?"

"Su Chen, the Grand Elder of Luoyan City, has three Daoist partners, and the Holy Maiden of Xueyuan Pavilion is also about to get engaged."

Jiang Shiyu explained Su Chen's background in detail.

"This matter is known to everyone in the Xuanhuang Continent."

Su Chen paused for a moment.

"and you......"

"I told you, I wouldn't give up."

Jiang Shiyu wrapped the brocade quilt even tighter, lowered her head, and unconsciously gripped the corner of the quilt with her hands.

A pair of jade-like feet hooked.

She knew very well that her chances were slim.

There's nothing we can do about it.

I'm completely dependent on Su Chen now.

She didn't want things to end like this with Su Chen.

Even if it's just as a confidante, that would be fine.

In the world of cultivation, very few cultivation couples can stay together until the end.

After all, there are different levels of cultivation among cultivators.

Therefore, in the end, when two people become Daoist partners, one of them usually has a lifespan far exceeding that of the other.

As the Holy Maiden of the Starry Sky Dao Sect, she possesses superior cultivation techniques and abundant resources.

I will definitely have the opportunity to enter the Void Refinement stage in the future.

Therefore, I will not give up.

...