New Chapter: Extraordinary Parents

"Grandpa, Grandma!" Wang Xin called out. After so many years, it was hard to believe that she would see her grandparents again.

After the three of them got married and started their own families, Wang Zesheng and Jiang Yun disappeared after a long trip.

They searched for a long time, but their beloved grandparents never appeared again and disappeared without a trace.

More than seventy years have passed, and the two of them still look the same as before, while Wang Ye, Wang Xin, and Wang Hui are already very old.

Under the starry sky, the two stepped out of the spaceship and strode into the cold universe—a sight that was definitely not that of ordinary people.

Wang Xuan and Zhao Qinghan had discussed it and guessed that the two of them were probably extraordinary people, but this was the first time they had seen them display such extraordinary abilities.

"Dad, Mom!" Zhao Qinghan called out.

Wang Ye, Wang Xin, and Wang Hui were stunned. Back then, they were anxious and heartbroken, and they mobilized all their resources to search for the two of them for many years without any results.

Now, without any explanation, the three of them understood that their grandparents were not ordinary people, but extraordinary individuals who could still cultivate in this era.

"Good child!" Wang Zesheng and Jiang Yun came closer and reunited in the starry sky. Seeing the once beautiful Zhao Qinghan grow old and their grandchildren with white hair, they were also moved to tears, and there was a touch of sadness in their eyes.

Jiang Yun held Zhao Qinghan's hand and helped her with her Super Material, unable to bear seeing her children like this.

Looking at Zhao Qinghan, Wang Xin, and the other two, all of whom had lost their youth, she seemed to recall distant memories, things that felt familiar, things she had experienced before.

In the universe, the starlight was like water, exceptionally tranquil. Neither of them expected to meet again at this time and place.

"Dad, Mom!" Wang Xuan broke the silence. Finally, the family returned to the spaceship, with so much to say.

The spaceship floated in the boundless deep space. Wang Zesheng massaged Wang Ye and Wang Hui's muscles and bones, checked their physical condition, and sighed softly.

After many years apart, even his two grandsons have aged so much; this is the "cycle" he least wanted to experience.

"Grandpa... are you extraordinary people?" Although Wang Ye was over a hundred years old and usually mature and steady, he was now being stirred up with all sorts of memories.

He thought back to the past. When he was practicing Old Arts in his early years, Wang Zesheng would occasionally give him pointers, telling him not to be too intense and to proceed step by step. At that time, he thought that his grandfather only knew about health preservation and was giving random instructions. Now it seems that he was the one who was wrong.

"Grandpa, I've missed you all so much these past years." Wang Hui's eyes stung with tears. Although he was old, he was still very sentimental. Even as a child, he was afraid that his parents, brothers, sisters, grandparents, and other relatives would be older than him and pass away before him.

At that time, Wang Zesheng doted on him very much. Even when he was three or four years old, he would still carry him on his back.

"There's nothing extraordinary about these people. Grandpa misses you all too," Wang Zesheng said.

Jiang Yun was helping Zhao Qinghan and Wang Xin to check their bodies and examine their condition. Her brows were furrowed, and auspicious clouds rose from her body and entered the two women's bodies.

Wang Xin was greatly surprised. With a father like Wang Xuan, how could she not know about the plight of the Transcendent Immortals and gods? She was extremely knowledgeable about it.

In this era, almost no one can cultivate themselves anymore, and in their family, besides the father, even the grandparents are acting strangely.

"Dad, Mom, where have you been all these years?" Wang Xuan asked, knowing that there must be a reason for their long journeys.

"We are all living a life of salvation, trying to solve our own problems and see if any adversaries are recovering," Wang Zesheng said.

Compared to the vast starry sky, our homeland, the flames of civilization, and our Old Earth are but a speck of dust in the deep sky, utterly insignificant.

Even extraordinary people struggle to cross the river.

In fact, most importantly, they saw their grandchildren all getting married and having such a fulfilling life, and felt it was time for them to leave. They didn't want to see their descendants, in the prime of their lives, gradually grow old and die.

Clearly, they have experienced too much. Long ago, they faced such life-and-death separations. Even extraordinary people have moments of helplessness.

They had all faced the same problems that Wang Xuan was facing.

Once they started talking, they couldn't stop. There was never any awkwardness between them. Regardless of whether Wang Zesheng and Jiang Yun were extraordinary people, they were family to Wang Xuan, Zhao Qinghan, and the three children.

"Dad, Mom, do you still have an opponent? Have you dealt with the trouble?" Zhao Qinghan asked. Having been with Wang Xuan for so many years, she naturally understood what it meant for an extraordinary person's enemy to be extremely terrifying.

Back then, she and Wang Xuan had speculated that Wang Zesheng and Jiang Yun's low profile and occasional long trips might mean they had enemies.

Wang Zesheng said, "The problem isn't too big. We eventually found it and discovered that some of the remnants of the Dao-imperialized. The enemy's recovery this time was not very good. Even if he doesn't die, he will have to lie dormant as an ordinary person for the next thousand years."

Now, they stopped hiding anything and spoke frankly about what they could say. Although their adversary was of a very high level, it wasn't a big problem.

"Grandpa, what problems have you had all these years? Where did you go?" Wang Hui asked.

Wang Zesheng responded to his youngest grandson, saying, "There are many problems. When we are strong, we can use all the methods we have at our peak. When we are weak, we are not as good as earth immortals. The arrival of peaks and troughs is uncontrollable. Some of the bones in my body have not grown properly. They need to be ground down and tempered. In recent years, I have been to the 'Land of No Law' and endured it there."

Although they had faced the birth, aging, illness, and death of their loved ones more than once and gradually adapted, after calculating the time, the two of them still couldn't help but come back, wanting to see Wang Xuan, Zhao Qinghan, and their child.

Years of cultivating their hearts and minds could not stop the call of family ties. As if their hearts and minds were moved, they boarded the ship and returned home.

Wang Ye and Wang Xin sat nearby, getting along well with their grandparents and asking them all sorts of questions about the extraordinary person.

"Those who sever emotions and destroy humanity are mostly not human. Although such monsters Roots, their origins are inherently cold-hearted and cruel, and they mostly come from other species."

"Dad, Mom, which Mythological Era did you live in?" Zhao Qinghan asked, not believing that they only experienced this era. From their mention of the resurgence of their enemies, it was easy to imagine that they must have had quite a "story".

"We can't say exactly what era it was. This extraordinary person wasn't as glamorous as you imagine; he wasn't high above you," Jiang Yun said.

She mentioned that with each recovery, they forget many things, and only as their strength increases and they return can they gradually recall some of the old stories.

Too many messy past events have been severed from their subconscious selves, leaving behind only unforgettable people and memories, accompanied by life and death separations they don't want to recall.

Upon hearing this, Wang Xuan immediately understood that what he was facing was something his parents had experienced firsthand. His sense of powerlessness must have been magnified many times over in his parents, because they had inevitably lost more, and had children and relatives in their hearts who would never fade and whom they would always miss.

Wang Hui said, "No wonder my father is so strong. He is very special. Even in an era when cultivation was impossible, he still managed to forge his own path."

Wang Zesheng shook his head and said, "Your father came out on his own without any help from us. When he was born, we had already regressed to a mortal state and were at our weakest, no different from ordinary people. We even had very few memories of the past, otherwise we probably wouldn't have had any more children."

Wang Xin and the other two were speechless. If Wang Xuan hadn't been born, the three of them wouldn't exist. Should they be grateful that their grandparents had suffered severe degeneration?

This time, in particular, Wang Zesheng and Jiang Yun regressed more severely than ever before. They almost disappeared into the ranks of ordinary people, their memories were wiped out, and they were almost completely integrated into the ranks of ordinary people, unable to recover or awaken again.

Therefore, they used to tell Wang Xuan that perhaps some ordinary people are actually extraordinary, and they might awaken at some point.

They were quite certain that some extraordinary people in history simply returned to ordinariness, disappearing in the cycle of birth, aging, sickness, and death, never knowing they had a brilliant past until their own death.

This time, they almost "disappeared" like that.

"That's not right either. Even if Grandpa and Grandma's supernatural powers have dropped to rock bottom, Father still inherited your genes," Wang Hui said.

"Extraordinary people, strange people, that's what makes them extraordinary. When they weaken, their physical body and spirit regress to their Qidian, their blood and genes return to their origin. This is a very terrifying kind of degeneration. And long ago, when we first started cultivating, our aptitude was just passable, not amazing at all. We grew up through competition. Your fathers certainly didn't receive any 'gifts' from us."

When Wang Zesheng spoke of these things, he mentioned Wang Xuan's older brothers and sisters as examples. However, when talking about his the Vanished children, he became somewhat melancholy and reminisced.

"How many older brothers and sisters do I have?" Wang Xuan asked.

"You have three older brothers and two older sisters. Two of your older brothers and one older sister were born when we were at our lowest point, when we were reduced to mortals. None of the three of them had particularly outstanding talent for cultivation. You also have an older brother and an older sister who were born during the mythical era, when we were at our peak. They did indeed inherit our strong talents."

They have seen their children go time and time again. If their memories hadn't been damaged, they would never have had any more children. They didn't want to repeat those regrets and pains. Wang Xuan was just an accident that happened after their severe degeneration.

"Didn't any of my older brothers and sisters survive?" Wang Xuan asked.

Jiang Yun spoke, her tone heavy, "Those two children with extraordinary cultivation talents, one of whom, your older sister, died young due to an accident, which broke our hearts. From now on, whenever we see any creature with tattoos on its skin using special Mysterious Matter, engraving Supreme Texture, then... if such a being is as vicious as before, then killing it directly is the right thing to do, to avenge your sister's death!"

Does this also involve a blood feud from the past?

"What exactly is this lineage?" Wang Xuan asked.

Jiang Yun said, "They came from outside this universe. There were three groups of people who were not human each time. We killed them one after another. They were suspected of inheriting some of the classics of the so-called old saints."

"Your elder brother, who has a high talent for cultivation, may be alive or he may be dead. Back then, when there was no way out and before the mythical extinction came, he bid us a tearful farewell and set off on a long journey, following the Supernatural Light Sea. Perhaps he died on the way, or perhaps he succeeded."

Even someone as powerful as them couldn't save their own children. Thinking of the past, and then seeing Zhao Qinghan and Wang Xin in front of them, they were lost in thought, feeling melancholy and sad.

Wang Xuan knew that his elder brother, who had crossed the sea and gone far away, must not have come from this Mythological Era; it must have been a very long time ago.

"I have an uncle who spans different Mythological Era?" Wang Hui muttered.

"What is my brother's name?" Wang Xuan asked.

"After your sister died, your brother changed his name to Wang Yusheng," Jiang Yun said.

"I... Go! It's him?" The Life Pool, which had been quiet for a long time, broke its silence and couldn't help but speak up.

As a night owl, I took my two kids out to play during the day on Sunday, and after catching up on sleep when we got back, it was already very late when I woke up. This is the only chapter for tonight.