In this lifetime, he had become Dao companions with Chen Mengze.
Although Shen Mo had also obtained the Destiny Panel, for the first twenty years he had been besotted with Chen Mengze's beauty, fathering three sons and four daughters with her. Afterward, he had run himself ragged raising their descendants and neglected his cultivation!
Only after he passed fifty, when the essence, qi, and spirit at his foundation began to disperse and his cultivation condition had deteriorated far beyond its former state, did he finally awaken as if from a dream.
But by then, it was already too late. Even though the Destiny Panel possessed heaven-defying effects, it still required vast amounts of painstaking effort. At that point, Shen Mo could neither earn enough Destiny Points nor save enough Spirit Stones. Coupled with his abysmal aptitude and depleted blood and qi, he struggled desperately through life yet still failed to open his dantian and enter the Qi Gathering Realm, remaining stuck at the ninth level of the Body Tempering Realm.
Chen Mengze, on the other hand, relied on the Ice-Clear Jade Immortal Art to retain extraordinary aptitude no less remarkable than an ice Spirit Body. She successfully opened her Spirit Sea and gained a lifespan of five hundred years.
Shen Mo's lifespan was nearly exhausted. Frail with age and plagued by countless illnesses, he lay upon his bed awaiting death's arrival. Before his sickbed stood throngs of children and grandchildren, while Chen Mengze remained youthful and beautiful, radiant beyond compare. In her gaze toward Shen Mo, beyond a faint trace of sorrow, there was also a complicated expression of relief, as though a heavy burden had been lifted...
His fourth life.
The scene changed drastically. The Soul Generals Shen Mo had taken into the Soul Refining Banner—all those who had