"He feared that people with ill intentions would discover his secret, and feared even more that he would be captured and carved into a thousand pieces."
"Under such terror, Chen Changsheng instinctively avoided everything."
"Yet laughably, Chen Changsheng, who was so greedy for life and afraid of death, was also someone deeply loyal and devoted."
"For the sake of those who treated him well, Chen Changsheng braved his fear of death and kept moving forward."
"With his first step, he left Bitter Sea Town. With his second, he traveled a thousand miles to Night Moon Kingdom to bury an old friend."
"Step by step, he moved forward, personally killing that cowardly version of himself."
"His attitude toward the Cultivation World was no longer one of fear, but became filled with a desire to explore."
Hearing this, Xiao Hei frowned. "So you were born at that time?"
"Yes!"
Chen Changsheng nodded with a smile, admitting it.
"At that time, Chen Changsheng had also dreamed of becoming the strongest cultivator between heaven and earth."
"Yet the world was unpredictable, and fate toyed with men. The state of the world at the time killed cultivator Chen Changsheng."
"I don't understand!"
Xiao Hei shook his head. Chen Changsheng said, "You don't understand because Chen Changsheng never made you bear all this."
"Back in the Lower Realm, Wu Li bore the Mandate of Heaven while Chen Changsheng planned everything from behind the scenes."
"But Chen Changsheng of that time had never once slackened in his cultivation."
"Yet as one thing after another happened, Chen Changsheng came to understand that, given the circumstances at the time, even if he advanced several more realms, he would not have been able to change anything."
"What the Imperial Tutor Lineage lacked then was not a powerful thug with a