"Master, your disciple finds it a little hard to imagine."
After a long silence, Wen Tailai could not help speaking.
"Think about it. On the barren Earth billions of years ago, in that brutal environment where humans simply couldn't survive, a human actually survived. Do you think that's real? Is it possible?"
Yu Canghai thought of what he had seen earlier, those things that were simply impossible to believe. Yet he could be certain they were absolutely true. They were things Chen Zheng had personally experienced.
"That... that sort of situation shouldn't exist, should it?"
Wen Tailai spoke after a moment's thought.
The birth of humanity could be traced back a few million years at most, couldn't it? On the barren Earth billions of years ago, probably not even life had formed. How could humans possibly have existed?
"What about transmigration? If a modern person transmigrated to prehistoric Earth, survived, then lived for billions of years, transmigrated to other worlds, and finally returned to Earth in this era, do you think that would be possible?"
Yu Canghai spoke again.
"Transmigration... this..." Wen Tailai was startled, his eyes full of disbelief. "Master! You mean Chen... Young Master Chen!"
Wen Tailai did not dare continue, because he felt it was simply impossible. How could such a thing exist!
"The world is vast, and nothing is too strange to exist. If I weren't certain that Senior Chen's cultivation realm was incomparably terrifying, I wouldn't dare believe it either. Yet this is the truth. Even if we told others this truth, probably few would believe it." Yu Canghai let out a long sigh. "Terrestrial Immortal, the transcendent realm every Ancient Martial Arts cultivator in China's Ancient Martial Arts World longs for, what we consider the pinnacle of cultivation, is merely the beginning of cultivation in his eyes."
"..."
Wen Tailai swallowed. He no longer dared to think any further. He feared that if he did, the blow would rob him of even his motivation to cultivate.
If things really were as his master said, then Young Master Chen was far too terrifying!
At Su Cheng's home.
One man and four women.
After Su Cheng and An Jing came out of the study, they saw that Chen Zhi and Jiang Rou seemed to have something to discuss with Chen Zheng. Chen Zheng said to return to Su Cheng's home, so the four of them returned to Su Cheng's home.
Now, in the living room, Chen Zheng sat on the sofa watching television. Of the four women, Su Cheng and An Jing were on one side, while Chen Zhi and Jiang Rou were on the other. All of them were staring at Chen Zheng.
"Brother... just what have you been through these past few years..."
Chen Zhi gritted her teeth and asked anyway.
"These past few years..." Chen Zheng smiled at her words. He knew what Chen Zhi wanted to say, but he had little interest in returning to that Xining Chen Family. So he beckoned for Chen Zhi to sit down. Chen Zhi sat beside him, thinking he was going to tell her what had happened over the past few years. Yet Chen Zheng merely reached out casually and tapped her lightly between the brows.
"Chen Zhi, I know what you want to say, but there's no need. You helped me once three years ago, and I've kept that in my heart. You're my only family. I'll give you this."
Chen Zheng spoke casually.
"Brother... you! I! This..."
Chen Zhi froze. She wanted to say something, but was astonished to discover that Chen Zheng's light tap had opened her Ren and Du meridians. At that moment, the force Qi within her was growing wildly, and, even more strangely, a cultivation method had appeared in her mind!
Carefree Chapter of the Myriad Heavens?
What was that?
"Comprehend it carefully."
Chen Zheng spoke softly. His voice seemed to carry a wondrous magic. Chen Zhi nodded gently, and every distracting thought vanished from her mind. At that moment, she entered an exceptionally profound state.
"You... gave Chen Zhi an infusion?"
Jiang Rou spoke then, staring straight at Chen Zheng.
But Chen Zheng only gave Jiang Rou a faint smile and offered no explanation.
"Ah! Chen Zheng, so you're a young master of the Xining Chen Family. Xining's fabulously wealthy Medicine King lineage-either title alone is enough to scare someone to death! You should be going back to the Xining Chen Family, right?"
An Jing was rather moved.
"The Xining Chen Family..." Chen Zheng shook his head lightly. "I have little interest in the Xining Chen Family. Whether they're fabulously wealthy or the Medicine King, it has little to do with me. I'm just me. I'm just Su Cheng's bodyguard."
At that, Chen Zheng glanced at Su Cheng.
"Huh?"
Su Cheng was slightly startled and met Chen Zheng's gaze, but quickly looked away. Hearing him say this actually gave rise to a very strange feeling in her heart, a feeling she had never had before.
"Oh? Is this the feeling of your heart stirring?"
Noticing Su Cheng's expression, An Jing could not resist teasing her.
"Sister An! It's not!"
Su Cheng reached out with her little fists to pummel An Jing.
"Chen Zheng, am I pretty?"
Jiang Rou narrowed her eyes slightly as she glanced at Su Cheng, then stared straight at Chen Zheng again and asked very directly.
"Pretty."
Chen Zheng nodded mildly.
"How about I become your wife! I've got a great figure, you know! Even your sister Chen Zhi envies it!"
Jiang Rou's next remark was even more explosive, spilling straight from her mouth.
"..."
At her words, An Jing and Su Cheng both looked at Jiang Rou, their eyes filled with surprise.
As fellow members of the Ancient Martial Arts World, they had naturally met Jiang Rou before and knew her identity.
In ordinary people's eyes, the Jincheng Jiang Family was merely a small business family, but in China's Ancient Martial Arts World, it was anything but ordinary! Every generation of the Jincheng Jiang Family produced outstanding talents of dazzling brilliance. Of the three Great Grandmasters currently in China's Ancient Martial Arts World, one was Jiang Boyue of the Jincheng Jiang Family!
Jiang Boyue was Jiang Rou's grandfather!
But wasn't Jiang Rou being far too uninhibited today? This was her first meeting with Chen Zheng, and they had barely exchanged a few words, yet she was already offering to become his wife!
Was this really all right?
An Jing and Su Cheng felt this was progressing far too quickly. At that moment, they were both a little worried too, worried that Chen Zheng would simply nod in agreement. It felt as if something of theirs were being snatched away, even though it had not happened yet!
"Sure. Let's enter the bridal chamber right now. What do you think?"
Chen Zheng nodded.
"..."
An Jing and Su Cheng were instantly dumbfounded.
This fellow really had nodded. He actually dared to answer like that!
"Well... isn't that a little too fast?" Jiang Rou herself froze for a moment, then said hesitantly, "Actually, I only said that because I wanted to invite you to the Jincheng Jiang Family, because you look very much like someone."
"Who?"
Chen Zheng looked at Jiang Rou with a smile. In fact, he already knew whom she meant.
"You look very much like the person in the ancient jade painting scroll passed down by our Jiang Family's ancestor, Jiang Ziya... What I'm saying might sound bizarre, but it's true. Supposedly, that was Jiangzi's master..."
Jiang Rou's expression turned solemn as she lowered her voice, as though she were revealing an earth-shattering secret.
"Jiang Ziya... wasn't he someone from thousands of years ago? That can't be possible!" An Jing stared at Chen Zheng. "You're only about twenty. How could you have lived for thousands of years? You're Chen Zhi's older brother. You can't deny that, can you!"
Beside them, Su Cheng was startled by what she heard. Jiang Rou's words undoubtedly confirmed the things Chen Zheng had shown her and told her on the first day he appeared in her home! Everything she had seen that day was real, and everything Chen Zheng had said was true too. This fellow Chen Zheng really had slept with Demon Consort Daji!
At that moment, the last trace of doubt in Su Cheng's heart vanished completely. She looked at Chen Zheng, feeling rather moved. Meeting Chen Zheng should count as a stroke of good fortune for her!