Chen Ping's Sword

Behind the gentle-looking man in the dragon robe, a smile appeared on Ji Changshou’s face as the five fingers of his right hand slowly released the sword hilt.

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"Ji Tang, Ji Changshou."

A surge of intense killing intent boiled in his bloodline, erupting crazily.

Chen Ping was in a quiet room when he suddenly opened his eyes. For some reason, his eyes had already turned a blood-red.

At this moment, he understood many things.

He also knew why his memory was incomplete.

And why this body, for the first sixteen years, was like a fool, not only lacking intelligence but also seemed to be missing a screw.

It’s because, just before the "Empress Xiao" sent away the baby from high above, the jade-colored sword light had already shattered the soul.

Even before the sword light descended, a strand of power had already pierced through, tearing the complete soul he reincarnated with.

A child with an incomplete soul isn’t much different from a simpleton.

Later, when he re-gathered his soul in Xingqing Prefecture, it was probably related to the "Cocoon Rebirth" of the Spring and Autumn Silkworm.

To be reborn once means one reincarnation.

In this way, he had already been reborn twice.

The time spent reincarnating the first time, put aside for now.

The second time took a full sixteen years.

Only then did he recover.

This time, the experiences and traces of the past sixteen years came before his mind.

Chen Ping seemed to see those ignorant children in the alleys and fields, smearing his face and shouting: "The fool is tall, the fool is strong, his head big, and tail long..."

He also saw the teacher in the private school throw a bag of copper coins out the door, angrily shouting: "A dead tree cannot be carved, don’t send him again, I can’t teach him."

Then, he saw a young woman in blue cloth, leading him with helplessness on her face, dragging very heavy steps back to a thatched hut.

"She says she’s my aunt, which isn’t wrong. This body should call her [Aunt Qing]."

Chen Ping pondered secretly.

"I finally know why the Fairy Fubo from Fubo Island, being in the third position on the Earth List for a total of sixteen years, did not advance an inch."

"Her Three Souls and Six Spirits constrained the Longevity Sword. Both being suppressed by the sword and imprisoning the sword, only a Power of One Soul could escape, so how possibly could she progress in cultivation? Naturally, her strength couldn’t match the complete form, only maintaining at the extreme of the Peak of Late-Stage Innate."

"Of course, due to her fundamentally very strong nature, no matter how heavily injured she was, or how many people chased her down, she was never killed, which is why she led the Brocade Guard on an east-west cat-and-mouse chase for over ten years."

"Thus arises a rather perplexing problem, given Aunt Qing’s hatred for the Great Li Dynasty and deep enmity toward the Ji Family, why did she risk everything, intercepting the Beizhou Hu Cavalry when they moved south?"

"Logically, whether she is the Cyan Simurgh incarnate or the Nine Heavens Zither itself, such deep sympathy for the common folk seems unlikely."

"In such dire straits, sacrificing oneself to save others, such noble actions contradict her identity."

"Perhaps not from the perspective of saving people, but from simply wanting to stall the southward advance of the Beizhou Hu Cavalry, delaying their touch on Jiangnan’s time? Right, it should be so."

Previously, during the Trace Origin and Steal Fortune, Chen Ping seemed to have heard his mother, the Empress Xiao, say something.

Severing the Dragon Vein.

Central Plains and Southern Region’s Dragon Qi detached.

Ji Tang’s plot fell through, not daring to step out of Yujing.

’Why doesn’t he dare step out of Yujing?’

The reason is simple.

It should be the same rationale as Fairy Fubo’s actions blocking the Beizhou Hu Cavalry.

That is, this world harbors third, fourth, or even fifth-party forces.

Each has its own plans.

The lineage of Fubo Island originated from Azure Dragon Hall.

And Ji Hai was recuperating in the Imperial Extreme Hall.

By the statement of a master of the Beizhou Esoteric Sect, "Venerable Lianxin", who entered Yujing and fought the Ji Family’s patriarch, Ji Tang, they each retreated after being wounded.

This Venerable Lianxin, what hall or force is he from?

Additionally, South Sea Purple Bamboo Forest, West Sea Celestial Bridge, and the Shenxiao Sword Sect’s Venerable Yuxiao, who are these people?

The more Chen Ping thought, the more puzzled he became.

After discovering some secrets, ironically more had become unknown.

The mystery of this world’s foundation finally revealed a layer.

Thus said.

Though presently in the Unity Realm, considered a formidable expert.

He feared not opponents of the same rank.

But when it truly came to combat power, he was hardly ranking.

His current cultivation was insufficient for coping with the empire’s upheaval.

Potential dangers might already be on the way.

This wasn’t Chen Ping suffering from "victimization delusion"; rather, he had grasped a truth.

During the battle in Yujing, from "Empress Xiao" and Ji Tang’s conversation, Chen Ping already understood one incident.

"Initially, I believed that the Power of Destiny was something overlooked by those Divine Martial Realm experts, hence they wouldn’t intervene in the dynasty’s dragon contention."

"Now thinking again, it’s not disdain for involvement, but fear of it. Not only Divine Martial Realm but even higher unknown realms, like Ji Hai, who while breaking through a major realm, got plotted against with Dragon Vein Destiny, suffered backlash, retreating to the Imperial Extreme Hall to recuperate, long unrecovered."

"In this situation, the invasion of Beizhou cannot be simply seen as a dynasty’s contest or regime change but as a higher level’s Destiny contest."

To them, it might be extremely significant.

Thus, no one dared to surface first, fearing becoming the target of many for collective attack.

The stealthy schemes of Ji Tang naturally mirrored this.

Consolidating the True Dragon Dharma Body with the Longevity Sword Order, he sought a colossal opportunity.

This also required ample Destiny for his cultivation.

Hence, once "Empress Xiao" took power, gathering Destiny in hand, he couldn’t sit still, crafting sinister methods to depose his mother.

And dispatch proxies to take her place.

"In this scenario, my situation is immensely perilous, I cannot sit and wait for doom."

"Tribulation, I need more tribulation."

"Now having already learned the Divine Martial Inheritance of Fubo Island, the True Dragon Dharma Body, and the Divine Martial Technique of the Stinging Dragon, even mastered the Divine Martial Realm’s attack techniques. As long as breakthrough is swift, a true foundation is secured."

Here lies no chance for slow growth and cultivation development.

If the Power of Destiny is this crucial, monopolizing vast tracts of Jiangnan to near becoming its lord, would it not be like a child wielding gold?"

"Or in another sense, like a fat pig nearing New Year."

"Yan Beifei, I cannot allow you to remain."

Chen Ping suddenly stood up, summoning all his generals to immediately prepare the army and assault the Fourth Realm."

Now is a race against time.

Either rapidly growing strong.

Or being the "slaughtered pig."

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