Chapter 1: Don't Underestimate the Poor and Elderly (The End)

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"Su Chen, we are no longer on the same path."
"I am now a disciple of the Tianlan Sect. Do you know what kind of place the Tianlan Sect is?"
"It's a place you can never go to in your entire life!"
A beautiful woman looked down at him.
That day, Su Chen never expected such a melodramatic thing to happen to him.
Hiss!
This annulment is great!
Su Chen directly followed the script and wrote a letter of divorce.
"Thirty years east of the river, thirty years west of the river, never underestimate a young man's potential. Li Qingyue, I hope you won't regret it later!"
That day, it rained heavily.
Su Chen was very happy.
Everyone thought Su Chen had been driven mad by the shock.
Even Li Qingyue thought Su Chen had gone mad.
She left without looking back, too lazy to argue with a fool.
Only Su Chen knew what this meant.
He was a transmigrator, and he was stuck with the script of being jilted at marriage.
If he wasn't the protagonist, who was?
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Three days passed, and there was no movement.
"Strange? Is the cheat ability running out of energy?"
Su Chen waited three days.
The cheat ability didn't appear.
No problem, he was patient. As the saying goes, fortunes change.
There's thirty years to go, isn't there?
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Three months later
"Could the cheat ability have been stolen?"
Su Chen suddenly realized, could it be that a villain who awakened early had secretly taken his cheat ability?
A few years before he transmigrated, villains who specialized in stealing other people's cheat abilities were all the rage.
Su Chen busied himself searching for the cheat ability's whereabouts.
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Three years later
Su Chen gained nothing, even his cultivation stagnated, utterly disappointing his father, who believed Su Chen had gone mad after being jilted at the altar.
He abandoned Su Chen's upbringing and instead nurtured Su Chen's half-brother.
Although slightly less talented than Su Chen, he was clever and quick-witted.
The struggle for the heir apparent is always like this.
By the time Su Chen realized what was happening, it was too late.
His resources had all been taken by his own brother.
He had become a discarded pawn.
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Thirty years later
Recalling that glorious period, Su Chen sighed deeply. Ever since his father, Su Nan, gave all his resources to his half-brother, Su Xuehe, Su Chen had a huge fight with Su Nan and left the family.
He wanted to prove that even without the Su family, he could still become a powerful figure!
Now...
Not quite a powerful figure.
But he had become the leader of a mercenary group.
Hunting demonic beasts with his small team was a comfortable life.
Looking at his reflection in the mirror, he saw a middle-aged face, weathered and lacking the youthful arrogance of his younger days.
Thirty years ago, he thought, "Never underestimate a young man's potential."
Thirty years later, he thought, "Never underestimate a middle-aged man's potential."
Thinking of Li Qingyue, who had broken off their engagement, already having broken through to the Spirit Pattern Realm and become a true disciple of an elder of the Tianlan Sect,
Su Chen felt it was time to use his cheat code. He was already middle-aged.
If he didn't use it now, he'd be too old.
"Could it be that my cheat code is having many children and much happiness?"
Su Chen pondered for a moment, recalling the woman who had always followed him in the mercenary group. This was Liu Shuyi, the young woman he had met on his journey after leaving his family.
Now, they were both over forty.
That day, Su Chen got married.
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In the blink of an eye,
another thirty years had passed, filled with trials and tribulations.
The "Many Children, Many Blessings" system that Su Chen had been waiting for hadn't arrived.
He and Liu Shuyi had a lovely daughter, and then a son.
Both possessed considerable talent, and both were now at the Spirit Gathering Realm.
Both their daughter and son were studying at the Martial Academy, so their future wouldn't require them to live the life of a knight in shining armor like he had.
Su Chen suddenly remembered hearing yesterday that Li Qingyue had broken through to the Spirit Sea Realm and become an elder of the Tianlan Sect.
Perhaps, Li Qingyue no longer knew who he was.
Su Chen had a headache. He had led his brothers to join a large mercenary group, but their leader had passed away yesterday.
His cultivation was only at the peak of the Spirit Gathering stage; he couldn't shoulder the responsibility.
He didn't possess invincible strength among his peers.
Not wanting to be implicated, Su Chen led his small group away from the mercenary group and settled in a place called Chongchuan City.
Here, Su Chen founded the Su family.
On the night he invited various powerful forces, an uninvited guest arrived at the Su family.
Looking at his younger brother, whose temples, like his own, were already slightly gray, Su Chen suddenly felt calm.
He harbored hatred, but that hatred had been worn away by time.
"Brother, since you left, Aunt suffered from a heart ailment and passed away twenty years ago."
"Brother, just a year ago, Father also passed away. Before he died, he was still thinking of you, wanting to see you one last time."
"Brother, I know you still resent the mistakes I made back then. I will apologize to you. Please come back to the family with me."
Su Chen coldly refused.
Su Xuehe left helplessly.
"Why is the sandstorm so strong today?"
Watching Su Xuehe's departing figure, Su Chen touched the corner of his eye, his eyes moistening.
The other Su family—he could never return.
This was his home now.
That day, Su Chen was completely drunk.
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Never underestimate the poor in old age.
Su Chen was old.
Even Liu Shuyi was buried by his own hands.
Not here, but in the place where they first met.
Not for romance, but because Su Chen didn't want anyone to disturb her.
This time, it wasn't thirty years, but twenty.
On his centennial birthday, he still didn't have the system.
He knew that today was both his birthday and his deathbed.
Fortunately, his son, his daughter, his grandson, granddaughter, and the core younger generation of the Su family had all been sent away.
Outside the door, swords clashed.
Su Chen picked up the longsword, now covered in dust.
The old man from the Xu family next door broke through to the Spirit Pattern Realm.
No dissenting voices were allowed in Chongchuan City.
Su Chen had chosen the wrong side; he thought the city lord would break through first.
But he was instead outmaneuvered and killed.
His fate was naturally to be purged.
The door was kicked open, and an old man dressed in dark blue brocade robes slowly walked in.
This was Xu Ba, the patriarch of the Xu family, a Spirit Pattern Realm expert.
Su Chen was fearless in the face of death; even though he was old, he hadn't wasted his time in the mercenary group.
Behind him, a young man emerged, carrying several severed heads.
The head rolled over and landed at Su Chen's feet.
Upon seeing the face of the severed head, Su Chen's expression turned grim.
Then, he died.
A century of trials and tribulations, ultimately ending in the extermination of his clan and his own death.
In his hazy memory, he seemed to hear the young man who had entered muttering to himself:
"What a pity. Su Chen's two children and several elders fought to the death to protect him. Even though they knew the Su family's retreat route beforehand and sent a large number of people to intercept them, some of the younger generation still managed to escape."
"If they escaped, then send people to chase them, find them, and issue warrants. That old Su Chen is cunning and cautious. The Su family disciples he sent out must be exceptionally talented. If they grow up, they will be a great trouble for my Xu family."
"If it weren't for obtaining the inheritance of a Spirit Sea Realm expert, perhaps it would have been my Xu family that was wiped out."
Su Chen's consciousness faded.
However... he wasn't truly dead!
Realms: Awakening Spirit, Gathering Spirit, Spirit Pattern, Spirit Sea, Spirit Soul, Profound Understanding
Void Realm, Nirvana, Saint, Saint King, Great Saint, Quasi-Emperor, Great Emperor... (To be continued)