Chapter 278: Rebirth: I'm a Grandpa (Part Two)

A stench, maggots, flies, and the stench of corpses.
Dongfang Yunxing lay dormant for a full month.
He was the second young master of the Dongfang family.
His life was happy and fulfilling, free from want, with harmonious relatives.
But all of this changed in a single day a month ago.
His parents were murdered, his elder brother died tragically, and his childhood sweetheart died before his eyes.
The entire Dongfang family.
Only he remained.
Overwhelming hatred sustained him to the very end, allowing him to survive.
The second young master of the Dongfang family was once handsome and refined.
Now, however, he was emaciated, like a demon crawling out of hell.
On his chest was a bead, an ordinary-looking bead that trembled slightly with Dongfang Yunxing's hatred.
Dongfang Yunxing sensed the movement and looked down at the bead on his chest.
The reason he survived...
It was all because of the bead on his chest.
A constant supply of energy was all it took to shield his aura.
It was a gift from his elder brother.
To ensure his survival.
And it was precisely because of this that he was able to survive under the nose of that terrifyingly powerful figure.
The bead in Dongfang Yunxing's hand glowed and shone.
Suddenly,
boundless radiance shot out from between Dongfang Yunxing's fingers in all directions.
......
"A dream spanning thousands of autumns... What year is it tonight?"
Su Chen didn't know how much time had passed.
He opened his eyes.
He discovered that the world before him was not the Reversal of Fate Space.
His life in this world hadn't completely ended.
This was good news.
The one million Reversal of Fate points hadn't been wasted.
However, there was also bad news.
His current situation was terrible... weaker than ever before.
He had successfully merged with this bead.
He had become the bead's spirit.
This bead is called the Heavenly Destiny Bead.
It is a supreme treasure.
Due to an accident, it fell into his hands.
In this life, Su Chen's identity is that of Jiang Chen, a supreme genius of the Eternal Emperor Sect. He became an Emperor in less than a thousand years, and even after becoming an Emperor, his path was smooth sailing.
The Eternal Emperor Sect wielded immense power throughout the Immortal Realms.
With a ruler possessing cultivation levels exceeding twenty tribulations, they watched the rise and fall of eras.
However, all of this changed when Jiang Chen entered an ancient land and obtained the Heavenly Destiny Bead.
The Heavenly Destiny Bead was suspected to have been crafted by a True Immortal... Having the opportunity to become an Immortal and acquiring such an item, Jiang Chen naturally wanted to possess it. He began to study the uses of the Heavenly Destiny Bead, but unfortunately, he gained nothing.
Finally, somehow, news of the Heavenly Destiny Bead was leaked.
The Eternal Emperor Sect was thus destroyed.
If he hadn't awakened his memories at a crucial moment, this life might have ended before it even began!
"Hmm?"
Su Chen suddenly realized.
He had a faint, almost imperceptible sense of connection.
The Destiny Pearl... seemed to have recognized him as its master.
Su Chen: "........"
This was terrible.
........
Dongfang Yunxing noticed.
The pearl in his hand was glowing.
A deep, resonant voice echoed from the depths.
A voice that seemed to have traversed countless ages reverberated.
A voice of vicissitudes, a voice of melancholy.
This was not an illusion!
Dongfang Yunxing discovered that the bead had broken free of his hand and was floating in the air.
Then... wisps of green smoke rose, which actually coalesced in the air into a white-haired middle-aged man with a profound aura. Although there were no earth-shattering phenomena, Dongfang Yunxing's instincts compelled him to bow towards the figure.
"A ghost...it's a ghost..."
Dongfang Yunxing was startled by the sudden appearance of Su Chen.
Su Chen looked at the emaciated boy, covered in blood and grime.
This guy seemed more like a ghost than himself.
"Talent...extremely poor."
"Cultivation..."
Never mind.
Su Chen looked at the boy before him, who was practically a dried-up corpse.
He had been drained dry.
The sight of so many corpses made it easy for Su Chen to guess what had happened here.
But Su Chen wasn't interested in any of that.
He couldn't understand how this seemingly ordinary boy could have the Heavenly Fate Bead recognize him as its master.
Before his memories returned, he had studied the Heavenly Fate Pearl for countless millennia, yet it hadn't caused the slightest disturbance.
"This...is this destiny?"
Su Chen was speechless.
However, now...
he and Dongfang Yunxing were bound together, their fates intertwined.
At least for now.
"You...you're not a ghost?"
The boy asked, his voice filled with doubt and surprise.
He realized.
A ghost...
wouldn't look like this.
Majestic and imposing, he possessed the aura of a powerful figure.
"Please, senior, accept me as your disciple!"
Dongfang Yunxing knelt on the ground with a thud, his head hitting the ground repeatedly, leaving large patches of blood.
Although Dongfang Yunxing's aptitude was extremely poor...
But aptitude wasn't a problem in Su Chen's eyes.
"Never mind, never mind,"
Su Chen sighed.
Dongfang Yunxing's aptitude and comprehension were both poor.
But unfortunately, he had obtained the Heavenly Fate Pearl.
He was also the host of the Heavenly Fate Pearl.
Perhaps things would change in the future.
“Seeing how sincere you are,”
“I, the Emperor, will accept you as my disciple.”
Emperor!
Dongfang Yunxing didn't yet understand what this meant.
But a deep-seated hatred flashed in his eyes.
He wasn't stupid.
The mysterious middle-aged man before him was either a ghost or an invincible powerhouse.
Dongfang Yunxing wanted revenge!
Even at the cost of everything!
Su Chen suddenly felt a weakness.
The Heavenly Fate Pearl's power was currently too weak to allow him to remain outside for long.
Su Chen slowly extended a finger and touched Dongfang Yunxing's brow.
"This is the Nirvana Technique, capable of improving your aptitude."
"The energy remaining in this bead is running low; your master will now enter a deep slumber."
"Perhaps you can gather the energy this bead needs, and then we, master and disciple, will meet again."
Su Chen's figure slowly disappeared.
Dongfang Yunxing felt as if it were all a dream.
Until the Heavenly Fate Bead lost all its energy and fell to the ground with a crisp sound.
This startled Dongfang Yunxing awake.
A strange cultivation technique filled his mind, profound and mysterious.
Far beyond anything the Dongfang family's inheritance could compare to.
Dongfang Yunxing carefully picked up the Heavenly Fate Bead.
This was his hope for revenge.
However...
Dongfang Yunxing discovered something very serious.
His master... hadn't told him how to obtain the energy needed for this bead.
This isn't the worst thing.
The worst thing.
All the resources of the Dongfang family have been taken away by Chen Xuan.
Dongfang Yunxing has absolutely no resources left to cultivate the Nirvana Technique.
Dongfang Yunxing looked around, his eyes filled with a deep-seated hatred.
He chose...