Chapter 313: The Great Jing Immortal Dynasty (Part 1)

Inside the Fate-Defying Space
Su Chen gave a self-deprecating smile.
"Seventeen lifetimes of accumulation... the path to immortality is right before me..."
He actually chose to relinquish the path to immortality.
Su Chen even wondered if he had been possessed.
He used the properties left behind by the True Immortals within the Immortal Pearl and the Heavenly Fate Pearl to annihilate each other.
This was perhaps the best outcome.
Su Chen stared at the Fate-Defying Book placed before him.
He didn't open the Fate-Defying Book for a long time.
He just stared blankly.
A very long time passed.
Su Chen finally placed one hand on the Fate-Defying Book.
"It's just one chance to become an immortal!"
"I still have hundreds, thousands of lifetimes... chances to start over again and again, how can I not become an immortal?"
Su Chen opened the Fate-Defying Book.
In your seventeenth life, before you awakened your memories, you obtained the Heavenly Destiny Pearl, a relic of a true immortal. However, its secret was accidentally leaked, leading to the annihilation of the Jiang family. Awakening your memories just in time, you faced a life-or-death situation. To survive, you chose to merge with the Heavenly Destiny Pearl, becoming its spirit and preventing it from vanishing.
Finally, after an unknown amount of time, you awoke. What awakened you was just an ordinary young man. Seeing this boy burdened with the hatred of his clan's annihilation, and witnessing him gain the Heavenly Destiny Pearl's approval, you decided to give him a chance for revenge, and incidentally... help him research the Heavenly Destiny Pearl's wondrous uses.
The boy's name was Dongfang Yunxing. His aptitude was poor; in your eyes, he might one day perish, but you didn't care.
What changed your opinion was the boy's willpower, which was stronger than you had imagined. No matter how arduous the training, he persevered. You decided to teach him some techniques to prevent his easy demise.
You've learned the use and activation conditions of the Heavenly Fate Pearl from Dongfang Yunxing, a fact that saddens you. You're already dead, now merely a wisp of soul residing within the pearl.
You watch Dongfang Yunxing rise step by step.
You seem to see your former self reflected in him.
Moved by this, you decide to help Dongfang Yunxing again, imparting all your life's knowledge to him.
You want to see how far this boy, so similar to your former self, will ultimately go!
Looking at the boy's clear and earnest expression, you simply smile faintly.
You know... it's not as simple as the boy thinks.
Perhaps you are not a great person.
You, in the past, had already fallen on the path to realizing your ideals.
You watch Dongfang Yunxing gradually age, maturing from naivety to maturity, marrying, having children, undergoing the tenth Emperor Tribulation, and embarking on the path of transcendence.
The reunion of master and disciple brings a faint sense of relief.
But this feeling is quickly extinguished.
While you slept, you discovered a secret about the Heavenly Destiny Pearl.
Instead of revealing this secret to Dongfang Yunxing, you concealed its connection to True Immortals. A plan for ascension to immortality took root in your mind, a plan with little chance of success, a desperate attempt to seize the opportunity!
You orchestrated the murder of the only being who knew of the Heavenly Destiny Pearl's existence.
But to avoid revealing your existence to the mastermind behind your death in your previous life, you chose to lie dormant within the Heavenly Destiny Pearl, never to emerge again, quietly awaiting your opportunity.
You've endured much.
These experiences have long since numbed you.
Only Dongfang Yunxing knows of your continued existence.
Sometimes, you look at Dongfang Yunxing and wonder if it's all just a dream.
You still haven't appeared.
Time...changes a person.
You watch Dongfang Yunxing's experiences over countless millennia, the once naive boy now a stranger.
You're happy; only in this way can you scheme without restraint.
After the Great Cataclysm of Annihilation, you successfully used Dongfang Yunxing to lure out the mastermind behind your death in your previous life. You secretly crippled him, depriving him of any means of escape. You succeeded. Watching Taihao Emperor and Dongfang Yunxing both severely wounded, at that moment, your goal was achieved.
You ceased suppressing the aura of the True Immortal of the Heavenly Fate Pearl, allowing it to erase all traces of Dongfang Yunxing.
You thought that, through the long years, you had long since become capable of using any means necessary to achieve immortality, even sacrificing your closest relatives.
You thought that, like you, Dongfang Yunxing, through countless years, had long since lost his former childlike innocence.
This was a struggle for the Dao, where even the closest master and disciple could turn against each other in the face of the Great Dao.
You realized you were wrong.
You had taught a 'foolish' disciple.
He had never changed... only you had.
You still made your move... you made a very foolish decision; a foolish master teaching a foolish disciple—that's only fair.
You died.
In this life, you started with the annihilation of your clan and death, then, with a crippled body, you secretly controlled the world, scheming and plotting everything. The opportunity to become an immortal was within your grasp, yet in the end, you chose to shatter your own Dao heart, abandoning the path of cultivation to help your disciple achieve immortality—a truly magnificent end.
Rating: Red Two-Star
Reward: 2,000,000 Reversal Points
Red Two-Star, two million Reversal Points.
Su Chen should have been happy.
But at this moment, he couldn't be happy.
[Aptitude: 0 (+)]
Comprehension: 0 (+)
Family Background: 0 (+)
Mental State: 200,000
If he were to become an immortal, perhaps he would walk the path of ruthlessness, severing all emotions and becoming a heartless immortal, resorting to any means to achieve the Great Dao.
But... in the end, he rejected himself, shattering his own Dao heart and perishing together with the True Immortal of the Heavenly Fate Pearl.
"So be it..."
Su Chen sighed.
He wasn't about to give up on the Dao.
It's just... he had to embark on another path.
Talent: 100,000
Comprehension: 1,500,000
Family Background: 400,000
Su Chen didn't leave behind a single point of reversal.
"This life... I can't possibly die right after landing, can I?"
Su Chen thought to himself.
A person can't be unlucky forever.
Su Chen opened the Book of Fate.
The Eighteenth Life
Activated
........
The Great Jing Dynasty
This was a behemoth.
It once ruled over three thousand states.
Even in its decline, it remained one of the supreme overlords.
Inside the Heavenly Palace
Su Chen surveyed the people who had appeared.
The people around him were dressed in magnificent robes, their auras profound.
He was held in the arms of a beautiful, elegant woman.
“Your Highness… His Majesty is currently campaigning in the Barbarian Wolf Realm and cannot return to see the Ninety-Ninth Prince…”
Su Chen noticed a hint of melancholy on the woman's face.
“His Majesty is the ruler of the Great Jing Dynasty. How could he possibly return to court for such a trivial matter, delaying the war between the Great Jing Dynasty and the Barbarian Wolf Realm, and letting the blood of billions of citizens of the Great Jing Dynasty flow in vain?”
Su Chen realized.
He… seemed to be outside the Immortal Ascension Ground.
Instead, he had arrived in a place called the Great Jing Dynasty.
......
Time flew by.
Su Chen was three years old.
He had never seen his biological father in this life.
But he didn't care.
In this life, his name was Chen Chen.
However… his body was experiencing a minor problem.
His comprehension was too powerful…
One and a half million in comprehension.
This caused a qualitative change.
His mental state plummeted, leading to unforeseen circumstances and rendering him unable to bear much.
He was even forced to seal away too many memories from his mind.