Chapter 500: Six Paths of Reincarnation (Part Two)

Su Chen groggily awoke, opening his eyes to look at his hands, already wrinkled; he was very old.
The middle-aged man before him was flustered, but Su Chen remained remarkably calm.
"Did that old fellow from the Xu family break through to the Spirit Pattern Realm?"
The middle-aged man was startled.
He nodded blankly.
He had now returned to his first life, to his old age.
Memories of the past flooded his mind.
Su Chen sighed softly.
The middle-aged man spoke anxiously, "Father, that old ghost from the Xu family has broken through; he certainly won't let our Su family go!"
Looking at the flustered middle-aged man, Su Chen said, "What kind of behavior is this, all this panic?"
The middle-aged man felt somewhat ashamed.
"As for dealing with the Xu family, I naturally have a way."
The middle-aged man blinked, looking at his aged father, and in a daze, he saw the spirited man who had built the Su family.
Less than half a day later, another young man pushed open the door, panicking, "Grandpa, it's terrible! The City Lord's Mansion has been surrounded by the Xu family! Once the Xu family clears out the City Lord's Mansion, my Su family will be next!"
The young man looked around the room and saw a middle-aged man inside. He exclaimed in surprise, "Father, you're here too?"
The middle-aged man glanced at the young man and said, "You brat, it's just a small calamity that could wipe out your clan, what's the panic?"
The young man: "..."
The middle-aged man added, "Don't worry, your grandfather has a solution."
The father and son both looked at Su Chen.
Su Chen smiled, turned around, and opened the long-sealed sword box. Inside was a sword that had long been covered in dust. His withered hand gripped the sword. At this moment, if he wanted, he could easily possess the power to cleave the world in two.
Su Chen took the handkerchief offered by the middle-aged man and wiped it on his sword. As the dust was wiped away, the blade emitted a clanging sound, filled with a chilling aura.
This was a third-tier weapon he had forged at great expense, used in his campaigns to build the Su family into what it was today.
"Old buddy, it's been a long time."
The middle-aged man and the young man approached, curiously examining the sword in Su Chen's hand.
A commotion arose outside the door.
The middle-aged man and the young man's expressions changed: "The Xu family acts so quickly!"
Su Chen gripped his longsword and said, "It's time to go see that old acquaintance."
Outside, Xu Ba, who had broken through to the Spirit Pattern Realm, laughed loudly: "Old ghost Su, you've really lost your mind! How dare you oppose me, Xu Ba!"
The Su family members parted to make way, and an aged figure, hunched over, slowly emerged from the crowd.
Su Chen looked at Xu Ba and said calmly, "Old ghost Xu, I never thought we'd meet again."
Xu Ba's eyes were filled with confusion. He sensed that his old rival seemed to have changed somewhat.
Su Chen gripped his sword, pointing it at Xu Ba, and smiled.
Xu Ba also smiled: "A mere Spirit Gathering Realm cultivator dares to challenge me?"
Xu Ba died, exactly eight pieces by Su Chen. This stunned the Su family members and terrified the Xu family members.
After a long while, the Su father and son exchanged a glance and asked curiously, "Father (Grandpa), what sword technique did you use just now?"
Su Chen glanced at it, his breathing even, and casually said, "This sword technique specifically for killing turtles is only effective against Xu Wangba. However, using it also damaged my foundation."
The father and son's expressions changed drastically, looking at Su Chen with worry.
Su Chen remained calm: "It's nothing, just a minor fatal wound."
"By the way, Yang'er, if I die, bury me with your mother."
The middle-aged man nodded sadly.
Three years later.
Su Chen lay on his bed, now on the verge of death, unable to move. All the direct descendants of the Su family knelt below him, their eyes filled with tears.
"Father..."
"Grandfather..."
"Patriarch..."
Su Chen smiled.
If he wanted to live, he could easily survive. As for the fatal wound from the battle with Xu Wangba...
What a joke! That old devil Xu Wangba could possibly hurt him?
"But... I can't stay here."
Su Chen slowly closed his eyes.
This ending seemed alright.
.......
"General... do we really have reinforcements?"
Su Chen opened his eyes again. Before him lay a ruined city.
Inside the city, a few lonely soldiers remained, and Su Chen was one of them.
Su Chen was momentarily dazed.
Reinforcements... there were definitely no more.
Facing the expectant gazes of the crowd.
Su Chen smiled.
"No."
The crowd: "......"
"General, you could have lied to us."
One of the men, covered in blood and his breath erratic, looked at Su Chen with a 'resentful' expression.
"General... we all know we've been abandoned. A month has passed, and the imperial reinforcements haven't arrived... but we just want to go home, even if it's just a sliver of hope, a tiny, insignificant hope."
Another man wiped away tears, but the more he wiped, the more tears flowed.
"What kind of decorum is it for a man to cry and whine like a woman?"
"At worst, I'll fight them to the death! Even if I die, I'll die a glorious death, bringing honor to my ancestors!"
Su Chen glanced at the ambitious young man and smiled.
"It's just a small crisis of city destruction."
Everyone: "..."
Outside the city, thunder roared, and the earth shook.
The Canglan Kingdom had launched its final attack.
"The city gates...the city gates are open?"
Many soldiers of the Canglan Kingdom discovered that the previously tightly closed city gates had suddenly opened, and the broken array had dissipated.
A general riding on a rare beast watched this scene and sneered: "That Jiang Chen guy wants to open the city gates and surrender now? There's no such thing as a free lunch!"
"How many soldiers of the Canglan Kingdom died to take this place? It's an irreconcilable feud!"
The others nodded in agreement.
Because of Jiang Chen alone, they had already missed their opportunity. If the Tianfeng Kingdom were to take advantage of this and devise a countermeasure, the consequences would be unimaginable.
At the city gate, dust filled the air. A man clad in heavy armor, wielding a long spear, slowly emerged from the dust.
"Jiang Chen, it's too late for you to surrender now!"
Su Chen asked curiously, "Who told you this general was going to surrender?"
The general of the Canglan Kingdom was taken aback.
"If you don't surrender, what are you trying to do by opening the city gates?"
Su Chen, spear in hand, scanned the crowd.
"Kill you all."