Comprehension Ability: I Forge a Villainous Longevity Family

Chapter 583: Chapter 454: One Thought

A millennia-old Noble Family dissipates overnight, a hundred generations of glory flattened in a single day.

Why are the true heirs not allowed to participate in the East Profound Grand Competition? This is the reason.

Because people will die, and deaths will breed hatred. Even if the chance of creating rifts in the Noble Family Sacred Lands is small, no one wishes to let it occur.

Can Shi Hao understand these matters?

Yes.

No matter how carefree Shi Hao appears, the foundation laid for him is from the Ziwei Chen Family. Since childhood, Shi Hao was nurtured with the treatment of a rightful heir of a Noble Family. He merely lacks experience, not understanding of the rules.

Or rather, compared to these ’nobles,’ what ordinary people lack the most is the understanding of rules.

The primary reason is not the so-called cost of trial and error, but a tangible lack of understanding.

Many may scoff at this, but when faced with reality, they will find that after years, they might barely grasp the ropes, yet some people can just take a glance and understand the governing rules.

So, is he a genius?

No, it’s just that compared to those unexposed like you, this set of rules is something he has been familiar with since childhood.

Knowledge changes fate; it’s never just talk.

Celestial Sword Elder understands this truth too.

The old fellow knows well that Shi Hao currently losing to him is not because Shi Hao is genuinely weaker, but because there is no need to delve into some invincible combat techniques at the Nirvana Realm. For Shi Hao, the Nirvana Realm is merely a transitional phase, one he will surpass in less than decades, without needing further exploration.

Shi Hao has a mentor; when encountering challenging foes, his mentor will handle obstacles like the Celestial Sword Elder on his behalf.

As for combat techniques, it’s not too late to cultivate them at the Peak.

Yet, just like this, Shi Hao, a junior from a Noble Family, merely relying on combat techniques accumulated from everyday practice, already forced the Celestial Sword Elder to take him seriously. For the Celestial Sword Elder, who has studied all his life, isn’t that also a kind of sorrow?

The Celestial Sword Elder has no choice but to silently accept all of this.

"Let’s go, today’s cultivation is over. Before your mentor returns, let this old man take you to the Celestial Break Mountain Range to see what you should truly pursue."

...

Due to its location on the border of Gan State, near West State, the Iron Sword Sect was greatly disturbed by the collapse of the Earth Vein Ancient Tree in recent days. The severe crustal movement nearly destroyed the entire sect during the previous upheavals.

Worth noting is that the disciples of the Iron Sword Sect all had cultivation. When disaster struck, they collectively flew into the sky, sparing the population in large.

Currently, the Iron Sword Sect is a massive construction site.

A variety of buildings are rising on the original site of the Iron Sword Sect, and they are grander and more magnificent than the previous structures.

After all, there are more people now.

Celestial Break Mountain Range, Yellow Dragon Peak.

Climbing up the half-collapsed stone steps, Shi Hao had a moment of complaint in his heart, wondering why the old man, the Celestial Sword, didn’t just fly up but insisted on walking this arduous staircase.

Yet, when he finally stood atop Yellow Dragon Peak and saw the scene on the other side of the Celestial Break Mountain Range in West State, the grievances he had inside vanished completely.

"How is it? Spectacular, isn’t it? It’s different from the scene I brought you to see a few days ago, right?"

Leaning on his iron sword, the Celestial Sword Elder cheerfully gazed at the dramatically changed scenery before them.

Originally, standing on Yellow Dragon Peak and looking toward West State, one would see a vast swath of yellow sand with a towering column reaching skyward at the horizon. In the eyes of Celestial Sword Elder and his generation of cultivators from Gan State, that giant pillar was almost the source of West State’s demise. While in the hearts of the new generation of younger cultivators, that pillar was likely considered a ladder to the Immortal Realm, known as the Heaven-Reaching Tree.

But now, it’s not important.

The Heaven-Reaching Tree has fallen.

From the skyward point in the eyes of people in Gan State, it fell from the center of the West State desert and coincidentally tilted towards the Celestial Break Mountain Range.

"This... an extra mountain? When did this mountain emerge? Old man, did we come to the wrong place?"

Seeing another ’mountain range’ less than a thousand miles from the Celestial Break Mountain Range appear out of nowhere, even though Shi Hao already had some guesses in his heart, his emotions still didn’t allow him to believe it.

"That’s right, this is Yellow Dragon Peak. The extra mountain is the fallen Earth Vein Ancient Tree, which is what you heard of as the Heaven-Reaching Divine Tree."

A surprise or not?

A delight or not?

The Celestial Sword Elder thought nothing of it, just as one hundred seventy years ago, he stood on this Yellow Dragon Peak and witnessed the ’Heaven-Reaching Tree’ grow from nothing, and over one hundred seventy years grew taller and larger, until even from Gan State one could see that massive thing reaching the sky and the earth.

Since the giant tree could come to being because of the Longevity True Monarch, naturally, it could fall because of the Longevity True Monarch as well.

"Every move of a Longevity True Monarch holds the power to change the heavens and the earth. The mountain you see was probably left by a roaming True Monarch who found the giant tree displeasing and casually chopped it down."

Thinking of this, the Celestial Sword Elder found nothing unexpected.

But Shi Hao.....

Could a Longevity True Monarch achieve such an exaggerated feat?

Shi Hao recalled several Longevity True Monarchs he had visited at his own Ziwei Mountain and shook his head slightly in disbelief.

"Senior, you must be joking. As for Longevity True Monarchs, I have seen a few, and they don’t seem to have such magnificent power as you describe."