Comprehension Ability: I Forge a Villainous Longevity Family

Chapter 744: Chapter 534: Like Looking at a Mountain_2

Isn’t that too exaggerated?

Fortunately, Chen Zhixing was unaware of this.

After joining forces with Sos to extract a certain Great Venerable Cyan Wood’s strategic move from Shi Hao’s Cyan Wood Longevity Realm, Chen Zhixing parted ways with Sos and leisurely made his way to the edge of the Endless Sea.

As expected, without any surprise.

Someone was already waiting there.

"Oh, isn’t this Senior Qiluo? Why, have you come to pay your last respects to the departing Huayu Immortal Venerable?"

The edge of the Endless Sea also marks the boundary of the Cosmic Realm.

Standing behind Huayu, Qiluo lowered her head, refusing to answer.

As if unwilling, or perhaps ashamed.

"I warned Bai Yu earlier to refrain from engaging with you too much in education, but she didn’t listen. Now that the Jade Wave Shuttle Immortal Ship has returned to Senior Huayu’s hands through you, may I ask where Bai Yu is, Senior Qiluo?"

At that moment, a cold glint appeared faintly in Chen Zhixing’s eyes.

Chen Zhixing knew perfectly well where Bai Yu had gone. As soon as the incident happened, Sos informed him.

Chen Zhixing did not intervene.

Because it was only fitting for Huayu to reclaim the Jade Wave Immortal Ship from Bai Yu, as it was originally theirs. As an outsider, what grounds did Chen Zhixing have to interfere when the rightful owner sought to retrieve it from their own disciples?

But this didn’t mean Chen Zhixing would treat Qiluo kindly upon seeing her.

"To stab your own junior sister, seize the treasure, and then mercilessly push her into the Sea Eye, Senior Qiluo, you truly have a ruthless heart. It aligns perfectly with the saying ’the most venomous is a woman’s heart.’ I wonder if the men buried in the cemetery you’ve been worshipping for years are aware of this side of yours."

"Enough. The person isn’t dead. If you’re unsatisfied, you can fish them out. Stop whining in front of this old man, it’s annoying!"

Chen Zhixing’s sinister words towards Qiluo drew discontent from Huayu Immortal Venerable, who spoke up for Qiluo.

In return, Chen Zhixing gave a roll of his eyes, his expression a mix of disdain and speechlessness.

Leaving Huayu at a loss for words.

"I say, are you misunderstanding?"

"No, no, you’re still vigorous in your old age... uh... isn’t right, your ages seem similar?"

As Chen Zhixing said this, his face was full of confusion.

The difference in age didn’t seem significant, so why did those from the Immortal Ascension Sacred Lands keep calling Huayu ’Ancestor’ after seeing him?

Was it... an honorific?

Then.

Chen Zhixing saw Huayu pointing to himself, then to Qiluo standing behind him and saying:

"Qiluo is older than me."

Indeed, they were peers...

Although those from the Immortal Ascension Sect often addressed Huayu as Ancestor, truth be told, his seniority wasn’t particularly high.

Having cultivated for two thousand years, he was younger than the Chen Family’s Wuyou Immortal. In his youth, he had to obediently call Qiluo ’Senior Sister’ upon meeting her.

But when had the Cultivation Realm ever cared for reason?

Since Huayu became the Holy Master of the Immortal Ascension Sacred Lands and later took charge of Yandang Mountain in the East Sea, the seniority within the Immortal Ascension Sacred Lands became chaotic. First, he cut off communication with the Sect. Gradually, the younger disciples who visited Yandang Mountain started calling him Ancestor. Eventually, whether they were peers or senior or junior uncles, all addressed him as Ancestor.

No one found it inappropriate.

Is Huayu even human?

Ever since he stepped down from his position as Holy Master of the Immortal Ascension Sacred Lands, he had shed the label of being human, becoming a deity revered on the altar within the Sacred Lands.

Facing such a deity, titles and seniority became unimportant.

That’s how things were.

But not everyone saw it that way.

At least to Qiluo, another Longevity Realm member of Huayu’s peer group, Huayu remained the friend she had a usual relationship with.

Now that the last remaining friend among her peers was leaving the Celestial Profound, she sought him out, pleading to leave the Celestial Profound Realm, this painful place, with him. Was that not a natural request?

Why, upon learning the details, did everyone seem so shocked?

Were they surprised she was Huayu’s peer, or astonished she had managed to appeal to Huayu, or perhaps amazed that she wanted to leave the Celestial Profound Realm and the Immortal Ascension Sect with Huayu?

Qiluo found it laughable.

What was so great about the Celestial Profound Realm that everyone was so surprised she wanted to leave?

Especially Junior Bai Yu. After secretly taking the Jade Wave Immortal Ship from him, Bai Yu seemed dazed, not even attempting to hide, allowing her to push him into the Sea Eye of the Endless Sea.

That expression of terror mixed with a hint of relief left Qiluo unsure of how to interpret it!

...

With Huayu present, there was certainly no chance for Chen Zhixing to do anything to Qiluo.

The old man lived up to being the number one in the East Profound State. Even in the Cosmic Realm, despite Chen Zhixing’s absorption of the starry sky part from the Divine Format of the Celestial Vault Venerable, raising his level to just one sequence less than Huayu’s, he realized he still stood no chance against the old man!

It felt the same as when he met Huayu at Ziwei Mountain in the Celestial Profound Realm last time...

Yet back then, Chen Zhixing was only in the Peak Realm. Now, with the enhancement of the Cosmic Realm’s Divine Format, he was an Eighth Order Star Venerable. Why couldn’t he see even the slightest narrowing of the gap???

Chen Zhixing did not understand.

When he asked Huayu, Huayu merely looked at him calmly and said, "I’m stronger than you. What does that have to do with cultivation level?"

One sentence left Chen Zhixing feeling as if he were on the verge of an immortal transformation!

He almost wanted to fight Huayu Immortal Venerable on the spot to prove that even if he couldn’t win, he wasn’t inferior!

Then, Qiluo softly added from the side:

"Back when Huayu first faced Saint Master Yimiao, he was only Second Order. At that time, Saint Master Yimiao’s level was the same as now."

"Don’t tell me you won?!" Chen Zhixing ignored her and directly asked Huayu.

"Of course I lost. Isn’t that redundant?"

"Then what does that mean?"

"What does it mean? What could it mean?" Huayu said with a faint smile. "To be accurate, Yimiao’s level hasn’t moved in over two thousand years. Two thousand years ago, she was at the peak of the Seventh Order, capable of dueling with some Taoist Lords of the Spirit Realm through the Space Tao. Two thousand years later, her level remains the same. Can you say she’s been treading water for these two thousand years?"

"She’s suppressing her own cultivation progress?"

"It’s not exactly suppressing; rather, what she has learned conflicts with the laws of the Celestial Profound Realm, thereby mutually canceling any progress under the veil of this conflict, making it seem like her cultivation level hasn’t changed in two thousand years."

"What about you, are you the same?"

"Me? I don’t have as much perseverance as she does. I’m just purely strong, unreasonably strong. You don’t need to compare yourself with me."

Huayu chuckled as he spoke, then went on to fiddle with his Jade Wave Immortal Ship, leaving Chen Zhixing dumbfounded.

What did he mean by purely strong?

"Don’t misunderstand, Chen Zhixing. Huayu is telling the truth. Compared to Yimiao’s restraint in terms of cultivation, Huayu took a different path." Qiluo, on the side, explained. Judging by her demeanor, she seemed intent on easing tensions with Chen Zhixing.

"What path?" Curiosity compelled Chen Zhixing to suppress his displeasure towards Qiluo as he glanced briefly at her.

"Embracing all rivers."

"Huh?"

"The path of Chaos that you, as a Chaos Body, once chose to abandon has always been pursued by Huayu." Qiluo calmly gave the answer, and her words carried a trace of pride.

Since the Imperial Court, to you, Chen Zhixing, many Chaos Bodies have emerged over the nearly two thousand years. Yet in all this time, the one who truly tread the path of the Chaos Tao was a person from the Immortal Ascension Sacred Lands who wasn’t a Chaos Body!

Why?

Talent! Wisdom! Temperament! Will!

All four were excellent choices. Even without the Chaos Physique, who could say that Li Er’s path was impossible!!!