Comprehension Ability: I Forge a Villainous Longevity Family

Chapter 772: Chapter 548: Linjiang_2

Chen Zhixing glanced at him upon hearing his words, "Truly have no desires?"

Ci Hong clasped his hands together, "If I say I have desires, it would be to serve at the side of the Venerable, as a junior traveler."

"Is that so."

Chen Zhixing nodded, neither accepting nor rejecting.

He simply turned his head back to continue watching the bustling scene outside the window, savoring it with relish.

He had no particular thoughts.

No need.

Since Ci Hong claimed he had no desires, Chen Zhixing took him at his word.

The insignificant Ci Hong, at the Nirvana Realm, was not worth Chen Zhixing’s mental energy, let alone disrupting his peace of mind.

As for the kind of words like ’having no desires, just seeking to serve,’ he would take it as true.

True, so be it.

False, so be it.

It’s just another scene in life’s journey, to be observed in stride.

...

The past two years in Jiangzhou City have been quite lively.

Primarily because after twenty years, the Ziwei Chen Family, which had sealed its mountain, had someone return from overseas to Linjiang City, and even went as far as to boldly reestablish the Chen Family’s name there.

Chen Wanhong, the Immortal Wuyou from two thousand years ago, a top expert who even had the True Monarch Tihu of the Celestial Saint Palace, one of the Three Great Sacred Lands, personally visit Jiangzhou to converse with him.

The arrival and departure of True Monarch Tihu indirectly confirmed that Chen Wanhong was indeed an ancestor of the Chen Family, and from his behavior, this ’Chen Wanhong’ had considerable ties with True Monarch Tihu.

Since receiving endorsement from the Celestial Saint Palace, one of the Three Great Sacred Lands, naturally, no one doubted Chen Wanhong’s identity anymore, and consequently, the scattered Chen Family factions in Jiangzhou began to rally around Chen Wanhong.

That being said, it’s not entirely accurate.

These individuals mainly aligned themselves under the guise of the Southern Domain Alliance to the Star Palace, and because of the complex makeup under the Southern Domain Alliance, its internal personnel were faction-ridden, with so many hills and cliques that it made one’s scalp tingle just looking at it.

Yes, everyone acknowledges your identity as a member of the Chen Family, and they are willing to gather under your banner.

But don’t assume, Chen Wanhong, that just because you have the identity of a Chen Family member, you can order us around.

The Chen Family on Ziwei Mountain has seven hills and hundreds of family members, and who among these outsiders isn’t related to the Chen Family on the mountain?

Everyone has their own backing on the mountain and doesn’t rely on you, Chen Wanhong, for their livelihood. The reason they gather under you now is purely because of your label as part of the Ziwei Chen Family. Once the mountain is unsealed in eighty years, these people will still return to their respective hills and listen to their own masters.

What?

You claim you are the Chen Family Ancestor and all these hills should listen to you, as should these external stewards?

Don’t be ridiculous.

Even if you really are an ancestor of the Chen Family, you haven’t returned in over two thousand years, so why would you have any authority on Ziwei Mountain? Truly think every ancestor of the Chen Family works like Ancestor Tianyuan?

Obviously, the secular power of the Chen Family is so densely fragmented that it makes even the ’Immortal Wuyou’ Chen Wanhong feel his scalp tingling.

Since setting foot in the Star Palace upon returning to Jiangzhou, it has already been two years.

Yet, in those two years, only about a tenth or two of the Chen Family factions have rallied under him, and Chen Wanhong knows it’s not because of his identity as the Chen Family Ancestor, but rather due to his status as a Longevity Master.

This realization leaves Chen Wanhong feeling quite hopeless.

He’s not adept at this!

While not completely clueless, he truly isn’t skilled at managing people and matters; in the past at Star Island, such affairs were always handled by Chen Shanchen. Chen Wanhong’s responsibilities were merely to cultivate, eliminate threats, initiate array defenses, collect resources, hold meetings, and sit at the main seat as a mascot....

Once the Chen Family’s and overseas situations stabilized, the only thing left for him was closed-door cultivation.

Forcing him to command the current peripheral forces of the Ziwei Chen Family is clearly putting him Chen Wanhong in a difficult position!

Yet, Chen Wanhong still very much wants to do so!

It’s not that he has any particular thoughts about these affiliated forces of the Ziwei Chen Family, but knowing there’s still such a force in existence since the mountain was sealed, as a family ancestor, he can’t bear to see it dissipate over the next eighty years.

"A person, once they get old, becomes stingy and suspicious, losing the free-spiritedness of youth."

Star Palace base camp, Southern Domain Alliance garrison.

Seeing Chen Wanhong outside, barely containing his anger, scuttering about like a headless chicken attending to various Chen family stewards’ reports and the gathering of resources into the treasury, True Monarch Tihu chuckled and chided.

Bang!

Already brimming with frustration, Chen Wanhong, in a fit, began to throw things, and the Purple Gold Incense Burner, larger than an average person’s head, went flying towards Tihu.

Tihu reached out and easily set the Purple Gold Incense Burner aside on the table, as he heard Chen Wanhong’s sardonic words:

"Oh, isn’t it True Monarch Tihu? What, has the Celestial Saint Palace not provided dinner for you today, True Monarch, so you’ve come to Jiangzhou to mooch a meal?"

When facing Tihu, Chen Wanhong showed not an ounce of timidity.

Although, in terms of cultivation, he is merely a Master while Tihu is the renowned Longevity True Monarch and a quasi-sect leader of the Celestial Saint Palace, there’s an ancient saying: if you can hold someone in your grasp once, you can disregard them for life.

There was no doubt that Chen Wanhong held onto this belief.

Longevity True Monarch?

Impressive?

In my family, there are descended bloodlines too! All three of them!

A half Sect Leader of the Celestial Saint Palace?

Heh!

When I played mind games with the old man of the Celestial Saint, you were still in the tiger’s den, crying your heart out in fear!

Ever since True Monarch Tihu first met Chen Wanhong, he received no preferential treatment whatsoever.

The question arose.

It’s unclear what True Monarch Tihu thinks, receiving such sarcastic treatment from Chen Wanhong, yet not only does he not get angry, but he often drops by the Southern Domain Alliance base for no reason, occasionally exchanging barbs with Chen Wanhong for amusement!

Just like today.

After hearing Chen Wanhong’s jibes, Tihu merely threw him a sidelong glance then retorted in the same sardonic tone:

"Can’t even manage a few servants. What have you been doing for two thousand years? Having an ancestor like you is truly a disgrace to the Chen Family."

"Hey, little Tihu, are you asking for a beating again?" Chen Wanhong’s expression turned unfriendly towards Tihu.

"Am I not allowed to speak the truth? If your current position was given to the younger generation to handle, whether it’s that old man Shanchen, or the outstanding juniors like Chen Zhaosheng or Chen Zhixing, within two years the Southern Domain Alliance would have been fully incorporated into the Chen Family, as solid as an iron plate, impervious to anything!"

"Hmm?"

"Unlike you, acting like a good-for-nothing!"

"Heh, no matter how exceptional, they are still juniors of the Chen Family, and they too must call me Ancestor."

"Call you Ancestor? You think you deserve it? As far as I know, Chen Wanhong, you’re still a virgin, yes?"

"..."

"Heh, a two-thousand-year-old virgin, how peculiar, still claiming to have descendants....."

In just a few words, the two, a combination of over four thousand years of age, started fighting again.

One is an immortal inheritor, the other a Sacred Land Longevity.

It’s truly helpless against such a ridiculous scene.

Confronting them in a fight, others dare not approach, the mere proximity being a life-threatening risk.

Yet, the pair didn’t fight to the death.

They could chat once they finished tussling.

Chat and battle again once more.

Unpredictable in their antics, it left everyone baffled about the true nature of their relationship!

A quarter of an hour later.

The thunder dissipated, clouds scattered.

Tihu, his nose red and swollen, gathered the remnants of the lightning in his hands, and facing the opposite side, where Chen Wanhua stood with hair standing on end and charred black from the lightning, he uttered menacingly:

"Chen Wanhong, your good days are numbered!"

Chen Wanhong: "???