Comprehension Ability: I Forge a Villainous Longevity Family

Chapter 780: Chapter 552: Persuasion_2

"Both exist," Chen Zhixing said softly.

"This... is meaningless."

Chen Wanhong said speechlessly, "I admit that the existence of the Celestial Saint has suppressed many chaotic things, bringing peace to the world. But what does the peace of the world have to do with my Chen Family? With the Celestial Saint in existence, my Chen Family cannot expand its ambitions, yet if there were no Celestial Saint, even if some powerful beings took over the Celestial Profound Realm, my Ziwei Chen Family is protected by Longevity Seekers. Our status in the Celestial Profound Realm might even be higher, which wouldn’t be a bad thing."

Chen Wanhong is typically of the mindset that prioritizes family interests. To him, as long as the family can live better, and their bloodline can continue and hold high positions, the life and death of others don’t matter to them.

Will the occupation of the Celestial Profound Realm by powerful beings compress the living space of the Human Race and lower them to a secondary biological chain level?

It doesn’t matter. It seems in his perception, only the Human Race has this strange mindset of ’outsiders must harbor different intentions,’ whereas in the normal order of All Heavens and Myriads of Realms, the Human Race is just one part of the myriad of races. No one would deliberately target you. If your clan has a presence in the Longevity Realm, naturally, no one would want to provoke you actively.

Thinking about this, Chen Wanhong looked at Chen Zhixing with a strange expression and said after hesitating for a moment, "Zhixing, your mindset doesn’t really seem like someone from a Noble Family. Based on the recent information I’ve gathered about your past, you seem more like someone who grew up receiving education from the Three Great Sacred Lands, who emphasize maintaining governance—although there’s nothing wrong with that. But as your elder, I should still remind you... The Three Great Sacred Lands maintain this stable governance because they need the support of Human Tao’s luck, because a stable Celestial Profound Realm can bring them enough benefits. But such stability is disadvantageous for our Noble Families. Only in a chaotic world can we truly stretch our limbs."

Chen Zhixing frowned upon hearing this, but after a moment, he relaxed.

"The facts are indeed as you say, but I enjoy a stable world, like seeing the myriad of household lights shining across the Celestial Profound Realm."

"It seems I can’t convince you."

Upon hearing Chen Zhixing’s words, Chen Wanhua knew he couldn’t be persuaded.

Any promise or persuasion in this world cannot withstand a simple declaration of preference.

For ordinary people, they might still be subject to changes through threats and inducements, but to someone like Chen Zhixing, who now stands at the pinnacle of the world, unless you present benefits grand enough for him to abandon his own convictions, his own will remains paramount.

Just like the successive Celestial Saints of the Celestial Saint Palace, whose persistence and inherited will prioritize the prosperity of the Human Race. Thus, for countless years, the way of doing things as one of the Three Great Sacred Lands always focused on maintaining the stable development of the Human Race.

For this, the Human Race’s Celestial Saint could even make concessions to Yimiao and Li Er, while as a whole, the Celestial Saint Palace could allow the rise of the Immortal Imperial Court, Daluo Tao, and the Immortal Ascension Sect to share in the power of the Celestial Saint Palace.

This is because, overall, this way of dividing power is beneficial to the Celestial Profound Human Race.

So, is it beneficial for the Celestial Saint and the Celestial Saint Palace?

The answer is no.

Even the smallest dictatorship is more comfortable than sharing power with others. If it weren’t, there wouldn’t have been so many throughout the ages trying to divide and rule as kings.

"Yes, of course, if you really need to extend your life, you can exchange some things with me. Although I can’t possibly offer you a divine medicine that extends life by ten thousand years, I can exchange pills that extend life by hundreds or thousands of years."

Chen Zhixing calmly responded.

He truly doesn’t want Chen Wanhong stepping into the Cosmic Realm, and he’s willing to make some concessions for this.

Yes, indeed, he only has one divine medicine that extends life by ten thousand years.

But anything, as long as he understands its laws, he can replicate using his own mana.

Though the cost is significant, making it impossible to use for replicating basic resources like earth, water vapor, minerals, Spiritual Qi, and so on, because the investment would greatly outweigh the return for him. However, when it comes to replicating longevity pills, there is still some surplus.

Replicating longevity pills is basically equivalent to replicating the essence of the World Tree Heart for Chen Zhixing.

Due to his realm limitations, Chen Zhixing can’t fully replicate it yet. The Chaos Body is only of Second Order, which means he can only replicate the Longevity Tree Heart of the Second Order, and it can only take effect in the Cosmic Realm. Still, this level of life-extending medicine is enough to satisfy extending lifespan for some people.

After all, in the Celestial Profound Realm, the best longevity pills mostly only extend lifespan by a hundred or two hundred years. Here, we’re talking about extending innate lifespan, not supplementing acquired lifespan!

The great medicine for supplementing acquired lifespan isn’t lacking in the Celestial Profound Realm, capable of extending life by a thousand years. Not to mention, the Great Alchemists within the Celestial Saint Palace can even produce and sell them externally.

Life, like a health bar in a game, depletes over time. Consuming an innate lifespan pill doesn’t add to the length of the bar but can increase the amount; taking a pill to extend by a hundred years is like increasing your health bar from one hundred to two hundred. In contrast, acquired longevity pills only act like red potions, replenishing your lost health, without changing the total length of your health bar.

As one’s age increases, it’s naturally the length of the health bar that diminishes, not the amount.

Someone like the Celestial Saint, who has almost consumed all divine medicines in the Celestial Profound Realm to supplement innate lifespan, has extended it to its maximum, living over twenty thousand years, which is nearly the lifespan limit for cultivators in the Celestial Profound Realm.

Even if they are postnatal longevity pills, native innate life-extension great pills of the Celestial Profound Realm would be ineffective, otherwise, Li Er and Yimiao wouldn’t have caused such a big stir in the Cosmic Realm.

But things are different for Chen Shanchen.

As the master of a Noble Family, although he also holds considerable power, it is still quite challenging for him to gather life-extension great pills capable of increasing innate lifespan of those in the Longevity Realm.

Due to years of warfare, he has lost both innate and acquired lifespan. His acquired lifespan has already been replenished with ordinary longevity pills. As for pills that supplement innate lifespan, it’s truly difficult for the Star Island Chen Family to gather the materials for a single batch. Even if they manage to gather them, there is no Alchemist available to concoct it.

Unless they hand the materials over to a Sacred Land for refinement!

But here’s the problem: any Noble Family would not wish for the Celestial Saint of the Celestial Saint Palace to live on, so how could they hand over materials potentially capable of prolonging the life of the Celestial Saint to the Celestial Saint Palace?

Chen Shanchen doesn’t wish to!

He’d rather die together with that old Celestial Saint than give him the slightest chance to live for the sake of extending his own life!

To die with the old Celestial Saint—this is his greatest contribution to the entire Chen Family. Whether the new generation of the Celestial Saint would suppress the Chen family’s descendants after his and the Celestial Saint’s deaths, that would be for the descendants to consider, not related to Chen Shanchen, a dead man!

That’s the logic.

Though overtly, conflicts between Noble Families and Sacred Lands seem minimal, hidden beneath, the Noble Families truly wish to eliminate the Three Great Sacred Lands and rise to power themselves!

For this, they are willing to pay any price.

Conversely, for the sake of stabilizing their own rule, the Sacred Lands would instinctively wish for the Noble Families to weaken, ideally maintaining them in a state barely qualifying as Longevity Families but just barely surviving—like the state of the Ziwei Chen Family before Chen Zhixing’s rise, the way most favored by the Celestial Saint Palace.

Declined, yet still capable of governance, needing the reliance on the Celestial Saint Palace, without worrying about the Ziwei Chen Family rebelling.

If it weren’t so, the Celestial Saint Palace wouldn’t have maintained such a friendly relationship with the Ziwei Chen Family for so many years.

Thus, to say Sacred Lands and Noble Families govern separately with peace and friendliness is merely a tale to hear, definitely not to believe, at least while people like Chen Wanhong and Chen Tianchen are still around—it’s impossible to achieve.