Comprehension Ability: I Forge a Villainous Longevity Family

Chapter 806: Chapter 565: Vajra Thought (Part 2)

Chen Wanhong’s face was filled with smiles.

Seeing this, Chen Zhixing looked even more helpless.

He served some tea and snacks to Chen Wanhong, watching this living ancestor settle down across from him, seemingly speaking in jest, but actually helping resolve his inner knot.

"Everyone faces such a day, learn to adapt. Although it’s a bit early for you, who told you to leave all your family out in the external world?"

"Ancestor, I’m really fine."

"Fine? Haha!" Chen Wanhong laughed heartily and pointed at himself to Chen Zhixing: "Do you think I don’t know whether you’re fine? Do you know how I endured my arrival at Star Island, my hundred-year birthday, three hundred-year birthday, thousand-year birthday? It’s all thanks to pure determination, thinking that my relatives are still around, as long as I return to East Profound Jiang State, set foot again on Ziwei Mountain, I can still see them!"

"And then? Now, ancestor, all your relatives have passed away, and the current Ziwei Mountain isn’t like the one you once lived at. What do you think now?" Chen Zhixing pretended to listen attentively.

"There’s nothing more to say. Once I learned of my ancestors and father’s deaths, I placed my hopes on the entire legacy of the Ziwei Chen Family. Though my ancestors, father, and those relatives have died, their bloodline still flows through you Chen Family descendants, so I must live. Only by living can I shield them from storms, letting the Chen Family bloodline continue on."

"Is this your method of placing hopes, ancestor?"

"Indeed."

"Is it effective?"

"Of course, if it weren’t effective, why do Noble Families linger in the world, and how are you able to see someone like me today?"

Faced with Chen Zhixing’s inquiry, Chen Wanhong responded with a smile.

"You should have noticed that most of the Corpse Ghosts in this world come from the Three Great Sacred Lands, with a few from overseas Loose Cultivators, while among Noble Family Longevity Realm, it’s rare to find even one Corpse Ghost. This is due to the fact that everyone’s spirit has something to rely on, making it naturally easier to preserve human nature."

"If you hadn’t mentioned it, I wouldn’t have realized." Chen Zhixing blinked: "I thought it was because Noble Family Longevity Seekers are taken away by the Three Great Sacred Lands at age three thousand, preventing Corpse Ghosts from appearing. I didn’t expect the real reason to be like this."

"Cough, part of it is due to that reason too, but for us Noble Families, placing human nature within the family ensures safety until age three thousand, unlike those from Sacred Lands who often lose all humanity between one to two thousand years and transform into Corpse Ghosts unknowingly..."

Chen Wanhong seemed embarrassed at this point, but quickly recovered.

Indeed, as he said.

Sect inheritance demands talent, rules, Taoist Technique legacy, inherently different from bloodline affection in Noble Families. This leads Longevity Realm from Sacred Lands to struggle, if not impossibly, to place their humanity within Sect Holy Lands. Forcing this path often doesn’t end well.

After all, hopes placed in descendants carry familial ties, even if some produce calamity, blood relations make one grudgingly accept.

But placing hopes in Sect inheritance... a disgruntled senior apprentice’s pupil suddenly provokes a formidable enemy into the midst, implicating you, ready to scatter your soul?

Why?

Unfair!

Even you might want to deal with that pesky child!

It sounds absurd.

Yet it’s the true difficulty Longevity Realm within Sects face, leaving one speechless yet unable to ignore reality.

People talk about planning for descendants, but planning for colleagues?

Even if there are fearless saints creating peace for ages, if this saint lives a millennium, seeing what improved world by their hand turns worse under beneficiaries, do you think this saint would accept culpability for the world’s decline due to their sins, or restore order, striving for peace anew?

The former is bloodline, so Longevity Seekers grudgingly accept.

The latter is Sect, where Longevity True Monarchs would harshly deal with errant disciples!

Though for the world, the latter is better than the former, for preserving human nature in Longevity Seekers, only the former is viable, the latter fundamentally unfeasible!

Even if the finest path is pursued, that Five Elements Taoist Lord, Celestial Saint, still became a Corpse Ghost?

"So, ancestor wishes for me to learn from you perhaps?"

Understanding Chen Wanhong’s intent, Chen Zhixing inquired with interest.

"Indeed!" Chen Wanhong nodded: "Even if not now, one should prepare early. Considering your realm, living a millennium isn’t an issue, but how long can you maintain humanity..."

Chen Wanhua didn’t finish, realizing this junior had significant issues with temperament, possibly converting into a Corpse Ghost within a thousand years if not following this bloodline hope method.

This wasn’t criticizing Chen Zhixing’s nature.

Rather, it was recognizing Chen Zhixing’s excessive wisdom, early clarity on all matters, which paradoxically for Longevity Realm hinders maintaining humanity.

"Hope ancestor imparts wisdom."

Chen Zhixing acknowledged his issues in this aspect.

Seeing Chen Wanhua speak so, he agreed readily.

Though not intending to use it himself, it didn’t stop him from surveying it first, seeking alternative paths.

...

At nightfall, spring rain ceased.

Watching Chen Zhixing gain the essence of the bloodline hope method, Chen Wanhong left, leaving Chen Zhixing in the grand hall to comprehend.

This bloodline hope method, described easily yet profoundly complex.

At least for Chen Zhixing, this technique was truly profound!

"Using the multitudes as a forge, nurturing a thought within, forming a Vajra Thought, it becomes immortal for thousands of ages... sounds good, but the flaw is living entirely for this thought henceforth, never allowing stray thoughts, any damage to this Vajra Thought renders it irreparable."

Saying so, Chen Zhixing sighed helplessly, sensing this path wasn’t for him.

"A Vajra Thought, yet really an obsession, placing hopes within family bloodline merely defines a grand topic, more accepted than other thoughts. However, owing to culturing this Vajra Thought method, many second-generation heirs crying for ancestral salvation emerged."

Inexplicably, Chen Zhixing recalled those novels he’d read.

Only his own ancestor practiced this Vajra Thought method, retaining obsessions in bloodline legacy, consequently nurturing misguided rebellion. Otherwise, within Noble Family’s refreshment systems, no chance for rogue heirs to surface or call ancestors for salvation.

"This Vajra Thought doesn’t suit preserving my humanity, yet complements my Instantaneous Creation method?"

Pondering this, a Divine Pattern shimmered on Chen Zhixing’s brow.

Simultaneously.

Above Celestial Profound Realm, vast starlight began condensing around Ziwei Dharma Aspect, strengthening Chen Zhixing’s internal numerous Divine Thought incarnations.

"Hmm, I must say, though unsuitable for preserving humanity, it’s quite effective in strengthening thoughts, but the effect..."

Detecting the reduced number of thoughts he could produce after strengthening those composing Ziwei Dharma Aspect in the starry sky, Chen Zhixing felt a mix of emotions.

"Indeed, in the world all things come with a price, gains come with losses, quality can’t coexist with quantity, seems henceforth only during critical moments shall I employ these fortified Vajra Divine Thoughts, otherwise ordinary thoughts shall suffice."