Chen Tang landed, throwing two chopsticks back into the chopstick holder on the main hall table.
He still had strength to spare and did not hurt Chen Shi. Instead, he severed all of Chen Shi’s senses, letting him fall into a deep sleep.
Chen Tang brought Chen Shi back to his room to rest, tucked him in, and sat by the bedside, watching the sleeping Chen Shi with a softened gaze.
The Chen Shi lying in bed overlapped with the tiny Chen Shi in his mind.
He still remembered when Old Lady Wu Zhu, after delivering the baby, smiled and told him it was a boy and that he could come in now. He carefully lifted the door curtain, fearing the outside wind might blow on his wife and child.
Holding the tiny Chen Shi in his arms, he looked at the newborn and suddenly felt a surge of joy, his eyes brimming with tears.
He felt the sensation of his own blood flowing in this tiny baby, as if his life was continuing through this child.
From that moment on, he no longer feared death. He could do anything for this home, this child, even sacrifice his own life.
Because he knew that this child would carry a part of him into the world, preserving it.
And one day, this child would have children of his own, continuously passing down this heritage. In a way, Chen Tang would thus achieve a different kind of immortality.
He stepped out of the room and said to Black Pot, "He is very good, always managing to surprise me."
Black Pot wagged his tail, clearly pleased.
"You have done well in teaching him," Chen Tang said.
Black Pot looked up at him, slightly stunned, and thought to himself, "This battle has indeed shaken our master greatly."
The battle between the father and son of the Chen Family caused an even greater stir in the Western Capital.
Heaven Listeners monitoring Chen Mansion were squatting outside the mansion, on other family’s walls, perched on rooftops, and even hanging upside down from trees, quickly recording the destruction caused by Chen Shi’s Sword Qi and the subtleties of Chen Tang’s Xuanwei Sword Scripture.
One unfortunate Heaven Listener was pierced through by Chen Shi’s Sword Qi and was falling from the tree branch he hung from, hitting the ground with a smack.
Immediately, a Government Official from Gongtian Prefecture stepped out from the shadows, dragged the body away, and a group of people came with buckets of water to clean the ground. After doing all this, they silently blended back into the darkness, continuing to watch Chen Mansion.
Inside Chen Mansion, four maids, three servants, including the steward Chen Fu, each took advantage of the nightfall to hurriedly leave Chen Mansion and meet someone in a nearby alley where they vividly described the battle between the father and son of the Chen Family to the visitor.
The visitor left in a hurry.
Meanwhile, officials from the Observatory were monitoring streaks of Sword Qi piercing the sky, while others flew out to locate where the Sword Qi ended, quickly recording everything, and many officials were busy writing, summarizing various data.
Soon, a detailed file on Chen Shi and Chen Tang’s capabilities was placed in front of the leaders of the Thirteen Families in the Western Capital.
Yan Xianzhi, Zhang Fuzheng, Gao Quan, and others quickly opened these files and read them carefully.
At the same time, a copy of the file was sent to the Eastern Factory, Five Armies, Divine Machine, Divine Strategy, and Three Dukes, among many other senior officials.
Finally, Middle Lang Qin Su from Fuzheng Pavilion also received a file about Chen Shi and Chen Tang.
Qin Su got out of bed, dressed quickly, and read through the night, his expression gradually becoming solemn. He quickly straightened his attire and walked out of Xiexiu Hall.
Outside Xiexiu Hall, an official from the Observatory had been waiting for a long time and bowed upon seeing him.
Qin Su didn’t return the bow but waved his hand instead, stomping his foot, creating clouds and winds under his feet, and took off with the official toward the city outskirts.
The Observatory official said, "This action is likely to attract attention and be recorded by outsiders."
"It can’t be helped," Qin Su replied.
The Observatory official could only point out the direction, and Qin Su, controlling the clouds and wind, quickly left the city, arriving a hundred miles away after a short while.
This place was far from the Western Capital, behind the mountains of the city.
The mountains around the Western Capital were steep and treacherous, guarded by the Five Armies, who held the strategic high ground.
Few people ventured into the mountains at night, as it was fraught with danger, but Qin Su, skilled and courageous, came to a cliff at night, where the Observatory official said, "This is the spot, sir, look up."
Qin Su looked up and saw a sword mark on the cliffside, penetrating into the rock.
The sword mark was no wider than two fingers, very thin.
Qin Su’s expression changed, and he leapt to the sword mark, comparing it with two fingers.
He was comparing the sword fingers, which required aligning the index and middle fingers— the width of the Sword Qi.
After briefly comparing, Qin Su found the sword mark was slightly narrower than his two fingers, indicating that the person who wielded the Sword Qi was a youth.
"From Chen Mansion, the straight line distance is a hundred and seventeen miles," the Observatory official said.
Qin Su’s voice was a bit hoarse as he spoke, "Sword Qi reaching beyond a hundred miles, that’s the Divinity Transformation Realm’s cultivation. A hundred and seventeen miles, the Sword Qi remained concentrated without any dispersion, as if it had flown straight from the fingertips. This kind of control is not something an ordinary Divinity Transformation Realm can achieve!"
Even a beam of light, traveling over a hundred miles to this spot, would have expanded many times!
But Chen Shi’s Sword Qi was as narrow as it had been at its origin, almost unchanged. That was truly terrifying!
This was a monstrous level of control. In the history of the West Bull New Continent, there has never been anyone in the Nascent Soul Realm who could achieve this—probably only Chen Shi could manage it!
Qin Su steadied his mind, and his Primordial Spirit flew out, delving deep into the cliffside, following the sword mark to find out how deep Chen Shi’s Sword Qi had penetrated.