Chapter 497: Chapter 356: Liu Zihan’s Wish
“It’s really good that Yang Shi is still alive…”
Yang Genshuo looked at the Danai Dynasty, which had reinvented itself with new vitality over two years, where the conflicts between the Beast Taming Sect and the Martial Sect had been pried open, resorting to competing in magical techniques if there were disagreements.
Whoever had the superior Demon Slaying Technique was the leader.
“This grand competition of Demon Slaying Techniques indeed served the purpose we anticipated, competing in scholarship, various arts, and magical duels… It served as a rehearsal on how to deal with the Demon Clan, shifting everyone’s focus to what truly matters.”
Compared to the next breach of the barrier in the Demon Realm, the disagreement between the Beast Taming Sect and the Martial Sect was trivial.
“Using external conflicts to shift internal ones, thus achieving a win-win situation…that move, we played it right.”
That night, Yang Genshuo slowed down his game pace and chatted all night with Yang Shi, who had escaped from dead.
They discussed many reform measures, and this was among the most crucial ones.
In the face of the Demon Clan, whose purposes were unclear, the Danai Dynasty had to unite all the forces it could, firmly avoiding any division.
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The Danai Dynasty corrected the contradictions caused by two factions within the Yang Family and even ignited greater vitality among the cultivators.
Even the robust scholarly atmosphere of Bright City in the Danai Dynasty attracted many cultivators who traveled long distances from the Fierce Sun Dynasty.
“Unfortunately, the two Sect Leaders of the Fierce Sun Dynasty still refuse to join our plan, operating independently.”
Yang Shi and Ding Zhen had visited the Fierce Sun Dynasty many times, meting the Sect Leaders of the True Fire Sect and the Dan Fire Sect, telling them about the potential aftermath of the barrier in the Demon Realm breaking.
It aroused their attention, but only slightly.
They heavily guarded the only connection to the Danai Dynasty…
It was a secret realm in the Devil Wind Forest, the only path through which one could pass.
It had always been strange why such a rare path existed between the two dynasties, even being not far from Bright City.
But these last few days, Yang Genshuo had a speculation.
“This path might have also been gnawed by the Slit Beasts from the Feng Family… only later, for some unknown reasons, did the Feng Family suddenly seal the route to the Danai Dynasty, with it remaining closed for centuries.”
“Alas, the Fierce Sun Dynasty, with its excellent geographical location and the Danai Dynasty as a shield, has grown complacent…”
But the Fierce Sun Dynasty had its own Golden Core and its own sects; there, the two major sects held prestige, and the Yang Family had no say, only able to manage their side of the Danai Dynasty.
Luckily, Ding Zhen supported Yang Shi unconditionally, and all policies were implemented very smoothly.
“Looking back… actually, the chaos brought by the demon cultivators wasn’t entirely bad; it at least destroyed the old regime, allowing Yang Shi and Ding Zhen to take over the dynasty and carry out extensive reforms, which led to today’s glory of Bright City.”
“If it were still Daoist Xuanzhen managing the Xuan Stone Sect, who knows how long he would continue to stick to old rules…”
In the end, Yang Shi had opened up the estate left by Daoist Xuanzhen in the Meteor Star Immortal Mansion (the one that accelerates the growth of spirit plants), but the treasures that were once untouchable, for the brothers Yang Fu and Yang Fujian adventuring in the Spirit Miao Continent, the Yang Family had long possessed better ones.
Daoist Xuanzhen was just a poor Golden Core early-stage cultivator after all…
This made Yang Genshuo recall a trip to the supermarket a few days ago when he bought a huge pack of WangWang snacks.
As a child, this product only existed in the locker of the wealthiest kid in class.
He always stared jealously as the kid opened his locker to take one out, hoping to be offered one…
Since childhood, he wondered… how tasty would it be to eat an entire pack by oneself?
Yesterday he ate one, and felt nothing, even finding it overly sweet to the point of discomfort.
“One cannot possess both youth and the feelings of youth simultaneously…”
The Yang Family was now wealthy, no longer able to find the thrill of trading a pack of Three Kingdoms Kill cards for a treasure.
“Immortal cultivation is endless, as long as time flows, we must continue to cultivate, pursuing higher realms…”
Whether as a martial cultivator or a cultivator, no one can escape the anxiety of Life Span.
Living a hundred years but wanting to live three hundred years, and after three hundred years wishing for five hundred years, then from five hundred years to a thousand…
The thresholds keep rising, until… eternity.
But having faced life and death, Yang Shi had a different perspective.
Upon learning that Yang Fujian’s wife, Tan Xue, was pregnant, he joyfully drank for three days straight in Liu Zihan’s courtyard!
“Good… Little Jian also has a child now, Zihan, he will carry on the Liu Family’s bloodline.”
“If Master knew, he would surely be happy too!”
“Zihan, just thinking about them completing what we haven’t fills my heart with warmth—perhaps the meaning of life isn’t eternal life, but… the continuation of the bloodline.”
“May our ancestors bless the Yang Family with everlasting prosperity!”
Allowing one’s bloodline to continue in this world, isn’t that a form of eternity?
With a new perspective, Yang Shi felt the world had broadened.
Liu Zihan poured a cup of wine for Yang Shi, twisting his silver hair, his face filled with contentment.
“Now that Little Jian has started his own family and has a child, he might settle down and not be so aggressively ambitious… My father used to say, a warrior should keep his weapons concealed, ready to act when the time comes.”
At this, a faint worry appeared on Liu Zihan’s face.
“Brother, I miss my father… Do you think I’ll ever see him again?”
“You will… definitely.”
Yang Shi glanced at the now aged face of Liu Zihan and turned away.
Nobody knew where Liu Wuheng had gone; he either had left the Danai Dynasty or had already…
When Liu Wuheng had left, the turmoil of the demon cultivators had not yet been resolved, and no one knew what had happened in those years.
Watching the longing on Liu Zihan’s face, Yang Shi too felt a pang in his heart…