Chapter 605: A Visit to Wind Ravine Valley
Realman Du Cang was currently visiting Wind Ravine Valley in the northern region of the Chenping Continent.
And after leaving Wind Ravine Valley, his next stop would be the Kongshan Sect in the northwestern region of the Chenping Continent.
At present, many cultivators on the Chenping Continent knew that Realman Du Cang's real name was Chen Yan, yet almost no one connected him with the chief disciple of Kongyuan Mountain who had fallen during the Outer Court Cataclysm over twenty years ago.
After all, the name "Chen Yan" had at least a hundred thousand variations across the entire Chenping Continent.
But within the Five Great Sects, many people knew that the real identity of the current Realman Du Cang was none other than the former chief disciple of Kongyuan Mountain.
Realman Du Cang had already visited Star Heaven Sect, Lingxiao Temple, and Wind Ravine Valley.
Aside from his time at Star Heaven Sect, where Supreme Pivot Elder Gu Jiancheng had accompanied him, he had been personally accompanied by the Ascended Stewards of each respective sect during his visits to Lingxiao Temple and Wind Ravine Valley.
One could say that the reception etiquette the Five Great Sects now extended to Chen Yan was already approaching the same standards they had once shown to the Heavenly Summit Mountain Daomen Xingzou during the mountain's golden age.
This was absolutely unprecedented since the fall of Heavenly Summit Mountain and the Five Great Sects' takeover of the Chenping Continent's cultivation order.
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Wind Ravine Valley, Qingjin Ravine.
A handsome young man dressed in plain white daoist robes clasped his hands behind his back and slowly paced along the creek of Qingjin Ravine.
The stunningly beautiful woman accompanying him, with her impressive figure, was none other than Yin Xia, Realman Shuangyu, the Ascended Steward of Wind Ravine Valley.
Behind these two Ascended Immortals followed more than twenty cultivators from Wind Ravine Valley.
Most of them were Grand Elders of Wind Ravine Valley.
Of course, the Valley Master of Wind Ravine Valley and the Peak Elders of Qingjin Ravine were also among them.
In particular, those Peak Elders of Qingjin Ravine all had cultivation realms of only Myriad Transformations Realm.
Although the Myriad Transformations Realm could already be considered a titan of the Chenping Continent's cultivation world, it was clearly not impressive enough for this occasion.
"Realman Chen seems quite familiar with my Wind Ravine Valley's Qingjin Ravine," Yin Xia said, watching Chen Yan casually strolling ahead.
"Familiar indeed," Chen Yan admitted with a nod and a smile.
With his current influence and power on the Chenping Continent, he had no need to conceal any of his thoughts.
Ascending to Immortality.
These two words had once felt impossibly distant to Chen Yan.
From the moment he had first transmigrated into this world, joined the Kongshan Sect at the age of seven, and gained a preliminary understanding of this world's cultivation system, he had been pursuing this elusive goal.
It wasn't until he was seventy or eighty years old, still stuck in the Energy Channeling Realm while most of his peers with exceptional talent had already broken through to the Martial Spring Realm or even the Qi Sea Realm, that Chen Yan chose to accept his fate.
In his previous life, he had been nothing more than an ordinary person.
And reborn into this cultivation world, he was merely an ordinary person who had transmigrated.
Chen Yan had always lived with this mentality, almost completely resigned, with no edges left.
It wasn't until he reached over a hundred years old and realized his lifespan was nearing its end that he finally began to struggle again.
He didn't want to die.
Whether cultivator or mortal, the desire to live was the most fundamental instinct.
Chen Yan often thought that if he could truly die, he might finally find true release.
The Ultimate Sage of Imperial Void's sixty-thousand-year karma had now been shed from him.
But what had he truly cast off?
Bearing the fate of Heaven's Dao was in itself an existence that defied human nature.
It even made one feel that death itself was liberation.
Even though Chen Yan had now ascended to immortality, standing proudly above everyone on the Chenping Continent thanks to the techniques he practiced, his heart could not feel any joy.
All beings suffer.
Chen Yan thought to himself.
"I need your help, Realman Yin," Chen Yan said as he continued walking along the creek of Qingjin Ravine.
"Please, give your orders," Yin Xia replied without a moment's hesitation.
"Lend me three thousand outer sect disciples from Wind Ravine Valley to repair Du Cang Mountain," Chen Yan said.
"Not a problem," Yin Xia immediately agreed, then added, "But having only manpower without sufficient spiritual materials and funds will likely delay the progress of Realman Chen's repairs on Du Cang Mountain."
"Leave the materials and funds to me, Realman Yin need not worry. I have my arrangements," Chen Yan said.
"Understood," Realman Shuangyu replied.
"One more thing," Chen Yan continued. "In three years, Du Cang Mountain will host the first Du Cang Mountain Dao Discussion. From now on, the Du Cang Mountain Dao Discussion will replace the former Dao Inquiry Assembly of Chenping Continent, becoming the largest cultivation grand event on the continent. Please use these three years to promote the Du Cang Mountain Dao Discussion widely throughout the Northern Region of the Chenping Continent."
The Du Cang Mountain Dao Discussion.
Yin Xia had already heard some wind of this matter a few days ago, right after Chen Yan had finished his visit to Star Heaven Sect.
"Please rest assured, Realman Chen. Leave it to Wind Ravine Valley," Yin Xia said.
Chen Yan nodded, then stopped in his tracks. "I'm a bit tired. Let's end things here for today."
Upon hearing this, Yin Xia also stopped, first bowed in Chen Yan's direction, then turned and walked back.
The Grand Elders of Wind Ravine Valley and the Peak Elders of Qingjin Ravine who had been following behind also respectfully bowed toward Chen Yan, then naturally arranged themselves into two rows, clearing a path for Yin Xia.
"Realman Yin, please stay a moment," Chen Yan said calmly.
Realman Shuangyu stopped, then signaled with her eyes for the Grand Elders and Peak Elders of Qingjin Ravine to leave first.
After all the Wind Ravine Valley elders had departed, only the figures of two Ascended Immortal cultivators were reflected in the waters of Qingjin Ravine.
"What other instructions does Realman Chen have?" Yin Xia asked.
"It's been two years since the Great Chaos of the Immortals ended. Is Realman Yin's current condition still stable?" Chen Yan said.
The Great Chaos of the Immortals.
Four Ascended Immortal cultivators from the Five Great Sects, along with two Ascended Immortal cultivators from Heavenly Summit Mountain, had all but sacrificed everything to achieve their goals.
They had completely abandoned the current era.
The Ascended Immortal cultivators of the Chenping Continent were bound by the laws of heaven and earth, unable to fully unleash their mighty power.
To use dao rhymes, one had to forcibly break through the restrictions of heaven and earth's laws, which meant the Dao Foundation would inevitably suffer severe backlash and erosion.
Among all those in the Great Chaos of the Immortals, the ones whose Dao Foundations had been most severely damaged were Kong Yang, Gu Jing, and Qiu Siruo.
Those with the least damage to their Dao Foundations were Realman Sun-Eroding, Liang Huan, and Realman Shuangyu, Yin Xia.