If the countless powerful warriors on this city wall knew this in the afterlife, they could rest in peace now.
Ye Xingchen's gaze fell on the top of the city wall, where an urn was hanging.
The vermilion ashes, weathered by wind and rain, have long lost their original color and appear mottled and worn.
But it stood right in the center of the gate, pressing down on the city gate itself.
The other powerful individuals, even when suspended, were all positioned one head lower than the city gate; none of them received this treatment.
The urn was hung in the very center, directly above the main entrance, which was enough to show that he was different from others.
These are the ashes of Ye Jinyu, the father. Even though he died in battle, he was still respected by Jin Luocheng.
Ye Xingchen knelt on the ground and respectfully kowtowed three times. Then he leaped up, his body rising from the ground, and reached out to take down his father's ashes.
The moment he landed, he felt as if he had been transported to another world.
For more than 20 years, he has never seen his father.
He never imagined that he and his father would meet in this way.
Brushing away the dust from the urn, a mist rose in Ye Xingchen's eyes.
He murmured, "You've never seen me, and I've never seen you, but my son and I came to Jinluo City one after the other, all for the purpose of destroying this city and restoring peace to the southwestern border of China."
"What you couldn't accomplish more than twenty years ago, I've done now, Dad... Can you see that?"
Tears fell silently as Ye Xingchen tightly embraced her father's ashes, sobbing uncontrollably.
Si Qianyu stood silently beside Ye Xingchen. She knew that the power of the Mountain and River Fortune Chart had disappeared, and Ye Xingchen had exhausted all his potential by forcibly breaking through four realms.
He could collapse from exhaustion at any moment, so she had to stay by Ye Xingchen's side.
"Aren't you going to open it and take a look?" Si Qianyu said.
Ye Xingchen nodded, placed the urn on the ground, and then carefully opened it.
The moment he opened the urn, his pupils contracted slightly.
The urn was empty except for a general's star lying quietly inside, shining brightly in the darkness.
Ye Xingchen took out the general's star and placed it in his palm. The star was heavy, and without much thought, he knew that it came from his father.
“There’s no ashes of your father in here.” Si Qianyu was startled. She looked up at Ye Xingchen: “Does this mean… he’s still alive?”
“Yes, that means he’s still alive.” Ye Xingchen murmured to himself, a glimmer of light in his eyes: “My father… is still alive…”
Suddenly, I remembered the dream I had entered twice before, in a cave, with a man locked in front of a dragon's head.
Ye Xingchen initially didn't know what the dream represented. He thought it was a premonition of his future, but now he realizes it wasn't.
Perhaps the man whose face I couldn't see clearly in my dream was my father.
Clutching the star tightly, Ye Xingchen's face darkened slightly: "He's still alive, but... where is he now?"
Unfortunately, the karmic force attached to his father was too heavy, and with Ye Xingchen's current level of Qimen physiognomy, he couldn't predict his karma at all.
Otherwise, he would have directly used metaphysics to predict his father's life or death.
Because the power of cause and effect is too heavy, he cannot learn about his father's situation by summoning the underworld. And does the clue end here?
"You need to rest." Seeing Ye Xingchen's aura rapidly dissipate, Si Qianyu knew that his strength had been exhausted.
Now that Jinluo City has been destroyed, the last trace of power of the Mountain and River Fortune Map has also vanished.
With the help of the Mountain and River Fortune Map, Ye Xingchen broke through four realms and entered the half-step Saint realm, which had completely squeezed out all the potential in his body.
There has never been a precedent for someone forcibly breaking through four realms. Breaking through one realm is potential, the second realm is the limit, and the third realm... can kill people.
Breaking through four realms in a row is something that has never happened before, so Ye Xingchen is in great danger now.
Ye Xingchen's legs went weak and he was about to fall to the ground, but fortunately he reacted in time, knelt on one knee, supported himself with one hand, and gasped for breath.
"How are you?" Si Qianyu quickly bent down and looked at Ye Xingchen with concern.
"I...I'm fine." Ye Xingchen shook his head, then he barely managed to sit down, intending to enter a meditative state to recover some of his strength.
However, before he could prepare himself, everything went black, the world spun around him, and he collapsed into Si Qianyu's arms, unconscious.
A week later.
Ye Xingchen slowly opened his eyes, and what he saw was Si Qianyu's concerned gaze.
"You're awake?" Seeing Ye Xingchen wake up safely, Si Qianyu breathed a sigh of relief.
For the past seven days, she has stayed by Ye Xingchen's side without ever taking off her clothes.
Ye Xingchen's aura was extremely chaotic. She tried to transfer a wisp of true energy to him to help him recover his strength quickly, but Ye Xingchen's dantian could not store any true energy at all. The transferred energy disappeared without a trace, like a river flowing into the sea.
A primordial spiritual energy circulated within him, appearing and disappearing intermittently.
Si Qianyu didn't know what was wrong with him, so she didn't dare leave him and could only stay by his side for seven days and seven nights.
"It's good that you're alright, but your cultivation level..." Si Qianyu looked at Ye Xingchen with a complicated expression. Ye Xingchen's dantian was now completely devoid of energy, making him look no different from an ordinary person.
Ye Xingchen closed his eyes and tried to mobilize the true energy in his body, but after several attempts, he could only mobilize a very small amount of true energy.
The true energy in his body seemed to have completely disappeared, and he now seemed to have fallen directly from the Celestial Phenomenon Realm to an ordinary person.
Suddenly, he sensed an extremely powerful aura within his dantian, an aura hidden within his dantian that could not flow outwards.
Ye Xingchen felt slightly relieved. It seemed that he had not lost all his cultivation, but had only temporarily sealed it away.
He broke through four realms in a row that day. An ordinary person would have been exhausted long ago because their potential had been completely drained.
His actions in Jinluo City will also bear immense karmic consequences.
Therefore, he now seals all his energy in his dantian, which can be considered a way to avoid the power of cause and effect, making the heavens mistakenly believe that he has suffered a backlash and lost all his cultivation.
After a period of recovery, the internal energy can be used at any time. What's this? Continuing to play dumb to outsmart others?
"I'm fine. My internal energy is still there, and it hasn't suffered much damage compared to before. It's just hidden away," Ye Xingchen said. "I can use it anytime I want."
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