"You've finally arrived. If you had come any later, you probably wouldn't have seen this old man again." Tang Tiancheng rubbed his chest, which was still a bit sore from Han Yu's spiritual pressure, and patted Xu Chen's shoulder. Xu Chen nodded, took out a cigarette, lit it, took a deep drag, and blew the smoke into Han Yu's face.
"Cough cough cough, who are you?! I..."
Han Ying stopped him, looked at Xu Chen with a solemn expression and said, "Hello, senior."
Xu Chen gestured for Han Ying and Han Yu to leave, then said to Tang Tiancheng, "I'll handle this. Please stay alert."
Tang Tiancheng nodded, instructed the Special Operations Bureau to evacuate his colleagues, and then watched Xu Chen leave.
After Xu Chen left, he flew directly into the sky and caught up with Han Ying and Han Yu, who were traveling on their swords.
"Where do you come from?"
"Senior, we come from the Kunlun Sect, from Kunlun Mountain." Han Ying thought carefully. This was the person she was looking for, but she couldn't see through his strength, let alone her junior brother who was only at the Core Formation stage.
"A sect native to Earth?"
"Yes, senior. Senior, you come from outer space?"
"Hmm, you came here to find me, right?" Xu Chen glanced at the portrait in Han Yu's hand and immediately understood that the portrait depicted him.
“Senior, please don’t misunderstand. We’ve come to find you only to seek fellow practitioners. My lifespan is running out, and my master passed away not long ago. This is my master’s youngest disciple. In the entire sect, only my junior brother and I remain.”
"Have a seat first." Xu Chen flew to a green area surrounded by lush forests. The group landed, and Xu Chen sat on a boulder, looking down at the two people sitting below.
"Here you go." Xu Chen took out twenty top-grade spirit stones and gave them to Han Ying and Han Yu.
"Wow, such rich spiritual energy!" Han Yu was shocked after receiving the spirit stone. His expression changed from wary to grateful as he looked at Xu Chen. They hadn't encountered a spirit stone with such a high spiritual energy content in a long time.
"Thank you, senior." Han Ying solemnly put the spirit stone back into her storage bag.
"Tell me about Earth from the past, I haven't been here long."
"Yes, senior," Han Ying agreed, and then began to recount what she knew about Earth in the past. About four thousand years ago, the first Qi Refiner appeared out of nowhere. In that world, his strength was overwhelming, and no one could stop him. Suddenly one day, he vanished without a trace, leaving behind only his cultivation insights. Later generations practiced according to these insights, and his family grew increasingly powerful. However, unexpectedly, the appearance of a traitor led to the leakage of his cultivation methods. Then, in the following thousand years, various cultivation methods circulated in the cultivation world, some derived from the methods created by the first Qi Refiner, and others being fragments of his methods that had been stolen. Everyone wanted his original methods, so a great war became unavoidable, and his family was wiped out.
"And then what?" Xu Chen began to wonder if this person was his master.
"What happened after that was much simpler. That person descended from the sky and ravaged the cultivation world of Earth. He took the spirit tablets of his family members and left. As a result, the cultivation world of Earth never recovered. A thousand years ago, a great cultivator with supernatural powers returned to Earth and absorbed all of Earth's spiritual energy. From then on, the immortal sects disappeared, and there were no more Qi cultivators in the world."
"Thank you both, this is a small token of my appreciation." Xu Chen tossed out another ten spirit stones, which the two quickly divided and put into their pockets. Han Yu marveled at the sheer number of spirit stones Xu Chen had.
"Senior, you must be a very wealthy man."
Xu Chen laughed heartily, “This is nothing. Once you have achieved a certain level of cultivation, travel to the universe. There are many enormous sects there, each with hundreds of thousands of members, as well as many planets covered with spiritual veins, immortal traces, and blessed lands. Cultivate diligently, and one day you will break free from this tiny star and fly to the sea of stars.”
Han Ying and Han Yu thanked Xu Chen, and then Xu Chen also returned home to the capital.
After meeting Tang Tiancheng, the two sat in the office and enjoyed tea.
"Kid, you're hiding something from me." Tang Tiancheng's aged yet sharp gaze stared directly at Xu Chen, whose expression was somewhat flustered. "Old man Tang, are you kidding me? We've known each other for so long, don't we know each other well enough?"
"Those two people just now, their words were full of contempt for martial artists, yet you, as a martial artist, were able to persuade them to leave. That's very strange." As Tang Tiancheng spoke, he suddenly thought of the last time the extraterrestrial visitors came. Those two fought fiercely in the sky, but this kid dealt with them instantly. And the time before that, this kid clearly said Qin Ziyue was a dangerous person, yet after his persuasion, she actually became well-behaved. Something's not right, very not right.
"They are my fellow disciples, Old Tang. Do you know what a Qi Refiner is?"
"Qi Refiner? What Qi Refiner?" Tang Tiancheng asked in confusion.
"They are people who absorb the spiritual energy of heaven and earth and specialize in the path of cultivating immortality."
"Cultivating immortality???!!! You mean you're that kind of person?"
"That's right. Many years ago, I came down from Kunlun Sect and traveled all the way from Xinjiang Province to Hunan Province. Along the way, I experienced many things in the world. When I arrived in Hunan Province, I met a boy who was committing suicide. He looked somewhat like me. I tried to persuade him not to commit suicide, but in the end, he still left this world. His name was Xu Chen, and my name is also Xu Chen."
"You...!! You're an immortal descended from Kunlun Mountain?"
"Uh, that's right. I'm sorry, Mr. Tang, I kept it from you for so long."
"No, it's nothing. But I wonder what Xu Jianguo will think when he finds out about this. His own son has left this world just like that. You are enjoying fatherly love in place of that boy. How pitiful."
"Old Tang, you don't mind?" Xu Chen looked very surprised. After all, the danger of cultivators was even greater than that of martial artists. Xu Chen thought that the old man opposite him would take out his phone and ask someone to point a gun at him.
"What do you mind? Do you mind that you kept it from me? Or do you mind that you're a cultivator? Kid, I've seen what you've been doing lately, I'm not blind. You are you, you are Xu Chen, still that martial artist Xu Chen. I will keep today's events a secret for you."
"Alright, let me see where your wine is, Old Tang."
"Your attitude changed way too fast! You were just asking me if I minded, and now you're trying to steal my wine, you brat."
"Found it." Xu Chen thought to himself, but said aloud, "Old Tang, I'm going home. Lili is still waiting for me at home."
Tang Tiancheng sighed, opened the safe, and handed two bottles of wine to Xu Chen. "I know you, kid. Unless I stay here the whole time, you'll just take them after I leave. I might as well give them to you."
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