On this day, Long Ji emerged from Chen Luo's floating island, content and triumphant like a victorious general.
Hmph, a mere half-step Grandmaster, what of it even with five fully refined paths?!
Boy, your mother-in-law is still your mother-in-law!
Come, ask away! With my comprehensive understanding, I can answer all your questions about other paths flawlessly!
The thought of Chen Luo's lingering, contemplative expression filled Long Ji with immense satisfaction.
Meanwhile, Ling Long, observing the unconcealable joy on her mother's face, though she had grudgingly accepted the situation, still felt a pang of sadness.
However, this expression caused Long Ji to panic internally.
It's over, it's been nearly twenty days, and I've only been focused on my own satisfaction. I haven't even asked Chen Luo if he accepts Ling Long!
Feeling guilty, Long Ji chuckled dryly, quickly pulling her daughter into an embrace and making a promise: "Long'er, rest assured, your mother is now ten-tenths confident that once Young Master Chen helps you through your tribulation, we will definitely be one family!"
Ling Long felt a bitter ache, but she remained silent, making a silent resolution in her heart: even if it all came to pass, she would absolutely not call him "Dad!!"
On this day, Long Ji was exceptionally happy. A breakthrough in cultivation was a great joy, but being able to subdue this young man who was becoming a psychological shadow was icing on the cake!
And on the floating island, after Long Ji departed, Chen Luo also fell into deep thought.
A moment later, Chen Luo looked up at the empty sky before him and let out a soft sigh:
"Long Ji's cultivation seems to have improved. It's perfect timing, as my foundation is as solid as it can be. Therefore, I no longer need to suppress it!"
Whoosh!
A gust of wind swept by, and immeasurable amounts of the power of Qiankun manifested across the entire floating island.
All the books within the Vast Sea Library were vanishing and reappearing at a tsunami-like speed.
Before Chen Luo's eyes, countless books were rapidly flipped through every single moment.
The books collected by the Vast Sea Sect, even the basic ones, were undoubtedly masterpieces born from the authors' painstaking efforts.
Reading is a process of conversing with the author.
In a daze, Chen Luo felt as though he was engaging in discussions with countless past cultivators, bridging the river of time.
Reviewing the old to learn the new, although Chen Luo remembered every detail of every book, at this moment, he still found much previously undiscovered gain in this unique path of enlightenment.
...
Long Ji possessed the Immortal Dragon Body and was a powerful being at the sixth level of Ascension. Her cognitive and learning abilities, nurtured by her life's advancement and spiritual energy, were already outstanding among those at her level.
But Chen Luo was different.
The difference here wasn't merely that Chen Luo's life-tier was far higher than Long Ji's, but that Chen Luo's initial source of power differed from Long Ji's.
Although the power granted by the system lacked the accumulation of countless years like the spiritual energy civilization, and even seemed to be a shortcut,
As a system capable of suppressing Great Sovereigns, Chen Luo, the top player cultivated by the game under the highest difficulty, was essentially developed in all aspects.
A physical body at the True Transformation Domain level, a spirit at the True Transformation Domain level, and a soul at the True Transformation Domain level.
Chen Luo, as an individual life form, had no weaknesses. In a sense, his life form had already approached the so-called perfect man.
His defeat by the Great Sovereign was purely due to the crushing pressure of life-tier and the missing piece mentioned by the system.
Perhaps mechanical civilizations that achieved mechanical ascension through consciousness uploading could achieve the same learning speed as Chen Luo, but they lost the cornerstone of self-inscription, and were highly likely to lose their selves under the onslaught of infinite information.
As stated before, reading itself is a discourse with the writer.
Your spirit, your thoughts, are constantly influenced by external information.
Even if you are exposed to a certain type of extreme book for a long time, you will gradually be mutated by the information within the books, or rather, "you" will be reconfigured by new information.
But Chen Luo wouldn't!
His spirit was strong enough to withstand myriad tribulations without damage. Under the onslaught of countless thoughts and information, Chen Luo could still maintain his self, and even in this tempering, make his self shine even brighter.
As stated at the beginning, he was still that lewd youth, not changed in the slightest.
....
Countless cultivators from the spiritual energy civilization, at this moment, seemed to have crossed through time to arrive here.
Chen Luo's thoughts interacted, debated, learned from, and gained from them.
The sun's radiance fell from the sky, and moonlight scattered across the blue sea.
And on the floating island, Chen Luo still stood in place, but the books around him had significantly decreased.
This wasn't because Chen Luo's reading speed had slowed, but rather because the Vast Sea Library was nearing completion of being read by Chen Luo!
Under the moonlight, the black-clothed youth, freely swimming in the sea of knowledge of the spiritual energy civilization, felt as if he were plucking a flower, a smile involuntarily rising to his lips.
On the twenty-eighth day, Long Ji's slender feet, clad in crystal sandals, her toenails adorned with a touch of pink, stepped towards the floating island, humming a little tune, her mood exceptionally cheerful.
With each step, lotuses bloomed and vanished, and Long Ji's figure traversed thousands of feet.
The operation of Qiankun power was devoid of any worldly aura. As a half-step Supreme, a Qiankun Teleportation Array could manifest and dissipate at will.
Today, Long Ji had changed into a moon-white robe. As she stepped, lotuses bloomed beneath her feet, making her appear like an immortal maiden descending from the divine palace, transcendent and ethereal.
The moment she stepped onto the floating island, Long Ji frowned. The profound formations that had permeated the entire island had completely vanished.
Even in Long Ji's perception, Chen Luo was currently lying peacefully on a bamboo chair, not resting, but seemingly lost in thought?!
Long Ji's heart stirred: "Oh no, could it be that the standard I displayed yesterday was too high, causing him to lose heart?"
"That shouldn't be the case. Although my half-step Supreme cultivation is enough to make me laugh at the entire Primordial Land, and although it might take Young Master Chen thousands of years to reach my realm, he shouldn't be so dejected!"
"No, could it be that my triumphant display yesterday was too obvious? Hmm, perhaps I should try to act weaker today to make my future son-in-law happy?"
"Yes, I am truly remarkable!"
With a thousand thoughts swirling in her mind, Long Ji maintained a dignified and ethereal smile on her face.
She lightly stepped to Chen Luo's side: "Young Master Chen, do you have any questions today? Your questions yesterday were very insightful. After returning, I thought about them more and found them quite rewarding. My ability to answer them on the spot was likely just luck!"
Upon hearing this, Chen Luo looked at Long Ji with a hint of confusion in his eyes: "Long Ji, you're here. Right, please help me retrieve all the books from the Vast Sea Library that I couldn't access."
"I've finished reading all the other books."
"Also, Long Ji, you were right, I do have a question! After stepping into the Grandmaster realm, I've discovered that I am even more ignorant. Please help me answer it, Long Ji."
Hearing this, Long Ji's smile froze, and that familiar feeling of weak knees returned.
But with the dignity of a half-step Supreme, Long Ji forced herself to say: "Daoist Chen has entered the Grandmaster realm! That's wonderful. Then, Long Ji will go and get the books for you!!"
With that, Long Ji activated a full-power Qiankun Teleportation Array at her feet and was about to flee without looking back!
But! The next moment, something unexpected happened to Long Ji!