Is It Too Late to Leave the Chat Group?

Book 6: Chapter 45:1: The Dignity of a Goddess (Aqua Only)! Part 1

The master Chen Heng’s ancestor arranged for him, Fu Hua, was just right. Fu Hua was a Void Hollow Realm cultivator with an excellent reputation. This combination ensured Chen Heng wouldn’t appear too weak or too powerful. With some additional positive reputation boosts and no apparent gains to be had, nobody would be willing to offend the Immortal Phoenix, who had high prestige and moderate strength. This provided Chen Heng with an opportunity to remain hidden under Fu Hua’s wing.

Chen Heng had no desire for a grandiose life right now. Wasn’t a peaceful life appealing? What was the point of constant battles and killing day in and day out?

Of course, this conclusion came after Chen Heng had experienced the feeling of being at the top.

This “being at the top” did not refer to Chen Heng’s strength, as his strength was not particularly formidable; in fact, his strength wouldn’t even register in the upper ranks of his world due to the abundance of deities, angels, immortals, and other such beings with exceedingly high combat prowess. While such people did not directly interfere with Earth, they still existed.

When Chen Heng referred to “being at the top,” he meant experiencing the world from a higher perspective. He had learned about the existence of beings more powerful than deities, such as world consciousnesses, transcenders, systems, the Dimension Administrators Association, various chat groups, and Host Gods.

Now that Chen Heng knew about these things, all he wanted was to settle down and gradually enhance his strength. His current strength was hardly impressive when compared to these giants. Moreover, he couldn’t even defeat Luo Li. Could he endure this? This served as significant motivation for Chen Heng.

Living off others was not an option, not in this lifetime. How can I—Chen Heng—the descendant of a transcender, live off others?

Chen Heng’s current frame of mind was very contradictory. He desired a peaceful life free from disturbances but also aimed to keep improving his strength.

Without the Dimension Administrators Association, these two goals would have been mutually exclusive. To become stronger, one had to vie for resources, which meant jockeying with various factions and geniuses in his world. This would make Chen Heng’s first goal virtually unattainable.

However, with the Dimension Administrators Association, the support of a transcender ancestor, and knowledge about his own strength, Chen Heng could achieve both of these goals.

He now had abundant resources for cultivation and various methods to enhance his strength, such as the Chiliad Sword Conception and the continuous development of his attraction ability. These methods required minimal resources and could largely be self-sustained, thanks to the Dimension Administrators Association as a source of income.

Chen Heng’s attraction ability’s limits were high after two ability awakenings; well, at least he hadn’t even approached its limits yet. Moreover, he had a fourth ability awakening voucher in his possession.

Thus, Chen Heng’s prospects were promising. As long as he did nothing foolish and continued to cultivate using his current methods, he had a bright future.

Of course, he would inevitably lose some things in this process, like the family bonds he had already lost.

Currently, Chen Heng’s biggest reliance was his transcender ancestor. However, this wasn’t a factor at the moment. Chen Heng had no enemies to face, no one too powerful for him to resist.

However, he did appreciate the benefits his transcender ancestor had provided, such as the ability fourth awakening voucher and the ten association invitation letters. Nevertheless, these benefits came at a cost.

The price was the single line of inheritance of the Chen Clan for dozens of generations, along with the untimely death of his parents. Wasn’t that price enough?

In fact, it was the greatest tragedy in Chen Heng’s life.

While the world consciousness bore undeniable responsibility for the tragedy, Chen Heng’s transcender ancestor, Chen Xiu, had to shoulder some of the blame.

The world consciousness was the primary cause of this tragedy and had received punishment for it. However, did Chen Xiu, the Chen Clan ancestor, bear no responsibility at all?

This wasn’t Chen Heng resenting his ancestor; he was merely stating the facts. Although Chen Heng didn’t hold any grudge against his ancestor, he sensed that Chen Xiu blamed himself.

From the time the Chen Clan ancestor disappeared until his return through Chen Heng’s visualization technique, while how long it felt like to Chen Xiu was unclear, it had been over two thousand years in Chen Heng’s world.

Two thousand years might not be much compared to Fu Hua’s age, but for the Chen Clan, it was a heavy burden.

Under the oppressive situation of the single line of inheritance, which could be extinguished at any moment, the weight of these two thousand years was palpable.

Chen Heng had mentioned that Chen Xiu was exceptionally protective of the family. Even among the many Chen Clan predecessors, he was among the most protective. He was willing to do tasks that most transcenders wouldn’t bother with, driven by his deep affection for the younger generations. Most transcenders were immersed in cultivation, unwilling to do anything else.

When Chen Xiu saw the Chen Clan on the brink of extinction due to the world consciousness’s actions, how intense must his anger have been?

In a sense, the previous world consciousness of Chen Heng’s world could be considered a being that defeated transcenders. Of course, its fate was rather grim.

The Chen Clan ancestor held Luo Li in high regard because Luo Li had saved the last descendant of the Chen Clan. If the Chen Clan ancestor had personally intervened, he could have reversed time.

The Chen Clan ancestor’s partialness toward Chen Heng, on the other hand, was excessive and influenced by two factors.

First, Chen Heng was the last remaining descendant of the Chen Clan, so the responsibility of preserving the family’s legacy naturally fell on his shoulders. Second, Chen Xiu’s sense of guilt toward the dozens of Chen Clan members of the past generations was concentrated on Chen Heng, the sole living descendant.

Even the Four Immortal Executioner Swords were bestowed upon Chen Heng. Chen Heng couldn’t believe that these were commonplace items. They should be excellent items, even in the eyes of transcenders, especially for Chen Xiu, a sword cultivator. Chen Heng had accepted them partly because he genuinely needed such items and partly because he wanted to give his ancestor a chance to redeem all the guilt.