Above the Great Dao

Yang Bi gathered a lot of information about Chen Shi, among which there were many records of Chen Shi suspected to use the Divine Embryo multiple times.

It is recorded that Chen Shi's Divine Embryo is suspected to be a stone-headed woman named Stone.

There are also records that his Divine Embryo might be the Great Snake Xuan Shan. Some have seen his Divine Embryo as a black dog.

In other records, Chen Shi's Divine Embryo is incredibly varied, consisting of all sorts of Evil Spirits, including even the village's stepmother.

His Divine Embryo is not fixed, but if considered with the Divine Embryo, Chen Shi's strength is likely still much greater than his.

Yang Bi even suspects that Chen Shi can possess three Divine Embryos simultaneously!

This time when he faced off against Chen Shi, he proposed restrictions, allowing Chen Shi to bring only one person to the Upper Realm for the purpose of limiting Chen Shi's strength. It was unexpected that Chen Shi only brought the Fairy from Qixia Temple, leaving everyone else behind.

In this clash, Chen Shi simply did not use any Divine Embryos.

Competing against him without the use of Divine Embryos, leaving him inevitably a bit discouraged.

"Perhaps Chen Shi is correct. We cultivators, all great power, returns to oneself."

Yang Bi turned back to look at the Upper Realm, where the towering and majestic Deities stood between the mountains, supporting this land. The Thirteen Families had been preparing for too long to counter Despair Slope and overthrow the True God, yet the force of the Thirteen Families was indeed too scattered. Without a flexible mind to deploy them, the Thirteen Families are merely a scattered sand.

But deploying this powerful force requires him to be distracted.

If not distracted, his cultivation might approach the ancestors.

"But Chen Shi, there is one point you've overlooked, Mahayana Realm is the pinnacle for every cultivator."

He whispered, "No one can take that step, achieve Harmonization and Immortality. Even if I devoted myself wholeheartedly to cultivation, it would only result in one more expert in Mahayana Realm among the Thirteen Families, it would change nothing."

In Huangpo Village, Chen Tang kept looking back.

At this moment, he saw the Heavenly Gods retract their gaze, a scene that made his heart beat two beats faster: "The fight is over! Who won or lost?"

If Chen Shi wins, will the Upper Realm keep Chen Shi as a threat?

If defeated, might Chen Shi die under the opponent's magic?

He was worried and anxious, and at this moment the Heavenly Gods disappeared from his sight.

Chen Tang was stunned, turned back again, those Heavenly Gods were still nowhere to be seen.

His heart sank, he could no longer see the Upper Realm!

It should be that the strong in the Upper Realm have closed it from him.

"Little Ten, is it alive or dead?" he wondered silently.

For more than ten days afterward, he continued to look back from time to time as usual, even though he couldn't see the Upper Realm, keeping this posture nonetheless. His actions weren't habit nor self-comfort, but to conceal any changes from Wu Qingyu.

However, he knew his wife was clever and would surely notice something amiss and come to a suspicion. Now he could only hope to delay day by day.

On the fourteenth day, three Dragon horses dragging a Qingyun carriage came, landing outside Huangpo Village.

Wu Qingyu whispered to Chen Tang beside her: "Husband need not pretend anymore."

Chen Tang was slightly taken aback, hurriedly caught up with her, thinking: "Did I make it so obvious?"

The couple went forward to find Chen Shi alighting from the Qingyun carriage, and upon seeing them, he revealed a smile.

Chen Tang and Wu Qingyu both let out a sigh of relief.

Chen Tang, face unchanged, asked: "How's the battle situation?"

Chen Shi said: "Yang Bi, a Dragon among men, possessing cultivation strength of the same Realm not inferior to mine, truly amazing."

Chen Tang nodded: "Therefore, you should not underestimate the heroes of the world."

Chen Shi laughed: "For now, I have only encountered one such. The others are mediocre, merely so."

Chen Tang expressed some helplessness, saying: "Currently, haven't you just encountered one Yang Bi? Perhaps in the future, you may encounter a second Yang Bi, a third Yang Bi."

Chen Shi didn't mind: "We'll talk about it when I meet them. Not yet met, just makes the others mediocre, merely so."

Chen Tang very much wanted to draw his Xuanwei Sword to tell the rebellious son the vastness between heaven and earth, but realizing that drawing the Xuanwei Sword at this same Realm may also not make him a match for the rebellious son, hence he could only entertain the thought.

"How about the Upper Realm?" he asked again.

"The strength of any Heavenly God in the Upper Realm is not inferior to the Great Snake Xuan Shan. Among the formidable ones, some can compare to the Qianyang Mountain Lord, their Divine Power vast as the ocean, unfathomable. The Thirteen Families' ancestors possess Immortal powers, harmonizing with the world, with immeasurable might."

Chen Shi paused, decisively saying, "The Upper Realm has great flaws, should it face Despair Slope, it will certainly fall. Six thousand years' arrangements, all destroyed by the enemy, leave no room for reconsideration."

Chen Tang, slightly shocked, said: "Is it really so?"

Chen Shi said: "Now the only hope rests on some hidden forces in the Upper Realm."

His eyes glimmered: "I suspect, among the ancestors of the Thirteen Families, besides the thirteen ancestors, there might be two ancestors, three ancestors still living. For example, the Li Family's secret arts are divided into two main volumes, the first volume being Yi'an Hall Collection, the second volume South City Zongyi Collection. The Yi'an Hall Collection is the cultivation technique of the Sect Master's lineage, while the South City Zongyi Collection is the cultivation technique of other descendants. South City Zongyi Collection was created by the Li Family's second ancestor, encyclopedic, not much inferior to the first ancestor. However, on this occasion when I went to the Upper Realm, I did not see the Li Family's second ancestor."

Chen Tang's eyes brightened: "If each of the Great Families has a second ancestor, third ancestor existing, then there would be dozens of Immortal Level beings! Plus the Underworld, and these Mahayana Realm Ghost Gods in the Upper Realm, it may not be impossible to battle Despair Slope! Little Ten, you are somewhat overly concerned. Their understanding of Despair Slope is certainly far above yours."