Longevity Begins From Raising Disciples

”You... you...”

Upon seeing Susu at this moment, Bai Li opened his mouth. Even though his Dao heart was as steadfast as a rock, he found himself somewhat at a loss.

Yet, her method of transformation was indeed a Bai Family heritage.

”Father, I am indeed Bai Susu, a true Bai Family bloodline.”

Bai Susu sighed, and although she returned to her true form, in front of her father, her unruliness naturally tempered quite a bit.

She bit her lip and threw out an astonishing revelation:

”It’s just... I am Bai Susu from twenty-three years in the future.”

”Twenty-three years later?!”

Bai Li gasped,

”Reverse time? Absurd! If you truly are from the future, your cultivation, appearance, even your magical treasures are full of flaws. Why is it that along the way, I couldn’t perceive any anomalies about you?!”

This was indeed the aspect Bai Li found most incomprehensible.

Even though he was deeply protective of his daughter, he was not blind.

Thinking back, these two were full of inconsistencies, yet he previously found them entirely reasonable?

Chen Ye stepped forward and said seriously:

”Senior Bai, it isn’t that you didn’t perceive it, rather it’s that the laws of this world are forcibly correcting your cognition.”

Chen Ye pointed to the chaotic, inverted space above them and continued to explain,

”I’m afraid... that if Senior Bai leaves the Celestial Abyss Rift, every trace left by Susu and me will automatically correct itself.”

Hearing this, Bai Li was greatly shaken.

No wonder! No wonder every time he felt something was off about Chen Ye and his daughter, as long as he stopped or shifted his thoughts, those strange doubts in his mind would swiftly dissipate, until they arrived at the Rift...

”This is the thing you two were hiding from me before?”

Bai Li asked in a deep voice.

Seeing this.

Bai Susu’s eyes dimmed as she recounted the entire course of events in detail.

Of course,

Even knowing that the traces left would be corrected, she couldn’t help but recount the events of the future, including the matter of Bai Li’s imminent death.

Upon hearing that he would fall in the near future, with no remains left behind, Bai Li became thoughtful.

”So that’s how it is...”

Bai Li sighed lightly, looking at the figure in front of him... well, his daughter’s development seemed to have issues.

He restrained his unusual expression, speaking softly,

”Silly girl, we sword cultivators are fated to dwell between life and death. Knowing that your future is well and that you have achieved such an extraordinary Sword Dao, even if I perish and the Dao vanishes, what regrets would I have?”

”Father!”

Tears shimmered in Bai Susu’s eyes, her voice slightly trembling,

”I deliberately involved myself this time to find an opportunity to change everything! I won’t just stand by and watch you repeat the same mistakes!”

”I’m afraid it’s not that simple.”

Chen Ye, who had been silently observing, spoke up timely,

”The outside world, history has long solidified... This world, rather than being history, is more like a projection.”

Hearing this, Bai Susu clenched her little fists and glared fiercely at Chen Ye: ”You... why are you pouring cold water at a time like this!”

Chen Ye shrugged, unbothered by her bad attitude, and instead set his gaze on the inverted black stone ruins not far away:

”Let’s leave the reminiscences for after we’ve uncovered the truth. Senior Bai, Young Miss, the urgent task now is dealing with this guide.”

Following Chen Ye’s gaze, Bai Li and Bai Susu both looked over.

In the black stone ruins.

Tuoba You was embedded in the rubble like a muddy puddle.

Half of his body was smashed into a bloody mess by a monstrous creature, his chest caved in. If not for a faint blood-red glow of Emotion Crossing Sect’s secret technique sustaining his last breath, his corpse would have long been cold.

”This rat.” Bai Susu’s eyes turned cold, and an astonishing sword light once again gathered at her fingertips, ”Leaving him is a disaster, I might as well kill him with one sword.”

”Don’t rush.”

Chen Ye stepped forward a few steps, took out a top-grade healing pill emitting a rich medicinal fragrance from the Storage Bag, crushed it, transforming it into a pure medicinal power, forcibly injecting it into Tuoba You’s damaged meridians.

”Bai Family’s True Inheritor, we must not act on impulse. Don’t just focus here; at this moment, the outside world... storms are brewing, and we need him to escape alive.”

Bai Susu snorted, dissipating the sword light at her fingertips, tacitly agreeing to Chen Ye’s plan.

Sigh.

This girl’s mood looks really bad.

But Chen Ye still did not intend to tell Bai Susu about Qin Jiaming’s words.

After all, what Qin Jiaming meant was that even if you could rewrite history through the Celestial Abyss, you could only rewrite very small causes and effects.

”Cough... cough cough!”

Tuoba You suddenly coughed out a mouthful of black blood mixed with fragments of his internal organs. His dilated pupils trembled slightly, but he did not wake up immediately. His breathing only calmed somewhat, and he remained unconscious.

”The medicinal power is too strong, and he’s severely injured. He won’t wake up for a while.”

Chen Ye used his Divine Sense to check for a moment and then lifted Tuoba You as if picking up a chick.

”It’s just as well. Keeping him unconscious saves us from having to guard against his tricks along the way. We can wake him when the time is right.”

Bai Li watched silently and nodded.

Compared to his daughter, this young man named Chen Ye was much more composed.

If they made it outside, he would be much more at ease with Chen Ye looking after Susu.

But...

Who exactly is this Chen Ye?

He seems to be quite familiar with his daughter?

”You all make the decisions about these matters.”

Bai Li nodded, suppressing his doubts, and gazed toward the Celestial Abyss below.

”The Second Layer... it might be even more perilous. According to what you’ve said, the source of the Celestial Abyss’s mutation is at the very bottom?”

”Exactly.” Chen Ye’s expression was solemn.

Bai Li furrowed his brows, contemplating: ”If you plan to explode the Celestial Abyss to escape... but trying to cause an explosion in the Celestial Abyss, isn’t that too difficult?”

From Bai Li’s perspective, unless there’s a method to take advantage, it would likely require the intervention of a Top Grade Nascent Soul True Monarch to ignite the Celestial Abyss.

Hearing this,

Bai Susu also felt greatly concerned:

”I have no idea how that Duqing Divine Son, the reincarnation of the Lord Luoxiao, managed to do it.”

”Back then, I heard the Duqing Divine Son was lost deep in the Celestial Abyss, and I wanted to take the opportunity to bring the Duqing Divine Son back to the sect, but unexpectedly, the Celestial Abyss was actually exploded by him... I have no idea why she would want to blow up the Celestial Abyss.”

Her father-in-law’s lips trembled as if hesitant.

His demeanor couldn’t escape Bai Susu’s eyes.

The blonde girl squinted at her father: ”Dad, do you have something to say?”

”No... cough cough, why would I hide anything from you?”

The father-in-law looked embarrassed.

Bai Susu glanced at Chen Ye, who appeared like an outsider, and suddenly realized, glaring at her father:

”Dad! If you have something to say, just say it! Chen Ye isn’t an outsider; there’s no need to hide from him.”

”Hmm...?” The father-in-law squinted his eyes too.

Seeing this situation, Chen Ye felt a bit tense.

Not long ago, he was still calling the father-in-law Brother Bai...

Moreover.

If he were to truthfully reveal his relationship with Susu now, it might distract the father-in-law.

At such a crucial moment, the fewer variables, the better.

”Brother Bai, to be honest, I am the Peak Master of Baopu Peak.”

Chen Ye cupped his hands in greeting.

”You are the Peak Master of Baopu Peak?”

Bai Li was shocked at first, then his expression grew dim.

At this time, the Peak Master of Baopu Peak was indeed his junior.

Not long ago, he was killed by the Duqing Sect, and when his remains were returned to the sect, they were snatched by a cultivator from the Ten Thousand Puppet Sect...

But being the Peak Master of Baopu Peak was enough to prove that Chen Ye was trustworthy—after all, the Peak Master of Baopu Peak was a high-ranking member of the Lingyin Sect, a Great Cultivator involved in leading temple associations, and had been evaluated by elders, making it impossible for him to be a traitor.

Bai Susu also added: ”That’s right, Dad. Although... although this Chen Ye is somewhat average, he still has some notable skills. He once killed three Foundation Establishment cultivators from the Yuan Family, killed the successor of the Mei Family, seized the Hidden Nether Aperture, and even led a team into Luoxiao, killing the chief of the Myriad Puppets, defeating Huayue...”

As she spoke, she began to ramble on and on, reciting like a treasure trove, even attributing the achievements of Chen Ye’s disciples to him.

The father-in-law’s face darkened again.

”Oh—indeed, you’re one of us. Brother Chen, very good, very impressive.”