Chapter 723 - 722: In this life, with me
The snake was terrifyingly large, with no one knowing its exact length, size, or strength.
It encircled the entire world, and its colossal body could be seen even in the Chaos Sea.
It seemed as if it were omnipresent.
Given the Ancient Emperor’s antiquity, the ancient times of her era… that must have been countless eons ago.
Time… seems to have no beginning and no end.
Even if the timeline of a world starts from its birth, when one zooms out to contemplate it within the vast expanse of space, time still has no beginning.
Even the Ancient Emperor didn’t know.
How many eras existed before her?
Even the starting point is untraceable.
So, what about the end?
It’s equally untraceable.
Time has no end.
It is endless.
Therefore, how difficult it must be to achieve true eternity.
Living for a hundred million years is not eternity.
Any random rock dug up from the ground has existed for eons.
A billion, ten billion years, that’s not eternity either.
Ten thousand billion years… as long as there is an end one day, it is not eternity.
Moreover, this kind of eternity, where one is as inert as a rock, is meaningless.
With such a perspective, it becomes clear why even the Immortal Emperor has a day of downfall.
And if you consider it from the standpoint of an ordinary person, if an ordinary person were to live forever without aging, yet their strength, cognition, and brain can’t improve, they simply couldn’t endure immortality.
Qin Changqing had conducted experiments.
He concocted a special Elixir that allowed some ordinary people to live for tens of thousands of years, but at the same time, he did not grant them any special treatment.
Some ordinary people watched their loved ones age one by one, bidding farewell to their sons, grandsons, great-grandchildren… After generations passed, the world became utterly unfamiliar to them, and their hearts would break.
Some chose suicide.
Some lived carefree for many years, but their anomaly was eventually detected, and they were killed by others.
Some hid away in a place, living for countless years before they found life meaningless and lost interest in many things.
Others filled their lives with contentment, but after living too long, they faced a new problem.
Their brain capacity was not enough.
Living too long, with too many memories, stuffing too much into their brains… indeed, they would face this issue.
Just like a computer, no matter how fast it starts off, it will slow down after prolonged use, and eventually, the memory will be insufficient.
Unless you don’t store anything in it or frequently reformat it.
But human brains cannot be reformatted, and humans experience too much daily—an ordinary person living for over ten thousand years really would have insufficient brain capacity.
Furthermore, the brain’s perception of time would become numb, bored with repetitive matters, and over time, one would become like a walking corpse.
That is the immortality of mortals.
Immortality without power.
For his own mortal descendants, Qin Changqing naturally solved these problems, but the immortality of ordinary people may not necessarily be a good thing.
“Can I truly be eternal?”
When he thought of infinite time, even Qin Changqing would sometimes feel dazed.
He is only several hundred thousand years old now.
Not to mention compared with other Quasi-Saints, but even against the Great Luo and Taiyi, he is exceedingly “young.”
Furthermore, having gained such a level of power, Qin Changqing also pondered a question.
Where does his System come from?
Power doesn’t come without a reason. When weak, there is no need to consider it, but once strong, when one’s power stands at the pinnacle of the world.
That is when it must be considered.
Unrivaled in the world, where does the System originate from?
Could there be a broader world, a more powerful existence behind the creation of a System?
He scattered opportunities throughout the small world as well.
Then watching some people grow.
Even Qin Changqing could create something similar to a System with his own hands, but this would require him to provide power to the other party.
Could it be that, in the places unnoticed by him, there are eyes watching, a hidden hand behind the scenes focusing on him?
Yet, Qin Changqing felt that this was not the case.
Just like, the System he created with his hands, although with his current methods, he could still provide power to others, but it would never be as free of hidden dangers as it is now.
Especially after one’s strength has been enhanced.
Regarding the origin of the System, Qin Changqing had vague guesses, and was not overly worried.
At the moment, there was no need to explore these matters.
What mattered was to continue strengthening his own power.
“I will certainly achieve eternity!”
Qin Changqing felt a bit of a trance, yet he was exceptionally resolute.
What he sought was true eternity.
Moreover, he firmly believed that he could achieve true eternity!
“Father~”
In the Chaos Sea, within one of the worlds, Qin Xi and her twin sister Qin Yi threw themselves into Qin Changqing’s embrace.
“Where is your mother?”
“Mother is still in seclusion.”
The sisters said.
The growth of these two sisters was also astonishingly fast, and in a few years, they were about to reach Great Luo.
The Ancient Emperor did not stay in seclusion for too long this time.
Merely a few thousand years later, she came out of seclusion.
And after coming out, Qin Changqing discovered that she had reached the Quasi-Saint level.
“If you don’t become a saint, I’m going to catch up with you,”
The Ancient Emperor said with a smirk.
Then.
Qin Changqing let her know what the husband’s authority was!
The Ancient Emperor’s gaze faltered.
Just like that, full of grievances, she was bullied by Qin Changqing for many days.
After the bullying ended, the Ancient Emperor’s grievances disappeared, except that she became somewhat fearful upon seeing Qin Changqing…
The more she was afraid, the more Qin Changqing…
Thus.
Many years later, the Ancient Emperor, who had just become a Quasi-Saint, was finally able to rest.
She quickly called over her two daughters, wanting to guide their cultivation.
For fear that Qin Changqing would start again.
Seeing the Ancient Emperor like this, Qin Changqing found it amusing.
From time to time, he looked for opportunities to tease her.
The Ancient Emperor was quite helpless.
But after all, Qin Changqing was her man.
“Wow, a world has been born inside here.”
One day, the four of them came to the World Tree again.
Decades later, the sprout of the World Tree had grown.
Inside one of its leaves, a world had already been born.
This world was still very small, with no sentient beings inside, but it already had many lush plants.
“The Chaos Sea is reviving.”
The Ancient Emperor’s eyes showed satisfaction.
“Once, the Chaos Sea contained a myriad of worlds as numerous as grains of sand in the Ganges; it’s a pity they were destroyed by them. I hunted those beings for billions of years, nearly wiping them out. Alas, my era was ultimately too brief,”
The Ancient Emperor sighed.
Despite her powers seeming demonic, for the Ancient Emperor, the nature of power was not important.
She created the “Emperor Scripture” simply to survive, to be resurrected.
The method of resurrection determined that it couldn’t possibly be righteous.
Therefore, the “Emperor Scripture” was inevitably demonic.
Qin Changqing caught her small hand, “In this life, you have me.”
These words warmed the Ancient Emperor’s heart inexplicably.
Rarely, she laid her head on Qin Changqing’s shoulder and softly hummed in agreement.
This was one of her rare tender moments.
When the two were alone in a room, the Ancient Emperor became even gentler… and even took the initiative to cooperate…