Chapter 455: Eve
Time passed quickly and in the blink of an eye, it was the night before the challenge event.
"Are you nervous?" Jiang Yue couldn’t help but ask.
"No." Yu Nianzhen shook his head and answered.
Better than anyone, Yu Nianzhen knew what was at stake.
Because of this, he firmed his heart, worked hard, and never entertained the possibility of failure.
At this time, although he wasn’t confident he could win easily, he was sure he would win.
"I see." Jiang Yue said with a smile on his face.
’As expected of the person I love.’ He thought and rubbed his husband’s right palm.
"What about you, are you nervous?" Yu Nianzhen questioned.
"No." Jiang Yue shook his head.
As an illusion master, Jiang Yue was best at crowd control.
He could control thousands of people and even manipulate them to kill each other.
However, he had a shortcoming.
Although he had worked hard to improve his attack power, he still couldn’t compare to a swordsman, spear master, and other such masters.
If he encountered an opponent with a particularly powerful soul, it would be difficult to control them using illusions.
Nevertheless, Jiang Yue was confident in himself.
When the event started, he planned to work hard and earn as many reincarnation stones as he could.
At the same time, he would take the opportunity to train his combat awareness and mental state.
"My XiaoYue is so good. With your current strength, few cultivators in the first level and second level of the reincarnation realm can defeat you."
"What a sweet mouth." Jiang Yue chuckled and leaned on his husband’s shoulder.
"Master and the others are still waiting, let’s go." Yu Nianzhen reminded.
Now that the event was about to start, all the Cangxing mountain reincarnation realm cultivators had come to participate.
As the mountain master, Yu Nianzhen invited everyone to eat and drink together before the event started.
"Okay." Jiang Yue said and the two left their ancient palace.
Soon after, they arrived at a restaurant in the trading area.
The restaurant was opened by a Cangxing world cultivator so when the time came, Yu Nianzhen naturally chose it to hold the gathering.
"Fellow Daoist Lu will make a lot of reincarnation stones in the coming one hundred years." Jiang Yue couldn’t help but praise.
"Opening a restaurant is her ingenuity. It’s a good thing that our Cangxing people are actively trying to earn reincarnation stones." Yu Nianzhen nodded and said.
"Our store should also make money." Jiang Yue stated.
Although the two were burdened by the overall situation, they didn’t forget to care about themselves.
As a result, they opened a mixed-goods store in the trading area.
The store sold formation disks, wine, herbs, and other miscellaneous things.
If things went well, the income from the store would be enough to advance to the second level of the reincarnation realm.
[If there is a need, we can also take out some Tree of Life leaves to exchange for precious resources.] Yu Nianzhen said.
[Only if it’s absolutely necessary.] Jiang Yue agreed and then frowned.
[Azhen, is the maturity of the leaves enough for master’s injury?] He asked.
Hearing this, Yu Nianzhen frowned before he spoke.
[It’s not enough.] He said and then continued.
[When we collect more reincarnation stones, we will put them in the jade box to urge the growth of the Tree of Life. Master knows the situation and he will also do his best to contribute more reincarnation stones.]
"Raising the tree is harder than raising a child." Jiang Yue couldn’t help but say.
"How do you know?" Yu Nianzhen asked and teasingly looked at his lover’s stomach.
"Why are you looking at me like that?" Jiang Yue immediately reacted.
Although many impossible things were possible in the cultivation world, it was still impossible for men to naturally get pregnant.
If a man wanted to bear a child, they could only do so after eating a pregnancy fruit.
However, pregnancy fruits were extremely difficult to find.
At least, neither Jiang Yue nor Yu Nianzhen had ever seen one or heard of anyone who found one.
Fortunately, the two didn’t want children.
As their lifespan increased, the less they yearned for a child of their own.
Considering that, the existence of a pregnancy fruit was irrelevant to them and they had never thought about searching for one.
"No." Yu Nianzhen shook his head and muttered.
"What do you mean ’no’?" Jiang Yue asked.
"I still don’t want to share you with anyone else. Let others have children, we are fine by ourselves."
Hearing this, Jiang Yue immediately understood and shook his head.
"Don’t think strange thoughts." He admonished and pinched his husband’s waist.
"I know." Yu Nianzhen said and quickly captured the naughty hand.
"Let’s go in." He said and hand in hand, they climbed the stairs to the restaurant’s second floor.
"Mountain master, deputy mountain master." Several people shouted when they saw the two.
Hearing the greetings, Jiang Yue smiled and pulled Yu Nianzhen to walk towards the gathered people.
"It’s only been two hundred years since our Cangxing people arrived in the Reincarnation world but we already have close to two hundred reincarnation realm cultivators." Jiang Yue said and couldn’t help but feel a little proud.
On one hand, the high number of reincarnation realm cultivators was because the Cangxing cultivators were talented.
However, the outcome was also related to the resources they and others contributed to the Cangxing mountain.
Without those resources, most of the gathered would have taken a lot longer to advance to the reincarnation realm.
"Before the challenge event ends, all the others will also have broken through." Yu Nianzhen said as he and Jiang Yue took their seats.
"The mountain master is confident." Someone said but everyone could hear the sarcasm in his voice.
’Gu Peng.’ Jiang Yue looked at the person and frowned.
Gu Peng was the sect master of the Ghost Valley.
In fact, Jiang Yue and Yu Nianzhen didn’t want to deal with the evil cultivators.
However, the Cangxing Mountain didn’t have many people and evil cultivators almost accounted for half.
Because of this, Yu Nianzhen could not ignore the evil cultivators even if he wanted to.
After all, he didn’t actually pursue the righteous way and the evil way was also a path to the great Tao.
"Nianzhen, is everything ready?" Yang Xu suddenly asked.
"Everything is ready." Yu Nianzhen answered.
After that, everyone talked as they ate and the atmosphere turned extremely lively.
At the same time, many pots of wine were emptied and soon, boisterous voices could be heard from the first floor.
"What kind of wine is this? It’s so good." Someone asked.
"It’s the fruit wine bought from Zhen Yue." The restaurant’s owner answered.
"I have heard of this shop but I haven’t had a chance to buy their wine. I didn’t know they have such good wine."
"If you have a chance, you should buy more." The restaurant owner encouraged.
In this way, time passed and the sun’s first rays soon peeked in from the Eastern horizon.
When everyone saw this, they fell silent and the lively environment finally calmed down.
"The following one hundred years will determine how our Cangxing mountain will develop in the future." Yu Nianzhen suddenly said and everyone turned to look at him.
"On the main martial stage, I will accept challenges from thousands of foreign cultivators. For one hundred years, I will guard the main martial stage and never take a step down. After one hundred years, I will stand undefeated and let everyone know that our proud Cangxing world will rise again." He continued and everyone felt their heart tremble.
Based on what Yu Nianzhen had done so far, they could feel his ambition and determination to let the Cangxing world rise.
Although most of the gathered only cared about the benefits they would get, a few had a deep love for the Cangxing world.
These few wanted to see the Cangxing world surpass its ancient peak and become an unparalleled existence.
When they heard Yu Nianzhen’s words, these few also made their resolve.
"Mountain master, you can count on us to guard the other martial stages." Jiang Yue said and several others echoed his sentiments.
"Our Cangxing world has been away from the Reincarnation World for too long and many worlds have forgotten about us. This is our chance to show the other worlds that our Cangxing world has returned and will soon regain its former glory." Yang Xu said and subconsciously clenched his hands.
Unlike Jiang Yue and Yu Nianzhen who spent most of their time in the Boundless Mountain range, Yang Xu travelled around the Reincarnation world.
During his travels, he realised that the other worlds did not take the Cangxing world seriously.
Even after the challenge was announced, the other worlds saw it as a joke and felt the Cangxing world was overestimating itself.
This time, Yang Xu also wanted to work hard to show the foreign cultivators that the Cangxing world was not inferior to any of the other worlds.
After several people said a few more words, Yu Nianzhen and Jiang Yue stood up.
"Let’s go." Yu Nianzhen said.
