Chapter 429: Player of the Fourth Scourge (9)

Xiao Tianyun heard this and thought, there was such a good thing?

He kept shooting meaningful looks at his own father, the patriarch of the Xiao family.

Agree!!! Hurry up and agree!!!

Fortunately, the patriarch of the Xiao family understood Xiao Tianyun's meaning.

His own son had saved the Xiao family from disaster.

What harm was there in trusting him once more?

Thus Xiao Hongyuan muddle-headedly became the patriarch of the Xiao family.

Even now Xiao Hongyuan remained in a complete daze.

He seemed to recall... he had come to acknowledge his ancestry and return to the clan.

Now it appeared he had become the ancestor of the Xiao family.

Xiao Hongyuan understood. The reason the Xiao family behaved this way... was because they feared his son, feared him to the point of currying favor, not daring the slightest disobedience!

At least he had fulfilled his father's dying wish.

...

Su Chen looked at the neatly arranged group and said, "All of you are rebirths, correct?"

Xiao Tianyun and the others stiffened all over.

"Could... could it be...?"

Su Chen regarded their terrified expressions and said calmly, "Relax. I am not a rebirth."

At those words, Xiao Tianyun and the others gradually relaxed.

No, that was not right?

Something seemed to occur to Xiao Tianyun and the others. A chill ran down their spines, and they grew even more horrified.

If he was not a rebirth, how did he know they were?

Su Chen looked at these trembling rebirths.

"This batch of rebirths seems a little lacking in courage."

Su Chen thought to himself, then spoke. "What exactly happened in the future that caused all of you to return to the present?"

Even after experiencing countless ages, Su Chen had never witnessed so many rebirths gathered in one place. Perhaps this was only the tip of the iceberg... it could not help but fill him with a measure of curiosity about the future.

Unfortunately, these rebirths looked at one another.

Blank faces all around.

"That... we do not know why we were reborn either..."

Xiao Tianyun answered cautiously.

Su Chen had somewhat anticipated such a result and was not overly disappointed. In the end, these people's talents were simply too poor. Their future achievements would not be high. They were probably only lucky souls who had been caught up in events and reborn as a result.

"Master, these pieces of trash do not know... that is because their cultivation was too weak and they died too early."

"This subordinate, however, knows a few things that may be of some help to Master."

Xiao Yaozi regarded Xiao Tianyun and the others with open disdain.

Xiao Tianyun and the others looked at Xiao Yaozi's attitude and felt unwilling, yet there was nothing they could do.

Although they had survived in the future under Su Chen's hand for various reasons, even their Emperor-rank talents did not mean they could become Emperors. Most of them had only reached Quasi-Emperor. A Quasi-Emperor, even if he did nothing at all, possessed only a few tens of thousands of years of lifespan. Those with poorer luck simply died in the aftershocks of some great battle.

Xiao Yaozi was different. His talent surpassed every previous genius of the Starry Sky Alliance. An Immortal-grade talent ranked highly even within the Federation. His future achievements far exceeded those of Xiao Tianyun and the others. He lived longer and naturally knew more.

Su Chen nodded, indicating that Xiao Yaozi should continue.

Xiao Yaozi's expression lit up with delight. He knew his chance to perform had arrived!

"Master, this subordinate once took part in a great battle. In that battle, the invincible figure of Master from the future appeared... At that time Master was already the strongest among the many Players, yet on that world he encountered a formidable enemy."

Su Chen grew somewhat interested.

According to Xiao Yaozi's sense of time, even if he had not yet reached True Immortal at that point, he should not have been far from it. With his methods, he had still met a great enemy?

"Continue."

Faced with Su Chen's command, Xiao Yaozi found himself at a loss for words. He said somewhat dejectedly, "What happened after that great battle, this subordinate does not know. The aftershocks of that battle reached this subordinate... When I next opened my eyes, I had returned to the present."

Although he had not obtained the result he sought, Su Chen was not disappointed. At the very least, he knew that this spacetime might not prove too boring.

Su Chen did not make things difficult for these rebirths.

They only wished to cling to a powerful thigh, and there was nothing wrong with that.

Su Chen accepted them all as subordinates and then handed them entirely over to Xiao Hongyuan, thereby strengthening the forces in Xiao Hongyuan's hands.

...

"Son... what is this?"

Xiao Hongyuan looked at the jade slip Su Chen had taken out, quite puzzled.

"This is a cultivation method that can be practiced in the real world. I have improved it so that Father can cultivate it as well."

"I cannot raise Father's talent within the game, but by cultivating this method in reality, reaching the Emperor rank will not be a problem for Father. Higher levels are no longer solely a matter of the method. As for this method, Father must not expose it. For those close to you, you may also distribute some subsidiary methods for them to cultivate."

Xiao Hongyuan swallowed hard. The casual mention of Emperor rank left him stunned. In the present Starry Sky Alliance, there was only a single Emperor!

Xiao Hongyuan accepted the jade slip. Agitation and a dazed feeling filled him. His throat felt as if something had lodged in it, and for a long time he could not speak.

Su Chen patted Xiao Hongyuan's shoulder.

After Su Chen left, Xiao Hongyuan looked at the jade slip and said, "Son... your father can help you with nothing... The only thing I can do is ensure I do not become a burden to you..."

A fledgling spreads its wings and will eventually transform into a roc that soars.

In this lifetime, for such an ordinary man to have a son like this was already enough to fill him with pride!

Before he realized it, tears had already streamed down Xiao Hongyuan's face.

...

Su Chen sighed softly in his heart.

The Starry Sky Alliance was simply too small for him, a trivial droplet in a shallow pool.

He was no longer the ignorant youth of the past who looked up to other geniuses. He was now destined to be the one looked up to, an existence beyond reach. Even those who could glimpse his back were individuals of immortal Talent who appeared only once every several dozen or even a hundred eras... and even they possessed only the qualification to gaze from afar at Su Chen's departing figure until it vanished, not the qualification to pursue him.

Su Chen returned to the "Mandate of Heaven" game.

His cultivation in reality was powerful, yet if he wished to learn what had caused the Fourth Scourge to share the same timeline with him, he still needed to remain hidden among the Players of the Fourth Scourge and clarify everything. Otherwise, should the Lord of the Fourth Scourge awaken and return to the ancient battlefield, it would become an enormous problem.

It might even affect the battle against the "Scourge" itself!

To others, the "Mandate of Heaven" game was as difficult as a heavenly punishment, yet to Su Chen, this game was no different from reality. A casual comprehension produced ???-rank skills.

All he needed to do was find the bosses, then kill them!