Oh no! My grandmother made me shoulder the responsibility for eight households!

Chapter 527 Lin Chen Above

Late at night, in the rear hall of the Hehuan Palace.

The palace was warm and cozy, with a faint, almost imperceptible scent of acacia blossoms.

It's not that overpowering, cloying fragrance; it's the kind of scent that makes your bones feel soft and yielding.

Mei Jiu Niang lay on Lin Chen's chest, her breathing rising and falling, sleeping like a child.

A slight smile still lingered on her lips; I wonder what she was dreaming about.

It could be dreaming of eating Lin Chen, or it could be dreaming of eating delicious food.

Yan Ruyu lay on the other side, her face buried in Lin Chen's shoulder, and fell asleep as well.

His white hair was spread out on the pillow, smooth and shimmering like silver silk.

Lin Chen's fingers slipped through his fingers casually, feeling cool and smooth as water.

The two people's hair was tangled together, one black and one white, like two rivers merging together, making it impossible to tell whose hair was whose.

Lin Chen stared at the top of the tent with his eyes open.

I'm not sleepy at all.

Today was... well, a whole day of tossing and turning.

The passage to the outside world is sealed off, as are meetings, receiving gifts, and bathing.

Speaking of taking a bath, the bathing process itself is quite problematic.

Mei Jiu Niang insisted on rubbing his back, but while she was rubbing, she ended up rubbing other parts of his back.

Then Yan Ruyu came in at some point.

Then the bath turned out to be a waste of time; the more I bathed, the more tired I became.

I was physically exhausted, but mentally I felt like I was on steroids, my mind was racing.

Lin Chen was reviewing the day's events.

The seal can only last for a year; he did it on purpose.

It's not that we can't keep the lockdown going for longer, it's that we don't want to.

If too much time passes, those forces will become lazy, eating and sleeping like pigs, forgetting about the great calamity.

If it's too short, people will panic. Panic leads to chaos, and chaos leads to unforeseen changes. By then, they won't even need extraterrestrial creatures to invade; they'll be fighting amongst themselves first.

A year is just right; it gives you a sense of urgency, but not enough to make you despair.

Those old foxes may say nice things, but they're all probably plotting something in their hearts.

Is a year enough time for them to reorganize?

Is that enough for them to win over allies?

Is it enough for them to get more benefits from Lin Chen?

But Lin Chen didn't care.

What he wants is for them to get moving, not to lie flat.

What's the difference between a person lying flat and a salted fish?

He raised four points in total today.

The Avengers, to wipe out the ancient sealed monsters.

Upon hearing the name, the lips of those celestial ancestors twitched.

What a terrible name! But no one dared to say it sounded bad.

The crackdown is a pretense; the real goal is to unite them into one force.

Only by shedding blood and dying together can one let go of sectarian prejudices and the grudges that have lasted for thousands of years.

This principle applies to all worlds.

True brothers are those who have shared hardships and fought side by side.

Build a tower - nine thousand nine hundred and ninety-nine feet.

Everyone thought it was to prepare for a great calamity, but only Lin Chen knew that it wasn't entirely true.

The tower was not built to prepare for the great calamity, but to prepare after refining the will of heaven and earth.

The spirit said that the will of heaven and earth of Tianyuan Continent has decayed.

Like an old tree, its roots are rotten, its trunk is hollow, and its leaves have fallen.

It's still holding on, but it won't last much longer.

The only way is to refine the will of heaven and earth, replace it, and become the new ruler of the Tianyuan Continent.

But what happens after refining it? What's the use of refining a decaying, collapsing world?

The tower, 9,999 feet high, leads directly to the core of the will of heaven and earth.

Built on Zhongzhou Peak, it is the place with the most abundant spiritual energy in the Tianyuan Continent, and also the place where the will of heaven and earth is most concentrated.

After the tower is completed, Lin Chen will use the tower as a fulcrum and himself as a medium to draw in chaotic spiritual energy.

While refining the will of heaven and earth, he also repaired this mess.

Although he hasn't broken through to the Great Emperor level yet, isn't it a good opportunity to find a group of free laborers?

Moreover, those people won't lose out either. Once he refines the will of heaven and earth, a hundred or a thousand years later, the spiritual energy will be a hundred times denser than it is now, and everyone will take off together.

This is called common prosperity, where those who get rich first help those who get rich later. Lin Chen is one of those who got rich first.

The world is at peace—not because Lin Chen is kind-hearted.

In the face of a great calamity, internal strife is the most foolish thing to do.

Those with grudges can settle them after the great calamity.

Those who harbor grievances can settle them after the great calamity has passed.

Anyone who holds him back will be eliminated first.

This isn't meant to scare you; I'm serious.

Guardians of the Galaxy.

All members are at least terrestrial immortals, and will be personally guided by the Celestial Ancestor, with Lin Chen also providing guidance.

On the surface, it's about cultivating elites, but in reality, it's about getting all cultivators in the world moving, cultivating, and breaking through.

Once he has refined the will of heaven and earth, if the cultivators in the world are too weak, his clone won't be much stronger either.

Although Lin Chen was very open-minded, who would want to die if they could live?

If you can win by doing nothing, who would want to struggle?

Lin Chen rolled over and pulled Yan Ruyu closer to his chest.

Yan Ruyu mumbled something, but it was hard to hear what she said. She snuggled into his arms like a cat and fell asleep again.

He mumbled "Lin Chen" under his breath, his voice as soft and weak as a cat's meow.

Mei Jiu Niang's fingers unconsciously traced circles on Lin Chen's chest.

This woman is restless even when she's asleep.

Lin Chen stared at the full moon outside the window for three seconds.

Suddenly, a smile appeared on his lips as he scanned a certain spot in the Hehuan Sect with his divine sense.

The next second, only two women were left on the bed, the blankets still warm.

I couldn't sleep anyway, so I went to have a heart-to-heart talk with Liu Yu.

Speaking of Liu Yu... well, he's quite intriguing.

……

In the inner palace of the Hehuan Palace, Mei Jiu Niang turned over and reached out to touch nothing.

She groggily opened her eyes, saw that no one was beside her, and muttered, "Where did they run off to again...?"

Then, hugging Lin Chen's pillow, she fell asleep again.

Yan Ruyu rolled over, and their heads bumped together.

"Ouch--"

"Ugh—"

The two woke up at the same time and looked at each other in bewilderment.

Mei Jiu Niang blinked: "Where is he?"

Yan Ruyu rubbed her forehead, scanned the area with her divine sense, and said calmly, "I went to find Liu Yu."

Mei Jiu Niang paused for a moment, then said, "Master, do you think he's sick?"

Yan Ruyu thought for a moment and answered seriously, "Maybe."

The two looked at each other and sighed simultaneously.

Sooner or later, Lin Chen will drive Zhao Ming to a mental breakdown!