Chen Zhaosheng said coldly, "I just hate that Ancestor Tianyuan is not at home, and Grandfather has also gone overseas. If not, with the three Peaks of our Chen Family and the configuration of three Longevity Soldiers, we would be able to manage the affairs of Qing, Huai, and Jiang States. At that time, who knows what great opportunities we could gain."

"Stop with the nonsense, tell me your plan." As he spoke, Chen Zhixing motioned for Xu Qingqing to go and rest for a while, as from Chen Zhaosheng's words, it seemed they might have to leave the mountain soon.

Xu Qingqing nodded and left.

Seeing this, Chen Zhaosheng said softly, "Right now, because the family is lacking in strength, we have lost the initiative. But this Descent strategy was something Ancestor Tianyuan set up in Qing State when the Meng Family was destroyed. Over the years, it has already shown some effects. Even the Celestial Saint Palace cannot simply take the benefits away from the Chen Family, right?"

"The arrangement by the Ancestor?" Chen Zhixing frowned upon hearing this, "Before he left, he didn't mention it to me."

Chen Zhaosheng nodded, "The Ancestor didn't want you to be embroiled in trivial matters."

"This is not trivial; this is a matter concerning the Chen Family's lifeline."

Chen Zhaosheng nodded and said, "It should have been told to you long ago, but the arrangement with Qing State that the Ancestor set up wasn't very useful as those Peaks and the Longevity Master from Qing State had already gone north with the Ancestor. Telling you would have been pointless since even a clever housewife cannot cook without rice, but now the situation has changed a bit."

"You mean..." Chen Zhixing squinted his eyes.

"Yes." Chen Zhaosheng nodded and said, "Huai State is still fine, the Sikong family has deep roots there, and even after they fell, the other Noble Families in Huai State have no intention of siding with our Chen Family, so the Ancestor didn't take them when he went to the North Sea Ice Ocean. But Qing State... Not to mention the Longevity Families in Qing State, the Ancestor even called upon the Longevity Master who should have been stationed in Qing State. Now that they haven't returned, Qing State is supported by only one Peak Realm from the Fuhai Sunx Family on the surface.

The foundation of Qing State has been hollowed out, and even after the Celestial Saint Palace takes over, they can't cover everything, so there is room for us to intervene during the Descent."

Chen Zhixing was stunned when he heard this.

He had been wondering, there were no rumors of any Peaks from other families in Jiangzhou disappearing, so where did Ancestor Tianyuan take so many Peak Realm experts to the North Sea?

He didn't expect those Peaks to come from Qing State.

And now, so many of them have gone with no return, resulting in Qing State's Peaks being nearly empty....

Though having no Peaks doesn't mean there's no combat strength, Qing State's Longevity Families still number eleven. Once they activate their foundation, with eleven families contributing, even Peaks cannot be underestimated, let alone Longevity Masters.

But ultimately, the number of Peaks visible on the surface is indeed too few.

"It's worth considering, but who should be sent? You know, I have to oversee Jiangzhou, and during the Descent, I cannot head to Qing State, as Jiangzhou is Ziwei Chen Family's base."

"I'll go personally." As he said this, Chen Zhaosheng took a bite of the immortal peach in his hand.

"You go?" Chen Zhixing frowned, "What use would you be?"

After biting the head-sized peach a few times and sensing the warm current beginning to nurture within his body, Chen Zhaosheng picked up a handkerchief and wiped his hands before continuing, "Going alone isn't effective, but aren't there many Peaks imprisoned in the Ziwei Divine Prohibition? If I could take one or two..."

"Don't even think about it!"

Chen Zhixing decisively refused and said sternly, "There are presently twenty-six Peaks imprisoned in the Ziwei Divine Prohibition, the oldest being one of the first suppressed by Ancestor Chang Feng, with a time span of two thousand years. The rest are old demons who have lived for thousands of years, none of them are easy to handle. If you let them out, their first action upon being freed would be to seek revenge on the Chen Family!"

Seeing Chen Zhixing's firm refusal, Chen Zhaosheng chuckled, "Don't be so tense. If I dared to say it, naturally, I have my reasons. They are, after all, under our Chen Family's restraint...."

"Not a chance!"

Once more interrupting Chen Zhaosheng, Chen Zhixing said coldly, "Brother Zhaosheng, I don't know what you learned at the Celestial Saint Palace, nor what kind of worldview the memories in your head have given you, but before you reach the Longevity Realm, don't think about the Ziwei Divine Prohibition."

"Is there no room for negotiation?" Chen Zhaosheng slightly frowned. Even though Uncle Chen Tianchen was the Patriarch, after the Ziwei Emperor Lamp was taken away by Ancestor Tianyuan, the highest authority of the Ziwei Divine Prohibition had always been in Chen Zhixing's hands. If Chen Zhixing didn't agree, then no one in the Chen Family could release anyone from the Ziwei Divine Prohibition.

"No."

"Can't we avoid touching those suppressed by the Ancestors and just use that Clam Maiden you captured earlier?"

"Brother Zhaosheng, there's no room for negotiation." Chen Zhixing refused again.

No one understands better than him the bizarre feats that Peak Realm experts can pull off. There is no way he'd let those demons who hold grudges against the Chen Family escape from the Ziwei Divine Prohibition.

Not to mention other Great Demons, but just that Peak Realm Clam Spirit, which Divine Liu gave him as a return gift, hadn't allowed the Divine Prohibition's power to penetrate her shell in the two years she had been suppressed.

Her outer shell always had a power of lightning coursing over it, indicating that she still had strength left, and at least within the next hundred years, she couldn't be fully suppressed like the other Great Demons under the Divine Prohibition.

In other words.

If there were any mishaps with the Ziwei Divine Prohibition, the Clam Maiden could have the possibility to escape.

Of course, that's just a possibility.

The reason the Chen Family's Ziwei Divine Prohibition is so powerful is that over these two thousand years, the Divine Prohibition extracted Peak Power from the previous twenty-five Peaks imprisoned before the Clam Maiden to bolster itself, and it also relied on the Longevity Realm array left by Ancestor Chang Feng as a pivot, whose strength isn't something a single Peak could resist.

However, anything can have unexpected outcomes!

If truly, due to some mishap, twenty-six Great Demons collectively escaped, then with Chen Zhixing's current power, there would be no good way to handle it.

In such a scenario, it could lead to the extermination of the Chen Family!

As for Chen Zhixing's intense caution.

Ha.

It can only be said that what his family is suppressing is too terrifying, and to those terrifying beings, there's no one more familiar with the suppression arrays than these imprisoned Great Demons.

As long as they are suppressed, they have no chances to resist, but if they run outside the range covered by the Ziwei Divine Prohibition, who knows what strange methods these demons, who have been trying to break the Ziwei Divine Prohibition for two thousand years, could devise!

Comparing this to something that could potentially lead to extermination, no matter how great the benefits brought by the Descent, it's not something Chen Zhixing could compromise on right now.

.....

Seeing that there was no room for negotiation here, Chen Zhaosheng thought for a moment and sighed.

"In this case, let's put aside the situation in Qing State for now. When the Descent truly begins, if anything valuable appears on the Qing State side, we can attempt to hire a Peak expert from the Celestial Saint Palace to open the situation."

This time, Chen Zhixing did not refuse.

He was just a bit curious as to why Chen Zhaosheng cared so much about the Descent in Qing State, knowing that the channels opened with the Descent in each state lead to the same world.

In the same Otherworld, was Chen Zhaosheng so sure that the situation Qing State would face is better compared to Jiangzhou?

Chen Zhixing couldn't understand.

Seeing this, Chen Zhaosheng thought for a moment and added another sentence, "Don't misunderstand, it's not that there's something good in Qing State, but the information previously transmitted by the Celestial Saint Palace has already confirmed that the world we are facing in this Descent is of a level not inferior to our Celestial Profound Great World. If strong enemies are encountered on the other side of Jiangzhou's channel causing it to be impassable, and you cannot leave Jiangzhou, our Chen Family should be prepared to pass through Qing State's channel to the other side."

"It's confirmed already?"

"Yes, Ancestor Three-Injuries from the Celestial Saint Palace has already explored through the void rift to the other side, and over there... it's not an easy place to deal with."

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