My descendants burn incense and worship me as a real immortal

Chapter 610 The Future of the Yang Family, Yang Fu's Predicament

Everyone longs for care and attention from others; even the toughest man has a soft spot.

At this moment, Yang Genshuo felt the overflowing love from Yang Fu. He knew that even if many things changed in the past hundred years, his feelings for Yang Fu would not change.

He watched Yang Fu grow up, from absorbing spirit beasts from the Demon Wind Forest to becoming an apprentice at the True Fire Sect, and then to the battle for immortality, sweeping away the demonic cultivators of the Da Nai Dynasty, the Dragon God Immortal Palace, and the great war between demons and wind. During the Great Struggle, the Liu family betrayed them, and they experienced countless things together.

Over the years, their relationship has become incredibly strong.

They are grandparents and grandchildren, and also friends.

Yang Fu guessed that his ancestor must have encountered trouble, otherwise he wouldn't have disappeared for so long. So, in recent years, apart from cultivating and managing Zhenbian City, he has been collecting treasures of all kinds.

He was waiting for this day, the day his ancestor needed him.

These are things that cannot be shown in the [records].
Yang Genshuo could only see Yang Fu going out every now and then to search for legendary places, fighting and seeking opportunities there.

But what he didn't know was that none of the opportunities Yang Fu had risked his life for were used; they all remained.

They were neatly arranged in front of Yang Genshuo.

Yang Genshuo didn't know who, besides his parents, could do this for him.

100 years!

Yang Fu persisted for a hundred years, still believing that his ancestor would return.

"Yang Fu, you're too foolish. If I don't come back, are you going to take all these treasures with you to the grave?"

"It's always better than being unable to help when you need me."

Yang Fu gazed intently at the sky.

Yang Genshuo wiped his eyes again, where sand had been blown in.

"Okay, I understand. These are all good treasures. Put them away for now, and I'll tell you how to do it when we worship our ancestors."

"Ancestor, will you stay until the time for ancestral worship?"

Yang Fu was pleasantly surprised, as this meant he had a month to communicate with the ancestor. He had so much to say to the ancestor.

"No"

Just as Yang Fu was feeling somewhat disappointed, Yang Genshuo's voice came again.

"I will not disappear again. I'm back!"

Yang Fu: "Ancestor!!!"

Everything will get back on track.

Yang Fu clenched his fists, feeling his whole body brimming with power!

Countless things can be done now!
As long as the patriarch is around, his spine will always be straight!
"Haha~ You two grown men, stop with the sentimental talk. Let's get down to business. I haven't looked at the family in a hundred years. I only know that many things happened, but I don't know too many details. I need you to tell me about the Yang family now."

“Ancestor, I knew you would ask this question if you showed yourself, so I’ve been compiling this every year! Look!”

Yang Fu took out a huge bamboo scroll, on which a large amount of text was inscribed. It contained Yang Fu's summaries of things over the years, including his insights into each person and his analysis of the future situation.

Everything, big or small, is included!
In some ways, it is even richer than Yang Keun-suk's own record.

But there are too many.

"Um, is there anything simpler?"

"Yes, some ancestors did."

Yang Fu then took out a simplified version of the bamboo slips, which contained even more concise information.

Yang Genshuo glanced at it with satisfaction. It was largely the same as Yang Qiangjing's. Neither of them were the type to fabricate anything; they said what they meant.

Yang Fu also focused on the differences between the two and the choice of their respective routes.

Yang Genshuo nodded after reading it.

"Yang Fu, your town of Zhenbian is far less developed than Guangming City. Do you regret not following Xiao Jing's strategy?"

When it came to serious matters, Yang Fu knew that his ancestor would ask this question.

“Ancestor, I also thought about this question back then.”

"Oh?"

“I was thinking at the time, if you were here, which direction would you want the family to go? I thought back on all the teachings you have given us over the years, and all the things we have done. All of this, I came to the direction you pointed out to us: a family that accumulates good deeds.”

Do I have this?

“Some ancestors, some. A family that accumulates good deeds is not a rigid and purely virtuous family, but rather a family that maintains a positive attitude and does good deeds within its capacity. It is a family that is compassionate and righteous, so that the name of the Yang family can be a signboard. My father and you did that in those years. What we did was something that could benefit our descendants.”

Looking back now, Yang Genshuo realized that what Yang Fu had said was indeed true.

His previous policies did indeed guide the Yang family to do this: not to exploit or oppress, but to develop together with everyone, with those who repaired first leading those who repaired later.
The unity of the people in the Great Nai Empire is also due to the fact that the Yang family has led everyone to live a good life for many years and has been allocated more cultivation resources.

Moreover, Yang Genshuo used to have a quota: he had to accumulate "merit" to continuously increase the merit of the entire family in order to obtain better "blessings" and unlock more functions.

With 3000 merits, he unlocked the [Miracle: Ancestor, please grant me power], allowing his abilities to directly influence various combat scenarios, instantly enriching his methods.

With 5000 merits, you can unlock [Miracle: Flying Scroll], which allows you to directly transfer items between two members of the Yang family who are thousands of miles apart. This is equivalent to being a top-tier spatial mage.

These two "miracles" can be said to be Yang Genshuo's two strongest methods, and they are very useful.

Yang Genshuo himself is a modern person who has been influenced by contemporary thinking. The knowledge system he has developed over the years makes him a good person.

Moreover, his ethnicity is different from other foreign ethnicities.

Chinese people are good at making the pie bigger and making money together; they believe in the power of human determination to overcome nature.

In contrast, the situation abroad is a zero-sum game, where the strongest takes all.
Guided by such humanistic values ​​and virtues, Yang Genshuo's actions, in Yang Fu's view, constitute the actions of a family that accumulates good deeds.

The ancestor wanted them to become a virtuous family.

Therefore, he chose to oppose Yang Qiangjing's policy back then.

'So, the root of the division is me?'

Yang Genshuo felt a sense of absurdity. He never expected that the person who would ultimately cause the Yang family to split was himself. He had influenced Yang Fu, and Yang Fu was someone who was extremely obedient to the ancestor's orders, so he would do what he thought the ancestor would tell him to do.

This ultimately led to the current situation in the Yang family. "If you disregarded my decision and only considered your own perspective, would you support Yang Qiangjing?"

"No, because her actions are creating hidden dangers for our Yang family and do not align with a long-term development perspective."

"Oh? But Bright City is much more vibrant than your town of Zhenbian now. It's not just that its economic output is high, but also that it has a large population, many businesses, and is prosperous in all aspects."

"Indeed. From an external perspective, our Zhenbian City is no match for New Bright City. They have gathered a large number of cultivators there, not only from various dynasties, but also from the Lingmiao Continent. But what is the price?"

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"The price is that they have been corrupted by the spirit stones. All the Yang family members have lost their faith and stopped doing the right thing. With more people, there are more spirit stones and treasures, but what about their cultivation? Are they as strong as those of us who climbed up from nothing back then? Ancestor, they have fallen."

Yang Genshuo suddenly woke up!
He looked at the fifth generation of the Yang family in Bright City.
Dozens of people couldn't even muster two geniuses!

It's not that they lack talent, but rather that their cultivation level is ordinary. They are not the kind of exceptionally talented cultivators who can emulate Yang Feng's Foundation Establishment on his 18th birthday.

Moreover, none of them have any impressive achievements to speak of; they are all just average in terms of skill.

In contrast, in Zhenbian Town on Yang Fu's side, there were actually only two fifth-generation children of the Yang family.

Li Zhuxin and Li Zhuze are two brothers.

They are the two children of Li Minsi, Yang Fu's granddaughter.

Although Li Minsi serves as the Minister of the Spirit Plant Department in Bright City, her children have been sent to Yang Fu to cultivate. The two children are only two years apart, one is 22 and the other is 20, and both have been promoted to the first level of Foundation Establishment this year.

Although he is slightly inferior to Yang Feng, he is already one of the two fastest cultivators in the fifth generation of the Yang family.

The cultivation speed far surpasses that of many fifth-generation disciples in Bright City.

Moreover, his talent wasn't particularly strong; he was still inferior to a cultivation prodigy like Yang Feng.

Upon seeing this phenomenon, Yang Genshuo realized the problem Yang Fu had mentioned.

"Why are Yang Zhuxin and Yang Zhuze cultivating so quickly?"

"Because it is simple, and not bound by external things, one can devote oneself wholeheartedly to cultivation. Ancestor, although I do not know how glorious you were back then, for us cultivators who are not born strong, the path of cultivation is to seize every minute. Every moment is precious. If we cannot break free from the shackles and break through the realm before our time limit, we will surely regret not cultivating properly at that moment."

I...don't want them to regret it. I will lead them to a higher realm. The Yang family needs more than just spirit stones; it also needs pure family cultivators who are single-mindedly focused on cultivation.

Yang Fu's words greatly shocked Yang Genshuo!
What Yang Fu was really concerned about was that his descendants were obsessed with material things and had forgotten about their own cultivation.

He and Yang Qiangjing are completely different.

One made Bright City thrive, while the other preserved the purity of Zhenbian City. They didn't need any external distractions to cultivate or defend themselves; instead, they devoted all their energy to cultivation and combat.

Yang Genshuo observed the large-scale battles in the two major cities [recorded] and found that the number of battles in Zhenbian City was significantly higher and the intensity greater.

The Heavenly Dragon Army here was all separated from Bright City, and now their overall cultivation level and momentum are slightly better than those of Bright City.

"Is this the difference between two cities and two strategies?"

Yang Genshuo realized that he had underestimated his two children.

Yang Qiangjing has her own way of balanced development, and Yang Fu also has his own way of quiet and diligent self-cultivation.

These are two different ideologies and two different paths.

As Yang Qiangjing wished, she improved the economic level of Guangming City, and as Yang Fu wished, he trained stronger soldiers and two role models of the fifth generation of the Yang family.

"Neither of them did anything wrong; they were both fighting for a better Yang family."

Yang Genshuo had by now fully understood the current situation of the Yang family and had a good grasp of the two leaders' strategies.

"Now, let's talk about the future of the Yang family."

What happened in the past is history and has been settled. What Yang Genshuo needs to do is understand the current Yang family and build a better Yang family.

Yang Fu was visibly excited!
"Ancestor, please lead us forward once again!"

Yang Fu also knew that they needed a better way to move forward, rather than being limited to this.

"Yang Fu, find some time in the next few days to go to the Lieyang Dynasty. I'll have Xiao Jing go there too. The three of us can talk together there. We need to put the past behind us and focus on the future!"

Yang Fu's expression changed slightly at this moment.

"Ancestor, I..."

"What? You can't even talk to Xiao Jing anymore? You shouldn't be so petty."

"No, no, no, Ancestor, you've misunderstood me. Actually, I've been staying away for a reason that's hard to talk about. Ancestor, you can see my [Character Card], right?"

"Hmm? Let me see."

Yang Genshuo had scanned it before and found nothing except that the cultivation level was very high and the number of cultivation techniques was much greater.

I watched it again.
"Nothing special, is there? You've reached the forty-fifth level of Qi Refining, which is quite an improvement. You should be about the same level as a Nascent Soul cultivator now, right?"

Yang Fu was somewhat surprised that the old ancestor hadn't noticed anything amiss, but upon reflection, he realized it was normal, and he sighed softly.

“Ancestor, the problem lies in my cultivation. My strength and aura are growing stronger and stronger. Now, even the slightest movement will cause spatial disturbances in the surrounding area. As you just saw, most of this Thunder Pool actually overflows from my dantian. If I were to absorb the Thunder Pool into my body, the space would shatter directly, and I would destroy the places I have been.”

"Huh?! This entire Thunder Pool is all from your dantian power?!"

What the hell!

Yang Genshuo had always thought that this thundercloud was an unusual phenomenon formed between heaven and earth, specifically used to deal with the Thunder-Gathering Land of the Spirit Devouring Clan. He never expected that this Thunder Pool was actually part of Yang Fu!

Just how powerful is Yang Fu?
I don’t dare to think about it, I don’t dare to think about it at all!
No wonder Yang Fu got a little excited just now, and strange phenomena appeared in the sky and earth, scaring the town of Zhenbian into activating its defenses.

Yang Genshuo looked through the records from the past few years and found that Yang Fu had indeed not gone out for three years. Yang Qiangjing always thought this was a sign of the deterioration of her relationship with Yang Fu and sneered at his unwillingness to show his face.

The real reason is that Yang Fu is unable to move.

His strength was too great; he could no longer move freely within the Twelve Dynasties.

"Things are much better now. The spiritual energy concentration of the Twelve Dynasties has been steadily increasing, and the stability of the entire space is also improving. If it were a hundred years ago, my Thunder Pool would have already blasted a black hole into this place. Therefore, Ancestor, I cannot leave here. If I leave, it will bring disaster, forcing me to go to the Spirit Misty Continent. At that time, I'm afraid I will never be able to return."

"I see."

Yang Fu's cultivation level appears to be powerful now, but he is no longer a free man.

"It's alright, I'll have Xiao Jing come to Silver Dynasty, she shouldn't refuse me."

(End of this chapter)