The concept of a born saint begins with Strange Tales from Liaozhai.

Outside the Zhang family residence.

Su Chen's figure quietly appeared outside.

The magical peaches had already been refined away, and he was already impatient to go to the underworld again.

At the same time, he was also curious about what the underworld was like and why it was so chaotic.

Perhaps the answer will be found if we go down there!

Soon, after a search, they found a member of the Black Tiger Gang who had escaped their net. After killing him, Su Chen followed the ghost to the underworld.

……

A sudden gust of wind arose, and the world was plunged into darkness.

There was no sunlight around, it was completely dark, and a thin mist was faintly visible.

Looking at the familiar surroundings and the wandering ghosts, Su Chen's eyes lit up slightly.

Without hesitation, he immediately displayed an extraordinary phenomenon and soared into the sky.

The bright moonlight shone down on the dark and gloomy underworld, causing the ghosts to gasp and tremble in shock.

During this process, Su Chen used the Flower Blooming Moment Daoist technique to select evil spirits one by one and refine them into Daoist peaches.

"what……"

"Spare my life..."

Screams, wails, and curses rang out.

Su Chen remained calm, simultaneously using the Flower Blooming Moment technique to refine the Daoist peach.

Boom!

His internal cultivation level continued to rise.

[Realm: True Person (62%) 6,210 years of cultivation]

Chapter 51 Nine thousand eight hundred years of cultivation!

And so we continued forward.

Su Chen suddenly landed and glanced into the distance.

Ahead, a chilling aura permeated the air, and a gray fog lingered.

A huge, gray-black river flows silently ahead, its source and destination unseen.

The river is perpetually shrouded in mist, with vapor swirling and rising along its surface like countless lingering sighs, whispering softly.

The river water was not clear, and shadowy figures could be vaguely seen moving underwater.

Some reached out to climb, while others slowly sank, their faces blurred and ferocious.

But no matter how hard they climbed, they couldn't get out of the river.

When the wind blows, ripples spread across the river, and wherever the ripples pass, one's mind is instantly cleared, as if worries are being gently peeled away.

"This is..."

"The River of Oblivion?"

Looking at the River Styx, Su Chen's eyes showed surprise.

Then, his attention turned to the evil spirits floating and sinking at the bottom of the River of Oblivion.

Without hesitation, he walked straight over and approached the River of Oblivion.

As you approach, blurry human faces appear and disappear in the water.

Pale arms reached out from the dark river, trying to drag him down into the River of Oblivion.

Unfortunately, they couldn't hold on at all. The moment they touched his trouser leg, they were repelled by Jiaojie's magical power.

Black smoke billowed up.

Terrified cries rang out, and pale arms withdrew.

Seeing this, Su Chen raised an eyebrow, naturally not going to let them get away so easily.

Originally, finding evil spirits was a bit troublesome, but now it's much better, saving him the time of selecting ghosts.

Without the slightest hesitation, he used his magical power to restrict the movement of these evil spirits who were trying to drag him down into the River of Oblivion, and then activated the Daoist Flower Blossom Instantly.

In an instant, pale gray flowers appeared on the pale arms that stretched out of the River of Oblivion. Then, the flowers quickly condensed and formed pale gray peaches.

During this process, Su Chen made a somewhat surprising discovery.

Flowers that come into contact with the River of Oblivion grow extremely slowly, as the River of Oblivion inhibits their growth.

"This River of Oblivion truly lives up to its name as the River of the Underworld; it contains many mysteries..."

He shook his head, not paying much attention, and simply bypassed the River of Oblivion, letting the flowers bloom for a moment and grow on the exposed arms of these evil spirits.

Soon, pale gray peaches began to solidify.

Su Chen sat cross-legged by the River of Oblivion, using the Flower Blooming Moment technique to refine the Daoist Peach.

Boom!

His magical power was rapidly increasing.

During this process, various unusual phenomena about him were also uncontrollably revealed.

Su Chen was bathed in a bright, clear light, with the cool, bright moon hanging behind his head, making him appear like an immortal or a god.

In the distance, some ghosts who witnessed this scene were terrified.

"Is this an immortal?!"

"God..."

Gazing at the radiant light shining upon the desert, I couldn't help but sigh.

Soon, the unusual situation here caught the attention of a being.

In the pale gray mist.

A tall man with dark blue skin, taut muscles, yellow eyes that shone slightly in the fog, and a chain on his body. He looked very indifferent and looked like a ghost of a middle-aged man. Looking at the scene by the Wangchuan River, he couldn't help but look shocked and took a breath.

"Fairy?"

"Haven't all the immortals already left?" he muttered to himself in a hoarse voice.

Ok?

[Realm: True Person (76%) 7,681 years of cultivation]

Su Chen shifted his attention from the panel and looked in that direction.

He hadn't paid much attention to the ghosts watching, but upon hearing the whispers, his attention was instantly drawn to them.

He reached out and beckoned.

Jiaojie's magical power surged forth.

Sun Bai, the ghost messenger clad in chains, was instantly controlled by magic and flew over.

"Immortal...Immortal, please spare my life!"

"I am a legitimate ghost messenger, not one of those evil spirits..."

Sun Bai said in a panic.

Su Chen ignored him and asked directly, "You just said that the immortals have all left, what do you mean?"

Upon hearing this,

A look of confusion appeared on Sun Bai's terrified face.

Then, a thought struck him, and he asked, "Immortal, have you been in seclusion in the mortal realm for too long, and are you only emerging now?"

He was used to immortals cultivating for decades, hundreds, or even thousands of years.

In his view, the immortal in front of him must have been in seclusion for too long, so he was unaware of the changes in the mortal world, which is why he had not yet left.

Thinking of this, Sun Bai quickly explained, "Immortal, the spiritual energy of heaven and earth has dissipated, and other immortals, even judges and Yama, have already left."

"As for where he went, the kid doesn't know..."

He paused, then hesitated again, "And I've heard that heaven and earth no longer allow immortals to exist, so why do you..."

He was somewhat surprised and puzzled, wondering how this immortal could still exist in this environment.

Upon hearing what the ghost messenger said, Su Chen's eyes lit up with realization. He finally understood why the underworld had become so chaotic.

So all those immortals have fled?

“That’s true…” Su Chen murmured.

After all, the spiritual energy of heaven and earth has dissipated; if we don't escape now, when will we?

When the spiritual energy of heaven and earth completely dissipates and the Dharma-ending Age arrives?

Although it is unknown whether the environment of heaven and earth will recover in the future, at least now the spiritual energy of heaven and earth has collapsed and it is no longer suitable for immortals to exist, so it is normal for them to escape.

Thinking of this, in the state of perfect harmony between man and nature in the realm of a true person, Su Chen's heart stirred, and a feeling arose inexplicably in his heart.

It seems that when he has cultivated for ten thousand years and completely transformed, it will be time for him to leave!

Ascending to heaven?

Or will they be rejected outright?

Looking at his cultivation level of over seven thousand years, Su Chen murmured to himself, "Has it come to the time to leave...?"

Su Chen's expression was complex and dazed.

After spending some time here, he started to miss it.

Unfortunately, he was not a true resident here and was destined to leave sooner or later. It's just unknown whether he will ever have the chance to return.

Maybe yes, maybe no...

Su Chen shook his head and sighed.

Then, ignoring Sun Bai beside him, he continued to refine the gray Daoist peach under the other's astonished gaze.

"This person looks so much like Lord Zhong Kui, both of them love eating ghosts?"

Sun Bai was a little hesitant.

However, he didn't think much of it, assuming that this immortal's hobby was similar to that of Lord Zhong Kui.

Under his curious gaze, one by one, the pale gray cultivation peaches were refined by Su Chen.

[Realm: True Person (81%), 8,157 years of cultivation]

[Realm: True Person (92%) 9,210 years of cultivation]

[Realm: True Person (98%), 9,889 years of cultivation]

Su Chen's magical power was rapidly increasing.

Chapter 52 Rumors of Guobei County

[Realm: True Person (99%), 9,999 years of cultivation]

Boom!

Su Chen's magical power had grown to its limit.

Then, a familiar feeling struck, even more intense than the last time!

His magical power had been stuck for 9,999 years and could not advance any further!

With his profound understanding and perception, which could be passed down through the ages, he clearly sensed that heaven and earth were suppressing him, or rather, because his spiritual energy had dissipated, they were no longer allowing a certain existence to be born!

In Su Chen's perception, under such suppression and restriction, normal people basically have no possibility of transformation.

If the difficulty of breaking through was originally one, then now it is tens or even hundreds!

Su Chen frowned.