The SSSSSSSS-level Mad Dragon is released from prison!

Five years later.

Haicheng, Huichun Hall.

The afternoon sun shone through the old window frames, casting golden beams of light into the air filled with the aroma of herbs.

Jiang Chen lay on the bamboo rocking chair in the courtyard, swaying gently.

He was wearing a faded cotton-linen short-sleeved shirt and flip-flops.

"Jiang Chen!"

"Are you going to buy me that starry sky dress or not?!"

Tang Tang, dressed in a pink Lolita dress, clung to Jiang Chen's arm like a kitten, shaking it vigorously.

"Buy, buy, buy!"

"If you keep making noise, I'll throw you into the back mountain to be fed to the Gu worms."

Jiang Chen didn't even lift his eyelids. He casually picked up an apple from the stone table next to him and took a bite.

"You dare!"

Tangtang put her hands on her hips and puffed out her cheeks.

"You just promised me yesterday that you'd take me to Universal Studios!"

Xiao Ruoye came out of the house, carrying a basin of freshly washed grapes.

She was wearing a simple tracksuit, her hair tied in a ponytail, looking less fiery and more relaxed than before.

"What's fun at Universal Studios?"

"How about we go to the shooting range? I just pulled some strings and got a few new guns."

She placed the grapes on the stone table and popped one into her mouth first.

"Gunfire again! Shooting range again!"

Tangtang made a funny face.

"Wakaba-neechan, can't you act like a girl at all?"

"If you keep arguing, I'll shoot you."

Xiao Ruoye glanced at her, then pulled out a silver pocket pistol from behind her waist and skillfully disassembled and reassembled it.

Behind the counter, Su Jinyu was fiddling with the abacus, a gentle smile on her lips.

"The harvest this month is good. Those few acres of spirit fields behind the mountain will be enough for us to eat for a while."

"It's that batch of medicinal herb seeds you bought last time; they were a bit expensive."

She looked up at Jiang Chen.

"Next month, half of your allowance will be deducted."

Jiang Chen casually tossed the apple core into the trash can in the corner of the yard, where it flew in a perfect parabola.

"Understood, housekeeper."

Under the eaves, Nalanjia and Yeyou were playing chess.

Before each move, Nalanjia would purify the black jade chess piece with the holy light from his fingertips.

Ye You rested her chin on her hand, her pure black eyes fixed on the chessboard, motionless.

Under the big tree in the courtyard, Junyao was watering a newly planted seven-colored flower with Lanqin and Linyuan.

From the backyard came the sound of a loud argument.

"You take back your move!"

"I don't!"

"You clearly regretted it! I saw it all clearly!"

"Sister Luo, don't listen to her nonsense, I just accidentally slipped!"

Jiang Chen shook his head and closed his eyes.

Since he returned the original spiritual energy of Tianji Island to the human world, the earth has entered an era of spiritual revival.

Countless reclusive cultivators and newly emerging martial arts geniuses have sprung up like mushrooms after rain.

Haicheng has become a pilgrimage site in the eyes of countless people.

Just then, the door of the clinic was kicked open.

"Bang!"

A loud bang.

The once noisy street fell silent instantly.

A young man dressed in a white robe and riding a flying sword hovered at the entrance of the clinic.

He exuded the powerful aura of an early-stage Golden Core cultivator, his eyes sweeping arrogantly over the people in the courtyard.

"Is this the legendary residence of 'Dr. Jiang'?"

"A bunch of ordinary people."

The young man looked at the ordinary-looking women in the courtyard, his disdain growing stronger.

"With the revival of spiritual energy, this world now belongs to cultivators like us."

"This sacred land is not something you mortals are worthy of possessing."

He held up one finger and pointed at Jiang Chen on the recliner.

"You have three seconds to get out of here with your woman."

"Otherwise, you die."

Tang Tang blinked, glanced at the young man, and then at Jiang Chen.

Xiao Ruoye stopped wiping the gun barrel, looked up, and stared at an idiot.

Su Jinyu stopped using the abacus.

When no one responded, the young man's expression turned cold.

"Not leaving?"

"Then all of you should die!"

He made a hand seal, and a three-foot-long sword formed from spiritual energy appeared in front of him.

The tip of the sword was locked on Jiang Chen's brow from afar.

"stop!"

A sharp shout came from the street corner.

A woman dressed in martial arts attire, exuding a heroic air, arrived hastily, leading a group of powerful martial artists.

It was written by Song Yu.

Today, she is already the Grand Leader of the Imperial Capital Martial Arts Alliance.

"Who are you?"

"Do you know what place this is?"

Song Yuzhi looked at the young man on the sword with a solemn expression.

"Oh? A Grandmaster at the peak of his cultivation?"

The young man glanced at her and smiled contemptuously.

"In my eyes, they are no different from ants."

"I am Li Xiaoran, the chief disciple of the Kunlun Immortal Sect!"

"Today, I have been ordered by my sect to take possession of this blessed land!"

"If you know what's good for you, get lost!"

Song Yuzhi wanted to say something more.

Jiang Chen, who had been keeping his eyes closed, finally opened them.

He did not get up.

He didn't even look at the so-called chief disciple.

He simply blew a breath gently in that direction.

There is no wind.

No sound.

The sinister smile on Li Xiaoran's face froze as he hovered in mid-air.

He could feel his protective aura, powerful enough to split mountains and shatter rocks; his incomparably sharp natal flying sword; and the golden core shining brightly in his dantian…

In that instant, everything vanished into nothingness.

Like bubbles in the sunlight.

His cultivation, everything he was so proud of, was blown away completely by that one breath.

"Thump."

Li Xiaoran fell from mid-air and landed on the bluestone slab at the entrance of the clinic like a dead dog.

He struggled to lift his head and looked at the man lying in the rocking chair in horror.

"Who...who are you...?"

Jiang Chen did not answer him.

He simply waved his hand at Song Yuzhi.

"Drag it away."

"Yes, Mr. Jiang."

Song Yu bowed and gave a wink to the warrior behind him.

Two grandmasters rushed up and dragged the distraught young man away like a piece of trash.

The streets have returned to their bustling state.

It was as if nothing had happened.

Jiang Chen closed his eyes again.

Back then, he flattened Tianji Island, transforming that world-destroying power into spiritual rain, which he then showered upon the mortal realm.

It's not about starting a dog-eat-dog era of cultivation.

He simply wanted to bring more life to the land where he had lived.

That's it.

Night falls.

Everyone sat around the stone table in the courtyard, enjoying a steaming hot pot.

"Mom, eat more."

Jiang Chen placed a piece of meat on Luo Qingluan's plate.

"You eat too."

Luo Qingluan smiled and put it back in his bowl.

Qin Shengxue and Ye Weiyang, who were standing nearby, almost got into a fight over the last piece of tripe.

After several rounds of drinks...

Jiang Chen stood up and walked to the center of the courtyard.

He looked up at the bright moon in the night sky and the countless stars.

Everyone put down their chopsticks and watched him quietly.

They know.

The time for farewell has come.

"This place is very good."

Jiang Chen said softly.

"There was noise, there were fireworks, and there were you all."

"But, in the end, it's still too small."

He slowly extended his hand.

It wasn't directed at any one person, but at the entire starry sky.

"This world no longer needs me."

"Would you like to come with me to see that sky beyond the sky?"

Su Jinyu was the first to stand up and walk to his side.

"Wherever you go, I'll go."

Xiao Ruoye wiped her mouth, put the gun away, and stood on his other side.

"Perfect timing, we've caught most of the bad guys here."

Tangtang, Junyao, Nalanjia, Yeyou...

Lan Qin, Lin Yuan...

His three masters, his mother...

Everyone stood up and surrounded him.

Jiang Chen smiled.

He reached out and put his arms around the shoulders of everyone around him.

An invisible, gentle force lifted everyone up, slowly ascending into the night sky.

On the ground, that ordinary traditional Chinese medicine clinic gradually turned into a small dot of light.

The entire city of Haicheng, the entire planet, appeared tiny beneath their feet.

Finally, they passed through the pale blue barrier.

Before me lay an endless, profound, and vast universe adorned with billions of stars.

"Let's go."

Jiang Chen said softly.

"Go and see that sky beyond the sky."

(End of the book)