My gorgeous wife Chapter 2274 - 2242: In the Spring, a Seed Was Planted

Sitting quietly in midair above the Tianchen Continent, Li Chen remained silent.

Below, a world-shaking upheaval was erupting within Ye Qiu Sect.

Sect Master Ye Xiangdong went mad, slaughtered the Second Elder and Elder Zhang, expelled the Fifth Elder from the mountain gate; only the Sixth Elder stayed in Ye Qiu Sect, though he too was ruthlessly taught a lesson by the Sect Master.

Even the Fourth Elder, who had been in closed-door cultivation for years, was startled out.

What shook Ye Qiu Sect even more was that this Fourth Elder, who had just broken through his seclusion, burst into loud laughter when he saw the sect’s miserable state.

They were mad. The entire upper echelon of Ye Qiu Sect had gone mad.

What drove the disciples of Ye Qiu Sect even crazier was that on this very day, the Sect Master directly defied heaven and broke through, achieving the Infinite Level.

Only now did the disciples realize that their Sect Master, who had originally been merely "Black Rope," was actually a Great Scorching Heat Expert who had been hiding his strength for many years.

And the Fourth Elder who broke out of seclusion turned out to be Great Scorching as well!

After this, Ye Qiu Sect lost several elders of the Assemble and Call Rank, but gained an Infinite Level Sect Master and a Great Scorching Elder!

Of course, none of this was what Li Chen cared about anymore.

He cared about only one thing.

Where exactly had the old man gone?

"Ye Qiu Sect, Patriarch Ye Zhiqiu..." Li Chen silently chewed on this name. He didn’t know why Li Changcun had crossed countless distances to come to such a star, then handed his own inheritance to a disciple of such a sect. But his intuition told him that all of this must be related to Ye Qiu Sect’s Patriarch, Ye Zhiqiu.

"Ye Zhiqiu, a woman..." Li Chen fell silent.

He had asked Li Changcun more than once who his mother was.

He had also asked Li Changkong and Li Bihai, and even Li Youxue.

Li Youxue seemed not to know, while Li Changkong and Li Bihai both kept their mouths tightly shut.

"My mother, huh?" The corner of Li Chen’s mouth carried a bitter curve. Why was it that everyone in his family shared such a fate?

He had ascended to the Heaven Realm in search of his wife, and Li Changcun seemed to have left as well in search of his wife.

Li Chen was no fool. After layer upon layer of deduction, he could already roughly guess some of the truth.

But the true truth only made him incomparably furious.

Furious that Li Changcun refused to tell him, refused to shoulder it together with him, his son.

"Your Sea of Laws is about to be completely perfected, but you still lack one crucial Law." At this moment, the Seven Realms Tome suddenly spoke.

"Lack one crucial Law?" Li Chen was startled.

"Exactly." The Seven Realms Tome said, "Judging by the multitude of Laws in this Era, you already carry within you essentially all the most important ones. As for the other mutated and special Laws, they can all be derived and transformed from your current Sea of Laws. Right now, the only thing your Sea of Laws lacks in order to fully match the Laws of the Starry Universe is one final, critically important Law."

Li Chen instinctively asked, "What Law?"

"The Law of Cause and Effect."

"The Law of Cause and Effect?" Li Chen’s brows knitted together, then his gaze suddenly lit up.

"The Law of Cause and Effect... cause and effect..." Li Chen kept murmuring to himself.

"Exactly. Once I possess the Law of Cause and Effect, I’ll absolutely be able to deduce the old man’s current location through causal connections!" Li Chen’s eyes shone brightly.

"Seven Realms Tome, thank you." Li Chen said solemnly.

The Seven Realms Tome did not respond to Li Chen again, instead lapsing into silence.

For Li Chen now, perfecting the Sea of Laws was indeed a matter of utmost importance.

Because once his Sea of Laws was perfected, his cultivation would definitely be able to take another step forward.

After perfecting the Sea of Laws, his True Form Universe would be able to draw even closer to the form of the current Starry Universe. This transformation in the form of his True Form Universe would directly propel his cultivation into explosive growth.

For any Palm Realm Powerhouse, this was a kind of "shortcut" to improving cultivation.

Of course, calling it a shortcut applied only to Li Chen.

Because most Palm Realm experts were absolutely incapable of mastering so many different Laws.

For them, bitterly cultivating to perfect their Sea of Laws wasn’t even as convenient as closing themselves off in death seclusion to comprehend.

"Comprehending the Law of Cause and Effect and perfecting the Sea of Laws won’t only allow me to rely on causality to find the old man; it will also let my cultivation step into the Middle Stage of the Heaven and Earth Realm, perhaps even the Late Stage!" A strange light flickered in Li Chen’s eyes.

His True Form Universe was completely different from the True Form Universes of other Heaven and Earth Realm cultivators. An ordinary Heaven and Earth Realm only possessed a Pseudo-Universe.

But from the moment it was born, Li Chen’s True Form Universe had been entirely different from the True Form Universes of all other Palm Realm cultivators.

It was neither a Pseudo-Universe nor a Yin Universe. It resembled the Minor Universe of the Heaven-shrouding Realm, yet was also different from a true Minor Universe.

He was in the same Palm Realm, yet Li Chen had taken a forked path entirely different from all other Palm Realm Powerhouses.

It could even be said that Li Chen had already stepped outside the conventional cultivation system.

"Cause and effect."

"Where there is a cause, there must be an effect; where there is an effect, there must be a cause."

In an instant, countless images flashed through Li Chen’s mind.

They were the innumerable events that had happened over his nearly four hundred years of cultivation, and those events kept linking together in his mind, one image after another.

His stepping out from that deep-mountain Panlong Village was a cause.

Later, he roamed abroad, carved out a world with his bare hands, founded the Palace of the Nether King, and became the King of the Netherworld—that was an effect.

When Li Chen was born, Li Changcun slew the seriously injured Cang Ku who had fallen to the Lower Realm, refined a mass of Blood of Heaven, and planted it in Li Chen’s body. That was a cause.

Afterward, as the Energy of the Blood of Heaven grew stronger with Li Chen himself, its influence grew greater and greater, forcing him to return to the country, where he then met Lin Yi and the others. That, too, was an effect.

He took Ning Wangyang to that small town called Blotto to rescue the trapped Catherine, and thereby unwittingly provoked Behemoth, who sought to return to the Demon Realm. That was also a cause.

Later, because of Ning Wangyang’s matter, countless people in the minor world fell, and he further forged a feud with Behemoth that lasted for hundreds of years—an even greater effect.

"Cause and effect is everywhere, and yet nowhere. All things, all events, carry cause and effect."

Li Chen murmured softly.

The Law of Cause and Effect was originally one of the most adept Law Powers of the Buddhist Realm in the Seven Realms era. Among the many powerhouses who hailed from the Buddhist Realm, more than half excelled in Law Divine Abilities of cause and effect.

Even Little Cang, that old fossil whose belonging to which Boundary was unclear, understood some of the Law of Cause and Effect.

Even Li Chen himself did not know that it was precisely because he understood the Law of Cause and Effect that when the alter ego Cang Ku was seriously injured and fell to Earth back then, Little Cang did not intervene to save him.

Because he had vaguely deduced that it would become a great web of cause and effect.

High above the Tianchen Continent, Li Chen’s figure suddenly blurred, then abruptly vanished.

One could faintly see that the instant Li Chen disappeared, countless scattered Shadows seemed to fly out, dispersing across various parts of the Tianchen Continent.

In Ye Qiu Sect, the newly advanced Infinite Level Ye Xiangdong seemed to sense something and suddenly raised his head to look at the sky.

"Senior..."

In a remote mountain village somewhere on the Tianchen Continent, a little girl with ram horn braids was happily running toward the village, hugging a toddler who looked to be only one or two years old.

"Dad, look, I picked up a child!"

The breeze stirred, and a Seed, perhaps dropped from the little girl or the toddler, quietly fell to the ground at the village entrance and took root in silence.