Put Away Your Divine Techniques Now! Chapter 1456 - 36: [Heavenly Dao’s Favored Child] _3

He understood, he heard it clearly.

He slowly nodded, then stepped forward.

Under the howling gales that filled the sky, he spread his arms wide, his whole body like a great bird, riding the wind away!

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In fact, on the fourth day after Chu Keqing left, Chen Yan had already completed the essential work that every Cultivator must do after each Realm Breakthrough: first stabilize the Realm.

Then, Chen Yan began trying out the things that could be done in the Celestial Human Realm.

He spent a few days letting his Divine Sense wander to comprehend the rules of heaven and earth, becoming more and more adept at it.

During this time, Chen Yan noticed a huge change compared to before!

This heaven and earth, this world, was becoming more and more intimate with him.

No, "intimate" wasn’t quite the right word.

Rather... it seemed like it wasn’t all that willing to bother with him anymore.

It was as if...

You’re sitting in the living room at home, your parents are beside you, and if there’s nothing going on, the whole family can actually sit there without saying a word.

This kind of "ignoring" is precisely an extreme form of recognition.

I don’t take the initiative to talk to you, and under normal circumstances I won’t deliberately express anything to you.

Because I already silently treat you as one of my own kind.

Chen Yan had never asked if Celestial Beings of the Domain Realm would feel something like this.

But instinctively, he felt that the Celestial Beings of the Domain Realm definitely couldn’t achieve this.

So, one day, a thought suddenly rose up in his heart.

He wanted to take a look at this world.

With the Cultivation of the Celestial Human Realm, with the insights of the Celestial Human Realm, he wanted to look at this world anew, to listen to the different "voices" of the Heavenly Dao in various parts of the world.

Once this thought arose, it only grew stronger and stronger, even overpowering his intention to remain in the mountain, using the vast Primordial Qi supplied by the jade bamboo shoots to continuously raise his Cultivation.

In the end, Chen Yan decided to leave the mountain.

In the unseen, it was as if a thought in his heart was reminding him.

To listen more to the voices of the rules and will of this world—that was far more important than raising his Cultivation!

Thus, Chen Yan gave up the Primordial Qi–rich Grotto Heaven Blessed Land in the belly of the mountain, the kind of place countless Cultivators would fight to the death to seize, and abandoned continuing Cultivation to raise his Realm.

Just like that, he let his Cultivation remain at just having stepped over the threshold of the Celestial Human Realm, no longer deliberately trying to push it higher.

He walked out of the mountain, casually picked a direction, and simply kept walking!

He went to look at mountains, went to look at seas, and then one day, the thought suddenly came to him to go see the highest place in this world.

If he wanted to see it, then he went.

With a physique as powerful as a Superman’s, his climb up the roof of the world was like walking on level ground.

Standing at the summit, feeling the blizzards howling across the roof of the world, listening until he had his fill of the voice of this heaven and earth’s will, Chen Yan rode the wind down the mountain.

By noon the next day, Chen Yan had already arrived at a small hotel in Kathmandu.

He casually tossed a few US Dollar bills he still had left over from his time in the United States to the front desk, and received a room key.

He went into the room—fortunately, at least the bathroom had separate wet and dry areas.

The bed looked relatively clean.

Chen Yan sprawled on the bed, neither Cultivating nor meditating, and fell into a deep sleep.

The next day, he walked the streets of the city, watching the bustling crowds, the rundown neighborhoods, the noisy engines...

Then he continued west.

During this time, Chu Keqing called him several times. The first two didn’t get through, but the third finally did.

Chen Yan didn’t say much; knowing that Chu Keqing had already returned to the mountain to Cultivate, he simply reminded her to practice her Cultivation Technique properly.

If she got bored staying there, she could also go out for a walk, clear her mind a bit, or go back to Jinling Prefecture to rest.

But Chu Keqing didn’t see it that way.

Starting Cultivation at thirteen, Chu Keqing had from childhood followed that mode of "Ascetic Cultivation."

In her view, since they had such a good Cultivation Technique and such a Primordial Qi–rich treasure land, not Cultivating properly would be a criminal waste!

Fine—when it came to Cultivation, Dean Chu was essentially a King of Competition.

Yet in his heart, Chen Yan vaguely sensed a principle: the Heavenly Dao of this heaven and earth didn’t seem to especially favor this kind of "Ascetic Cultivation"—being too competitive wasn’t necessarily right.

But everyone has their own philosophy.

Chen Yan told Chu Keqing his thoughts once, but she didn’t necessarily agree. For her, Ascetic Cultivation was the path that felt most natural.

Alright then, Chen Yan stopped trying to persuade her.

Perhaps everyone’s path is destined to be different in the end.

In the second month, Chen Yan walked alone on foot to the Middle East, stepping into a sea of sand.

By the third month, he had already crossed the strait and reached the eastern coastline of another ancient country, Egypt.

After that, he planned to head all the way south, to cross the Sahara Desert on foot and then traverse the entire African continent from north to south.

On the night before he entered the Sahara Desert, he received a phone call from Chu Keqing.

On the phone, Chu Keqing’s tone sounded somewhat lost and dejected.

"I... failed."

"Failed at what?" Chen Yan was a bit puzzled.

"I failed to assault the Third Realm," Chu Keqing said, a trace of helplessness and disappointment in her voice. "The three months of Bounty Orders have all been carried out; I killed everyone I could, and those I really couldn’t find, I simply withdrew the bounties. The domestic charity work is basically done as well.

I... I clearly did the calculations, I clearly recalculated several times: all these things together, the feedback from the Heavenly Dao, plus the progress of my own Cultivation over these three months.