After Nine Heavens Mysterious Girl, Chen Changming did not return to Wei immediately, but chose to travel around.

He walked on the earth and observed the world in front of him up close for the first time.

After nearly two thousand years of time changes, the land is now full of ruins.

The retreat of spiritual energy makes it more and more difficult for monks to practice. The practice of monks has become more and more difficult from generation to generation.

Under this situation, there are fewer and fewer monks available, and their strength is getting worse and worse.

Some monks who were able to cultivate to the spirit fetus or even the realm of spirit transformation in the original era may only be able to reach the foundation building level in this era, or even worse.

Under such circumstances, today's era can be said to be in decline. The prosperity originally caused by spiritual energy disappeared in a short period of time, and was directly brought back to the original point, and even became more miserable.

Chen Changming walked on this land and observed silently.

He observed generations of monks struggling on the road of spiritual practice, constantly advancing on the road, and eventually dying.

Nowadays, with the changes in the environment of heaven and earth, the life span of monks is getting shorter and shorter.

This is not only caused by the monk's cultivation, but also by changes in the environment of heaven and earth.

Living in an environment rich in spiritual energy, even a mortal can easily live to a hundred years and achieve longevity if he is nourished by spiritual energy every day.

The same goes for monks.

However, in the current situation where the spiritual energy of heaven and earth has decreased sharply, the life span of monks has also been greatly reduced, and they often cannot live to the end of their lives.

Foundation-building monks generally only have a lifespan of two hundred years, but ordinary people often do not live until this time, and will die directly due to various reasons when they are over a hundred years old.

Chen Changming just walked around, observing the changes on the earth.

Whenever he gained something or gained some insights, he would return to the Kingdom of Wei and practice in seclusion for a period of time.

While other places seemed to be in dire straits, Wei State's situation seemed to be pretty good because of Chen Changming's presence.

With the area that Chen Changming briefly opened up, the monks of Wei State can have better conditions and practice better in it.

However, the current state of Wei can only play a cultivation role for Chen Changming.

Apart from that, there is no other effect.

During his travels, Chen Changming also gained a lot.

The most obvious one is the inheritance and scriptures of many gods and demons.

Until now, many gods and demons have been hiding for a while.

Chen Changming came to the door one by one and exchanged various elixirs and even some of his own scriptures in exchange for the scriptures and inheritance in the hands of those people.

Over the past few hundred years, he has gained a lot and obtained many first-level scriptures about gods and demons.

The scriptures of gods and demons contain the principles and imprints they have understood. Through the scriptures, you can often see different paths, which can bring you various enlightenments.

Chen Changming integrated various scriptures into his own Nirvana Sutra, further sublimating his Nirvana Sutra and reaching a more perfect state.

And in these hundreds of years, his own strength has further grown.

If someone could observe his body, they would find that there are three dazzling secrets shining in his body at this moment, which have been stimulated and opened up.

This is what Chen Changming has achieved over the years.

There are three secret treasures, one is the Mingtai secret treasure, the other is the source place, and the last one is the third secret treasure that was developed based on the practice system of this era.

Different systems of practice often involve different esoteric treasures.

The same is true for the practice of this world. The secrets involved happen to be different from those that Chen Changming had mastered before.

Calculating it this way, it just adds a part to Chen Changming, making him more confident in knocking on the door of gods and demons in the future.

According to what Gu Zhong said in the past, if you want to truly open the door to gods and demons, you need to open at least two secrets to make this possible.

From this aspect, Chen Changming has reached the standard now, but it has not been long enough and he has not fully mastered his three secrets, so he cannot reach that level.

But it doesn't matter.

Living in this era, Chen Changming has a lot of patience.

Sitting here silently, time gradually passed.

Before we knew it, more than a thousand years had passed.

Three thousand years after Emperor Wei ascended the throne, Chen Changming abandoned the position of emperor of Wei State, casually handed over the position to a younger generation who could see it through, and then left.

After leaving the capital of Wei, his first stop was none other than the station where Saintess Dao was located.

In the camp where Saintess Dao is located, batches of disciples are practicing, but at this moment, another batch of faces has changed.

The group of people Chen Changming had seen in the past were all gone now.

Looking at it like this, it has disappeared again.

Time flies by, and before you know it, several generations of time have passed away.

Chen Changming walked all the way into it.

This time, he did not disturb the disciples on the outside and walked directly inside.

Inside it, pieces of black ice stood, seemingly unchanged at all.

Inside, the familiar figure of Chen Changming lay silently, still maintaining the same appearance as when he was alive.

That was Liu Rou, who still maintained her original appearance at this moment. She looked lifelike, as if she had fallen asleep, with no change at all.

It's just that the life on it has long since disappeared. At this moment, it is no longer a living person, just a dead corpse.

Chen Changming glanced at Liu Rou's body, and then continued to move forward.

He walked to the core of the area in front of him and saw a towering piece of black ice inside.

"You're here."

Inside, the familiar voice of Jiutian Xuannv came.

As before, this voice still sounded so calm, but it seemed to be a little tired.

Chen Changming walked into it and looked at the Nine Heavens Xuannv inside the black ice.

Inside the black ice, the appearance of the Nine Heavens Xuannv is exquisite and beautiful. Her appearance is extremely perfect. She is really like a goddess who has fallen from the Nine Heavens, so moving.

She still looks very young, but in her twenties, she looks like a girl, which makes people feel a kind of youthful vitality.

But it seems different to Chen Changming.

In Chen Changming's eyes, Jiutian Xuannv's whole body was filled with a strong aura of death, and the strong aura of decay could not be stopped at all, and it overflowed from her body.

Obviously, after such a long time, even someone as powerful as Jiutian Xuannv has reached her limit and can no longer hold on at this moment.

"You are dying."

Looking at Jiutian Xuannv, Chen Changming observed silently for a while, and then spoke like this.

"yes."

Jiutian Xuannv did not deny this, but sighed softly: "I'm sorry for letting you see me in such a mess."

"However, after holding on for so many years, I will eventually be unable to hold on."

She sighed softly, and then continued: "I will disarm the troops. After I disarm the troops, could you please help me to take care of the disciples?"

"I can leave my mark."

Chen Changming nodded and spoke softly.

"That's enough."

Jiutian Xuannv nodded: "I can last for about a hundred years. During this period, fellow Taoist can do whatever you want."

As she said this, she informed Chen Changming of the specific date of her death.

Chen Changming didn't say much, but quietly retreated to other places.

He continued to travel around the outside world, walking freely in the outside world, traveling thousands of miles and reading thousands of books.

After spending a hundred years in this way, when he came to the residence of the Holy Maiden again, many changes had already taken place.

In front of the towering black ice, the Nine Heavens Xuannv lay quietly inside, but at this moment her body had lost all vitality like Liu Rou.

She has fallen, her whole body is filled with a strong aura of death, and the last bit of life has withered away.

"Fellow Taoist, you are here."

A sound continued to sound, as peaceful as before, with a familiar feeling.

Chen Changming turned around and looked aside.

There, Jiutian Xuannv stood, dressed in white clothes, her delicate and holy face was full of calm, as if she was not surprised by Chen Changming's arrival.

This is a very strange sight.

There was his body in the black ice in front of him, and on the side, another Nine Heavens Mysterious Girl also appeared. The whole scene was strange.

Chen Changming was not surprised, he just observed silently and stared at Jiutian Xuannv's body at this moment.

Different from the past, the body of Jiutian Xuannv seems real at this moment, but in fact, there is a sense of illusion everywhere, and there is a feeling that it is like a phantom.
To be continued...