Chapter 723: Chapter 722: In this life, with me
According to the Ancient Emperor, even in her era of the Ancient Era, there existed snakes that could compare to the Immortal Emperor.
The snake was terrifyingly large, with no one knowing its exact length, size, or strength.
It encircled the entire world, and its colossal body could be seen even in the Chaos Sea.
It seemed as if it were omnipresent.
Given the Ancient Emperor’s antiquity, the ancient times of her era... that must have been countless eons ago.
Time... seems to have no beginning and no end.
Even if the timeline of a world starts from its birth, when one zooms out to contemplate it within the vast expanse of space, time still has no beginning.
Even the Ancient Emperor didn’t know.
How many eras existed before her?
Even the starting point is untraceable.
So, what about the end?
It’s equally untraceable.
Time has no end.
It is endless.
Therefore, how difficult it must be to achieve true eternity.
Living for a hundred million years is not eternity.
Any random rock dug up from the ground has existed for eons.
A billion, ten billion years, that’s not eternity either.
Ten thousand billion years... as long as there is an end one day, it is not eternity.
Moreover, this kind of eternity, where one is as inert as a rock, is meaningless.
With such a perspective, it becomes clear why even the Immortal Emperor has a day of downfall.
And if you consider it from the standpoint of an ordinary person, if an ordinary person were to live forever without aging, yet their strength, cognition, and brain can’t improve, they simply couldn’t endure immortality.
Qin Changqing had conducted experiments.
He concocted a special Elixir that allowed some ordinary people to live for tens of thousands of years, but at the same time, he did not grant them any special treatment.
Some ordinary people watched their loved ones age one by one, bidding farewell to their sons, grandsons, great-grandchildren... After generations passed, the world became utterly unfamiliar to them, and their hearts would break.
Some chose suicide.
Some lived carefree for many years, but their anomaly was eventually detected, and they were killed by others.
Some hid away in a place, living for countless years before they found life meaningless and lost interest in many things.
Others filled their lives with contentment, but after living too long, they faced a new problem.
Their brain capacity was not enough.
Living too long, with too many memories, stuffing too much into their brains... indeed, they would face this issue.
Just like a computer, no matter how fast it starts off, it will slow down after prolonged use, and eventually, the memory will be insufficient.
Unless you don’t store anything in it or frequently reformat it.
But human brains cannot be reformatted, and humans experience too much daily—an ordinary person living for over ten thousand years really would have insufficient brain capacity.
And after coming out, Qin Changqing discovered that she had reached the Quasi-Saint level.
“If you don’t become a saint, I’m going to catch up with you,”
The Ancient Emperor said with a smirk.
Then.
Qin Changqing let her know what the husband’s authority was!
The Ancient Emperor’s gaze faltered.
Just like that, full of grievances, she was bullied by Qin Changqing for many days.
After the bullying ended, the Ancient Emperor’s grievances disappeared, except that she became somewhat fearful upon seeing Qin Changqing...
The more she was afraid, the more Qin Changqing...
Thus.
Many years later, the Ancient Emperor, who had just become a Quasi-Saint, was finally able to rest.
She quickly called over her two daughters, wanting to guide their cultivation.
For fear that Qin Changqing would start again.
Seeing the Ancient Emperor like this, Qin Changqing found it amusing.
From time to time, he looked for opportunities to tease her.
The Ancient Emperor was quite helpless.
But after all, Qin Changqing was her man.
“Wow, a world has been born inside here.”
One day, the four of them came to the World Tree again.
Decades later, the sprout of the World Tree had grown.
Inside one of its leaves, a world had already been born.
This world was still very small, with no sentient beings inside, but it already had many lush plants.
“The Chaos Sea is reviving.”
The Ancient Emperor’s eyes showed satisfaction.
“Once, the Chaos Sea contained a myriad of worlds as numerous as grains of sand in the Ganges; it’s a pity they were destroyed by them. I hunted those beings for billions of years, nearly wiping them out. Alas, my era was ultimately too brief,”
The Ancient Emperor sighed.
Despite her powers seeming demonic, for the Ancient Emperor, the nature of power was not important.
She created the “Emperor Scripture” simply to survive, to be resurrected.
The method of resurrection determined that it couldn’t possibly be righteous.
Therefore, the “Emperor Scripture” was inevitably demonic.
Qin Changqing caught her small hand, “In this life, you have me.”
These words warmed the Ancient Emperor’s heart inexplicably.
Rarely, she laid her head on Qin Changqing’s shoulder and softly hummed in agreement.
This was one of her rare tender moments.
When the two were alone in a room, the Ancient Emperor became even gentler... and even took the initiative to cooperate...