in the edge

Chapter 516 Ascension to Immortality
Du Chengfeng’s return is a big event for Wangyou Township.

Originally this was not a big deal, after all, Du Chengfeng often went out for a walk and then came back. Since Wangyou Township itself had sufficient security to survive in this world full of evil masters, Du Chengfeng also had the free time to go out and travel casually.

Whenever Du Chengfeng comes back, he brings with him new experiences and new stories. So if we have to say what we are looking forward to, everyone is actually looking forward to what new adventures Du Chengfeng will have - as for Du Chengfeng's safety, no one has ever thought about this. After all, in their eyes, Du Chengfeng can never lose.

But this time, the news Du Chengfeng brought back was really too shocking.

"You...are you an immortal?"

A group of neighbors gathered around Du Chengfeng, looking up and down at the tin man's appearance.

The only master in the village turned into a tin man. This was actually within their understanding. After all, there were many masters who turned into monsters, so it was natural for him to turn into a tin man. What's more, they had seen this image when Du Chengfeng came back last time. As long as the person inside was still the familiar person, the appearance was actually not that important.

But this time...

"Not an immortal? What kind of star god is it? Aren't star gods immortals? What's the difference?"

"..."

Du Chengfeng was speechless for a long time.

He had tried very hard to explain his current situation, but it was too difficult to expect a group of ordinary people who didn't quite understand what evil spirits were to understand concepts like turbid and clear, or heaven and earth.

Even the masters of evil spirits might not be able to understand it. You only need to look at the confused face of Swordsman Cui next to him to know this.

"If you say so, then so be it."

Du Chengfeng finally gave up on explaining and instead changed to a statement that everyone could understand better.

"Just think of it as moving, but the journey might be a bit far... so who's ready to go with me?"

After these words were spoken, everyone fell silent.

Du Chengfeng's proposal sounded really good. Everyone would move again and go to some heaven - although they didn't know whether this was heaven or not, but in Du Chengfeng's description, it was a better and safer environment than Wangyou Township.

But do we really need to move?

Many people were hesitant, simply because the environment of Wangyou Township was good enough for them. They had come here from thousands of miles away, settled down here, and lived here for a long time. They had already developed some feelings for this land. If they were forced to move now and abandon their homeland again, they really couldn't bear it.

After all, if it weren't for the war caused by the grassland people, they would not even leave Jizhou. Now that they have finally found a place to settle down, why would they move away so easily?

"This……"

Du Chengfeng didn't know what to say for a moment. He originally thought that moving was something that only required him to say a word. He never expected that everyone had already developed feelings for this land.

"What do you mean?"

Du Chengfeng looked at those familiar friends.

"Would you like to come up with me?"

"I won't go."

The first person to speak was actually the swordsman Cui Yuan.

Even though Du Chengfeng had already implicitly reminded Cui Yuan that there might be more enemies worthy of challenging in the sky, Cui Yuan still shook his head and indicated that he would not go - or rather, he would go, but in his own way. One day, he would fly to the sky like Du Chengfeng and become a new star with his own power.

"You... that's fine too."

Faced with Cui Yuan's well-reasoned refusal, Du Chengfeng couldn't help but admire the other party's backbone - although from an objective point of view, he was not optimistic about Cui Yuan's ability, but with this spirit, he believed that Cui Yuan would be able to keep up with his pace one day.

Since the other party is so insistent, there is no need for him to do anything to force the issue.

"how about you?"

Du Chengfeng turned and looked at Liu Bolun.

"Want to go together?"

"It's a good thing, but if I go, I won't go."

The drunk Liu Bolun shook his head repeatedly.

"I don't know what heaven and earth are. I just know that as long as I have wine, it's good. The wine I have now is pretty good, and I don't need to run around..."

"There will be wine in heaven, too, and even better wine."

Seeing Liu Bolun's drunken look, Du Chengfeng still tried to persuade him.

After all, decisions made when drunk may not necessarily be rational. If he really believed the decision Liu Bolun made when he was drunk, everyone would probably regret it afterwards.

"Aren't you curious about what the wine tastes like?"

Du Chengfeng tried to put it in a way that Liu Bolun could understand better.

"Don't you want to see a higher view?"

"Is the wine from heaven so delicious?"

Liu Bolun raised his head and looked into Du Chengfeng's eyes.

"Heaven, underground, the mortal world, the fairyland...what's the difference between these places? The place where you stand is nothing more than three feet of land. After you die, you will also be a piece of yellow earth. There is no difference. There is no difference anywhere. The current state is good, very good."

"..."

Du Chengfeng fell into silence.

He wanted to take back what he had just said. Although Liu Bolun was indeed drunk, he still remained rational.

The other party did reject his invitation after careful consideration, and even gave him a subtle warning.

Everyone has his or her own path to follow, perhaps this is what it means to be a person with different aspirations.

"So, brother."

Du Chengfeng looked at Carpenter Li.

"As for you, do you want to bring your sister-in-law and the child with you..."

"I don't need it."

The wooden man, Carpenter Li, smiled and shook his head.

"You know what I am capable of. I am OK for doing some handicrafts, but I can't do anything like going to heaven...Brother, you have such great abilities and are willing to call me elder brother, so I am satisfied. As for the extra things, I won't cause trouble for you."

"It's really not causing any trouble."

Du Chengfeng was scratching his head. "That's right, how can I explain this kind of thing..."

"Anyway, brother, just develop your career out there. If anything happens to you, just come back... wait a minute."

Having said this, the wooden man Carpenter Li suddenly turned around and took out a long wooden stick from behind him.

"If you really can't bear to part with it, then take this away. It can be regarded as a memory."

"This……"

Du Chengfeng was speechless for a long time.

It is true that the wooden man in front of him is Carpenter Li, but this wooden stick also belongs to Carpenter Li - because of the chaos caused by Yin man Wu Zhao before, Carpenter Li was actually killed once. Strictly speaking, the current Carpenter Li should be counted as two.

One was the wooden man Li Carpenter who was forcibly resurrected by Du Chengfeng when he had just glimpsed the mental power and used his mental power to mobilize the will of everyone.

The other one is the remaining consciousness of Carpenter Li, which is attached to this long pole, just like Yang Sanlang who drew his sword and committed suicide and then attached himself to the sword.

Both of them are Carpenter Li, or even two sides of Carpenter Li. The wooden man Carpenter Li retains the craftsmanship of carpentry, while the remaining consciousness of Carpenter Li attached to the long stick represents Carpenter Li's protection for his family and relatives.

And now, Carpenter Li chose to give him half of his body.

"It's for you, just take it. This pole was originally made for you."

Seeing that Du Chengfeng was still a little dazed, Carpenter Li simply stuffed the pole into Du Chengfeng's hand.

"Take it."

"I... um."

Du Chengfeng took a deep breath and took the pole.

He did not say thank you, simply because the relationship between them no longer required such superficial courtesy. Moreover, when he first arrived, if it were not for the kind-hearted Carpenter Li who made him feel the warmth of this world, he would not even know what he would become.

Therefore, I don’t need to express my gratitude for such great kindness.

He will continue walking with half of this old brother's body.

"Why are you so sad? It's not like you won't be able to come back."

Seeing that Du Chengfeng's expression was a little too serious, the wooden man Carpenter Li patted him on the shoulder.

"You just went to heaven, not died. If you are really tired out there, or if you want to eat something good, you can just come back and get together with everyone... Can't you fly now? It's very convenient to go back and forth, so what's the problem?"

"……Right."

Du Chengfeng forced a smile.

Indeed, he just flew into the sky, not dead. If he really wanted to come back and reunite with us, he could definitely come back - after all, this was just a move, not a separation of life and death, and there was really no need to be so pretentious.

But this feeling suddenly sank when he turned his head again.

Just because, when he wanted to ask the last acquaintance, that is, old man Yang Xuanyang, the patriarch of the Yang family, he suddenly discovered.

Old man Yang in the wheelchair died at some point.

"……what?"

Du Chengfeng choked on the spot.

The old man was clearly fine when he came back just now. How come he disappeared after chatting with him for a while?

"A happy funeral, it's a happy funeral..."

A member of the Yang family who was close to Old Man Yang stood up and explained the whole story.

It turned out that when Du Chengfeng just came back, the old man was still a little confused. After all, Du Chengfeng explained things in a rather complicated way in order to make them clear, with things like clear and turbid power, heaven and earth, etc., and no one quite understood what he was saying.

But some of the Yang family members finally tried hard to understand it, and then told it to old man Yang Xuan.

“Isn’t this the ascension to heaven?”

After hearing this, Old Man Yang was dumbfounded.

Others’ words might not be clear, but the children of Yang family understood this patriarch clearly. After leaving Jibei, this former descendant of a general had become a little crazy, his mind was full of following the emperor, and he wanted to push someone to the throne at every turn - of course, old man Yang didn’t think about his own affairs. As a descendant of a general, he felt that the Yang family should follow a man with the aura of a king.

And Du Chengfeng is the one with the most kingly aura in old man Yang's eyes.

First of all, Du Chengfeng is a good fighter. Secondly, Du Chengfeng is a good fighter. Finally, Du Chengfeng is really a good fighter. This is why Old Man Yang chose Du Chengfeng - although this kind of pure combat power has nothing to do with a normal king, the one that Old Man Yang uses as a benchmark is not a normal king either.

The person that Old Man Yang used as a comparison was the founding emperor of the Southern Chen Dynasty, who single-handedly conquered all the enemies. So from this perspective, Du Chengfeng, who was equally capable in fighting, perfectly met his criteria.

It's just that Du Chengfeng himself didn't have such thoughts, which made Old Man Yang depressed for a long time, especially after Du Chengfeng led the refugees to settle down in Wangyou Township. This kind of thinking of living in a corner made Old Man Yang scratch his head. Every midnight, Old Man Yang was daydreaming, imagining Du Chengfeng breaking into Jiankang City, thinking about the Yang family becoming the founding generals again.

But Du Chengfeng did not do so, but chose to live an ordinary life.

This made Old Man Yang even more disheartened. He felt that it was hopeless for the Yang family to become founding generals in this lifetime. So as time went by, Old Man Yang tried hard to forget about these things and just be a country farmer and live out the rest of his life.

But who could have thought that Du Chengfeng would quietly come up with a big one.

Du Chengfeng did not indeed break into Jiankang City and become emperor, but he did something even more outrageous than becoming an emperor - this most capable fighter in the village, this person who seemed to just want to live an ordinary life, this typical person with no ambitions, actually ascended to heaven without any noise.

Living in the sky, opening up a cave outside the sky, and overlooking the world from the highest peak, isn't this more powerful than the Emperor of Dachen?
What's more, Du Chengfeng was preparing to bring people up.

Flying into the sky on a crane with the immortals, isn't this more glorious and eye-catching than being a founding general?

"Hehe! Hehehe!"

Thinking of this, Old Man Yang couldn't help but laugh. He never thought that he would be able to see such a scene in his lifetime!

But his laughter made no sound.

Old man Yang Xuanyang was already old, and his legs were broken in Jibei, which seriously damaged his blood. Then he traveled all the way to Wangyou Township, which was a torture for his old bones. Perhaps the only reason why old man Yang could hold on until now was because of that breath, that breath of energy that wanted to bring glory to the Yang family again.

And now, with this great ups and downs, with this supreme happiness and joy, this breath has finally dissipated.

So, in full view of everyone, Old Man Yang, like Du Chengfeng who went to heaven quietly, also died quietly sitting in a wheelchair.

It is true that this could be called a happy funeral, after all, Old Man Yang died with a smile on his face, but at the moment, there was no joy on Du Chengfeng's face.

"Birth, aging, sickness and death...?"

Du Chengfeng couldn't help but sigh.

(End of this chapter)