"Are Qing Shi, Qing Xing, and Qing Yuan all in the southwest?" Qing Chen asked.
“Qingyuan is still here, but he’s hidden away. Qingshi and Qingxing haven’t hidden their tracks, but they also live a secluded life and rarely show their faces,” Qingji replied. “What you need to be careful about is that Qingwen’s mother, Qingyun, is also in the southwest. She firmly believes that you killed her son.”
Qing Chen sighed, "Isn't this just sending me back to take the fall? What exactly are you planning to do with me?"
Qing Ji pressed the elevator button, 17th floor.
He calmly said, "A blind date."
Qing Chen: "???"
He came here because the great demon Qing Ji had made a special trip to the wilderness, carrying the arrangements made by the head of the Qing clan.
Qing Chen had considered many possibilities, such as having him return to report on his work, involving him in some power struggle, or having him meet with certain important figures from different factions...
What he never expected was that the other party had gone to such lengths to bring him back, using a complete nanobot manufacturing line, so many resources, and such a grand gesture, only to have him go on a blind date!
You're insane!
Qing Ji calmly said, "When I was your age, I already had Qing Wu. What you're doing every day is too dangerous. It's safer to leave a seed; the lineage cannot be broken."
Qing Chen: "...There's absolutely no need for that."
"Now it's not up to you anymore. For the next 14 days, you are free to do as you please. But don't worry, if you don't have someone you like, no one will force you to do anything."
Qing Chen: "???"
Qing Chen fell into deep thought. According to his brother Qing Zhun, the person on Ginkgo Mountain would never do anything pointless. Was the continuation of the family line really that important? For that family head, it might indeed be important, but it wouldn't be enough to force him to go on blind dates and have children.
Perhaps, there are other things waiting for me.
Arriving at the 17th floor, room 1722, the room was spotless. The 30-square-meter apartment looked cramped, but it was very cozy.
Qingchen was suddenly stunned, because this place was exactly the same as the small house he had seen in his dream, with one bedroom, one living room and one bathroom.
However, in his dream, he lived alone in his bedroom because his whole family wanted him to have a better living environment so he could study properly for the entrance exam to Qinghe University.
Here, in the bedroom, there was a not-so-spacious bed, only 1.5 meters wide. He could imagine the warm scene of his brother and sister-in-law sleeping in each other's arms.
There was a small table by the window, and next to the table was a small wardrobe.
Apart from the furniture layout, everything here is exactly the same as in his dream.
But this means that his dream was not entirely virtual; rather, it was a fusion of Kyung Jun's will with the world, which still influenced him.
That wasn't a real 'illusory dream,' but a memento left to him by his brother, telling him what the best life should look like.
Wait, if that's the case, does it also mean that after merging with the world's will, the brother didn't completely lose his self-awareness?
The other party has only merged with it, not disappeared.
Qing Chen suddenly looked at Qing Ji: "If... I mean if, my brother hasn't been completely annihilated after merging with the world's will, then what should I do to separate him?"
Qing Ji frowned: "Don't talk nonsense. Merging with the will of the world is irreversible."
“I mean, if! Your strength and cultivation level are higher than mine, and you have more experience in cultivation than I do. Based on your experience, how do you think you could separate him back out? Even if it's just a consciousness after separation, that would be fine,” Qing Chen said. “I’ve only ever seen someone who exists entirely as consciousness, Li Shentan! If he can do it, why can't my brother?”
Qing Ji also fell into deep thought: "I'm afraid only the gods could do this, but the gods are no longer in this world."
Chapter 763, Qing Ji's Hellish Joke
(The Naming Techniques of Night is first published on Q, with one chapter every night at 6 PM and 12 AM. It is updated regularly. You are welcome to download the Qidian APP to follow the updates.)
In Qing Chen's view, Qing Zhun and Old Master Li Xiurui are completely different.
Mr. Li Xiurui was nearing the end of his life, had seen through the meaning of his existence, and wanted to end it all.
But the older brother, Kyung-jun, was definitely not like that. The other person's life was wasted, which ultimately led to his death.
In the final moments of her life, she was extremely reluctant to leave everything in this world, and didn't even have much time to hug her younger brother or wait for him to come home.
Therefore, Qingchen must find a way to separate his brother's will from the world's will.
As it stands, even a demigod cannot do it, not even Yan Liuyuan.
Could a god do that? Qing Chen didn't know.
But he was going to give it a try!
He already has a piece of the puzzle on the path to godhood!
Qingchen stared at the small house for a long time. There was a group photo on the shoe cabinet. It was a holographic photo that Qingzhun had secretly taken of him when he ran out to find Ningxiu.
The photos show Qing Zhun and Ning Xiu moving around. Ning Xiu is gently holding the young Qing Chen in her arms and rocking him, her face radiating maternal love.
Qing Zhun looked at Ning Xiu with a doting expression, then at Qing Chen.
Qingchen stood in the living room, and he could even imagine his brother coming home from get off work, opening the door, and saying with a smile, "Wife, I'm home."
The sounds seemed real, even warm.
Kyung Joon once became a god for a quarter of an hour for him, and he can become a god for Kyung Joon in this lifetime.
Qing Ji said, "I understand your desire to resurrect your brother, but instead of thinking about something so unrealistic, it would be better to fulfill his last wish first."
Qing Chen was taken aback: "Last wish? Did he have a last wish?"
"Do you know what Xiao Zhun's biggest wish was before he died?" Qing Ji asked, standing in the small house.
Qing Chen looked at the other person: "What?"
“He wanted to spend more time with you and help take care of the children,” Qingji said calmly. “He had already contained the Shadow Gate and had no intention of finding anyone else in this life, so he pinned his hopes on you. He hoped you could have more than ten children, and then he would stay home and play with them. When he talked about this before, his eyes were full of longing. Unfortunately, you didn’t do anything productive after you came back, and he didn’t live to see you.”
Qing Chen was filled with questions: "Is this his wish, or someone else's wish? How is it so closely related to the topic of blind dates?"
Qing Ji glanced at him and said, "I never lie, and the world knows that I, Qing Ji, never lie."
Qingchen sighed, "The more people like this are, the more deadly their lies are."
"Wait, are you going to arrange political marriages for me?" Qing Chen asked. "Who are my blind dates? Are they the daughters of wealthy people or officials in the Qing family's territory? Or the daughters of military generals?"
Qing Ji thought for a moment and said, "Our Qing clan has a stable position in the southwest and does not need to use marriage alliances to stabilize our political status. Therefore, when choosing a wife for you, her family background is not our primary consideration. On the contrary, a powerful and influential background would be a disadvantage for her, as we all dislike maternal relatives."
"Huh?" Qing Chen was puzzled: "Then what is your primary consideration?"
Qing Ji said earnestly, "Good for procreation."
Qing Chen: "..."
Looking at Qing Ji's serious expression, he thought to himself, "Brother, how do you manage to deliver a joke so seriously?"
Even Zard can't do that!
"So, you want me to leave behind my child before I go to my death?" Qingchen asked.
Qing Ji said, "You don't understand. If you die, the child in your wife's womb will become the sole heir of the Qing family. In the past, this was called the 'foundation of the state.' Without an heir, the vast Qing family will have no one to carry on the family name."
“No,” Qing Chen shook his head: “The Qing Clan follows the Shadow Struggle, and this Shadow Struggle is the foundation for the Qing Clan to select candidates. Why should my child be able to inherit the Qing Clan?”
Qing Ji shook his head: "The foundation of the Qing Clan has never been the system of the Shadow Struggle, but the bloodline left by Qing Zhen, a unique bloodline. If you have the opportunity to visit the Ginkgo Manor and see the successive heads of the Qing Clan, and then look at the development trajectory of the Qing Clan, you will understand that the Qing Clan only experienced rapid development when the group of heads who resembled you were in power. Now, there are only three people left in the world who possess this bloodline, two of whom are very old, and you are the only young person."
Three? He's one of them, but who are the other two?
Qing Chen had met Old Shen before, so he knew that Old Shen was also one of the ancestors' bloodlines, and was very likely the older or younger brother of the Qing family head.
The remaining one should be the current head of the Qing family.
Qing Ji continued, "Moreover, no one can guarantee that your wife's first child will be of ancestral blood. Therefore, you should choose seven wives. According to the probability, only in this way can you leave one child with ancestral blood in a 16% probability."
Qing Chen finally couldn't suppress his urge to complain: "You guys are really disregarding federal law! This is bigamy! And how do you know I'm definitely going to die? I've killed so many enemies already, why can't it be the enemies who die? Also, where did you get this probability from? It's outrageous! Outrageous to the core! It's utterly outrageous!"
Qing Ji raised an eyebrow: "Xiao Zhun said you are the type to plan things out before acting, and you are very calm and composed."
"Then you guys need to do something more stable," Qingchen said with a sigh.
Qing Ji thought for a moment and said, "The head of the Qing family is like an emperor. In order to ensure the stability of the family, you must have more children to ensure that outstanding children are born. You cannot guarantee that your only child will be a genius, so you can only have more children to smooth out the probability with quantity."
"Why didn't the patriarch have ten or so children?" Qingchen asked.
“The first child is of the ancestral bloodline, and the second child is also of the same bloodline. There is no need for him to continue having children. If another child of the ancestral bloodline appears, he might come and compete with you for power,” Qing Ji explained seriously. “When you and Xiao Zhun are both geniuses, having any more children would be irresponsible to the Qing family.”
"What you said makes a lot of sense..."
Qing Ji said, "Actually, you have two younger brothers."
"Hmm?" Qing Chen asked, puzzled.
“But in order to prevent them from seizing power from you and Xiao Zhun, they all fell to their deaths,” Qing Ji said.
In that instant, Qing Chen felt his hair stand on end, a cold wind swept over his back, and he felt chilled to the bone!
Qing Ji forced a smile and said, "I was just joking. This is what outsiders speculate about the patriarch, but he has never actually done that."
Qing Chen: "?"
What a hellish joke!
The Qing Ji before me was like an emotionless robot; even his jokes sounded so stiff.
However, Qing Chen also realized a problem from the other party's words: the head of the Qing family planned to overthrow the system of the Shadow War!
Qing Chen asked, "Regardless of the circumstances, the Shadow Conflict has ensured the stability of the Qing Clan, so why overthrow it?"
Qing Ji replied, "You'll understand later. The head of the family has his own ideas. Just obediently go on the blind date. It officially starts tomorrow."
Qing Chen thought to himself that he had just escaped the pursuit of the demigod Chen, and the next day he was on a blind date in City 5. His life was too strange.
The key point is that he himself doesn't want to go on blind dates at all. First of all, he simply doesn't have time to date anyone right now, and secondly, he has no interest in meeting other girls.
So... I just need to stall here for two weeks and find a way to refuse everyone, right?
Although doing this is hurtful and will cause further harm, the problem is that he has no other choice.
Wait a minute, Qingchen thought, if the patriarch plans to find him seven wives, how many girls will he have to meet in the next two weeks?!
Just as Qing Chen was about to ask for clarification, Qing Ji had already turned and left: "The door code is your birthday, it always has been. Do as you please. Keep your phone on until we summon you. Two weeks later, regardless of the outcome, City 10 will receive a new batch of aid. The anti-missile force has arrived near City 10 and will guard City 10 24/7. This is our way of showing our sincerity."
Qing Chen watched Qing Ji leave, then lay down on the sofa, savoring the atmosphere of the place.
“I will find a way to save you,” he said softly.
With that, Qingchen got up, put on his mask, and walked outside.
As he went downstairs, he ran into his neighbor, an older woman. She glanced at Qingchen and said, "That's strange. This house is actually lived in. I heard the door opening and closing earlier, and I thought it was haunted. Hey, young man, what's your relationship to Qingzhun and Ningxiu? Did they sell the house to you?"