Chapter 1095: Chapter 1095: The Troubles of Immortality

“It seems that this Sacred Arms is a disaster star,” Ye Feng said with a half-smile, looking at the Hantian Mirror.

“It does seem so.”

The Hantian Ancient Saint wore a troubled frown.

He really wanted to throw away the Hantian Mirror, but after all, it was a piece of Sacred Arms, and he couldn’t bear to just discard it.

“Empress, my apologies for the disturbances lately. If there’s nothing else, I would like to take a stroll around this place,” Ye Feng said to the Empress of the Divine Spirit Ancient Country.

“No problem,” the Empress nodded.

With the Tiger Talisman, Ye Feng was the Ancient Heroic Spirit Commander and could be considered a close kin to the Divine Spirit Ancient Country. Allowing him to visit the Hantian Ancient City was naturally not an issue.

Moreover, even if she wanted to stop Ye Feng, she might not be able to do so.

“Que Qiong, you be the guide for Commander Ye Feng.”

The Empress turned to the Goddess of War and instructed.

“Yes!” Que Qiong nodded her head, walked to Ye Feng’s side, and said with respect, “Commander Ye Feng, please!”

“Thank you for leading the way.”

Ye Feng’s lips held a smile as he left the Imperial Palace with Goddess of War Que Qiong and strolled around the Hantian Ancient City.

“Empress, the junior bids farewell!”

The Hantian Ancient Saint gave a bow to the Empress of the Divine Spirit Ancient Country and hurriedly followed the steps of Ye Feng and the Goddess of War.

On the streets of Hantian Ancient City.

Ye Feng observed the Divine Spirits coming and going within the city, constantly using his Eye of Insight, and found that the people of this race were all adults and immortal.

However, their Cultivation Level could not be improved.

In this lifetime, it would remain at the current level.

And this was the price of immortality.

“Your race can live forever, right?” Ye Feng asked the Goddess of War, Que Qiong by his side.

“Yes,” Que Qiong nodded.

Immortality?

Upon hearing this, Hantian Ancient Saint couldn’t help but widen his eyes, his face showing a shocked expression, as if he had seen a ghost.

“Can the Divine Spirit race bear offspring?” Although Ye Feng knew they couldn’t, he didn’t want to appear as if he knew everything, instead playing dumb suitably.

“No,” Que Qiong shook her head.

“Why? The price of immortality?” Ye Feng inquired.

“Sort of!” Que Qiong tapped her chin lightly, “Over a million years ago, the citizens of our Divine Spirit Ancient Country tried to get married and often engaged in dual cultivation, but they could never conceive. Since then, the Empress knew our race couldn’t produce offspring.”

Ye Feng nodded and looked at the various antiques, ornaments, and food appearing on the street, and couldn’t help but ask, “Do Divine Spirits also need to eat?”

Que Qiong paused and then replied with a bitter smile:

“We only have endless lifespans; it doesn’t mean we cannot be erased. If we don’t eat for a long time, we’ll still die of hunger.”

“Of course, we of the Divine Spirit race are at least at the Divine Origin Realm, and we can sustain ourselves by absorbing nature’s spiritual energy, so we don’t necessarily need to eat.”

“Eating food is just for enjoyment.”

“After all, we have lived for over a million years with immortality and didn’t need to cultivate during that time; naturally, we have to explore new things to keep ourselves from getting bored.”

Ye Feng’s expression became strange upon hearing this.

Think about it.

If one could live forever and also didn’t need to cultivate, merely needing to absorb nature’s spiritual energy daily to maintain their immortality.

It might be fine at first, but after living for tens of thousands, or hundreds of thousands of years, surely every possible entertainment would have been tried.

And then, things would become even more vexing.

If there were no new things, it could drive one to despair.

“Bro, you’re out skipping rope again?”

At this moment, several young men’s voices came from the side of the street, drawing the attention of Ye Feng and the others.

Looking over in the direction of the voices.

They saw several youths standing on the street, playing with a jump rope just like mortals.

“Cultivators… skipping rope?”

Hantian Ancient Saint’s mouth twitched, “Truly a sight to see! I’ve lived for over a million years and never been bored to this extent.”

The Goddess of War snorted and said:

“That’s because you can cultivate, and you can’t live forever; you must keep moving forward in order to not die. But let me tell you the truth, once you truly achieve immortality, over time you will definitely get bored.”

“Indeed!” The Hantian Ancient Saint nodded.

Ye Feng looked at the corner of the street in the distance.

There, several Divine Origin Realm Divine Spirits were counting the grains of sand on a table, clearly out of sheer boredom.

“Will they go mad if it goes on like this?”

Ye Feng couldn’t help but ask.

“Yes!” Que Qiong nodded, “Many of our people have gone mad, but they’ve been cured. However, they quickly go insane again. After that, they get treated and go mad again, over and over, I don’t know how many times now.”

Hearing this, Ye Feng and the Hantian Ancient Saint had no response.

“Actually, if life has a goal, it won’t seem boring,” Ye Feng said, as if something occurred to him.

These are a bunch of immortals!

If he could coax a bunch away, that would be wonderful.

“How do you mean?” Que Qiong was very curious.

“The citizens of the Divine Spirit Ancient Country indeed live forever, but if they find their own life goals and strive to achieve them, wouldn’t that alleviate the boredom?” Ye Feng earnestly proposed.

“But we’ve already done nearly everything we could do,” Que Qiong said, gesturing towards the entire Hantian Ancient City, “Whether it’s animal husbandry, agriculture, handicrafts, textiles, or anything else we can think of, we’ve basically tried it all. But we’re still bored.”

Pausing, Que Qiong added:

“Commander Ye Feng, you might not know, just talking about myself, I can cook more than thirty-six thousand different dishes, and each dish can be made with various flavors.”

“As for the Empress, she’s even more incredible.”

“When it comes to postnatal care for sows, she claims second place, and no one dares to claim first.”

“Over the years, she has helped with the birth of piglets – if not a hundred thousand, then at least eighty thousand.”

“And there’s more…”

Goddess of War Que Qiong listed a bunch of examples, all about things the Divine Spirit race did to pass the time.

“Some citizens simply sleep in their houses, only waking once every thousand or even ten thousand years, then find that their partner has run off with someone else, which is also a common occurrence.”

At this point, Que Qiong sighed helplessly.

Ye Feng, the Hantian Ancient Saint, and those in the Saint Realm watching through the projection of the Hantian Mirror, like Xue Yan, were already dumbfounded.

The Imperial Palace of the Divine Spirit Ancient Country.

The Empress naturally heard the conversation between Ye Feng and Que Qiong and couldn’t help but pout, complaining:

“The Goddess of War, really, how could she reveal the thing about me providing postnatal care to sows for eight hundred years because of boredom? Don’t I have dignity?”

On the street.

Ye Feng, Que Qiong, and the Hantian Ancient Saint continued to wander around.

At this moment, Ye Feng had a new thought.

“Actually, there are many methods to combat boredom.”

“Although you are immortal and unable to cultivate, that doesn’t mean you can’t continue to improve your strength.”

“You can practice various Divine Skills, and try to merge or create new ones.”

“In this way, wouldn’t you have a way to pass the time?”

Upon hearing this, the Hantian Ancient Saint immediately gave a thumbs up to Ye Feng, thinking this was a good idea.

However, the Goddess of War Que Qiong just shook her head repeatedly:

“I’ve cultivated the Divine Skills suitable for me to their peak, increasing my combat strength more and more. But a million years is really too long; I’ve reached the max level long ago.”

“I’ve even innovated and created many new Divine Skills, but I’ve also trained them to the max level.”

“Everything you can think of, I’ve already done.”

“It’s because training Divine Skills is so painstaking and my strength became so strong that the Empress bestowed upon me the title of Goddess of War.”

Hearing this, Ye Feng was utterly speechless.

The Hantian Ancient Saint didn’t know what else to say.

In their view, after achieving eternal life and not needing to cultivate or have children, it was indeed extremely boring!

And this was exactly the worry of living forever.

Ye Feng’s eyes flickered as he said, “How about this, lend me some people, I can find them some new things to do.”

“Lend people?” Que Qiong was momentarily startled.

The Empress, who was eavesdropping on the conversation from the Imperial Palace, also pricked up her ears, wanting to know what Ye Feng had in mind.