The Heavenly Dao God, who now inhabits Chen Long's body, tried to assess his cultivation level. It turned out he was only at the Body Purification Realm.
This was the lowest realm, not even worthy of being called a cultivator.
It was the lowest realm, like the foot of a mountain compared to its peak, when compared to his cultivation in his past life.
But even though he had to start over from the beginning, the deity could only be grateful for the opportunity to take revenge on his enemies.
At the time of his death, he managed to take five of his enemies who had surrounded him to die with him.
Ironically, he and the five of them were reincarnated into the same body—the body of a boy named Chen Long.
He had to fight against his enemies for seventeen years in the body of the boy named Chen Long.
That is why Chen Long grew up as a foolish child who could not even speak.
This was the result of the intense struggle between the Heavenly Dao God and his five enemies.
For seventeen years, the Heavenly Dao God had witnessed what happened to Chen Long. And witnessed all the mockery, oppression, and beatings inflicted upon Chen Long.
But all this time, he could only remain silent and did not defend Chen Long.
Today, the Heavenly Dao God finally succeeded in annihilating his five enemies forever, and he could fully become Chen Long.
The original Chen Long had actually died after being beaten and thrown into a ravine by the fourth prince, who was extremely wicked, a month ago.
So the one now inhabiting Chen Long's body is the Heavenly Dao God, who, coincidentally, was also named Chen Long in his childhood tens of thousands of years ago.
Now, Chen Long was walking back to his home. His father was an honest Minister of Justice who always fought for the people's welfare.
Unfortunately, his efforts did not yield significant results, as the royal family was extremely tyrannical towards the people.
Chen Long's father, Chen Zhengjin, still believed that one day, the emperor would open his eyes.
But Chen Long himself was not convinced that the emperor and his tyrannical family would ever change.
At that moment, as Chen Long arrived in front of his house, a dignified man in his thirties approached him. "Young master, thank goodness you are unharmed."
"Officer Cian." Chen Long greeted the man. This man was his father's trusted confidant.
In fact, this man could have become a general if he had chosen to stay in the military. However, because he admired Minister Chen, Chen Long's father, he chose to become the head of the guards at Chen Long's father's house, and his rank had not advanced in the past few years.
"I heard that the young master was taken by the prince to the tenth district. Unfortunately, I arrived too late. Please forgive me, young master." Officer Cian looked Chen Long up and down to check his body.
He was relieved when he found no injuries or broken bones on Chen Long's body.
"Young master, it would be best for you to accompany the lady back to her hometown and not return to the royal city for now."
"What's going on, Officer Cian?" Chen Long asked. He could see the worry on Officer Cian's face.
"Young master.... Can you speak now?" Officer Cian looked astonished. For the past ten years he had served in Minister Chen's household, and the minister's son had never spoken.
"Yes. I took medicine that allowed me to speak," Chen Long replied casually. "What's going on, Officer Cian?"
"Your father is being interrogated by the Right Wing troops."
"The Right Wing troops?" Chen Long muttered.
Chen Long grew anxious. The Right Wing troops were the palace guards led by Eunuch Luo Xiu, a powerful eunuch at the palace who was extremely loyal to the royal family.
"What really happened?" asked Chen Long.
"Your father bravely accused the prime minister and the second prince of corruption."
"I'm sure that's true."
"Yes. But that also put your father in danger."
"How so? My father must have found evidence to imprison those two."
"The Empress didn't accept it. Because the prime minister is her father, and the second prince is her favourite son. So, she devised a cunning plan to retaliate against your father."
"What did she do?"
"Suddenly, your father's scribe accused him of accepting bribes for the construction of the eastern palace. And your father was immediately investigated. They fabricated false evidence to frame him."
"Hah!"
"That's why I came to ask the young master to take the lady away. Meanwhile, I will try to break into the eastern wing to save your father."
"I'll go with you!"
"No, young master. You'll only be a burden to me."
Chen Long sighed. "You're right. Alright. Go."
Chen Long felt the truth in Officer Cian's words. In his current state, he would only be a burden to others.
Therefore, he had to become strong first.
After Officer Cian left, instead of taking his mother with him as Officer Cian had suggested, Chen Long went to his room to cultivate.
His memories of the past were not all clear. At present, he could only recall about five percent of them.
Fortunately, within that five percent, there were memories of extraordinary cultivation techniques using the Earth Core Technique.
With this Earth Core Technique, he managed to extract the essence of the earth through the ground to begin developing his cultivation.
The lowest level of cultivation was the Body Purification Realm. After some time, he successfully entered the first level of the Body Purification Realm.
"This place is far from spiritual roots. It's a bit difficult for me to directly advance to the second level. Hmph. What should I do?" Chen Long sighed.
"Hmmm. Since I can't advance to the next level, the only way to become stronger is to condense my cultivation, so that even though I'm only at the first level of the Body Purification Realm, my strength can match, or even surpass, the second, third, or fourth levels.
After thinking that, he began to condense his cultivation.
A moment later, he opened his eyes.
"Actually, I'm not satisfied with my current strength. But my family needs me. I have to help my family."
As he was about to stand up, two objects fell from his body.
It turned out to be two eternal origin stones he had hidden in his body.
Since he didn't have a storage ring, he had simply placed the two objects under his clothes, causing them to fall out accidentally at this moment.
Now he decided to split the two Eternal Origin Stones.
When he split the first stone, he was surprised and delighted to discover something extraordinary.