Meng Changsheng stopped at the three paintings for a long time, then looked at the self-portrait of the elderly ancestor of the Jiang family on the right hand side and sighed: “Gongsheng has already gone …… Mu Yun, if you had waited for me for three more days, I would have fulfilled my promise back then, and now that you have gone, I should have performed for your son, but just now, looking at his words and actions, he really disappointed me. I am extremely disappointed by his behaviour.
After saying this, he stretched out his hand and lightly touched his portrait, murmuring, “I have left the events of today in this painting, if your children and grandchildren blame me in the future and tear up this portrait of me, they will know the reason.
With these words, he turned around in style and disappeared into the night.
And at that moment, all the images came to an abrupt end.
Ye Chen was immersed in this shock that almost crossed time and space, and it took him a long time to come back to his senses.
And when he came back to his senses, he marvelled at this skill of Meng Changsheng in leaving his thoughts in the painting, while at the same time he could not help but feel the tragic fate of the descendants of the Jiang family.
There was no doubt that Meng Changsheng must have sought long life when he returned to that small mountain village.
However, Ye Chen could also conclude that the “long life” Meng Changsheng had attained was only a breakthrough of the two-hundred-year lifespan limit, and was by no means immortal or immortal.
The reason why he was so sure was that, on the one hand, after he had mastered the Nine Mysterious Heavenly Scriptures, he was able to argue from the perspective of an insider that there was no such thing as immortality in the true sense of the word, but only the ability to live longer compared to others.
On the other hand, it is also because of the last words that Meng Changsheng said to the portrait of the ancestor of the Jiang family in the picture just now.
Since the Northern Wei Dynasty, the term “under the nine springs” has been used, and at that time, the “nine springs” represented the world after a person’s death.
Since Meng Changsheng said that he would be reunited with his Jiang ancestor under the Nine Springs in the future, it meant that he knew that he was bound to die sooner or later.
Therefore, Ye Chen’s comprehensive judgment was that Meng Changsheng should have found a way to continue his life before his two hundred years of life, so he came back to the Jiang family ancestor to honour his promise, but he didn’t expect to be a step too late.
But according to Meng Changsheng’s intention, even if the Jiang family ancestor had died, he was originally supposed to pass on the chance to his son.
But the son of the Jiang family’s ancestor had disappointed Meng Changsheng to no end with his treacherous remarks in front of the portrait, so he missed this great opportunity to live to be two hundred years old or even longer as well.
However, Ye Chen could not help but feel that the other descendants of this Jiang family were really good-tempered, waiting for Meng Changsheng to appear after more than a thousand years until this generation of Jiang’s old lady.
If there was a grumpy one among them, seeing that they couldn’t wait left or right, they would have torn up Meng Changsheng’s portrait, fearing that they would have already known the reason.
The Jiang family had not been able to wait for this result, but they had inadvertently discovered it themselves.
At the same time, Ye Chen was also thinking in his heart, “I wonder what kind of solution this Meng Changsheng has found to make his life expectancy break the upper limit of two hundred years, and I wonder how many years he actually lived in the end, if he had lived until now, wouldn’t he be more than fourteen hundred years old?”
Thinking of this, Ye Chen shook his head again and said firmly and darkly, “There is no way anyone in this world can live to be fourteen hundred years old, I think this senior would have been buried somewhere long ago!”