Chapter 1183: 465: Fury Returns!
Which Daoist friend is this, please be merciful!_2 Chapter 1183: 465: Fury Returns!
Which Daoist friend is this, please be merciful!_2 “Brother Chen, where are you?
Have you truly achieved Divine Transformation?
Some are doubting your breakthrough, claiming it’s fake, but I firmly believe it’s real.
Over the years, I’ve had this strong premonition more than once, as if I was about to see you in person, but unfortunately, I never did.
Now, my time is nearly up, and I truly feel the end approaching…”
Chen Dengming smiled with a hint of melancholy.
This Qiangzi, his strong premonitions over the years of wanting to see him, were probably when he was executing the Divine Skills of Unanimous Hearts.
Now, as he reached the twilight of his life and neared his end, Qiangzi began to panic as well.
He sent a strand of his spirit.
“Qiangzi, Brother Chen will be right back.
You can wait for me at the Longevity Sect.
Don’t be so pessimistic, I have indeed broken through.
Maybe I can even extend your life by a few years and take you back to the Southern Region, back to Nanxun to see…”
…
In a dimly lit room of a small tavern’s backyard in Chang’an Market of the Eastern Region, an elderly man, gravely injured, lay quietly on a bed.
His features were wrinkled and withered, his lips dry and cracked, and his hair thinning.
Even the long eyebrows he had deliberately grown over the years seemed to droop lifelessly.
The calamity he had faced just days ago seemed to have depleted years of his life force in an instant.
He now truly felt death’s imminence.
His hand trembled faintly beside his bed, fingers creased with age, embodying the visage of one nearing departure, yet his eyes remained focused, gazing lovingly at a scroll hung on the wall by the window.
That scroll depicted two cultivators, shoulder to shoulder, slashing their way through a tide of beasts.
It was indeed an event he had experienced with Chen Dengming in his younger days.
“Brother Chen…
will I see you again?”
Jiang Qiang’s gaze drifted away, looking through the window at the ancient trees in the courtyard and at a porcelain pot covered with moss in a corner, where several goldfish swam.
These plants and small creatures seemed to make the secluded old room less dull and dreary.
Outside the bedroom screen, a shop assistant attending to him struggled to suppress his sorrow as he spoke in a low voice.
“Uncle Jiang, why won’t you let me inform the Longevity Sect of your condition?
Given your relationship with The Fifth Ancestor of Longevity, even if we can’t do anything about that despicable Holy Maiden of the Mingguang Sect, at least we could seek some Spiritual Medicine to treat your injuries.”
Upon hearing this, Jiang Qiang spoke with a hoarse and serene chuckle, “Xiaolu, a person needs to know their fate.
Your Uncle Jiang’s life has actually been a fortunate one.
Now that it’s reached its end, one shouldn’t ask for too much…
I only hope to see Brother Chen one more time but cannot exploit my relationship with him to seek more, lest others gossip.
As for the Mingguang Sect Holy Maiden, let’s not speak of her any longer.
We can’t help the Sect much, only try to lighten their burden when they’re under pressure…”
Jiang Qiang spoke these words slowly, then suddenly, a familiar voice transformed into a thought resonated within his spirit.
Jiang Qiang’s once dull and cloudy eyes suddenly sparkled with an ineffable glow, becoming overwhelmed with emotion, tears streaming down his aged face.
“Brother Chen…”
“Qiangzi!
What has happened to you…”
At the moment Chen Dengming transmitted his spiritual voice to Jiang Qiang, he immediately caught a glimpse of Jiang Qiang’s spiritual state and understood what had recently happened to him.
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His brows furrowed, his expression turned frosty, and his eyes fierce.
“Mingguang Sect!
Mingguang Sect Holy Maiden…”
Thinking of the Mingguang Sect and the Holy Maiden of the Mingguang Sect in that instant, he couldn’t help but remember Bai Zhi, the Holy Maiden who had once been kind to him.
However, compared to what he had learned from Jiang Qiang’s spirit, it was clear that the Mingguang Sect had since changed its Holy Maiden.
The one who had injured Jiang Qiang was another person altogether.
It’s possible that they didn’t realize the relationship between the seemingly inconsequential tavern keeper Jiang Qiang and him, the Sect Leader of the Longevity Sect.
But none of that justified them for daring to cause harm freely within Chang’an Market, especially to Jiang Qiang.
Chen Dengming had previously planned to look at the situation of an ancient corpse in Lou Zhen, but now he was no longer willing to delay.
He quickly set out, leaving the Broken Heavenly Immortal Realm.
…
Meanwhile.
Inside the Evergreen Garden, where the Longevity Sect hosted esteemed guests.
Both the current Mingguang Sect Holy Maiden Fang XiuYan and the Yongxin Sword Sect Sect Leader Du Bolin had settled there.
Du Bolin, as the current Sect Leader of the Yongxin Sword Sect and the previous Sword Son, had long since broken through to become a Nascent Soul and had now even reached the mid-stage of Nascent Soul cultivation.
In dealing with people, he had also shed the rashness of his earlier years.
This visit to the Longevity Sect for negotiations and to probe the whereabouts and status of Chen Dengming, The Fifth Ancestor of Longevity, he kept a low profile, not pushing too hard but mainly collaborating with Fang XiuYan from the Mingguang Sect to pressure the Longevity Sect.
Now, a jiazi (60-year cycle) has passed since the threat from the Outer Domain Demon Lord.
A jiazi might not mean much to a Nascent Soul True Monarch, but for the vast majority of cultivators below Nascent Soul, it represented an epoch-making passage of time.
Development within the Four Seas and Four Regions had long since progressed into a new stage.
The outbreak of the ghost soldier chaos in many places decades ago, the sea battle erupted ten years before, and the conflicts led by the Longevity Sect and Heavenly Dao Sect into the Broken Heavenly Immortal Realm a while back—these resentments had yet to be resolved.
With the external threats fading away, these tensions were once again rising within the Four Seas and Four Regions, brewing among the various sects and on the brink of eruption.
Under such a backdrop, the Mingguang Sect of the Four Seas and the Yongxin Sword Sect, which had once led the formation of the Counterattack Cultivator Alliance, increasingly showed their ambitious nature.
The thoughts of dividing the resources of the Four Regions had been put into action and were not easily concealed.