Chapter 257: 132: If You Seek Immortal Martial Arts and Spiritual Energy, Just Ask If Your Heart Can Take Care of Everything (Extra Update for Monthly Votes, Seeking Votes)_3 Chapter 257: 132: If You Seek Immortal Martial Arts and Spiritual Energy, Just Ask If Your Heart Can Take Care of Everything (Extra Update for Monthly Votes, Seeking Votes)_3 Even his limited ability to fabricate Array Plates probably wouldn’t attract the attention of a Foundation Establishment Cultivator, and he hadn’t shown it anyway.
Carrying a mixture of anxiety and relief, Jiang Qiang was brought to Chen Dengming.
Chen Dengming could see Jiang Qiang’s nerves at a glance, laughed silently to himself, feeling quite delighted at seeing his brother again, yet did not explain anything, only said, ‘from now on, follow him and become a keeper of the Black Cloud Leopard,’ which was enough to state his intentions.
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After a pot of tea.
Chen Dengming said his goodbyes to Cao Yan and the others.
With Jiang Qiang, who remained silent and utterly apprehensive, he returned to his dwelling.
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“Roar.”
The Black Cloud Leopard lithely leaped from the rooftop, it’s fearsome and intimidating aura of Evil Qi and Spiritual Might paling Jiang Qiang’s face.
Surely not, he, Jiang, a mere Qi Cultivation level five cultivator, was expected to take care of this Black Cloud Leopard which seemingly could overbear and pummel Brother Chen?
“Heizi, stand guard outside.”
Chen Dengming shouted lowly, beckoning Jiang Qiang into the house afterwards.
“This voice…”
Jiang Qiang felt an inexplicable familiarity with Chen Dengming’s voice.
Shaking off the thought as a delusion, he respectfully followed Chen Dengming into the house.
With a wave of Chen Dengming’s hand, the door to the house was shut with a bang.
No sooner had the door been shut, than Jiang Qiang knelt down with a thud, grateful tears streaming down his face.
“Elder, thank you for taking me in from the pile of Loose Cultivators.
I, Jiang, have no way to repay you, but from now on I will certainly take good care of the Black Cloud Leopard outside.
Although I have no experience in nurturing Spiritual Pets, my aptitude for learning is very good, and I can endure hardship…”
“Qiangzi?”
Chen Dengming was somewhat stunned, and he called out to Jiang Qiang.
“Huh?” Jiang Qiang responded, and instinctively prepared to continue his flattery, but suddenly he froze.
He raised his head to look at Chen Dengming with a ghostly stare.
Then immediately he bowed his head again, his heart throbbing like a drum.
“El…
elder, why did you just call me by my nickname?”
By now, he had recognized the familiar voice and even guessed something from the familiar address.
However, the joy was too sudden, too swift, he dared not believe it.
Fearing that it was an illusion due to recent stress, or that he had fallen prey to some clever illusion, he remained kneeling, waiting for further confirmation.
At this point, Chen Dengming’s laughter echoed.
“Qiangzi, you are still as sharp as ever.
I was needlessly worried about you.”
Jiang Qiang jolted as if he were on fire, his eyes growing red.
He was on the verge of sobbing, he swallowed hard, suppressing the call that had risen to his throat, and said nervously.
“Elder…
Elder, have you cast some illusion on me?
Why do I feel like you are someone I once knew?
Ah ha, let’s not joke like this, elder, I’m scared….”
The smile on Chen Dengming’s mouth slowly faded.
Thinking of the death of Chu Xun, and seeing the destitution of his brother, Jiang Qiang, he couldn’t laugh anymore.
Although his own days had improved, it was hard to imagine what had happened to his brothers from the past.
Behind Jiang Qiang’s seemingly absurd actions and words, the fear and confusion were clearly being forcefully suppressed.
He was right here before me, still kneeling and not daring to recognize me, fearing that as soon as he stood up, his head would fall off.
Such cautiousness, it was almost more than mine.
“Qiangzi, get up, it’s really me, your Brother Chen.
Besides me, in this vast Cultivation World, who else would call you Qiangzi?”
Chen Dengming himself walked over, helped Jiang Qiang up, and then dissipated the Spiritual Energy on his face.
The distance between his eyes changed, and his facial contours also underwent subtle changes.
Jiang Qiang was stunned, his heart suspended in mid-air, afraid that one wrong word would be like a spark igniting a firecracker, exploding with a “bang”.
“Still don’t believe me?
Do you remember when you used the Qiang-style algorithm to help me sell things?
At the time in the Brocade Mill…
and also, when we were at the gathering place, you had an enemy named Qian Yuan, who died very miserably.”
As Qian Yuan was mentioned, Jiang Qiang suddenly laughed.
His mouth wide open as he laughed heartily, a laugh of satisfaction and relief, as if he was completely relaxed.
“Yes, he died very miserably when he died.
His own hand was stuffed into his mouth.
He only had that one hand, hahaha…”
His laughter choked up towards the end, “Sometimes I dreamed of Mr.
Qian several times.
I dreamed that he was laughing at me, laughing at my death being worse than his.
I crawled on the ground with my legs cut off, and when I died, my hands were also chopped off and stuffed into my mouth…”
Chen Dengming was silent for a while, sighed, patted Jiang Qiang on the shoulder, and slowly said in a calm but convincing tone.
“Qiangzi, you’re safe now.
At least in the territory of the Longevity Sect, you are safe.
You can open a small Formation shop in the market in the future, live peacefully, or go back to selling bugs for me.”
At this moment, Jiang Qiang also recovered, his eyes shining with admiration and surprise, this might be his brightest moment in a year, “Brother Chen, you…
you’ve reached the Foundation Establishment?
And you also joined the Changchun Sect?
No, the Longevity Sect?”
“Haha, I have not yet joined the Longevity Sect, just the Changchun Sect…
but, soon, I should be able to!”
The two met again, amidst this chaotic world and amongst the crowd, there were simply too many topics they could discuss.
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For Jiang Qiang, he was grateful to Chen Dengming, he was grateful beyond measure, he was indebted, there was never anyone that had given him such respect and loyalty.
To him, Chen Dengming was like a master, a brother, a benefactor, and even equated to his parents.
As for Chen Dengming, no matter how strong Jiang Qiang was, or how useful he could be, or how much benefit he could bring, none of this mattered.
The most important thing was that he was the one who had struggled with him from the bottom when he first entered the Cultivation World, who treated him with sincerity and loyalty, that was enough.
Seeing him was like seeing his own heart, seeing the bottom line and principles of his heart, reminding him that he had not lost himself in the cruel and cold Cultivation World.
He always believed that cultivation was more than just indifferent practice, pursuing everything for oneself but also having a chivalrous heart, the ambition to draw one’s sword against the world, and the carefree unyielding spirit to wave one’s sword across the world.
If one is indifferent, loses their heart, and only cares about their own interests, then they cannot be considered as carefree and unyielding.
Even if, on the road to immortality, he has to send off many old friends who are nearing the end of their lives with a pot of wine, it is better than being cold, indifferent or brutally sacrificing others.
At least he can do so without regrets, and have beautiful memories to look back on.
The two chatted for a while, until the butcher Chu Xun was called out, Jiang Qiang fell silent for a moment before breaking into an incredulous cry.
Chen Dengming shook his head, comforted him a bit, and then left the room.
Looking at the sunset on the horizon that was quietly burning like a bonfire in the distance, a smile couldn’t help but flash in his eyes.
This trip, having known that the Luo Family was unharmed and finding Chu Xun and Jiang Qiang, these two old friends, could be considered complete.
Compared to this, the reward for the Sect’s rescue mission, is just an additional benefit.
This is the clear path in front of me, the cause of immortality relies on fate.
If seeking the spirit of chivalry, one only needs to ask if their heart can handle it all…
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