Chapter 411: 193: Support the power!
The gains and losses all return to the yellow earth, cultivating the mind leads to freedom!
_1 Chapter 411: 193: Support the power!
The gains and losses all return to the yellow earth, cultivating the mind leads to freedom!
_1 In bright daylight, flying thousands of miles, the daybreak at Luo Mountain City comes to an end.
The gathering place of yesteryears, present-day Luo Mountain City, the flags on top of Luo’s city wall had long since been replaced by the Lin Family’s.
This ushered in an era of more severe exploitation for the low-level loose cultivators in the surrounding region.
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Most of the loose cultivators were exploited by the Lin Family without even being aware of it.
They falsely believed that the number of demonic beasts in their environment was normal.
The Lin Family had taken the place of the once prominent Luo and Zhu Cultivation Families, provide them with regional safety considerations again.
What they were unaware of was that the number of demonic beasts and the level of chaos in the surroundings were completely controlled by the Lin Family.
Therefore, when Chen Dengming rode the light of his sword and arrived, obliterating the Lin Family branch stationed on Luo Family Mountain, in the dilapidated gathered place, many loose cultivators were astounded and felt unease.
Many loose cultivators fled the city in fear, scared of being ravaged in the ensuing chaos.
However, they didn’t dare to escape too far into the deep mountains for fear of falling into the clutches of the demonic beasts.
They all watched the situation from a distance.
For a while, a situation identical to the previous one reoccurred.
The more unstable the environment, the more opportunistic adventurers took advantage of the chaos to fight…
The looting and snatching happening around clearly displayed the characteristics of the weak fighting against each other.
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In Luo Mountain City, within the immense mountain residences of the Lin Family branches, Chu Xun, wearing the head of the Lin Family’s ancestor, Lin He, flew around laughing hideously.
His creepy laughter echoed above the Lin Family, bringing even more fear to the panicked Lin Family.
That flying head would often swoop down and fearlessly endure spells and attacks from talismans and charms.
Usually, with a single lunge, the Lin Family members would meet their ends, with only the very few who bore no resentment energy able to escape down the mountain.
In the course of the whole operation, Chen Dengming only personally dealt with Lin Ziheng, the Family Head of the Lin Family, who was at the mid-stage Foundation Establishment level.
Naturally, Lin Ziheng stood no chance against him.
With a single strike, he killed him, his divine spirit was collected within the Soul Attracting Banner, and was subjected to interrogation.
Finally, Lin Ziheng confessed all of the wrongs committed by the Lin Family in the past, which were even more heart-wrenching than what was recorded in the accounts.
They were infuriating enough to incense both humans and divine spirits.
After Lin Ziheng finished confessing, he continuously pleaded for mercy, “Senior Chu of the Southern Mountain Sect, no matter how my father offended you, I beg you to spare me.
A lot of the things that the Lin Family did in the past were done on his orders.
Breeding demonic beasts to hunt cultivators, starting the beast tide, these weren’t my ideas, they were all ordered by my father.
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I had no choice.”
Chen Dengming coldly stared at Lin Ziheng’s divine spirit, “Your Lin Family really does carry its corruption down the generations.
You’re truly a devoted son…
I’ll ask you one final question, did your Lin Family and Luo Family participate when the Luo Family was expelled from the Southern Region by Zhu Family?”
Lin Ziheng hesitated making his decision, but before he had a chance, Chen Dengming’s sharp, knife-like gaze and divine sense bore down on him, making his spirit feel as if it was going to break apart from the pain.
In his utmost fear, he immediately confessed the truth.
“Yes, we did, it was all for the sake of helping my father restore his cultivation levels.
It really didn’t have much to do with me.
Also, when our Lin Family got involved in this matter, it was because the Luo Family encouraged us in the first place…”
“Alright!”
Without saying another word, Chen Dengming wrapped up Lin Ziheng in the Soul Attracting Banner and then flew towards the back of Luo Family Mountain.
The Luo Family’s old buildings that used to be here have been torn down and rebuilt, the structures of old nowhere to be seen.
Just as when people’s hearts change, it’s difficult to reclaim the feeling of old times.
With only ten years passing in the Cultivation World, Chen Dengming found himself having experienced many sea changes throughout his cultivation journey.
The bitter sweetness, the schemes, the dangerous uncertainties, the confrontations of hearts and minds, all felt as if they were more enriching than his experiences in Nanxun and his previous life combined.
He arrived at the valley deep in the rear mountain of the Luo Family.
This was a vast area of overlapping old forests and valleys.
Red oak forests, purple cypresses, yellow poplars under the sun, shimmering with peculiar and colorful lights.
The ancestors of the Luo Family were all buried here.
Perhaps the Lin Family hadn’t taken a liking to this place yet, so it remained undamaged.
Chen Dengming walked into the depths of the forest, chose a spot by a stream where the frost had already melted, summoned Golden Gang Spirit Venerate to dig a pit, and then took Luo Bing’s body out of his storage bag to bury it here.
All past goodwill and grudges dissipate with a person’s death.
Life is transient, gains and losses all return to the earth.
Like Luo Bing, despite having top-quality Spiritual Roots and meticulously planning her revenge for her family, still ended up as a pile of bones in the end!
It’s said that respecting your friends isn’t anything extraordinary, anyone can do it.
But the moment that you can respect your enemies, it represents that you have achieved what most people fail to do.
At the very least, it would make it hard for you to fail in the face of this enemy because you absolutely would not belittle them.
Chen Dengming was not the sort of person who held complexities, on the contrary, he was quite grateful.
Asking him to resent a dead person, that’s something trivial that he wouldn’t bother doing.
Burying Luo Bing’s body could be considered as his final respect to her, as well as a testament to his constantly maintained sincere heart.
“Since the Luo Family also egged the whole thing on, I won’t send you back to Jiamu Pass for burial…
Now I have helped this Lin Family head meet his end, and you can rest in peace.”
Chen Dengming at the edge of the pit called upon the Soul Attracting Banner and summoned the spirit of Lin Ziheng again.
Not waiting for the man to plead again, he directly shattered his spirit.
The pure soul power flowed into the Spirit Subduing Vase.
Having done all this, he ordered Golden Gang Spirit Venerate to fill up the pit with soil.
He felt as if a weight had been lifted off his chest, free from the burden of resentment.
He felt completely relaxed, both physically and mentally.