Chapter 80: 064: A Selfish Thought Can Change Kindness!
Law is not Easily Taught and Doctrine not Sold!
(Request for a monthly ticket)_2 Chapter 80: 064: A Selfish Thought Can Change Kindness!
Law is not Easily Taught and Doctrine not Sold!
(Request for a monthly ticket)_2 “No, no, no!
Brother Chen, I didn’t contribute anything at all!”
Jiang Qiang hastened to wave his hands, laughing awkwardly, “The formation I had set up turned out to be useless, I was just standing on the side feeling anxious, and I couldn’t help you out.
Brother Chen, you have always been generous to me.
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I would not accept rewards undeservedly.
Brother Chen, you should heal first.
I’ll set up the formation right away.”
Having spoken, Jiang Qiang immediately turned around to activate the formations he had set up nearby, without taking a look at the scattered magic artifacts on the ground.
“Great courage can seem cowardly, which describes me, great wisdom can appear foolish…and that, describes Qiangzi.”
Chen Dengming watched Jiang Qiang leave to busy himself with his tasks and temporarily put aside his suspicions.
The greed shown by Xu Ning had served as a reminder for him.
Suspicion is necessary, even though he was reluctant to believe Jiang Qiang would harbor any malicious intentions.
After all, he was generally quite generous and kind to Jiang Qiang, treating him very well in day-to-day life.
Yet, he had still tested him.
From Jiang Qiang’s reactions, he was obviously a clever and astute person.
Chen Dengming feigned serious injury, but in reality, he wasn’t really that hurt.
Telling Jiang Qiang to take the storage bag and indicating that he wanted to share the profits was also part of the test.
This test was not meant to judge a gentleman by the measure of a villain.
It was just a necessary confirmation; it was better than never testing, allowing others to become bolder and more reckless over time.
Remember, a single selfish thought can turn strength into weakness, block wisdom, twist kindness into brutality, and stain purity.
Fortunately, Jiang Qiang stood his ground during Chen’s test, proving his discernment was good.
His general generosity had not been wasted on the wrong people, and the man before him was not of a villainous sort.
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Chen Dengming reined in his thoughts, trying to minimize the throbbing pain in his chest.
He quickly recovered his spiritual energy by gripping a spirit stone, then moved towards the Blood Centipede Gu.
The Blood Centipede Gu had been completely pierced by the black nail-like magic artifact; its four wings were damaged, and it was still twitching slightly.
However, it had lost much of its blood and its aura was extremely weak, appearing to be struggling on the brink of death.
“Wuer!”
Chen Dengming extended a finger to touch the Blood Centipede.
“Hiss—”
The Blood Centipede let out an extremely weak hiss.
Its red eyes were dim and its antennae twitched slightly as it touched Chen Dengming’s finger.
Both man and Gu could feel the close connection between them, as if they were linked by blood, but they could also sense that one of them was rapidly losing its vitality.
Chen Dengming took a deep breath, his eyes resolute, “You have been with me since we killed our way out of the Nanxun Kingdom, saving my life countless times in dire situations.
Now, it’s my turn to do everything I can to save you.”
Having said that, Chen Dengming turned around and brought over the body of Xu Ning.
Whilst the spiritual energy inside the man’s body had yet to disperse, Chen lifted the Blood Centipede carefully from the ground, along with the black nail, and impaled it into Xu Ning’s heart.
He allowed the Blood Centipede to open its pincers-like mouth and devour Xu Ning’s heart blood.
Chen Dengming was expressionless as he grabbed the Ice Spirit Sword.
Using the palm of his hand, he ran it over the blade, immediately causing blood to gush out, dripping down from his hand, onto the Blood Centipede.
The Blood Centipede Gu was bred from his blood, blood-refined.
To save the dying Blood Centipede, his blood was the best nourishment.
“Buzz buzz—”
The Golden Silkworm Gu fluttered over, buzzing and flapping its wings, protectively circling the vicinity.
On the other side, Jiang Qiang had already brought over the array plate and activated the Three Talented Defending Array.
He stayed low-key outside the array, protecting Chen Dengming.
He wasn’t foolish; he too was greedy, or else he wouldn’t have come up with an algorithm that even Chen Dengming found outrageous.
But he had self-awareness, knowing that some treasures were not to be touched, and there were boundaries that even the closest of friends could not cross, or else it would turn a friend into an enemy.
That’s why, when Chen Dengming mentioned contributions earlier, he immediately refused and went about his tasks earnestly.
This was the experience he had accumulated after enduring the pain of losing his wife.
He silently watched from outside the formation, gazing at Qi River’s thawing spring waters, and suddenly thought of the peach tree in his hometown.
By now, the peach blossoms should have bloomed.
The peach tree in the courtyard of his home.
It was planted by his wife’s own hands.
Every year, the peach tree boasted a full bloom of bright vibrant blossoms, its myriad of reddish hues melting into the springtime, just like his beloved wife, her beauty mirrored by the peach blossoms.
Now, with his wife gone, the peach blossoms had withered.
Petals were falling like rain, creating a shower of red.
“Every year when the peach blossoms bloom, I can’t help but reminisce…
Unfortunately, the path to immortality is long, from this point forward, I journey alone…
I hope Brother Chen can find a joyful companion in his future…
He works so hard and painstakingly cultivates every day, yet we don’t even know why.
Perhaps there’s something he clings to?
It’s good to have something to cling to…”
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And who doesn’t have something they cling to?
Boss Hu did have a tiny sliver of hope, thinking that if both parties were badly wounded…
But when Xu Ning was actually killed by Chen Dengming, his body tossed into the Qi River, that tiny sliver of hope was quickly extinguished.
He slapped himself hard in the face, scolding himself for having such foolish thoughts, thus throwing away years of careful caution.
The death of Xu Ning had a great impact on Boss Hu.
What’s more, Chen Dengming seemed to be unhurt.
The fight began with a dazzling slash of his sword and ended with another.
It was chilling.
Killing the chicken to scare the monkey, especially when Chen Dengming had not killed a mere chicken, but a tiger.
And Boss Hu admitted to himself that he was nothing more than a paper tiger.
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He was a businessman, with only the fourth stage of Qi cultivation, and had not engaged in combat with others for years.
How could he compare to a cultivator in the seventh stage of Qi cultivation?
Therefore, he considered himself a small dog, and it was better not to mess with such a ruthless man like Chen Dengming.
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For several days after that, Boss Hu would occasionally send people to deliver healing spiritual medicine to Chen Dengming’s inn, conveying genuine concern as a partner.
After pretending to be injured for a few days, once his Blood Centipede Gu was safe and his wounds started to heal, Chen Dengming put an end to it, informing Boss Hu that he was fine.
This necessary probe had been tried once, knowing the other party’s attitude was enough.
If he kept pretending to be injured, that wasn’t a probe, that was an invitation.
Taking into account the warning that Xu Ning gave him before he died…
He ordered Jiang Qiang to start buying supplies like Spirit Rice, talismans and charms and save them up.
At the same time, he also asked Boss Hu to purchase the 5th and 6th grade Earth and Wood Taoist magic for him, in exchange for the upper volume of Gu Refinement Secret.
As soon as this promise was made, Boss Hu was immediately refreshed.
From Chen Dengming’s urgency, he vaguely perceived his thoughts.
“It seems that Daoist friend Chen is afraid that Zhu Family will come after him once the autumn ends, and he’s already considering leaving…”
As Boss Hu puffed on his pipe, the tobacco inside flickered between red and black, black and red.
With each puff, he became lost in thought, suddenly grinning and blowing out a ring of smoke.
“Good…
good.
It’s easy to invite a god, but hard to send them away.
It’s good that he wants to leave, and even wants to leave the upper volume of the Gu Refining Section.
My business will not take a hit.
Daoist friend Chen really knows how to deal with people.
He even makes me, Thunder Tiger, a greedy person, unable to blame him…”
After pacing back and forth in his room for a while, Boss Hu made a decision.
“I’ve spent so many years and so much money on the frontier, and raised so many people…
it was not for nothing!
It seems that I’ll have to reach out and use my connections!”
Although he was not a big figure in the huge business alliance…
However, as a business alliance’s representative stationed at the frontier for many years, he had accumulated considerable merit and contacts through his cautious and prudent accumulation of wealth for the alliance.
It wouldn’t be too difficult to request the purchase of Qi cultivation Taoist magic by giving up some benefits.
Fortunately, what Chen Dengming wanted was only grade five and six First Order Daoist magic, not high-grade First Order Daoist magic.
Even with his authority, it would be extremely difficult to apply for high-grade First Order Daoist magic like 7th level and above.
This was because the business alliance also had an agreement with the cultivation families in this frontier area.
They could not trade high-grade First Order Daoist magic without permission.
This kind of Daoist magic was mostly used by the major cultivation families to recruit loose cultivators in the nearby area.
If this kind of high-grade Daoist magic could be bought in the market, then how would they attract and recruit ‘high-level henchmen’ to join their families and risk their lives?
This strategy is common to the entire cultivation world, from sects to families.
The law and Dao should not be easily passed on or sold cheaply.
That’s the reason why some sword cultivators and body cultivators’ sects can stand out and attract gifted individuals to join, in order to expand and strengthen, as they do not easily pass on their magic spells…
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