NOVEL NEXT Chapter 169 - 169: The Courage to Live On
Chapter 169: Chapter 169: The Courage to Live On
In the secret chamber, the middle-aged cultivator wrapped in the Heaven-Ensnaring Punisher Net was utterly powerless to resist.
He curled up as hard as he could, as if it would lessen his agony.
Yet such actions were clearly futile; grey mist continuously emerged from his body, immediately absorbed absolutely clean by the Demon-Slaying Net, his body withering and shrinking continuously.
The middle-aged cultivator’s screams quickly weakened until, in the end, he could only make feeble “heh heh” noises.
Remarkably, he still clung to his last breath.
Wang Chen noticed that the Demon-Slaying Net had stopped extracting the evil power, as if it had wrung dry the cultivator who had fallen into evil.
He was moved and immediately withdrew the Demon-Slaying Net.
“Please, I beg you.”
The dying middle-aged cultivator suddenly became lucid, his previously cloudy eyes now clear, and although he was on the verge of death, he managed to appear normal: “Spare, spare my wife and daughter!”
Shaking all over, he supported himself with a last burst of energy.
In his gaze toward Wang Chen, there was nothing but a plea for mercy.
Wang Chen nodded in agreement.
Although he had killed many people, he never harmed the innocent!
Therefore, without the other’s plea, Wang Chen would not have struck against his wife and daughter.
“Thank you.”
The middle-aged cultivator’s eyes gradually lost their focus, he muttered, “Please, grant me a swift end.”
Wang Chen formed a spell with his hands and thrust out his finger as a sword.
A Geng Metal Finger pierced his skull, permanently ending the other’s life.
[Heavenly Merit +3]
[Heavenly Merit (alter fate): 101]
Heavenly Merit had broken into triple digits, and he could add points to his Root Bone or Comprehension again!
However, Wang Chen didn’t feel much joy in his heart.
In the past days, he had witnessed the fall of one fortress after another, countless Loose Cultivators beheaded.
Many, indeed, got what they deserved.
But the number of innocents involved was not small.
Wang Chen finally understood how difficult and dangerous the lives of these Outer Domain Loose Cultivators were!
The Great Dao is merciless, never truly fair.
The only thing one can rely on is one’s own strength!
This realization made Wang Chen’s resolve in his path of cultivation even firmer.
He closed the Immortal Cultivation panel and summoned the Fire Crow to turn the corpse on the ground to ashes.
“Ashes to ashes, dust to dust, may the spirit return to the earth…”
Muttering the Rebirth Mantra in his heart, Wang Chen gathered the middle-aged cultivator’s ashes into an empty Storage Bag.
After completing the rites, he returned to the room above.
The sallow-faced female cultivator was holding her daughter tightly, her expression extremely vacant.
She looked as though her heart had died.
However, Wang Chen’s reappearance instantly sparked something called “hope” in her eyes.
Her cracked lips moved slightly, and with caution, the sallow-faced female cultivator asked, “Upper, Upper Cultivator…”
Wang Chen threw the Storage Bag to her.
The sallow-faced female cultivator caught it instinctively, her expression froze completely, her mouth opened, but she was unable to make a sound.
Her last hope had been shattered!
Even though the woman who had just become a widow looked pitiable.
Wang Chen felt little sympathy.
She obviously knew her husband’s situation yet clung to the faint hope, concealing their secret.
Little did she know that this way of doing things harms both others and oneself.
Cultivators who indulge in evil, if unable to purge the evil power from their bodies, will sooner or later turn into true Evil Wraiths.
At that time, not only would her and her daughter’s lives be in danger, but everyone in the fortress could suffer as well!
“Mommy, Mommy!”
The little girl was terrified, she clung tightly to the hem of the sallow-faced female cultivator’s clothes, crying loudly.
However, her mother, who usually loved her the most, showed no reaction at all!
Seemingly understanding something, the little girl suddenly let go of the sallow-faced female cultivator, turned around, and threw herself at Wang Chen.
Raising her little fists, she pounded them towards him.
“Villain!”
But her strength was just too weak, not only failing to hurt Wang Chen in the slightest but also causing her hand to turn bright red from the impact.
As if unaware of the pain, the little girl stubbornly continued her attack, “Villain, villain!”
Wang Chen shook his head, crouched down, and reached out to gently rub her head.
The little girl was immediately dumbfounded.
But the next moment, a look of hatred filled her eyes as she fiercely bit down on Wang Chen’s wrist.
She nearly cracked her own teeth in the process.
Wang Chen sighed and said to her seriously, “If you hate someone, yet you lack the strength, then hide your hatred well.”
“If you want to kill a person, but you can’t beat him, then grind your teeth until they are sharp.”
“If you want revenge, you must first bravely survive!”
“Do you understand?”
The little girl took a step back in astonishment.
“Rongrong!”
At this moment, the yellow-faced woman cultivator seemed to awaken from a dream, and hastily hugged the little girl into her arms.
She was extremely frightened and immediately wanted to kneel before Wang Chen, “Upper Cultivator, Rongrong is too young, she didn’t know better…”
Wang Chen raised his hand to keep her up, then handed her a storage bag, “Privately harboring evil cultivators is a serious crime, you’d better take care of yourself.”
This storage bag belonged to the middle-aged cultivator.
Wang Chen had taken it off before cremation, and now he was returning it to its rightful owner.
There wasn’t much in the storage bag; this family’s life was clearly very hard.
Wang Chen not only refrained from taking anything but also added several hundred jins of spirit rice and monster beast meat jerky into it.
All were spoils he had previously seized.
He believed it would be enough for the mother and daughter to eat for two or three years.
The yellow-faced woman cultivator was at a loss for words and immediately started sobbing with her daughter in her arms.
Wang Chen stood up and walked out of the room.
As he left, he instinctively looked back.
And he caught the gaze of the little girl named “Rongrong!”
Even many, many years later, Wang Chen never forgot the look in her eyes at that moment.
He turned, stepped out the door, and slapped the wall outside with his hand.
Leaving behind a Cloud Sun Sect’s cloud pattern emblem!
This showed that the house had been checked and had no issues!
“What are you trying to do?”
Just as Wang Chen was about to proceed to the next house for inspection, a rather familiar voice came from not far ahead.
He looked carefully.
And saw a handsome Sunset Peak disciple surrounded by four or five loose cultivators!
They were in the midst of a fierce argument.
Although the loose cultivators dared not make a move,
they refused to let the handsome youth pass, cursing and swearing at him.
“Even the Cloud Sun Sect should be reasonable!”
“We are very cooperative with the inspection for evil cultivators.”
“But you’ve damaged my magic artifact, you have to compensate for it, right?”
“That’s right, you are a disciple of a prestigious sect, you can’t act shamelessly, can you?”
“Exactly, exactly!”
The handsome youth was both anxious and angry, his face flushed red, trying to argue but getting interrupted constantly.
Wang Chen suspected that if the argument continued, he would have a heart attack on the spot.
That was impressive!
Although he was somewhat frustrated by his lack of resistance, since Wang Chen had witnessed it, he had no intention of standing idly by.
He stepped forward, prepared to help the young man out, “You guys…”
Before Wang Chen could finish, a dazzling sword light suddenly caught his eye.
The next moment, heads sprayed with blood soared into the air!
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