Chapter Twenty-Five: The Cultivation She Desired

  "By the way, what about Tong Fei, Xiao Bu Hui and Wen Xiang's strength? Are they high-ranking warriors or fighters?" Su Tang changed the subject. He knew that both warriors and fighters were divided into ranks, and when one finally mastered their skills and became a grandmaster, there was no longer any distinction in rank. A grandmaster had already reached the pinnacle.

  "Their strength, the martial arts they cultivate, whether it's a spear or fist technique, what kind of spiritual instrument they possess, these are all their life gates." Long Qi said: "Except for themselves, they will never tell anyone else, you can only analyze it yourself."

  Su Tang suddenly thought of something, Xue Jiu's status in the Xue family at Jingdong must be extremely high, otherwise Long Qi wouldn't have been so shocked. In other words, Xue Jiu was 100% a Venerable Master, but he was also an attendant to that great lord. Could it be... that above the Venerable Masters, there existed even more powerful beings?

  "It's temporarily uninhabitable here." Longqi said: "Rest at my place today, and tomorrow I'll find some people to help you clean up the yard."

  "No, I'd like to stay here for a while," Su Tang said.

  "Suit yourself." Long Qi smiled slightly.

  "Thanks a lot, Brother Long." Su Tang said.

  "No need to be polite with me." Long Qi smiled and said: "To tell the truth, in the future there will be many places where we'll have to rely on you, so naturally we should try harder to get along now."

  "What?" Su Tang was taken aback.

  "People scatter when the tea is cold." Long Qi said slowly: "In this Changshan County, even if you're careful, you'll still offend some people. I'm a person from Miao Dao Ge, they don't dare to make a move, but if I leave Miao Dao Ge, it's hard to say... Hehe... Lord Su, you'd better take care of me in the future."

  "Brother Long, what are you talking about?!" Su Tang said seriously: "Since you know there's danger, why do you want to go? The woman that Wen Xiang mentioned... is she really worth taking such a risk?"

  "Don't listen to her nonsense." Longqi said: "There are reasons for this aspect, but not all of them."

  "What's the reason after all?" Su Tang continued to ask.

  The dragon flag remained silent for a long time before slowly saying, "I'm a person who goes with the flow and lacks ambition. If it were normal times, it would be fine... but I really don't have the confidence to lead them forward because I'm afraid of betraying their trust."

  "Huh?" Su Tang was even more confused.

  "If you've been living in Changshan County for decades, you might feel it too." Longqi said: "For example, Tong Fei, Xiao Bu Hui and Wen Xiang, if they were sent back twenty years ago, they would be extremely rare geniuses! Their cultivation speed was too fast! But now, Changshan County doesn't just have them, the Tie, Bai, Cheng and Mu families have also produced some outstanding young talents, who can even rival them."

  "Many people only saw the prosperity and thought it was a great thing." Long Qi continued: "But think about it yourself, such geniuses appear every ten or so years, already enough to astonish one side, now they are appearing one after another, what does this indicate?"

  Su Tang furrowed his brow.

  "Don't you understand? Then think again, in which era did all the outstanding talents emerge in the past?"

  "What chaos?" Su Tang was shocked.

  "Haha......Evil is rampant and great chaos is approaching..." Long Qi sighed.

  "Brother Long, this is a bit too much..." Su Tang felt somewhat skeptical. Just because there were consecutive talents emerging in Changshan County, did he think something big would happen?

  Xiao Bu Hui once said that after being in the business for a long time, one would develop a kind of intuition. Long Qi said lightly: "I'm the same, knowing too much will always make me smell something that others can't smell. Moreover, Da Zun's trip to Dongjin this time... may be the source of this great chaos."

  "Why?"

  "Too many people don't want her to go to Fengshan, and too many people hope she arrives at Fengshan on time."

  "Brother Long, can't you speak more clearly? What's going on with Mount Penglai?" Su Tang could no longer control his desire for information and used a pleading tone. If he couldn't gain a thorough understanding of this world soon, entering the Miao Dao Pavilion would be meaningless.

  Longqi looked at Su Tang, paused for a moment, then let out a sigh and casually sat down on a nearby stone brick: "Su Tang, it's not that I intentionally didn't tell you... how should I put this? I'm doing this for your own good. A cultivator should set goals for themselves, but the goal has to be suitable. If it's too high or too far away, it will only make you lose courage. When a person is on the verge of starving to death, and I stand 100 meters away from him with a chicken leg in hand, he'll muster up all his strength to charge over those 100 meters. But if I'm standing 1,000 li away, shaking that chicken leg, will he still charge forward? No, he'll only despair."

  Su Tang looked at Long Qi, he somewhat understood, but also somewhat didn't understand.

  "Just focus on what's in front of you for now, as for Da Zun... there's no need for us to worry about it."

  "Is it going to be very dangerous for her to go to Pengshan this time?" Su Tang still insisted on asking, maybe Longqi was right, that big shot just took him as a more pleasing little bee, and mentioning him was just a casual small favor, but he couldn't let it go, after all, he still had the longbow bestowed by others on his shoulders, after all, he would soon enter Miaodao Pavilion and become a big shot in Changshan County! Even if he couldn't help at all, at least he should ask a few questions, so that he could feel more at ease.

  Longqi nodded.

  "Will those duchies through which Da Zun passes send troops to protect her?"

  "Useless."

  "Then she... must go? Is there no other way around it?"

  Knowing there are tigers in the mountains, yet heading towards the tiger mountain - this is the true expression of a cultivator's will. However, to Su Tang, such stubbornness was foolish. Given a choice, he would definitely try every means to avoid direct conflict with fierce tigers.

  However, if there is a pack of wolves chasing behind, life and death hanging by a thread, there really is no other way out, Su Tang would go to the other extreme.

  "Why look for a detour? Charging forward, defeating all opponents, destroying all difficulties and obstacles, this is the cultivation she wants...!" Longqi smiled and shook his head: "The day she sets foot on Mount Peng, will also be the day of her great success in advancing to the hundred-foot pole! Only... I'm afraid it's tens of thousands of miles from here to Mount Peng, I don't know how long it'll take her to get there, nor do I know how many people will die along the way..."

  Su Tang couldn't say a word.

  Longqi patted Su Tang's shoulder and stood up: "You should find a place to rest early, there are important things tomorrow."

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