Chapter 117: Waiting Too Long
A month ago, there was an internal conflict within the Bright Sacred Cult. The astute Guan Shan sensed something was wrong and started running early.
Then, he passed by the Purgatory Hall and saw two Holy Maidens waiting to die.
In the Bright Sacred Cult’s 《”God’s Covenant of Salvation”》, everyone is born with sin. Because people are born with sin, their lives are filled with suffering.
Only by praying and repenting before the Lord, helping the Lord eradicate the demons in the world, can one go to heaven after death and enjoy a blissful life without suffering.
If one performs well, they can even go to the Purgatory Hall and have the Holy Maidens cleanse their sins.
These Holy Maidens are pure maidens who have never set foot in the mortal world. They have served by the Bishop’s side since childhood, receiving the infusion of the Lord’s light. Therefore, the Holy Maidens can cleanse the sins of the believers.
When Guan Shan first heard the Bright Priest speak so seriously in front of hundreds of people, he felt it was absurd.
It was even more absurd than when he was assigned a mission by his sect to recruit a few test subjects.
Then it was just disgusting!
Especially seeing many believers were single men, getting excited at the sight of the Holy Maidens’ portraits and saying, “For the Sacred Cult!”
It was even more disgusting!
How could people be like this?
How could people break through the bottom line like this?
Do they have no bottom line as human beings?
Guan Shan keenly realized that they really didn’t!
They were immersed in their own fabricated lies, unable to extricate themselves.
Even some Jianghu gangs still value brotherhood, loyalty, and sect harmony, at least paying lip service to those ideals.
This damn Bright Sacred Cult was far ahead in terms of being inhuman!
Guan Shan had never wished so much for his bad luck to kick in and for someone to wipe out the Bright Sacred Cult!
In the end, it was just another faction from headquarters coming to seize territory and believers, a case of dog eat dog.
The Bright Sacred Cult was ruthless towards internal heretics. The two Holy Maidens had received infusions from the previous Priest, and in the eyes of the current faction, they also had to be eliminated.
Passing by the Purgatory Hall, Guan Shan saw their desperate eyes and saved them.
Carrying two people on his back, it was fortunate that he was a martial artist with perfected Blood and Qi, and also fortunate that they both had no feet and were very light.
Perhaps out of pity for them, perhaps out of adherence to the bottom line of being human, or perhaps something else…
But definitely not out of desire for them!
From them, Guan Shan saw himself, constantly being battered by the waves of fate, with no control over his own life, no chance to breathe.
The Jianghu was too difficult.
So he wanted to become the best under heaven and control his own destiny!
Ironically, they survived, but transformed from caged canaries into wild chickens, their fate seemingly not having changed much.
Guan Shan couldn’t even support himself, how could he support the two of them?
They could only return to their old profession.
To live was to struggle on like this.
He came this time just to see them. Seeing that they were still alive, he was relieved.
As for the future… everyone has their own path to take.
“Good! After I become an expert, I’ll come back to you! You won’t have to work so hard anymore!” Guan Shan said with a smile when he heard Dan La say this.
“Then don’t make us wait too long!” Dan La said gently.
The atmosphere fell silent, with only Shi Feizhe’s voice and the sounds of cooking coming from outside the room.
During dinner, Shi Feizhe frowned as he took a bite of the food, drank a mouthful of rice soup, and felt…
“Are you sure you didn’t poison this?” He swallowed and couldn’t help but ask.
“?? Why would Academy Head Shi say that?” Guan Shan asked in confusion.
“Yes! What do you mean, Academy Head Shi? We didn’t poison anything!” Mi Er quickly explained.
“You were so eager to cook, I thought you knew how! Let me…” Shi Feizhe felt the food was like a culinary nightmare, it was unbelievable!
He went into the kitchen and started clanging around, and when he couldn’t figure it out, he simply brought out a large plate of stir-fried cured meat.
Guan Shan took a bite and actually felt it was tastier than the braised goose at noon.
He really didn’t expect Shi Feizhe to have this skill!
“No wonder…” Mi Er took a bite and couldn’t help but say. She now understood why Shi Feizhe had mentioned poison.
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The food they made was truly awful.
It wasn’t their fault.
They had grown up in the Bright Sacred Cult their entire lives. Now that they could cook food without burning it, it was already a blessing from heaven, a sign of exceptional talent.
After dinner, Shi Feizhe chatted with Guan Shan for a while before leaving the small courtyard.
“Is the local bully in this area your friend?” Shi Feizhe asked as he walked with Guan Shan on the muddy and dirty path.
“Ah~ He used to be a brother from the Gold Stone Alliance!” Guan Shan said.
Which faction the Gold Stone Alliance was out of all the ones Guan Shan had joined, Shi Feizhe didn’t ask and didn’t want to know.
“Where is the Bright Sacred Cult’s territory in Luoyang?” Shi Feizhe asked again.
“What do you want to do?” Guan Shan asked cautiously.
Shi Feizhe looked up at the sky. It wasn’t dark yet. “The moon is beautiful tonight. I want to kill.”
“…”
Guan Shan looked at the sky, then looked at Shi Feizhe, and said, “Academy Head Shi, that’s not what I meant!”
“Then what do you mean?”
“What I mean is, the money I borrowed from you will be put to good use! I hope to return it to you!”
“Then have you never considered returning my money now?”
“I’ve spent all the money!” Guan Shan spread his hands and said.
“You’re not yet a true Jianghu person, you don’t understand the way of survival in the Jianghu!” Shi Feizhe said, leading the way towards the inner city.
“What way of survival?”
“How could a true Xia ever lack money!”
“Of course a true Xia wouldn’t lack money, they all live on credit!” Guan Shan followed and said.
He had been in many factions and knew that many famous figures in the Jianghu lived on credit.
They traded their reputation for tangible benefits, and then sold their lives for their reputation.
“No, no! That’s not a true Xia! A true Xia, while walking down the road, will find things that others have lost. Like silver!” Shi Feizhe earnestly instructed.
“???”
Guan Shan realized he had underestimated the extent of Shi Feizhe’s ruthlessness!
“But the Bright Sacred Cult has many experts!” He tried to persuade Shi Feizhe not to act impulsively.
“Does the Bright Sacred Cult have any True Realm experts?”
“How could they! There are only three True Realm experts in all of Luoyang! How could the Bright Sacred Cult, with its meager virtues, have a True Realm expert guarding it?” Guan Shan shook his head and said.
“Then what’s there to be afraid of?” Shi Feizhe snorted coldly.
When one’s martial arts were weak, they would endure humiliation and pretend to be foolish.
But when one’s martial arts were strong, they would still feel resentment.
Wouldn’t that mean all that martial arts training was for nothing?
“But they have Zhoutian experts…” Guan Shan wanted to say something else, but Shi Feizhe interrupted him.
“Don’t think too much when you’re going to kill! Thinking this and that, it’s better to write an executable plan and have a meeting to discuss it!” Shi Feizhe made a cold joke that Guan Shan didn’t understand.
Seeing Shi Feizhe’s fast-paced figure, Guan Shan wondered where Shi Feizhe, with his Qi Sea cultivation, got his confidence from!
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