Red Heart Patrols the Sky - Chapter 349 - Respect Him as You Would Respect a God

Chapter 349 - Respect Him as You Would Respect a God

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In Chapter 349 of "Red Heart Patrols the Sky": “Hanging Monastery.”Jiang Wang gave an affirmative answer.“What is the dharma name of that old monk?”“Ku... Discover the next events!

“Hanging Monastery.”Jiang Wang gave an affirmative answer.

“What is the dharma name of that old monk?”

“Ku Jue.”

“Very strong?”

“Unfathomably deep.”

“Then it must be true,” Xiang Qian sat up with a flip, “The current abbot of Hanging Monastery is Master Ku Ming, and this monk is of the same generation as the abbot!”

“The generational names of Hanging Monastery go ‘Du Xing Ding Zhi Guan Yi Xin, Bei Ku Jing Kong Jie Fa Yuan,’ and now the Ku generation is at the helm.” (1)

He murmured, “Such a powerful sect with a long history is indeed discerning.”

Seeing that Xiang Qian seemed to be very familiar with Hanging Monastery and reacted so strangely, Jiang Wang couldn’t help but ask, “Do those things that make you feel hopeless include Hanging Monastery?”

“Not exactly,” Xiang Qian sat on the bed, slightly bowing his head, “I’ve only been there…”

“You were also a monk?”

Having asked, Jiang Wang immediately felt something was amiss.

Why did he say “also”…

I have absolutely no desire to be a monk.

Xiang Qian didn’t notice this, and his voice carried a strong sense of loss, yet an undeniable pride that he couldn’t hide: “My master once challenged the world with his sword, often bringing me along to observe.

The Hanging Monastery was just one of those places.”

The appearance of Ku Jue seemed to trigger Xiang Qian’s memories, allowing emotions that had been buried under numbness to surge forth.

Challenging the world with a sword!

Hanging Monastery was just one!

The information revealed by these words was astounding.

Jiang Wang’s throat felt dry: “Your master challenged the Hanging Monastery, how did it go?”

“Among the courtyards of Hanging Monastery, when it comes to combat prowess, the first seat of Dragon Subduing Hall, Monk Ku Bing, is the strongest.

My master defeated him!”

Those lifeless, dead fish eyes of Xiang Qian now shone with a kind of reverence, revealing the place his master held in his heart.

Challenging with the sword was mainly for exchange, not to challenge the sect’s leadership, so he wouldn’t have fought with the abbot, Master Ku Ming.

Below the abbot, the first seat of Dragon Subduing Hall, Monk Ku Bing had the strongest combat prowess, and the fact that Xiang Qian’s master could defeat him truly testified to the fame of the Fei Jian Era’s Three Sword Exponents.

“As for that damn Ku Jue, although I do not recognize him.

Had my master been alive, he would never dare to call me a child of calamity…”

At this point, Xiang Qian suddenly stopped, unable to continue.

His emotions were too complex, and he found himself choked with emotion.

Jiang Wang could offer no comfort for such feelings, only sighing, “Your master had an exceptional demeanor.

Though I’ve never met him, my heart yearns to do so!”

“Yes,” Xiang Qian said, “I revere him like a god!”

“However, however…”

He fell into recollection: “My master challenged the world with his sword to hone its edge, to be in the strongest state for the battle against his lifelong enemy.”

“I followed my master to battles across the world, where only the divine could engage him, only a true person was worthy of a fight…

He never met defeat!”

Such a powerful being!

Jiang Wang listened with surging emotions.

True person refers to a powerful being of Dongzhen Realm, and to roam the world undefeated meant that Xiang Qian’s master was a nearly invincible existence within the Dongzhen Realm at the time.

Xiang Qian continued, “Later, my master said his time had come, just one more battle, and he could step onto the Transcendental pinnacle.

And this battle was reserved for his lifelong enemy.”

“That battle, my master still took me with him.”

“It was a battle I will never forget for the rest of my life.”

“My master faced that person…”

“That person…”

Xiang Qian’s gaze suddenly became dejected: “With just one punch, that person shattered my master’s life’s work, his flying sword…”

“Who was that person?” Jiang Wang asked.

“He, he…” Xiang Qian’s fists suddenly clenched, his fingernails digging into his flesh, fresh blood oozing out.

And yet, he was already in tears, “I don’t even have the courage to utter his name!”

Jiang Wang remained silent.

The figure in his heart revered as a deity had been defeated by a single punch.

This was a direct blow to his faith!

Such a devastating attack was indeed more than an ordinary person could endure.

Xiang Qian’s Tenglong Realm cultivation level, yet he possessed the combat strength to compete with the Inner Mansion Realm, and he wasn’t very old either.

To say he had a boundless future was no exaggeration.

Many people could never comprehend his despair, his dejection.

But that’s only because they haven’t experienced the same ordeal.

What kind of existence is a real person?

Zhuang Gaoxian, the King of Zhuang Country, sacrificed the populace of an entire city domain to break through the final barrier and achieve the Dongzhen Realm.

You Nation maintained a pseudo-Dongzhen combat power anomalous beast-turtle with the support of the entire nation.

That is undoubtedly a peak on the path of cultivation!

Yet a real person, nearly invincible in his realm, was obliterated with a single punch that shattered his life-depending flying sword.

How could one not despair, not be disheartened, upon witnessing this all with one’s own eyes?

The master he viewed as a deity in his heart had died in battle, and his will to fight had also been shattered!

Thus he spent his days escaping reality through alcohol, numbing himself day by day.

“In our lineage, the sword is life.

The flying sword shattered, and master could no longer live.”

Xiang Qian said, “Master struggled to take me away, and that man…

did not stop us, master said he was disdainful, indifferent!”

“I know how proud my master was, and that was probably what he found most difficult to accept in his death.”

“Before dying, master told me it wasn’t that our Sword Dao wasn’t strong, or that the flying sword wasn’t strong, but that he was unworthy!

That man could dismiss him, but he could not dismiss his Sword Dao!

He wanted me to devote myself to the Sword Dao, to push forward with hardship, and to one day vindicate the flying sword.”

“But!”

Xiang Qian, holding his head, was in great pain, “In my lifetime, I can’t even hope to catch up to my master, how can I defeat that man…

and vindicate the flying sword?

No matter how hard I try…

it’s useless!”

Jiang Wang remained silent for a long time, waiting for his emotions to subside, before saying, “First, you need to know that your master was very strong, exceptionally strong.

He was undefeated amongst true persons in the sword-testing world and can be called a hero.

Listening to his story, I too hold admiration.”

“However, you revere him as a god, but he is not a deity!

He can make mistakes, can be defeated, all of these possibilities could happen and are not so unbelievable.”

“And even if he were a deity, it would not mean he would be eternally unbeatable.

I know of a deity from the Underworld who plotted for centuries, even descended to the mortal world in person, only to be repelled by a small nation.

That small nation was Zhuang, and the King of Zhuang Country achieved the Dongzhen Realm by stepping over what was believed to be a god.

And that very deity, not long ago, his avatar in the mortal world was chopped into mincemeat by the Marquis of Daqi’s army for all to witness!”

“Even gods can be defeated, and so can your master.”

“I have great respect for your master, but you…

may not necessarily be unable to surpass him!”

“Because he is gone, being undefeated amongst true persons was his peak.

But you are still alive, you have endless possibilities.”

“Now, let’s talk about ‘hopelessness’.

I want to tell you about two people.”

“The first person is Wang Yiwu.

Before him, the limits of the Tongtian Environment were defined by past geniuses, with countless prodigies unable to reach those heights, and those who finally did thought it was the Perfect realm.

Only he was convinced from the beginning that it was not the limit, and for this, he lingered before the Ascending Dragon Realm for many years, laughed at in secret by countless people.

That limit was almost an iron rule of the world; isn’t it enough to make one feel hopeless?”

“Yet in the end, he redefined the limit!”

Putting aside positions, Jiang Wang held great respect for Wang Yiwu as a person.

The strong naturally deserve respect.

“And the second person, though he was born in a very prominent family, he was congenitally deficient.

Because his father died very early, he never received many resources, and his cultivation was always the lowest.

That family was full of talented individuals, among them one particularly brilliant genius, who stood out from an early age and was praised as ‘taking all the elegance of his peers’, also seen as the undisputed successor of the family.

No one had ever been able to compete with him, not even Wang Yiwu, who broke the past limits of the Tongtian Environment, admitted to being inferior.”

“But the congenitally deficient person I’m talking about had his sights set on the Family Head position since childhood, competing with this undisputed brilliant genius.

Ridiculous?

Hopeless?”

“Yet he just orchestrated the war to conquer Yang Country, expanding Daoqi’s territory by three counties, earning substantial capital for himself.

And I firmly believe that he will achieve ultimate victory!”

“This person is who you referred to, that innocuous-looking fat man.”

“His name is Zhongxuan Sheng.”

Ps: The generational names in this novel are the author’s own creation and have no relation to any historical temples.

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