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Published at 7th of April 2019 08:51:36 PM


Chapter 26

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Death City is the gathering place of the cultivators from all over the Western region of the continent. Be it the disciples of the sect, families, clan or elders at bottleneck or hermits living as common normal to lead a peaceful life, all sorts of people are present. The city is not called to be almost on par with the 8 great cities for no reason.

You find the trade of all sorts of items including profound arts, cultivation techniques, pills, herbs, weapons, materials and almost everything that can be sold. With Fortune comes danger, thus there are always deaths because of the treasures one has.

As they say "An Innocent man having a treasure is a sin if he doesn't have the ability to have it. So, even if he is innocent, he will be killed. This World won't accept you have something if you don't have the ability to keep it. Be it a treasure, property or women."

Killing in broad daylight is a daily occurrence here. The Strong Rule. Sometimes, even your status may not work. Many Independent Cultivators reside in the City. It is a great place for them to exchange cultivation materials. For Sect Disciples, this place is a good opportunity to get used to the Cultivation World and gain experience from real life battles.

The Elders from the sects are the ones that usually enter the deeper parts of the Forbidden Land. They also try to find treasures by luck in the forbidden land and city. Who knows? Perhaps, they might receive a secret and increase their future prospects, even becoming a leading figure of the era was not impossible. Some feel that they might be enlightened if lucky and breakthrough the bottleneck.

The Purpose varies but the City, however, holds a fatal attraction to it. The people who are coming here are always having a risk of death. Their lives are at stake. But the Benefits they would receive if they were successful made them face death with anticipation and determination.

Currently, a young man was on the street trying all sorts of food. If one observed closely, half of the food in his hand would disappear every time he takes food from the shop. But still, the youth acted as if it was normal. He looked pleased from time to time, frowned sometimes and directly spit the food right out there depending on the taste and if he doesn't like it without giving any face to the shop sellers.

He would occasionally glance at the beautiful girls and women on the street and stare at them for a while, but that was it, it seemed like he was admiring their beauty rather than lusting it.

He looked like a carefree traveler without a worry in life and someone who loved to enjoy. It gave people a sense of envy when they thought about their lives filled with endless problems. But there was nothing that could be done.

It was getting dark. The lights were everywhere. The profound Energy is no joke. There are all sorts of devices to make the night light up. On the wide street which was even bigger than a 4 lane road, on either side were the stalls and restaurants are present. In a normal restaurant, the youth was sitting in a corner table. He looked towards the counter nearby and said loudly " Boss, I heard that your famous dish is sweet and sour chicken, Please get two for me."


Very soon, there were two plates of chicken in front of him, he kept one of the plates by his side and started eating the other. In the middle, he looked at the place where the dish was placed and now the dish was gone.

He said softly " Say, Xiao Lian, no matter how much it is, you eat without blinking and you love food, Just like me. We are so similar in sleep and food. Don't you feel that we are very similar? Is this the so-called People Destined for each other. I can reluctantly agree if you become my other half. *Sigh*"

Then a soft yet playful voice chided " Che, who wants to be your half. I just like food, but you, you seemed to live for it."

"Alright, alright. It seems you won't admit it. Fine, As a magnanimous person, I will wait for you to offer your heart to repay my kindness."

" Lecher. How many hearts are you planning to collect now that polygamy is legal in this world? You must be happy right?" her voice came with mockery along with curiosity.

"Right, Isn't it great? This is the best feature the cultivation world can ever have. Isn't it a dream place for me to spend my life with beautiful wives. *aaih* You should work hard if you want a spot or else it is very difficult for you to enter afterward. As they say 'The early bird gets the worm', don't miss this only time opportunity. " He laughed pervertedly and said.

Xiao Lian felt embarrassed for staying together with such a thick-skinned guy who can say those words without blushing. If someone saw her with him, then she could only dig a hole in the ground and bury her head to avoid the embarrassment. She never thought that someone could advertise themselves in such a way. This guy is a natural nemesis for her.

Sheng Tian felt that living a life with peace is not that bad. Since he was currently in disguise and he looked like a poor brat with his clothing, no one in the city even bothered to rob him. But Who would think that this seemingly poor brat robbed a treasury not long ago?

The problem was the treasury had good stuff but the most important stuff was in a spatial ring and that was with the expert present there. Even though Sheng Tian got the good stuff, he didn't get the best. As they say, the safest place to keep your treasures is with yourself, the expert did have those on him. Except they are few in number but ridiculously more expensive.

But Sheng Tian was satisfied nonetheless, he had enough money, had some good herbs, pills. He will not be in need of things for a while though he didn't rob the whole treasury.

Today, He was not thinking about his future or his cultivation, he is simply enjoying the present. He is living the hell out of it. Cherishing every moment, doing what he wants. He slept till late, had good food, watched the sunset quietly. No one cared about him, so no one bothered him.

He was having a moment of peace. His mind was calm without worries. His heart was clear. He can feel that he is slowly becoming a part of this world. The world seemed to slowly accept him, he is also accepting it. He too slowly started to see killing as something common. Today alone, there were at least five times where he saw someone was killed.

Every time someone was killed, the crowd would gather and start watching the show. But almost no one dared to interfere. There were two instances where someone interfered.

The first one was where an old man was attacked for a treasure he was carrying. Unfortunately, it was his family's heirloom. He always had it on him and came to this city to buy some cultivation techniques for his family's younger generation. He always thought that the family heirloom was valuable because of its status, not its use. But, today someone saw it accidentally and it was a treasure for antique collectors. He was hunted down by those who coveted his possession.

That Heirloom might not be useful for him, but it is a symbol of their family. There are always people who put their pride and integrity above their lives. He is one such person. He will die but not give it. There are always such people and there will be.

But Ideals didn't mean a thing before strength. He was almost killed on the streets when a kind person who was at the same age as the old man stepped forward and resolved the conflict. Of course, it only worked because the Old man had good cultivation and was much stronger than the opposite party. In the end, the old cultivator saved the old man. It was both good luck and bad luck.

The old man learned his lessons the hard way. Even though the item was of no use to him, it was very useful to others.

The other incident was crueler. A female cultivator in her twenties was chased by a group of people. They looked at her lecherously. The female cultivator had decent cultivation for her age, but the group won her by exhausting her with their numbers. That was a fight between Nascent Soul Realm Profound Realm practitioners. It was a good sight for the crowd. This fight too took place in the street.

The group won and wanted to humiliate the woman when a middle-aged man with no relation whatsoever with the woman stood up for her. Thus it led to a battle. The man thought that he can make the crowd join him, but who will be kind-hearted and naive like him, to risk their lives to save someone. Some in the crowd even mocked the man for trying to be a hero while some praised him.

But his heroism didn't give him a good ending, he was stepped on, humiliated openly and killed. One can say he died a pitiful death. The man met a horrible end. Heroism? Ideals? nothing helped him when he was facing death or more accurately Strength.

The woman who saw this was sobbing. The group took her with them. Someone was killed so brutally just for standing up for her, no one knew how pitiful her situation would turn out to be.

But the crowd didn't even try to stop them. Some ridiculed the man who was dead trying to save the woman, some wished that to have such strength so that they could live a satisfied life. Some felt that it was a pity for such a thing to happen. Some even said that this should be the result of the sins of their previous life.

Sheng Tian watched these things with very complex feelings. He felt that he didn't know this world properly.

Even though he saw a family being butchered right in front of him in the past, there was no one in the crowd who could stop the murderer. They were all common people while he was a cultivator. So they were helpless. So he didn't think deeper into it.

But now, there were clearly capable people who saw this, heard about this or at least sensed this incident happening. But no one stepped out to stop this. Previously, a cultivator saved the Oldman. But now, there was no one.

Sheng Tian felt very alienated all of a sudden. He didn't feel like that till now. He wasn't used to how things go in the cultivation world. Reading it and living it were two completely different concepts.

Sheng Tian recalled Law, Humanity, Ideals, Justice, Fairness, Good. He understood that all that is worth shit here. It can't buy crap. You have to depend on yourself. If someone wants your life and only if you can fight back, could you see the light of the next day or else you will be set on the journey to the yellow rivers.

Life seems brutal here. But that is for the weak. But for the strong, Life here is heaven. Heaven and hell are but the different viewpoints of the same world.

Weak always have to live in the fear of the strong, in oppression, one mistake to end a life. But Strong can do whatever they want. They can marry the best of women, live in the coziest of the mansions, have countless people serve under them, live a life of bliss, kill anyone at whim.

This is basically Utopia for them. Well, why not? You can do whatever you want and there is no one that can stop you. There is no law. You are the Law. Strength is judgment. Power is the Reason.

As these thoughts spun in his mind, Sheng Tian who has just finished eating felt that he became a part of this world, which can be his heaven or hell, depending on him.

Sheng Tian sighed after a long time and said softly as if asking himself as well as the world itself

" Cultivation World: Is it a blessing or a curse?"




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