Chapter 585: Chapter 584: mories
After saying that, with a swift movent, he dashed out of the room at incredible speed.
Chen Tianlong chuckled bitterly; that’s just how Old Chen is. It’s already good enough that he’s willing to sit down and talk to you for so long.
In the kitchen, Chen Tian was cooking while lost in thought.
Nine years ago in Lotus Village.
Chen Tianlong’s ho was a fresh new scene; he was only nine years old at the ti. Chen Kang and his wife Wang Yali were leading a stable and happy life. Chen Tian lived with his brother and family, chatting and laughing every day.
These peaceful days lasted for three months.
Then one day, a man in his mid-thirties ca from out of town to find brother Chen Kang. The two stayed in the house for half a day before coming out. However, from his brother’s eyes, Chen Tian seed to sense that sothing big had happened.
Soon after, he heard his brother say that Chen Tianlong was already engaged and that if he wasn’t around in the future, Chen Tian should help him handle things.
At that ti, Chen Tian felt sothing was wrong. What did he an by "not around"? His brother’s words were ambiguous.
Only three months later, his brother’s house was suddenly surrounded by a dozen n in black, for unknown reasons, killing everyone on sight. And the poor mother, Wang Yali, was hit in the chest by a palm strike and died.
Chen Tian fled desperately with the sleeping Chen Tianlong and barely escaped. When he returned again, his sister-in-law’s body was gone. Villagers said that brother Chen Kang had taken his wife and run towards the Sumr Resort Mountain in Lotus Village.
But when Chen Tian arrived, after searching the entire mountainside, he couldn’t find a single trace. From then on, his brother disappeared.
However, less than half a year later, news ca from outside that the sect leaders of the eight great Ancient Martial Sects had simultaneously disappeared. So said that before they vanished, they saw a man.
The man called himself Chen Feng, and beside him was a masked master. Together, they were known as the Thunderbolt Heroes.
The scene returned to the present.
"Mr. Chen, we’re so hungry. Is the food ready?" Mo Jing rushed into the kitchen and asked anxiously.
"Alright, alright, Xiaojing, we’ll start serving soon." Chen Tian knew he had delayed and quickly said.
In a short while, four people sat at a big table full of dishes and began to eat.
During this ti, Chen Tian seed to rember so things. When talking about Chen Tianlong’s marriage, it seed that Chen Tianlong’s father had agreed to two marriage arrangents, but they were childhood engagents at the ti. Although Chen Tian didn’t support such a marriage, it was, after all, the last thing his brother had entrusted to him, and he had to fulfill it.
But looking at Chen Tianlong again, he was really into Wu ngting. If he truly made him give up Wu ngting and marry those girls he’d never t, it would be ridiculous.
Noticing Old Chen hesitating to speak, Chen Tianlong thought for a mont and asked, "Old Chen, is there sothing you want to tell us?"
"Ah? Oh... ngting, if... I an if, Chen Tianlong were to have two... oh, forget it." Chen Tian just couldn’t bring himself to say it.
"Old Chen, two what?" Wu ngting was puzzled and didn’t think in that direction.
"Nothing, I was just rambling. Let’s eat quickly." Chen Tian didn’t want to say more because, after all, Chen Tianlong was still young, and his life journey was far ahead. It’s not right to interfere so early.
The two chuckled and started eating.
After the al, Chen Tianlong took Wu ngting and Mo Jing to their old ho, which had already been battered and changed after nearly ten years of rain and storm.
So houses had collapsed under the heavy rain’s wash. As they pushed open the courtyard’s small wooden gate, it creaked, filling Chen Tianlong’s head with mories.
"Tianlong, your stance must be stable; that’s the foundation of martial arts for health. However, we practice martial arts not for fighting but for strengthening the body and certainly not for killing."
His father’s words once again echoed in his ears, but Chen Tianlong hadn’t listened and eventually beca an assassin.
It was a necessity for survival, to earn money for treating Old Chen’s illness. Indeed, it’s said that in Jianghu, one cannot control their destiny. Looking back on his father’s words now, it caused so sha.
Those in Jianghu sooner or later face their obligations.
Chen Kang knew the aning of these words, and thus instructed Chen Tianlong not to let his hands be stained with blood.
However, did Chen Kang achieve this?
Could changing one’s na really ease the conscience?
The three arrived alongside the house, staring at the termite-infested, heavily damaged wooden door and the layers of spider webs draped everywhere, leaving Chen Tianlong a bit heartbroken.
Is this really the place where I lived as a child?
Who killed mother? Did father Chen Kang jump off the cliff? These questions have always been buried deep within Chen Tianlong. Those ten n in black back then, why did they co after his family, and why did they vanish overnight, leaving him no path for revenge?
"Chen Tianlong, are you sure you want to go in?" Wu ngting looked at the house, seemingly dangerous, and quickly warned.
"ngting, if you’re worried, wait outside; I want to go in and have a look." Chen Tianlong turned back, his expression natural, without any emotion.
"I’m not worried; wherever you go, I’ll go too!" Wu ngting was stubborn.
"Then Mo Jing, play outside for a while; it’s a bit dirty inside." Chen Tianlong turned and said to Mo Jing.
"Okay." Mo Jing didn’t have any mories of this place, so she didn’t know what had occurred here. She only later heard her brother say that their parents had passed away, so she assud herself to be an orphan.
Chen Tianlong applied force and pushed the door open. With a "boom," it fell to the floor, turning into a pile of wood debris. It was no wonder, after nearly ten years of exposure to the elents and neglect, termites had devoured it, resulting in this outco.
This ti, Chen Tianlong entered the room not to reminisce but to search for the Heart thod Mantra.
Old Chen surely knew sothing, but just didn’t want to tell him. Yet, Chen Tianlong felt that Old Chen was certainly hinting to him earlier, suggesting the Heart thod was hidden in the words his father had spoken.
The two looked around. Many tiles had fallen from the roof, and although it was in shambles, the structure of the house was still sowhat solid.
Chen Tianlong took a deep breath; looking at the desolate scene, his mood inevitably sank.
"Tianlong, it’s okay." Wu ngting held Chen Tianlong’s hand tightly, afraid he would recall so sad mories.
"Okay."
Chen Tianlong nodded, heading towards another room.
Father generally wouldn’t place items in obvious places, especially sothing important like the Heart thod Mantra. Besides, those people who ca over before had already turned his ho upside down, and nothing could be left exposed.
Chen Tianlong searched for a while, then simply closed his eyes and ran the Heart thod.
Through this application of his eye technique, he suddenly found that he could not only achieve short-term X-ray vision but also perform multi-angle surveillance, seeing things from all directions from a single position, very clearly.
After a few minutes of scanning, Chen Tianlong still hadn’t found anything.
anwhile, Wu ngting was aimlessly wandering around the house and suddenly found a lovely hanging decor on the wall in the living room. Although it was already covered with dust, it hadn’t lost its luster...
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