After Qiang Shen killed Dé Long, he remembered the last words he said to him [Why are you doing this, you are supposed to be a cultivator of the path of virtue, you shouldn't use torture or affect your cultivation]
It's true, if people had seen the way Qiang Shen tortured Dé Long, they would have believed that he practiced the path of evil, because only a person with a malicious heart could torture such a person.
"The reason why I am able to torture a person to death without affecting my cultivation, is because I don't believe that I am doing evil, to begin with, the definition of good and evil depends on each person, for you, what I did to you was something evil but that's because your definition of evil tells you that, virtuous sects are called that because they have already defined what is good and bad, the same goes for evil sects and in my case it is the same, the only difference is that for me, at the subconscious level, what I do to you is not evil, I only apply JUSTICE, but do not think that just thinking about that philosophy is already applied, that is a belief at the subconscious level and for to be able to believe that, you must have lived long enough to come to believe that... haaaa, I don't know why I am telling all this to a dead person" said Qiang Shen to Dé Long's corpse.
After he finished talking to his enemy's corpse, Qiang Shen was about to return to the cave to look for Zhen Lin but was surprised to see that she was behind him. "At what moment did she get behind me ?!" Qiang Shen thought surprised. The truth was that he was so mentally tired that he unconsciously reduced his guard, if an enemy had attacked them at that moment, it would have been fatal.
"How much did you hear?" Qiang Shen asked scared. After listening to her question, Zhen Lin started to cry scaring Qiang Shen more, and before he could react, she hugged him. [That is a belief at the subconscious level and to be able to believe that, you must have lived long enough to come to believe that ...] those last words that Qiang Shen had said were still ringing in his mind. Zhen Lin had seen almost the whole fight from the moment she felt a killer instinct that almost makes her faint from fear and unconsciously left the cave to see if Qiang Shen was fine and what she found was that he was the source of that pressure. At first she was scared of him, but then she heard the words he was saying [so it was you who made me live fifteen years in hell!] "What was he referring to? 15 years? That's supposed to be his age!" she had been thinking, then she saw how the confrontation continued and when she saw that he ended up with the two thieves, she left the cave and went to him, and it was then that she heard those last words.
She didn't know why he said that, the only thing she knew was that he was suffering and when she saw the face of the completely surprised and scared, the only thing she could do was hug him. "Everything is fine," she told him. When he heard that, he didn't know what to do, but the next sentence she said ended up breaking his psychological barrier, "You must have gone through a lot of suffering, cry as much as you can", after hearing those words he could not resist it , then he hugged her and started crying, in that cry I have released all the suffering that he had been keeping for more than fifteen years.
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After Qiang Shen calmed down, he released Zhen Lin from his embrace and went to the corpses of Kong Long and Dé Long, after inspecting the body of Kong Long, he found a set of daggers and a cultivation manual that used the Dao of the Wind, but it was not going to be used because it used the path of evil. He believed that the evil sects had already been eliminated several centuries ago, but it seems that some survivors have spread their teachings during all that time so he decided to keep it until he returned home and ask Jiang Chen to burn it. What surprised him most was finding a scroll where several places were written, including the Hanging Temple, but it was already crossed out. It seems to be the location of the protective barriers of the China region.
"What are you watching?" Zhen Lin asked as he approached Qiang Shen. "Nothing, I'm just seeing if we can get some information from the bodies," Qiang Shen said as he continued searching, in addition to finding the dagger set, the cultivation manual and the list of objectives, he also found a passport and a plane ticket to Henan Province and according to the list, the next target of the thieves is the Temple of the Jade Emperor.
After inspecting the body of Kong Long, Qiang Shen searched the body of Dé Long to see what else he could find, at first he only found a passport and a plane ticket to the city of Kunming in the Yunnan region, but when he searched more closely, in the mouth, at the height of the palate he found a piece of paper folded meticulously, and when he opened it he found a magic circle in it. "What is that?" Zhen Lin asked to see that Qiang Shen saw that piece of paper, "it is a magic circle, used especially for invocations" he replied, "or he already brought that circle, or there was an invoking magician within that group of thieves" murmured Qiang Shen.
After saving that piece of paper with the invocation circle, both returned to the cave to rest. That night both had decided to spend it inside the cave, however when Zhen Lin was falling asleep, she saw a small light that came from the depths of the cave, "eh!? what is that?" she asked curious, "stay here, I will inspect" Qiang Shen told him. After walking for about 10 minutes, he saw that the source of that light was an opening inside the cave that led to another secret chamber and when he looked out to see the source of the light, he was surprised at the same time that he was moved to see It was, finally he had found the cliff with the extreme wind.