Comprehension Ability: I Forge a Villainous Longevity Family

Chapter 564: Chapter 444: Teaching by Words and Example_2

While Chen Moqing was in a daze, Shi Hao snatched the half-eaten fruit from his hand and stuffed it into his own mouth. Then he rummaged under the vine mat and found two fruits with a faint red glow, stuffing them into Chen Moqing’s mouth as he muttered.

"These two should be ripe, see if they’re sweet."

As he said this, Shi Hao picked out a few larger fruits without the special red glow and tossed them to Wang Lin, who frowned nearby: "Eat up, senior brother. It’s not like we’re out of options; there are still plenty of places like that mouse nest we just found. Once we finish eating, we can go look for more."

Wang Lin said nothing.

Seeing this, Shi Hao rolled his eyes: "If you don’t eat, how can we two eat heartily, right, junior brother?"

As he said this, Shi Hao grinned and looked at Chen Moqing.

Seeing this, Chen Moqing nodded, then handed the remaining glowing fruit to Wang Lin.

"This one’s ripe, it’s sweet."

This time Wang Lin did not refuse, his furrowed brow relaxed as he accepted the fruit from Chen Moqing’s hand, tucking it into his bosom.

"I just exercised, not hungry, will eat later."

"If you wait, it might be gone!"

Shi Hao quickly stood up, and under Wang Lin’s bewildered gaze, walked beside him and forcibly stuffed a bright red fruit into Wang Lin’s mouth from his sleeve.

While doing this, Shi Hao even called Chen Moqing to hold Wang Lin’s arm, which Chen Moqing surprisingly did!

"Hahaha, let’s see if you can spit it out after it’s stuffed down your throat!"

"Um...!"

"Hahahaha..."

"You... childish!"

"Hehe."

The scene of the three senior and junior brothers politely giving way to each other was heartwarming.

Uh.

Apart from being a bit silly, there was nothing wrong with it.

In the distance.

The thought incarnation that had been following them nearby sighed helplessly.

He recalled a story from his childhood called "Kong Rong Giving Pears," a nice little fable about brothers giving way to each other.

When their teacher taught it, they remembered it well, but as they grew older, some began to say that the reason the boy surnamed Kong gave bigger pears to others was that he thought the smaller pear was tastier and sweeter.

Others said he did it to make adults like him more and that he was pretending.

Hmm.

To Chen Zhixing, these arguments were quite interesting.

Because those who said this probably didn’t have particularly good siblings and weren’t yet of marriageable age.

Of course, compared to the parable of "Kong Rong Giving Pears," Chen Zhixing preferred the real-life outcome of the story’s prototype.

Compared to his younger brother Kong Rong, the older brother who ate the big pear seemed more responsible.

Of course, even better was the father who raised two sons like these.

One son, Kong Rong, who remained loyal to his acknowledged sovereign all his life, and an older brother willing to take risks to help his brother, who was ultimately implicated.

Family education.

Or perhaps learning by example.

At least they did not disgrace the Kong Family, far stronger than those who came after in the Kong Family.

"Brilliant as a child but not necessarily outstanding in adulthood... Humans, recognizing the present is good enough; how many can predict the next few decades... As long as things are good now, whatever comes later depends on their fortune."

Watching from the shadows for a few moments, after the three divided the fruits and went around the rock flow towards other tunnels,

The thought incarnation silently followed them.

...

At the same time.

In the Southern Domain, Jiangzhou.

The silhouette of Chen Zhixing appeared at the hidden site of the Purple Gold Mountain.

He came here to meet someone.

After waiting three days, that person indeed arrived.

True Monarch Tihu!

True Monarch Tihu wasn’t surprised to see Chen Zhixing at the ruins of the Purple Gold Mountain. After standing for a moment observing the void here, he calmly spoke:

"You acted prematurely. I thought you’d at least wait until you broke through to the Longevity Realm; then there might have been room for conciliation."

"True Monarch Yimiao probably thinks the same."

"Hmm, most of the old folks at home think that way too, otherwise they wouldn’t have let Yimiao come to find you."

"Why would they think that? You should know I’m not one to take losses easily, especially irretrievable ones."

"They noticed, so they hoped to polish you in this manner, but the result..." At this point, True Monarch Tihu shook his head: "The result was unexpectedly that your reaction was so significant, you left us no time to mediate and directly caused a scene in the Central Domain."

"Isn’t that great? Alone, as long as my sword is sharp enough, nothing can bother me anymore."

"Hehe."

True Monarch Tihu chuckled softly, seemingly disagreeing with Chen Zhixing’s view, and then said gently: "If you prefer such unrestrained freedom, then your chosen weapon should be a knife, not a sword. The sword is a ritual artifact, a gentleman’s tool. A double-edged sword harms others while injuring oneself, used to protect the body and cultivate oneself. Those who wield the sword must guard their hearts and should never measure by killing strength."

"There’s such a saying? Don’t all say that among all weapon cultivations, the Sword Cultivator is supreme?"

"Where did that strange notion come from? Haven’t you read the Divine Weapon List? Is there any Longevity Emperor’s Weapon on the rankings shaped as a sword?" True Monarch Tihu frowned, puzzled as to why Chen Zhixing would come up with such an idea.

Sword Cultivator? A single sword breaking all techniques?

Isn’t that what small sects and impoverished Loose Cultivators choose because they can’t afford Magical Artifacts?

We all have the same conditions. I possess numerous Divine Weapons and countless talismans and arrays, and you merely have a broken sword. Not only can you not protect yourself, but you might also hurt yourself... Why should you be able to defeat me?

As for the claim that Sword Cultivators can use Sword Qi for protection without external objects...

Do you alone have it, and others do not?

The Emperor’s Weapon Rankings at Celestial Saint Palace calculate thickness over a thousand miles, with top-notch materials. However sharp your cheap sword is, even after ten or a hundred years of slashing, how much damage can it really do?

Something bought with a penny, how could it surpass those forged from thousands of gold?

Tihu found it unlikely for Chen Zhixing to be so foolish as to believe in such nonsense.

Then he realized that Chen Zhixing was not talking about the sword.

Sure enough.

"If I can’t walk a path others can’t, then what difference is there between me and others? My presence in this world would be for nothing." Seeing that the ’slow-witted’ True Monarch Tihu finally grasped the meaning, Chen Zhixing chuckled lightly, then continued, "However, this entangled True Monarch, bringing you extra worry, I hope you can forgive me."

"It’s nothing here," Tihu shook his head, "Just nagged a bit more. But that Celestial Fox caused quite a disaster this time, forcing the palace to use a treasure to suppress it, causing a significant disruption at the Celestial Abyss in the Spirit Realm."

"What disruption could there be in the Spirit Realm?"

"The Demon Race uprising, invoking the power of the Celestial Abyss, causing some law disturbances in the Spirit Realm. During this period, some Spirit Beasts raised by the Taoist Lords also escaped."

"It doesn’t sound too serious."

"Yes, it’s not too chaotic. By the time we enter the Spirit Realm, these disturbances would have settled down."

"Oh, didn’t expect such words from True Monarch’s mouth." This time Chen Zhixing was truly surprised. In his impression, Tihu always seemed like a slow-witted good-natured person, unexpected to hear such ’not my problem, let it flood’ words from Tihu.

"What else?"

Tihu chuckled softly, shaking his head, as he adhered to his principles without being naive.

Ultimately, whether the Spirit Realm was chaotic or not did not concern him, even if he wanted to manage, he couldn’t.

Besides, if the Spirit Realm were truly in turmoil, it would be beneficial to him. If the Spirit Realm opened up more spaces, his future path might be easier.

"It’s just a shame for your Ziwei Chen Family. Thousands of years of planning, now becoming nothing more than an illusion. Who knows if your family elder Chang Feng would regret the choices made back then knowing the current situation?"

"Hmm? What choices?"

"Joining our Celestial Saint Palace. Hmm, didn’t your family elders tell you? Elder Chen Changfeng’s array expertise also received olive branches from the Three Great Sacred Lands. Interestingly, it parallels your previous situation..."