Chapter 284 There Is No Redeemer (1/2)

Ruoxi sneakily smiled and skipped her way to the inner chamber to sleep.

With her current cultivation, an hour of deep slumber was enough for her rest.

To a cultivator, the other advantage they had was that they did not need to waste too much time on sleeping like a mortal. Under the situation where their lifespan did not extend, they have more time to do the things they want.

At that moment, Zuo Shaoqing came in and cupped his hands towards Shen Lian as an obeisance. He said, ”I just received Senior Apprentice-Brother Jiang's air message. He would return within these few days.”

Shen Lian clasped his hands behind his back, smiled and said, ”This is an internal matter of your sect, there is no need to report it to me.”

Zuo Shaoqing replied, ”My lord, you have granted us the grace of rebirth, we are determined to attach ourselves under your banner.”

Shen Lian smiled faintly, ”Qingjiang was assaulted by Huang Longzi and your master defected. Fundamentally, the reason for this was because you attached yourself to Qing Xuan. Do you not hold a grudge?”

Zuo Shaoqing calmly looked straight at Shen Lian and he quietly said, ”I have indeed thought of this matter. However, to be in another man's shoes, Guangqing would not have treated Qingjiang the way Guangqing would. The defection of our honored master should not have happened. I will search for him and bring him back.”

”You have truly grown a lot. Nonetheless, there is one point and that is with your qualifications, you should not limit yourself to this area. This time, once your Senior Apprentice-Brother Jiang Shuijie returns, you should try to go out and travel, witness the different kinds of cultivation of this world and also the kind of sufferings of the secular mortal world. Take these experiences and transform it to merits,” Shen Lian slightly sighed.

Zuo Shaoqing's brows crinkled, ”But now my sect is scattered and sparse. What would they do if I wasn't there?”

Shen Lian answered in a serious manner, ”No one is a redeemer. You have to learn to trust your own senior and junior apprentice-brothers. You have better qualifications than all of them and your cultivation experience is higher, but this does not mean that they are sitting ducks without you here. Furthermore, how would they grow if they do not weather the storm? You should place more confidence in them.”

Zuo Shaoqing kept his silence. This was because the lessons he got from Meng Xunzhen was to have himself continuously become strong until he could finally guard the entire sect while also placing himself above the sect.

What Shen Lian meant was that it was not wrong of him to want to become stronger but he only reminded him that he should trust his brothers more and give himself a little more freedom.

He asked, ”Then, are you very trusting of the other people in Qing Xuan, my lord?”

Shen Lian nodded and answered, ”I trust them. One day, Qing Xuan would become the most formidable sect in this universe because of them and myself. The same goes to Qingjiang that would also become the most outstanding sword cultivating sect. The vigor when you faced Huang Longzi and the current state of peril would soon become the precious experience in your later lives. No one on the path of Dao has it easy. You would suffer at the beginning and suffer even more in the later stage but an unbiased view is very important. Also, one should not forget the nature of cultivation is to achieve Dao and attain longevity.”

During the following period of time, Jiang Shuijie also returned. He helped in settling those disciples who had hurt their Dao foundation and could not cultivate anymore.

Under Shen Lian's witness, he also became the new sect master of Qingjiang. This sword cultivation sect with a thousand year legacy met one of the toughest times since establishment and was left with only thirty to forty people. Everyone had experience tempering themselves and their wills had also grown.

When Shen Lian was preaching Dao, he only repeated the summary of the Huandan path. The hundred word summary was spoken eloquently every day until there were only few who were still willing to listen to him in the end.

However, Shen Lian also spoke of the swordcraft. The knowledge within him far surpassed Meng Xunzhen and he bore the Milky Way Sword Aura and the path and meaning of Grandmaster Yuanqing. His superficial knowledge on the Trapping of Celestial Sword Will and its swordcraft were still something extraordinary.

At the same time, Shen Lian also very thoroughly re-arranged the swordcraft he had learned by himself, he gradually had the tendency make everything into a uniform order.

Of course, he still rigidly adhere to the set pattern of his predecessors and was nowhere close to Chen Jianmei's conception.

Nonetheless, he was not pure of the cultivator of the sword and the swordcraft was only one of his methods of self-defense. That was why he did not put much emphasis on breaking out from the predecessor's framework but only tidied up the jumble of swordcraft.