Chapter 398 (1/2)

Chapter 398: 398

CRACK!

The skull split open, the devil core falling from its forehead . The rest of the huge skeleton collapsed without the support of the devil core .

Looking at the collapsed skeleton, Yue Xiaoqian was shocked . “You handled it so easily?!”

Long Chen almost stumbled . She was startled over such a simple method? Long Chen even suspected she was purposely trying to mess with him .

With a thought of his Spiritual Strength, the devil core dropped into his hand . This time, he specially used his Spiritual Strength to sense the energy within it .

He found the devil core was filled with a brutal and savage intent . That kind of intent only contained a desire to ma.s.sacre and destroy .

“Here . ” Long Chen handed the devil core to Yue Xiaoqian .

Yue Xiaoqian carefully looked at Long Chen . “Do you want to ask me any questions?”

“No . ”

“Another lie . You are clearly extremely curious, and you are also heavily on guard . My mother was right; the outside world’s people really are all hypocrites,” snorted Yue Xiaoqian .

Long Chen rolled his eyes . It seemed she had once more returned to her smart self . He retorted, “If you placed that kind of intelligence on fighting, you would be unrivaled . ”

“More lies . My mother said that the reason experts are able to become experts is because they have the heart to get stronger . If they relied on intelligence to resolve their problems instead of trusting in their own strength, they would never get any stronger,” refuted Yue Xiaoqian .

This time Long Chen was startled . It seemed Yue Xiaoqian’s mother’s thoughts were identical to Long Chen’s . If an expert wanted to get stronger, they couldn’t rely entirely on smarts .

They had to be more confident in their body than their head . Only then could they get stronger . That was what it meant to have a warrior’s heart .

Although it sounded a bit contradictory, Long Chen had believed in that theory the entire time . In the face of these schemes against him, he could have thought of an appropriate method to resolve them .

However, if he then formed a dependance on his intelligence, using brains to resolve all his disputes, then that courageous heart of his would be quietly worn down, eventually becoming obliterated . That was just the lazy way to handle things .

So in the face of these schemes, Long Chen had never tried to fight them with smarts . He would use his fists to crush his opponent’s schemes .

What he wanted was absolute strength . In the face of absolute strength, all schemes and plotting were just transient clouds .

“Your mother is definitely an amazing expert,” praised Long Chen .

“Of course . My mother is the devil-” Yue Xiaoqian was happy to hear Long Chen’s praise of his mother, but halfway through her statement, she shut her mouth .

“Let’s continue onwards,” smiled Long Chen .

“Long Chen, are you not afraid of me?”

“I’m not afraid . ” Long Chen shook his head . I can be afraid of anything in this world, but not a girl .

“You don’t even know why I’m gathering devil cores, nor do you know my background . But you refuse to be afraid of me hurting you?”

“Don’t you know mind reading? Can’t you tell?” laughed Long Chen .

“Of course I don’t know how to read minds . The only thing I can do is judge a person’s mental thoughts by their eyes, expression, breath, heartbeat, body heat, and spiritual fluctuations . ”

“What, it’s this complicated? Why would you bother learning all this? So you can be a fortune teller for others?” Long Chen didn’t understand .

“What nonsense . Whose fortune would I tell? My mother said that the outside world is extremely treacherous, and words never reveal the inner heart . Everyone is two-faced, vicious and merciless, agreeing with you on the outside in order to stab you in the back . She refused to let me come out adventuring before learning these things,” said Yue Xiaoqian with a bit of vexation .

“Your mother was entirely correct . Whether it is the Righteous or Corrupt path, they’re all treacherous and cruel people who tell you honeyed words before stabbing you through the stomach . The Righteous path is especially dangerous in that aspect,” sighed Long Chen .

Long Chen’s words contained a profound self-mocking . He was a Righteous disciple, but the ones who wanted him dead the most were actually his fellow Righteous disciples . That was quite the irony .

In comparison to the Corrupt path’s cruelty and malevolence, it was the Righteous path’s crafty scheming, their ability to kill others without even doing anything personally, that made people s.h.i.+ver .

That was because the Corrupt path actually rarely stabbed people in the back . They were savage, but their compet.i.tion was always fought openly . It was survival of the strongest, the law of the jungle .

But the Righteous path wasn’t like that . All kinds of contemptible schemes were everywhere, and there were many unwritten rules . People in power blocked the path of many geniuses, as anyone that could threaten their position had to be quietly eliminated .

Just thinking of the first monastery’s conduct, Long Chen was filled with fury . Then there was also that pair of b.a.s.t.a.r.ds Han Tianyu and Han Tianfeng . Their debt to him would have to properly repaid .

“Long Chen, are you a bad person?” Yue Xiaoqian was curious why Long Chen would actually agree with her mother’s words . Wouldn’t that be including himself in that category?

“Yup, I’m a bad person . And in the future, I’ll get more and more bad . ”

“Why?”

“Even if I told you, you wouldn’t understand . Our minds aren’t on the same frequency . ” Long Chen shook his head . He had figured out what kind of person Yue Xiaoqian was .

Although her origin was definitely puzzling, and her power was unfathomable, she was still a rookie, an amateur who hadn’t experienced anything of the world . Compared to an old fox like Long Chen who had fought his way through calamity multiple times, they really were not on the same level . Long Chen couldn’t be bothered to waste his breath explaining all this to her .