Chapter 1137 (1/2)

Chapter 1137: 1137

The next day, one large and one small flying boat moved out of the Xuantian Dao Sect, going directly to the eastern sea .

Long Chen stood alone at the prow of the boat . The barrier had already been activated . Seeing the mountains rapidly going past him down below, he had a strange feeling .

Yesterday, he had been called over by the Xuan Master to discuss a few things . Only after the two of them had chatted did Long Chen realize he had misjudged the Xuan Master .

In Long Chen’s heart, the Xuan Master had been a completely unrivaled hero, someone who was upright and virtuous . He hadn’t expected that he was wrong .

When they had talked about the huge gamble he had made against the Heaven Suppressing Magic Sect, Long Chen had asked the Xuan Master whether or not he had been worried about losing .

The Xuan Master’s reply was that he hadn’t been the slightest bit worried . Even if he had lost, it would have been fine . A problem had occurred in the spirit stone mine he had gambled . They had suddenly found an extremely thick rock stratum .

That layer was hundreds of miles thick, and it covered far too much land . It was impossible to avoid . If they wanted to continue mining, they would have to break through it .

But breaking through such a thick layer of rock stratum would require a huge amount of manpower . Most importantly, no one knew whether or not there were more spirit stones down below . Even if there were, if there weren’t enough, it wouldn’t make up for the loss of breaking through the rock stratum .

Right now, the spirit stone mine had already ceased production . All the workers were studying the probability of there being more spirit stones below and in what quant.i.ties . The results of their study were not encouraging .

The chance there were still spirit stones below was only fifty percent . And if there were, then based on the current state of the mine, the amount below wouldn’t be very great . It was likely it wouldn’t make up for the cost of breaking through the rock .

So this huge spirit stone mine had become an annoying point for the Xuantian Dao Sect . Just whether or not they should continue excavating was a problem .

And so the Xuan Master hadn’t even frowned upon taking it out to bet . He had already abandoned this mine, because he had no money to risk on it .

As for the Life Star Bead, that made Long Chen even more flabbergasted . The Xuan Master said that his Life Star Bead was garbage .

When Life Star experts broke through to their realm, they left behind their lifetime comprehension of cultivation . It was an extremely precious cultivation inheritance .

But when the Xuan Master had advanced to the Life Star realm, his lightning tribulation had been too powerful, and his Life Star Bead had lost the majority of its spirituality to the tribulation .

The inheritance the Xuan Master had left behind was incomplete . It was basically trash .

When Long Chen heard this, he couldn’t help being completely dumbstruck . That was far too evil . He had actually taken out two pieces of garbage to gamble with another person’s businesses . If Ma Xingkong learned of this, wouldn’t he directly die of anger?

However, the Xuan Master told Long Chen that the process wasn’t important . The only important thing was the result . He couldn’t limit himself .

In the cultivation world, all rules were nothing more than the playing of rogues . The winner was the more shameless one . If you wholeheartedly wanted to act as a man of honor to the end, your end would truly come quickly, and miserably to boot .

The previous Xuan Master had conformed with the rules very well . He was upright, acting openly and candidly . But what had that resulted in? The current plight of the Xuantian Dao Sect .

He had been considering things from his own standpoint, instead of thinking of the Dao Sect’s millions of disciples . This was a mediocre way of leading . When the Xuan Master said this, he intentionally looked at Long Chen profoundly .

His meaning was clear . To survive in the cultivation world, he had to be willing to use any means necessary . He shouldn’t blindly try to be a hero and thus have his hands tied . That would cause many more people to die .

“It seems I really am too immature . ” Long Chen couldn’t help but sigh . As expected, the Xuan Master’s wisdom was not something a little rookie like him could compare to .

The Xuan Master had his own special kind of charisma . It was as though no matter what happened, everything would be within his control . With his strategies, he was able to win victories from thousands of miles away . It was like with him present, there would be no problems .

As for Long Chen, what he lacked was control . But he had no way around it . He was well aware of his own weaknesses . The Xuan Master himself had even said that Long Chen was no less intelligent than him . It was just that once his anger flared, all that intelligence would vanish .

“Whatever . Everyone has their own paths, and I can just walk my own path . Some things can’t be obtained just through wanting them . ” Long Chen sighed deeply and stretched .

“Long Chen, why have you run over here? We were looking all over . ” He turned back to see Meng Qi, Tang Wan-er, Hua s.h.i.+yu, and Zhao Ziyan come over .

“Oh, are these the legendary four great beauties of the Xuantian Dao Sect? I am honored that you would be looking for me,” laughed Long Chen .

Tang Wan-er rolled her eyes and said, “Have some propriety . You are now a commander, so have some respect . ”

“You’re right . For you to honor my humble self with your presence, I should have come to get you . I can’t believe I was lacking such manners . Please, come sit, and let me pour you some tea . ” Long Chen hastily put on a respectful appearance .

“When I said to have some respect, I didn’t mean this kind of nonsense . ” Tang Wan-er laughingly pushed Long Chen, bringing him inside where they could all sit around a stone table .