Chapter 609: Chapter 219: “I wonder if you’re as strong as I am?”_3

“And all the opportunities I encountered afterward were secretly prepared for me by my father, out of guilt,” he said.

“After that wealthy family took my woman to marry, they did not let anyone touch her, her body was untouched,” he explained.

“My father loved me,” he admitted.

“Yet… I mistakenly killed the woman who loved me, and my father, including my family members,” he lamented.

“This obstacle has become even harder to overcome,” he reflected.

“Hmm…” Ling Yue, her face veiled, fell into silence. After a long time, she spoke softly, “Actually, it’s not your fault. It’s all because your father kept it from you. What you did was right, there’s no problem. If I were in your position, I would have done the same.”

“But… but I didn’t know that at the time, and I still raped… raped…” he stammered.

“Raped all the women of that wealthy household?” she asked.

“No, I raped the Family Head of that wealthy household,” he corrected.

“…”

After a long while,

Ling Yue let out a long sigh, her eyes lifeless as she leaned on the chair back, looking up at the ceiling. In her heart, she really wanted to say, can’t someone as beastly as you just go and die?

But she couldn’t.

It went against professional ethics and wasn’t recognized by the rules of heaven and earth. Her job was to confirm the clients, to help them eliminate the Heart Demon, not to argue with them.

Then she spoke again softly, “It’s okay, it’s only human. When people are angry, they do many things that are hard for ordinary people to understand. But that does not mean you were wrong.”

“Instead, you were right.”

“Because if they hadn’t made you so angry, you definitely wouldn’t have done such a thing.”

“The mistake is not yours, it’s theirs.”

As her words fell,

the old man seemed much calmer. He then stood up, took out a bag of Spirit Stones from his bosom, and placed it on the table, “Thank you. I’ve never spoken to anyone about this before, speaking about it now, I feel much better.”

“I don’t think I’ll die in the next Heart Demon Tribulation,” he mused.

“…”

Ling Yue watched the old man’s departing figure with a blank expression, silently not speaking. That was her job responsibility in this position–many times she felt she was going mad.

Every time she had to go against her conscience to confirm the actions of these beasts,

she felt as if it were no different from eating a lump of dung raw.

Just then–

She suddenly felt the power of heaven and earth that had been binding her disappear, and her whole body slumped into the chair weakly. It was only after a long, long time that she stood up from the chair and walked out of the wooden hut!

She was finally released!

The payment for these hundred years was a good six thousand Mid-grade Spirit Stones, not too low. Compared to the “innkeeper,” it was a full double, but she swore she would never take on the role of a ridiculous Heart Demon Removal Master in her life again.

…

Meanwhile–

Only ten days remained until the shackles of the Heavenly Palace would dissipate.

“Sigh…”

Chen Qiu, seated cross-legged on the Xuantian Throne, exhaled a long breath of turbid air, looking at the flickering arc of lightning in the palm of his hand, his lips curling into a slight smile.

In this time,

he had cultivated as many as a hundred Divinity Transformation Techniques to Great Perfection Realm and used all the Divinity Transformation Techniques that he had cultivated to Great Perfection Realm to nourish and enhance the power of his Thunder Summoning Technique.

Now his Thunder Summoning Technique, under numerous methods, had reached an incredibly exaggerated level.

He was eager to try breaking through to Void Refining and then to test the power of his Thunder Summoning Technique.

He only knew that his Thunder Summoning Technique, having been enhanced by the “Xuantian Fortune” and two other significant enhancements, should have already broken through to another level, but he couldn’t be sure since he had never tested it.

Then Chen Qiu turned his head to look at Ao Tian and others, “I’m preparing to traverse the Heaven-traversing Tribulation. You all go to the small world first.”

During this period, he could not enter the small world but could establish a connection with it to bring Ao Tian and others back to the small world first. Otherwise, with so many people around, there was no telling how powerful his Heavenly Tribulation would become.

“Alright,”

Ao Tian looked at Chen Qiu with a complicated expression, “Brother, are you sure you don’t need my breakthrough to Void Refining to help you?”

He had initially changed his way of addressing Chen Qiu to Brother Qiu, but… Chen Qiu had forcefully corrected it, saying it sounded awkward, so he took the advice and kept the previous form of address.

But although the form of address was the same as before, his demeanor when speaking with Chen Qiu was now much more cautious, after all, strength was evident.

“Hmm,”

Chen Qiu nodded casually, “After this matter is done, you breakthrough to Void Refining. With so many people here, it’s not easy to pass the Heavenly Tribulation.”

Without waiting for Ao Tian and the others to say more, he immediately gathered them into the small world. Then he started running his mental method and setting up a Spirit Gathering Array, ready to begin the breakthrough to Void Refining.

Before leaving the Xuantian Continent, Chao Tian Sect had visited almost every notable household, it was hard to say about other things, but they certainly wouldn’t lack Spirit Stones.

…

Soon–

The obviously erratic fluctuations of Spiritual Energy within the Heavenly Palace alerted those Cultivators practicing outside the Heavenly Palace Gate.

“He’s going to forcefully break through to Void Refining!”

A mid-phase Void Refining Cultivator’s eyes flashed with joy, “This guy actually dares to traverse the Void Refining Heavenly Tribulation right here in the open. When ordinary people face the Heavenly Tribulation, don’t they find a deserted place?”

“The power of the Heavenly Tribulation is already immense!”

“All we have to do is stay here and let the Heavenly Tribulation envelop us. Its power will grow greater, and then won’t Chen Qiu be effortlessly obliterated by it?”