Chapter 51: Calculating the Escape, Accumulating Good Deeds, Meeting a Confused Person

  Go down the mountain! Go down the mountain!

  This is Kong Zhenhao's first thought when he came down from Yuanyang Peak.

  Perhaps others would feel triumphant about this matter, but Kong Zhuang felt ashamed.

  Overestimated myself too much, feeling a bit anxious and worried.

  "I'm just a third-generation disciple, idle and useless in Luofu, without fame or status. My master is not even on the mountain, what's the point of me worrying about anything? If the sky falls, there are tall people to hold it up, I can just follow behind and do my job, no need to think so much, why bother? And then find another pawn, I'm sick, how should I arrange things? Those old foxes have their own calculations, what kind of worry is this for me?"

  Nor did he know how, after returning from Haoyuan Peak, Kong Yan's mood became particularly bad.

  It was fine on the mountain, but after returning to Qing Song Ping, it had only been a short while, less than half a time, and Kong Zuo felt his mood getting worse and worse.

  It was a feeling he had never thought of before, and one he had never tried.

  What you don't want done to yourself, don't do to others. Perhaps this is a reflection of that sentiment?

  At first, he thought it was a normal thing to use others as pawns to lure out the hidden enemies in the shadows. But when he found himself almost being used as a pawn and becoming bait to lure out the enemy, his mood turned violent.

  He didn't like the feeling, and he also knew that his reaction was somewhat excessive, at least in his previous imagination it was somewhat excessive. However, he still needed to vent and successfully got vented.

  When he left Qing Song Ping, the ground began to show web-like cracks, slowly, the web became deeper and the cracks more numerous. Finally, with a dull thud, hundreds of feet of Qing Song Ping collapsed, but the dust that should have filled the air was completely suppressed by Kong Zhao's strange energy manipulation method. After the initial dull thud, it disappeared silently.

  In the Zhēng Xuán Diàn of Hàoyuān Fēng, Líng Jiā Shàng Rén's expression suddenly changed as he was discussing in a low voice with Li Yuǎn Huà and Wèi Qīng Qīng.

  "Big brother, what's wrong?"

  "The Seventh Layer, when did Kong Zhuan's innate purple energy reach the seventh layer?! Ling Jia Shangren seemed to be muttering to himself, yet also seemed to be whispering to the two of them, 'And why didn't we notice it just now?!'"

  Li Yuanhua and Wei Qing looked at each other in silence, their eyes also revealing a look of horror at the same time.

  He let out a sigh, clearing the pent-up frustration in his chest. Kong Zhuo felt somewhat recovered and slowly exhaled, gazing at the desolate Qing Song Ping with a bitter smile.

  When calculating others' affairs, it feels like playing a game, but once involving oneself, one can't help but feel unhappy.

  "It's still that our mental state hasn't kept up!" Kong Zhuo sighed, "Let's head down the mountain, to avoid being schemed against by those unscrupulous elders again at a critical moment!"

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  On the third day, Kong Zhuo went down the mountain.

  This time, the efficiency was surprisingly fast. Kong Zhuo's reason was that his own cultivation had reached a bottleneck, and considering that he had made little progress in his recent practice, he wanted to go down the mountain to gain some experience and see if he could make any gains.

  Ling Jia Shangren, without thinking, agreed at the time, and only, whether it was Ling Jia Shangren or Li Yuanhua, their gaze towards Kong Zhuo made him somewhat unbearable.

  "I know I'm a genius, but has the Luofu Sect really not produced any geniuses in thousands of years? Why do they look at me like I'm some kind of freak?" With that thought, he muttered to himself as he descended the mountain.

  There was nothing to collect, not even a sword on his body, only a white python skin bag hanging from his waist, with empty hands, he slowly walked down Luo Fu.

  Descend and temper

  This is the choice of many practitioners after they have made some progress in their practice. After all, not everyone can bear the loneliness of the mountains, and not everyone is unfamiliar with the worldly affairs. When one's cultivation has reached a certain level, a bottleneck, it is difficult to make progress in a short period of time, and being stuck on the mountain is not a good thing. Coming out to relax and clear one's mind may help to resolve some knots, so there is the practice of going down the mountain to gain experience.

  So, in short, the so-called "going down the mountain to gain experience" is just going around, taking a look, clearing one's mind, and when something happens, dealing with it. In concrete terms, it means encountering demons and eliminating them, encountering evil spirits and eliminating them.

  To be honest, the world is not yet at peace, with many demons and monsters lurking about. Although they don't often harass humans, it's not like they never do either. As a result, cultivators have more opportunities to use their skills in battle. This behavior is formally known as accumulating external merit. It's said that helping ordinary humans get rid of demons can earn something called "merit", which can help block heavenly tribulations during ascension. Who knows if it's true or not? Anyway, in this era, there isn't a single person who has truly comprehended the Heavenly Dao, and heavenly tribulations may have disappeared long ago. So, heaven only knows whether it's useful or not.

  However, the disciples of various sects and factions hold this view when traveling down the mountain, and they will take care of things like monsters.

  This is the accumulation of good deeds

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  Kong Rong's current attire doesn't look like that of a cultivator.

  He walked on the official road with empty hands, without any luggage, which made him look a bit strange.

  It's been over ten days since I came down from Luoyang.

  If I had to describe these ten days with four words, then there would only be four words.

  As calm as water

  This time, unlike last time going down the mountain, he didn't have a clear purpose, so he didn't open up his stance or wield his sword, but instead walked slowly like an ordinary person.

  All the way, he met some people and encountered some things, but none of them were important people or important things. More importantly, this time down the mountain was somewhat willful, without sufficient preparation or a clear purpose, to the point where he still didn't know what to do now.

  "Who would have thought that wandering around like this is even more boring than being in the mountains?!" Kong Zuo lamented in his heart, "What should I do now? Should I go back to guarding my parents' graves again?"

  Just then, suddenly a movement in his heart, from the end of the official road, came a loud and disorderly sound of horse hooves.

  "So many people, what's the hurry?!"

  In an instant, more than a dozen horsemen came galloping from the front, with smoke and dust swirling around them, their loud shouts unceasing in my ears.

  The horse was extremely fast, and in an instant it arrived before his eyes. Kong Zhuo was walking on the road when the leader seemed to have not seen him at all, and directly charged over, waving a whip in his hand, speeding towards Kong Zhuo without slowing down.

  "Damn it!" Kong Zhuo cursed under his breath, and his body floated to the side of the road, clearing the way for this group of over a dozen horsemen to gallop past. However, before they had gone more than ten zhang ahead, all the horses let out a long whinny and one by one fell to the ground, amidst the sound of people and horses tumbling over.

  Kong Zhan's face darkened and he smiled, as if he had let out a big breath of bad air, and suddenly felt refreshed and revitalized. The gloomy atmosphere that had been surrounding him since his encounter with Luo Fu seemed to have all dissipated in this moment.

  "How dare you, a wicked person, to harm people with evil methods under the bright sky! " Before Kong Zhuo had taken a few steps away, he heard a loud shout from behind him, followed by a strong gust of wind rushing towards his back.

  "How strange!" Kong Zuo furrowed his brow, stopped in his tracks, but didn't turn around. The black axe with a crescent moon shape on its back continued to chop at the back of his head from behind.

  "Pong!" A loud noise, sparks flying everywhere. The person sneaking up from behind was knocked flying by Kong Zhuo's naturally born counter-shock force.

  At this time, Kong Zhuo finally turned around, with a hint of strange color in his eyes, to look at the person who had just attacked him.

  Those more than ten horses suddenly fell down, of course, it was Kong Zhan's good deed. He thought he had done a very secretive job, just slightly increasing the gravity in front of the horse, and when the galloping horse stepped on that gravity area, it would naturally fall like a head into a pit, plus the speed, the person on the horse at least got a minor injury.

  But this guy was fine, not only did he not suffer any harm, but he quickly discovered that it was his own doing and immediately counterattacked, which made him feel somewhat unexpected.

  "What a weirdo?!"

  When Kong Zhuan turned around, he was even more certain of the other's strangeness. More than a dozen riders were all on the ground, groaning and screaming as Kong Zhuan had expected. Only this one, after being knocked flying by Kong Zhuan, jumped up again, picked up the Xuanhua axe that had also been knocked flying earlier, and made an attacking posture as if nothing was wrong with him.

  "You're no match for me!" Kong Zhuang said calmly as he gazed at the large black man in front of him.

  But unexpectedly, the big man seemed to be a fool. After hearing Kong Zhuan's words, he was slightly stunned and immediately waved his axe and shouted, "You are a demon, secretly casting demonic spells on me!"

  Nor did he say how he discovered that Kong Yan had made a move, carrying an axe and shouting as he rushed over, his axe waving wildly without any rules.

  "What a fool!"

  Kong Zuo smiled bitterly in his heart.