Shun
Long had told his father to destroy the engagement 'completely', which showed
how dissatisfied he was with the Lin family.
But
what he didn't know was that Shun Fang was even more dissatisfied than him… he
was burning with anger. The Lin family wanted to take advantage of him for so
many years and then just come and ask for a mutual divorce? These idiots had to
be dreaming..
For
a woman to get divorced by the man's side of the family was an extreme insult,
as it deemed that woman unfit to marry. Even p.r.o.s.t.i.t.u.t.es had better
reputations in this world than women who were engaged and then divorced before
completing the marriage, unless that divorce was mutual from both sides.
A
divorce being 'mutual' here doesn't refer to both families not wanting their
children to marry each other, but it indicated that nothing had happened
in-between which would create any suspicions that the woman who had been
betrothed to them had been unfaithful.
Even
p.r.o.s.t.i.t.u.t.es who sold their bodies did it for work, and the men who
slept with them did it for enjoyment, but no man would ever want to marry a
woman that was engaged with him and yet eyed another man secretly.
That's
why the Lin family went in such pains to beg Shun Fang to mutually end this
engagement, or Lin Wu's reputation would greatly suffer.
But
they underestimated Shun Fang's fury this time. Not only did he kick them out
of his estate, but in the next 2 days, word had spread throughout the entire
Blue Forest-city and even beyond that, that the Shun family would not accept
Lin Wu as their daughter in law and that Shun Long had divorced her.
Shun
Long had already heard that the Lin patriarch's daughter had already been
labeled as an unfaithful woman in nearly every household of Blue Forest-city in
the last 2 days but frankly he didn't care.
That
woman's family abused their status as their 'in-laws to be' for many years and
then they wanted to end the engagement without even giving him a proper
explanation?
As
if Shun Long was naïve enough to accept a lame half-assed excuse like ''my
daughter will go cultivate in the sect so you have to break up with her now
that she decided that, but thank you for being a fat sheep that we could take
advantage of for so many years'.
Shun
Long easily saw through their lies and understood that there was definitely
something else at play here, he just didn't know what yet.. but one thing was
for certain, his feelings for the Lin family couldn't drop any lower right now.
He
even suspected that the attack he had suffered half a month ago, had something
to do with the Lin family. He didn't have any clues back then but now it
definitely made sense when he tried to connect the dots. If he died to an assassination,
the Lin family could definitely bring up the matter of mutually ending the
engagement to Shun Fang as Shun Long would have already been dead , and Shun
Fang would have had no valid reason to refuse them then.
The
more Shun Long thought about it the more it made sense and his eyes turned
colder.
Then
he muttered:
''You
better not have had anything to do with this Lin family, or you better watch as
I play you to death''
Shun
Long had spent the past 3 days constantly sparring with guards, while revealing
more and more of his strength.
In
the end he had only revealed a cultivation level of an early rank 5.
He
understood that 'Monarch's Hourglass' was truly a heavenly technique. As long
as he didn't intentionally circulate the power inside the balls of qi that he
had created and stored in his body, others couldn't tell his level of
cultivation, but Shun Long also assumed that if the disparity between his level
and his opponents was too big, then no matter what, he would be seen through in
the end.
So
to avoid such a situation, he decided to not keep his cultivation hidden any
longer, the cultivation of an early rank 5 of course. After all he wouldn't
reveal his full strength for no reason.
It
was already miraculous that he had reached the early rank 5 in half a month,
Shun Fang and Shun An already found this unbelievable.
He
wondered what would they think if he told them that he had already reached rank
6 peak, but in the end he decided not to. That speed of advancement was already
too monstrous and he couldn't explain it, unless he divulged the existence of
the 'Monarch's Hourglass and the triangular shaped stone, but these were his
biggest secrets and it would surely bring him endless questioning from his
parents. Also even if he tried to explain the truth to them it was unsure
whether they would believe him, so in the end he decided not to tell them about
his real cultivation level yet, after all they were already extremely satisfied
with his progress so far and he saw no harm in having a few secrets for his
own.
After
he had revealed his new strength of an early rank 5, Shun Long could hold his
own against a guard who was at the middle of rank 7 in qi condensation.
This
was shocking to both Shun Long and the guards as well as Shun Fang who happened
to see them sparring.
That
was more than 2 full minor levels above Shun Long's own. If he had used his
full cultivation, Shun Long estimated that he could probably fight against a
peak rank 8 or even early rank 9. For someone who has been cultivating for only
15 days to fight against a late stage qi condensation cultivator was already
unheard of. But for that same someone to fight against an early rank 9 qi
condensation who was already almost at the peak of his grade… then even the
word crazy wasn't enough anymore.
After
Shun Long had his fill of sparring with the guards, he told his parents that he
would stay in his room again for a few days and see if he can advance his
strength any further as he also mentioned that he was planning to participate
in the 'floating cloud sect's' selection test that was taking place in the
imperial palace in 1 month, the same test that Lin Shang had talked about.
Shun
Long's will was to become rich and strong so others couldn't control him, and
he couldn't achieve this in a place as small as the Sky Fortune kingdom.
He
had already heard from Shun Fang, that Sky Fortune kingdom had more than 100
other kingdoms around it, and that's just what Shun Fang knew. Who knew how big
the actual number was? Could he spend his life in a place as tiny as the Blue
Forest-city?
Originally
Shun Long's parents didn't have any hope for him to participate in the
'floating cloud sect's' selection test that happened every 3 years, even when
they had learned that their son's meridians were cured. But now that they had
seen Shun Long's frightening speed of advancement they were hoping that their
son would escape this tiny place called Sky Fortune kingdom and go cultivate in
the behemoth known as the 'floating cloud sect'.
Shun
Long had returned to his room sitting cross legged at the center of his bed, as
he sent his spiritual strength to his spiritual space, so he would enter the
triangular stone's space once again, when the golden book showed a reaction for
the first time.