1119: The Scarcity of Top-Tier Experts! The Origins of the Ice God Couple! (Bonus Chapter for Monthly Votes 3)

Could revenge truly make one forget all pain and hatred? Could everything that had once been destroyed be reborn through revenge?

Of course not.

Yet even when many people consumed by hatred clearly understood this, giving up revenge was still difficult.

Because as long as one was human, one had emotions.

And emotional creatures naturally acted according to their feelings.

If most people could truly control their emotions, then the martial world would not have so many tales of love and hate, grudges and vengeance. Chamu Long would not have come to seek refuge with Jiang Dali, nor would Wen Chou Chou, Dugu Fang, and the others have come seeking shelter to escape vendettas.

Were not the countless entanglements of love and hate, grudges and feuds in this world born in just this way?

Blood and fire, love and loyalty, favors and grudges, wealth and swords. One only asked: the martial world was like tides, people like water—how many ever returned? Who could guarantee that they would be the one to successfully reach the other shore amid those tides?

As Wen Chou Chou, Chamu Long, and the others were all received by Jiang Dali and remained in Divine Iron City afterward,

some of Divine Iron City's higher-ups who understood the situation quickly realized that the twelve people who had come seeking refuge had apparently been accepted by the Stronghold Master. Perhaps before long, they would be assigned positions. Some might become their colleagues, or even their superiors.

Even Wen Chou Chou, the former chief steward of the Heavenly Alliance, had been accepted by the Stronghold Master without regard for past grievances.

This left some people who had been waiting to see Wen Chou Chou make a fool of himself utterly dumbfounded, giving rise to all sorts of speculation.

But everyone