Life is a long scroll painting.
Since Maple Forest City's destruction, Jiang Wang and Zhang Linchuan, these two former "martial brothers," had each begun their own sweeping, magnificent stories, both advancing and growing at lightning speed.
Yet they had taken utterly different paths.
One shone with boundless brilliance beneath the gaze of all; the other spread madly through endless darkness.
Zhang Linchuan's greatest advantage today was that he hid in the shadows, and hid very deeply. He maintained only single-line contact with the various levels of Life-less Cult outposts, usually connecting through faith with the Divine Path world. His whereabouts were exceedingly difficult to trace, and the depths of his strength unfathomable.
The low-profile, concealed Life-less Cult looked like a little puddle by the roadside, but anyone who rashly stepped into it might find themselves plunging into a bottomless abyss.
But from Jiang Wang's current perspective, Zhang Linchuan's greatest weakness was precisely that he hid in the shadows—he could not bear the light!
Choosing the path of running an evil cult could indeed allow him to grow powerful at the fastest possible pace. But it also made him intolerable to the bright principles of Heaven.
As the sages of old said, "Those who commit evil openly may be slain by any man."
It was this very point that made Zhang Linchuan, no matter how strong or cunning he was, easier to deal with than Zhuang Gaoxian.
The greatest difference between him and Zhuang Gaoxian was—
Jiang Wang could, without any scruples, wield the power of his position as Great Qi's Marquis of Wu'an and hunt him down across the whole realm!
This was the suppression of darkness by sunlight.
If, by this day, Zhang Linchuan's enterprise beyond his own cultivation was the Life-less Cult, expanding at breakneck speed in the