PS: This chapter was added in thanks for reader Erman 92's 10,000 Qidian Coin donation.
Whether Kong Cheng's affair was the work of fate or a twist of coincidence, in any case, it was because of him that Shaolin Temple became the laughingstock of the Jianghu for a time.
It was also because of Kong Cheng that Shaolin Temple lost two Yang Spirit Realm hall chiefs, along with numerous Shaolin Temple disciples.
And Kong Cheng himself collapsed under the deaths of his senior brothers and the fact that he had, for all intents and purposes, personally driven his beloved to her death.
In the end, Kong Cheng's wildly surging emotions seemed to let him see through the mortal world, allowing him to advance into the True Martial Realm. Yet he immediately sealed his own cultivation, prepared to die.
But Kong Cheng did not die in the end. Back then, no one knew whether Shaolin Temple had been reluctant to kill him because they regretted wasting his strength, or because they still cherished the feelings of brotherhood from the past. In any case, Kong Cheng survived, only to be thrown into the deepest reaches of Shaolin Temple's Black Prison, where he was to spend the rest of his life atoning for his sins.
From then on, Kong Cheng became a taboo within Shaolin Temple. Even the Kong Generation martial artists acted as though they had never had such a fellow disciple. As for those Shaolin Temple martial artists of the Xuan Generation, although they had heard of Kong Cheng, they only learned of the matter after becoming hall chiefs themselves. They had no particular feelings toward him.
It could only be said that what happened back then was fate playing tricks. Countless coincidences collided, ultimately creating such a tragedy.
To the