Outside Crouching Tiger Hill, beside the cliff behind the mountain, Li Chen stood gazing into the distance. For a long time, he looked at the place where he had once made a temporary home and poured his heart and blood into, an unreadable expression on his face.
Only now did he believe that people truly were creatures who readily surrendered to habit.
Ten years ago, he had already decided to leave when the time came. He had stayed in Suyang only because heaven had held him there, and because he wanted to obtain the Book of the Nine Xuanmen Arrays.
Now, Suyang City's Teleportation Array had long since been repaired, and he had obtained the complete Book of the Nine Xuanmen Arrays. Yet ties had begun to form again, bringing a trace of attachment and reluctance to leave.
Li Chen understood where that attachment and reluctance came from.
They came from the weakness and inertia within his own heart.
Leaving aside the recent upheaval, life in Suyang City was simply too peaceful, too tranquil, too orderly.
All of this had drawn him in against his will, leaving him unable to extricate himself.
But suddenly, a measure of vigilance stirred within him.
If I keep staying here, will I become like a frog soaking in warm water, seemingly comfortable and free, yet in truth no longer able to escape?
Li Chen searched his heart, and the answer was: very likely!
The Cultivation Provisions around Suyang are entirely sufficient to support my cultivation to the Foundation Establishment Middle Stage, or even the late stage and the peak.
But what comes after the peak?
*My aptitude was never the best. It might not even measure up to Luo Changshan's or Feng Mingzhu's. Even they cannot achieve Core Formation, so what makes me think