Light Fortress
Chapter 574 - 138 Gong Zi’s Wonderful Adventure_2

Chapter 574: Chapter 138 Gong Zi’s Wonderful Adventure_2

And those who could reach such a place were no ordinary people.

This was a very formidable Transcendent.

"I saw what happened earlier," the young man said softly with a complex expression, "No matter how you provoked them, that kind of behavior was still a bit too much..."

Zhao Qi shook his head.

Clearly.

Those guys wouldn’t care about him... It was this young man who had moved him here.

"Are you... from the East Continent?"

Zhao Qi’s voice was hoarse.

The young man grew interested and smiled, "How can you tell?"

Zhao Qi flicked his cigar, and with a quiet laugh said, "Yinghai’s exclusive double pyramid, 180mm in ring gauge... This is a very fine cigar."

Most importantly, this kind of cigar was only sold in limited quantities in the East Continent.

This young man was very likely an East Continent person, and... very wealthy.

"Are you also from the East Continent?"

The young man smiled slightly. He suddenly understood why this fellow was keeping his head down earlier, not wanting to be seen... Recognizing this cigar probably meant this fellow had a past he didn’t want others to discover.

"No..."

Zhao Qi fell silent for a short while, then smiled, "Just happened to have studied it a bit..."

The young man didn’t press further on identity.

He and Zhao Qi squatted by the wall, enjoying the last two cigars together. After a while, he spoke again.

"Excuse my boldness... I’m very curious, what do you plan to do next?"

"..."

Zhao Qi truly fell silent.

His eyes became dim.

This sort of thing had happened not just once. If he followed his past experiences, he would find a place to sleep. These wounds...these injuries were nothing; he had lost count of his bruises and cuts, big and small.

Sleep it off... Just sleep it off...

And tomorrow’s life?

Tomorrow’s life would just be a repetition of today.

He had been living this way for so long, so very long.

He wanted to lie to this stranger he had just met, to say that he would track down those who bullied him and beat them one by one... But the words just wouldn’t come out.

If it were a year ago.

He might have critiqued the South Bay cigar the other had handed him and then told this well-off youngster from his homeland that wealth should come with improved taste.

But now, he wouldn’t do that.

"What else can I do?"

Zhao Qi laughed softly, "Just... just this, I guess..."

An expected answer.

The young man squatted in the corner, smoking the last of his cigar, squinting his eyes in the smoke and snow dust.

The scene he had just witnessed was clear; the man was trampled at will and endured silently... How could such a man explode in thunderous rage?

Yet at some moment when he saw that image.

He felt a stir of compassion...

And indeed... he felt that this fellow looked familiar.

"If you don’t want to stay here, you can leave," he extinguished his cigar softly, "There’s no need to force yourself."

Zhao Qi remained silent, his head bowed.

How could he not understand this principle?

Those guys wanted him to get out of Falling Silver City, even better if he left the North Continent... Of course, he felt the same!

But... he just couldn’t bring himself to do that.

He always thought of that old man Zhao Xilai, lying in the hospital bed, looking at him for the last time.

He always remembered every punch Gu Shen smashed into his face.

While being beaten, when falling down, upon waking up... every moment, he was telling himself to give up, yet he had stubbornly endured until now.

"Don’t want to leave?"

The young man laughed softly.

He lowered his voice and said earnestly, "Since you’re from the East Continent... if you come to the North Continent, you should make something of yourself, don’t let these guys look down on you."

Zhao Qi was taken aback.

He was about to say something, but when he looked up, the young man had already left.

...

...

Gong Zi left Falling Silver City, walking through the wilderness amid heavy snow.

He thought back to the pitiful man he had squatted down with at the corner, that bearded and weathered face growing increasingly familiar... He felt he had seen this face somewhere before.

"This guy... couldn’t be surnamed Zhao, could he?"

Gong Zi stopped in his tracks and looked back.

The snow was too heavy, nothing was clear.

He muttered to himself softly and continued on toward his ultimate destination... He had been in the North Continent for a full year to cultivate, and that year of Cultivation had been very fruitful.

Besides that.

His primary purpose for traveling north was to head to advanced city and find Duke Duanyang.

To annul the marriage arrangement of the Gong Family.

This matter had to be kept secret from the Gong Family.

So all along the way, he took twists and turns to shake off the "Protector" secretly following him... Traveling between remote fortresses in the North Continent, trekking, drinking melted snow, braving frost, hunting wild beasts – although such days were harsh, they provided a freshness and thrill that the secure life inside Snow Forbidden City could not compare to.

Nobody knew what might happen on tomorrow’s journey.

In this year dedicated to cultivation.

Gong Zi had completely cast aside his identity as the Young Master of the Gong Family.

He reminded himself that this year, he was just a Transcendent in pursuit of self, and the only thing to do was to cultivate... now that his Cultivation was complete, it was time to reach advanced city.

Gong Zi had not used his family’s seals or wealth; he found a private pawnshop in a small snowy mountain town in the North Continent, where he engaged in a lively conversation with an interesting local uncle, drank heartily, and made a "perfectly safe" transaction in the North Continent manner.