Destiny is ashes

Chapter 605: Free Heart (25)

When Qu Tong learned about these legends and origins, he was extremely excited. He understood that he was about to embark on the right track and his future was extremely bright. It was countless times more fortunate than wasting his life in the wilderness. This was something that no cultivator could refuse.

But no one told him that the evergreen wood meridians needed special nutrients as inhibitors to grow stably, otherwise they would gradually erode the flesh and blood and turn the person into a plant.

It is also possible for him not to join the company, but in that case, he will not have free inhibitors to use. If he is expelled from the company, he can only go to the black market and buy them at a price twenty times the market price.

He couldn't go back.

The tribal family members who knew the news did not blame Qu Tong too much. They comforted the young boy at that time, saying that if he could advance to the foundation-building stage, then they would also have the opportunity to move into the safe zone. Becoming a Taoist Immortal is indeed the right path.

But how could a company possibly train a cultivator from the wilderness to become a foundation-building cultivator?
If a Taoist monk does not practice formations and cultivation tools, then he will never be able to break through the bottleneck of his realm by himself in his entire life. After Qu Tong reached the peak of Qi Refining, he no longer had the possibility of making any progress.

After all, the reason why the company trained him was because the lives of the city people were too expensive. Sending the monks in the city on field missions to explore the wilderness mineral veins was really not worth the loss. It was better to capture these wilderness people with some talents and let them become immortal monks who could not leave the company, let them work, do the most dangerous work, get the most ordinary salary, and don't have to pay labor insurance.

In that case, Qu Tong had no choice but to accept it.

He worked for the company and went out on field trips, and gradually he took root in Xuanye City, got married, and had a daughter. His life was neither rich nor poor, and he was able to support his hometown.

For the Wilderpeople, this was a pretty good ending.

The premise is that this is the end.

On a New Year's Day, Qu Tong took his wife and daughter to the city center for a big meal. Although it was just the most ordinary boiled fish, the family was very happy. However, on the way home after dinner, they encountered something that could never be avoided in Xuan Ye City: gang fighting.

It all started with a quarrel between two children from aristocratic families, which then turned into a brawl, and then the two sides started fighting - this kind of thing happens once every ten days or half a month, but this time, Qu Tong was involved.

The stray bullet hit the gas pipeline and caused an explosion, instantly killing Qu Tong's wife and daughter. Although he himself was able to withstand it due to his cultivation, he was also dizzy from the impact for a while.

When he recovered, he couldn't even find a few intact bones.

Angry? Desperate? Sad?
Actually, none of them.

After confirming that 'they are all dead', rage and hatred surged in his heart. Just when Qu Tong was about to go full power and kill all those damn gang members and children of aristocratic families, his Tianji prosthetic body shut down.

The company detected his abnormal emotions and knew that he wanted to attack the two leading dandies from wealthy families, so they immediately shut down his prosthetic body, rendering him unable to move and forcing him to half-kneel on the ground. They waited until the gang fight was over and both sides called off their attacks, and until heavy rain came and washed away all the blood and bones, and then the company's talents came to retrieve him.

After becoming a company dog, even your mind is no longer free.

The company's scolding, reprimands and punishments were all insignificant trifles. Qu Tong used his long-wasted innate wisdom to crack his prosthetic body, defected from Xuanye City with a batch of company assets, and came to the wilderness.

He couldn't go back to his home and tribe, because that would only implicate them, and the tribe would not welcome a celestial monk who defected from Xuanye City, a potential demon. He had no roots and no future, everything he had was cut off, and he could only wander in the wilderness.

He couldn't even join the Guiyi Army: he had served the company for too long. If he was still in the city, the Guiyi Army might have accepted him as an informant, but he had already left. There were plenty of such half-crazy monks in the wilderness, and the Guiyi Army would not take the risk of accepting him.

He became a robbery cultivator.

The ninth level of Qi Refining and the state of Yuhua Jiexiu were already enough to make the surrounding wilderness tribes and safe zone caravans compromise and pay protection fees instead of resisting. With his strength, Qu Tong actually lived a little more freely than in the city. Although he no longer had time to practice, to analyze the magic and principles to get happiness, but at least he could live like a walking corpse, free and empty.

Until now. He has once again lost himself and his soul, and will become a blade in the hands of others, used when needed, and die when not needed.

"Let's go."

He wiped the Tianji armor clean. In the past, even the company had never equipped him with this level of weapons. The Qutong chip transmitted the signal, and the armor unfolded like a shell. He lay in it, and evergreen wood roots like tree roots grew out of the black shell covering the outside of his spine. It connected with the armor, causing the green spiritual patterns on the armor to light up layer by layer.

The Tianji Armor completely wrapped it, and the Iron Figure said to the Iron Skull: "It's time to complete the mission."

It's time...to die.

When they came to the ground, Qu Tong was not surprised by the meteorites and tornadoes in the sky. Unlike those ignorant people in the wilderness, he had been to cities and companies after all, and knew that the northwest battlefield had similar scenes throughout the year.

"If we catch that kid, the higher-ups will be willing to let us go, or even leave with them."

When Tieluan said this, there was hope in his bulging eyes. Qu Tong didn't know why he became a robbery cultivator. The only thing he knew was that from the photos, he was quite handsome when he was older, with the look of a gentle researcher. But because of an experimental accident or a fight, he became what he is now.

He longed to return to the city like in a dream, which was completely opposite to Qu Tong who just wanted to find a little freedom in the wilderness, but no matter what, they were just dogs now.

At this moment, the younger brother who was detecting outside also came to report: "Boss, second brother, there seems to be movement ahead!"

"What the hell? Monsters or those wild people?"

Tie Skull frowned, and his single eye seemed to be bulging out. He hurried to the observation deck at the entrance of the stronghold and saw a group of mercenaries taking advantage of the blind spots in the fortress area, gradually passing the firepower of the automatic sentry guns and gradually approaching the center of the fortress area, which was the inside of their stronghold.

"Wait, isn't that our goal?"

Suddenly, his eyes narrowed and focused on the front of the mercenary team, a figure who was extremely agile, operating the sword box to snipe the automatic turret in turn: "An Xuan... Yes, it's him!"

"He actually took the initiative to raid our camp?!"

(End of this chapter)