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Chapter 56 [Making it Big? ]

Chapter 55 [Making it Big? ]

Listening to Gu Qingyi's gentle words, Chen Yan's eyes twitched, and he whispered, "Is the domain... not peaceful? This prison-suppressing platform you described seems... to be a place of fighting?"

"Yes, fighting." Gu Qingyi narrowed his eyes, as if absorbing the thin warmth in the sunlight, and said softly: "How can we not fight? If we don't fight... we will die. Many people will die. Many, many people will die."

As he spoke, Gu Qingyi opened his eyes: "I was sent to the Prison Platform at the age of fifteen and stayed there for five years. It was not until I cultivated my spirit through battle and broke through to the Heavenly Man Realm that I was able to return to the Gu family.

I remember that on the first night I arrived there, a weapon was stuffed into my hand.

For five years, every day, I stood on the city wall and chopped wildly with my weapons.

When resting, he hid in the house behind the city and slept with his weapons in his arms.

When those things outside Taicheng didn't attack, I could only huddle in the house, hugging my cold sword, shivering as I listened to the howling wind outside.

Chen Yan frowned: "Attacking the Prison Suppression Platform... Who is attacking you?"

Gu Qingyi shook his head and said nothing.

Chen Yan thought for a moment and asked in a low voice, "Have you... killed many people?"

"No, I haven't killed anyone."

Gu Qingyi answered this time. She shook her head seriously, but her words carried a chilling tone: "The things I killed were not human!"

Chen Yan felt a chill in his heart after hearing what Gu Qingyi said: "Isn't the domain peaceful..."

Gu Qingyi suddenly opened her eyes and stared at Chen Yan: "Chen Yan, will you go to the realm?"

"I..." Chen Yan didn't know how to answer for a moment.

According to Gu Qingyi, there is a ceiling for cultivation in this world. One can never reach the realm of heaven and man and will always remain at the level of ordinary cultivators.

If this is the case, it seems that if Chen Yan wants to make a breakthrough in the future, he will inevitably have to go to the domain realm.

But... after all, it is still very far away, and Chen Yan has not thought about it seriously.

And today, just now, after listening to what Gu Qingyi said, Chen Yan felt that the domain realm was not a good place.

Seeing that Chen Yan was silent, Gu Qingyi said in a serious tone:

"Chen Yan, if you don't plan to go to the Realm, then don't ask about these things, and don't try to know about them."

As she spoke, Gu Qingyi's eyes softened as she looked at Chen Yan. She slowly said, "Also...thank you for giving me this milk tea just now. It's delicious and sweet."

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From then until noon, Chen Yan didn't say anything to Gu Qingyi, but secretly recalled Gu Qingyi's words in his heart.

Fifteen years old... a fifteen-year-old girl was sent to a place with harsh environment beyond the limit, and then experienced a bloody battle.

Just spend five years like this?
What day is that?
What were you doing when you were fifteen?
Staying at school, the biggest worry every day was nothing more than studies and exams. What I thought about most was how to go to the court with my classmates after school to grab a basketball hoop, or curiously waiting to see what cool tricks Naruto could learn... From continuous bullets to 2,000 continuous bullets to 4,000 continuous bullets and so on...

I felt sad that I originally thought Naruto was a grassroots like myself, and then I helplessly discovered that he was actually the second generation, and even the son of a immortal in his previous life.

Well...what were the girls of the same age doing when you were fifteen?
I was thinking about sneaking off to get my first manicure, thinking about whether I could sneak off to see a concert without telling my parents, thinking about how annoying homework was, and thinking about how handsome that boy in the next class was...

What about fifteen-year-old Gu Qingyi?

She said: When the blood sprayed on my face, it was hot...

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It’s not a matter of disillusionment with the domain.

In fact, ever since Gu Qingyi mentioned the existence of the domain, Chen Yan never thought that place was a beautiful world for cultivation.

Although Chen Yan had read countless online novels about cultivating immortals, it seemed as if everyone in those cultivation worlds was single-mindedly pursuing cultivation, each practicing according to a set routine to pursue the Great Dao. Occasionally, there would be demonic cultivators committing evil, but there would always be a large number of righteous practitioners to eradicate the evil...

Chen Yan felt that such a world was impossible to exist... because it was illogical.

It’s a cliché that university is for philosophy majors, don’t believe it!
In his opinion, for a civilization to be a civilization, there must be a set of rules and regulations to maintain the civilization, which constrain everyone to perform their duties and stay in their positions, and limit what most people can and cannot do.

To maintain this set of rules and order, there must be sufficient violence to ensure that people dare not break the rules - officials, police, military...

The purpose is to punish those who violate the rules with an iron fist.

And... in a world of cultivation where personal strength is respected?

How can it be?

Powerful practitioners must abide by a set of moral or legal rules and not do bad things?

What is the power that restrains them? No government, no police, no army...

Rely on morality? Don't be ridiculous.

If civilization could be maintained by morality... then there would be no laws in this world, and no need for violent institutions.

The major he studied taught Chen Yan that the greatest cornerstone of maintaining civilization is not morality acquired through education.

But...violence, violence used as a force of punishment.

The earliest educational work of mankind is "Xue Ji" from the ancient Long Kingdom - it is only more than two thousand years ago.

According to archaeological discoveries, whips and sticks appeared much earlier than education...

A world where individual strength is respected and there is no powerful violence to punish misconduct - such a world would be strangely beautiful!
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For lunch, Chen Yan ordered a pizza. He then took out a cell phone and handed it to Gu Qingyi. He had bought the cell phone on the way to buy memorial tablets and candles.

There is also a mobile phone card in my own name.

He connected his phone to the wireless network at home and taught Gu Qingyi how to use the food delivery app.

The payment for the food delivery app was linked to Chen Yan's own payment app account. He turned off facial recognition and other things and told Gu Qingyi the password...

Chen Yan was confident that, in this way, even if he occasionally went out for a whole day, his stepmother would not be so hungry that she would have to eat instant noodles.

It is said that Chen Yan used to like eating instant noodles, but after experiencing the seven-day catastrophe and eating instant noodles for seven days, he now feels that instant noodles are the most evil food in the world!
"I'm going out this afternoon and may not be back for dinner. If you're hungry, just order takeout." After Chen Yan and Gu Qingyi finished their instructions, he downloaded a WeChat registration number on his phone - the number of the new SIM card that Chen Yan had just opened.

"You can use this to talk to me anytime. I'm the only friend in your friend list. If you need me, you can send me a message. You can input text by handwriting, or send a voice message by speaking... You can also make voice calls here..."

Gu Qingyi wasn't stupid. Someone who had reached the Heavenly Man Realm before turning twenty was definitely smarter than most people in this world. In a matter of moments, she had grasped what Chen Yan was teaching her.

Then, Chen Yan went out.

He planned to go to the Extreme Internet Cafe in University Town to find the owner today.

I have used such a big trick on Uncle Qing, and a day has passed since then, which is enough for that guy to feel intimidated.

Today, he planned to find the boss's wife and then take her to meet Luo Qing again.

This time Chen Yan plans to show up in person... He was hesitant before.

Now... I have a stepmother at home who is at the celestial realm.

What are you afraid of!

What Chen Yan didn't know was that as soon as he walked out the door, Gu Qingyi called Gui Geng over, gave him some instructions, and then left as well.

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Chen Yan called an online taxi and drove to the roadside of the Extreme Internet Cafe near the university town. Before the car stopped, Chen Yan saw a commercial vehicle on the opposite side of the road had already stopped at the door of the Internet cafe.

Luo Qing, wearing a baseball cap on his head, got out of the car. The bruises on his face seemed not to have disappeared yet, but instead had some dirty scratches?
But then, to Chen Yan's surprise, Luo Qing got out of the car and stood on the side of the road, then politely took four more people from the business car.

The beautiful lady boss and her three vicious brothers!
Chen Yan was stunned and pondered for a moment. He did not get off the car immediately. Instead, he gave the driver an extra ten yuan tip when paying the fare and asked the driver to stop by the roadside and not leave.

Across the street, Luo Qing was very polite, even respectful and flattering. He smiled and said a few words to the proprietress and her four siblings, then nodded and bowed as he retreated to the car and drove away.

Chen Yan frowned, then pushed the door and got out of the car.

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The boss lady was unlocking the door of the internet cafe when she heard Chen Yan's voice behind her: "Boss lady, are you all back?"

The proprietress turned around and saw Chen Yan walking towards her with a smile. She also had a relaxed smile on her face: "Xiao Yan! Why are you here?"

"I thought your problem was unresolved, so I came to see if there was anything I could do to help."

The proprietress was obviously in a much better mood than the previous two days, and the joy of relief in her eyes could not be hidden.

"Xiaoyan, the matter has been resolved." As she spoke, she had already opened the door: "Come in and sit for a while and have a drink of water."

"Okay." Chen Yan was also curious about how the matter was resolved, and nodded calmly.

The proprietress's three younger brothers greeted Chen Yan indifferently and went upstairs as soon as they entered the door - Chen Yan was not too enthusiastic about these three brothers.

I help the boss lady because of the friendship we had during our four years in college.

The special treatment of free internet access, the free bowl of hot noodles for countless nights - this woman vaguely regarded herself as her dead younger brother.

Chen Yan grew up without parents and grew up with the old lady.

It is conceivable that a child without parents must have suffered a lot of contempt and exclusion from his peers during his childhood and school years, and was once the bottom link in the school discrimination chain - people who have not experienced this really don’t understand the sadness.

Therefore, Chen Yan's personality makes him cherish the kindness given to him voluntarily.

But...this kind of affection only belongs to the proprietress.

Forget about her three younger brothers.

Although these three people are not big villains.

He doesn't commit big evils, but he's always making small mistakes - but he's not a good person after all.

Chen Yan doesn't have a good impression of this kind of person.

Who the hell would like three hooligans who do nothing but fight and brawl all day long?
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Sitting in the Internet cafe, the proprietress handed a can of Coke to Chen Yan. Chen Yan took it calmly, opened it and took a sip, then listened to the proprietress start to talk.

She received a call from Luo Qing early this morning. The other party was very kind and expressed his willingness to reconcile and even to withdraw the case. A letter of apology was not a problem at all.

So the two parties agreed to meet at the police station.

Luo Qing, the victim, took the initiative to withdraw the case, said he would not pursue the matter, and wrote a letter of apology.

The three brothers' case did not reach the level of a criminal offense, and considering that they had been detained for several days after the incident, the police simply closed the case and released them.

The boss's wife had offered to compensate for the medical expenses, but Luo Qing refused it all.

He also enthusiastically and proactively drove the four siblings home.

On the way, the proprietress felt like she was dreaming, and even had a strange thought in her mind:
This guy named Luo Qing suddenly became so easy to talk to and let his brother go, not even asking for a penny of compensation, and still so enthusiastic?
Could it be that he has some intention towards me?

So on the road and in the car, the proprietress was careful to remain silent and tried to talk to Luo Qing as little as possible.

Chen Yan thought for a moment, wondering if Luo Qing might have been frightened by what he had done, and figured it out on his own. In order to identify the person responsible for his recent crime, he shifted his suspicions to the boss lady's three younger brothers and took the initiative to settle the matter peacefully?
This is indeed a possibility, but it was beyond Chen Yan's expectation that Luo Qing could guess it was the proprietress's three younger brothers.

But it’s okay, I don’t have to show up, which saves some effort.

After getting the answer he wanted, Chen Yan stood up and said goodbye. The proprietress happily saw Chen Yan to the door.

Chen Yan didn't say anything else to warn the boss lady to discipline her brother and not to cause trouble again - Chen Yan would never say such words.

He was only twenty-two years old, and the boss lady's three younger brothers were all older than him.

How can I say such pedantic words to discipline others? It's just annoying.

After settling this matter, Chen Yan planned to go home early - he didn't know whether Gu Xiaoniang had ordered takeout.

However, before he could get a car, he received another call.

"Teacher Chen," Mr. Fang said gravely, "I have something I'd like to discuss with you. Is it convenient for you?"

"Mr. Fang, please speak." Chen Yan was very polite because of the New Year gift yesterday and the big dinner in the evening.

"Well, regarding the previous house repair project, I felt that the previous repairs were not strong enough, so I want to renovate it on a larger scale!"

what?
Chen Yan was stunned.

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[Can I get some tickets?]

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(End of this chapter)