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Chapter 1191 - Chapter 1191 Chapter 485 The Storm Is About to Come

Chapter 1191: Chapter 485: The Storm Is About to Come Chapter 1191: Chapter 485: The Storm Is About to Come “`

Nothing in this world is eternal and unchanging. The only constant is change itself.

It is the same with love. Every love story begins with bravery and sweetness, as two people cast off all restraints to follow the guidance of their innermost feelings, believing that true love can conquer all.

But if the progression of things were as straightforward as belief, why then would there be so much pettiness and scandal, the woeful songs of lovelorn men and lamenting women?

Is it not because people’s hearts change too rapidly?

When I said I loved you, it was a sincere expression from the heart, but when I say I don’t love you, I can decisively turn around and leave.

Can you say you were deceived? No, it is just a change.

How long does it take to fall out of love?

Perhaps it only takes an instant, just as Tang Luo was recalling when he fell in love with Yun Xiu.

Was it the stirring female voice in the underground passage; or the warm smile in the cold winter, as she told him he had entered the wrong room while pushing a wheelchair?

Or was it when in the barren hills, she constructed a small hut and turned it into a warm and cozy home?

Tang Luo couldn’t pinpoint the definitive moment, but he understood one thing–that he was growing fonder of Yun Xiu by the day, more than his aspiration to dominate the world.

As a martial artist pursuing ultimate freedom, Tang Luo always believed that he would not be bound by family. It was like the time he joked with Elder Xu Ying.

Why bother about beautiful women? If you are strong enough, just take them; as for the arts of the bedroom, it’s irrelevant, for he could make them come to him of their own volition.

For a long time, that was Tang Luo’s attitude towards women. Not because he was a chauvinist, but because women in the martial world had long been accustomed to being appendages to men.

It was rare to see them possess an independent soul or even an independent personality, which made Tang Luo feel they were no different from dolls. And how much respect can a powerful person have for a doll, even if it’s exceedingly beautiful?

But after meeting Yun Xiu, many things changed. The biggest change was that after being with her, he rarely considered his own perspective when thinking about the future.

Instead, he thought about moving forward based on the two of them as one, even though they were not officially together yet, Tang Luo had already included Yun Xiu in the blueprint of his future life.

He had seen enough tragedies of reality defeating love and was tired of excuses like love and career cannot be had at the same time.

Why do people always regret missing out on the best things after a tragedy, then extravagantly wish that time could turn back, allowing them to make up for past regrets?

Why doesn’t anyone try their best to handle things properly as they arise?

A person who doesn’t live well once will not do any better even if time turned back tenfold.

Because life will always have regrets. When you pour your energy into your career, you will miss out on many worthwhile people, and similarly, when you focus on your family, you may neglect your own future.

Is there a way to perfectly resolve this contradiction? Actually, there is. It is to lay down a solid career foundation before starting a family.

To have a base that can support not just one person in the future, but the entire family, so you won’t have to face the difficult choice between career and family and can handle both with ease.

From the age of three to twenty-one, a full eighteen years of relentless cultivation has given Tang Luo an exceedingly solid martial foundation. From a certain perspective, aside from the legacy of the King Realm, everything else serves a very limited reference for his path as a warrior.

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Because he had used the extreme speed of cultivation made possible by the star seeds, he had blazed a trail unmatched by the ancients or any who would come after, and on this lonely path, only he himself could fumble forward.

Compared to other martial artists who would exchange insights and validate their martial arts, maybe pondering alone would yield him even greater rewards.

If it hadn’t been for the matter of his engagement, he might still be in seclusion on Aran Mountain now, only seeking fortune after reaching the limit of the Fierce Realm.

But when have plans ever remained unchanged? Tang Luo ran away from his marriage and, after several near-death experiences, finally met Yun Xiu, which perhaps was the predestined fate written in the stars.

What he needed to do was not to mess up this fateful opportunity!

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In September of the year 1786 of the Longzhou Calendar,

The reconstruction work of Chaochang City was in full swing, not just the rebuilding of dozens of houses within the inner city, but also the Sky Council had ordered craftsmen to redo the entire water system in the central district.

Overnight, the value of Chaochang’s craftsmen skyrocketed, with endless work every day. Even farmers who had finished the autumn harvest sought apprenticeships with craftsmen, hoping to learn some skills.

This is a common ailment of commercial cities, where people are restless and eager to follow the trend at the sight of others benefitting, wishing to achieve instant success.

However, most of the time, such methods of work result in laborers doing odd jobs for others without the capacity to take the lead.

Yet those embroiled in the thick of it only see that any handyman could now earn a handsome daily wage and naturally overlook this most superficial principle of doing business.

Just like in the South Street Market, where many clerks have quit their jobs to assist craftsmen or even some shop owners with flagging business have closed up shop to work for others.

As a result, the stores in the South Street Market have become even more concentrated, with some stall owners who stuck with their original trades making a killing. Even some originally average businesses became rich from the increase in manpower and labor, their profits almost too copious to handle.

In such a noisy and bustling environment, who could notice that among these craftsmen, some were formation masters?

They hid Formation Stakes inside wooden toolboxes, crawled into sewers to work on water system modifications with the craftsmen, and only when alone did they take out the Formation Stakes and meticulously arrange them according to the formation diagrams before returning as if nothing had happened to the craftsmen’s ranks.

Not to mention outsiders, even the apprentices working together didn’t realize such entities had infiltrated the craftsmen’s teams.

It was during such covert operations that the Cold Moon Spirit Concealment Array, originally set beneath the Xiang Residence, was gradually moved towards the south of the city.

“How much longer will it take to move the whole array to South City?”

Xiang Family’s clan head, Xiang Ange, asked the formation master who came to report.

“Reporting to the clan head, given the current progress, to move the entire array to South City, I’m afraid it won’t be until next spring,”

the formation master replied apprehensively.

“Still that long?”

Xiang Ange frowned and asked, “Isn’t there a way to move the array within this year?”

“Reporting to the clan head, the progress now is already the outcome of the residence’s formation masters exerting their utmost effort. These underground waterways are inherently complex, and although it’s a stabilized Minor Spiritual Realm, the rules of Spiritual Power here are somewhat different. Being able to complete by next spring is already the most optimistic estimate.”