Chapter 1167: 1167
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Zhang Yuchen kicked them away, and before Han Sen could even ask what was going on, the door was slammed in their faces .
"Tiger, what's going on? Is there a grudge between the two?" Han Sen asked Cheng Hu .
Tiger was his nickname . It wasn't because of his name, but because he practiced a hyper geno art called Killer Tiger . It borrowed the momentum of a tiger, so in battle, he could pounce upon foes with the ferocity of a great cat .
Cheng Hu sighed and said, "It's a long story, but the reason Brother Zhang has been down here for so long is all because of Qiu Ping . "
"We're all humans and in this together, aren't we? Why would Qiu Ping make things harder for someone else?" Han Sen asked, frowning .
Cheng Hu gave a wry smile, saying, "You can't exactly blame Qiu Ping and call him the bad guy, as much as you can say Brother Zhang didn't do anything wrong here . For them to both spawn here was a big mistake . "
Cheng Hu told their story to Han Sen, and Han Sen sighed after hearing it all .
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They both spawned in the same shelter in the previous sanctuary . And when they spawned again in Immortal Shelter, they became even closer . It was like fate, for them to remain together .
They were closer than brothers, to start off with .
Qiu Ping was a surpasser with maxed out sacred-geno points . He even had hyper geno arts that were far stronger than Zhang Yuchen's, but neither of them minded this . They always worked together and they always worked hard .
Zhang Yuchen knew he wasn't as strong as Qiu Ping, so he worked extra hard to keep up . But woe befell their relationship, and it was torn into tatters by a woman who came between them .
It was a female spirit . Men have needs, and in this place that was especially true, given the fact that there were no women .
Spirits were different than humans, and spirits merely cherished the companionship of someone who could talk to them . Qiu Ping met a female spirit while he was working, and they both swiftly fell in love .
But one day, when Qiu Ping returned home, he saw Zhang Yuchen naked .
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The spirit was struggling beneath him, and when Qiu Ping appeared, she called out for his help . She claimed he had been doing awful things to her, and that Zhang Yuchen thought such actions were fine because he told her she was "just a spirit . "
But Zhang Yuchen claimed he never did such a thing or said such evil words . He told Qiu Ping she was framing him, and so Zhang Yuchen killed her .
Since then, with the truth of the matter obscured, they had been enemies . And when the female spirit respawned, she returned to see Qiu Ping . She claimed he could not protect her, and she broke up with him .
Han Sen frowned and said, "This must have been going on for many years . And it still is?"
Cheng Hu replied, "No one can say for sure what really happened . Qiu Ping is very powerful amongst the circle of this shelter's top humans . He proclaims that any who seek to help Brother Zhang will be considered his enemy . Brother Zhang does not wish to burden people with this, so he tries not to associate himself with others too closely . It really has been going on for years . "
Zhang Yuchen's fitness was low, but he had been there for twenty years and should have at least amassed a large sum of ordinary points by now . Han Sen knew there had to be a reason why he did not want to level up .
"Did you just say Qiu Ping has returned?" Han Sen double-checked .
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Cheng Hu quietly said, "Yes . He broke up with the spirit, but she has been helping him a lot . He is much stronger than the other humans who are here, so he took a job upstairs and never came down . But now, he says he is coming back down to put the business with Brother Zhang to bed . Permanently . "
"He's going to end all this? How?" Han Sen frowned .
"I don't know . What I do know is that he has opened eight gene locks . If he seeks to kill Brother Zhang, he'll be able to do so easily," Cheng Hu .
"What is the level of this spirit?" Han Sen asked .
"All I know is that the spirit is a servant of a king spirit . The only reason why Qiu Ping was able to sign a contract with the king spirit and manage to open eight gene locks was through her help . Royal spirits are usually the highest level that humans can sign contracts with, so Qiu Ping must really trust her," Cheng Hu said .
Han Sen thought there must be something wrong with that spirit . It may have been a knight-class spirit or something . But servants such as that could not help Qiu Ping as much as Cheng Hu was telling him she had .
If she was a high-level spirit, their relationship was akin to the poor farmhand being with the kingdom's princess . It was like a twisted fairytale, wrought of strange and rare circumstances . It was even weirder, to acknowledge they were both of a different species .
They were both talking near Brother Zhang's house, and suddenly, Cheng Hu looked shocked . He moved and pulled Han Sen into the alley with him .
"What is it?" Han Sen saw a middle-aged man approaching, clad in armor .
"That is Qiu Ping!" Cheng Hu said .
Han Sen watched Qiu Ping march directly into the house .
"Zhang Yuchen, get out . I have received an Immortal Order . We need to end this today," Qiu Ping coldly said .
"What's an Immortal Order?" Han Sen asked .
Cheng Hu answered, "Immortal Emperor forbids killing of your own volition . Murder must be sanctioned, or come through an order directly from Immortal Emperor . By joining the Immortal Army, though, you may murder as you see fit . I cannot believe he has finally received it . "
Cheng Hu stopped talking after that, but Han Sen got the idea .