Chapter 289: Which Path to Choose? (2/2)

His voice soft, the old , and the ko of Sunset Gazing Throughout the process, you will be able to choose from many paths As for which path you choose… that is your decision If in the end you are able to perfor, then that will name us Master and apprentice No one will ever be able to sever that bond! I will accept no gifts in beco I need to accept” He reached down and softly tousled Meng Hao’s hair His s Hao to his feet

Meng Hao still didn’t really understand As he stood, he looked at his master, and could feel the kindness and love within hiaze, he could also feel a warmth deep inside of his and autu Hao was now nineteen years old In the past seven years, he spentthe cool breeze and the white clouds, gazing up at thefrom many books, he finally understood what it meant to respect Master and venerate the Dao He also understood that the world was a very large place

During the seven years, his father had aged quite a bit Master had grown even older Peach Blossom’s popularity in the bordello waned Eventually, sos from another county paid her debts and took her as a concubine

Before she left, she ca like a little brother She spoke soot into a sedan chair and left Eastern Ereerow up to beco Hao, however, no longer called himself a bully He didn't wear fancy, expensive clothes, but instead, a sireenness of his youth However, in just the saer carried the frivolity it used to, but instead, calaze off into the sky, even though he didn’t really know exactly what it was he was looking at

He liked the wind and the rain He liked to stand in the pavilion and look at the lightning off in the distance, and hear the thunder When the rain fell down onto the earth outside, he liked to open up a book and read about how life had changed throughout the ages

Everything was like a drea Hao didn’t feel like he had changed ed quite a bit

As he watched his Master continue to grow older, he often thought of bringing up the subject of the Roa He wanted to climb mountains, travel to distant lands, to see the realities of the world

But in the end, he looked at the city, his father, and Master, and instead

A year Another year… soon, sevenauturound, floating in the wind to return to the earth, his father fell sick One night, a violet wind blew, and his father passed away

Meng Hao stood in front of his father’s grave, a blank look in his eyes He vaguely reo, his father had held him in his arms and taken him to meet Master In the blink of an eye, fourteen years had passed Meng Hao stood there silently, sipping from a pot of alcohol

Finally he turned and left He found Master, and told hi It was the only drea in his heart for years

Before he left, Meng Hao kneeled before Master and koed a second ti

Master watched early oneHao shouldered his scholar’s pack and walked off into the distance, fra Hao looked over his shoulder By that tier visible Later, he looked over his shoulder a second ti couldn’t be seen

He was thoughtful for aHe looked forward once again, and continued to walk off into the distance He did not look over his shoulder a third tihty river and encountered a ferryends of the river Supposedly, an I Hao had read, he had occasionally come across the title Immortal He decided to live next to the river Unfortunately, in the three years that he did, he never saw an Immortal What did see, however, was his own inverted reflection in the river waters, a different hi cultivation in the mountains, and some place called the East Pill Division of the Violet Fate Sect, where he concocted…

It seemed as if all he had to do was jump into the water, and he could become that other person, and this life would be over

By the ti Hao enty nine years old In the end, he did not jump into the water Instead, he left the river and travelled far off to another place

A year later, in the depths of a seely endless forest, on a blustery and nearlyin the air There was also an abandoned to forest was pitch black, and Meng Hao was a bit scared A moment later, he found himself surrounded by countless shadowy for incantation popped into hisaround hi then, he was very curious about this dark, mysterious forest He continued to travel about in it, sleeping in thickets when necessary He sawa variety of fantastic fierce and wild beasts

It took three years to travel through the forest When he eed, he looked back, and an absent that if he wished, he could stay and become a part of the forest

In a place like this, a person could become one with Heaven and Earth, and transcend the azed at the forest, he thought back to Master’s words froo There are many paths in life, as to which path he would choose… that was his decision to make

“This place is not the path I wish to tread” Lost in thought, Meng Hao turned and walked off into the distance

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This chapter was sponsored by Darren Chen