Chapter 109 – Reunion (2/2)
“Ah.”
She let out a single sound, threw away the brush and charged towards Chen Chang Sheng, her white gown leaving behind after-images from the speed, with the space around her letting out sounds of after-shocks; a shocking momentum.
Tang Thirty-Six sharpened his attention, his face suddenly changed and immediately pushed Xuan Yuan Po aside before quickly dodging, only leaving Chen Chang Sheng in his original position.
In the blink of an eye, Luo Luo had charged from the window to Chen Chang Sheng’s location, it was at this moment, that she suddenly thought of something: if she didn’t slow down, her tutor was about to become the first victim in history to die under a hug; her little face immediately drained of colour.
She uttered another sound, but this was one made in the midst of exerting great effort.
The young lady stomped a foot upon the ground, creating a single explosive bang, before a web of cracks surfaced on the solid ground beneath her. A horrifying wave of energy spread out, seemingly causing the entire palace to shudder, with dust rising up all over.
A blanket of silence followed, with vague sounds of alarmed clergymen outside of the residence coming through.
Calm eventually returned.
The dust eventually settled, with the view returning to clarity, only the bamboo were slightly stained by the event.
Chen Chang Shen and Luo Luo stood across from each other.
She was wearing a rimless hat (imagine a beret), and had small braids; due to the previous speed, the braids had begun to unravel, her black hair resembled a mass of weeds, stuck under her hat, the overexertion of her True Essence caused her small face to flush up in red, a rather cute scene.
Time passed by.
“Greetings to Sir.”
She decorously performed a formal student greeting to her tutor by bowing down, without a single mistake possible in her movements.
She was the same little thing as her time at the school.
Chen Chang Sheng extended his hand and patted her head.
Luo Luo gave out a frivolous sound of joy before standing straight, rubbing her head against his palm.
Chen Chang Sheng extended his arm and rubbed away dirt that had gotten on her face.
Luo Luo laughed out in delight before casting herself into his arms, planting her small face into his chest and rubbing her face clean.
Xuan Yuan Po was used to seeing this scene, but was still unused to this scene, yet he knew he should remain silent.
Tang Thirty-Six however, had never seen this scene before and had a massive gape between his lips.
His admiration of Chen Chang Sheng was akin to a surging tide, akin to never-ending streams.
He also started to worry for Chen Chang Sheng; how was he going to handle this future?
From outside of the small residence, Official Li had an unpleasant look on her face. From the moment Luo Luo jumped into Chen Chang Sheng’s arms, her hand, which was on the entrance door had started to shiver.
Jin Yu Lu only laughed, without uttering a single word.
Official Li turned towards the fencing, motioning for him to follow.
Jin Yu Lu glanced at the doorway, only seeing that fingerprints had been left behind, the print was very deep and clear-cut.
This was the Pope’s Green Leaf World, the material of the palace was incredibly hard, for her to leave behind such strong imprints was proof enough that she was on the verge of exploding.
“It was with much difficulty that we finally managed to take away Her Highness, so why did you have to bring that person here?”
Official Li look at him with worry and continued: “This really, really, cannot continue.”
Jin Yu Lu laughed, “It’s fine, they’re good children.”
This was already the apex of the palace, the deepest location of the clouds.
In the farthermost part of the residence, was Luo Luo bedroom, the door side had some saplings growing, but it wasn’t possible to make out what plants they were, outside the window, clouds drifted by.
Luo Luo sat beside the window, looking at the sheet in front of her, the ink had dried, but it was evidently very fresh; it should have been written the night before; thinking of how much her tutor cared about her, she felt slightly giddy, neglecting to pay attention to the contents of the sheet before her.
“Concentrate.”
Chen Chang Sheng was the same as always, he was close to Luo Luo in age and still a youth, therefore he didn’t have any attitude that would be more fitting for an elder, or paid any attention to the strict conduct of a teacher. But on the subject of cultivation, he was always fastidious, sometimes even severe.
Upon thinking more closely, this was the first time the two had met since the night after the Ivy League gathering.
He now knew that Luo Luo was the sole daughter of the White Emperor, but his attitude towards her was still the same as before.
Luo Luo was very happy with her tutor being like this, and with a single sound of acknowledgement, she began to seriously read the sheet before her.
After an indeterminate period of time, she finished reading the paper before her in its entirety and lifted her gaze towards Chen Chang Sheng, preparing to listen to his lecture.
“In the school library, I found a total of 400 plus books concerning cultivators that had failed to break through to the Ethereal Opening realm, within that, 332 people died, while the rest either committed suicide after turning insane, or became fully paralysed, suffering a fate worse than death; the risk is exceptionally high. I don’t have any real way of aiding you in this matter, so all I can do is to summarise precedents for you, we may not know how to successfully break into the next realm, but at the very least we can know what mistakes were committed by our forebears. According to my findings, failure can be broadly classified into 3 categories and 97 types…”
Chen Chang Sheng moved to her side before pointing at the words on the paper before her, earnestly explaining while doing so. Luo Luo earnestly listened, occasionally nodding her head.
With the faint rays of daylight shining in, white clouds calmly drifting by the window and greenery lightly swaying outside, it was akin to them once again being back at the school campus.