Chapter 230 – Tonight, the Stars Are Brilliant (2/2)
In the next moment, they were all shocked beyond compare as they realized that Chen Changsheng had disappeared from his place in front of the monolith hut.
Like a cool breeze, like a strand of starlight, without a noise, coming and going unhindered.
Chen Changsheng had vanished from the Reflecting Monolith. Momentarily, he appeared before the Cloud Piercing Monolith.
He paused at the Cloud Piercing Monolith for only an instant before his body once again disappeared, appearing before the Bent Osmanthus Monolith.
Soon after, he appeared at the River Guiding Monolith, then the Fowl Language Monolith, and then the East Pavilion Monolith.
For only an instant, he appeared before each of the monoliths of the front mausoleum, then vanished just as quickly, finally arriving before that broken monolith.
His eyes were still shut, oblivious to everything. He simply did not know what was happening.
Tonight, a strange phenomena occurred in the sky.
To the naked eye, it seemed that the many stars in the sky did not get any brighter, but many people knew otherwise. A little later, even the common people were able to realize this amazing fact.
If one star got a little brighter, it would be very hard to tell, but if all the tens of thousands of stars of the entire southeast region simultaneously became slightly brighter, what sort of scene would that produce?
The starlight illuminated the Mausoleum of Books, and it also illuminated the entire capital.
The streets and alleys in the late night seemed to return to daytime.
The Dew Platform was closest to the night sky, so every detail of it was brightly illuminated. The night pearls at the edge of the platform seemed dim compared to the illuminating starlight.
The Divine Empress stood at the edge of the platform, looking out into the boundless sea of stars. Her expression was somewhat surprised, even dignified.
She did not think that, with his temperament, Chen Changsheng would sit before the monolith hut to comprehend the monoliths once more. She did not think that Chen Changsheng would actually be able to be like that man, deciphering the entire front mausoleum and attracting countless rays of starlight. She still did not believe that Chen Changsheng would be able to do what that man had done so many years ago.
As the present was no longer those days of the past, the Mausoleum of Book was no longer the same mausoleum that it had been in the past.
The starlight spilled through the window and onto the table, causing the memorials that were faintly yellow from the candle light to be bathed in white. The words upon the memorial also became much more distinct.
Mo Yu raised her eyebrows and looked out the window. In surprise she thought, perhaps he really comprehended those Heavenly Tome Monoliths?
South of the city in Bitter Rain Alley, there was a government office. This government office seemed very plain, but in the eyes of the people, it was especially sinister, because this was the office of the Zhou Dynasty’s Ministry of Personnel.
Tonight, the sinister atmosphere of this office was somewhat dispersed by the purifying starlight.
Zhou Tong walked into the courtyard, using his hand to bring the veil of his hat down, so as to block out the radiance of the starlight. He slightly frowned, somewhat displeased.
The words Prince Chen Liu had said to Tianhai Shengxue were incorrect. He had not been waiting outside the mausoleum for Chen Changsheng.
Even if Chen Changsheng had obtained the first rank of the First Banner during the Grand Examination, in Zhou Tong’s eyes, he was still an unremarkable nobody.
Yet now, as he looked up at the night sky filled with brilliant starlight, he finally began to think differently.
In other words, this sky full of starlight left him with no other choice but to put this youth in his focus.
Since the starlight filled the human world, illuminating houses and courtyards alike, it naturally would also illuminate that well near the New North Bridge.
In the past two days, the dirt at the bottom of the well had been freshly dug up. A strand of miserable yet obstinate starlight penetrated into the gloomy world.
The starlight illuminated that red mole on the small girl’s face, yet it was incapable of dispelling the coldness about her.
Luoluo stood beside the railing of the top floor of the Education Palace’s hall, when suddenly she looked up at the sky.
The night here was fake, the stars eternally unmoving, and yet they had no vitality.
She felt something, that Chen Changsheng was, at the moment, doing something extraordinary.
She turned to Jin Yulu and said, “I want to go out.”
After a moment of silence, Jin Yulu replied, “Your Highness cannot help him.”
“Teacher does not need my help.” Luo Luo confidently said, “I want to go to the Orthodox Academy to wait for him and congratulate him.”
The starlight illuminated the Mausoleum of Books, and it also illuminated the capital.
The Li Palace basked in the pure and holy starlight.
Several thousand priests and students from various academies came out to the plaza and the Divine Avenue. They ceaselessly prayed to the stars in the sky with expressions of absolute piety.
In the deepest depths of that hall.
The Pope looked as the starlight that leaked through the cracks of the roof and fell upon the Green Leaf, and on his aged face appeared a loving smile.
Mei Lisha looked outside the hall to view that snow-like starlight, and said with deep emotion, “It’s just like that day.”
The Pope knew that he was speaking of that day that Wang Zhice comprehended the Dao and broke through. On that night, the entire capital had also been bathed in light.
Tonight, the image from that day once again appeared.
This sort of image had not been seen for several hundred years.
Mei Lisha suddenly creased his brow and questioned, “Is this Star Condensation?”
The Pope replied, “No, he is still at Ethereal Opening.”
Mei Lisha asked, “Then why are the stars so bright?”
The Pope thought it over, then said with some hesitation, “Perhaps, he used a Star Condensation method to continue on Ethereal Opening?”