Chapter 233 – Leaving the Mausoleum (2/2)

Carrying his luggage out, he said to Gou Hanshi, “I trouble you to take care of Tang Tang for me.”

Gou Hanshi said, “That’s no problem. But just to be clear, outside the mausoleum, we are still rivals.”

Chen Changsheng said, “Understood.”

Gou Hanshi added, “Third junior brother and youngest junior brother are also going to the Garden of Zhou. Once inside, I would like you to look after them for me.”

Chen Changsheng asked in confusion. “You just said that we were rivals.”

“Being rivals doesn’t mean we can’t mutually support each other.”

Chen Changsheng thought it over, then said, “That’s reasonable… though I don’t think I have the ability to look after those two.”

Liang Xiaoxiao and Qi Jian were ranked amongst the Divine State’s Seven Laws, the most shocking disciples of the Mount Li Sword Sect sword style. Chen Changsheng felt that even though he was at the upper level of Ethereal Opening, abundant with true essence, because of his damaged meridians, the amount of true essence he could use was rather small. If it was a true battle for life and death, then he might not even be able to defeat his opponent, much less help others.

Gou Hanshi chuckled. “I value your strength in other areas.”

Gou Hanshi saw him off all the way from the grass hut to the stone doors of the mausoleum.

The ground trembled as the stone doors slowly opened.

To those who cultivated the Dao, the Mausoleum of Books was the supreme and only sacred ground. Regardless of who one was, when the time came to leave the mausoleum, one would always feel some reluctance or else some complicated emotion. Yet Chen Changsheng’s expression was very serene. Just like that, he walked through the stone doors very casually, not even sparing a glance behind him.

Gou Hanshi as well as those monolith guardians that had caught wind of the news, upon seeing his scene, could not help but feel that it was a little strange.

It was just like many people had said before, Chen Changsheng’s attitude towards everything was too calm and unflustered, not like a fifteen-year-old teenager at all.

This was because he treasured his time. In addition, he had found the path that he wanted to walk, making him treasure his time even more. He also believed that there would be a day where he would enter the Saint Realm. On that day, he would return to the Mausoleum of Books. Whether he intruded on the Divine Path or walked the same path as this time, there would be no problems. So why would he be reluctant to part? And if that day did not come, then several years later when he returned to the starry sky, what good would any further reluctance do?

After viewing the monoliths for twenty days, especially that period starting from yesterday of viewing the monoliths without sleep, in the end he succeeded in entering the upper level of Ethereal Opening. Besides this, there was one other extremely important reward. He finally understood the last sentence written in Wang Zhice’s notebook—There is no such thing as fate.

Since the stars could move, then naturally there was no such thing as a fixed and unchanging fate. Perhaps his master Daoist Ji had wanted him to enter the Pavilion of Ascending Mist and find Wang Zhice’s notebook so that he could find out about the secret of changing fate used by Emperor Taizu and Emperor Taizong. Only, Daoist Ji could not have imagined that in the Mausoleum of Books, Chen Changsheng would comprehend these things that would cause him to walk a different path.

He had an unprecedented confidence that he could change his fate on his own. He did not need to do it by changing the fates of others.

He had to enter the Concealed Spirit Realm before the age of twenty.

Indeed, no one in the world had ever done this before.

However, who said that he was unable to do it?

In the forest, Mao Qiuyu and the principal of the Star Seizer Academy looked at Chen Changsheng’s figure, their moods complex.

The principal of Star Seizer Academy said, “He should be the youngest cultivator to reach the upper level of Ethereal Opening in history.”

Mao Qiuyu nodded. “He’s earlier than Mo Yu by two years.

After the Grand Examination, Chen Changsheng became one of the youngest cultivators ever to reach Ethereal Opening.

After viewing the monoliths in the Mausoleum of Books, he became the youngest cultivator to reach the upper level of Ethereal Opening. There were no others.

With these two points, he was apparently quite skilled at making what many viewed as impossible possible.

In the quiet and secluded forest, Chen Changsheng saw a youth standing under a tree. He could not help but be a little surprised.

There was someone that had actually left the Mausoleum of Books even earlier than him.