Chapter 431 – It Will Only Be Overcast for Two or Three Days (1/2)
Chapter 431 - It Will Only Be Overcast for Two or Three Days
Translated by: Hypersheep325
Edited by: Michyrr
A year had already passed. The Orthodox Academy had not taken in any new students, but it had still been given new life. It was no longer that graveyard of the past. The inside of the academy was still cold and cheerless, but the outside had long since been placed under heavy guard. The priests of the Li Palace stood guard in Hundred Flowers Lane, not even leaving during the late night. It was simply impossible for any of the common folk to approach. However, when the priests saw that youth in the wheelchair, their eyes filled with vigilance and loathing, yet it was impossible for them to take action. The Tianhai clan possessed special status in the Great Zhou Dynasty. In addition, they did not act because Tianhai Ya'er was already a cripple.
Using the Divine Empress's words, it was best for the actions of the people of the Orthodoxy to be deliberately mystifying. Those people of the Orthodoxy were concerned with justification and being honorable. It was very difficult for them to make the first move against this crippled youth. Apart from all this, there was still one other reason. It was that beside Tianhai Ya'er, there was one more person. That person seemed about thirty years old and had a tall and slender body. His face was gloomy and cold and his body exuded an extremely powerful Qi.
In the drizzle, Tianhai Ya'er's sharp and resentful curses rang out without end, but that person kept his silence, not speaking a single word. He only calmly watched the tightly shut school gate, thinking about something or the other.
The new gate of the Orthodox Academy was pushed open from within. Chen Changsheng stood at the top of the stone steps. The first thing he noticed upon seeing Tianhai Ya'er was that he wasn't holding an umbrella, nor was the person standing by the wheelchair holding an umbrella for him. He looked at that person and guessed that he probably wasn't Tianhai Ya'er's bodyguard, but he didn't know about the person's background.
Chen Changsheng turned his gaze back to Tianhai Ya'er in his wheelchair and said, ”You probably clearly understand just why the elders of your clan asked you to yell curses in front of the Orthodox Academy!”
Tianhai Ya'er's face had been drenched in the rain, making it seem even paler, but his expression was still fierce and arrogant. In addition, because Chen Changsheng had appeared, he became excited.
”Of course I know!” The youth's voice was getting increasingly sharp, even somewhat shrill, like he was crying and laughing at the same time. ”I'm already a piece of trash. It's only natural that this piece of trash is used well! Are you looking for sympathy? Besides, the matter between us is only something between two children, just making trouble! Is His Holiness really going to say in good faith that my Tianhai clan is suppressing the Principal of the Orthodox Academy?”
After a moment of silence, Chen Changsheng replied, ”But I don't understand, what meaning is there in you stirring up this trouble? I can just ignore you.”
Today was not like in the past. The gate to the Orthodox Academy was presently being guarded by a bishop and several dozen priests of the Li Palace, preventing those two from the Tianhai clan from entering. Putting aside the wheelchair-bound Tianhai Ya'er, even if Tianhai Shengxue brought the cavalry from Snowhold Pass to come and fight, they would also find themselves incapable of simply bursting through the gate of the Orthodox Academy as they had done in the past.
Tianhai Ya'er began to laugh, revealing his fine white teeth, looking like some injured cub. His sharp voice once more rang out, ”Didn't you just hear me curse your family to the eighteenth ancestor?”
Chen Changsheng once more fell into silence, then said, ”And then? I have to curse your family to the eighteenth ancestor? I don't intend to do that.”
The ancestors of the Tianhai clan were precisely the Divine Empress's ancestors.
He would not repeat his mistake from last year.
Tianhai Ya'er sneered and said, ”I don't dare to curse Luoluo…Her Highness, but I'm not afraid of you. I'm very interested to see just how long you can endure this.”
”Then continue cursing.” Saying this, Chen Changsheng turned back into the Orthodox Academy and left.
As he was opening the door and listening to Tianhai Ya'er disgracing his parents and ancestors, he really was very angry. He was prepared to disregard any consequences that the Tianhai clan would have, what plots they had concocted. He just wanted to educate this kid for a spell, but when he walked out the door and saw the crippled youth in the wheelchair, he changed his mind.
Tianhai Ya'er was cruel and cold-blooded. He had once been a very terrifying person. Now that he was a cripple, he was still very frightening, but this fear came from the fact that he had no sense of honor, no reverence, no goals to pursue, and now he didn't even have any ambitions. The current was a pool of mud. If Chen Changsheng and the Orthodox Academy did not want to stick their feet into this swamp and from then on be slowed by this swamp, then they could only ignore it, or else use sand and stone to directly fill up this swamp.
Since they couldn't just go and kill Tianhai Ya'er, to do anything else was meaningless. Consequently, there was no need to stand in front of the gate and listen to these words.
As he gazed at Chen Changsheng's back, Tianhai Ya'er froze. He grew even more furious and began to curse without end in his shrill voice, every sort of filthy obscenity and curse spewing out of his mouth in an unending stream.
Chen Changsheng acted like he couldn't even hear. His steps did not get any faster nor did they slow. With a steady pace, he walked back into the academy.
The priests were all incredibly astonished at this scene and were also filled with admiration. They thought to themselves, he truly is worthy of being His Holiness's most cherished junior, worthy of being the youngest Principal of the Orthodox Academy in history.
The man standing next to the wheelchair raised his eyebrows slightly as he watched Chen Changsheng's back, like he was somewhat surprised. But soon after, the surprise transformed into disdain.
Compared to his peers, Chen Changsheng truly was rather mature and steady, or perhaps too excessively calm and quiet. He didn't seem at all like a sixteen-year-old youth.
Xuanyuan Po seemed even older, but in reality, he was only a fourteen-year-old bear youth. As a result, he couldn't understand how Chen Changsheng could stand it. He rather angrily asked, ”That's it?”
Chen Changsheng glanced at him and replied, ”What else is there to do? Kill him?”
Xuanyuan Po seemed to consider the idea and said, ”It's not out of the question.”
Chen Changsheng refuted, ”He is a person of the Tianhai clan. Unless the Li Palace personally issues a decree, no one can do anything. In addition, there's always someone at his side, didn't you see?”
Xuanyuan Po asked, ”Is that person very strong?”
Chen Changsheng said, ”Star Condensation Realm.”
Xuanyuan Po sucked in a breath of cold air. That tall and slender man that seemed only around thirty was actually an expert of the Star Condensation Realm?
”But, we can't just let Tianhai Ya'er keep cursing outside forever, right?”