Chapter 455 – The Yue Maiden (1/2)
Chapter 455 - The Yue Maiden
Translated by: Hypersheep325
Edited by: Michyrr
After the division of spoils, no, the division of swords had concluded, Zhexiu no longer had any energy or interest in chatting with them, once again closing his eyes. Chen Changsheng once again took his pulse, confirming that his injuries were taking a turn for the better. He relaxed a tiny bit, then realized that there seemed to be a new problem in the meridians. The tempo of the Tide Rush of Blood seemed to be much slower than before. Was this an omen that Zhexiu's true essence was on the verge of exhaustion? Chen Changsheng did not dare to dwell on this possibility. He dimmed the lantern, returned the mountain of swords to his sheath, then indicated that Tang Thirty-Six and Xuanyuan Po should follow him out of the library.
”No problems, right?” Tang Thirty-Six asked.
Chen Changsheng did not directly answer the question, instead asking, ”Zhou Tong, just what sort of person is he?”
This morning after leaving the office of the Department for Purging Officials and seeing Zhexiu's wretched state in the carriage, he had already secretly made a resolution. However, he could also clearly recall the mental pressure and terrifying feeling that Zhou Tong's crimson official's gown had given them as he stood amongst the snowy mantle of crabapple blossoms in that small courtyard. He really wished to know just how long he would have to wait until he could confront this terror head-on.
”Zhou Tong lied, he has no elder sister.”
At noon, the Wenshui Tangs had sent over a report on this.
Tang Thirty-Six continued, ”And he and the Empress didn't meet in front of some prince's mansion, but in the Hundred Herb Garden. Back then, he should still have been at Meditation, but later on, his cultivation grew by leaps and bounds and he very quickly succeeded in entering Star Condensation. It's said that this is because when he obeyed the Empress's decree to raid and exterminate the estates of those princes, he secretly obtained many treasures.”
”And the Divine Empress did not care about this?” Chen Changsheng naturally knew that it was impossible for the Divine Empress to not know of this matter, so he said 'did not care'.
Tang Thirty-Six shook his head, then said, ”Zhou Tong's most powerful technique is called the Great Crimson Gown. It's a sort of mental attack, said to be able to forcefully enter a cultivator's sea of consciousness.”
Chen Changsheng and Xuanyuan Po remembered that sea of blood they saw in the small courtyard, and their bodies once again grew cold. Tang Thirty-Six continued, ”With the Great Crimson Gown, Zhou Tong can very easily shatter our seas of consciousness. Of course, he wouldn't do this, but if we were to go now to take vengeance for Zhexiu, we would assuredly get a small sample of it.”
This was both reminder and warning.
Chen Changsheng was somewhat confused. ”Since he doesn't dare to kill us, why did he have to use his Great Crimson Gown in that small courtyard? To establish dominance?”
”Zhou Tong is a brutal and sinister man, but his ability to scheme is outstanding. It isn't logical for him to do something so meaningless.”
Tang Thirty-Six was also unable to understand why. Suddenly, his straight eyebrows perked up. ”Back then, I felt like he wanted to use that sea of blood to shake our Dao hearts, and then he wanted to see something.”
”What did he want to see?” Xuanyuan Po commented on the side. ”In any case, I'm not afraid. I don't have any secrets.”
Chen Changsheng fell silent, because he had many secrets.
In truth, when he came to the capital from Xining Village, he only had the secret of his body, but as time flowed by, his secrets only increased. They now included the Heavenly Tome Monoliths in the Garden of Zhou, the obsidian coffin in the Mausoleum of Zhou, the Halving Blade Style written on the wall of the coffin, and…that the Garden of Zhou might not have been destroyed, and the path to the Garden of Zhou was within his sheath.
Returning to his residence, he took a bath to calm his body, then he began to calm his mind.
He walked up to his window and gazed up at the ocean of stars in the night sky. He crossed his legs to sit down on the floor, closed his eyes, and began to meditate. He began to do his nightly homework: guiding in starlight for Purification, and then once again attempting to use that illusion of a black monolith to find a path to the Garden of Zhou.
Yet perhaps because he had grown too used to cultivating in the library or because the psychological attack he had suffered in Zhou Prison was too powerful, he found himself in the rare situation where he was slow to steady his mind.
Soon after, an extremely light and serene fragrance floated by his nose. Only then did he realize that the reason he could not calm his mind was not one of those reasons, but that he had a visitor.
Mo Yu floated out of the dark forest of the Orthodox Academy, floating right up to his window, and then floating right on in.
Under the starlight, her beauty seemed unstained by the mundane world.
She performed every one of these actions like they were especially familiar to her, as if she had practiced them countless times before.
Only she had not imagined that tonight, Chen Changsheng would be sitting cross-legged on the floor behind the bed. As a result, when she floated through the window into the building, she landed right in front of Chen Changsheng.
The two were extremely close, their noses practically touching as eyes gazed into eyes.
The scene was somewhat awkward.
Fortunately, Mo Yu smelled of orchids while Chen Changsheng was clean like the sky fresh after a rain. It wasn't so bad that either one of them would get angry.
With a gentle gust of wind, a strand of black hair floated by and landed on Chen Changsheng's face. It was rather ticklish, causing him to crease his brow.
Mo Yu flew onto the bed, her actions truly extremely practiced, as if she had performed this action countless times before.
Chen Changsheng knew of her eccentricity, but up until now, he still couldn't understand it. Of course, he was even less able to accept it.
”You aren't planning to sleep on my bed again, are you?” he asked.
”Is it not okay? In any case, you aren't even on the bed right now.”
Mo Yu seemed very bold and confident, but under the light of the stars, it was faintly possible to see that she was slightly blushing.
Chen Changsheng said somewhat helplessly, ”But I'm here right now, so why did you still come?”
Mo Yu replied, ”You're normally in the library cultivating. I didn’t know that you would get some strange idea in your head today and come back so early.”
Chen Changsheng felt himself be to very guiltless, thinking to himself, blaming me lah?
Then he once again thought of Luoluo, and how there hadn't been many opportunities to see Luoluo recently, much less talk. For some reason, his mood became rather depressed.
Mo Yu saw his expression and asked, ”What's wrong?”