Chapter 513 – All Things Indescribable (2/2)

The gauze in front of Xu Yourong's lightly swayed in the wind. She was nodding in greeting.

Chen Changsheng nodded his head to return the greeting, thinking, now what should I say? But in the next moment, he realized that over the past few days and this moment, he had been overthinking things.

The young woman in the snow clearly had no intention of talking. She just quietly stood there.

The two banks of the Luo River were both deathly still.

There was only the gentle sound of the river waters flowing around the great ship.

He could almost even hear the sound of snow falling.

Everyone else thought the same as Chen Changsheng, believing that he should say something. They all wanted to hear just what he and Xu Yourong would say before their battle.

To the important figures of the Imperial Court and the Li Palace, this match on the Bridge of Helplessness held a great significance. The common folk of the capital were also aware of this, but they didn't care too much. Who would inherit the Divine Empress's authority, who would be the next Pope…neither of these had much to do with the lives of the common people. When the coup of the Hundred Herb Garden occurred, after the bloody incident of the Orthodox Academy, the capital was still the capital.

What they were all concerned about was the gratitude and resentment, the love and hatred, between these two participants of the battle.

Chen Changsheng and Xu Yourong were engaged, or perhaps as was rumored, the Pope had forcefully annulled the engagement. However, this fact had no bearing on their attention.

The two were originally fiancé and fiancée, and should be husband and wife.

Speaking of this matter made people sigh regretfully. Last autumn, because of this engagement, the people of the capital had even besieged the Orthodox Academy and cursed Chen Changsheng like he was a dog, even inventing curses just for him. Yet now, after merely a year, the people of the capital had changed their position. They hoped that this marriage could succeed. This was because, in their view, Chen Changsheng was already a complete match for Xu Yourong, and he was a person of Zhou—Xu Yourong marrying Qiushan Jun was much worse than marrying him.

What these people on the two banks of the Luo River were thinking of, what they were waiting for, Chen Changsheng and Xu Yourong did not know, nor would they probably care.

They just calmly stared at each other through the wind and snow, saying nothing to each other.

For a very long time, nobody spoke.

Right until the end, he and she did not speak.

The deathly stillness of the Bridge of Helplessness ultimately was not broken, only awakened through an action.

Xu Yourong reached out her hand to grasp a sword.

The sword she used was naturally no ordinary sword, but a renowned sword.

The temple sword of Holy Maiden Peak, after several centuries, had finally returned to the hands of the current Holy Maiden.

The hand grasping the sword was very white, even paler than the snow.

Chen Changsheng did not notice this point. He only gazed at her eyes, but he found that no matter what he did, his and her eyes could never meet.

The gauze hanging from the curtained hat was apparently rather strange.

Xu Yourong drew the temple sword from the sheath.

A sword cry rose up from the Bridge of Helplessness and drifted down the Luo River.

Ripples began to form on the calm surface of the water, and then they transformed into mighty waves that incessantly slammed against the bow of the ship and the two river banks.

Simultaneously, countless great waves began to rise up in Chen Changsheng's sea of consciousness.