Chapter 533 – Su Lis Letters (1/2)
Chapter 533 - Su Li's Letters
Translated by: Hypersheep325
Edited by: Michyrr
”I was guessing.” Xu Yourong gazed towards the distant horizon that was muddled with the twilight and snowflakes, her small face revealing a faint sense of longing. ”Since such powerful figures as Teacher and Martial Uncle decided to leave this world, besides a place of legends like the Sacred Light Continent, where would they go?”
Chen Changsheng fell silent, then asked, ”How do you get to the Sacred Light Continent?”
How do you get to Fortune Peace Road? How do you get to the Bridge of Helplessness? How do you get to the Orthodox Academy? How do you get to the Li Palace? Howdo you get to the place that exists only in legends?
This question was truthfully rather preposterous, but his expression was very serious.
Xu Yourong was also very serious. She diligently recalled that conversation the Divine Empress and her teacher had when she was small.
After a very long time, a little unsure, she spoke two words, ”Cloud Grave?”
Chen Changsheng fell silent once more. This silence persisted for much longer than the previous one.
The Cloud Grave was the grave of all the clouds of the world, a most remote region of the continent. The region was bereft of sunlight year-round and was incomparably enigmatic and unknown. But he was very familiar with the Cloud Grave. He knew that without the boundless clouds and mist was an incomparably tall mountain. This mountain pierced through the clouds, its final destination unknown. Because this mountain was in the three hundred li behind Xining Village, he had once gone there. He knew that in the mists and clouds of the wetland encircling the peak were countless fierce monsters, countless dangerous and murderous cultivators, as well as several noble clans of previous dynasties who lived out bitter lives.
Only today did he know that this mountain might be a path to other worlds.
”In the future, can we go to the Sacred Light Continent and look around?” he asked of Xu Yourong.
Even if the legend was real, even if there really was a place on the other side of the sea of stars called the Sacred Light Continent, since no one knew about it, it might be the case that there was simply no one who had been able to successfully break through that spatial barrier and discover that other world. He and Xu Yourong were cultivating geniuses, but they were still far away from the Divine Domain. To them, the Sacred Light Continent was nothing more than an ethereal name and some speculations. Yet he had so seriously sent out his invitation, perhaps several centuries in advance.
At this point, he had long forgotten the fact that it was highly likely that he wouldn't be able to live past twenty.
Xu Yourong smiled and agreed. ”Fine.”
Chen Changsheng thought to himself that it truly was fine.
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Upon returning to the Orthodox Academy and walking into the first floor of the house, he found to his surprise that the door to Zhexiu's room was open and Su Moyu and the rest were all inside.
”What are you guys talking about?” he asked with curiosity as he walked in.
Su Moyu replied, ”Ever since this morning, Tang Tang has been finding people and asking them whether 'love at first sight' is actually something that can happen in this world.”
Tang Thirty-Six looked at Chen Changsheng and bitterly laughed.
Chen Changsheng grew nervous and asked back, ”How did you guys end up randomly talking about this?”
”Who knows, he started acting all strange today.” Feeling somewhat wronged, Xuanyuan Po complained, ”I seriously answered, but all I got from him was a round of curses.”
Standing by the window, Zhexiu suddenly asked, ”Su Li left, but she should still be at Mount Li, right?”
Chen Changsheng was given a scare, believing that his meeting with Xu Yourong had been uncovered. In the next moment, he realized that this was a request for confirmation.
”The news brought by the southern diplomatic mission should not be mistaken.”
As Tang Thirty-Six spoke, he once more shot a glance at Chen Changsheng.
Chen Changsheng ignored him, asking Zhexiu with concern, ”What do you plan to do?”
In the present Orthodox Academy, from its principal and superintendent all the way to its head of housekeeping and academic advisor, all were extremely young, none exceeding the age of twenty. They were all youths and so were naturally most concerned about that beauty and sadness most entrenched in the minds of youths—besides the engagement and battle between Chen Changsheng and Xu Yourong, there was also the story of Zhexiu and Qi Jian.
Zhexiu looked out the window at the snow, a tinge of ferocity flickering across his weather-beaten yet still somewhat young and inexperienced face.
”After I finish with everything in the capital, I'm going to Mount Li to pick her up.”
Chen Changsheng and the rest looked at each other in dismay. They had clearly heard that Zhexiu had not used the word 'see', but the word 'pick'.
They could almost see the countless battles that would take place on Mount Li in the future and those speckles of wolf blood.
This was Zhexiu looking for death, but the problem was that there was as of yet no one in this world that could prevent from seeking his death.
Tang Thirty-Six did not want Zhexiu to descend into madness. Sending a signal to Su Moyu with his eyes, he asked, ”What do you need to do in the capital?”
Su Moyu tacitly understood, thinking, regardless of how he responds, we should talk up the difficulty of the matter. Only this way can we delay from sending off Zhexiu to his death at Mount Li.
”I want to kill Zhou Tong.” Zhexiu turned and looked at them all with an emotionless expression.
The room was very quiet.
Tang Thirty-Six said nothing for a while, then finally stated, ”Then let's just break it up for now. In any case, this isn't something that can be resolved in just eight or ten years.”
Not long after they all dispersed, he came to Chen Changsheng's room and, without the slightest concern for his body caked with mud and snow, impolitely sat on that bed so clean that it was hard to even find a hair. He then pointed at Chen Changsheng and said with almost absolute certainty, ”There is no such thing in the world as love at first sight.”