Chapter 569 – Wanderer (1/2)
Chapter 569 - Wanderer
Translated by: Hypersheep325
Edited by: Michyrr
Who had lived and who had died? Upon hearing the middle-aged scholar's words, the tourist-like man fell silent, gazing at the distant mountains to calm his mind. As he gazed at the sea of clouds, he gave off the feeling of one weathered by the trials of time. He indifferently spoke, ”Sir and His Majesty are not like him, so logically, you should not have appeared here.”
The middle-aged scholar did not directly answer his question, instead saying, ”Seeing that you've appeared, We finally have confirmed that this is not a plot.”
The man asked, ”For what reason?”
The middle-aged scholar explained, ”If this were a plot planned by you, today, We really might have had some trouble, at least more trouble than now.”
The man replied, ”Not necessarily. Since he has always been at Your Majesty's side, how could he not see through one of my plans?”
The scholar shook his head. ”He did not agree with Our decision to come, so this time, We came on Our own.”
The man was somewhat surprised, asking, ”Your Majesty has always followed his advice. Why not this time?”
The middle-aged scholar turned to gaze at the mountains across from the cliff. After a moment of silence, he replied, ”Our time is running out.”
The man agreed, ”Your Majesty's time truly is running out.”
When the middle-aged scholar spoke of time, he was clearly speaking of time on a much grander scale. When this man spoke of time, on the other hand, he was pointing out that the Heavenstone array of Mount Han had already been activated. If the scholar did not quickly depart, he really might end up surrounded by the supreme experts of the human world.
”You plan to delay Us for some time?” The middle-aged scholar did not turn his head. His voice was still apathetic, still confident and tyrannical.
The man indicated that his elderly companion should stand behind him. Then, gazing at the scholar's back, he said, ”In these past few years, I've paid no attention to the affairs of the world, and both you and little Tianhai are too lazy to send people to kill me. I very much enjoy this life and have no intentions of changing it.”
The middle-aged scholar turned to him and said, ”You and he are both people that this emperor would wish to get rid of as quickly as possible. For you to survive to this day is because you are smart enough. Of course, you are strong enough as well. If either We or Tianhai wished to kill you, the two of us would inevitably find it rather troublesome.”
The man replied, ”Yes, in a little while, Tianhai and Yin will come over and you will be in trouble.”
The scholar apathetically replied, ”They will not come over. At most, only trash like Zhu Luo will come.”
The man suddenly glanced at Chen Changsheng and asked, ”Why does Your Majesty want to kill this youth?”
The middle-aged scholar continued to stare at the man as he spoke, ”When We act, must We explain it to you? You are certainly not a Chen Emperor.”
The man chuckled, saying, ”Back then, I got used to asking His Majesty for justification. Today, I got used to asking Your Majesty for reasons, please do not take offense.”
In these words and in this entire conversation, the word 'Majesty' had been mentioned many times, but they weren't speaking of the same Majesty.
The middle-aged scholar jeered, ”No wonder your Chen Emperor never liked you.”
The man replied, ”All these are stale and trivial matters of the past—what need is there to keep bringing them up? Your Majesty, your time is truly running out.”
The middle-aged scholar calmly looked at him and asked, ”You wish to preserve this youth's life?”
The man affirmed, ”Correct.”
With an apathetic expression, the scholar asked, ”In exchange for what?”
”Of course…it's Your Majesty's time. Your time is your life,” the man pointed out.
The scholar replied, ”A thousand years ago, you went to all the trouble of leading cavalry over ten thousand li of snowy plains for the sole purpose of killing Us…today's opportunity is much better than the one from back then. We do not understand why you're willing to give it up, just for this unremarkable little fellow?”
”If he really is some unremarkable little fellow, what need is there for Your Majesty to make a special trip to kill him? Although I don't know the reason, I can at least be sure that he's very important to humanity.”
The man continued, ”Your Majesty's life is naturally even more important than his, but the problem is, I'm not that Sir on the mountain peak that calculates fate, I don't believe that using this life to exchange for Your Majesty's life is a correct choice. In reality, it's always been impossible to place a value on this thing called life.”
The scholar replied, ”Although these words are absurd, they're also reasonable.”
How could the absurd be reasonable? The average person wouldn't be able to understand, like Chen Changsheng or that elder timidly hiding behind the man, but the two people in this conversation understood.
They were both outstanding figures that had lived for ages, so their way of doing things was naturally out of the norm. Unexpectedly, the scholar turned without the slightest hesitation and departed without any care whatsoever. His departing Xuelao City to Mount Han had been such an important, such a risky, action, and to have to return without any sort of benefit, how difficult to accept such a thing would be.
Because no matter how hard it was to accept, one still had to accept what had already happened.
The middle-aged scholar knew that the man had spoken correctly. Everything this man had said and done his entire life seemed to have been done correctly.
So he chose to leave.
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Watching the scholar's figure disappear into the dark mists and hearing the rumbling crashes of thunder fading into the distance, only after a very long time did the tourist-like man confirm that the scholar was far away and would not return. He softly sighed, seeming very sorrowful.
”Can he break through the Heavenstone array of Mount Han?”
The old man that had been hiding behind him all this time finally dared to stand up. Still somewhat overcome by fear, he asked, ”If he can't break it, might he come back?”