Chapter 575 – A Night like Candied Dates (1/2)
Chapter 575 – A Night like Candied Dates
Translated by: Hypersheep325
Edited by: Michyrr
”In the future, if something really does happen in the capital, what will you do?”
Xu Yourong walked to the window, her two arms wrapped around her chest. As she gazed outside at the stars reflected in the lake, her voice also became much lighter.
Chen Changsheng replied, ”I cultivate the way of following my heart. If matters come, I will naturally move according to my heart.”
Xu Yourong did not turn around. After a moment of silence, she asked, ”And if the one to come was me?”
Chen Changsheng very seriously considered this question but found that he could not imagine such a scene and could not make any sort of conclusion in advance. ”I don't know.”
The Pavilion of Heavenly Secrets had constructed the ten-odd houses with great care, especially the one that Chen Changsheng dwelled in. Opening the window, one would be able to see the lake. In addition, outside the window was a path of wooden planks. If one followed this path, one would reach the shallows of the lake. In the shallow waters under the stars, there were currently several black fish swimming about.
Xu Yourong walked along this path of planks. On the wooden deck at the very end, she took off her shoes and blouse and walked into the limpid and shallow waters.
Those black fish showed no fear of humans. Not only did they not flee in fright, they even surrounded her, slowly swimming around her snow-white feet. It was a very beautiful scene.
As Chen Changsheng looked at her in the water, he felt her back to be somewhat lonely, and then he felt somewhat puzzled. Logically, as she was the Holy Maiden of the south, neither the Elder of Heavenly Secrets nor Mao Qiuyu should have hidden things from her, but all the way until tonight, she had been unable to completely confirm that the middle-aged scholar was the Demon Lord?
Their conversation just now had diluted many emotions and he did not wish for things to develop in this fashion, so he voiced his doubts.
”When the Demon Lord broke through Mount Han's Heavenstone array, the Elder of Heavenly Secrets suffered heavy injuries. He is still not recovered, so I did not meet him.”
”Principal Mao then?”
”He is the Pope's arm, he certainly won't make things too convenient for me.”
In the end, it was still a problem of factions. Chen Changsheng thought that Linghai Zhiwang, as a representative of the Orthodoxy's new faction, had assuredly already defected to the Divine Empress, so why had he not told her?
He had not asked this question, but Xu Yourong knew what he was thinking.
She extended her hand in the water, playing around with those small fish. She seemingly casually replied, ”He and Tianhai Chenwu asked Xiao De to deal with you, which displeases me, so I ignored him.”
Hearing that she was unhappy about that matter, Chen Changsheng became very happy. He also walked down the path of planks to reach the shallows of the lake.
The slightly chilly water slowly rose up and down, the fine and soft silver grains of sand comfortable beneath his feet.
”The Daoist Canon says that the Heaven Lake is formed from hot springs, so why is this water a little cold?”
”The water in the center of the lake is much hotter. I hear that the water where the two hottest springs bubble forth is so hot that it can cook eggs.”
”That sounds very interesting. Do you want to find some time to try it?”
”Just because it can cook eggs?”
”Yeah, it seems very convenient.”
”Do you know how to make rice and cook?”
”I do…didn't you eat it in the Garden of Zhou?”
”Yeah…then I should learn how to cook.”
”The cafeteria of the Orthodox Academy is quite good.”
”The skill of the chefs of Clear Lake Restaurant is naturally extraordinary, but I can't return to the capital from South Stream Temple every day to eat.”
”Did the White Crane come with you this time? Do you want to ask it what it thinks about this?”
”The White Crane has always liked you. If it were to know that you had this sort of idea, it would presumably change its mind.”
”I'm just casually talking.”
”Ah, casually talking, eh?”
”Ah, I'm being serious.”
He and she stood side by side in the lake below the house, gazing at the profuse stars in the night sky, casually chatting until gradually their voices ceased.
They stood quietly for a very long time with no words.
Different from the quiet in the room before, this sort of quiet was beautiful.
Because his arm gently leaned against hers. Occasionally, they would part ever so slightly and then quickly come together again.
Neither knew which was going and which was coming back.
After a long time had passed, probably because they were tired of standing, the two sat down on the wooden deck.
Xu Yourong took a small cloth bag from her sleeve and took something out of it.
Chen Changsheng did not notice. Pointing at a pitch-black stone in the lake, he asked, ”That's a Heavenstone?”
Xu Yourong's voice was somewhat indistinct. ”Yes.”
Chen Changsheng turned to look at her, asking, ”How have you been comprehending those stones?”
He also had stones, stones that were even more important than the Heavenstones of Mount Han, because those stones were Heavenly Tome Monoliths.
His purpose in participating in the Boiling Stone Summit was never to comprehend the Heavenstones and advance in cultivation, but to see her.
Unpredictably, his ten thousand li journey was safe and uneventful, yet after entering Mount Han, he encountered such a major event.
”There's been no progress at the moment, I'm just taking it slowly.”
Xu Yourong's body slightly leaned backwards and she used her hands to prop herself against the deck while her bare feet lightly slapped against the water. She was very cute.
”I'm in a bit of a rush…after meeting the Demon Lord.”
When he thought of those gory scenes on the mountain path, Chen Changsheng's heart throbbed with fear.
Xu Yourong understood his feelings. ”To encounter such an unearthly expert and survive, there will always be some benefit.”
Chen Changsheng softly voiced his agreement, then said, ”I just didn't think that the Demon Lord would be so terrifying, that the distance would be so vast.”
Back in Xunyang City, Zhu Luo's attacks had basically all been blocked by Wang Po.
However, in this confrontation with the Demon Lord, Liu Qing and Xiao De actually didn't even seem close to being able to retaliate.
Xu Yourong replied, ”It's only natural that the Demon Lord be much stronger than Zhu Luo. There's one more important point: Wang Po is much stronger than Liu Qing and Xiao De.”
Chen Changsheng was confused, thinking, Liu Qing is a peak Star Condensation assassin, and Xiao De is the fifth-ranked expert of the Proclamation of Liberation. Although Wang Po is first ranked on the Proclamation of Liberation, how can he be said to be much stronger than them?
”Wang Po is a very extraordinary person—you can't use common sense to understand him,” Xu Yourong seriously explained.
From a rational standpoint, it was impossible for Chen Changsheng to accept the fact that Wang Po was stronger than Liu Qing and Xiao De combined, but he was very willing to accept it from an emotional standpoint.
”Besides the Demon Lord, what other formidable people do the demons have?”