Chapter 612 – The Meaning of sI Want to Leaves (II) (2/2)
”Yes.”
The Black Dragon once more grew furious. Ten-odd li away, her tail struck against the wall, yet before it could land, it was sent flying away by the array implanted in the wall, throwing frost and ice everywhere.
”But…but…”
The Black Dragon gazed at Chen Changsheng, her eyes tinged with anguish. Perhaps because of the array's backlash or because she had seen Chen Changsheng's tragic features, her voice trembled.
”…you still haven't learned Dragon language.”
”I'm sorry.” Chen Changsheng lowered his head and only after a while did he raise it again. Looking at her, he said, ”I might not be able to learn Dragon language for the rest of my life.”
”Then…then…you are forbidden from dying.”
Chen Changsheng said nothing.
The Black Dragon sadly said, ”You haven’t done what you promised, so how can you die?”
”I'm sorry.” Chen Changsheng once more apologized, saying, ”I once promised you that I would find a way to rescue you from here…”
”Yes, yes!” The Black Dragon's eyes suddenly brightened as it continued, ”You still haven't rescued me from here, so how can you die? I cannot permit you to just die like this.”
”Don't worry, I've already thought of a method to rescue you.”
Chen Changsheng laughed, very happily and sincerely. ”On the journey back from Mount Han, I had a lot of time to think and calculate. I've confirmed that we still have to start with the Scroll of Time. In a moment, I'm going to go over to the stone wall and perfect the array to ensure that the Daoist techniques of the Scroll of Time will continue to function for a very long time. But if we're relying solely on the array, it might take a very long time for the power of time to completely eliminate the restriction, so I advise you to begin practicing the Scroll of Time. You might be able to speed up the process by quite a lot.”
He suddenly remembered something and said, ”Right, in Mount Han, I met with Wang Zhice, but because things were too hurried at the time, I forgot to ask him a few things.”
Upon hearing that name, the Black Dragon that was still immersed in the sorrow and anger of Chen Changsheng's coming death could not help but freeze. It asked in a strange tone, ”That swindler is still alive?”
Chen Changsheng replied, ”Although he didn't admit his identity, that should be the case.”
The Black Dragon's voice turned cold, filled with bitter resentment. ”It truly is the case that evil people live forever.”
Chen Changsheng didn't know what to say. If he viewed things from the Black Dragon's standpoint, she had just been a confused and ignorant little girl of the Dragon race at the time. Although she had committed many crimes after coming ashore from the South Sea, being imprisoned for several hundred years was enough to pay for her crimes; what need was there to keep her eternally imprisoned in this underground cavern where the sun never shone? But if one examined the matter through Wang Zhice's standpoint, as a military advisor and protector of the Great Zhou Dynasty, he naturally had the responsibility of protecting the common people of the Great Zhou.
”Chen Changsheng…” The Black Dragon's voice suddenly grew calm.
”Hm?” He was somewhat puzzled.
The Black Dragon's voice echoed incessantly, the cold carrying a faint sorrow.
”…you should not have been a good person.”
”…why?”
”Because good people do not live long.”
Chen Changsheng once more lowered his head towards the frost at his feet. As he recollected that path shrouded in storms and snow that he had walked in these past few years, he fell silent for a very long time.
He had always believed that a person like Wang Po was a good person and that he most certainly was not. He had only acted according to his heart's desire because he cultivated the Dao of following his heart.
It was a pity that life and death followed the dictates of the heavens and would not listen to his heart.
He raised his head towards the Black Dragon, wanting to give a few words of explanation, but realized that the Black Dragon had disappeared!
That body like a mountain range had just vanished like that!
Chen Changsheng was abnormally shocked. He looked all around, wanting to clear up just what had happened.
Then, he saw that a girl had appeared on the snow-covered ground.
This girl was wearing a black dress. She sat in the snow, her dress spread out around her, two thin chains extending from beneath her dress towards the stone wall ten-odd li away.