Chapter 759 – The Other Side of the Mountains (1/2)

Chapter 759 – The Other Side of the Mountains

Translated by:Hypersheep325

Edited by: Michyrr

In a certain place in the snowy mountain range, a small hole was torn in the heavy darkness by the light of torches.

Tianhai Zhanyi stared at Zhu Ye, his complexion abnormally nasty. Angry and ashamed to the extreme, he asked, ”We're just leaving like this?”

Zhu Ye impassively replied, ”In the Myriad Willows Garden on that day, just who was it that said that person was in the south?”

Tianhai Zhanyi shut up.

On that day, he had been relaying the words of the Prince of Xiang. The words of this powerful and lofty imperial prince represented the thoughts of the Great Zhou Dynasty. The Imperial Court had always believed that Chen Changsheng was hiding in the south—if not in Holy Maiden Peak then in Scholartree Manor. Nobody had anticipated that he was in this mountain range, and that he was also the master of the Cinnabar Pill…

Ning Shiwei turned to Zhu Ye, his gaze relaying a silent question.

”There are too many people.”

Zhu Ye's answer was simple, but contained many unspoken words.

Although they were already very far from the garden, they were still not far enough. They needed to be at least a thousand li away, so Zhu Yu spoke very carefully.

Ning Shiwei and Tianhai Zhanyi both understood.

There were too many people, so they had to leave. If there were fewer people, would tonight have ended differently?

Tianhai Zhanyi grit his teeth and resentfully said, ”Those merchants of the Tang clan are truly treacherous.”

In his view, since the Cinnabar Pill was made by Chen Changsheng and the Wenshui Tangs were in charge of distributing the Cinnabar Pill, the Tang clan was naturally aware of the maker's secret identity, or had at least obtained a few pieces of evidence pointing in that direction. Thus, the Tang Seventeenth Master's forbearance and retreat was naturally because he intended to trick them into getting into direct conflict with Chen Changsheng.

Zhu Ye and Ning Shiwei thought the same.

If they had not so quickly seized the opportunity, had not been so thick-skinned, had not retreated with such resolve, the situation by the lake really might have ended up with irreparable consequences.

This had nothing to do with strength. Of course, Chen Changsheng was extremely talented in cultivation, and the black-clothed girl was probably that rumored being, but even so, they were still not necessarily a match if Zhu Ye's group worked together. Yet how could they dare to offend the Pope in front of so many people?

But were they really just leaving like this?

Zhu Ye suddenly said, ”Tonight reminds me of that storm in Xunyang City a few years ago.”

This was naturally referring to the old matter in which the entire world had attempted to kill Su Li.

The current situation was naturally different, and the positions that Chen Changsheng and Su Li held were also different, but there were still some similarities.

Whether it was Su Li or Chen Changsheng, as long as they appeared in the world, many people would naturally come to kill them.

Even if they couldn't be killed in broad daylight, they could be killed in secret. They couldn't be killed in front of many people, but they could be stealthily killed in private.

They all understood Zhu Ye's meaning.

Leaving was a must, a stance that they needed to display, but in truth, Chen Changsheng would also find it very difficult to leave this snowy mountain range tonight.

What they needed to do now was to spread the news of Chen Changsheng's location as quickly as possible, and simultaneously prepare for an ambush in this gloomy and cold mountain range.

At this moment, the sound of a zither was heard from the dark mountain path in front of them.

This sound was very flat and light. It was like water condensed into snow, snow frozen into ice, and that ice covering the path: cold and dangerous.

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