Chapter 859 – Its Pitch-Black on That Side (1/2)

Chapter 859 – It's Pitch-Black on That Side

Translated by: Hypersheep325

Edited by: Michyrr

”I have an aunt that was raised in that nunnery. Grandfather wanted to leave a path of retreat for the Tang clan, or perhaps he wanted to ensure her safety, so he didn't dare let anyone know. But when I was small, he liked to put me on his knees and tell me many stories. This story was one of them, but he thought that I was too young back then. He had no idea that I remembered it all.”

Tang Thirty-Six looked at the estate across the river, appearing somewhat in a trance as he talked.

Chen Changsheng glanced at him and asked, ”Just how old were you then?”

Tang Thirty-Six replied, ”About one year old.”

Chen Changsheng replied, ”You were actually able to remember something from when you were that young?”

Tang Thirty-Six answered, ”Perhaps I developed fast.”

Chen Changsheng sighed, ”This is a little bit too fast.”

”Who am I? I happen to be a genius.”

This was quite the amusing joke, but neither Chen Changsheng nor Tang Thirty-Six laughed.

After a while, Tang Thirty-Six continued, ”I don't know who the Old Master had that daughter with, but in his entire life, he has probably only loved that woman, so the person he truly dotes on is that daughter. It's precisely because he dotes on her that I know that the Old Master will not let her become clan head, and I also don't fear. So I was willing to reveal this matter. Yeah, you're right, I just wanted to use that woman in Chicken Crow Nunnery to threaten Grandfather.”

Chen Changsheng didn't know what to say.

Tang Thirty-Six glanced at him and asked, ”Do you think that I'm cruel and callous?”

”Daoist Baishi is dead… It was on my order.”

Chen Changsheng suddenly brought up this seemingly unrelated matter, his gaze dropping down to the dark waters of the river.

Yesterday, the Tang clan's Fivekind Man and Chusu had engaged in pitched battle here. Poisonous blood had sprayed everywhere, polluting both banks with a foul and toxic Qi.

The Tang clan had already begun to clean up, but still many fish had died.

Both he and Tang Thirty-Six had excellent eyesight. Even in this gloomy environment, they could still see those dead fish in the rotten and dark mud of the river.

In the Orthodox Academy, Tang Thirty-Six had told him to not sink into the mud, but what about now?

Chen Changsheng commented, ”Do you think that we've become those people that we used to loathe the most?”

Tang Thirty-Six replied, ”If we can change something by becoming them, then it's also fine.”

Chen Changsheng asked, ”For example?”

Tang Thirty-Six pointed at the opposite shore. ”If you hadn't acted that way, the darkness on that side would have fallen behind us.”

The river separated the estates of the chief branch and the second branch. No lights could be seen on the opposite shore, all consumed by a somewhat sinister pitch-black.

From yesterday until now, many people had died in the second branch.

Just like Tang Thirty-Six had said, if they had been the ones to lose, this tragic end would have been the chief branch's to bear.

Tang Thirty-Six said, ”Thank you.”

Chen Changsheng answered, ”You're welcome.”

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