Chapter 1008 – A Conversation with the World, a Negotiation with Oneself (1/2)
Chapter 1008 – A Conversation with the World, a Negotiation with Oneself
Translated by: Hypersheep325
Edited by: Michyrr
Silence.
The wind rustled the pear tree.
The answer had been made known.
Luoluo lowered her head even more.
Chen Changsheng said nothing for a very long time. Finally, he said, ”If Empress is willing, I can act like none of this ever happened.”
Madam Mu asked, ”And what comes after the word 'willing'?”
Chen Changsheng stated, ”Our two races are comrades-in-arms. We share a common enemy.”
Madam Mu gave a forced smile. ”You are speaking of that person?”
Chen Changsheng affirmed, ”Correct. The Demon Lord should still be in White Emperor City, along with those two strangers.”
He was issuing an invitation.
He was inviting Madam Mu to join him in killing someone.
He did not want to kill an ordinary person, but the sovereign of the continent's north, a mighty existence that was like darkness incarnate.
As for the two strangers from the distant continent, they were even more unfathomable existences.
Madam Mu was quiet for a while, then asked, ”If I accept Your Holiness's invitation, what would happen next?”
Chen Changsheng answered, ”Nothing.”
Luoluo could not understand this conversation between her teacher and her mother.
Madam Mu naturally understood.
Chen Changsheng's meaning was loud and clear. If she accepted this invitation, he would no longer pay any mind to that black cliff.
Whether the White Emperor could live or die, could escape from his jail, would no longer have anything to do with him.
A mocking smile appeared on Madam Mu's lips.
”You've finally matured.”
She looked at Chen Changsheng and asked, ”Are you not afraid of turning into the appearance you most loathed?”
Chen Changsheng recalled his conversations with Tang Thirty-Six by the lake and river, recalled those golden koi sinking into the mud. He was silent for a very long time, then said, ”At certain important moments, one has to learn what to choose and what to give up.”
Madam Mu commented, ”I believe that this is the greatest sign of maturity, of decay.”
Chen Changsheng sank into another period of silent thought.
He recalled those two who had just taken leave of this world, Bie Yanghong and Wuqiong Bi.
He thought of those ten-some rebellious princes entering the capital, the Tianhai Divine Empress standing on top of the Mausoleum of Books, and a sea of lotuses in front of the Divine Path, speckled with many red flowers.
”You're right. I shouldn't be thinking this way.”
The moment he said these words, he felt his entire body lighten up. Even his sea of consciousness became much clearer.
Madam Mu arched her brows. She had not expected him to so quickly change his mind.
Just a moment ago, he had been pondering tactics and strategy, compromise and sacrifice, and now he was casting these all out of his mind.
In the view of many people, such fickle conduct was more appropriate for a child or a woman.
Chen Changsheng was not one of these.
He was just climbing an extremely steep and lonely mountain, and in his long and silent sojourn, he felt somewhat lonely and tired.
So he turned to take a glance at the world behind him.
”Then I will bid farewell here.”
Chen Changsheng said to Madam Mu, ”Empress is correct. These words should be said after I meet His Majesty the White Emperor.”
With a slightly chilly expression, Madam Mu declared, ”His Majesty will not see you.”
Chen Changsheng pondered this, then asked, ”Perhaps because it is already impossible for him to see me?”
Madam Mu looked at his eyes and asked, ”If things really are as you think and he already is dead, what will you do?”
Luoluo raised her head at these words, her face even paler than the white blossoms dropping from the tree branches.
”The news that you are imprisoning a Black Frost Dragon will be spread as quickly as possible along the two shores of the Red River.”
Chen Changsheng added, ”I will then announce that you are colluding with the demons and have become an enemy of the Orthodoxy.”
Madam Mu faintly smiled. ”Do you think I will care about such things?”