Chapter 1048 – A Very, Very Deep Place (2/2)
Mo Yu said, ”Many people want to know how the venerable Daoist will deal with your return to the capital.”
Chen Changsheng said, ”I'm waiting to meet him.”
After he departed the capital in the snowstorm, the master and disciple had not met once.
Now that he had returned, a meeting was inevitable.
He was confident that in this meeting, Shang Xingzhou would have to look him straight in the eyes, and could no longer treat him as a stranger.
Mo Yu asked, ”Could it be a meeting in which a single smile dissolves all grudges?”
Chen Changsheng said nothing. He knew what the greatest problem between him and his master was.
It was a knot of the heart incredibly difficult to untie. In the end, besides using a sword to cut it apart, there seemed no better method.
Mo Yu paid no attention to his stance. ”Although everyone, me included, do not understand why you two decided to become enemies, I think that you should prepare for the venerable Daoist to change his stance. When he expresses an intent to make peace, your reaction needs to be faster.”
Chen Changsheng asked, ”You really think that his stance will change?”
”Who knows? With the matter of White Emperor City, both he and the Imperial Court owe you a favor, and perhaps he suddenly gets over it.”
Mo Yu noted, ”In order to exterminate the demons, it wouldn't be surprising for him to do something like that.”
Chen Changsheng knew that the possibility was small, but just as Mo Yu said, everything was possible.
When he thought about how there really might be this slim possibility, he suddenly felt a little hope.
”If it can be this way, then nothing would be better.”
”But if it's only this way, it's far from enough to resolve the problems between you two.”
”I don't understand what you mean.”
”You feel that if the venerable Daoist's stance changes, this story will have a happy ending?”
Mo Yu looked at him and said, ”On the contrary, if it really is this way, it means a tragedy is about to commence.”
Chen Changsheng asked, ”Just what do you want to say?”
Mo Yu asked back, ”Will you take revenge for the Divine Empress?”
Chen Changsheng shook his head. Let alone the fact that this would make the Human race fall into a civil war, even revenge itself had no meaning.
The Divine Empress had saved his life, but he still did not have the right to raise that great banner.
His senior brother had the most right to take revenge for the Divine Empress, but he was the Emperor of the Great Zhou, his master's most beloved and most trusted disciple.
Not even his senior could do anything about that matter, much less him.
”Many people, including those princes, are all watching me, wary of me. They are all afraid that I will take revenge for the Empress.”
Mo Yu looked into his eyes and said, ”But all of you have forgotten. The person that wants to take revenge for the Empress the most is not you, not His Majesty, and it's not me either.”
Chen Changsheng suddenly felt uneasy.
He truly had forgotten.
All the officials and generals had forgotten.
The entire continent had forgotten.
The person who wanted to avenge the Divine Empress the most, who had the most right to avenge her, was that person.
Was Xu Yourong.
The Divine Empress had watched her grow up.
It was not the previous Holy Maiden, but the Divine Empress that had enlightened Xu Yourong as a teacher.
It was not Xu Shiji's wife, but the Divine Empress that was Xu Yourong's true mother.
The Divine Empress was a Phoenix, and Xu Yourong was also a Phoenix.
It was not the Princess of Ping, but Xu Yourong that was the Divine Empress's true daughter.
It was not Yu Ren, but Xu Yourong that was the Divine Empress's true successor.
Mo Yu asked, ”Do you think that she won't take revenge for the Empress?”
Chen Changsheng remained quiet for a very long time before saying, ”She never mentioned these matters.”
”Given her relationship with the Empress, you didn't find it strange that she didn't mention this matter even once for three years?”
Mo Yu stared into his eyes. ”I watched her grow up. I know how frightening her willpower and execution are.”
To not mention or even think about a matter for three years, just how powerful would one's willpower have to be?
If she had a similarly formidable execution, just which step had she reached?
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In the drifting snow and the cutting winter winds, Chen Changsheng picked up Xu Yourong and took her to the Hundred Herb Garden.
Underneath the Yellow Paper Umbrella, they walked to the deepest part of the garden.
There was an ordinary forest there. Once, a stone table and stone chairs had been placed here, but only vacant ground was left.
Xu Yourong silently looked at that place.
The Divine Empress was buried there.
In a very, very deep place.