Chapter 205 (1/2)
”Say what?”
Without turning around, the young girl in black hair spoke in a much steadier way. Thus, she looked extremely peaceful in emotion. In other words, no sentiment could be felt from her.
Zhuo Zhihua and Cat Girl had a glance at each other and both felt helpless. Zhuo Zhihua paced a few steps forward and said in a low voice, ”I think the Divine Hall won't be so partial to Yuelun Kingdom if they know Hill Master is here.”
The girl picked up her brush again and silently wrote on the desk. Then she said, ”Now that we are summoned by the edict of the Divine Hall to help Yan Kingdom, it's a natural thing to accept an a.s.signment. How could it be called a kind of partial one?”
Zhuo Zhihua worriedly said, ”That palace is deep in the Wilderness. If we meet some Horse Gangs or guerrillas or some people with malicious intentions when we escort the provisions and fodder, what should we do?”
Raising her brush and dipping some ink, the young girl in black hair gently said, ”So what?”
Accompanying her in the Ink Lake many years, Zhuo Zhihua knew that was her temperament. She was just addicted to books and calligraphy and cared little about most of worldly things, but not cold and unfeeling. However, the students of Black Ink Garden were facing an extremely dangerous situation right now. As the only person who could redeem the situation, she wasn't allowed to keep insusceptible like this.
Zhuo Zhihua, slightly grabbing fists and severely looking at her long black hair, said, ”If Hill Master doesn't speak for us, we may die in the Wilderness. Maybe you could survive, but absolutely I will die and so will Cat Girl. If that, those shameless and insidious people would feel happy and joyful about our death. Yuelun Kingdom, which always wants to bully and oppress the people of our Great River Kingdom, may even celebrate it across the country.”
The young girl in black hair beside the desk put the brush with full ink back to the inkstone. After a short silence, she placed her hands into her sleeves and peacefully said, ”Why would we be dead?”
Listening to her words which was as usual, Zhuo Zhihua became more anxious and said with a helpless smile, ”Because we are unable to rival our enemies.”
The young girl in black hair calmly said, ”If all students of Black Ink Garden improve their states and then become cultivators in Seethrough State, or we have another Grand Cultivator in Knowing Destiny State like our master, who dare be so rude to us, even if we are deep in the Wilderness? Who dare frame us with such absurd tricks?”
Zhuo Zhihua was shocked and didn't know why she said these words at this time.
”The students of Black Ink Garden are not powerful, so we are always bullied by other people and will be afraid of death when facing such kind of situation. If we are strong enough, we won't feel fear and be bullied by others.”
The sound of the young girl in black hair was straight and smooth like a thin ice on the lake surface, without any fluctuations.
”If one wants to become powerful, it's necessary to have the guts to face difficult experiences. Why everyone in the world daren't look down on the Academy of Chang'an? Because even for their common students, they have to take part in the practice in the battlefield and accept the life-or-death test in the most dangerous place.”
”When facing trouble, don't always count on me to speak for you. In the eyes of worldly people and you guys, maybe I have some reputation. However, you don't know that in this world, reputation is the most powerless thing. Strength, just like the brush and ink, is only relative to itself forever.”
Standing beside Zhuo Zhihua, Cat Girl looked at the young girl in black hair and confusedly asked with eyebrows frowning, ”But Senior Sister, your state has been so high, and is it not powerful enough?”
”The top of Seethrough state...it indeed sounds seemingly powerful.”
The young girl in black hair peacefully said, ”w.a.n.g Jinglue of Tang is named Invincible prior to Knowing Destiny; Prince Long Qing is just one step away from Knowing Destiny State; Tao Addict Ye Hongyu, could even make Prince Long Qing fear. Compared with them, is the top of Seethrough state something powerful?”
That three persons were the mightiest figures in the young generation. Her calm and placid mention was not only a warning to her fellows, but also revealed her thought that she naturally had a qualification to compete with these three people.
Listening to the word, Cat Girl stretched her tongue out and said, ”Senior Sister, your a.n.a.lysis is unreasonable. Even if the three persons are high in cultivation state, they are also similar to you. If speaking of those stronger figures...maybe only those Grand Cultivators of Knowing Destiny State. However, those Grand Cultivators are rarely seen in front of us, because they are Great Divine Priests of the Divine Hall or great masters of different sects. Perhaps a common person has no chance to see one of those people for the whole life.”
What the little girl said was indeed right. The Grand Cultivators of Knowing Destiny State was like celestial dragons in the world, which were known but unseen by common people. Sometimes they would appear in the cloud, and then would suddenly hide in deep mountains. So it was very difficult to encounter them.
If the word was heard by Ning Que, he definitely wouldn't agree with it. Those people whom he contacted and consulted every day, like Second Brother who wore a wooden club overhead, Chen Pipi who fought for crab porridge with him, his master who stayed in brothel every day, Chao Xiaoshu who had gone travelling, the Master of Nation, younger brother of emperor, Professor Huang He, not to mention Headmaster of Academy and Eldest brother whom he had not seen until now...
Grand Cultivators of Knowing Destiny State? What was the difference between them and those cabbages seen everywhere in the field?
The young girl in black hair had made up her mind, so other girls of Great River Kingdom only had to keep their many thoughts to themselves and got ready to set off. However, Zhuo Zhihua, standing beside the river lake, unavoidably showed worrying expression, as she looked at the distant and more mysterious and dangerous Wilderness where there were gathering clouds and flying winter snow.
They came from southern continent and had never been to the Wilderness before. They experienced nothing about the food, climate, geography and culture of the Wilderness. Though united army of a.s.sisting Yan sent tour guides to them, yet how could they be reliable? Who wouldn't feel scared when they had to enter a totally unknown world without any a.s.sistance of external force and their own sect?”
Cat Girl, who was still very young, cared less about the thing. She was angry at the unfairness of the Divine Hall and the impudence of Yuelun Kingdom, but she didn't be afraid of entering into the Wilderness. She believed that there wasn't a real danger as long as her Senior Sister was with her, so she still had the mood to remember the Osmanthus Cake of Lotus Store of Chang'an. In addition, she trotted along the river and said goodbye to Ning Que on such a snowy day.
After listening to her about what the students of Black Ink Garden faced, Ning Que kept silent for a while and then smiled at the little red-faced girl. His soft smile was filled with many hidden emotions, such as a kind of self-praise.
Cat Girl looked at him and suddenly said, ”Senior Brother, you smile so horribly.”
Ning Que was shocked and asked, ”I am not gentle, honest, kind and natural?”
Cat Girl laughed with ”GeGe” sound, which went along the river lake and caused several snowflakes fall down.
Ning Que looked at him, trying to make his smile sound more casual and kind. Then he said with an even more casual and kind tone, ”It is such a coincidence that I also need to enter the Wilderness for some affairs.”
With her eyes glistening, Cat Girl looked at him and said, ”Senior Brother also needs to enter the Wilderness?”
”Yes.”
Cat Girl exclaimed with wors.h.i.+p, ”You go alone? You are so excellent!”
”I am familiar with the Wilderness.”
Ning Que, who succeeded in winning the little girl's trust with Osmanthus Cake, slightly smiled. He recalled his experience as a travel guide in the Wilderness last spring. It seemed that this winter he would be a guide again in the returning to the Wilderness.
Ning Que successfully guessed that the young girls of Great River Kingdom might be discriminated and suppressed, but the guessing actually relied more on luck, rather than a.n.a.lysis. He wasn't a celestial in the heaven, so it was impossible that everything went on as he thought.
Cat Girl took him to the camp of Black Ink Garden and told Zhuo Zhihua about the thing. Zhuo Zhihua slightly frowned and confusedly asked Ning Que, ”It seems inconvenient because Senior Brother Zhong is a student of the Academy.”
In most novel stories, when you intended to go somewhere and suddenly encountered someone who happened to have the same route as yours, the person was perhaps an evil guy or a fugitive. As long as you had some life experiences, not like naive and innocent Cat Girl, you would certainly feel that something wrong was hidden behind this kind of coincidence.
Ning Que was a Tang man that Great River Kingdom people liked, and he was a student of the Academy. In addition, the relation between the young girls of Great River Kingdom and Ning Que gradually became close after they gave food to each other these days. What's more, he saved them by attacking a monk from White Tower Temple. Considering these things, Zhuo Zhihua wouldn't like to connect anything evil with Ning Que, so she chose a euphemistic way to refuse him.
Ning Que asked, ”Why inconvenient? You are worried that the Divine Hall would be displeased if they know a Tang man was in?”
Zhuo Zhihua slightly lowered her head, which meant 'Yes'.
Ning Que laughed and said, ”It could be solved if I dress up as a student of Black Ink Garden.”
Looking at the students of Black Ink Garden who were packing up their luggage not far away from him, Ning Que couldn't believe that the Master of Calligrapher would be at ease to send a group of inexperienced young boys and girls to frontier fortress for practice.