Chapter 277 (2/2)

Ning Que thought that he was using every minute to absorb the human flesh and had no time to hurt them, so he tried to relax and prepare at this moment. He answered, ”Maybe you haven't tempted me enough.”

The old monk frowned a little and asked, ”Doesn't my legacy attract you?”

Ning Que answered, ”I want power but I don't believe you.”

The old monk said, ”I didn't lie to you. I have worked hard for many years to join the G.o.ds by connecting the Tao and the Devil.”

Ning Que froze and said, ”I still need to join the Devil first.”

The old monk looked at him just like a goshawk looking at a chicken, and then he said, ”I told you the Academy was degenerating. Look at you, even the words 'join the Devil' scare you off.”

Ning Que shook his head and said, ”If I had to join the Devil to stay alive, I would like to do that. I will do what I need to. And since temptation has to carry some weight, the temptations that you showed in the Buddha's Magic Sound earlier are not strong enough for me.”

He said that with contempt and disdain.

But Ning Que forgot that now Lotus was not the venerable Bhadanta he was before. Master Lotus quipped. ”Is there anything more attractive than my legacy?”

Ning Que laughed at once. ”I'm a disciple on the Second floor of the Academy and I'm going to take the Headmaster of Academy legacy. Even if I was going to join the Devil, I would learn from my Youngest Uncle. I think that is more attractive.”

When the old monk heard this, he choked. Even though he considered the three sects as the trash, he didn't expect he was at the same level as the Headmaster of Academy. What was more, he was humiliated and hurt by Ke Haoran so badly.

”I haven't met a truly unselfish man in my life and also believe that there is no such thing as a free lunch. So the more merciful you pretended to be, the weirder I felt,” said Ning Que.

”I'm wondering if the stories you told us were true or were they made up to fool us?”

He was curious about the stories because they were about his Youngest Uncle. But it looked so creepy when they were sitting on the ground and talking about old stories together in a crisis of life and death.

The old monk said, ”They were true and I just skipped some important information. To b.l.o.o.d.y Lanke Temple was planning by me. That beautiful dancer was also killed by me and I drank all her blood. She creeped me out that she died with a sweet smile on her pale face. I thought she was asking me why I killed her.”

He looked at Ning Que and said, ”I was so scared when I saw her smile and I could not make that go away, so I had to cut her into pieces and eat her up. That was the first time I ate human flesh.”

Ning Que kept silent for a long time and suddenly asked, ”Who was the dancer?”

The old monk smiled and said, ”I killed her to drive Ke Haoran crazy, so of course, she was his girl.”

Upon hearing this, Ning Que though for a long time and then he asked, ”Did you do this just because you wanted to start a war between the Academy and Divine Hall or for some other reasons?”

The old monk said coldly after a while, ”There's no other reason. But from then on, Ke Haoran saw through this in the end and Wei Guangming began to suspect me for no reason, so I had to leave the Peach Mountain and hid in Devil's Doctrine.”

Listening to his turbid breath, Ning Que knew this old strong master had little vitality after being trapped for so many years by his Youngest Uncle. He planned all of this because he knew he couldn't overcome them directly. What an insidious human-being.

However, when he remembered that this man was capable of starting wars among the three sects all over the world and he put them in such a dangerous situation so easily, he realized that seemed reasonable.

Ning Que looked at the old monk and asked what he cared for the most, ”You can be an honorable bigwig no matter what you choose, Taoism, Buddhism or Devil Sect. Even if you don't choose, you also can be a legend. Why did you choose such a b.l.o.o.d.y and boring way? Why? Why do you want to fight against the entire world?”

”It sounds familiar.” The old monk said slowly, ”Many years ago, Wei Guangming examined himself in this way. He treated the entire world as his enemy because he believed he was right. But I was not like him. I did this because I knew the world was wrong.”

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