Chapter 376 (2/2)

Once they left the valley, they were faced with a steep cliff. The rapid water rushed and danced when flowing down from the cliff. And the line of the water cut the blue sky into two halves.

Sangsang held Ning Que's hand tightly. She became speechless when looking at the beautiful scenery.

The end of the dark path was an impressive view.

The wind was howling between the mountains. Standing at the edge of the cliff and watching the waterfall falling down, you couldn't hear any sound. It was as quiet as if the cliff would never end.

Ning Que couldn' t see the abyss. Actually, apart from the sky, he couldn't see anything.

The cliff stretched towards the two ends of the sky. It was as big as the huge desert in the north of the palace in the gra.s.sland.

the gra.s.sland. But this desert was in the sky.

Compared with the endless cliff, the mouth of the valley where they were standing was just a tiny place, and the waterfall was just a thin line. Ning Que looked at the distance and saw several waterfalls hanging down from the cliff, which were all different and special. Together they made a very beautiful scene.

An endless cliff stood against the blue sky, from which thin waterfalls dropped down. They made a huge world, and anyone who stood here would be impressed by this beautiful scenery and no matter how powerful they were, they would always feel that they were so small.

Ning Que walked one step towards the cliff and he looked down with Sangsang's hand in his hand. The cliff was shrouded in fog, with no end visible. No one knew how deep it was.

The several waterfalls dropped from the cliff to the fog and cloud, splas.h.i.+ng circles of clouds up. And then they disappeared. It was so mysterious that it seemed as if there was another world beneath the cloud and fog.

The Back Cliff in the back of the mountain was a beautiful new world.

But the beautiful world would easily make people feel so impressed that they didn't know what to do.

Standing at the edge of the cliff, watching the cloud moving around and seeing the waterfalls dropping into the cloud didn't make Ning Que delighted and felt that he was in heaven. Instead, it made him scared.

Thinking about the road he took, he was sure that this was the west of the mountain, and that was why during the last two years, on the way from Chang'an to the Academy, he had never seen this mountain before.

Although the cliff seemed very steep, there were narrow paths on it. Ning Que looked up and saw the master walking quickly on the cliff, sometimes to the left and sometimes to the right. But no matter how concentrated he was, it was still hard to know which side the master was on.

Holding Sangsang's hand, Ning Que started walking up. They grew up in Min Mountain and were very familiar with climbing cliffs. So when facing this cliff, they were very calm as if they didn't see the steep cliff and the high sky.

Higher on the cliff, less green was seen. At this place, there was no lake or hut, no laughter or music, no pines or meadows. This was a totally different world, only a cliff stood here, facing the sky silently for thousands of years.

At the end of the path, there were a platform meadow and a humble straw hut. At the edge of the cliff was a cave, and the master was sitting on the edge, looking in the distance.

Ning Que walked behind the master and looked in the distance too.

Far away from the clouds, he could even see Chang'an city. At dusk, the golden rays shone on the dark city walls, reflecting a holy l.u.s.ter.

That was the most majestic city in the world, the perfect creation of mankind.

The image of the city at dusk filled Ning Que with some complicated feelings. He was speechless for a long time and then said quietly, ”Chang'an is really beautiful at this time.”

The master said, ”Chang'an is always beautiful.”

Ning Que said, ”The people who built it were really amazing, aren't they?”

The master opened the meal box and took out of two urns full of liquor. He said, ”They are not amazing, the people who are protecting the city are amazing.”

Ning Que was surprised.

The master drank up all the liquor and ate a slice of mutton. He stared at Chang'an in a way that as if he would never become bored with watching it and smiled.

Chang'an was at dusk.

The master was watching the city.

He was watching his own Chang'an City.

Looking at his master, Ning Que felt a complicated feeling. It cleared away all the worry and negative feelings on his mind.

What did it feel like when looking down at the world from the top of the clouds and looking down at the secular world from the supermundane world? Was the master protecting this city, or was he protecting the whole empire, or the whole world?

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