Chapter 449 (1/2)

Chapter 449: Summertime Languidness

Tang Xiaotang walked along the lake bank to the wooden stack .

After being teased by Sangsang, Ning Que found himself as embarra.s.sed as Chen Pipi, and therefore urged her to keep Tang Xiaotang company .

So only three people remained under the lakeside willow .

Chen Pipi looked at the disappearing figure of Tang Xiaotang, and shouted ruefully, ”Are you mad at me for this?”

Without turning around, Tang Xiaotang answered him with a crisp voice which then echoed above the water .

”I got mad because a glimpse of her could make you run away . I am not afraid of her . But you, a man who has reached the Knowing Destiny State, are so scared of her . Shame on you . ”

The little girl, who had been fighting with Snowfield Direwolves and the monsters in the Hot Sea since childhood, had an optimistic fighting spirit shown everywhere from her shoes to her black swaying pigtail behind . It was so hard for her to understand Chen Pipi's fear .

Chen Pipi looked down to see his toes but could only see a bulging belly . He could not help but feel upset . After a long silence, he murmured, ”I always had higher cultivation levels than her since childhood, but I could never defeat her in a real battle . ”

Ning Que looked at him with sympathy, and asked, ”Don't you know she is here with me?”

Taking a glance at Ye Hongyu under a willow, Chen Pipi said peevishly, ”I would not be here if I knew . ”

Ning Que asked puzzledly, ”Didn't Senior Brother tell you?”

Chen Pipi shook his head .

Ning Que said sympathetically, ”What a bunch of bad guys . ”

Ye Hongyu left the willow and walked towards them .

And Chen Pipi turned around and walked towards that willow .

The two brushed past, and Ye Hongyu asked with a little smile, ”Don't you want a chat with your old friend?”

Without looking back, Chen Pipi waved his hand and said, ”Maybe later, later . ”

Ning Que remarked, ”It seems that he is really too scared of you . He didn't even dare to

make his favorite shameless pun before you . ”

Ye Hongyu did not care about that shameless guy at all .

What she was concerned about had nothing to do with Chen Pipi, or his relations.h.i.+p with Tang Xiaotang . She said coldly, ”I did not expect the Academy would take in a sinner from the Devil's Doctrine . ”

Ning Que was not surprised at her response . After all, she had wholeheartedly devoted herself to Taoism . He smiled and asked, ”Why not?”

There was some arrogance in his words .

Facing the woman, Ning Que was definitely not powerful enough to be arrogant, but in the recent six months, he had known about the Youngest Uncle's joining the Devil and experienced his teacher and Senior Brothers' disregard of his own joining . He had understood the Academy's att.i.tude and known it was powerful enough to be arrogant .

Ye Hongyu said indifferently, ”Since the Academy is involved, my opinion does not matter at all . But have you all ever thought about the consequences if this matter is known?”

Ning Que said, ”So what? As long as the Academy denies it, who can prove it? Does the West-Hill Divine Palace dare to search the back of the mountain?”

”Haotian has countless devout believers who do not need evidence . One word from the Divine Hall would be enough for them . ”

Ye Hongyu continued, ”The Headmaster may not care about the West-Hill Divine Palace, but the inquiries and wrath of countless believers are troublesome . He cannot just kill them all . ”

”If the Divine Hall really convinces the world that the Academy has kept a sinner from the Devil's Doctrine, then the war that you mentioned yesterday will come earlier, which is certainly not what the Divine Hall wants to see . ”

Looking at her beautiful eyes, Ning Que suddenly realized something, and he said, ”Since the teacher and Senior Brothers had let Chen Pipi bring Tang Xiaotang here, they never tried to hide it from you . Instead, they want you to know it and pretend to know nothing . ”

”I do not know how to pretend . I just know . ”

”Since you are loyal to Haotian Taoism, you should know what is the best for the Haotian Taoism as well as the Academy . ”

Ye Hongyu looked down at the bluestone seams and the blue mud . After a long silence, she said, ”You are right . ”

Then she looked up at Ning Que, and said, ”Then what happened to her and the fatty?”

Staring at the little girl at the center of the lake and the stout man who was running after the girl while telling jokes, his heart softened, and he said, ”Please also forget this . ”

Ye Hongyu stood beside him . The interesting scene did not seem to amuse her . A look of seriousness appeared on her face and was gradually getting colder .

”If you know where he comes from, then you should have realized how many people would die once the Haotian Taoism finds out about it . ”

A messy fight between two powerhouses of a new generation was avoided along the Yanming Lake . Chen Pipi and Tang Xiaotang returned to the Academy at dusk and did not meet Ye Hongyu again .

After dinner, Ye Hongyu politely thanked Sangsang and gave her compliments . And then she entered her room with a dry robe in hand .

”It seems that she did not live very well during the past six months in the West-Hill Divine Palace . ”