Chapter 469 (1/2)

Chapter 469: Another Insight

Ning Que was telling the truth . He had indeed taken Sangsang to the House of Red Sleeves except he did not stay with Dewdrop, nor peek at those new girls, but went straight to the top floor and entered Mistress Jian's room . He rolled up his sleeves, starting to enjoy the mutton giblets soup .

The soup was served in an earthen pot with delicate instruments . There were dozens of snacks matching the hot air, creating a pleasant atmosphere evoking the spirit of the Winter Solstice Festival .

Ning Que took a piece of lamb tripe and dipped it into the garlic sauce, putting it into his mouth and chewed with a sip of Nine-river double-distilled wine . He frowned immediately like he was in a great trouble .

Mistress Jian took the towel from Xiaocao, wiped the sweat and said, ”So here are the words from the Empress, she wants you to do nothing today . For that, she would give you anything you want and of course, she apologized again for Xia Hou . ”

Ning Que pointed at his frown and said, ”But I can't get rid of the frown . I just can't . ”

”It's the wine . You should not drink the spirits since you are not a good drinker like Sangsang . ”

The meaning of her words was profound . After a long silence, she continued with a gentle voice, ”Endurance is a form of wisdom . ”

Ning Que nodded and said, ”I understand . ”

Mistress Jian smiled and lamented, ”Before you came here, I was really worried that you would make the same choice as that guy did . ”

According to his brothers at the Academy, Mistress Jian should be the sister-in-law of the Youngest Uncle . That was why she might be the only person in the world who dared to call him like this .

”I don't have his power”, he smiled and said, ”If I did, I wouldn't need to endure . Since I have entered the world, I will definitely challenge Xia Hou to show my teacher's power as well as the Youngest Uncle's reputation . ”

Mistress Jian slightly frowned and said, ”You entered the world for insight, not for killing . ”

Ning Que said, ”But killing can also be insightful . ”

After finis.h.i.+ng his words, Ning Que was totally drunk from the wine or from the fact that he could not break the net woven by the powerhouses in Chang'an . Maybe he wanted to escape from something deep in his mind .

As usual, once he got drunk at the House of Red Sleeves, he slept in Dewdrop's room . Fortunately the bed did not smell like the foot of his teacher Yan Se . It was comfortable and aromatic .

Sangsang sat on the bed beside him and put a wet towel on his forehead . She knew that Ning Que was not drunk and told Dewdrop he did not need any hangover remedies .

Ning Que did not dream . He did not see the remote darkness, the three shades of the coldest black dust nor the endless light of the sky . He just immersed his mind deep in the sense of perception, reaching the bottom and feeling those pieces of consciousness .

These pieces were collected during his fight with Lotus last year at the Front Gate of the Devil's Doctrine . Master Lotus put the consciousness in Ning Que's sense of perception by force . Since then, Ning Que had tried to understand them, but he still hadn't come up with anything specific .

But he knew these pieces of consciousness were very important to him at least . Because in the northern Hulan Sea, they helped him escape from Xia Hou's fatal attack . The pieces seemed to know his enemy's every move .

Lying on the bed, Ning Que sensed something hard on his belt . It was the Academy's ID token among others .

These tokens seemed to give him some mental comfort, making the consciousness fragments clearer . He was unable to fully understand their in-depth meaning due to the state gap, but he knew they would help him in the fight with Xia Hou .

At the bank of Yanming Lake, Ye Hongyu once said, ”Once you enter the Knowing Destiny State, you become a Grand Cultivator . You can sense the slightest changes Heaven and Earth's Qi . Therefore, no matter what your enemy wants to do, it will always be within your experience and sense . That is the scariest thing about the Knowing Destiny State . ”

Now Ning Que was at the upper state of Seethrough . The gap when confronting Knowing Destiny State cultivators in fighting consciousness was hopelessly huge .

However, Lotus had left many pieces of consciousness in his sense of perception .

The Great Divine Priest of West-Hill, the bigwig at the Front Gate of the Buddhism Sect . The man who had reached the Knowing Destiny State; if it wasn't for some enigmatic reasons that made him unwilling to take the step, he would have surpa.s.sed the Five States and become a legend .

How powerful could the consciousness that Master Lotus left behind be?

Ning Que had no idea . He could only know it in a fight .

After waking up, Ning Que was refreshed . His body and mentality were at the best state of his life . He then left the House of Red Sleeves with Sangsang .

The snow began to fall heavily, whitening the whole city . The two took the big black umbrella and walked in this white snow world like a drop of ink .