Chapter 644 (1/2)
Chapter 644
On the Peach-Mountain of West Hill, the Divine Hall of Light seemed special .
It had been more than ten years since the Divine Hall of Light did not have a master . However, it still possessed strong hidden power . Those in the hall possessed a belief so firm that the world and priests from other Divine Halls could not imagine .
This was related to the nature of the Divine Hall of Light and the history of Haotian Taoism . For countless years, the Great Divine Priest of Light seemed to be the most special one in Haotian Taoism . This was especially so when it came to Wei Guangming .
The Divine Hall of Light believed that the Light was always right . That was why their belief was so firm . The Great Divine Priest gradually grew to hold more power than Haotian .
Wei Guangming's imprisonment in the You Prison was an unbearable humiliation for the people in the Divine Hall of Light . Furthermore, the West-Hill Hierarch and the other two Divine Halls had spared no effort to suppress and weaken the Divine Hall of Light, which had further infuriated them to the extreme . Why would they believe that the successor chosen by the Divine Priest of Light was the Daughter of Yama?
They firmly believed that Sangsang was the Lady of Light and that the affairs after the incident at Lanke Temple were just a plot by the West-Hill Hierarch and a collusion between Haotian Taoism and the Buddhism Sect to suppress the Divine Hall of Light . They thought that it was an extremely filthy thing .
As such, how could they allow the Lady of Light to be imprisoned or killed? However, they were relatively weak and could only endure it . Then, they would suddenly exert their strength and come from all over the world with the sea, rain, skies and wind . They would sacrifice and bravely go their tragical deaths, using their lives and souls to escort the black horse carriage through the blockades set up by the Buddhism and Taoism sects to the Wilderness successfully .
Ning Que did not have any beliefs, so he found it hard to understand . The belief the Divine Hall of Light had in Wei Guangming and Sangsang was strangely strong . He could not understand this and was extremely shocked by it .
The black horse carriage traveled through the Wilderness .
He looked out of the window at the black mud and melting ice, then said, ”My family and all the villagers in Darkie have all died at your teacher's hands . But I have to admit that your teacher is an impressive person . ”
”A thousand years ago, that Great Divine Priest of Light started the Enlightenment Doctrine . A thousand years later, the Lady of Light became the Daughter of Yama . For the thousand years in between, your teacher was the greatest oddity, or perhaps one could say, traitor, of the West-Hill Divine Palace . Long Qing is nothing compared to him . ”
Ning Que looked at Sangsang and said, ”It is just that I don't understand . Wei Guangming searched for the Son of Yama his entire life . He didn't hesitate to kill and slaughter through any means . But when he died with my master on the nameless mountain, he seemed to have seen through your true ident.i.ty . Then why didn't he say anything?”
Sangsang's ident.i.ty had been revealed at the Lanke Temple . There were many pieces of evidence then . After that, when he mentioned it to Sangsang, she told him what had happened on the mountain on the outskirts of Chang'an back then . When they compared them, they could see that Wei Guangming had known that Sangsang was the Daughter of Yama before he died .
Sangsang shook her head, and said with a lost expression, ”I don't know . ”
Ning Que did not think about it further . He thought of the four priests in red who had self-ignited and the Divine Hall of Light subordinates who had died tragically . He said, with a cold expression, ”The Divine Hall of Light will definitely be ruined this time . I even suspect that this was a plot of the Haotian Taoism . Those bigwigs want to take the opportunity of killing you to force out all the hidden powers of the Divine Hall of Light and then get rid of them . ”
If they could not return to their homeland, where should they go?
Sangsang had once asked Ning Que this question . Back then, Ning Que had said that aside from the Academy mountain's back, the safest place for them was where there was n.o.body .
The most spa.r.s.ely populated place on earth was the Wilderness .
Through the s.p.a.ce tunnel that Buddha had left behind at the Lanke Temple, the two arrived at the Western Wilderness . Then, they went to Yuelun . Ning Que had considered taking the eastern ridges and the path they had eventually chosen to take . But he had never considered heading southward .
Because the south of the Yuelun Kingdom had seemed too quiet .
The powerhouses of the Taoism and Buddhism sects had remained at the eastern and northern borders of Yuelun . However, they did not plant anyone at the southern borders where there was a patch of virgin forest separating the Yuelun Kingdom from the Great River Kingdom and the South Jin Kingdom .
The stillness was odd and frightening to Ning Que .
That was why he was determined to choose heading east and north, but never south . That was because, while there might be countless powerhouses from the two sects in the northeast direction, he could imagine how powerful they were . But in the quiet south, he did not know if it would be the Sword Sage, Liu Bai, or the West-Hill Hierarch Lord waiting for him . What if the abbey dean appeared?
The black horse carriage continued into the depths of the Wilderness .
A few days later, a swamp shrouded by fog appeared before the horse carriage . The sky had darkened, so the foggy swamp seemed extremely quiet and creepy . Ning Que knew that if the view was better, they would see that the swamp extended north and south and one could not see where it ended .
This was the Quagmire .
With such a simple name, it was the largest swamp in the world .
The region in the Wilderness where the Xuankong Temple and the Right King's Palace were was called the Western Wilderness . The Golden Palace was on the east and this swamp was in between . It was just like the Min Mountain, separating the Wilderness in two . If one wanted to head to the Golden Palace, then he would have to cross the swamp .
The black crows circled above the horse carriage and cawed occasionally . They've hung around for so many days, so Ning Que had already gotten used to their presence and was numb to it . Since he could do nothing to them, he only pretended that he could not see them . The crows grew braver and braver, even one or two landed on top of the carriage .