Chapter 840 (1/2)

Published at 25th of March 2019 09:20:08 AM

Chapter 840

Dressed in a long robe made of silk, the prosperous-looking priest raised his hand slightly to cover his nose, obviously not used to the unpleasant odor of the dirty water coming from the alley .

Ye Su asked, ”Do I need permission to teach at Linkang City?”

The priest replied, ”If you want to teach the children manual skills, no one will stop you . But apparently, every day, at the end of your lesson, you will share with them a piece of doctrine from the G.o.d, Haotian?

Ye Su replied, ”Yes, you are right . ”

The priest looked at Ye Su and chastised him in a stern voice, ”Anyone who shares the teachings of the G.o.ds but is not a priest is committing an unforgivable sin . ”

Ye Su thought about it, placed his rice bowl on the windowsill and said, ”If you think that I have sinned, I will not deny it . ”

The priest looked at Ye Su's calm expression and felt really humiliated . He thought that he would see Ye Su sniveling and being penitent and was ready to a.s.sume the role of a savior with much pleasure . So, he became furious, grabbed a whip from his bodyguard and proceeded to unleash his whip on Ye Su .

No one dared to stop him . Regardless of how much the children who held their rice bowls loved their teacher, at this moment, they could only stand at one side, trembling . That was because the priest represented the will of Haotian, the supreme G.o.d .

Ning Que stood amongst the crowd, looking down at how the lowly priest punished Ye Su for such a minor offense and naturally, found it ridiculous . He thought what Ye Su had done was akin to courting death .

Yet when the whip cracked down on Ye Su, he had no reaction . He lowered his head while standing in front of the dilapidated house, as if waiting for the lash to leave a b.l.o.o.d.y imprint on his face .

Ning Que just recalled, during the battle of Verdant Canyon, Ye Su was defeated by Second Brother in a sword fight, lost his cultivation and became a normal person . Perhaps, even a useless one . He was no longer the proud, sword-yielding Taoist pract.i.tioner walking the earth .

The Ye Su now, could not avoid this whipping so naturally, he could not avoid the barrage of lashes thereafter . Once a talented Taoist martial artist, he would perhaps die at this mediocre person's hands .

Ning Que did not prepare to help because he had no reason to .

He felt that for a talented martial artist like Ye Su to die in such a pathetic way, it was quite regrettable . But he did not want to reveal his own whereabouts . When he saw a blind man with a sword amongst the crowd, he knew such a regrettable act would not happen .

The whip broke into pieces, inch by inch, in the middle of the grimy air and landed in the muddy water in front of the dilapidated house . The priest looked at the whip handle in his right hand perplexingly, wondering what had happened .

And then, all five fingers on his right hand were sliced off and the whip handle fell onto the floor . Fresh blood gushed from the exposed cross section of the eerily white bones, signifying five white flags that announced the priest's surrender .

The priest's face became ashen white, looking at his right hand with blood trickling down, he was in so much pain that his body shook uncontrollably . Yet he bit down on his lips and refused to cry out in pain .

He was not a particularly devout or determined person but he was able to bear the pain because like Ning Que, he too had spotted the blind swordsman .

From the moment he set eyes on the blind swordsman, the priest knew why his whip and his fingers had been cut . And he also knew that if he wanted to keep his head, he had to bear with the pain .

The Xi Ling Temple had a respectable status outside of the Tang Dynasty . The n.o.bles did not even dare offend their lower level priests . However, there was a place in the South where even those from the temple must be careful and respectful because the lower level priests were looked down upon .

That place is the Sword Garret .

The priest did not dare to stay in front of the house any longer . Together with his bodyguards that amounted to more than ten, he bowed his head as he walked along the street . When he pa.s.sed by the blind swordsman, he wished he could bury his head further into his trousers .

According to hearsay, the King of the South Dynasty died at the hands of this blind swordsman . He felt that his life was not any more precious than his bodyguards .

Liu Yiqing walked to the front of the house and respectfully greeted Ye Su as a junior . Even though he had achieved a high status and Ye Su was just a normal person whose Snow Mountain and Ocean of Qi had been abandoned, Yiqing was still respectful towards him .

”Teacher would like you to come back to the cabinet and meditate?” Liu Yiqing gently said, ”You are so brilliant, why do you hide? Teacher knows that there will always be those ignorant and arrogant people making fools of themselves . ”

Ye Su saw the smiling blind swordsman in front of him . This was the third time that the Sword Garret had sent someone for him; he also knew what Liu Bai meant by those words .

Having failed to learn the ways of Taoism as well as his studies, the situation had changed subtly . Having stayed hidden for many years, the Taoist monastery was no longer a place people revered and paid respects to .

He looked at Liu Yiqing and said, ”I am only an ordinary person; those people who have their eyes on me can't go too far . If that is the case, there's no need to care . ”

Liu Yiqing asked doubtfully, ”Mister, how can you be sure this living is safe?”

Ye Su replied, ”The people living here are all ordinary people . I too wish to live like them . If I cannot do so, it means that it is Haotian's will . Please give my regards to Teacher . ”

Liu Yiqing knew that it would not be that easy to convince him and shook his head helplessly . He knew in his heart that his state had been destroyed, and although it seemed that he had resigned to fate, Ye Su would always be Ye Su .