Chapter 854 (1/2)

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at 31st of March 2019 09:35:04 AM

Chapter 854: 854

There was nothing in the world that could be kept as an absolute secret . Instead, oftentimes, the news spread even faster because it was a secret . Just as how Ning Que had imagined, Chang'an had already received relevant information regarding the Light Sacrifice, even before he had found out that Chen Pipi was about to be burned to death .

The Light Sacrifice had not been held for too many years, and so while the back of the Academy's mountain had many books, not much information could be found about it . The people did not understand why the West-Hill Divine Palace would want to use Chen Pipi as an oblation . However, they knew that there were dangerous undercurrents running beneath this matter . Haotian Taoism was using Chen Pipi's life to force the people in the Academy out of Chang'an, and their main target was naturally Ning Que .

The precious and rare materials in various counties of the Tang Empire continued to be sent into the Imperial Palace . The heavy black horse carriage was parked within the palace, and various sources proved that Ning Que was still in the palace and was working with Eldest Brother on fixing the G.o.d-stunning Array . Would he really watch Chen Pipi die?

The people at the back of the mountain naturally knew where Ning Que had gone . However, the distance between both parties was too great . Though they did not know what kind of choice Ning Que would make, they could not continue waiting . And just before Ning Que's letter arrived in Chang'an, someone in the back of the mountain had made a decision without even thinking .

Eldest Brother looked at the young and adorable girl at the front of the hall . He looked at the old leather boots on her feet and the blood-colored huge blade that looked more like a metal rod in her hands . He thought for a moment and said, ”Your teacher is not in Chang'an . I cannot stop you, but you must know what this decision means . ”

Yu Lian had left the Academy and not many knew where she went, but Tang Xiaotang did . She knew that she could not wait for her teacher or her brother to come, and so, she said respectfully and determinedly, ”Uncle, I understand what you mean . But I cannot have a peace of mind if I do not go and see . ”

There were many gravel bits in her boots, and her clothes were coated with dirt . She had been widening the stone steps on the precipice of the back of the mountain in the past six months . No matter whether her teacher was around or not, she would sweat as she squatted on the steep stone steps and use the iron rod in her hand to fight against the tough stones .

To think that back then, in the Wilderness on the snow cliff, her abilities were close to Ye Hongyu's . Now, Ye Hongyu was a Grand Cultivator at the peak of the Knowing Destiny State while her abilities remained at the past standards . This was not because she did not have talent, but because the difference in cultivation between the Devil's Doctrine and Haotian Taoism was large in the first place .

Yu Lian made her jump in the waterfall endlessly and made her endure hards.h.i.+ps . This was the a.s.signment a teacher had for her student, and this was also the polis.h.i.+ng the Grandmaster of the Devil's Doctrine was doing for the younger generation . The years and months of learning and polis.h.i.+ng had strengthened the girl's spirits to one that was unimaginable . However, her cultivation state had not changed because she needed an opportunity to use all that she had learned .

Tang Xiaotang felt as if this was an opportunity for her to raise her cultivation state . She wanted to go to the Peach Mountain and to see Chen Pipi . To do these, she had to face several rounds of dangerous battles . To a cultivator in the Devil's Doctrine, battle was the only means to raise one's abilities . Only a truly horrifying battle could sculpt a truly powerful powerhouse .

She wanted to be the strongest girl in the world, so she had never been afraid of battle . However, when she bade the Academy farewell, she had never thought that even if she became as powerful as Ye Hongyu, she would not be able to barge into the Peach Mountain to save Chen Pipi . And even if she was able to find the true meaning of being a powerhouse through battles, what was waiting for her might not be the shocked glances of those in the cultivation world, but only a cold hard death .

That was all fine . Just as what she had said earlier, what she was looking for, was peace of mind . She was pursuing battle . If she dared not fight, how would she gain peace of mind?

Eldest Brother looked at her . It was as if he were looking at his Third Sister many years back when she had followed their teacher to the Academy . Then, she used to love wearing green dresses and possessed eyes that were mature and so cold they were terrifying . . .

”If anything happens, listen to your Youngest Uncle . ” He instructed .

”I will listen to him if he makes sense, ”Tang Xiaotang said .

She put away the iron rod and flicked off the dust on herself, stomping to get rid of the gravel on her boots . Then, she left Chang'an, heading towards the distant West-Hill Divine Kingdom and the stupid fat boy .

A gust of wind started above the sea, and the waves rose . The cerulean blue sea waters rolled, seeming to be extremely restless . As such, several agitated clouds appeared above the sky above the sea .

An entirely black wooden boat burst out from the waves in the sea . Not a single fisherman at the sh.o.r.e or the coolies at the pier could see where the boat appeared from . They could not help but feel as if the boat had suddenly jumped onto the surface of the sea from the Underworld .

The black boat approached the sh.o.r.e slowly, the women selling water and food continued shouting . The odd feeling they had was not as important as their survival . However, the boat did not reply to them . Moments later, a dozen people left the black boat . They carried water and food in their hands and started giving them out to the poor people on the sh.o.r.e .

Some of them were male, some were female, some were old and some were young . Their skin color was extremely dark and they wore the common wide-brimmed bamboo hat . They were no different from the fishermen at the South Sea . However, what was most startling was that they all wore red colored divine robes!