Chapter 896 (1/2)

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at 21st of April 2019 09:35:04 AM

Chapter 896: 896

Ever since spring, no one had entered the Divine Hall of Light, not even the Hierarch . Therefore, when the pious deacons on the plateau saw Xiaocao being escorted into the Divine Hall, they were shocked and could not believe what they just saw .

Xiaocao did not understand what had happened to her either . She knew that the Divine Hall of Light had been lacking a master for years, so who was asking for her?

A girl in a white dress led her into the Divine Hall and then disappeared . She looked around the s.p.a.cious and imposing Divine Hall and found herself small in comparison . She instinctively kneeled on the cus.h.i.+on .

Curtains hung in the far end of the Divine Hall . She saw no one behind the curtains or heard any sound . The silence was frightening . She lowered her head and waited anxiously for her destiny .

Time pa.s.sed by slowly . She kneeled for so long that her knees became sore and painful . However, she neither dared to stand up nor refrained from being more anxious .

Suddenly she saw a big black horse .

Xiaocao's eyes shone with some joy because she knew that the big black horse belonged to Ning Que . However, before she greeted the big black horse, she remembered something else .

She used to have a good friend in Chang'an . They were of the same age . She was dark and skinny . They used to exchange many inexpensive gifts . She taught that friend how to do makeup and how to tempt her l.u.s.tful master .

Later on, that friend went through a lot . She became the daughter of the Grand Secretary and even was said to the descendent of the Divine Priest of Light . However, when they met occasionally she was still the friend Xiaocao used to know .

Xiaocao was shocked . She felt lost and fell onto the cus.h.i.+on with her hand covering her chest . She could not believe her own reasoning . Yet she knew there could be no other explanation for this .

A wind blew from within the Divine Hall of Light and the curtain was lifted from a corner . Instead of her acquaintance, she could only see a lofty girl standing on the terrace .

Is that Sangsang?

Xiaocao stood up and stared at that figure . She wanted to call her but did not dare to . It did not matter if she was the master of the Divine Hall of Light or some other high-ranking figure in the Divine Halls of West Hill because she was no long her former friend who was of no significance .

”I grant you immortality . ”

An awe-inspiring voice resounded in the Divine Hall of Light .

Xiaocao could not figure out whether or not this voice belonged to the figure standing by the terrace . She gazed blankly at the curtain that divided the world into two realms and slightly clenched her fists .

The formerly disappeared girl with the white dress showed up again and led her out of the Divine Hall of Light .

Xiaocao did nothing inside the Divine Hall of Light . She was not tortured . She neither met an acquaintance nor prostrated to Haotian . Then she just left .

It seemed she was only taken there for these words: ”I grant you immortality . ”

Xiaocao left the Divine Hall of Light and returned to the small town . The girls from the House of Red Sleeves kept asking her about what had happened, but before she could tell them anything, the Divine Halls sent a group of cavalrymen and escorted them out of the West Hall Divine Kingdom courteously . They escorted them to the south of the Verdant Canyon .

Until they came back to Chang'an, Xiaocao still felt that their trip to the West Hill was like a dream, especially her experience inside the Divine Hall of Light . It was so unreal . She did not realize what she had been granted until many years later .

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The Haotian's Divine Hall where the Hierarch dwelt used to be the most respected place in Peach Mountain . However, now people viewed the secluded Divine Hall of Light as the supreme place .

No one dared to disobey the orders from the Divine Hall of Light, not even the Hierarch . But the figure inside the Divine Hall of Light had kept quiet since spring . It was only until recently that several orders were issued .

The first one was to escort the girls from the House of Red Sleeves back to Chang'an . Many people from the Divine Halls did not understand why . For those who knew the stories like the Hierarch, the reason was very simple . When Haotian was taking a rest in the human world, some people were nice to her . She was just paying them back now .

However, the second order from the Divine Hall of Light was a shock to all of them including the Hierarch . The girl in the white dress announced expressionlessly that they must stop going after Chen Pipi and Tang Xiaotang .

Tang Xiaotang had intruded Peach Mountain and took Chen Pipi away from the Rite to Light . It was extremely humiliating to the Divine Halls of West Hill and they wanted them to pay for it .

The strongest men were sent out from the Divine Halls and series of traps were set up along the way from Qinghe Prefecture to Chang'an . The Hierarch was so sure that those senior cultivators from the Back Hill of the Academy would not dare to interfere under the pressure of the Drunkard and the Butcher . Chen Pipi and Tang Xiaotang would eventually be taken back to the Divine Halls and sentenced with slow slicing .

Right then, the girl in the white dress conveyed the order to stop tracking them down . Why should Haotian make such a decision? The Hierarch was confused but did not dare to question .

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For the Divine Halls of West Hill, it was very annoying that the girls from the House of Red Sleeves had returned to Chang'an safe and sound but it was a trivial matter . However, to stop hunting for Chen Pipi and Tang Xiaotang was significant .

Yet for Sangsang, those were all petty things because whatever happened in the human world was of no significance to Haotian . She made those decisions only because she had a plan, rather than some attachment to any human beings .

The Rite to Light was organized to reopen the gate to Haotian's Divine Kingdom, as well as cutting her connections to the human world . That was why she wanted Chen Pipi to be the sacrifice and asked the Tang Empire to send the girls from the House of Red Sleeves . In her original plan, Chen Pipi, Tang Xiaotang, and Xiaocao would have been burnt in the holy flame . Then most of her connections to the human world would have been severed .