Chapter 1085 - On Both Sides Of The River (1/2)
Chapter 1085: On Both Sides Of The River
Translator: Larbre Studio Editor: Larbre Studio
The middle-aged priest said nothing nor laughed. He stood quietly by the side as if Yu Lian and Jun Mo meant nothing.
Right then the rain became lighter. Clops and sounds of rolling wheels were heard again on the streets. The roasted sweet potato shop was already closed. The grey-haired father and the middle-aged son continued their journey in the carriage in the showering rain. They stopped briefly by the butcher shop and the son brought two newly roasted sweet potatoes.
Yu Lian and Jun Mo took the roasted sweet potatoes and thanked them. The old man wiped of the rain off his grey hair and stroke on the neck of the ox while he said, ”I guess you could not find any roasted sweet potatoes here in the future.”
They had been running the roasted sweet potato shop at the foot of Peach Mountain for generations through a thousand years. Apart from collecting information of the Divine Halls for the Academy, they ran the shop also because the Headmaster was very fond of their roasted sweet potatoes. It had to be from the same stove in the same place in the same town.
The war was about to start. The father and son retreated from the small town. Those cavalrymen of the Divine Halls hidden in the rain outside the small town did not dare to stop them and clear the way quietly.
Yu Lian peeled the slightly burnt potato, picked up some well-cooked parts and delivered into her mouth. She slightly closed her lips and savored. It was indeed yummy, but not as alluring as the Headmaster used to say.
Jun Mo thought for a while. Instead of eating he wrapped the roasted sweet potato carefully in a handkerchief, put it aside and looked toward the middle-aged priest. He looked through the autumn rain toward somewhere afar.
Yu Lian reminded him, ”That is my handkerchief.”
Jun Mo corrected, ”It is the Eldest Brother's.”
Yu Lian was slightly annoyed and did not want to talk to him further. She held the roasted sweet potato and spoke to the Butcher inside the shop, ”The Abbey Dean no longer cares about the future of Taoism. Why should you?”
She was talking about roasted potatoes and handkerchief a second ago, and now the topic was switched to Taoism and the human world. Daily necessities were not meant to be a match to the divine matters. Therefore her switch of topics seemed cute.
In the autumn rain today in the small town, she seemed to have become cuter.
The Butcher frowned slightly and said, ”What do you know about it?”
Yu Lian looked around but could not find a trash bin. She threw the unfinished roasted sweet potato on the wet ground and said, ”Isn't that simply gambling?”
The Butcher frowned even harder.
Yu Lian continued, ”The Drunkard followed the Abbey Dean. No matter if it was to support or to peep, he bet on that side. You came to Peach Mountain to bet on the side of the abandoned Taoism. I just can't understand why none of you would like to bet on us, the Academy.”
The Butcher sneered. ”Because there is no Haotian in the Academy.”
Yu Lian stared at him emotionlessly for a long while and said, ”Is Haotian with Taoism after all? Never forget that when you bet on both sides you are most likely to lose it all.”
The Butcher said after a pause, ”After I kill you, I will stand aside and wait for the result. No matter who wins it will do no harm to me.”
Yu Lian said, ”So you have to see the result?”
The Butcher said, ”Correct.”
Yu Lian felt pity for him and scorned, ”You are indeed stubborn and rotten. Except for waiting aside like a dog, can't you do something fun?”
The Butcher stepped out of the door, picked up the knife and looked above to the gloomy sky in the autumn rain. He said, ”When you live a long life as I have, you will be as cautious as I am now.”
Jun Mo said nothing until hearing these words, ”To live cautiously like you do, the longer you live the more boring it will become.”
Upon those words he led Yu Lian toward outside the town. Autumn rain fell onto the Brother and Sister. Their clothes were slightly wet while their footsteps resounded in the rain.
Standing by the entrance to the town, Jun Mo said, ”I didn't see it.”
Yu Lian seemed worried and said, ”According to Ye Hongyun parts of Arcane Tome of the Fall should still be here. If it is not with the Taoist, where is it now?”
The middle-aged priest said from some distance, ”Since you're already here, why don't you pay a visit to Peach Mountain?”
Yu Lian turned to him and said, ”Vicious as we are, we never need invitations. But thank you, not today.”
The middle-aged priest said, ”You must have instructions to make.”
Yu Lian said, ”Throughout the thousand years I am the only leader of Devil's Doctrine who has come so close to the West-Hill and Peach Mountain. I'm already very satisfied. If the Butcher is not taking any action, why should I?”
Jun Mo was much more straightforward than she was. He said to the middle-aged priest, ”We are not here to give instructions. But we do have some words for those inside the Divine Halls. From now on, no one could get out of the Peach Mountain.”
The middle-aged priest was slightly stunned.
Right then, a thunder was heard from the raining clouds.
Over a thousand cavalrymen from the Divine Halls of West-Hill were stationed outside the small town. Many divine priests and deacons were hidden in the woods and fields. Upon hearing Jun Mo's words as well as the thunder, they felt lost.
It was very simple and casual, yet extremely dominating.