138 No Headline (1/2)
Chapter 138: No Headline
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Listening to her schoolmates who were making fun of Ning Que, Situ Yilan sullenly stood up and then pulled Jin Wucai outside the study room. At first, she carefully looked at her female companion and wanted to warn her something, but then she quitted the idea when she thought that her gentle and taciturn companion actually had nothing to do with it. Thus, she just asked another question with a sigh, ”Will you go there this afternoon?”
Jin Wucai smilingly replied, ”You mean Prince Long Qing's reaching Chang'an?”
”Yeah, though I have no interest in such kind of handsome man, I still want to have a look out of curiosity,” Situ Yilan smilingly said.
”I can accompany you. How about booking a room at the Building of Pines and Cranes where we can view the long street?”
Situ Yilan looked at her and banteringly said, ”No need to accompany that big talent today? If you really want to see Prince Long Qing and wouldn't like to leave Xie Chengyun alone at the same time, you could go together with him.”
”He naturally won't be there due to Prince Long Qing's arrival,” Jin Wucai laughingly said, ”Young men have their own pride, especially for him.”
Thinking of what Ning Que was treated these days, Situ Yilan said with a little disdain, ”He what? He should be prouder by nature?”
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The associate professor Cao Zhifeng skipped his class to welcome his own country's renaissance hope outside the city. Many students in the Academy were also having a discussion on whether they should join the fun in Chang'an City. In comparison, Ning Que, who was walking below the sheltered corridor, was just deeply thinking of the cultivation. Even the discussion about classmates' handwriting works failed to catch his attention, let alone such kind of boring thing.
However, he still couldn't help envying and admiring for a while, considering that the Prince Long Qing had already caused such sensation in Chang'an even before arriving. Though, there wasn't too much shock element in this kind of envy and admiration.
A great figure of the Judicial Department in West-Hill Divine Palace? A talent being about to enter Knowing Destiny State? Such kind of glory might shock other people. However, for Ning Que, even though he got along with Chen Pipi every day, who had entered Knowing Destiny State at the age of 16, he still couldn't find out why Chen Pipi was called a unique cultivation genius by others. He thought Chen Pipi had two eyes, a nose and a mouth, just like a common person, except that Chen Pipi would produce more waves due to his obesity when jumping into water...
Ning Que arrived in Chang'an for the first time in early 13th year of Tianqi era, and then he got acquainted with such great figures as Chao Xiaoshu and Chen Pipi. Such experience naturally made him more eye-opening and informed, so the name of Prince Long Qing could hardly arouse Ning Que's much attention, though the fame of this well-known prince had successfully shocked other students in the Academy.
After entering the old library and politely greeting to the female professor, Ning Que was quietly reading that book about Haoran Sword. Outside the west window, the spring sunshine gradually became slant and faint. Later at night, the female professor left the old library and then the bookshelf was gently slided again.
”Prince Long Qing reaches Chang'an today,” Ning Que said, looking at Chen Pipi.
Chen Pipi, scratching his head with full confusion, asked, ”Who is ... Prince Long Qing?”
Ning Que felt a little surprised and asked, ”You don't know Prince Long Qing?”
”Why should I know of the what prince?” Chen Pipi sat down with difficulty. He took a sip from a small wine pot Ning Que passed to him, and then said, ”Is this guy famous?”
”Quite famous,” Ning Que answered, staring at his eyes, ”He is not only a prince of Yan Kingdom, but also the second figure of the Judicial Department in West-Hill Divine Palace. What's more, he is regarded as a cultivation talent like you, so I can't believe you don't know him.”
”The Judicial Department?” Chen Pipi shrugged his shoulders, causing a tremble of his cheek fat. Then he indifferently said, ”So what? There are too many idiots who call themselves talents in West-Hill. I should know of every common guy from that place?”
Ning Que confusedly and surprisedly looked at him and asked, ”You once said you are the heir of West-Hill Divine Palace, didn't you? Even if you have left West-Hill for four years, how could you forget such a figure?”
”That's just your blind guess. When do I admit I am the successor of West-Hill Divine Palace?” Chen Pipi put down the wine pot and then sulkily said, ”If you insist your opinion, I have to doubt your intelligence.”
”You aren't the heir of West-Hill Divine Palace?” Ning Que quickly suppressed his astonishment and then smilingly looked at Chen Pipi and said, ”What a pity! I have had got ready to depend on you.”
Chen Pipi surprisingly asked, ”When do you show great respect to me, a great talent, in order to let me infer that you want to rely on me?”
Naturally, both of them wouldn't take it serious because these were just some jokes between friends. Ning Que suddenly thought of one thing and asked, feeling puzzled, ”To be honest, the relationship between my Tang and your West-Hill was really bad. In this world, only the two places had the capability and qualification to compete with each other. In other words, they could be called their respective latent enemy. In this case, why would Academy accept a guy from West-Hill Divine Palace? Ain't they worried that some secrets might be stolen by West-Hill Divine Palace?”
”The recruitment of Academy just focuses on one's ability and temperament, but not the origin and background. It provides an education opportunity for all people without discrimination. Headmaster of Academy dares to accept such a talent like me as an ordinary student, let alone just a tiny second figure of the Judicial Department in West-Hill Divine Palace.”
Chen Pipi contemptuously satirized. Then he suddenly changed the topic and said with worrying expression, ”The Judicial Department of Divine Hall is mainly engaged in suppressing foreign and heretical sects. They usually rank in a very high position and carry out the killing in a cruel way. The people there are all crazy and mad-brained. In Chang'an, they certainly dare not do something outrageous, but outside Tang, you'd better not provoke their people either, though you don't have to fear them and these guys outside Tang may be not so strong.”
Noticing Chen Pipi's prudence, Ning Que carefully nodded and then emotionally sighed with his head shaking, ”I heard that the first figure of the Judicial Department in Divine Hall is a female who is called Tao Addict by the world. Considering that Prince Long Qing had already been a troublesome barrier, I really can't imagine the toughness of this female.”
”She is much more than toughness!” Chen Pipi, after hearing the two words ”Tao Addict”, suddenly became hysterical. He, waving his right hand hard, said, ”This female Ye Hongyu is absolutely a maniac, but not a so-called Tao Addict. In my eyes, such figures from Divine Hill like Prince Long Qing are just small potatoes. Even if you displease them, I can protect you. However, if you encounter that female, you must keep away from her, because I also would avoid her as much as I can.”
Astonished by Chen Pipi's hysterical and exaggerating reaction, Ning Que recalled Chen Pipi's strange and loathsome comment on female on their previous letters. He couldn't help connecting the reason with the first figure of the Judicial Department in Divine Hall. At once he remembered the discussion at the study room about the Tao Addict. They all said the beautiful female was very mysterious and no one knew her name. However, Chen Pipi just directly uttered the name of this beautiful Tao Addict in a familiar way...
”You said you aren't the heir of West-Hill Divine Palace...” Ning Que half-smilingly looked at him and said, ”But you have exposed yourself. If you insist your description, I have to doubt your intelligence.”
Upon hearing the words, Chen Pipi felt a little surprised and then scornfully said, ”Wanna make a bet?”
”Time is the only criterion for testing truth.” This was the second time Ning Que said it after arriving in Chang'an, and then he seriously added, ”It is a very stupid thing to make a boring bet about truth, just like a cultivator, with his distinctive ability, making money from common people at a casino.”
A little confused by the words, Chen Pipi, scratching his head for a long time, failed to make a reply.
Ning Que suddenly frowned and asked, ”Today at the study room, the discussion about Prince Long Qing is very heated. I just can't understand. Is the Knowing Destiny State...really marvelous?”
”It is certainly very fantastic for a man to enter the Knowing Destiny State. Few people have the gift of cultivation, and among these people, just a very small group of people can enter Knowing Destiny State. In the whole world, you can hardly find several mighty Knowing Destiny State cultivators.”
Chen Pipi, slightly raising his jaw, seemed very proud, as if he was telling Ning Que, ”Look at me! Look at me! I, a genius, am one of the very fantastic Knowing Destiny State cultivators.”
Having a glance at him, Ning Que said with emotion, ”In such case, maybe I am just misguided by a rare Knowing Destiny State cultivator like you who was extremely lack of requirement being a mighty one.”
Chen Pipi was irritated and rebuked, ”What do you mean? You mean I am lack of the quality as a mighty cultivator?”
Ning Que smilingly said, ”You are worse than it. You lack the most crucial thing–temperament...Do you understand the word 'temperament'? It is totally a kind of feeling, irrelevant with your corpulent shape and boring talking.”
Chen Pipi angrily said, ”State is state. What's its relationship with temperament? As I have already entered the Knowing Destiny State, there is absolutely no existence of other states like superior Seethrough State in my eyes!”
”No evidence,” Ning Que perplexedly said, ”You say you are a mighty Knowing Destiny State cultivator, but how to prove it?”
Looking at the evil laugh on Chen Pipi's face, Ning Que was a little shocked and quickly said, ”Don't prove it by beating me hard! You often say I am a fool in cultivation, so what can it prove even if you defeat a cultivating fool?”
”So how to prove it?” Chen Pipi innocently asked with hands spreading, ”You can find a superior Seethrough State cultivator to let me bully?”
”Good idea!” Ning Que smilingly said, ”You know the female professor of the Etiquette Department Cao Zhifeng? I heard that he is a Psyche Master in Seethrough State. How about this rival?”
”Bullying an instructor?” Chen Pipi stared at him as he said, ”You want me to be hung on the wall after being beaten hard by Second Brother?”