230 Changing the Calligraphy Addicts View of the World for the First Time and Flower Addicts Sadness (2/2)
Mo Shanshan considered this seriously. ”I did not know that being direct would mean that I was critical.”
Lu Chenjia looked at her and sighed. She smiled, ”Even you have changed.”
Mo Shanshan replied calmly, ”I've learned a lot of things from someone recently. I am adjusting to the change.”
Lu Chenjia asked softly after a moment, ”Have you come to criticise me today?”
Mo Shanshan replied firmly and calmly, ”Why would I come to see you if I was here to criticise you?”
Lu Chenjia sighed and said, ”I only knew you were below the meadow when you executed that Half Divine Talisman.”
Mo Shanshan looked at her beautiful face and stilled for a moment. ”Even if I were not below the meadows, there were other people there. They were about to be killed by the Horse Gang.”
Lu Chenjia soothed, ”I know you, and I admire and like you. That is why your death has something to do with me. If you had died, I would be sad. The deaths of others have nothing to do with me. That is why I do not care about it.”
Mo Shanshan said, ”I have a Younger Brother who died when the Horse Gang attacked.”
Lu Chenjia remained tranquil. ”I do not know your Younger Brother. His death has nothing to do with me.”
Mo Shanshan looked at the nameless beautiful plant that was as white as snow. She said, ”There are many people in the world that have nothing to do with you and I. But the world has something to do with you and I, because grief and joy are always linked.”
”There is never any connection between the joys and grief in this world.”
Lu Chenjia lifted her beautiful face slightly. ”Why would people like us deign to involve ourselves with the joys and grieves of the world? Other than flowers and a handful of people, there are no more clean people in the world. We are both clean. If we care about the dirty world, we would one day be entangled in the dust and mud of it. What has the grief and joy in the world to do with me?”
Mo Shanshan's lids closed slightly. She looked at the dirt that had splattered on her clean white dress throughout the journey. She lifted her head after a moment and looked at Lu Chenjia. ”I have never been able to win an argument against you. I will not pretend to be an orchid that everyone likes. That is why I do not wish to speak with you anymore.”
Lu Chenjia sighed, ”You are being mean. This is not good.”
Mo Shanshan replied, ”I am not being mean enough. You are not even mad.”
Lu Chenjia furrowed her brows and asked, ”Why would you want to make me mad?”
Mo Shanshan replied, ”Because your ignorance and uncaring ways make me very angry. Because what happened at the meadows made me very angry.”
Silence filled the resplendent tent. The long silence exerted an unknown pressure and began to descend heavily upon the room. The branches on the blinds looked as if they were about to break from the pressure in the air.
After an unknown period of time, Lu Chenjia looked at her calmly and said, ”I would like to know how you are going to make me mad.”
Mo Shanshan replied, ”You know that I have never been good with words. My entire life has been spent on paper with a brush. I do not use my hands. If I were to defeat you completely, would you be mad?”
Lu Chenjia smiled. She looked like a sleeping lotus in the pond that had been startled awake by the cries of birds and had bloomed. One could sense no trace of enmity behind her beauty and silence.
The Flower Addict was indeed a flower addict. She was a slave to her emotions. She did not wish to fight Mo Shanshan and was not prepared to fight her. She just smiled at Mo Shanshan silently.
Most people in the world, even the cultivator with the strongest Taoist Heart would not know what to do in the face of the peaceful smile from a beautiful girl. Would they really punch her?
However, Mo Shanshan was a Calligraphy Addict. She had her own ideas and was even more unfeeling than the Flower Addict when she was in the mood. When she decided on something, she did not care what state the situation was in. Even if Lu Chenjia was a drifting flower scent or a fragile jade carved flower, she would have no pity for it. She reached out.
Two slender fingers shot out from her sleeves. However, what extended from it was not a sword but a brush. It spun and began writing on an invisible paper on an invisible desk.
Mo Shanshan's hand was the Half Divine Talisman.
Lu Chenjia sat on the seat quietly. A transparent bloom appeared between her fingers.
The bloom was not completely transparent. There was a thin layer of primordial Qi that floated on top of it like a layer of morning dew. It looked as if it was carved out of the fog and was extremely exquisite.
A frightful pressure encapsulated the tent along with the Half Divine Talisman.
A fresh aura accompanied the bloom and spread out of the tent.
Within a certain tent, the Priest in the Revelation Department of West-Hill Divine Palace felt the aura that came from not far away. He awoke from his meditation and looked out of the tent before sighing softly.
The Half Divine Talisman was strong. Calligraphy Addict seemed to be stronger than when they had met the Horse Gang on the meadow. It seemed that Chen Jia's was about to be defeated.
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Lu Chenjia looked at the shattered pieces between her fingers and the bloom that had dissipated into the air. She looked at the girl in white and said, ”I am not in as high of a cultivation state as you are. And I am no match for the Tao Addict. But that is fine with me. Defeat is defeat. I still enjoy trimming blooms and planting flowers most.”
Mo Shanshan retracted her hands and tucked it back into her sleeves. She looked at her and said, ”You wouldn't be the Flower Addict if you were only addicted to flowers.”
Lu Chenjia seemed to have thought of something. She smiled warmly and also revealed a trace of disappointment. ”Flower Addict, oh, Flower Addict... Slave to people and slave to flowers. I guess this is enough.”
Mo Shanshan rose to her feet and said, ”You used to dig in the mud with a hoe. Your hands were stained with dust and your face with sweat. I think that you were a better person then.”
Lu Chenjia lowered her head and continued trimming her flower. ”But he likes me better as the person I am now. And he will protect me.”
Mo Shanshan looked at her silently before the corners of her mouth twitched slightly. This was the first time in her life where she had learned to reveal the victor's smile. It looked slightly awkward.
”Someone told me last night, that if you behaved as if you did not care after your defeat, but mentioned Long Qing, it meant that you are starting to get angry. Then, you'd truly have lost.
Lu Chenjia did not reply but smiled slightly. However, she cut off a perfect green leaf with the shears in her hand.