260 A Song for Tao Addic (2/2)
Ning Que had a hard life.
He had finally managed to avoid Prince Long Qing's revenge through his bet of breaking a state. He had taken a long arrow shot and destroyed the Prince Long Qing's life. He had thought that everything would go on smoothly and he would take away Tomes of Arcane after the Front Gate of Devil's Doctrine opened and find the familiar Taoist aura before returning south. He never expected that he would usher in an even more powerful enemy.
Once they entered the Snow Mountain in the Wilderness, they would certainly encounter some powerful enemies, including West-Hill Divine Palace. For this, Ning Que had clever ideas and plans to cope with them. He was confident about dealing with any danger, for he had taken Calligraphy Addict and Primordial Thirteen Arrows with him. But he had never expected that Tao Addict would start to break the realm after Long Qing's failure and actually turn into a horrible Grand Cultivator!
In the Yellow River, the waves behind drove on those before so that he couldn't stand the waves. For example, after he hit a kid, the unreasonable parents came to argue with him. After he beat some rogues, their godfather came to get revenge. After he bullied a man from a rich family, this man's terrifying sister who was cold, arrogant and inherited the great legacy came to reason with him. All in all, he had a very hard life.
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On the peak of the cliff, the Red Scythe Tang Xiaotang clenched in her hand suddenly fell to the ground. She raised her hand to tightly cover her small mouth. She looked at the distant aura and thought of her brother's words. An unbelievable and extremely anxious look appeared in her eyes. She said unhappily, ”The crazy lady actually broke the realm of the Knowing Destiny State?”
”If I meet her again, I can no longer defeat her. What a shame!” The Desolate girl suddenly noticed the movements on the opposite side of the cliff and looked at the lonely Taoist robe drifting away from her. She was shocked and said, ”Why did he go? His sister became a Grand Cultivator. Shouldn't he say something? Doesn't he want to help her?”
Tang looked at the fleeing Taoist on the opposite mountain path and felt the Taoist's loneliness incongruent with the heaven and earth. He thought of the conceited young Taoist priest fourteen years ago and gradually furrowed his brows as wide as iron thorns, saying, ”A person who has broken the realm of death naturally doesn't care about his relatives.”
Tang did not mind that the Taoist priest who had just left the cliff was more powerful than the priest from years previous. Although he didn't know exactly how the other party had broken the realm of death, he knew that people in that state tended to be indifferent about their surroundings and their Taoist Hearts would continue to exist in a new way. So the Taoist priest naturally would not care about his sister.
He looked towards the verdant valley in the distance. After a short moment of silence, he said, ”Tao Addict is really amazing. I don't know how such a young girl could resist the temptation of breaking the realm and forcedly seal her state in Seethrough for such a long time. Could it be extremely important for her to catch up with her lonely elder brother?”
Tang Xiaotang did not understand and asked, ”Forcibly seal her state? Why would she do that?”
”Sometimes cultivation is like climbing mountain peaks or scooping water from a lake or filling the sea with stones. It's all about perseverance. But in the end, the Lucky Chance represented by the last step, scoop, and stone is the most important.”
Tang said, ”When one breaks the realm, different Lucky Chances lead to different gains. Tao Addict has already reached the final phase, namely the one last step to the peak, one last scoop to dry the lake and one last stone to fill the sea. But she didn't complete the last phase and resisted the temptation of becoming a Grand Cultivator in Knowing Destiny State with great perseverance, forcing herself to stay in Seethrough. She meditated and cultivated different Taoists Laws, and just waited for the last Lucky Chance.”
Tang Xiaotang asked, ”Today she suddenly broke the realm and entered the Knowing Destiny State. Has her Lucky Chance come?”
”Follow the natural Taoists Law. The most magical thing about Taoism Lucky Chance is to let nature take its course and gain what one should gain. Today Long Qing was destroyed on the snow cliff, so naturally, she became angry. Because Ning Que had stayed with Calligraphy Addict, she needed to break the realm and enter the Knowing Destiny State if she wanted to vent her anger and kill them. This type of need is natural for her. So she naturally broke the realm and entered the Knowing Destiny State.”
Tang turned around and looked at his younger sister with pity, saying, ”I didn't expect that Ye's younger sister was such a woman. Her cultivation perseverance and her pursuit of a strong power have become almost insane. No wonder she is known to the world as Tao Addict. Tangtang, if you can't become strong quickly, you will never be her opponent.”
Tang Xiaotang did not feel annoyed that her elder brother considered her to be inferior to Tao Addict, Ye Hongyu. She spit out her tongue and proudly said, ”If I go to Chang'an City and become a student of the Headmaster of Academy, I can definitely defeat her.”
After a short moment of silence, Tang nodded and said, ”You're right.”
Tang Xiaotang suddenly thought of something and gazed into the distance. She frowned and said, ”Brother, if I'm the Headmaster of Academy's student, Ning Que will be my Senior Brother. Should we save him?”
Tang stood up and said,”Tao Addict is strong indeed, but Ning Que is also the World Wayfarer of the Academy. How could a core disciple of the Headmaster die in such an easy way?”
He suddenly fell silent and looked at the desolate Snow-capped Peak. The cold wind above the cliff kept blowing his iron-like chest. He saw nothing but seemed to see what he wanted to see.
Tang Xiaotang stood beside him and asked curiously, ”Brother, aren't the Tomes of Arcane in the Front Gate?”
Tang slowly shook his head and said, ”My teacher didn't tell me.”
Tang Xiaotang said with lament, ”When will the teacher reappear? Twenty-Three-year Cicada Cultivation... do we really have to wait for 23 years?”
After a short moment of silence, Tang said, ”It's been almost 23 years.”
At this moment, an intermittent singing suddenly sounded on the naturally formed mountain path between the opposite peak and cliff. The lonely Wayfarer of Zhishou Abbey walked alone in the lonely world and sang an obscure Taoist song.
”It blossomed on the Iron-arrow Cliff and sprouted on the fat-fish chopping board. The sea was full of rocks. I slept in the stable and you were on the other side of a rope... ”