303 Returning Home with Youth (2/2)
Ye Hongyu and Mo Shanshan walked towards him with each other's help. Ye Hongyu looked at the dark passageway that seemed to have no end and frowned slightly, ”How did you know there was a passageway behind that wall?”
”I guessed.”
Ning Que had answered nonchalantly. However, the discovery of the passageway behind the wall with chains was based on a vague feeling from within his mind. He did not know where the feeling came from. He thought to himself if it was due to the messages that Master Lotus had sent to his sense of perception before his death.
”The Devil's Doctrine is a place where you can only enter and cannot get out of. It's more accurate to say that there was an inhibition after the destruction of the Devil's Doctrine. Only one exit was left. I believe that there are many of these passageways, but they all eventually lead to the same place.”
Ning Que said that subconsciously as the feeling in his mind appeared once more. Then, he was shocked and fell into a long silence while he looked at the passageway. He had finally understood that the pieces of information that Lotus had passed onto him would only emerge when necessary and tell him what to do.
A chilling sensation enveloped Ning Que. He stared at the dark passageway dazedly, not knowing what to say. What kind of state did one have to have to leave something like this behind? What were these pieces of information? Were they Lotus' impressions of the world, or were they... the Devil's Doctrine's methods? What would it bring him?
Ye Hongyu looked at his back and was surprised by his knowledge. There was no one in the Divine Hall who knew about the weird arrangement in the Devil's Doctrine, but he did. However, she thought that it was the knowledgeable Headmaster of the Academy who had told Ning Que about the Devil's Doctrine's secret and did not link it to the dead Divine Lord Lotus.
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All four sides of the passageway were made of stones, and they look sturdy and extremely deep. It was very dark and even with three people looking, it was difficult to walk further without any light source. There were numerous forks in the path and the three picked a random one to discover that their luck had turned for the better. They had not taken a wrong path.
Ning Que smiled bitterly as he stood on the cliff outside the passageway and looked at the clouds beneath his feet. He wondered about their change in luck. It was obvious that it was a bloodthirsty old ghost who had brought them here.
The clouds were thick, and no one knew what was at the bottom of the cliff.
According to the distance they have traveled in the passageway, the three should still be in the Tianqi Mountains.
Ning Que tightened the straps of his heavy luggage and pointed at a cable disc that had long fallen into disrepair. He said, ”If you are not afraid, that should lead us up.”
There was a long rope beyond the passageway. And beneath it, hung a basket that was big enough for three. Their tense expression gradually loosened as they listened to the wind whistling past the basket and clouds at their fingertips rushing by.
A faint light appeared in the clouds. Ning Que opened his mouth slightly and could guess that they had finally left the Front Gate of the Devil's Doctrine. He could not help but flash a happy smile.
Mo Shanshan sat beside and smiled as she watched him.
Ye Hongyu combed her wind-tousseled hair gently with her fingers. She looked at Mo Shanshan's lazy gaze that was focused on him and at Ning Que who was so happy he did not notice and could not help but smile coldly.
”Shameless couple.”
While she had said that softly, there were only three of them and the clouds in this lonely world, and it could be heard clearly. Ning Que was furious and wanted to fight her even though they were escaping death together at this moment.
Mo Shanshan was shy, but not angry. She looked at Ye Hongyu and explained solemnly, ”I do like him, but I know he doesn't like me enough. That is why you can't call us shameless for now.”
Ye Hongyu was startled. She did not expect a girl like the Calligraphy Addict would become like any other woman in the world when she fell in love. She could not help but sigh, and was speechless.
There was nothing else Ning Que could do besides blink at the cold mountain breeze and trying to catch the clouds passing by them like an innocent child who did not understand them.
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It was unknown what methods the powerhouses of the Devil's Doctrine had used back then, but they had managed to instal such a long ropeway in the inaccessible Tianqi Mountains. It took a long time before the basket touched the ground.
Ning Que hopped out of the basket and looked back.
The two girls by his side looked back at the same time.
The clouds dispersed and at the end of the long black rope, a solidary proud Snow-capped Peak could be seen.
They had descended from that Snow-capped Peak.
It was doubtful that they would ever wish to return to that Snow-capped Peak.
Ning Que could not help but shake his head as he looked at the supermundane Snow-capped Peak where the Devil's Doctrine existed. He reached into the basket for his luggage, to find that a soft fluffy ball of fur.
He looked at the Little White Dog in his hand and wondered where the thing had come from. He had been frightened enough for the past few days and hoped that he wasn't the Elder of the Devil's Doctrine in another form.
Please... do not be the reincarnation of Master Lotus.
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