540 Medicine of Light I (2/2)

However, he did not expect the priest in red to seriously consider his words. He did not laugh coldly or grow angry. The disappointment and pain in his eyes subsided.

After some time, the priest in red looked at Ning Que and said placidly, ”I agree. There will be a place for you in the Divine Hall of Light. If the Great Divine Priest is willing to, she can even give you half of the Divine Hall of Light. What can anyone do about that?”

It was thus Ning Que's turn to frown and consider. No matter what his relationship with Sangsang was, the West-Hill Divine Palace would definitely not allow the Academy to openly interfere in the matters on the Peach Mountain. Furthermore, this affects the Divine Hall of Light, so why would the priest in red make such a statement?

Without getting a conclusion to his thoughts, he looked at the priest and asked simply, ”Why?”

”The Great Divine Priest is still the Lady of Light now. She is young and pure while the West-Hill Divine Palace is a complicated and dangerous place. Even if she appears on the Peach Mountain two years later like what the Great Divine Priest of Revelation says, she might not be able to sit in that temple deep within the Divine Hall of Light... Fortunately, or unfortunately, you are her husband. If the Academy is willing to show their support for her through you, then I think that her taking her place as Great Divine Priest would go easier.”

The priest in red lowered his head, showing respect to Ning Que for the first time in their conversation.

Ning Que fell into silence. He suddenly realized that as Sangsang's status grew higher, the problems, or challenges, that they faced grew more complicated and troublesome.

However, these problems could only be faced in the future. While Sangsang was comatose and sick, his first consideration should be her health and not the future.

As such, he did not continue to discuss this problem. He asked, ”When will Ye Hongyu arrive?”

The wizened priest in red had protested angrily many times against Mr. Thirteen's disrespect for the Divine Priest of Judgment. However, his protests had always been for naught as Ning Que insisted on calling Ye Hongyu by her name. The priest thought of the relationship between Ning Que and the Divine Priest of Light and feared that he had already done many disrespectful things. As such, he decided to give up his pursuit in retaining the dignity of Haotian Taoism.

”It will take the Divine Priest of Judgment 10 days if she comes from West-Hill.”

Ning Que ate a little and washed up simply after Sangsang fell asleep once more. He felt slightly more refreshed and was not as tired as he was when he first arrived in the capital. Now his mind was very clear.

”She can't be at the West-Hill right now because she should know how troublesome this matter is. She would have realized that Long Qing had reappeared even if the entire Haotian Taoism could not guess his appearance. From Mountain DragonTiger to the Martial Arts Sect and to the Red Lotus Temple yesterday, she should be on this way.”

Then, he looked at the weak priest in red and said, ”On this occasion, if I can make it here from Red Lotus Temple in a day, why can't she?”

The priest in red sighed softly, ”Why would the Great Divine Priest come here?”

Ning Que said, ”Because she has many questions for me.”

With that, he walked into the depths of the white Temple Taoism where, in one of the rooms, Sangsang was sleeping.

He believed that Ye Hongyu would surely come at the fastest speed after receiving news that he was in the Kingdom of Qi. Just like what he had told the priest in red, Ye Hongyu would surely have many questions for him. With regards to Long Qing, Ye Hongyu was second only to Ning Que in wanting Long Qing to die, because the man in black Taoist robe had always challenged her.

However, Ning Que did not tell the priest in red why he wanted Ye Hongyu to come to see him.

Other than exchanging information about what had happened after Prince Long Qing's resurrection, there was another, more important, reason.

The cold aura in Sangsang's body was an urgent matter now. Not even the pure Haotian Divine Light in her could suppress it, so he had to try other methods.

The elderly priest in red had used all Haotian Divine Light converted from the Divine Skill that he had practiced for decades in order to heal Sangsang. That was why he was so weak and tired.

That was why the priest had won Ning Que's trust.

But he was far from healing Sangsang.

Ning Que needed other cultivators of West-Hill Divine Skill.

Ye Hongyu was the best choice.

To Ning Que, Ye Hongyu was not West-Hill's Great Divine Priest of Judgment, but the medicine that Sangsang needed most.

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