544 The Divine Palanquin Moves North (1/2)
Chapter 544: The Divine Palanquin Moves North
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Ye Hongyu did not say anything but looked at him silently.
Ning Que looked at her and continued, ”Long Qing's continued survival is a threat to the West-Hill Divine Palace and the Tang Empire. I can't kill him, so you need to do it.”
Ye Hongyu said suddenly, ”Since he had betrayed the Divine Hall, he would not be able to continue living in Haotian's world. He would definitely leave the Central Plains and go to the Wilderness.”
Ning Que said, ”That's exactly what I am worried about. The Wilderness has no boundaries. Who can find him and his fallen knights if they hide in the Tianqi Mountain?”
”But to leave the Central Plains for the Wilderness, he has to either cross the Tang Empire or the Yan Kingdom. I don't think that Long Qing or his subordinates can do that.”
Ye Hongyu said, ”Because you have forgotten that there is someone that Long Qing wants to kill the most in the Yan Kingdom. Conversely, that person wants Long Qing dead the most.”
”Are you talking about Crown Prince Chongming?”
Ning Que only realized now that the West-Hill Divine Palace had already made arrangements. However, he still felt uneasy and frowned, ”Even if Crown Prince Chongming could control the cavalry of Yan Kingdom, they are just ordinary folks. I don't think they have the ability to kill Long Qing.”
Ye Hongyu said indifferently, ”Even if they can't kill him, they can hold him back for some time.”
Ning Que had an epiphany and said, ”We are holding him back to wait for someone.”
Ye Hongyu said, ”Indeed.”
Ning Que looked at her in the eye and said, ”You will go.”
Ye Hongyu looked at him serenely and said, ”I will go.”
Ning Que heaved a sigh of relief and said, ”Goodbye.”
Ye Hongyu's brows picked up. She said, ”You seem like you don't want to see me.”
”If this was any other time, I would love to make some good tea and serve up platters of beef to have a long chat with you till the night falls and the candles flicker out, Great Divine Priest... But I am really worried now.”
”Not even the best tea can be paired with beef. You should pair it with alcohol. As a disciple of the Headmaster, how could you make such a mistake on food pairing? It seems that you are really worried.”
Ning Que looked down at his boots and thought of the blood that these boots have stepped in yesterday. He said, ”Long Qing said that he might be the Son of Yama yesterday at the Red Lotus Temple.”
Ye Hongyu smiled when she heard that. It was a smile that contained many hidden meanings. She looked at Ning Que and said, ”Everyone in the world is speculating that you are the Son of Yama. However, the Haotian Taoism Sect and Buddhism Sect have not acted because they do not have evidence. And now you're saying that Long Qing is the Son of Yama?”
Ning Que looked up and splayed out his hands with a slight smile. ”From what has played out in the last few years, Long Qing seems more likely than me to be the Son of Yama. He is darker and more pathetic than I am.”
Ye Hongyu said, ”This doesn't prove anything. Everyone is guessing that you are the Son of Yama because the previous Divine Priest of Light had found you in Chang'an with his eyes.”
Ning Que said, ”But what he saw might not necessarily be the truth. The West-Hill Divine Palace had denied his views and the abbey dean had personally sealed him in the You Prison.”
Ye Hongyu looked at him silently. After a long silence, she suddenly said, ”But you have never considered why the Haotian Taoism sect would have such a strong reaction if the Divine Priest of Light had seen wrongly back then. Why did the abbey dean return to the world and seal the Divine Priest of Light in the prison himself? I don't know what happened then, but I feel that it can't be this simple.”
”There are many things in the world that are simple only if you think simply and are complicated if you think make it out so. The abbey dean might have personally sealed Wei Guangming up because Wei Guangming was obsessed and wanted to cause a massacre in Chang'an and kill who he thought was the Son of Yama. The abbey dean might have been worried for the world and the Haotian Taoism sect and done that. Would he have allowed Wei Guangming to cause a battle between the Haotian Taoism sect and the Academy?”
Ning Que said calmly, ”I have thought about this, but perhaps you have not. Even if Wei Guangming was the most incredible Divine Priest of Light the West-Hill Divine Palace had seen in a hundred years, light and dark are still fields that are beyond the human realm. How could Wei Guangming see through Yama's plot?”
”Perhaps Wei Guangming had seen the truth then, but just the truth in a mirror that he treated as reality. I am just a fake illusion Yama has placed on earth, a fake person in the mirror. Long Qing is not in the mirror because he is in reality.”
The doors of the temple slowly opened. The flaming torches wavered due to the fluctuating wind. The lights by the stone steps flickered.