677 Something Truly Interesting (2/2)
The black horse carriage sped through the Wilderness.
The Wilderness was not desolate in late spring. The ground was covered with dense grass. The color of green stretched out to the horizon like a green blanket dotted with tiny white flowers.
Those tiny white flowers were flocks of sheep; but among the grass, there were the real white flowers partly hidden and partly visible.
The spring wind blew. The Big Black Horse kept running excitedly with its head shaking constantly, trampling on the grass and kicking up black mud and petals. When some petals floated to its big nostrils, it was so happy it neighed wildly.
Thinking about the sublime being in the carriage, it was of course afraid of doing so. It suppressed the excitement of its close shave with death and panted heavily, looking as if it was laughing goofily.
Ning Que took a cup of tea and handed it to the Headmaster. ”Teacher, have a cup of tea, please,” said he.
At the moment, he was extremely happy. If he could reveal all his happiness, clear dimples would appear on his smiling face like flowers. However, he thought that it would be a disrespect to his teacher, so he suppressed the emotion until his lips trembled, making himself look very silly.
Sangsang sat by the window, clutching her sleeves nervously. She looked at the Headmaster who occupied the soft couch rudely after getting on the carriage, and smiled a silly smile.
The Headmaster held up the hot tea cup and took a sip. Then he looked at them and asked, ”Why are you smiling so goofily?”
Ning Que giggled and said frankly, ”I really don't know what to do at this time except for smiling goofily.”
Sangsang nodded and giggled.
The Headmaster poured the light condensed by the head of the Giant Golden Dragon into her. As a result, the cold aura in her body suddenly disappeared, leaving only a few threads, which no longer posed a threat to her.
What was more amazing was that she could clearly feel a new life aura in her body. It was alive and a little bit complicated, not that pure like the Haotian Divine Light or Yama's Imprint.
That aura was all-encompassing. There were flowers, grass, fish, birds, wind, frost, dew, and rain. In it, she felt the beauty of saussurea in the Liuhu Lake, the heat from the steamed bun restaurant, and the grease of the booth which sold the hot and sour sliced noodle soup.
The aura included everything in the world, so it naturally had many impurities, even filthy things. However, it was due to them that the aura could be so alive.
Because this was reality.
Though Sangsang did not know what the Headmaster had done to her, she vaguely knew that the key was not the Divine Light that had been poured into her body. It was the lively life aura that could heal her.
The illness that no one could heal was healed by the Headmaster without difficulty. During their endless escape for hundreds of thousands of miles, they had experienced countless difficulties and hardships and encountered the punishment of Haotian in despair. However, everything was better as soon as the Headmaster appeared.
Over the past two years and on this day, Ning Que and Sangsang experienced violent ups and downs on their emotions and endless bouts of shock. At this moment, as Ning Que had said, they did not know what to do except for laughing goofily.
After a period of time, he gradually calmed down and became more sober. Thinking about what had happened before, he frowned slightly and said with worries, ”Teacher, the West-Hill Divine Palace will not let this go.”
The Headmaster handed the cup to him and said, ”What does that have to do with me? Pour me another cup of tea.”
Ning Que poured the hot tea into the cup with a wry smile and passed it over. He thought to himself that to his teacher, the anger of the West-Hill Divine Palace was naturally of less importance than a cup of tea, but the Tang Empire would definitely be affected.
”Teacher, aren't you worried about Haotian bringing his wrath upon Chang'an?”
”Will Haotian be so lame?”
”What about the West-Hill Divine Palace?”
”If His Majesty were not His Majesty and is still studying at the Academy mountain's back, he would have been your Sixth Brother. Since he is now in the Wilderness, what do you think I need to worry about?”
”But it is dangerous after all. Teacher... why don't you take action?”
”Would I be so lame?”
Hearing the extremely random and irresponsible answer, Ning Que opened his mouth in astonishment and did not know how to reply. Previously, if someone dared to mention himself in the same breath with Haotian, he would think that the person was definitely mad... However, after witnessing today's godly war, he knew that his teacher was not out of his mind.
He said after thinking for a moment, ”Heaven is heartless, but you are different.”
”Are those on the Wilderness human beings?” asked the Headmaster.
Ning Que nodded.
The Headmaster pointed at himself and asked, ”Am I also a human being?”
Thinking about the tall figure that wielded a sword to kill the dragon high above the sky, Ning Que hesitated for a long time before he finally answered, ”You should be... maybe... still regarded as a human?”
The Headmaster was furious at his words. He rebuked as his beard fluttered wildly, ”Maybe? I am a human! Am I a thing if I'm not a human?”
Ning Que said with a forced smile, ”You are right. But what does it have to do with what we are talking about?”
”Since I am a human,” the Headmaster said, ”how could I kill all humans in the world? This is really quite meaningless. I will never waste my time on it.”
Ning Que asked earnestly, ”Then what do you think is interesting?”
The Headmaster said leisurely, ”It is a great joy to fight against Haotian. This is something truly interesting.”