692 Body in Light, Feet in Darkness (2/2)

After a moment of silence, the Headmaster said, ”I also understand.”

Ning Que said, ”Teacher, you are wrong; Youngest Uncle was wrong; Lotus was right.”

The Headmaster said with a sigh, ”Yes, it seems that he was right.”

Ning Que said, ”Is it too late?”

”I am on the way and can't turn around. But this is my story and I will try it in my own way. As for the story in the future, it is your story.”

Ning Que said, ”I am worried that I am unable to write this story.”

”There is no Yama, but we can also say that there are many Yamas: Haotian is Yama because it will punish the world with the Everlasting Night; I am Yama because I want to overthrow it; She is Yama because she is Haotian; You are Yama because you came from another world where there was extreme cold in most of the world. If I can't, then you have to do it.”

He looked at him and said, ”In fact, from the day you began to cultivate, you had the power to change the world. From now on, it is your turn.”

Ning Que was looking at Sangsang.

His feeling was very complicated. No subtle words could describe it: strange, familiar, sad, sorrow, fear, or hesitation.

He seemed to want to say something but in the end, he didn't.

He looked up at the sky above his head, which was divided into many areas by willow branches, and asked, ”Teacher, are you confident?”

The Headmaster sighed and said, looking at the sky, ”It is the first time for me. How can I be confident?”

For countless years, the Headmaster had been thinking about how to defeat Haotian. He had come up with many methods: he kept avoiding it; he kept thinking on the academic and spiritual levels, but he never practiced them.

All at once, Sangsang raised her head up to the sky, peacefully.

Then she looked back at the Headmaster.

She said, ”In fact, I don't have the confidence to beat you, either.”

Sangsang's feet left the riverside meadow.

She drifted over Sishui River. Her short yellow hair suddenly became dark and long in the next moment, covering her shoulder like a waterfall, seemingly like countless rays of light.

Her black eye pupils turned fast into white and permeated with the rest of her eyes. Then they became transparent with a faint holy light around her.

Two completely different emotions appeared on Sangsang's face: the human Sangsang was anxious and in pain; the other Sangsang was totally indifferent as the girl once appeared on the carriage when they were in the Wilderness.

Absolute indifference: divine indifference which repelled lives and joy.

Looking at her, Ning Que felt that his heart was torn into pieces like willow branches, painfully and bleeding from his mouth. He reached out to grab her feet.

The Headmaster sighed and slightly waved his sleeve, freezing him on the riverside.

Sangsang's body kept changing over the river: her thin body gradually became fit, breaking open her black clothes and turning into countless threads, revealing the naked skin.

Her expression became more and more pained as her black long hair fluttered with the wind, twisting and struggling as if she was trapped in a net. Then she gradually calmed, leaving only indifference.

The fragmented clothes slipped off smoothly like water and her bright skin showed up.

The thin, ordinary and sick Sangsang was gone and a beautiful and naked Sangsang showed up in the world, who was perfect in both body and face.

The perfect body and appearance matched with the holy and indifferent divinity look, just as the Goddess' Statue of Haotian enshrined in many temples of Haotian Taoism. The only difference between Sangsang and the Goddess was her skin color which was still as dark as usual.

Both Sangsang of the City of Wei and the one of Old Brush Pen Shop had a dark body.

However, her feet were magically white as jade, like two snow lotuses.

Looking at her, the Headmaster sighed and said, ”Her body is in the darkness while her feet are stepping the light. I see now.”