732 Listening to the Chirping of Cicadas for 23 Years (2/2)
”The Twenty-Three-year Cicada Cultivation!”
”You are actually hiding in the Academy!”
”How have you become a woman?”
There were a total of 13 disciples in the mountain behind the Academy, among which the Third Sister, Yu Lian, was the least eye-catching one.
Her companions were all peerless geniuses in their respective fields except her, who seemed nothing special. Not only rarely did she talk with people, but she also rarely stayed in the back of the mountain.
Sitting beside the eastern window of the Second floor of the old library day by day, she traced over the Hairpin-style Small Regular Script quietly. It seemed that nothing in the world could arouse her interest and naturally, it was difficult for her to get other people's attention.
Leaving the people in Cultivation Field alone, even other disciples and Ning Que would sometimes forget that they had such a Senior Sister. She was too quiet to be remembered.
At this critical moment of life and death, the Eldest Brother had sent the rest disciples to the position where they were needed and only she was left in the Academy.
It was not because he was not concerned about that the Academy would be sneakily raided nor he possesed the same psychology as the Queen and Ning Que that to give up Helan City. He just believed that as long as the Third Sister stayed in the Academy, it would stay safe and sound.
It was because she had a former name, and that was Lin Wu.
She was the Twenty-Three-year Cicada Cultivation.
The Headmaster once had such a conversation with his disciples.
There was a kind of cicada in the arid land of the far west. The cicadas hid amid the mud for the whole 23 years and didn't wake up until the Snow Mountain began to melt as the flood arrived. While showering in the muddy water and drying wings in chilly winds, they would flutter to fly out of the void.
Chen Pipi was intoxicated at that time when he heard it.
While Eldest Brother and Second Brother smiled without uttering anything.
Yu Lian was also on the scene at that time. She cooked a bowl of vegetable noodle for the Headmaster that night.
For hundreds of years, he was the best genius of the Devil's Doctrine.
Master Lotus always wanted him to inherit his legacy with his whole heart.
However, he calmly rejected the opportunity since his father was killed by Lotus.
He chose a way which no other people had ever taken.
He wanted to practice was a unique skill that no one in the Devil's Doctrine had ever successfully practiced.
He was the youngest Grandmaster of the Devil's Doctrine history, and also the last one.
He had ever recruited a few disciples who were all older than him.
He continued on his cultivation.
Till the time when he succeeded finally, he disappeared then.
He had been the most mysterious figure in the Cultivation Field from that day on.
The Headmaster came across a little girl the same year.
The little girl who wore delicate makeup looked extremely cute. However, she had a pair of peaceful and tranquil eyes.
Only the Headmaster could see through the frustration and fear crouching deep inside them.
”What exactly are you afraid of?”
Headmaster said to the little girl, ”All are in external forms. Does the shell mean that much to you?”
The little girl got him and saluted with her hands to him, elegantly.
The Headmaster shook his head.
The little girl put both her hands at the sides of her waist in somewhat awkward posture and saluted while crouching slightly, which looked pretty shy.
The Headmaster nodded with satisfaction.
At the time the Devil's Doctrine was doomed to destruction and West-Hill Divine Palace was hunting down the evil remnants of Devil's Doctrine around the world. The little girl was just a little girl who did not possess the ability to defend herself and she had no idea as for how she was gonna spend the next 23 years.
But she did not beg the Headmaster.
She had her own pride.
The Headmaster spoke up before her and said, ”Come along with me to the Academy.”
The Headmaster casually spoke as if she was already a member of the Academy.
The Headmaster gained a female disciple that day.
As more and more disciples enrolled in, she began to be called as Third Sister.
A few years later, she made a female professor in the Academy.
She sat quietly beside the eastern window peacefully while tracing over Hairpin-style Small Regular Script and she had been sitting there for many years.
Fits of chirping of cicadas rang out outside the window.
She was humble and never got involved with the matters of the world. The world also left her alone.
She was exactly the legendary Twenty-Three-year Cicada Cultivation, Lin Wu!
A heavy fog (the name means fog in forest).
The Hierarch Lord's shocking and furious roaring still reverberated in the mountain behind the Academy.
Even though the roar sounded like thunder in winter, it still could not suppress down the chirping of Autumn Cicadas vibrating throughout the whole mountain.
Staring at the innocent and beautiful girl, he said incredulously, ”How have you become a woman?”
Yu Lian said with slight sarcasm, ”Even Haotian could transform into a woman, why couldn't I? If I can not even see through the external forms, how can I be able to practice the Twenty-Three-year Cicada Cultivation? If Ye Su stood in front of me right now, he would not have asked that stupid question. Since he has apprehended life and death, he won't care about these details naturally.”
The Hierarch still unable to hold down his expressions of astonishment and said then, ”Even though you are an evil remnant, you are a grandmaster after all. With such a grandeur identity, how dare you to acknowledge an outsider as your master. Shame on you!”
Looking up at the sky, Yu Lian said, ”The Headmaster is worthy to be the master of anyone, let alone me.”