734 Discussion on the City Wall Part I (1/2)

Little white wolf wormed out from the cave with cloth stripped around his wounded legs. Big white goose walked over from the stream unsteadily. Old yellow bull opened his eyes. Fifth Brother and Eighth Brother came back to the cliff platform.

Yu Lian took a wooden comb out from her sleeve and combed her untidy hair carefully. She then sorted out her dressing and wearing. It was only when she confirmed there was nothing wrong that she put the comb back into her sleeve.

Old yellow bull lowered his head slightly. Big white goose and little white wolf both leaned their bodies forward. Fifth Brother and Eighth Brother greeted a bow with hands folded in front; Yu Lian returned their salutes with a tidy and grave look. The autumn wind ceased and the autumn cicadas were quiet. The Academy was still how it used to be.

”Take good care of yourself on the way, Senior Sister,” said Song Qian.

”Thanks for taking care of the Academy for me, Fifth Brother.”

Yu Lian picked up the things wrapped in cloth from the side of the mountain path and walked towards the outside of the Academy.

After leaving the Princess mansion, Ning Que came out to the street, ready to go to the Academy. Though he needed to deal with many things in Chang'an City, he was still going to the Academy to fetch the array eye pestle. Moreover, he was very concerned about the safety of the Academy.

”You don't have to go.”

A young girl showed up in front of him and handed him something wrapped in cloth.

Ning Que was quite taken aback. He recognized the cloth immediately. It was one Sangsang had purchased for a bargain in the market of the eastern gate. Later he had used it to wrap the array eye pestle of God-stunning Array. The thing wrapped inside the cloth must be the array eye pestle.

Staring at the young girl before him, he took the array eye pestle with a wary look in his eyes. He was confused. He was pretty sure he had never met her, but he always had a strange feeling that he had met her somewhere before.

With a pair of pitch-black pigtails and innocent, beautiful facial features, this 12 or 13-year-old girl could be either a maiden or a little girl. She was right on the dividing line of these two states.

Looking deep into her eyes and seeing her indifferent and calm state of mind, he finally figured out who she really was. He was shocked speechless and nearly dropped the array eye pestle.

In precise words, Yu Lian described what had happened in the Academy, especially the fight with the Hierarch of the West-Hill Divine Palace. She spent a considerable amount of time telling him about the fact that the opponent was very short.

It then occurred to Ning Que that the glorious and radiant figure in the eyes of hundreds of millions of Haotian Taoism believers was actually no more than an illusion. The Hierarch Lord was actually a dwarf.

Back in the old days he had shot five people successively with Primordial Thirteen Arrows. Everyone, including the Great Divine Priest of Revelation and Ye Hongyu, had a hard time handling the power of his arrows. However, the Hierarch had hidden and was indifferent.

The scene at that time had put great pressure on Ning Que. He thought that the Hierarch was indeed such a supreme powerhouse of Haotian Taoism. He had faced the Primordial Thirteen Arrows in such an easy and relaxed manner. He was too profound to be understood.

Now he realized that the reason was due to the fact that the Hierarch Lord was short. What he had targeted at the time was the figure form. Since the iron arrow had shot over the Hierarch's head, it was quite natural that he did not need to hide.

”Why spare him?” Ning Que asked, recovering from the shock bit by bit.

”Some people are better living than dead.”

Yu Lian continued, ”Many years ago, when Xiong Chumo was very young, he went to the Wilderness to go through trials with the elders of Haotian Taoism. I was also young then. It was natural that a war occurred between us when we met each other. I disabled the Snow Mountain in his lower abdomen and left him in an unconscious state. It was completely unexpected that he got good out of misfortune and practiced Taoism devotionally without stopping to reach his current state. However, people with disabilities have problems in their psychology after all. Since he has already been discarded, it is not you who should be concerned but people from the West-Hill Divine Palace who should consider him a headache.”

Holding the same thoughts as the Hierarch and many other bigwigs of Haotian Taoism, it had never occurred to Ning Que that the Third Sister would be no more than a cultivator of the Seethrough Realm. Once he knew that the Academy was safe and sound as usual under her protection, Ning Que was not surprised at all. It was at this exact moment that he started to realize that it was not an ordinary powerhouse but the Hierarch Lord of the West-Hill Divine Palace that had been defeatedly badly by the Third Senior Sister. He started to ponder the Third Sister with astonishment.

In today's world, who had the ability to defeat the Hierarch Lord?

Ning Que was shocked.

To his surprise, the Third Sister before him was the Grandmaster of Devil's Doctrine—the Twenty-Three-year Cicada Cultivation!

Among the disciples of the Second floor of the Academy, it was the Third Sister Yu Lian whom Ning Que had known first. Even before he started communicating with Chen Pipi by letter, he and the Third Sister had met each other when he was ascending to the old library.

They had not talked much over the years. But at times of importance, she would speak up and give him direction. Moreover, this situation had already taken place before he entered the back of the mountain of the Academy, and she had been just an ordinary student then.

That was why Ning Que had always been respectful towards her. He was much more respectful towards the Third Sister than he was towards the Eldest and Second Brother.

There was wind blowing from outside the wall. Walking along the long narrow stairs of the city wall, Ning Que could not help glimpsing at Yu Lian every few steps. Looking at the pigtails dangling behind her head, Ning Que had difficulty getting accustomed to what he had seen.

”Anything wrong with my face?” Yu Lian asked.

Ning Que smiled. ”I just want to keep looking at you. Senior Sister, you are a big celebrity now.”

Yu Lian smiled faintly.

Ning Que said, ”No wonder Headmaster was not willing to acknowledge Tang Xiaotang as his disciple, it turns out it was an issue of seniority in the clan... So wasn't it that I was superior to Tang?”

Yu Lian said, ”If starting from the Enlightenment Doctrine, the founder initiating the sect, you have already been his senior for several generations.”

Ning Que said with admiration, ”The Third Sister of the Second floor is actually the Twenty-Three-year Cicada Cultivation.”

Yu Lian raised her brow slightly and said, ”It was just a coincidence. There was no way that the Headmaster would be concerned about these little tactics.”

Ning Que replied, ”Maybe the Headmaster likes to play around with these exact things.”

The two people, Senior Sister and Brother, had climbed to the city head of Chang'an while they talked.

A thought crossed Ning Que's mind. He took out an ID token from his belt.

The ID token was made of neither gold, nor wood, nor stone. It was pure white in color. There was a black-colored relief sculpture carved into the top. From the fresh imprint of the ridge, it was obvious that the ID token had been freshly carved.