1086 The Strai (2/2)

”I am different, I am not a gift left by Haotian to the world. From that moment onwards, I'm not even qualified to be her son, of course, now I have lost interest in this kind of alias. I am nothing, I betrayed her and I only believed in myself. In this case, killing me means nothing, so why risk it?”

”Yes,” Ning Que said, his fingers gently caressing the bowstring, which was as hard as stone and as stable as a mountain.

Long Qing said, ”You will not take the initiative to kill me, but I wanted to come and find you… because I feel you are getting closer to finding her. I have different thoughts with my teacher, I thought you had the best chance of finding her so I can't let you go on. I don't care what you wanted to write but I can't let you write it anymore.

Ning Que raised his head and looked into the depths of the clouds, ”You have high expectations for me,” he said.

The voice of Long Qing sounded, ”Those who had despised you are all dead.”

Ning Que was silent for a moment and replied, ”I despised you a lot before back when you wanted to be her maidservant.”

Long Qing said, ”Yes, looking back at that time and thinking about her identity, I find myself to be rather stupid, arrogant, and idiotic.”

Ning Que said, ”This is the first time you used the word 'idiot'. You are powerful, which leaves me with nothing to say.”

Long Qing replied, ”Thanks a lot.”

Ning Que continued, ”After that, I shot an arrow at you on the snow cliff, but you actually survived. You survived shamelessly and alerted me as I live in such a way too. In fact, you almost killed me during that autumn rain at Red Lotus Temple.”

The voice of Long Qing had a hint of regretfulness, ”But I still didn't manage to kill you in the end.”

Ning Que said, ”Now that I think about it, everything that has happened is God's will.”

Long Qing agreed, ”Haotian has been by your side back in that year, of course, God's will sides with you too.”

”If I were you, I would be dissatisfied,” Ning Que said.

Long Qing replied, ”Nothing to be dissatisfied with.”

Ning Que said, ”Otherwise, why would you be here now?”

He had asked this question before, and Long Qing had answered it. In order to not let him find Sangsang, in order to not let him write that very word, for Taoism or the world, for brilliance, greatness, justice...

Yet he had asked again.

Long Qing was silent for a long time, then gave a new answer. ”Yes, this is an unnecessary fight. Haotian, Taoism, the world… and that word you wrote were all excuse. I just wanted to see if I could kill you now because I… am dissatisfied.”

In the mist, his voice was very calm, like a naughty child that stripped off his clothes playing mud in the river, that had finally obtained freedom and happiness, so real that it left people surging with emotions.

Among the quietness, there was nothing but the sound of water.

Ning Que stood up and looked at the clouds where the sound had come from. He didn't speak for a long time.

Long Qing also did not speak for a long time.

The world was huge, and they did not meet much, but each and every time they met it would be engraved in their hearts. Wanting a handmaiden at the banquet, the mountaineering of the two-floor high mountain, the arrow that broke the boundary on the snow cliff, three times in a row, all were won by Ning Que.

Because of the Steel Arrow, Long Qing became a disabled person, he gave up his fiancee, entered the dark and became a devil. He learned the practice of Grey Eyes and betrayed Taoism. He thought it was a great success, thus planned an ambush in front of Red Lotus Temple and waited for Ning Que. He did not expect that Ning Que had learned the Practice of Taotie, even if it looked like two wild dogs biting each other, the final victory still belonged to Ning Que.

There were still many stories following those, the bountiful ones; the bitter ones; the glamorous ones, and the heavy ones. Two of them walked along the two sides of the river in accordance with their own destiny, they survived through hardships and continued to shine.

Until they met each other in this desperate place, as they sat and prattled.

It was about life and death, just these two words.

Dissatisfied.

If there was already Ning Que in the world, what's the point of me being here?

Long Qing, dissatisfied.

This story was too long and it was time for an ending.

With reason, or without, it did not matter.

Ning Que quietly looked at the depths of clouds, he could feel the will and became emotional. He had felt that will in many places he had been before.

Such as at the bottom of Daming lake, such as the cliff caves in the mountain right behind the Academy.

He did not expect that Long Qing's unreconciled will was so strong. He had a lot of respect for Long Qing.

He raised his steel bow, aimed at the position confirmed by the conversation they had and did not hesitate to release.

Swoosh, the Steel Arrow was released from the string and disappeared without a trace.

His face was as calm and cold as ever.

After saying a few words, reminiscing the past, showing some respect and emotion, but, I still want to kill you.

Since you had been in dissatisfaction for such a long time, so, please continue to feel so, until you've reached the netherworld.

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