1113 Unfolding The Sky I (2/2)
The Abbey Dean asked, ”How would parents teach their children?”
The Eldest Brother said, ”But we are no parents to the human beings. You know it. Besides, who would ever want an extra pair of parents to tell them what to do?”
The Abbey Dean said, ”I love the people, no matter whether they love me.”
The Eldest Brother paused for a long while then said, ”I am not sure whether we and our Headmaster are right. But I am certain that you are wrong.”
”Probably.”
The Abbey Dean sensed the quake coming from the south and knew that the girl in the yellow dress was approaching. He turned to head downward, and almost disappeared in a blink.
The Eldest Brother looked at his receding figure and said, ”I'm still alive.”
The unwitnessed fight was over. The winner was obviously the Abbey Dean. But he would not kill the Eldest Brother. Why?
The Abbey Dean smiled silently. And the Eldest Brother got it.
Someone who sought for eternity must be afraid of loneliness. The one least willing to kill the second must be the first. To live an endless or eternal life, it was most important to have some company. In other words, they needed someone that could understand them.
It was likewise for the Drunkard and the Butcher. The Abbey Dean insisted that he was right. Then he wanted to prove it to someone. But to whom? Who would be qualified? Of course it could only be Li Manman.
”In fact you should know that I came here mainly for the Bright Volume.”
To kill Sangsang was important for the Abbey Dean. But in order to seize her divine character, it was obviously more important to collect the Seven Volumes of Arcane Tomes.
Taoism had kept six volumes of the Arcane Tomes. The seventh had been in the Academy with the Eldest Brother. If the Abbey Dean wanted to gather the Seven Volumes of Arcane Tomes, he had to conquer him.
The Eldest Brother said, ”Right. Therefore I don't have the Bright Volume with me.”
At the beginning of the fight he knew he would lose to the Abbey Dean. If he had carried the Bright Volume with him, it would almost be like presenting it to the enemy himself.
The Abbey Dean said, ”It doesn't matter. Because you are as important as the Arcane Tome… As long as you are defeated, who else in the world could keep me away from the Bright Volume?”
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The meadow in the front yard of the Academy was still fresh and green in deep winter. Those peach trees that were moved from Peach Mountain were blooming as if they had become the cold-resistant winter sweets. Or was it because they were welcoming its former master?
The indigo gown swayed in the breeze and the Abbey Dean arrived at the Academy. He proceeded inside.
No one could stop him.
The female math professor who was wearing a loose indigo gown and sweeping the courtyard fell onto the ground. Professor Huang He was still recovering and could not move much.
The Cloud Gathering Array was broken through with no efforts.
The Abbey Dean came to the plateau on the Back Hill of the Academy. There was no old cattle, white goose, or waterwheel on the brook. There was only a tranquil lake and the houses scattered in the woods by the lake, secluded and uninhabited.
He stood quietly by the lake and pondered for a long while. He had never been to the Back Hill of the Academy. It meant a lot to him. Then he left for the Arcane Tome. There was a place in the Academy where they kept the largest collection of books. That was the cave. The Abbey Dean came to the cave and realized that there was someone else in the Back Hill of the Academy. There was a Bookman.
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