Chapter 472 Not Intentionally Targeting Anyone (2/2)

An adorable little girl was playing under the peach tree. With fallen petals and peach flowers, it was a beautiful sight.

Shen Lian let out a laugh and said, ”This cup of wine is known as the peach blossom brew. The last time you came, you were considered as our nation's enemy and that was why I did not offer you a cup. Now you can have some.”

Liu Mengde hesitated. After all he was the manifestation of the peach. It would be weird to drink the brew of the peach blossom.

Shen Lian noticed his hesitation and said, ”Fallen flowers aren't heartless creatures, they turned into spring soil to protect the flowers. Life and death, death and life, are you still not over it?”

Liu Mengde lifted the tea cup and placed it down.

Shen Lian said, ”A cup of peach blossom brew is worthy of a year of cultivation for you.”

Liu Mengde sighed and said, ”I am over it, but I am not used to it.”

Shen Lian laughed and said, ”I only have one thing to say. Keeping the fire will alive is going to be a matter of course. You and I are beyond mortals and naturally we are not constrained by moral etiquette. But after awhile, it is inevitable to have some fixed habits. But if cultivation became something fixed, there would not be anything interesting about it. Just like the peach blossoms that came from the same tree. Some would end up along the streams, some would fall around the well while others would fall into the muddy soil. It's all in their luck.”

Liu Mengde was convinced down to his spirit, he said, ”What you said was profound and I have gained from it. Although in different shapes, but the heart remained the same. Great things are done by a series of small things brought together.”

He meant that cultivators come in all types of appearances but the heart of cultivation would never change. If today was not the day, there would still be next year.

Shen Lian responded, ”I look forward to it.”

Liu Mengde said, ”I was really panicky when I met my Grandmaster at the Xuan Zhen Temple. But I've spoken to you twice and and I am not as terrified anymore, as if the spring wind just breezed through me. I really don't understand why because the Grandmaster treated me equally too.”

Shen Lian gazed leisurely as a peach blossom fell and landed on his younger sister, Xiao Ke's head. He said, ”Any ordinary being will feel solemn when they see a tall mountain. But the sky is higher than the mountain and people tend to take that for granted. Your next question to me is how would I deal with the country of Da Xi, am I right?”

Liu Mengde said, ”That was my intention. Da Xi treated me well. Although the Monarch refused my advice, but I do not want to just fold my arms and look on when they are in trouble.”

Shen Lian calmly said, ”They are not worthy of me. But Da Xi would fall for sure. Supernatural powers could never beat fate ordained by the heavens. It's close to night, you should hurry and go to the Luo River. Maybe you still can rescue some people. It all depends on the will of heaven.”

Liu Mengde was shocked, ”Senior, what was it that you are trying to say?”

”Thunderstorms, earthquakes and landslides. The heavens were not intentionally targeting anyone but these natural disasters would still happen. For instance, would you care about the ants at the side of your body before you turn your body over when you are in bed?” Shen Lian replied.

Shen Lian got up, he went to the peach tree and carried his sister Xiao Ke. He caressed her hair and asked, ”What do you feel like having today?”

Xiao Ke looked at the Black Tiger and swallowed her drool, ”Can we have dog meat?”

The Black Tiger trembled and angrily thought to himself, ”My little Master, I am a tiger! I allow you to ride on me everyday and yet you still want to eat me.”

Shen Lian looked at the black tiger and said, ”Yinyin, this is not a dog.”