Vol 2 Chapter 242 (2/2)
The old man had no choice but to obey
”After Ku He awoke, the fairy forced us to swear a vow, and then we headed south,” said Xiao En, recounting his merew It seeh the world of e, I know Every tiet a sense of just how marvelous her poere immortals and mortals are different indeed, and we are but fools who understand nothing
”Later on, there was one day when the fairy turned around to look at the snowyto herself - 'he deserves our sympathy' I remember it very clearly, because I had never seen such a look of compassion on the face of any mortal”
Of course, Fan Xian knew that his mother was not a fairy He presumed she probably was not particularly powerful at that time, but to be able to scare two of the world's most powerful men, she definitely had brains But he didn't understand - exactly as she referring to when she said ”he deserves our sympathy”?
And he didn't believe in this feeling of coh
”You and I are but rats living in the gutter,” sneered Xiao En ”How can we coht in the clouds of the highest peaks of heaven? I could not describe the look on that little fairy's face, but it is soet”
Fan Xian was silent
”The next day, the fairy disappeared without a trace I didn't knohere she had gone Her sudden disappearance in that endless snow scared Ku He and asped for breath as he continued to narrate his memories ”This was the ht of an iured our luck was pretty good”
”Then you and Ku He returned to the Kingdom of Wei?” asked Fan Xian
”Correct The way back was even more perilous than the way there, but we ave the fairy's pill to His Majesty The whole business ended rather favorably”
”Don't try to trick me,” said Fan Xian ”Surely you sed the pill yourself”
Xiao En let out a hissing laugh ”I knew I couldn't trick you”
”Does the elixir of immortality really exist?” asked Fan Xian
”It's a tehed Xiao En ”Of course I sed the pill Though my health improved, immortality was absolutely impossible That's when I realized the fairy had tricked me”
”I believe that tricking people is that fairy's favorite thing to do,” said Fan Xian, seely in another world, ”perhaps even in her death”
”Death?” asked Xiao En ”How can a fairy die?”
Fan Xian paid no attention to hi to look back in his own er Now darkness surrounded theht of the stars and the moon It was pitch-dark, and Xiao En could not see what he was doing
”Why does Ku He want you dead?” Fan Xian had finally voiced his suspicions ”I don't believe that your knowledge of the temple's location could cause such trouble”
Xiao En felt that Fan Xian's question was rather odd ”Everyone knohat the temple means to the world of et out, there would be chaos across the land Whether it was the young son of the Zhan fa, they would all send their e The world's most powerful men would not cease in their efforts to find the temple”
Fan Xian rubbed his nose ”The te temple What's there to worshi+p?”
Xiao En laughed coldly ”Ku He reatest of the grandmasters Such a teer than you could ie? He kneeled so piously before the temple, but the moment that fairyhe ever believed in and attacked When faced with his own benefit, he is si his true nature
”If you had killed me, then he would be the only person in the world who knew of the temple's location,” continued Xiao En ”What does the temple really hold? Perhaps Ku He will never be able to find out, but he has already benefited fro the world's strongest people have that same chance?”
Fan Xian thought for a ht He could understand, to so Xiao En Perhaps he had wanted to preserve his own glory as the grands that had happened on their journey north exposed Perhaps Ku He knew that the things the teer to the world
”So what is really inside the temple?”
Fan Xian was deep in thought Without thinking, he traced the ”do not” runes on the te faster and faster
”For a thousand years, mortals have all known that the tereat risks in searching for it We had proof of its existence, and as long as we left the temple, the people of the temple would not come to trouble the world of do Heaven in all its ht?”
Xiao En's energy had gradually faded away His voice became weaker and weaker, but the terror in his words would not subside ”Besides, the fairy had sworn us to secrecy Given that Ku He claiet, how could he dare go back on his word?”
”Do not put too s people promise,” said Fan Xian ”Did you not just tell me the location of the temple?”
”That is because I am about to die” With some difficulty, Xiao En turned his head to one side ”And you will die in this cave too”
Fan Xian let out a laugh tinged with slight regret ”I don't think so”