119 A tough talk (1/2)
”I haven't seen you in a while.” Xiao Mei-er said. ”You have been quite busy lately. Why don't you sit down and we can talk for a bit.”
Bai Yun smiled and sat down. Then the three of them sat down to talk. The talk was mostly on what Bai Yun had been up to in the past few weeks. After hearing about Bai Yun's improvements in cultivation, his parents were quite pleased.
The chat also included Bai Mu's investigation into the devil rituals. Bai Mu had found more instances of devil rituals and had caught quite a few devil cultivators by following the clues they had left behind. But the news that they found from them was disheartening. The only thing that the devil cultivators could tell the investigators was that they had gained the devil rituals from an eerie masked man. After they got their hands on devil rituals, they all decided to practice them.
The people who were captured were true scum. Most of them had committed great evils. Thus they no second thought about doing such evil acts.
But they could find no information about the person who supplied them with the devil ritual. The person behind it just seemed to spread the devil rituals without asking anything in return. Even Bai Yun could not understand the reasoning behind it.
After a while, the talk changed to more banal topics. Soon they started to talk about their friends and gossip about the happenings in the clan. Now that the important matters had been dealt with it was time for Bai Yun to talk about his matter.
”Is there anything you want to tell us?” Bai Mu asked after seeing the way Bai Yun was behaving.
Bai Yun then took a deep breath. It was time to tell them about his plan.
”I have been here for a few months. My cultivation has improved rapidly in the past few months.” Bai Yun said. ”I have reached the four circle level in the soul path and the peak of both skin sewin and qi condensation.”
”But I have the feeling that my cultivation is stagnating a bit. And this is only my instinct, but I think that if I wish to reach the peak of cultivation, I need to experience more things in life. If I stay in the clan, then there is no danger to me. I can definitely increase my cultivation with the help of the clan, but I won't be able to stimulate my potential under stress.”
”And it is not only a matter of stimulating my potential under danger. My status in the clan is quite high. And that restricts the way in which I can grow.”
”And I have a feeling that only by experiencing many things, love and friendship, pain and loss, can I grow as a person.”
When Bai Yun finally finished speaking, there was a silence. ”What are you planning.” Bai Mu asked. ”You wouldn't have brought it all up if you hadn't thought of doing something.”
”I want to go on a journey alone for two years.” Bai Yun finally said his plan.
”Excuse me, did you say something. I couldn't hear anything.” Xiao Mei-er said with a smile.
Bai Yun turned to look at Xiao Mei-er. He felt goosebumps looking at her cold smile.
”I want to go on a journey alone for two years.” Bai Yun once again said softly.
”Sory. I still can't hear you.” Xiao Me-er once again.
'Bulls**t.' Bai Yun thought. With your cultivation, you can hear a mosquito on the other side of the mansion.
Bai Yun slowly sunk down in his chair. He truly felt fear at his mother currently.
”Journey. Two years.” BAi Yun said again.
”Sorry. Can you say it once again?” Xiao Mei-er said again.
”Mei, just a moment.” Bai Mu suddenly said. ”Let's hear what he has to say.”
”What are you talking about Mu.” Xiao Mei-er snapped.
”I just want to know why he wants to go on a journey right now.” Bai Mu said. ”Why now. And why a journey. If he wanted to go outside the protection of the clan, he could hide his identity. Or join a school.”
”It's true that I could hide my identity.” Bai Yun said. ”But it wouldn't be very effective. And the things that I can experience inside the clan are very limited anyway.”
”And as for an academy, the academy I want to join is the number one academy in the city of scholars, the Shadow Stream academy. But the academy increases the difficulty of its test based on a person's age. And I have wasted quite a few years in my muddlehead years. If I go now I may not be able to pass the entrance test. But I am confident that I can reach the required level in about two years. But I don't want to waste the next two years in the clan.”
”So I came up with a plan. I will travel to the city of scholars. The journey I am thinking about should take two years to complete.”
”But I do not intend to take the main road. The main road has a lot of major forces and the cultivation of the people there are also very high. Thus though the path, there is more ordered, there is a higher chance of me running into danger.”
”The path I am trying to follow is a string of routes along the southern foothills of the evergreen hills. By studying the various maps I was able to come up with a path that I can take to help me get to one of the entrance points to the plains of enlightenment. From there I can take a teleportation formation to the City of Scholars. The entire journey should only take a little more than a year, giving me enough time to travel as well as stay for a little while in each place.”
There was once again a silence after Bai Yun's talk. But a short while later, Xiao Mei-er's voice broke the silence. ”Impossible. There is no way I will agree to it.”