Chapter 716 - He Resurrected (1/2)

Lin Xuanzhi and Yan Tianhen’s courtyard was surrounded by flowing streams and pools, along with dry water lotuses that were grown in the North Land. However, because they became infected by evil Qi, all the beautiful lotus flowers in the pool dried up and withered very quickly.

It was hard to know what Yan Tianhen was thinking all the way. He said nothing and let Lin Xuanzhi lead him, as if he were leading a puppet. Walking on the corridor of dry lotus flowers, Yan Tianhen suddenly stopped. Lin Xuanzhi looked back at him.

Yan Tianhen said, “Wait a minute.”

He turned his hand upward toward the broken branches and leaves in the pool, and gradually formed a purple Qi mass in the palm of his hand. If you concentrated and looked carefully at the air mass, you could find that they were wisps of evil Qi that had been extracted from these dry lotuses.

As the Qi mass grew larger and larger, the dry lotus flowers began to slowly stretch their branches and leaves, and the dead trees returned to spring. Unexpectedly, they gradually recovered their quiet and brilliant appearances. The breeze blew gently, and the lotus flowers swaying in the pool were full of fragrance. They had a unique scent.

“I remember there were also many lotus flowers in Spirit Sect’s Heavenly Snow Pool,” Yan Tianhen said.

“They were in full bloom all year round — pure and elegant.” Lin Xuanzhi said faintly, “However, ever since you left, the pond full of lotuses no longer bloomed.”

Yan Tianhen was stunned and looked sideways at Lin Xuanzhi.

Lin Xuanzhi looked at him calmly. “It’s because they remember their old master, thinking that he hasn’t come to visit them all year round, so the flowers don’t know who they are blooming for. Rather than being admired by no one, it would be better to simply not bloom.”

The white lotuses in the Heavenly Snow Pool of those days were planted by Yan Tianhen himself. Although he possessed demonic Qi and came from the deadly Seventh Region in the demon world, he had his own method of planting flowers.

He was willing to pour his spiritual Qi into the flowers and plants. Although it was a waste, he was happy when he saw those flowers and plants with delicate and charming appearances, so he made the best of everything.

On the day he left the Spirit Sect, the lotus flowers in the Heavenly Snow Pool withered one by one and never bloomed again, which seemed to be a stubborn farewell for him. Since then, Chang Sheng had never seen such beautiful lotus flowers again.

Even plants can miss someone, people moreso.

Yan Tianhen lowered his eyes. “Too bad about those Snow Feather Weeping Lotuses. Originally, I was waiting for them to produce lotus seeds, then refine them into pills so that I can give them to Shixiong as a snack. But I didn’t expect that they wouldn’t give me any face. I raised them for decades, but they wouldn’t even produce a single lotus seed.”

To use them as snacks instead — the word “extravagant” was no longer enough to describe that. It was simply extravagant in the extreme and made people sigh. But this kind of thing really was something Lingyu would do.

Yan Tianhen also smiled. “Anyway, these things would just gather dust if left alone, so I’m happy to give them to Dage.”

“Naughty.” Lin Xuanzhi pinched the tip of Yan Tianhen’s nose, his voice full of pampering.

Yan Tianhen put his arms around Lin Xuanzhi’s waist, leaned against his arms and said with a muffled voice, “Dage, from now on, everyone else will know that I have cultivated evil Qi, and they will suspect I am a bad person and that I’m even colluding with evil Qi cultivators. In the future, wherever evil spirits pass by, people will think of my name. I–“

“Their suspicions are their business.” Lin Xuanzhi’s voice was both comforting and very domineering, “There is no evidence. If anyone dares to say something bad about you, I will tear apart their mouth.”

Yan Tianhen said, “You can’t stop the leisurely mouths of the whole world.”

Lin Xuanzhi replied, “If I am the only one, of course I can’t stop it, but there are also your parents, my dad, and the senior martial brothers and masters of Fuyao Sect. Even those who know you in Myriad Dao Academy will speak up for you. What’s more, as long as you’re alive, there will always be critics. You just have to care about those people who care about you. They will believe you, love you, protect you, and help you. That’s already good enough. Who cares what nonsense other people say?”

Yan Tianhen was stunned and said with a smile, “This doesn’t sound like something Chang Sheng Sword Venerable, who is praised all over the world, would say.”

One should know that people of Spirit Sect must uphold the rules of Spirit Sect, and when they were away from the sect, not a single strand of hair could be messy. If they encounter injustice on the road, they must help people as much as they are able to. They need to treat others courteously and properly. Their behaviors must be so perfect that outsiders will not have any ammunition to use against them; otherwise it will be greatly inappropriate.

As the chief disciple of Spirit Sect, Chang Sheng, who was born with a sword bone, was a paragon of virtue praised by thousands of people, because no one could find any flaws in him. His every word, deed, and move could be considered an example for people to work towards.

At that time, Dao Zu and Sheng Ren were unreachable gods, while Chang Sheng Sword Venerable was a real leader who could mobilize a great number of people at his command. Chang Sheng always restrained himself and observed proprieties. Was there a single arrogance or rudeness in his speech and behavior?

However, today’s Lin Xuanzhi had repeatedly broken Yan Tianhen’s understanding of his old friend, as if this person was breaking out of the cocoon as a butterfly and becoming more beautiful and dazzling.

When Lin Xuanzhi heard this, he only said, “I haven’t been Chang Sheng for a long time. The people of that era should have been buried in that era. Spirit Sect has long since ceased to exist, and its admonitions have already been corrected and abandoned. What’s more, I have never been a good-tempered person.”

Some people dared to bully Yan Tianhen wantonly right in front of his face. Did they really think he had a good temper and wouldn’t quarrel with a young woman just because he was a Grandmaster?

He’d never cared about exercising restraint just because Grandmasters shouldn’t abuse their powers.

Yan Tianhen was his, and even if he had done something wrong, he should be the one to discipline him. As for those around him, especially those outsiders, who dared to brazenly say that they had this qualification?