214 Granting Your Wish (1/2)
”I went to physicians and searched for medicine; nothing helped until I found a physician who was proficient in mystical Qi. He told me the problem lies within the cultivation skill I trained in – Second to None Magic. The martial arts world calls it… Art of Seclusion.”
Mi Kongqun said, ”My Second to None Magic was given to me by my master. He already knew the pros and cons, as well as the risks, of cultivating it.”
”But there was no turning back once I realized it.”
”Even if I destroyed the skill I’ve cultivated at once, or the entirety of my cultivation base even, nothing helps. My physical condition can’t be reversed!”
”I went to look for my master, I wanted to ask for an explanation. I couldn’t find him anymore….”
”Afterwards, I realized that there’s nothing else I can seek other than power… Gradually, from reluctance to an acknowledgment of my condition, from humiliation, from anger, and from despair… I managed to accept it – accepting because I had to accept it.”
”Five years passed. I’ve changed totally within the five years, into an entirely different person. My master appeared again then.”
”He asked me frankly, is it hard?”
”Is it hard? What say you? Is it hard?”
Mi Kongqun laughed weirdly.
”I guess your reply then should be… it isn’t!” Yun Yang answered softly.
Gritting his teeth, Mi Kongqun smiled saying, ”Correct. My answer then was, indeed it isn’t hard. I’ve already become so – even when I’m filled with complaints, what’s the point of it? There’s no meaning!”
”Seeing that I was willing to accept the reality, my master was pleased. He found out about the tense atmosphere at home too, saw how I suffered to go through days in the family… He asked if I wanted a way out, to change the state of my life.”
”That time, I answered without even thinking – I wanted to leave!”
”Back then, I felt that I had been patient for far too long!”
”My master arranged for me to enter the palace, saying since I can’t achieve the success of a man, I should seek another way. As long as I can achieve another kind of success, my life would not be a waste…”
”I chose to enter the palace, never regretting my decision… until now.”
”I haven’t returned home in a long, long time.”
”It was until that day when your family kidnapped my family that I went back. It was then that I saw my wife again.”
”My wife… Her stunning beauty had been unsurpassable then. Now, she has become an old wrinkled woman adorned in silver strands!”
Mi Kongqun snorted. ”Do you know that feeling? No, you won’t. If you hadn’t experienced it personally, how will you know what you’ve missed?”
Yun Yang kept quiet for a bit. Then, he asked, ”Your master… why did he harm you like this?”
The resentment burned brighter on Mi Kongqun’s face.
Yun Yang cultivated Endless Divine Art to cool his heart down completely, like wrapping snow and frost around it. Then he used the prowess of his deific consciousness, exuding it to its limit as he said unexpectedly, ”The people your master arranged to enter the palace all these years… I believe you were not the only one?”
No matter what had caused Mi Kongqun to drop his guard tonight, it was a godsend opportunity to Yun Yang. It was because of this that he attacked with his deific consciousness without hesitation.
Mi Kongqun felt even more dazed, the old tender romance that had long been buried in his heart surfacing fragment by fragment. It caused his resentment to flare like a prairie fire. Without a thought, he spat, ”Of course there wasn't just me. The Minister of Imperial Household, Jiang Zhong, came in even earlier than I did.”
”It shouldn’t only be the two of you. Since it’s a planned conspiracy, how can a storm be brewed if there are only two participants? There must be people who assisted you all,” Yun Yang continued to pester the beleaguered man.
Mi Kongqun sighed, ”Since it was supposed to be a wide-scaled affair, both the military and civil sides were unavoidably involved. Even during the royal purge this time, I was helped by both military and civil people… Speaking of which, it was only recently that I know that we have quite a number of men.”
Yun Yang’s deific consciousness was exerting its force to push Mi Kongqun; Emmie was helping with all its might too. His tone grew more nonchalant as he said smiling, ”I believe there must be a special existence that you’ve never expected…”
”It’s not only one person.” Mi Kongqun smirked. ”I didn't expect Shen Yushi and Yang Botao to be ours. What’s even more surprising is that the top man of Board of War’s Grand Commandant is also one of our people.”
Before he could finish, Mi Kongqun’s gaze flickered, perturbed. With the obvious growing unrest in his eyes, it was easily his self-defense mechanism kicking in and his subconscious struggling from being misled.
Sweat dotted Yun Yang’s forehead as it added to his pressure but his eyes bored holes into Mi Kongqun’s own pair and said, ”Then your master is the Four Seasons Tower’s…”
Mi Kongqun was having an internal battle but words rolled out his tongue before he could do anything about it. ”Of course he’s the Four Seasons Tower’s Autumn….”
That was all he could manage before a loud bang erupted. The chair he sat on was blown apart as he stood up, hollering angrily, ”You…”
A saber light shone in Yun Yang’s hand – a cold flash of glinting steel.
The Divine Edge was already deeply embedded into Mi Kongqun’s chest.