779 Supreme Cloud’s Conduc (1/2)
”Don't understand? You really don't understand? This is but a situation that Supreme Cloud purposefully creates!” Ling Xiaozui inhaled softly, his gaze exceptionally profound and distant.
”You and Yun Yang haven't been spending a lot of days together. Supreme Cloud does things his way; different but measured,” said Ling Xiaozui, ”The reason we have such feelings all comes from his intentional doing.”
”What do you mean?”
”Since we crossed paths, Supreme Cloud has always been the weaker one. However, today, right now, we acknowledge him as our peer. Isn't this so?”
”Not at all.” Dugu Chou chuckled dryly. ”Now, I keep feeling like he's the centerpiece of all this.”
”All this time, while we've helped him, we're also accepting his favors. With Yun Yang, have you ever seen anyone receiving a gain without working for it? Or simply just gaining?”
”This… Indeed, I haven't. Everyone has their own responsibilities and each of us performs our tasks. Even when we sometimes intersect, there's no entanglement.”
”That's right, even us. We've been helping him – although our initial intention was to bring up a junior and never ask for anything in return, he's repaid us in various ways, including the practice sessions with us. Do you really think that he needed it so desperately as we've thought? That he's the only one improving from the drills?”
”Pardon?”
”Other than the first time, when he did need to meld and secure his cultivation base, to grind the martial skill he's learned, the two sessions daily that wore him out thoroughly – they weren't necessary to him.”
”I can easily say that what he secured was his foundation, but what we gained was unlimited paths to go forth. Each of our physical aspects, our art, and divine senses, have stepped up from the practices. These weren't absolutely necessary to him, he was doing more work with less efficiency!”
”That is indeed true.”
”Thinking through it, we've accepted his service unknowingly a long time ago, pulling our positions to the same level.”
”This time is no exception. He has asked us to annihilate the School of Kismet State – while we have to handle the case, he's given us all that can be gained from the school and he's not taking a sliver of it.”
”From the outside, this is what we should get. We're going to wipe out the School of Kismet State. Who else do those things belong to, if not us?”
”However, if he were to go with us, could you have forgone your dignity and looted the findings with a junior? That, and he's carrying the name of justice. As long as he goes, at least eighty percent of these will go to him. Do you not acknowledge this distribution?”
”How can I not? It's undeniable even if all of it goes to him. If so, it makes sense to say that these are also given by him.”
”Still, these aren't quite adequate. It doesn't suffice to cover the favor of us fighting Four the Seasons Tower for him and helping to tackle Ximen Huanyu today. Therefore, he gave us the Eastern Amethyst.”
”Once and for all, he has recompensed all the favor and debt! Went past it, even!”
”This results in the establishment of his new position. His title has gone from the initial senior to… elder brother. Yet, we don't feel offended – we only think that it's befitting.”
”He's never given anyone anything on his own initiative without a reason but he'd never mistreat anyone's assistance. This is Yun Yang's conduct. It's like how he has given me the Rainbow Kirin in the past; it's the same case.”
”Maybe it was intentional, maybe it didn't even cross his mind, maybe I'm reading too much into it today – but such extreme balance is truly felt being around Yun Yang!”