Chapter 962: Love lost, friendship gone (2/2)
Long Feiye and Han Yunxi were gone. Now Emepror Kangcheng and Long Tianmo had left. Gradually, the rest of the audience dispersed as well. In less than three days, news of Bai Yanqing’s status as a Poison Gu human had reached all corners of Cloud Realm Continent, making everyone’s hearts tremble in fear. Many prominent families wrote jointly signed letters to ask Medical City for an explanation. Medical City and the Poison Sect issued a public statement together to acknowledge the rumors while expelling Bai Yanqing from the bloodline records of the Poison Sect.
Soon enough, Jun Yixie caught wind of the news as well and dropped the secret missive in his hands. He fell to his knees soon afterwards. Master had chosen Hundred Poisons Sect instead of him, which was already disappointing enough. Not only that, he’d actually exposed the truth about the Great Qin Empire’s civil war and even turned himself into a Poison Gu human!
While learning poisons from Bai Yanqing, he had asked the man multiple times about the Poison Sect’s Poison Gu humans, but every time his master had only said he “didn’t know.” Why had Bai Yanqing hidden himself so deeply? What was he trying to accomplish? He’d called the man master for so many years, but there wasn’t a speck of affection between master and disciple in him!
“Poison Gu human...hahaha...what a Poison Gu human!”
“Very good...very good!”
Muttering to himself, Jun Yixie suddenly erupted into a shout. “Bai Yanqing! You lied to me!”
The anger and resentment hidden in his heart finally exploded. His eyes red with fury, Jun Yixie screamed, “Bai Yanqing, my Black Clan breaks all ties with you! From now on, we’re irreconcilable!”
Jun Yixie spent an entire night calming himself down and convincing himself to break off master-disciple relations for good. No matter what Bai Yanqing wanted to do, the next time they met, they’d be enemies. At first light, he went to find Ning Cheng. After all, there were more important matters to discuss. Long Feiye and Han Yunxi had made up, so East and West Qin were no longer an alliance, but one family now!
He wanted to see what Ning Cheng thought of all this.
By the time Jun Yixie arrived, Ning Cheng had just got out of bed. The floor around him was littered with wine tankards and the stench of alcohol hung in the air. Of course, these were ordinary wine issued to the army, not Bai Yuqiao’s specially purchased jars.
“What, drowning your worries in wine?” Jun Yixie mocked him. “Your West Qin princess can finally justify standing by Long Feiye’s side. Ning Cheng, you’re done for!”
Ning Cheng looked at him, drowsy-eyed and drunk, dejected and despairing. He smirked and said, “Hehe, wasn’t I done for ages ago?”
Jun Yixie abruptly grabbed him by the collar and roared, “Ning Cheng, you told me that the world was mine and Han Yunxi yours! Pull yourself together! You want 30,000 battle horses, don’t you? I’ll give them to you right now!”
A spark of life flashed in Ning Cheng’s eyes, but he continued feigning depression and shoved Jun Yixie’s hand aside. With one turn of his body, he fell off the bed and onto the ground. Pointing at Jun Yixie with a tipsy smile, he said, “Alright, then it’s set! The world is Long Feiye’s, and Han Yunxi...Han Yunxi is Long Feiye’s too! She’s Long Feiye’s! Haha!”
Jun Yixie was already in a foul mood, but these words only ignited his temper. He picked up a basin of cold water and emptied it on Ning Cheng’s head before throwing the thing at his face. “Ning Cheng, come to your senses! Right now!”
Ning Cheng massaged his temples as if he’d just regained his wits. He glanced at Jun Yixie before silently striding towards the door.
“Stop right there!” Jun Yixie demanded.
Ning Cheng kept walking. Over the past few days, he and Jun Yixie had been in a deadlock. Jun Yixie refused to give him any horses while he didn’t offer pay or provisions.
“Ning Cheng, write a letter to Myriad Merchant Hall this instant and have the Ning Clan troops make preparations. The 30,000 horses stationed at Skyriver City--I’ll give them to you!” Jun Yixie said generously.
He’d already said it once, but Ning Cheng had been playacting to dispel any suspicions the man might have. Jun Yixie didn’t immediately bring up demands for pay or provisions, which meant he had accepted Ning Cheng’s terms: to have the battle horses successfully in the Ning Clan troops’ hands before he paid him a cent.
“Alright!” Ning Cheng neither rejoiced nor turned his head, but took on a complicated expression. He hadn’t been drunk at all last night, but was thinking of which person in the Di Clan to address his letter to. It would be a hard letter to write with Jun Yixie’s eye on him the entire time.
After some thought, he finally settled on one person. That was…
1. Princess Dehe (德和公主) - De means “virtue,” He means “peace.” In this case, Dehe refers to her title, not her actual name. (Don’t ask me about Princess Changping, I don’t know because the author never told us that one haha.)
2. Duanmu Jin (端木瑾) - Duanmu is a two-character surname, Jinmeans “the brilliance (of gems).” Don’t confuse it with Jin (金), which means “gold!” This is actually quite a lovely name, hmhm~