Looking at the beautiful girl on the white horse, her hair blown by the winter wind, Ning Que's heart ached. He knew that the situation he was facing now was a little tricky. He did not have many choices left. He could either defeat her from the horse or reveal his identity as a student of the Academy. But should he call himself Zhong Dajun or something else?
The problem was that this girl was one of the three Addicts in the world. Even though her cultivation state was not as high as the Tao Addict and Mo Shanshan, her cultivation state was at the upper Seethrough State, which was enough to bully him. As for revealing his identity as a student of the Academy, Ning Que was still a little hesitant.
Lu Chenjia looked down at him calmly. From her expression, it could be seen that she did not care about his answer at all. She continued, "Harsh, bitter, and dark. The Calligraphy Addict I met today disappointed me. Because she was originally like me, a rare pure person in this world. She was one of the few friends I had in this chaotic and disappointing world. So I am very curious as to who caused such a huge change in her."
"I know that there are many dark and ugly things in the world that people like you regard as wisdom. I do not understand and do not want to get involved. I also do not want her to get involved. I hope that you will stay away from her in the future."
Ning Que raised his head to look at the beautiful princess on horseback and replied gently, "Your Highness, I don't think I need your advice on the relationship between me and the Hill Master. And I don't think such advice will be effective."
"Shanshan is pure in nature and has not experienced the affairs of the world. When she first comes into contact with your dark tricks, she will probably find it interesting and think that it is the truth. But you must remember that you men are ultimately the dust and dirt of the world. No matter how you try to cover it up with words and actions, you will one day reveal the filth within. "
Lu Chenjia looked at him coldly and did not hide her disgust. She said, "I just don't want her to be deceived by you. I don't want her to experience disappointment. That is why I came to see you to say these words."
Hearing this, Ning Que was certain of a few things. The legendary Anthomaniac Princess was not a naive girl who only knew about flowers and plants and hid in her garden. On the contrary, she was very intelligent and sensitive. She could quickly find out the possible reason for Mo Shanshan's change. Moreover, she was a bit of a neat freak both physically and mentally.
Thinking of the battle with the Horse Gang, the cavalrymen of Divine Hall on the meadow, the horse carriage in the middle of the cavalrymen, and the beautiful girl in front of him was also in the carriage at that time, Ning Que became more and more confused. Where did her obsession with spiritual cleanliness come from? How did it manifest in her daily life?
"Men are filthy things like mud, and women are pure spring water?"
Ning Que looked at Lu Chenjia, who was on horseback. He smiled and said, "Is that what Your Highness is trying to say?"
Lu Chenjia's expression changed slightly. She did not expect this dark and dirty man to be able to summarize her thoughts so accurately and concisely. While she was surprised, the pride hidden under her calm and gentle appearance prevented her from mocking Ning Que again. Instead, she nodded.
Ning Que suddenly smiled and asked, "What about Prince Long Qing?"
During his discussion with Mo Shanshan last night, he had mentioned that the Flower Addict, Lu Chenjia, who had grown up around the White Tower and lived in the Imperial Palace since she was a child, was as pure as a piece of paper in terms of cultivation and love. They could only start from these two aspects if they wanted to grab hold of the gap between her and Prince Long Qing. Everyone knew about her relationship with Prince Long Qing, so her so-called feelings would naturally fall on that perfect man.
Lu Chenjia sensed that the young man with the hateful smile on his face had brought up Prince Long Qing. She smiled mockingly and said calmly, "An idiot like you would naturally not understand that a perfect and flawless man lives in the pure and bright world that you will never be able to touch."
Hearing these words, especially the words "perfect and flawless", Ning Que could not help but think of Sangsang's evaluation of Prince Long Qing in the wine shop in Chang 'an. He could not help but shake his head and laugh.
Lu Chenjia's face turned cold when she saw him laughing for no reason. That was because his laughter was obviously because of Prince Long Qing. To her, this was even more serious than humiliating herself.
Ning Que suddenly stopped smiling and looked at the beautiful girl on the horse. He asked seriously, "In this world, other than the West-Hill Divine Palace after the Light and the wordless flowers and plants that you cherish so much, everything else is dirty and untouchable. Then I really want to know, Your Highness, do you really think that everything that happened on the meadow that day was clean?"
Lu Chenjia looked into his eyes and said calmly, "That has nothing to do with me. I only know that if you want to use this to drive a wedge between me and Shanshan and lure her into the path of darkness, then you deserve to die."
Ning Que looked back into her eyes and said gently, "What are you saying? If Your Highness really wanted to kill me, you would have done so long ago. Why did you specially call me here to talk in private?"
Lu Chenjia gently stroked the neck of the white horse and said softly, "I just want to remind you today that no matter what you are thinking, even if you can hide it from Shanshan, you can't hide it from me and everyone else in the world. You are just an insignificant person like a worm. There are many people in the world who can make you wish you were dead."
Ning Que's expression became gentler and calmer. He said softly, "What you are doing now seems to be the dirty methods of the world that you hate."
Lu Chenjia looked at him and said, "Haotian saw the suffering of the world and turned herself into an old woman to help the people and kill the evil. I don't want to get involved in your dirty ways, but it doesn't mean that I will never use harsh methods."
At this moment, there was no coldness or disgust in her eyes. There was only calmness and gentleness. However, this calmness and gentleness made one feel even more depressed. That was because the gaze in her clear and moving eyes seemed to be looking at a mudskipper struggling in the mud. There was no pity, just a natural look of disdain.
She was the Flower Addict of the three addicts in the world. She was a fairy above the clouds and should not be tainted by dust. On the other hand, Ning Que was just an insignificant person who tried to get close to another addict with some petty tricks. It was natural for her to look down on him. It was natural for her to want him to obey her words. There was no unnatural feeling.
This was the norm in the world. Ning Que had seen many colder gazes since he was young. His skin was as thick as a wall and he did not care about the girl's expression at all. He smiled and replied, "Being alive is definitely better than being dead. I really can't think of any situation that can make people feel that they are better off dead than alive."
Lu Chenjia asked, "Are you really curious?"
Ning Que smiled and said, "This kind of thing is too dangerous. It's safer not to be curious."
Lu Chenjia looked at him quietly and suddenly smiled. She said, "An insignificant person will always be an insignificant person. He only knows how to talk and play petty tricks. He will never dare to show the slightest bit of bravery in the real world."
Perhaps the girl wanted to use these words to anger Ning Que so that she would have a reason to punish him. Or perhaps she was just a little disappointed and emotional after seeing Ning Que's performance.
However, when Ning Que heard this, he suddenly became silent.
He looked up at the azure sky and at the cloud that was gradually floating above the meadow. He frowned slightly and began to think about some problems. After the journey, he reflected on the two years since he left the City of Wei.
The winter wind blew from afar in the Wilderness, blowing his clothes and Lu Chenjia's hair. He did not speak, and neither did Lu Chenjia. Both of them were silent on the horse and on the horse.
"When I was in the City of Wei, the highest official was General Ma. That general only had a few hundred people under him. He was really powerful. However, I have seen General Xiao Qi of the Seventh Link Stockade Village once. I was very excited because I was rewarded for my meritorious service. However, I did not expect that General Xiao Qi did not even look me in the eye and left in a hurry after handing out the reward. I reckon that he still does not remember who I am. "
Ning Que retracted his gaze and looked at the girl on the horse. He smiled and said, "From that day on, I understood that no matter how many military achievements I made, I would always be an insignificant person. At that time, I did not know what cultivators looked like. I thought that you were all immortals who could fly in the sky. I did not know what kind of Divine Realm your world was. I thought that you all lived in a fairyland in the sky."
"As for the Divine Hall, Prince Long Qing, the Tao Addict, the Calligraphy Addict, the Flower Addict, and the Three Addicts of the world, to me, an insignificant person, they were existences above the clouds. I did not even dare to hope to get close to them."
He pointed at the cloud floating above the meadow.
"But now, many things seem to have changed. For example, I can sit in the same carriage with the Calligraphy Addict. For example, Your Highness, you are now on a horse and not on the cloud. You are so close to me."
Ning Que looked at her and said with a smile, "We are so close that I can touch your face with my hand. I believe that other than the King of Yuelun Kingdom and Prince Long Qing, no one else has touched your face before … Don't be angry. I am just using this to explain something. The changes I mentioned just now were too intense and fast. It was so fast that I could only accept it passively. I did not have the time to summarize and analyze it. I did not have the time to discover a fact. That is why there are so many problems."
Lu Chenjia looked at him quietly and asked, "What fact?"
"The fact is that I am no longer an insignificant person. Then, I should not do things in the style of an insignificant person."
After saying this, Ning Que smiled. His dimples filled the winter wind blowing on the Wilderness. His eyes reflected the white clouds floating in the sky. He was incomparably fresh and confident.
He knew that the girl on the horse had psychological problems. He had prepared some other means, the means of an insignificant person. However, after being pressured by the other party, he suddenly thought of what Second Brother had told him before he left. He thought about what Second Brother would do if he was in Second Brother's shoes. Second Brother was his idol, and Youngest Uncle was Second Brother's idol. Then, what would Youngest Uncle do if he was in Second Brother's shoes?
Based on Second Brother's arrogant character, he would probably take off the ancient crown on his head and use it as a club to beat the Flower Addict on the horse until her face was swollen. He would definitely not have tender feelings for the fairer sex. If it was Youngest Uncle, he would probably pull out his sword and cut off the head of the arrogant white horse. Then, he would step on the Flower Addict's face.
Ning Que was not like Second Brother, who had reached the Knowing Destiny State. He was also not like Youngest Uncle, who had left Jianghu for a long time but was still a legend. He was just a newcomer and his state was pathetically at No Doubts State. However, he was still a student at the back of the mountain of the Academy and a core disciple of the Headmaster of the Academy.
He did not have the ability to defeat the Three Addicts of the World. He could not drag Lu Chenjia off the horse, take off her pants, and spank her bare butt until it turned red. Then, he could ask Mo Shanshan to draw a sketch and send it to Prince Long Qing. However, since he had already understood that he should leave the world of insignificant people and decided to reveal his identity, he naturally had his own way.
"When I bought this gift yesterday, I told the merchant from the Yan Kingdom that it was for you. Only then did he agree to sell it to me. I spent a hundred taels of silver on it. It's not cheap."
Ning Que picked up the square box that he had been holding in his arms and untied the cloth on it. In the box was a small flower tree that was secured by a straw frame and protected by a paper film. He tore off the paper film and showed Lu Chenjia the breathtakingly beautiful blue petals and green stems. He said, "Of course, even if I gave this flower to you now, I believe that you would not change your opinion of me. So, I'm just letting you take a look."
Lu Chenjia was slightly stunned. She looked at the blue flower tree in his hands and recognized that it was an extremely rare seven-petal blue lotus. This lotus was blue in color and extremely beautiful. Unfortunately, even though this flower was resistant to drought and cold, it was often accompanied by extremely strong nemeses. Therefore, there were very few of them in the world.
"The seven-petal blue lotus … is indeed a good flower. It's not expensive to sell it for a hundred taels of silver in the Wilderness."
Even though Lu Chenjia hated Ning Que, she was a flower addict and naturally loved flowers. Her evaluation was extremely objective and honest. Then, she frowned slightly and reprimanded, "Even if the seven-petal blue lotus is resistant to cold, it is still a plant from the South of Yan. How can it withstand the cold wind in the Wilderness? Hurry up and put away the paper film!"
Ning Que was very obedient. The girl on the horse asked him to keep it, so he kept it. However, he did not keep the rare flower tree in his hands, but the hands that were holding the flower pot.
The flowering tree slipped from his hands and instantly fell to his feet. When it touched the hard ground of the Wilderness, the flowerpot cracked and shattered like fragile glass. The paper film of the straw rack was all smashed. The beautiful flowering tree inside suddenly became unrecognizable. Its petals were scattered and its green branches were broken. It seemed that it would never come back to life again.
Lu Chenjia's expression changed drastically. She pulled the reins and took a few steps forward, but she could not stop this from happening. The beautiful blue petals were scattered on the ground. They rolled slowly in the wind and were stained with a lot of dust. The straw frame and paper film covered the rustling flower tree. The scene was extremely messy.
She looked at the broken flowers on the ground in front of the horse and her beautiful face suddenly paled. Her eyes revealed a look of pity. Then, she slowly turned around and looked at Ning Que quietly. She said, "Are you … provoking me?"
Tragedy was tearing the beauty of life apart and showing it to others. Everyone saw the beauty of life differently. The things that they cherished and loved were also different. Money, beauty, power, knowledge, cultivation, and so on.
In Lu Chenjia's heart, the beauty of life was not the happiness of the secular world, but the flowers and plants that had nothing to do with the secular world. The deaths of the people in the camp below the meadow did not make her sad. Even if the cavalrymen of Divine Hall and the students of the Revelation Institute fell in front of her, she would not feel sad.
But when the seven-petal blue lotus was smashed into the mud in front of her, she really felt a wave of heartache.
She knew that the young man in front of the horse had done it on purpose. So besides feeling heartache, she started to get angry.
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Hearing the sound of the flower pot breaking, the students of the Revelation Institute who were scattered around the meadow did not know what had happened. They rushed over as fast as they could. When they saw the broken flowers on the ground and the unconcealable pain and anger in Princess Lu Chenjia's eyes, they vaguely guessed what had happened.
Everyone knew that Her Highness was crazy about flowers. This young man in the uniform of the Black Ink Garden actually dared to do such a thing in front of Her Highness. That was the greatest harm to Her Highness. It was a shameless provocation.
With a series of clangs, the steel swords engraved with the talisman patterns of the Divine Hall were unsheathed. Everyone angrily surrounded Ning Que.
Lu Chenjia got off the horse and walked towards Ning Que. She frowned and asked, "What good does my sadness and anger do to you?"
Ning Que looked at her and explained with a smile, "In the tent this morning, you once told Shanshan that the sadness and happiness of the world have nothing to do with you. So I think that my relationship with Shanshan and how I affect her has nothing to do with you. As for this seven-petal blue lotus, I was the one who bought it. So me smashing it has nothing to do with you. Whether you are sad or angry because of this has nothing to do with me. Since that is the case, it is none of your business if I smash it for fun."
Lu Chenjia looked into his eyes and said, "Flowers can't speak. They only bloom quietly. But in your hands, they have become a sacrifice in the battle between people. Don't you think that this is unfair to them?"
Ning Que looked into her eyes and said, "Those who died in the meadow, such as the Senior Brother from the Black Ink Garden, can't speak now either. So this world is unfair to them. Of course, I am not someone who likes to fight for injustice. What I care about is that you threatened me earlier, so I have to make you unhappy. That is very fair. "
Lu Chenjia suddenly asked, "Who exactly are you?"
The shattering of the blue lotus on the meadow in the Wilderness seemed like a small matter, but in reality, it was like a hard slap to the girl's face. Moreover, she was not an ordinary girl.
She was one of the three Addicts in the world. She had the Yuelun Kingdom and the Divine Hall behind her. She was someone who was favored by both Buddhism and Taoism. Even the Prince of the Tang Empire would not provoke her in such a way.
So even though she was furious, she was still trying to guess Ning Que's identity. Was he a daring and foolish person, or did he have a powerful background that allowed him to be unafraid of the Taoism and Buddhism sects?
The first thing that was revealed was not Ning Que's identity, but another identity that Lu Chenjia and the students of the Revelation Institute wanted to know — the identity of the owner of the Big Black Horse.
Ning Que put his finger between his lips and blew a clear and even shrill whistle. After a while, loud hoofbeats sounded in the field to the north of the camp. The hoofbeats were messy and dense, as if the horses were in high spirits and happy.
The Big Black Horse came from afar and rushed to the meadow. Then, it walked carefully to Ning Que's side and gently nudged his shoulder. It looked unusually docile.
The unusually handsome Snow Horse behind Lu Chenjia suddenly saw the Big Black Horse appear in front of it. It remembered the painful experience yesterday and was not comforted by the Big Black Horse's docile expression. It retreated in fear.
The reins broke free from Lu Chenjia's hand.
Lu Chenjia looked at Ning Que and the Big Black Horse beside him, as well as the broken flowers and branches at his feet. Ning Que's gentle expression finally disappeared. She stared at him coldly and said, "So … it's all because of you."
Ning Que cupped his hands in greeting and said gently, "Yes."
The Big Black Horse was the focus of everyone's discussion during the Ge Mumu Gathering. The Chanyu of the Palace and many other bigwigs were looking for it. They wanted to make it their own mount. Its sudden appearance had attracted countless people in the tribe. A dense crowd chased after it and came to the meadow at the same time.
Lu Chenjia's voice was slightly cold as she said, "Do you think I won't dare to kill you just because there are so many people watching? I've said it before. You filth in the mortal world only know how to use petty tricks. You don't know that strength is everything. "
"I know I'm weak, but I also know that strength doesn't mean everything."
Ning Que took out an waist token from his chest and held it in the air. He said, "Sometimes, background is more important."
A student of the Revelation Institute saw the words on the waist token and frowned. He said, "Fish-dragon Sect … what is this?"
Ning Que was slightly stunned. He looked at the waist token and smiled. "Sorry, I took the wrong one."
He changed the waist token and held it in front of Lu Chenjia.
The expressions of the students of the Revelation Institute changed slightly. Someone shouted, "So what if you're a student of the Academy?"
Ning Que shook his head and said, "You should have looked more closely."
The students of the Revelation Institute took a closer look and saw clearly what this token represented. Everyone fell into a state of shock and silence. They did not know what to do with the Divine Hall swords in their hands.
Lu Chenjia also saw the waist token clearly. Her gaze turned cold.
"Is there anyone who wants to kill me now?"
Ning Que looked at the students of the Revelation Institute around him and said sincerely, "If no one wants to kill me, then I'll leave first. The meeting that the Divine Hall has called should have started. I don't have much time to waste."
Then he looked at Lu Chenjia and said with a smile, "I have a few words to say to you."
"First, if the difference between a small character and a big character is not their character, but their background, sect, or family, then I'm not a small character."
"Second, you don't have the ability to make me wish I was dead. I think even the three Great Gods of the Divine Hall don't have the ability to make me wish I was dead. So I hope that when we meet again in the future, Your Highness, you don't have to say so much nonsense."
"Finally, there's no perfect person in the world. Of course I'm not. Your partner Prince Long Qing isn't either. At least in front of me, he probably doesn't have the confidence to say such words."
With that, Ning Que mounted the Big Black Horse, lifted the reins and galloped toward the camp. Before he mounted the horse, he stepped on the Seven-Petal Blue Lotus that was scattered on the ground. No one knew if it was intentional or not …
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