In the depths of the Western Wilderness, a dusty scholar appeared at the edge of the Giant Sinkhole. He looked at the yellow temple in the middle of the Giant Sinkhole and asked, "Where is my Youngest Brother?"
The scholar was the Eldest Brother of the Academy. After the news that the black horse carriage had appeared in the Xuankong Temple reached Chang 'an, he once again embarked on his journey to find Ning Que, even though he looked haggard and his state was gradually unstable.
His voice was very soft. In the Wilderness full of wind and snow, it could only spread a few feet before disappearing. However, someone in the yellow temple among the distant giant peaks clearly heard it.
A calm and dignified voice slowly sounded in the air in front of the Eldest Senior Brother. It was like a letter that had been opened and was calmly revealed to the people who wanted to read the letter.
It was the voice of the Chief Preaching Monk of the Xuankong Temple.
"Ning Que will naturally be where the Daughter of Yama is."
The Eldest Brother looked at the temple in the snow and mist and kept silent for a long time. He knew what the Chief Preaching Monk meant, but he did not know how to answer, so he could only keep silent.
The voice of the Chief Preaching Monk once again sounded in front of him, like a wake-up bell.
"The human world is a human world. There are many hardships, but there are also many joys. Everyone has the responsibility and obligation to maintain the existence of this world. This is also the reason why the Daughter of Yama cannot exist."
"Killing the Daughter of Yama is not a matter of Buddhism and Taoism, but the will of the entire human world. Since Ning Que wants to live and die with her, if the Academy wants to protect Ning Que, it will go against the will of the entire human world."
"The Academy is the foundation of the Tang Empire. However, now even many people in the Tang Empire have begun to oppose the position of the Academy. How can you defeat the entire world? Can't the Headmaster even understand this? "
The Eldest Brother covered his mouth and coughed painfully. His face was a little pale.
More than ten days ago, the West-Hill Divine Palace officially announced the true identity of the Daughter of Yama to the world, which directly led to the fiercest dispute in the Tang Empire for hundreds of years. The reason was the relationship between Ning Que and the Daughter of Yama. The Academy had not clearly expressed its attitude, so almost all officials and people questioned the Academy.
The voice of the Chief Preaching Monk of Xuankong Temple rose with the wind and snow on the edge of the sinkhole. It was full of pity and affirmation. "Even if you know where Ning Que is and find the black horse carriage, what can you do? Could you kill everyone in the world and bring the black horse carriage back to the Academy? You can't take them away, and you can't stop people from looking at you. Even if you are the fastest person in the world, and even if the Headmaster of the Academy personally takes action, it will be meaningless in the face of the omnipresent gazes and the invisible fear and hatred. "
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They tore off the pieces of the black umbrella and buried the Buddha's chessboard. The ascetic monks scattered in the Wilderness by Xuankong Temple could no longer track the black horse carriage as easily as they did a few days ago. The cavalry of the Right King's Palace had lost the Light of Buddha to guide the way, so it was difficult for them to organize an effective interception line.
In the days that followed, the black carriage's escape went very smoothly. It was so peaceful and happy that it didn't seem like it was escaping, but more like a long journey across the wilderness.
For ordinary people, the Wilderness in autumn and winter was cold and desolate, and there was a serious lack of prey. If they left the team and acted alone, they would easily get lost or fall into a hopeless situation because of running out of supplies.
But for Ning Que and Sangsang, this was the environment they were most familiar with and most liked. Just like when they were young in Min Mountain, they would rather deal with ferocious beasts and cruel nature than talk to the seemingly rough but actually cunning hunters in the hunting stockade.
The boxwood bow buzzed from time to time, and the feather arrows pierced through the wind and snow and accurately shot the prey. That was a delicious pot of meat soup, or an attractive roast on the fire rack.
Whether it was the snow rabbit that even the best hunters could hardly find, or the strong snow yak that even a small grassland tribe could not kill, they were all food that Ning Que could easily obtain.
Walking in the Wilderness, Ning Que and Sangsang were like fish swimming in the stream, hunting, hiding, collecting snow, and boiling water. Everything was so familiar, as if they were living a long time ago again.
A horse neigh that tried hard to suppress its joy pierced through the wind and snow.
The horse's hooves stepped on the snow and returned silently. Ning Que jumped off the horse, holding a snow wolf that had been skinned. The Big Black Horse touched the white cloth cover, and its exposed eyes were full of desire.
Not long after, a pot of snow wolf soup was cooked, and the fragrance was tightly sealed inside the carriage. Outside the carriage, the Big Black Horse was chewing the meat and shaking its head happily.
Ning Que filled a bowl with soup and put a few pieces of wolf meat in it, and handed it to Sangsang.
Sangsang drank the soup and ate a piece of wolf meat. She said, "I have said that wolf meat is too coarse and not delicious."
Ning Que said, "I walked around and didn't see anything else."
Sangsang said, "If Tangtang's little wolf knows that you eat wolf meat, it will hate you."
Ning Que said with a smile, "Even the Big Black Wolf is not afraid of the little wolf, why should I care? Moreover, although they are both snow wolves, they are not relatives. Tangtang's little snow wolf is a Snowfield Direwolf, which is different from the ones we eat. "
Ning Que ate half of the wolf meat soup and put the rest outside the carriage to freeze. Then he returned to the carriage to rest for a while. Seeing that Sangsang was staring at the black chess piece in a daze, he asked, "What are you thinking about?"
Sangsang raised her head and looked at him. She said, "I am thinking about what I said to you in the Wa Mountain Monastery."
Ning Que's expression changed slightly, and he said, "Those last words?"
Sangsang nodded.
Ning Que said, "Why are you thinking about those messy things? Now I have figured out that the cold aura in your body is not an illness, but a mark left by Yama. Naturally, you will not die. "
Sangsang looked down at the black chess piece in her palm and said, "If the cold aura is the mark left by Yama in my body, then does the illness mean that the daughter of Yama has woken up?"
Ning Que thought for a while and said, "Maybe it is."
Sangsang retracted her fingers and held the black chess piece tightly in her palm. After a long silence, she said, "If my illness breaks out again, what should I do? Will I die?"
Ning Que held her in his arms and gently patted her back. He said, "You are the daughter of Yama. How can you die?"
Sangsang leaned against his chest and said in a trembling voice, "But I am worried … that the moment the daughter of Yama wakes up, I will be gone, and so will Sangsang."
Ning Que understood her words and hugged her tighter. He said, "I don't know, but I think the Headmaster must have other ways to cure your illness."
Sangsang looked up at him and asked, "Do you really trust the Academy so much?"
Since the moment he killed people in the woodshed of the Official of Counsel's Mansion, Ning Que had never completely trusted anyone except Sangsang, including the people in the City of Wei. He seemed to be casual but was actually suspicious. He looked gentle but was actually cold and heartless. Sangsang knew what kind of person he was, so she could not understand why his trust in the Academy had not been shaken until now.
"As I said, if this is the last trust, of course I will leave it to the Headmaster. From a rational point of view, we should not trust anyone now, including the Headmaster. But these years of studying and living in the Academy have made me realize that it is tiring, hard and boring to be a rational person."
Ning Que looked at the wind and snow outside the window and said, "Especially now, the whole world has abandoned us. If we don't even trust the Headmaster and Senior Brother, we will become more lonely."
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In the late autumn, the wind and snow in the Wilderness gradually stopped. More and more herdsmen could be seen on the road, and even a caravan could be seen. The further to the southeast of the Wilderness, the more people there were. Everyone in the Wilderness was a pair of eyes of the Xuankong Temple. It became more and more difficult for Ning Que to hide his whereabouts.
During the day, he could often see smoke signals, and at night, he could occasionally see fireworks. The shortest route from the West Wilderness to the Tang Empire was to enter the territory of the Golden Palace in the northeast, and then enter from the south. However, the Ascetic Monks of the Xuankong Temple and the cavalry of the Right King's Palace had already densely covered the Wilderness in the northeast.
Ning Que even believed that the army of the Yuelun Kingdom was waiting for him further away. Moreover, the northeast route was too dangerous. He knew better than anyone how powerful the cavalry of the Golden Palace was. The most troublesome thing was that between the Golden Palace and the West Wilderness, there was an unfreezing swamp that stretched for thousands of miles. It would be very risky to force his way through.
These were not difficult tests for Ning Que, because he had already changed his escape plan based on his speculation of the Eldest Brother's Limitless State. He had been heading northeast for the past few days just to confuse the enemy.
He did not know that the Eldest Brother had gone to the Xuankong Temple to find him, and that he and Sangsang were not alone. However, he was clear that if he wanted to get out of the current predicament, the best way was to let the Eldest Brother find him.
He had no knowledge of the legendary Limitless State. Even if he let his mind guess blindly, he would not be able to figure out how such a godly person could travel in the wind. However, since he insisted on trusting the Academy and the Eldest Brother, he could speculate on the basis of trust and come to a conclusion.
People in Chang 'an must have known that he and Sangsang were in the Western Wilderness. Eldest Brother didn't show up, probably because he couldn't confirm the specific location of him and Sangsang. This also meant that the Distanceless State wasn't just about freedom. It required a relatively accurate map in the consciousness and a fixed point.
Therefore, his target was the capital of the Yuelun Kingdom.
One day, the sky was clear and boundless. What Ning Que had been most worried about had finally happened.
Sangsang's little face turned a little pale. She began to cough. She did not cough up phlegm or blood. Instead, she coughed out cold air, like the melting ice outside the carriage.
Out of nowhere, a dark cloud floated over and hung in the sky above the black carriage.
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(Sorry, there is only one chapter today. No other problems. I just re-examined the outline and found a lot of problems. I feel that the original plot content is not right and is too complicated. Therefore, I plan to revise it tonight and cut off all the branches and leaves. However, they are all meat that I can't bear to part with, so the process of cutting them off must be very painful. I don't have the energy to do anything else. After I revise and cut off the outline, the rest will be fine. Tomorrow is Saturday, but there will be more than three chapters. This week's rest day will be on Sunday, because it is someone's birthday. Well, for us people in Yichang, this is the most important birthday of our lives. I wish everyone a happy weekend.) (To be continued. If you like this work, please come to Qidian.Com to vote for me. Your support is my greatest motivation.)
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