Eldest Brother said, "I don't understand why you would say that."
The Chief Preaching Monk looked at him and said gently, "You are a student of the Headmaster of the Academy, so you should know his temperament. If he really thought that killing Sangsang would lead to Yama's invasion, he would have taken Ning Que and Sangsang back to the Academy long ago. How could there be such a story from autumn to winter?"
Eldest Senior Brother remained silent.
"I heard that in the Lanke Temple, Ye Su once said that Haotian Taoism is doing the right thing, while the Buddhism Sect is doing what we think we should do. Only the Academy is doing what makes you happy."
The Chief Preaching Monk looked at him and said, "You have no faith and no awe. Maybe you can be infinitely powerful, but if you go on like this, you may find that you don't know what makes you happy in the end."
"I don't know if the Headmaster of the Academy is happy now, but I know he is hesitating. He doesn't know what is right and what can make him happy. Please send my greetings to the Headmaster of the Academy when you return. Tell him that the future of the human world depends on his hesitation. "
After saying this, the Chief Preaching Monk held his staff and climbed onto the carriage with difficulty. The 16 horses neighed painfully and pulled the carriage slowly out of the temple.
Looking at the carriage slowly leaving, Eldest Brother was still silent. He thought, "Would the Headmaster hesitate? But if the Headmaster didn't hesitate, he would have done it long ago. "
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Winter had left, but spring had not completely arrived. The plants in the low mountains in the north of the Yuelun Kingdom began to turn green. But hiding among the withered branches and frost leaves, it was not pleasant enough.
The scenery on both sides of the mountain road was a little desolate. It looked like monotonous moving blocks of color on the carriage window. It was not much better than the dullness of the Wilderness.
In the carriage, Sangsang was wearing a fur coat and holding a thick quilt. Her face was pale and she held a leather bag filled with liquor in her hand. When she felt cold, she would drink a few mouthfuls to warm her chest and abdomen. But she could not stop coughing.
Ning Que stared at the small medicine pot on the copper basin and carefully calculated the time. He coughed from time to time. He had basically recovered from the injury he had suffered in Chaoyang City, but there was still a small problem with his lungs.
Sangsang's arrow wound had already healed under his meticulous care. What made him uneasy now was that the cold aura in her body was showing signs of stirring again. He didn't know if it was because of the continuous escape, but the cold aura in her body showed signs of stirring again.
The pungent smell of medicine gradually filled the carriage. He took down the bottle and put it on the floor to cool. Then, he took the wine bag from Sangsang and stuffed a Buddhist scripture into her hand.
"I can." Sangsang looked at him pitifully.
Ning Que's heart was as hard as stone. He was unmoved and said, "Master Qishan said to read the scriptures and learn Buddhism. Even if you can recite it backwards, it is meaningless. What you need is to understand the meaning of Buddhism through reading the scriptures."
Sangsang said, "I don't know if it's useful to read so many Buddhist scriptures."
"Hasn't it been confirmed that it worked in Chaoyang City?"
Ning Que walked to the window and said, "Think about it. The Chief Preaching Monk's Buddha's words are so powerful. If you can learn that move, maybe the cold aura in your body will be scared and disappear immediately with a command."
Sangsang smiled and continued to read the Buddhist scripture.
Ning Que lifted the curtain on the window and looked at the back of the mountain road.
It was desolate. Evergreen pines and cypresses could be seen occasionally, but most of them were coniferous forests that had not yet sprouted new leaves. His eyes did not stay on the mountain scenery, but fell on the farther south.
He wondered how Eldest Brother was doing now.
This was the thing that worried Ning Que the most after leaving Chaoyang City, apart from Sangsang's health. He thought that since he had left with Sangsang, the Chief Preaching Monk had no reason to continue making things difficult for Eldest Brother at the risk of angering the teacher. So Eldest Brother should be safe.
At this time, they were already hundreds of miles away from Chaoyang City. Master Qi Mei and the Yuelun Kingdom's cavalry had long been left behind. Ning Que let the Big Black Horse choose a side of the road and stop to rest.
Getting off the horse carriage, Ning Que looked at the fine mountains and rivers on the side of the road with satisfaction. He patted the Big Black Horse's back and filled the water bag. He began to stew dried meat and stuffed an old ginseng into its mouth.
The Big Black Horse chewed and swallowed the old ginseng in two bites. It felt a little bitter, but it knew that it was a great tonic. Naturally, it was too embarrassed to show its anger to Ning Que.
This old ginseng and the herbs in the vat were stolen by Ning Que from several especially luxurious mansions of princes and dukes in Chaoyang City in winter. They were all extremely precious items.
The dried meat gradually became plump in the boiling water, and a smell of meat mixed with saliva overflowed the edge of the pot. The Big Black Horse turned its head disdainfully and went to the side of the road to look for flowers to chew. It wanted to clear the bitter taste of the old ginseng in its mouth, but found that there were not even a few grasses, let alone flowers. It was very annoyed.
"Spending the winter in the Great Green Mountain has really turned you wild. Eating flowers is something that only people like Eleventh Brother would do. What are you chewing on?"
Ning Que reprimanded it and looked up at the sky.
The dark cloud was still following Sangsang. Compared to when they were in Chaoyang City, it was thicker and darker. It felt heavy, like an old, soaked cotton wadding.
Ning Que's mood was very heavy. The cloud made him very depressed. When he heard the cawing and saw a dozen black crows circling in the sky, he felt even more depressed and irritated.
He really wanted to drive these black crows away, or even kill them directly. He shot them with the boxwood bow along the way, but it had no effect. He even wanted to try using the Primordial Thirteen Arrows, but he gave up the idea in the end. He was worried that these black crows could not be killed, and he would waste his precious iron arrows.
Whether it was the cloud in the sky or the annoying black crows, they all followed the black horse carriage. There was a very strange smell, and they did not leave or abandon each other. It was tiresome and frightening.
Ning Que had guessed the origin of the cloud and the black crows. The gathering might be caused by the leakage of the cold aura from Sangsang's body, which affected the flow of the aura of Heaven and Earth. The unkillable and intelligent black crows were more likely to be condensed from the cold aura in Sangsang's body.
The cold aura was the imprint left by Yama in Sangsang's body. The cloud and the black crows were equivalent to Yama's means. Once it involved the existence above the human world, it seemed to be understandable no matter how strange and magical it was.
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The black cloud and black crows followed the black horse carriage. It was a very conspicuous sign. Ning Que did not know if Yama could see it, but after meeting the Yuelun Kingdom's cavalry, he was sure that many people had seen it.
The black horse carriage could no longer hide its tracks. Ning Que and Sangsang's escape was watched by countless people, and they were forced to be aboveboard.
In this case, Ning Que did not think too much about it. He ordered the Big Black Horse to speed up, hoping to reach the Wilderness as soon as possible. Once they entered the vast Wilderness, with the Big Black Horse's terrifying speed, it would be difficult for the cultivators of the two sects and the Yuelun Kingdom's cavalry to catch up with them, unless they also had Eldest Brother.
It didn't take long for the black horse carriage to successfully pass through the northern territory of the Yuelun Kingdom. It left the border and came to the sparsely populated Wilderness.
It was just a simple sentence. In fact, the black horse carriage encountered many interceptions during its escape, and even almost fell into a desperate situation several times.
The powerhouses of the two sects and the Yuelun Kingdom's military set up four interception lines in the north. The most dangerous one happened when the black horse carriage changed its route and tried to break through from the northeast.
The West-Hill Divine Palace's men in ambush in the Pamir Mountains were moving north at that time, and they encountered the black horse carriage at the northeast border of the Yuelun Kingdom. There were more than a dozen deacons from the Judicial Department and hundreds of Papal Cavalrymen in the West-Hill Divine Palace's team. The most terrifying thing was that there were two visiting professors of Haotian Taoism in the Knowing Destiny State.
When Ning Que saw the group of powerhouses from the West-Hill Divine Palace, the first thought that came to his mind was, when did the Knowing Destiny State become so common? His second thought was, how much power did Haotian Taoism hide?
His third thought was, of course, to escape.
Sangsang was now the enemy of the entire world. No matter how strong Ning Que was, he could not escape whenever he wanted to. The black horse carriage could pass through so many blockades, encounter so many powerhouses of the two sects, and still escape. It even crossed the border and successfully entered the Wilderness. Other than the Big Black Horse's incredible speed and Ning Que's rich experience in escaping, the most important reason was that someone had been secretly helping them.
Ning Que did not know who was secretly helping him, but he could vaguely guess. His guess was only confirmed when he met the group of powerhouses from the West-Hill Divine Palace and they were forced to show themselves.
Those who had been secretly helping them escape were the people from the West-Hill Divine Palace. There were deacons from the Judicial Department, ordinary divine priests, and two distinguished red-robed divine priests.
In the sudden encounter at the northeast border of the Yuelun Kingdom, many people had died tragically in order to protect Sangsang. One of the red-robed divine priests had once again used Divine Skill to self-destruct, severely injuring the visiting professor of Haotian Taoism in the Knowing Destiny State. Ning Que and Sangsang had been able to escape.
The wind in the Wilderness was still slightly cold.
As one by one, the divine priests from the West-Hill Divine Palace had been exposed or died in order to cover the black horse carriage's tracks, Sangsang became more and more silent.
Ning Que lifted the curtains and looked at the familiar scenery of the Wilderness that he had never seen before. He thought of the tragic scenes during their escape and said, "They are all from the Divine Hall of Light."
Sangsang softly nodded.
Black-robed deacons from the Judicial Department, Taoist priests from a Taoist temple who had volunteered to come, ordinary divine priests, and red-robed divine priests. These people came from different places and were not all subordinates of the West-Hill Divine Palace's Department of Light.
But these people had one thing in common: they had all met one person before, or learned from this person, or served this person. They might even have only spoken a few words to this person.
And after these experiences, no matter what these people would become in the future — the ruthless black-robed deacons from the Judicial Department, the visiting professor of Haotian Taoism, the distinguished red-robed divine priests, or the ordinary cavalrymen of the West-Hill Divine Palace — they would always follow the light and think that they were from the Divine Hall of Light.
Because the person they had met was called Wei Guangming.
Wei Guangming was the greatest Great Divine Priest of Light in the West-Hill Divine Palace for hundreds of years. At the same time, he was also the biggest traitor of the West-Hill Divine Palace for hundreds of years. He was the person closest to Haotian in the eyes of the world.
His only successor in the world was Sangsang.
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