The Education Palace was the Pope's Green Leaf World. There should also be day and night in this world, but during the Grand Examination, they couldn't see day and night, so examinees could only rely on their senses to guess what time it was in the real world. They didn't know that it was already late at night outside, but fatigue and drowsiness still hit them as expected.
Before the fifth round of the Grand Examination, there would be an additional round, from 33rd to 64th place, apart from Tian Hai Sheng Xue and a few examinees who were too heavily injured to continue, the remaining 20 examinees still had to put in a final effort for their final ranking in the Grand Examination, but before this, there would be a period of rest.
The clergy of Li Palace distributed food, water and elixirs to the examinees. With Luo Luo's arrangements, Orthodox Academy's food was naturally more sumptuous. The four of them sat by the woodlands, eating while discussing the upcoming matches in low voices. There wasn't much to say about Tang Thirty Six and Xuan Yuan Po's matches, the main point was to analyze the opponent for Chen Chang Sheng.
Gou Hanshi's performance was calm and collected, giving people a feeling that he was so strong that he couldn't be defeated. Besides him, the wolf youth Zhexiu was unquestionably the most dangerous opponent. Even though he had fought two fierce battles with Guan Feibai and Qi Jian, expending a great deal of energy and even sustaining some rather serious injuries, he still could not be underestimated.
If Chen Chang Sheng wanted to obtain first upon the First Banner, these two people were the two peaks he had to surpass.
Thinking up to this point, Tang Thirty Six suddenly lost interest in this matter, because no matter how he looked at it, Chen Chang Sheng couldn't win against these two people.
He gazed at the stream bank and suddenly said, "Don't you feel that those four people from Mount Li are very similar to the four of us?"
The four members of the Mount Li Sword Sect ate and chatted by the stream, the atmosphere seemingly pleasant.
Far away from the crowd, Zhexiu was also eating.
As he ate, he was very silent, his movements very slow, and he seemed especially serious, as if the ordinary food provided by the Li Palace were the most delicious delicacies in the world.
Tang Thirty Six looked in that direction and mocked, "I thought this wolf cub couldn't eat."
Xuanyuan Po didn't understand and said, "How can you not eat?"
Tang Thirty-Six said, "I thought he only ate ice and snow, chewed jerky, or drank blood."
Chen Chang Sheng said, "It's a monster."
Tang Thirty-Six asked seriously, "Don't you think he's a monster?"
Xuanyuan Po thought for a moment before he shook his head and said, "I think it's alright."
Tang Thirty Six ignored him and turned around to ask, "Chen Chang Sheng, you can't beat him, right?"
Chen Chang Sheng thought about it and said, "Maybe."
Tang Thirty-Six turned to the distant Zhexiu and suddenly said, "I suddenly have an impulse."
Chen Chang Sheng asked curiously, "What impulse?"
Tang Thirty-Six said, "The impulse to make friends with this wolf cub."
Chen Chang Sheng stared at him for a long time and confirmed that he was serious. He couldn't help but be surprised. After thinking for a while, he said, "Does he look like someone who needs friends?"
Before the start of the Grand Examination, there was a sea of people outside of Li Palace, Zhe Xiu gazed at the morning sun alone and entered the Hall of Zhao Wen. He immediately left the venue of the academic examination, walked alone through the sea of trees, crossed the river and stood in the pavilion atop the mountain, his back facing all the examinees, lonely as if he had lost his mother, would such a person need friends?
"Don't you think he's very lonely?" Tang Thirty Six looked at Chen Chang Sheng and the others and asked.
What he said here was lonely, not lonely, not lonely. It was just a lonely word, which made it seem even more lonely.
Chen Chang Sheng was startled and said, "Anyone can see that, so I don't think he needs friends."
Tang Thirty Six shook his finger and said, "My opinion is the complete opposite of yours, I think a lonely person like him needs friends the most."
Xuan Yuan Po asked curiously, "You want to be friends with Zhexiu?"
"Can't I?" Tang Thirty Six asked back.
Chen Chang Sheng's gaze fell upon the outskirts of the crowd, looking at the wolf-tribe youngster who was silently eating with his head lowered. After a moment of silence, he said, "I thought you didn't like people like him."
Tang Thirty Six's gaze followed him and also fell upon Zhexiu, he said, "Yes, imitating loneliness and pretending to be desperate, I used to do this a lot … you know, I hate that kind of me, so of course I don't like him."
Chen Chang Sheng retracted his gaze, looked at him and asked, "Then why do you insist on being friends with him?"
Tang Thirty Six said, "If he becomes our friend, how can he be so cruel to you and Princess Luo Luo?"
Xuan Yuan Po couldn't help but sigh, "The elders in the tribe were right, humans … are all bad people."
"Not a human." Chen Chang Sheng corrected him, "It's a human named Tang Tang."
Tang Thirty Six didn't want to argue with him, he stood up, patted off the grass on his butt and said, "There's no harm in trying, he can't just kill me in front of so many people."
Luo Luo didn't say anything until now, she softly said, "Master is right, lonely people don't necessarily need friends, at least … Wofu Zhexiu isn't that kind of person."
Chen Chang Sheng glanced at her, but didn't say anything.
Tang Thirty Six picked up the half roasted chicken that wasn't eaten yet from the table, took two pieces of oiled paper and wrapped it up, then walked towards the outskirts of the crowd.
The conversation between the people from the Tradition Academy didn't attract much attention, but he suddenly left the woodland, and judging from the direction he was going, he was probably going to Wofu Zhexiu, which instantly attracted everyone's attention. The examinees were very surprised, they didn't know what he was going to do, and the girls from the Thirteen Divisions of Radiant Green and Holy Maiden Peak all had worried expressions on their faces.
In the eyes of these girls, no matter how harsh Tang Thirty Six's words were, no matter how arrogant his actions were, he was still a noble prince. No matter how quiet Zhexiu was, no matter how much he did for humans and Yao, he was still a cold-blooded monster with hands stained with blood. Seeing him walking towards Zhexiu, they couldn't help but worry.
This world that only cared about appearances wasn't fair.
The four people from the Li Shan Sword Sect who were eating and chatting by the stream were also surprised. Guan Fei Bai looked at Tang Thirty Six with a slightly strange expression and asked, "What is this guy planning to do this time?"
At the Ivy League gathering, Tang Thirty Six scolded Li Shan too much, he didn't have a good impression of him. Qi Jian looked at the wolf tribe youngster at the outskirts of the crowd, his nostrils flared and his breathing became heavy, he seemed to be very angry. Gou Han Shi didn't quite understand, he thought to himself, just what happened in the battle between Junior and Zhexiu to make him so angry?
The stone field in front of the Tower of Purging Dust was extremely large, there were trees and a small stream. The place where Zhexiu sat, however, didn't have anything, only a flat rock.
Tang Thirty Six walked up to the rock and looked at Zhexiu, who was kneeling in a strange posture, or perhaps squatting on the ground, he suddenly felt hesitant.
Zhexiu didn't pay attention to him, he silently ate.
Tang Thirty Six silently looked at him, after a while, he suddenly said: "If other people were to notice the details of your eating, they would definitely think that you are very scary."
Zhexiu drank a mouthful of the fruit juice provided by Li Palace, then raised his head and looked at him.
From the start of the Grand Examination until now, Tang Thirty Six was the first person to initiate a conversation with him.
Tang Thirty Six looked at him and said: "The speed at which you eat is very slow, not very generous, more like a young lady in her chambers. When you chew, you chew very seriously, twelve times when you chew rice, thirty times when you chew beef … this isn't very interesting, it only proves that you have too much self-discipline, in other words, you are very strict with yourself."
Zhexiu quietly looked at him, his eyes were devoid of any emotion, but he also didn't lower his head and continue eating, ending this one-sided conversation.
"Perhaps it's because there's too little food on the snowy plains, or perhaps it's because there's a lack of doctors and medicine, and there's also no female clergymen from the Thirteen Divisions of Radiant Green to help treat your injuries, so your life is very difficult. You treasure all the food you can get, but you definitely won't overeat or drink too much, in order to avoid any problems with your body. In that sort of place, even a normal stomach ache can make one wish they were dead."
Tang Thirty Six said: "But I don't think that this is very scary, because I've seen someone very similar to you, that person also pays attention to all the details of life. I've often thought, people like you, people who are afraid of death, should really get to know each other."
He was obviously referring to Chen Chang Sheng.
Zhexiu followed his finger and looked towards the woodlands, after a moment of silence, he lowered his head and continued eating, no longer paying attention to him.
Tang Thirty Six placed the paper bag in front of him and opened it, asking: "Do you need friends?"
Inside the oiled paper bag was half a roast chicken, the half roast chicken only had one drumstick, it had already been given to Luo Luo by Chen Chang Sheng, so it was a little incomplete, and having been left out for a while, the roast chicken was a little cold, the chicken oil had congealed on the surface of the chicken's skin, it didn't look too good, the most important problem was, roast chicken really wasn't a healthy food.
But for some reason, after seeing this roast chicken, Zhexiu actually opened his mouth to speak.
Since the beginning of the Grand Examination, he had only spoken two sentences, and the vast majority of people hadn't heard them, no one knew what his voice was like. Only now did Tang Thirty Six know that his voice wasn't hoarse or unpleasant to listen to, it didn't have any resemblance to the wolf's howl of legend.
Zhexiu's voice was very cold, the speed of his speech was very slow, the gap between each word was rather long, like a child that had just learned how to speak, or a mute that had suddenly learned how to speak.
He looked at Tang Thirty Six, his face expressionless, and said with extreme slowness: "My fate offends the Heavenly Cursed Lone Star, destined to be alone for the rest of my life, therefore, I have no friends."
… …
… …
There were countless stars in the sky, or perhaps there was a star far away from the sea of stars, in a corner that was easily overlooked, extremely lonely.
Or perhaps that star was really called the Heavenly Cursed Lone Star.
Or perhaps the Fated Star lit by Zhexiu really was that Heavenly Cursed Lone Star.
But regardless of whether this was true or not, the indifference in his words was very clear, he didn't need friends, he wanted to keep everyone at a distance of a thousand miles.
If it was a normal person, perhaps at this moment, they would retreat in the face of difficulties.
But Tang Tang wasn't a normal person, he was a chatterbox.
After getting to know Chen Chang Sheng, and especially after officially entering Orthodox Academy, this hidden trait of his was fully released.
"Not having friends doesn't mean I don't need friends, what do you think of me?"
He looked at Zhexiu and said with sincerity.
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