Chen Changsheng walked for a while in the wetlands on the outskirts of the plain. He glanced at the island of reeds, then went to the cave. In the deepest part of the cave, he saw the remains of the elder from the Triple Yang Sect that had already been eaten clean by the horde of beasts.
Afterwards, he went to the Sunset Ridge. He slowly walked along the white stone path in the mountains and arrived under a wutong tree.
He did not know that he would come under this wutong tree. He just followed that feeling.
But there was also no one here.
There was no one in the Garden of Zhou.
Not a single person.
Finally, he returned to the Mausoleum of Zhou. The majestic mausoleum was still as insufferably arrogant in the world. The Heavenly Tome Monoliths around the mausoleum had long since lost their violent and terrifying Qi. They had become extremely calm. The lines on their surface, perhaps filled up by the sandstorms of the past few days or obliterated, had already disappeared. It was as if they had returned to their original stone pillars.
The black monolith was the same. The surface of the monolith was smooth.
Chen Changsheng placed his hand on it. From the distant plain behind him came the low howls of monsters.
It was a farewell, but also an unease and a begging.
It was a farewell to the departure of the new master of the Garden of Zhou. It was uneasy as to whether or not he would return, and it begged for his grace to descend even faster.
… …
… …
There was darkness, and then there was light.
Chen Changsheng opened his eyes and discovered that he was still in his room, still in front of the window. Nothing had changed from before.
It was just that it was already noon. The sun hung in the azure sky. No matter how hard the shade of the trees in the Orthodox Academy tried, they could not stop the blazing rays of light from descending.
The light he saw was this sunlight.
Then he noticed that a string of beads had appeared on his wrist.
No matter how he looked at it, these beads were made from the most ordinary of stones. There were no decorations on their surfaces, nor did they emit any Qi. Moreover, their surfaces could not even be described as smooth.
He did not know that when he struck Zhu Luo with his sword in Xunyang City, this string of stone beads had also appeared on his wrist.
These stone beads were formed from Heavenly Tome Monoliths.
This was because this string of stone beads had a total of eleven beads. Ten were gray and one was black.
Back then, Zhou Dufu might have taken twelve Heavenly Tome Monoliths from the Mausoleum of Books. Later on, he and she only saw ten monoliths in the Mausoleum of Zhou, as well as the base of a broken monolith.
It was precisely because one Heavenly Tome Monolith was missing and he had also taken away the Sword Pool that replaced the Heavenly Tome Monolith, that the array of the Mausoleum of Zhou had a problem. Only when he remembered that he had a black stone on him did he realize.
He had obtained that black stone from the Pavilion of Ascending Mist, and it was actually also a Heavenly Tome Monolith.
When that black stone from Wang Zhice truly became a Heavenly Tome Monolith and helped stabilize the Heavenly Tome Monolith Array around the Mausoleum of Zhou, he had originally believed that the black stone was a Heavenly Tome Monolith that Wang Zhice had taken from the Garden of Zhou. However, after leaving the Garden of Zhou and recalling the notebook he had seen in the Pavilion of Ascending Mist, he felt that his conjecture might not have been accurate.
No matter where those two Heavenly Tome Monoliths went, the stone pearls on his wrist were Heavenly Tome Monoliths.
Of course, it was not only because these eleven stone pearls, ten gray and one black, just happened to correspond with the Heavenly Tome Monoliths around the Mausoleum of Zhou. It was also because only he could sense certain things through the black stone.
He could sense very clearly that the Garden of Zhou was within the black stone.
This statement was not accurate. It should be said that the black stone was the new gate to the Garden of Zhou, and the key to opening the Garden of Zhou was his spiritual sense.
He subconsciously raised his hand, facing the sunlight shining through the window, and earnestly gazed at the string of stone pearls.
Bright rays of light seeped through the cracks in the stone pearls, changing into many different angles. In some fine places, it seemed like there was a rainbow inside.
Only now did he truly understand what had happened.
The Heavenly Tome Monoliths that were incomparably divine in the eyes of the common people, the source of all Daoist techniques, were actually worn on his hand.
Moreover, there were eleven of them.
The sunlight shining on the stone pearls, shooting into his eyes, causing him to be somewhat dazed. He felt that everything was not real.
At this moment, the door to the room was pushed open.
He turned his head and saw Tang Thirty-Six and Xuanyuan Po.
"Just where did that idiot go?"
"How should I know … Her Highness, Sir Luoluo, wanted me to keep an eye on him, but in the end, he just ran off without saying anything. How could I keep an eye on him?"
Xuanyuan Po said pitifully, then together with Tang Thirty-Six, they saw Chen Chang Sheng's figure.
After a moment of silence, Tang Thirty-Six patted his chest and said with some lingering fear, "Good, good. I won't ask where you went, as long as you didn't run away."
Chen Chang Sheng asked confusedly, "Why would I run away?"
"You disappeared for half a day for no reason …"
Tang Thirty-Six looked at him and said, "We were all wondering if it was because you heard that Xu You Rong was coming back and you were afraid that you would be beaten black and blue by your fiancée, so you ran away."
Xuanyuan Po waved his hand and said, "I didn't say that."
Tang Thirty-Six looked at him and sneered, "You dare to say that you didn't think that?"
Xuanyuan Po was a very honest child of the bear tribe. Hearing this question, he mumbled for a long time but couldn't say anything.
Chen Chang Sheng was a little startled and said, "Just mentioning her reminded me of something. Which one of you can help me write a letter to the Divine General of the East's Estate?"
Tang Thirty-Six said in surprise, "Son-in-law with clay feet coming to visit? His daughter hasn't even returned yet, what are you in such a hurry for? "
Chen Chang Sheng shook his head and said, "I want to pay a visit tonight. There are some things I want to talk about."
"You can't really be afraid of Xu You Rong and want to do something outside of the game, right?"
Tang Thirty-Six became interested and said, "You should ask me first for this kind of thing. You know that I'm the best at this kind of thing."
Chen Chang Sheng smiled and ignored him. He walked towards the door and said, "I'll go eat first."
A few days ago, Luoluo told him that she confirmed that the girl did not leave the Garden of Zhou alive. He said that he would go to the Divine General of the East's estate to break off the engagement. Because this was what he had promised her in the Garden of Zhou. Since she was no longer here, he obviously had to keep it. The reason why he did not go to the Divine General of the East's estate these days was because he had been rather busy recently. He had left an important and necessary item in the Garden of Zhou. At the same time, his heart still held on to one last ray of hope.
She did not leave the Garden of Zhou, or perhaps she was still in the Garden of Zhou. Since the Garden of Zhou was not destroyed, then there was a possibility that she was still alive.
Until last night and this morning, he finally re-entered the Garden of Zhou. He discovered that there was not a single person inside. Not a single person, not that person. Thus, his last hope was also gone.
He also conveniently brought that item out.
Seeing Chen Chang Sheng's back disappear through the door, Tang Thirty-Six was silent for a while and asked, "Don't you feel that he was a bit strange today?"
Xuanyuan Po asked in confusion, "What's strange?"
Tang Thirty-Six said, "His smile was a bit strange … very ugly."
Xuanyuan Po thought for a while and nodded his head, "Yes, he smiled like he was crying."
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