"Sacred Light?" Chen Changsheng appeared perplexed.
He naturally knew what Sacred Light was, but although he was well-versed in the Daoist Canon, he had never entered the Thirteen Divisions of Radiant Green, nor had he gone to Holy Maiden Peak, so why was his body brimming with Sacred Light?
Suddenly, he recalled a name. It was a place rarely mentioned, not even clearly recorded in the Daoist Canon.
The first time he had truly heard the name of this place was on that snowy day at the beginning of the year, when he and Xu Yourong were discussing where Senior Su Li would go.
As expected, in the next moment, he once more heard this name from the Pope's words.
"Could it be that your master really went to the Sacred Light Continent?" The Pope slightly creased his brow as if he had encountered a problem that was very difficult to understand.
"But this is also not completely certain. There's always been a rumor that a portion of the descendants of the Cloud Grave passed through the barrier of space and went to the Sacred Light Continent. Emperor Taizong had no way of exterminating them, so he stopped his search. If that branch of the Chen Imperial clan really is living on that side, then your situation can be explained."
Chen Changsheng finally understood that the Sacred Light Continent was not an illusory existence. There might even be people who had gone there, and those people were highly likely to be his clansmen …
But there were still some questions that he could not understand. "Could it be that the people living on the Sacred Light Continent all have so much Sacred Light in their bodies?"
"It's rumored that the world of the Sacred Light Continent is brimming with limitless Sacred Light, but the situation you speak of is still impossible. Your situation is still special."
The Pope looked at him with pity. "When you were still in your mother's womb, your sun wheel was already destroyed. Logically speaking, it should have been impossible for you to survive. According to my conjecture, it was probably some eccentric person on the Sacred Light Continent who gathered an unimaginable amount of Sacred Light and forcefully poured it into your body, helping you survive. "
After a moment of silence, Chen Changsheng said, "Living is rather arduous."
"But living is still a good thing."
The Pope extended a hand and caressed his head. "Go. If you still don't leave, I'm truly worried that the Holy Maiden will burn down the Great Hall of Light.
Chen Changsheng lowered his head, accepting the old man's loving blessing.
The hard stone floor resounded with the grinding of wheels as he pushed his wheelchair out of the hall.
The Pope gazed at his back and said, "In the future, do not use this method to probe. It's very dangerous."
Chen Chang Sheng stopped the wheelchair and nodded after a moment of silence.
"Neither human nature nor the human heart can be tested, because when you start thinking of ways to test it, it means that you have already begun to doubt it."
The Pope concluded, "And doubt is the root of all misfortune."
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It was early autumn and not yet bleak. The big banyan tree by the lake was still swaying its green leaves. Only some yellowish leaves could be seen occasionally on the lawn.
The Orthodox Academy was heavily guarded today, the Orthodoxy cavalry vigilantly patrolling outside the alley. Those restaurants outside the alley that were normally brightly lit had also received the news and closed their doors early, leaving the place deserted.
The disciples of South Stream Temple did not remain in the Li Palace, nor did they go to the Imperial Palace. Instead, they went straight to the Orthodox Academy and began to pitch tents on the lawn. At the same time, they impolitely took over the library.
The teachers and students of the Orthodox Academy were blocked outside by a curtain of cloth. As they watched those beautiful disciples of South Stream Temple enter and leave, they actually did not feel too conflicted. They were even secretly happy, but they did not show it on their faces. They indignantly grumbled, "When did the Orthodox Academy come under the control of Holy Maiden Peak?"
At this time, Su Mo Yu and Xuanyuan Po were in the kitchen on the other side of the lake that had just been repaired for less than half a year. According to the disciples of South Stream Temple, they could not return to the small building for the time being. Only when they were allowed could they return and take their clothes and daily necessities. This naturally made them very angry.
"Just what happened? Why do the people of Holy Maiden Peak have to live in the academy? And they even want to steal our place, so where are we going to live? "
Zhexiu sat on the doorsill of the kitchen, looking at the newly planted locust trees by the wall. As usual, he feigned loneliness and despair. The person who answered this question could only be Tang Thirty-Six.
"There is one thing that you might not know, but I believe that you will know very soon, just like everyone else in this world."
He looked at Su Mo Yu and Xuanyuan Po and said very seriously, "Chen Chang Sheng has had an affair with Xu You Rong for a long time."
These words were very vulgar, but it was the clearest way to explain the current situation.
Silence. Su Mo Yu and Xuanyuan Po needed a lot of time to digest the shock in their hearts.
Su Mo Yu's first reaction was to frown at Tang Thirty-Six, "How can you use such vulgar words on the Holy Maiden?"
Xuanyuan Po's reaction was also very direct, his face full of praise, "The principal is truly amazing, but … what about Her Highness?"
This time it was Tang Thirty-Six's turn to be shocked, he looked at the two and said, "Are you not disappointed, not angry?"
"Why should we be disappointed?"
"That adulterous couple kept us in the dark for so long."
"Tang Tang, I'm warning you, this matter involves the Holy Maiden, don't use such vulgar words," Su Mo Yu said seriously.
Tang Thirty-Six said angrily, "You were already kicked out of the door and you still want to speak up for them?"
Xuanyuan Po said with a simple and honest face, "This is equivalent to a new wife bringing her family to visit for the first time, of course we have to treat them well."
… …
… …
Chen Chang Sheng and Xu You Rong didn't know that they had once again become a pair of adulterous couple in Tang Thirty-Six's mouth, they were currently discussing their previous trip to Li Palace.
"Suspicion is the source of all misfortune, these were the last words Martial Uncle said to me. I know that this was a teaching for me, but I think that when he said these words, he might have remembered that when Teacher sent me to the Capital, it was also a thorn inserted between him and the Divine Empress. Then … to him, this was also a sort of misfortune. "
"His Holiness the Pope's heart is for the world, the misfortune he feels should be more of the misfortune of the world, the misfortune of the millions upon millions of people."
"But to be used by Teacher like this, even if Martial Uncle truly believed that the Divine Empress should abdicate, he would still feel somewhat uncomfortable."
"That's why I say, your teacher truly is a schemer. Right now, I really want to know, just what sort of person he really is."
Xu You Rong withdrew her gaze from the distance and looked at Chen Chang Sheng.
The starlight and the early autumn wind came in through the window and fell on his face. It was very comfortable, just like the feeling he gave others.
She didn't know what sort of person Daoist Ji, or perhaps Principal Shang, was. She only knew that she had never loathed a person so much.
Even though that person was Chen Chang Sheng's teacher.
It was precisely because that person was Chen Chang Sheng's teacher.
Who in the world would be so cold and heartless as to use the student he had brought up as a chess piece, and was even unwilling to let his senior brother who had once spared his life go?
Chen Chang Sheng thought of the words recorded in Wang Zhi Ce's notebook in the Pavilion of Ascending Mist.
Wang Zhi Ce's notebook did not specifically mention Daoist Ji, he only described how he had gone to visit a few ministers and famous generals of the Pavilion of Ascending Mist before they died of illness. He had either encountered or heard of Daoist Ji's visit.
As the divine doctor with the best medical skills in the Great Zhou Dynasty, when those ministers and famous generals were gravely ill, he would receive orders to visit them. This seemed to be a very normal matter.
But thinking about it from another perspective, it could also be said that not long after Daoist Ji had gone to visit those ministers and famous generals on Emperor Taizong's orders, those important figures whose names would go down in history returned to the sea of stars. And if one thought about it, Daoist Ji was a legitimate successor of the Orthodoxy. Many years later, he would restore Shang Xingzhou's real name and take charge of the Orthodox Academy, secretly plotting to overthrow the Divine Empress's rule …
"I think … Teacher should have been the person Emperor Taizong trusted the most."
After Chen Chang Sheng said this, he suddenly felt that the autumn wind blowing in through the window was rather cold.
The room was quiet for a very long time.
If this matter really was traced back to Taizong's era, if it really was extended to that distant, unknown continent, then it was far too complicated.
Although he and she were not ordinary youths, they would still only be seventeen in two months. They did not know what had happened back then, so how could they see through these layers of fog?
"Right now, we can only be sure that His Holiness the Pope has no ill intentions towards you," Xu You Rong said.
Chen Chang Sheng nodded his head. This was a fact that he had taken an enormous risk to confirm, but in truth, he still could not completely understand why the Pope had stopped at that moment.
If it really was as the Pope said, that his body contained countless strands of Sacred Light, then eating him would allow him to enter an unimaginable realm and obtain true freedom, transcending the suffering of life and death. Even the Demon Lord was willing to risk entering Mount Han to eat him, so how could the Pope control him?
Senior Yu Ren had said that only Saints could resist the temptation of his blood. What he said here was ability, not will.
If it were Chen Chang Sheng in this situation, he did not know what choice he would make.
In the Pope's heart, what was more important than this? Of course, it was not power.
He silently thought that it could only be the future of the Human race.
Xu You Rong knew what he was thinking and said, "It's also because of reverence."
For an important figure like the Pope, whether it was in terms of cultivation, strength, or status, what else could there be reverence?
The starry sky that the people of the world could see when they raised their heads, as well as that light in the depths of their hearts.
That light might be morality, or principles, or love, or familial love, or a bowl of noodles with fried eggs, or the blood in one's body. It was thick for you and thick for me.
Not everyone could maintain this kind of reverence.
Xu You Rong believed that Chen Chang Sheng's teacher did not.
Even at the highest heights, he still maintained reverence in his heart. This sort of person was truly extraordinary.
From start to finish, from the heavens to the earth, from light to darkness, without reverence, this sort of person was truly terrifying.
Up until now, that person had always been hiding in the shadows. They only knew that he would assuredly use Chen Chang Sheng, but they did not know how he would use Chen Chang Sheng.
"I still adhere to the view I had in Mount Han."
Xu You Rong said, "We should tell everything to the Empress."
Chen Chang Sheng quietly gazed out the window, saying nothing for a very long time.
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