Nightfall

Unfolding The Sky

Yu Lian jumped off Peach Mountain and darted north. She had to pass the small town.

Right then, the Butcher was randomly chopping around, while Jun Mo looked pale and was staring blankly at the north. Then he saw the yellow dress.

Like the others from the Academy who were currently on the plateau, Jun Mo knew that she had a thing for him. It further proved that the Eldest Brother must be in danger in the north. Silently he sat back onto the snowy ground.

If she could change the result, she herself would be enough. No one else could catch up with her. If she could not, she’d better go alone. Because when she mourned she would rather not be seen.

Jun Mo thought so. Not even to be seen by him.

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Yu Lian kept darting. Her embroidered shoes were worn out. Her charming feet smashed the remaining snow and mud and quaked the earth. Her yellow dress fluttered like a yellow but not falling leaf. Because it was not a dying leaf in deep autumn. It was rather a premature and vital leaf in early spring.

She passed through the fields of the West-Hill Divine Kingdom and the hills outside Linkang in the South Jin. The yellow dress flashed in the reed marshes and went out hundreds of miles in a few seconds. She kept toward the north.

The yellow dress passed by the slightly chilling Great Swamp, pierced through the freezing wind and mist, as well as the mist over her own life. Her bare feet stepped onto the rippling lake and left some everlasting marks.

Yu Lian was determined to go across the tens of thousands of miles to the north to make sure he was fine.

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“Impressively fast.” The Abbey Dean looked at somewhere in the south and sighed. Then he turned to the heart of the collapsed cliffs and said, “But you know she could never surpass me.”

Yu Lian could cross a few miles in a single step. No one could be faster than her in the human world. But even though the Drunkard was dead, there were the Abbey Dean and the Eldest Brother who were Distanceless. These cultivators could no longer be defined as being fast.

The Eldest Brother sat on the rubble, stained in blood and looked pale. Previously he had been holding the cudgel in front of his face. Now it was placed by his side.

Obviously he was defeated. He could no longer lift the cudgel. Nor could he keep the Abbey Dean any longer in the chilling snow peaks far away from the human world.

It was not even halfway through the seven days he mentioned at the beginning. But the Eldest Brother was not frustrated at all. He was as calm as always.

The Abbey Dean ranked the first in the world, and he ranked second. It was a matter of fact for a second ranking to be defeated by the first. The Academy had always emphasized the matter of fact. Therefore they never regretted nor enraged.

“Haotian is back to Chang’an. The Academy is at the West-Hill… You used to say a just cause would gain great support… Now it seems we are the true just cause.” The Eldest Brother looked at the Abbey Dean and said, “In Jun Mo’s words, what is Tao? Tao is reason. We have every reason. Then why shouldn’t we win?”

“There are various reasons and we have different stands. The Academy’s reasons are not necessarily right. And my reasons might not be accepted by all. Therefore, nothing is definite.”

The Abbey Dean stared calmly at him and continued, “As for Haotian, although she returned to Chang’an with Ning Que, you should know clearly that it doesn’t necessarily mean I am wrong.”