道罗邪皇子 (邪神之道 B5)

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"..."

As the jade slip used for contact with Yi gives off a tremor Ye Gui Feng who had expected the former to message him was already sitting within Li Wen's room with a cup of tea in front of him as he waited patiently.

[What's your current thoughts on how we should go and approach this change in the situation?]

Reading through this message Ye Gui Feng mulls over the matter for five minutes before giving a reply that is tinged with a sense of helplessness.

[While there are dangers in opening the central domain, what other choice do we have? Are you confident enough to take on two Half-Monarchs alone? I personally feel like the most that I can do should an all-out battle break loose is to take on perhaps three Exalted Celestials with a bit of difficulties.]

"..."

Reading through Ye Gui Feng's message Yi blinked his eyes in a momentarily sense of daze.

"...Why did I just ask that?"

Laughing at himself in ridicule Yi shakes his head as he enters Xia Qingyu's room and sat down by the table.

"Old habits die hard as they say... In the end what exactly was I expecting when I asked that question?"

Weighting the risks involved with reopening the central domain along with taking Ye Gui Feng's words into consideration Yi ultimately-

[Ming Ye Chuan could very well be in the central domain with ill intentions. But... No there's no buts, you're right. We are left with little to no choice in this matter as I am indeed incapable of defeating two Half-Monarchs on my own.]

Despite having expected as such it was still difficult for Ye Gui Feng to not frown at Yi's reply as he sighs.

[Didn't you say that he's someone who has grown tired of everything and couldn't care less about who is in charge so long as he can live without being disturbed?]

Seeing this matter being brought up again Yi finds it somewhat amusing to see himself taking his own words back so quickly.

[While it may sound hypocritical of me to say this now but... Well let's just say that it's only now that I realize how naïve I may have been in thinking to myself that I understood him as a person. People change in the most unpredictable ways as time passes.]

[What do you mean?]

[Long Feng Zi... Is my disciple.]

Thinking for a moment Yi decides to tell Ye Gui Feng about Long Feng Zi's relationship with him as his disciple.

Knowing the distrust that would be created should he reveal this matter to Ye Gui Feng Yi could never find the perfect time to tell the latter about it and-

(Waiting for him to discover it himself would only cause a greater degree of distrust to form between us so I may as well come clean with it now.)

"..."

Reading this message Ye Gui Feng enters a momentarily state of surprise however he didn't dwell on the matter for long as Yi sends over his next message.

[The current impression that I have of him is an old man on his death bed who is just waiting for the inevitable to happen. This goes contrary to my original impressions of a spirited youth.]

"..."

Recalling the past in which Shen Sha Zi had attacked the Yao family Ye Gui Feng's impression of Long Feng Zi is far from positive.

And due to the bad blood that flows between the two realms' history those living in the Starry Seas tend to automatically label anyone who comes from the continent above them as an enemy.

With Long Feng Zi being an Exalted Celestial of the Primordial Continent Ye Gui Feng can understand why Yi had kept his lips sealed about this matter until now.

[I...]

[Let's not talk about your impression of him as a person as we would only be wasting our times doing so.]

Perhaps having sensed the awkward tension that is in the mood of the conversation Yi moves onto something else.

[*Sigh* my point is the older a person gets the worse their temperaments become. I suppose this is just something similar to that so-]

[You don't know if the same has been applied to Ming Ye Chuan over the passage of time.]

[Correct.]

"..."

Sensing how much uncertainty is contained in the entirety of this situation is Ye Gui Feng goes silent.

"........."

The length this silence went on for is well over an hour but eventually-

[Forget it. There's no point in thinking about any of this since you and me both know the consequences of inviting an Original Monarch into this festival all too well. As much as I hate taking on a passive approach here we are left with no other alternatives so we can only cross the bridge when we get there.]

Reading through this message Yi puts on a look of surprise that is tinged with a hint of nostalgia.

"Though its worded differently the tone feels all too similar... Sometimes I really do have to wonder if I've truly grown up or not."