IS Chapter 165

Chapter 165

Green Mountains.

Wei Sheng Xian was reading a letter from Yongjing. The tone of the letter was not good.

The world was in great chaos for a century until the Yong family’s ruler, with his sword and horse, unified the land, and the mandate of heaven returned to the black bird. Such a king of a chaotic era naturally wouldn’t have a gentle temperament or methods.

However, as the ruler of a country, Yong Xuan usually phrased his words in an elegant and solemn manner. It was rare for him to use such sharp words, full of veiled implications.

Of course, he was talking about Li Yuan. Wei Sheng Xian agreed with that.

Turning to the next page, the ending of the letter was clearly very bland, but he inexplicably saw three words: grieving white hair.

Then he saw three more words: recalling youth.

A sigh could be written on paper, so he must have been putting on an act in front of someone.

—Being the human ruler, he has finally reached the prime of his life, who is he putting on this show for? It’s not like a celestial being would spare him a glance, a king at the end of his days. When he was in his teens or twenties, were things really that good? He probably liked being a puppet, liked being hit by both open and hidden attacks. Wei Sheng Xian wouldn’t reply to this letter.

The Green Mountains are good, who wouldn’t want to return to the Green Mountains? He also wanted to go back to Peach Blossom Mountain to see it, and there were still old people to take care of. Moreover, someone still hadn’t returned. Oh, counting the days, he should be back soon.

The first thing Li Yuan did upon returning to Misty Green Peak was to take advantage of Ye Zhuo’s absence in the study to drag that damned screen to another room. Wasn’t the Yong Dynasty’s national treasury short of money? It would be best to sell it for gold and silver to donate for disaster relief, making the most of its use. His brother Yong Xuan was still a decent emperor, limited to that.

With the screen gone, he immediately felt refreshed. Li Yuan transformed back into his dragon form and lay on the roof beam to cultivate.

Ye Zhuo, upon returning to the inner chamber, only felt inexplicably puzzled.

So he was cultivating, the dragon’s cultivation hadn’t been increasing as quickly as others these days, he was getting anxious.

Ye Zhuo wasn’t anxious.

Facing the cold pool, the Green Mountain ranges were still quietly stretching as they had been the first day he arrived here. Ye Zhuo inexplicably remembered Yong Xuan saying that he missed the Green Mountains. Clearly, he possessed the world, and he had never even been to the Green Mountains. The closest Yong Xuan had been to the Green Mountains was when he looked at the map and said, oh, so you chose here, it’s a bit far.

Perhaps, having a peak was not bad. At the very least, when he didn’t know where to go, there would be a familiar place to return to.

And there would be a few familiar people to see.

Standing by the water’s edge, there was a light footstep coming from behind him, stopping three steps away.

Wei Sheng Xian said, “Ah Zhou.”

Ye Zhuo didn’t speak.

The dragon Li Yuan, having done something guilty, liked to turn into a dragon and hide on the roof beams. And when Wei Sheng Xian had something on his mind, he would linger like this, not moving forward.

He didn’t move until Wei Sheng Xian sighed lightly and walked over.

“Let me check your meridians,” Wei Sheng Xian said after looking at him for a long time. “You have your own ideas, not returning to the mountain. You don’t know that the people in the mountain are worried.”

Ye Zhuo quietly thought about it.

There was nothing wrong with his meridians, what good would it do to check them? Worrying was equally useless, nothing could be changed. In the past, when someone said “worry” in his ear, Ye Zhuo would only say it was unnecessary.

People have human emotions, Ye Zhuo had always known. But he didn’t think it was necessary.

But perhaps, some unnecessary things would linger in people’s hearts, and they would be unable to change them themselves.

Just like after the dragon Li Yuan’s figure disappeared from his sight for a few months, the thought of catching the black dragon and killing it.

Although it was displeasing, it wasn’t necessarily something that needed to be cut off with a sword.

Some grieved over white hair, some thought of the common people, perhaps it was like that.

Ye Zhuo finally raised his hand, letting Wei Sheng Xian take his pulse. He wasn’t very used to it, but he could endure it for a few breaths.

After three breaths, Ye Zhuo withdrew his hand.

Wei Sheng Xian was silent. Should he praise this person? Forget it, at least upon probing, his aura was refined and harmonious, which was good.

Although he knew this person would keep himself safe, only after checking did his heart settle down. Wei Sheng Xian lightly breathed a sigh of relief.

“What’s so good outside the mountain? If you don’t return, everyone will miss you. You even made me divine, heaven has no eyes, I dare not ask again.”

So sarcastic, Ye Zhuo ignored him.

“What’s the matter?” he said.

“Is it that I have something, or you have something?” Wei Sheng Xian looked deeply at him, finally sighing lightly and averting his gaze.

“Have you been to Peach Blossom Mountain?”

“Yes.”

“How is the old Daoist?”

“We fought.”

“…Old bones and legs,” Wei Sheng Xian said solemnly, “Moving around is good too.”

“He’s quite well,” Ye Zhuo suddenly said.

Wei Sheng Xian didn’t speak for a long time. Dusk was approaching, and there was glittering sunlight on the surface of the cold pool.

Wei Sheng Xian frowned.

“Your progress is so fast.” In this short time, Wei Sheng Xian had already noticed the unusual aura on Ye Zhuo.

“It’s fast.” There was a faint, cold glint in Ye Zhuo’s eyes, “I wonder who gave it to me.”

Because of this, even that long worm was getting anxious. Ye Zhuo had seen the black dragon climbing on the roof beams yesterday.

Wei Sheng Xian looked at him, rarely seeing a Dao cultivator with such a stern expression. After a long look, Wei Sheng Xian said, “It’s like the will of heaven.”

“Nothing is done without a purpose,” Ye Zhuo said lightly, “Heaven is helping me, what does it want me to do?”

“You killed half of the Upper Purity Mountain alone with your sword, cleared the path of humanity, and opened so many ancient secret realms, making up for the deficiencies of the heavenly Dao. Heaven pities you, probably wanting to send you on your way.” Wei Sheng Xian said, “Back then, Yun Xiangxi made a big fuss, using his sword to cut at the heavens, in exchange for the wrath of the heavenly Dao, which sent down nine layers of heavenly tribulation, allowing him to ascend. The Upper Purity Mountain covered it up for him, saying that the heavenly Dao was moved by his righteousness, sending him to ascend. I see, whether the heavenly Dao wanted to send Yun Xiangxi to ascend is unknown, but it truly wants to send you to ascend.”

“Letting Yun Xiangxi ascend, was it wrath, or was it afraid?” Ye Zhuo said lightly, “Sending me to ascend, is it because it finds me pleasing to the eye, or does it want me to clear up the immortal realm with my sword?”

“You don’t speak nicely,” Wei Sheng Xian chuckled, “Be careful of being struck by lightning.”

Ye Zhuo was just stating the truth, without malice. For the past twenty-odd years, the heavenly Dao had been fair and impartial to him. He hadn’t had the calm enlightenment that Wei Sheng Xian had every day, but he hadn’t suffered much karmic retribution either. He had obtained what he wanted himself, and what was lost wasn’t something that the will of heaven could change.

“It can’t strike me dead, why waste its energy,” Ye Zhuo said, “Perhaps it’s hoping that after I go up there, I’ll kill the people in the immortal realm who want aura meridians, and it will be better off.”

Wei Sheng Xian: “But it gave you cultivation, and you accepted it. The karma of the heavenly Dao is not easy to bear.”

There was a faint smile in Ye Zhuo’s eyes, like a thin line of snow, cold and penetrating, he looked at the sky, as if confronting something.

“It’s not something dirty, I’d be impolite to refuse,” he said, “It’s not afraid of being bitten back by me, so why should I be afraid that it has ulterior motives?”

“You really should be struck by lightning.” Wei Sheng Xian shook his head with a smile, and then said, “Ah Zhou.”

“What?”

“A game of chess has been played for many years.” Wei Sheng Xian said, “If you don’t overturn it, do you also like this game? Do you want to enter this game, or do you want to play chess as an opponent?”

“I don’t know how to play chess,” Ye Zhuo said.

“But if you want to overturn it, then how long will I play?”

“As you like,” Ye Zhuo said, “Play until I want to overturn it.”

Wei Sheng Xian laughed loudly.

“Then I’ll risk my life to accompany you, what do you think?” Wei Sheng Xian said.

“Who is a gentleman?” Ye Zhuo asked.

Wei Sheng Xian thought about it, it seemed that there were no gentlemen present.

“Then I’ll accompany a beauty, that’s fine too,” Wei Sheng Xian said thoughtfully.

“…Who is the beauty?”

Wei Sheng Xian closed his mouth. Being afraid of death was human nature.

But he thought about it, and thought about it again. Although, he didn’t want to think about it at all.

“Ah Jiang has been guarding the medicine house,” Wei Sheng Xian said, “Do you want to go take a look?”

Look at what? Ye Zhuo slowly thought.

…Oh, the long worm also has a little one.

He was just sleeping anyway, why guard him, and why go to see him. It’s not like he was locked up in a prison, needing someone to visit. It was really strange, he still couldn’t quite sort out this matter, a small long worm.

Ye Zhuo: “Do I look like I really want to go see him?”

“No,” Wei Sheng Xian said, “But you look like you’re about to ascend.”

Did he? Ye Zhuo thought about it and decided to pay a brief visit. In his memory, Feng Jiang’s children were very lively and active, it wouldn’t be good if they were shaken to death.