35. A Conversation Under the Moon
These days, everyone had been staying in the Cloud Rainbow Sect. One reason was to avoid making the villa too conspicuous, and the other was to learn from them.
With Yan Chuyue’s researched settings, the basic framework of the old sect was almost finalized.
The remaining two days were for perfecting the plan and giving Murong Jing a little surprise.
On the day of the birthday banquet, just after midnight, the big bell in the capital began to chime for eight minutes, a total of one thousand two hundred and thirty-nine times, the exact number of years the Youhan Dynasty had existed.
Although it wasn’t the dynasty’s founding anniversary, this emperor’s methods were extraordinary, and his birthday celebration was of great significance, naturally needing the entire dynasty to celebrate together.
And with the long chime of the bell, dozens of fireworks shot into the sky, a brilliant display in the dim night.
The fireworks spread, forming a pattern of a dragon and phoenix playing with a pearl in the sky, lingering for a long time.
This scene, no matter where you were, was something you had never seen before. This incredibly expensive fireworks display seemed to also indicate that this celebration would surely not be as simple as usual.
Of course, the fireworks display at this time wasn’t even the beginning of today’s prelude, but just a reflection of today’s beginning.
After the fireworks lasted for more than ten minutes, the entire capital once again fell silent.
However, how many people were truly asleep, waiting for the next day’s celebration? And how many were looking at the hazy moonlight, imagining what would happen the next day? And how many were hoping that this day could fulfill their long-cherished dreams?
One city, a hundred different thoughts. Everyone had their own ideas about what would happen the next day.
“You’re still not asleep?”
In the quiet of the night, a sudden low murmur made Gong Yiling look over.
It was Yan Chuyue, wearing a simple robe, her hair down.
“Mmm-hmm.” Gong Yiling didn’t say much, just tossed a gourd to her.
“This is…?”
“Don’t worry, it’s not wine.” Miss Gong opened another gourd and took a few swigs. “It’s not that warm tonight. Drink some hot milk to warm up.”
Yan Chuyue, holding the slightly warm gourd, felt the slight chill in her body indeed warm up a little.
In every sense of the word.
“Are they all asleep?”
Yan Chuyue nodded. “Tomorrow is a big day. Those girls went to bed early.”
“And you?”
“I’m used to staying up late. The more it’s like this, the more I can’t sleep.” Yan Chuyue smiled. “And I know you certainly can’t sleep either.”
“Staying up late is not a good habit.” Gong Yiling chuckled and shook her head. “And I’m just giving myself a pep talk. I’ll go to sleep in a bit.”
“A pep talk?”
Yan Chuyue was taken aback for a moment, then said, “Do you need a pep talk?”
“Why not?”
Gong Yiling stretched her legs out of the eaves, her hands supporting her on the eaves, and said casually, “Tomorrow is different from before. The Heavenly Sin, Murong Jing, and there might be more people with their own ideas, and there might even be other Calamity Beast’s lackeys involved.”
“We are just pawns in their eyes, with weak strength and few forces. Even if we hold the banner of so-called justice, it’s just a saying to make ourselves feel better.”
“To become a chess player, you first have to have the qualification to play against them. And you have to ensure that these guys who cause trouble at the drop of a hat won’t just flip the chessboard on the spot.”
This was also the reason she had always used different identities and created all sorts of seemingly powerful backgrounds to deal with them.
The purpose was to ensure that no one knew her depth, so as to ensure the safety of her and all those related to her.
But after today, no matter where the Youhan Dynasty would gradually go, it could be seen that…
All of this would no longer be so peaceful.
The pep talk she mentioned, the real purpose was here.
To have her bear the lives and future of all her loved ones since she came here, how could it be so simple?
“Are you afraid?”
“Shouldn’t I be?”
“Silly.” Yan Chuyue, while chuckling, sat down beside her and, imitating her, opened the bottle of milk and took a big gulp.
“If you ask me, Qiu Shui is the destined sect master of the Cloud Rainbow Sect. Chun Lian is not an ordinary person. Xinyao carries the future of the Heartflame Empire, and her secret as a Heavenly Phoenix Fox Demon. Even Yuli is an indispensable core of the future of the Baiyao Dynasty.”
“The people you’ve gathered around you are not to be trifled with. Perhaps all of this is because you’ve read my book, and you don’t want certain things to happen as they were written in the book, and you have intentionally or unintentionally stood on the opposite side of those Calamity Beasts.”
“But Yiling,”
Yan Chuyue, while speaking, placed her hand on Gong Yiling’s. “Even without you, if their destinies could also go on the right track, then they would surely be on the opposite side of those Calamity Beasts.”
“They are your disciples now, but it’s not just that. After today, no matter what happens, they will surely be in their positions and do what they should do.”
“And,”
At this point, Yan Chuyue paused for a moment, and then an extremely profound power surged from her body.
This kind of cultivation, Miss Yan had never shown it in front of anyone before. Even Gong Yiling, this was the first time she had felt this tangible Earthly Nether realm cultivation from her.
Although Yan Chuyue was now only at the early Earthly Nether realm, and she was still many realms away from her, her progress could truly be described as leaping forward.
“You!? Earthly Nether realm!? Are you also a pill king?”
Faced with this unscientific situation, Gong Yiling instinctively thought of those pills.
However, Yan Chuyue glanced at her impatiently. “What? Your speed is as fast as flying, and that’s normal? I’m a little faster, and it’s because I’ve been taking pills? Are you looking down on the protagonist or what?”
“No… it’s this…?”
“The way to make the protagonist advance quickly, others don’t know, but how could I not know?” Yan Chuyue looked at her slightly glowing left hand and said in a deep voice, “The cultivation body and inner cultivation method of the Divine Physician’s inheritance, how it should grow, and how it can be used to its maximum effect, no one knows this better than me.”
“So Yiling,”
“These Calamity Beasts that are trying to destroy my world, their natural enemies should be me.”
