Way Of Choices Chapter 209 - Viewing The Monoliths At Dawn (1/2)

Chapter 209 - Viewing the Monoliths at Dawn

The courtyard was quiet, the mood was oppressive The first to break the silence was Chen Changsheng

He walked into the hut and saw Tang Thirty-Six finishi+ng the leftover tea-soaked rice For soered him Any other time, he probably would have left to wash the dishes and wipe the table twice over, but right noas not in theto bed”

Having said that, he turned around and walked into the hut, found a blanket, and put it over his face

The rest, ere still immersed in that complex and melancholy o to sleep Guan Feibai arched his eyebrows and unhappily said, “He really is a cold-blooded guy”

Gou Hanshi+ shook his head to indicate that he should say no more

Tang Thirty-Six sneered “You bastard, you’re just a battle maniac How are you any different from that old man under the pavilion?”

Suddenly, Zhexiu spoke up “To be a little cold-blooded is better”

Everyone there was stunned by those words, such that even Tang Thirty-Six thought it was a little far-fetched

“Colder blood o crazy”

Zhexiu expressionlessly explained himself, turned and entered the hut He found a blanket, laid on the bed and began to sleep

Tang Thirty-Six suddenly thought of so and walked into the hut “Hey, how many blankets are there anyway? You haven’t used them all, have you?”

Hearing this, Guan Feibai leapt from the doorstep and shouted into the hut, “I don’t care how many blankets there are, but we need at least two!”

On the brink of death, Xun Mei had passed on this grass hut to these youths It was a very soleacy In reality, the hut was very crude and wretched It only had three rooms; the kitchen, the main room and the inner roo tere very s there was rather crowded

Chen Changsheng, Tang Thirty-Six, and Zhexiu stayed in the relatively nicer looking inner rooiven the hut to all of the youths, he did so mostly because of those threeThus, other than Guan Feibai, who stubbornly putting his all into getting two blankets, the four disciples from the Mount Li Sword Sect really had no objections

Xun Mei had only left three sour-s blankets After two of them had been wrested away, there was only one left Fortunately, Zhexiu had grown up in the snowy plains and did not need a blanket To nor was a chilly season; but to him, it had the all the pleasantness of early su Thirty-Six had actually brought a fur skin with hi did not have to share his blanket

The night grew darker, but Chen Changsheng’s eyes remained open; he had not fallen asleep

It was not because of the sour s reason

The person that had slept on this bed for thirty-seven years just died before their eyes Who could sleep knowing that?

Like him, there were actually many people who could not sleep

“Was it worth it?” Tang Thirty-Six asked as he looked out the s at the stars in the night sky, his mood downcast

Zhexiu’s eyes were closed He was not asleep, but he did not respond Thought on this matter was unnecessary

Chen Changsheng also did not answer; but, under the blanket, he gripped that black stone a bit tighter Last night in the Pavilion of Ascending Mist, he had understood soht in the Mausoleus all came up too abruptly, and were too much for his fifteen-year-old self to handle In fact, he was probably evenThirty-Six

Gazing up at the stars, he could feel that distant little red star which was his own He silently thought, if I wanted to change e the fate of all the people I’ their stars But how can I knohich stars correspond to which people? Xun Mei…where is his star? There was already a connection between the tould his death change anything? Or is it to say that because he entered the Mausoleue his fate, would he really have to bring suffering and death to those by his side?

And if the star he affected were his Senior’s? Or Tang Thirty-Six’s? Or Luo Luo’s? Even if it were Xu Yourong’s, would he be able to coldly look on as her star grew di Thirty-Six suddenly got up, flung off the fur skin, and began to fan himself with the front of his shi+rt

“What’s wrong?” He asked

“It’s a little hot” Tang Thirty-Six continued, “I really don’t kno the people in my family prepared for this”

Chen Changsheng chuckled, but did not say anything

Tang Thirty-Six suddenly turned to hi, I need to tell you so”

Puzzled, Chen Changsheng asked, “What?”

Tang Thirty-Six was very serious “In the future, no matter what happens, I won’t ever say ‘thank you’ to you, and you won’t ever say ‘you’re welcome’ to me”

Chen Changsheng did not respond He knew that Tang Thirty-Six had been deeplyPo’s final conversation

Guan Feibai’s jeering voice ca ‘thank you’ and he’s the one saying ‘you’re welco to be wang Po, and that Chen Changsheng will never be youryou forward? Don’t forget, he’s already at Ethereal Opening You’re still pretty far from him!”

In this serious setting where two brothers shared their bond, Tang Thirty-Six could not help but fly into rage at these sudden words He shouted back, “You er than me!”

Guan Feibai sneered “Regardless of how er”

Gou Hanshi+ interjected “Stop quarreling”

Chen Changsheng added in, “Just go to sleep early”

The hut finally grew quiet However, not too long after, everyone heard Qi Jian’s shy voice

“Second senior brother, I… I… think I’ry”

There was silence, then laughter all around

Qi Jian’s small face blushed

Chen Changsheng saw that while Zhexiu’s eyes were closed, the corners of his lips perked up

After a few rounds of arguhter, their radually fell asleep

Chen Changsheng was still awake He calht sky filled with stars

Tonight, Xun Mei had said he had learned a lot fro had also learned s

Zhexiu had said that thein life was not to live, but to live awake or die awake To hi in life was to follow his heart In the old tee, he had studied the Daoist Canons with hispeople with flying swords, or living forever without aging, but to follow his heart

When trying to live while facing death, the only thing that held anywas that he was already between life and death, so he obviously had to stay sober and follow his heart

It was also because he had truly faced life and death that in the past few years, he had taken the three words ‘follow your heart’ and cultivated theone to the Divine General’s estate to cancel the engage, and finally obtained the first place on the First Banner in the Grand Examination However, when he had finally been able to enter the Pavilion of Ascending Mist and discovered those secrets, he had seen life’s hope for the first time in many years, but his heart had been instead perturbed

His loss of interest in cultivation and his playing tourist on the first day in the Mausoleum of Books were because his heart had been confused Fortunately, he had heard Zhexiu’s answer and met Xun Mei Xun Mei had taken thirty-seven years to wake up, while he had only used one night He could not help but admit that he had been rather lucky

Now that Chen Changsheng had gotten back his tranquil mood, he naturally returned to his fas had happened last night, that both his body and soul orn out, and that he had even slept later than usual, he opened his eyes and woke up early at five o’clock when the sky was still dark