Published at 23rd of September 2024 12:13 am

Chapter 769: Departure (3)

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Midnight.

Su Yu was about to leave for the Heart Paradise Island when Wu Lan appeared at the entrance. She stared at him grudgingly and snorted without saying anything.

Su Yu laughed and asked, "What is it?"

"You know why!"

"What do I know?"

"Why are you still acting?" Wu Lan snorted again and showed him her nostrils and said, "Do you think I'm dumb? Before you left Great Xia, you invited everyone to a meal as well!"

Su Yu was surprised. So she managed to guess it? What a surprise. So she wasn't so silly after all!

He smiled and switched to voice transmission, "I'm going out for a stroll. Don't tell anyone. A lot of people want me dead."

Wu Lan snorted again and replied with voice transmission, "Are you going to come back?"

"Of course."

"In that case, I'll forgive you. You're not allowed to run off alone. Even if you do intend to leave, you need to tell me or I would have come this far for nothing. You promised me the aperture fusion art but it wasn't done! How long are you going to be away?"

"I don't know. I will probably visit my dad as well. It has been a while since I last saw him."

"Fine." Wu Lan nodded understandingly.

She had just seen her father during the new year. Meanwhile, Su Yu had not met his family during the new year.

Su Yu said, "Cultivate hard. I left some heavenly source qi to you. Use it stealthily. Don't let anyone know about this. Use it to open more apertures. If you can't advance through willpower cultivation, just advance through physical cultivation. Enter the Skysoar Realm as soon as possible and start forging your body. That way, you will have the ability to protect yourself."

"I don't need you to tell me that!" Wu Lan raised her head proudly. She naturally knew how she should cultivate. "I'll be able to extract willpower with my character technique soon."

"Are you done forming your characters?" Su Yu was quite speechless. Who was she trying to fool?

She needed twenty characters. How many had she formed? If he remembered correctly, she only had six characters. More importantly, those six might not even be compatible with this character technique.

"It's better if you can focus on human characters. Sure, they are weak, but it doesn't matter to you since you're not a fighter..."

"Who says I'm not a fighter!"

Wu Lan snorted again. She was a fighter in the field of research! Only brutes would focus in nothing but combat. Naturally, that was not what she said back when she was at Great Xia. There was no helping it. After all, Su Yu had grown much stronger than her. Thus, she no longer liked to talk about combat strength.

What could she do if weak was one of her characters? It was as though even the heavens were calling her weak. How infuriating!

Su Yu laughed and said, "The three Mountainsea beasts are left in the basement. If you need to go somewhere, you can use them as your guards. I already told them about this. They will obey you during the duration of my seclusion. Of course, be polite toward them. Don't force them to betray you."

"I also left a merit card in the cultivation realm with four hundred thousand merit points in it. If the research center needs money, use the card. Or you can use the money if you need it for anything else. Also...forget it. That's all."

Wu Lan's curiosity was piqued as she hurriedly asked, "What else?"

She hated it the most when people left her hanging without finishing their words.

"It's nothing important. If anyone asks about me, you can take a stroll at Heart Paradise Island and tell them that I'm still there. Don't tell anyone about this. Principal Niu will cover for you, but I'm worried that you're not good at acting..."

"Pfft!"

Wu Lan didn't even deign to give a reply. Acting? That was easy!

After saying all he had to say, Su Yu started leaving. Wu Lan followed him for a few steps. As he walked further and further away without looking back, she asked, "Are you really going to return?"

"Yes."

"Where am I supposed to find you if you end up not coming back?"

"If I end up not coming back...don't look for me."

Wu Lan puffed her cheeks unhappily and said, "If you don't come back, I'll sell the research center and return to Great Xia! I will ignore you in the future! We will go separate ways!"

Su Yu smiled and waved his hand before vanishing into the darkness of night. In front of the research center, Wu Lan kicked a nearby pillar unhappily. That bastard was running away again!

He had yet to give her the promised aperture fusion art! She had even come up with a name for it! Why was Su Yu running all the time instead of focusing on research? Why couldn't he stay and work on the research?

18th of May.

After visiting his elder sister at Great Ming Cultural Research Academy, the flippant Cui Lang swaggered out of the academy. He did not forget to whistle at any female student he saw, attracting countless furious curses.

This damn womanizer! The nerve of him!

He had been maintaining a very low profile for some time as he was terrified of a certain woman and her Sunmoon grandfather. Now that the Sunmoon had entered seclusion, this bastard was starting to get all cocky again. Everyone who was familiar with him couldn't help but shake their heads. It would seem like not a single genius of Great Ming was a normal person.

On the way, Cui Lang even saw a familiar face: Bai Junsheng.

Bai Junsheng knew Cui Lang. He teased, "Love Sage Cui, you seem very at ease recently. Are you not afraid of that tigress?"

"Pfft!"

Cui Lang nonchalantly said, "She went to the Allheaven Battlefield. What am I afraid of? I'll go out to party again. I have a year to party non-stop. Little White, do you want to join me? We can return next year."

"Forget it."

Bai Junsheng gloomily said, "I have yet to graduate. Do you think everyone is free like you? You can party around, but watch out. Don't make the same mistake. By the way, what is your current weaponsmithing level?"

"I'm definitely better than you. Little Junior Brother, you're not enough to compete against me."

Bai Junsheng was left with nothing to say. There was no arguing that Cui Lang was better than him. Thus, he snorted and said, "Just wait. By the time I reach the ninth-stage Skysoar Realm, I'll surpass you."

"Pfft!" Cui Lang sneered before leaving. Without looking back, he said, "Partying is the only thing worth doing in life. I can only advance after I party to my heart's content. Damn it. The past few years have been absolutely miserable."

"May you meet the tigress again."

Bai Junsheng offered his blessing. This damn bastard only cared about partying. He also longed for a life like that, but he had yet to graduate. What an annoying bastard. May that bastard receive a beating, chased by his ex-girlfriends, and captured by the Sunmoon before being forced into marriage after leaving Great Ming. That would teach him.

Outside the academy, Cui Lang, or to be precise, Su Yu smiled.

That was a wide and bright smile. It would seem like his acting was decent. Even the Sunmoon tailing him was no longer following him. But he still had to be careful. Recently, he had sensed someone following him several times. He guessed that this was a secret protector assigned by Zhu Tiandao, but he did not need something like that.

Fortunately, that expert seemed to have lost him. He wondered if it was because of his disguise or if Xu Bin, his stand-in on the island, was too good at acting. Yes. To be safe, Niu Baidao had summoned Xu Bin back and forced him to act as Su Yu on the island.

He would remain as Su Yu until the real Su Yu was back. His sole mission was to stay in seclusion. It didn't matter if he wanted to do so or not. He wouldn't be allowed to do anything else apart from that.

To make it more convincing, Old Niu had even destroyed about a dozen of Xu Bin's acupoints. After all, Su Yu was officially in seclusion to recover his acupoints. Then again, Xu Bin was also very good at disguise. Niu Baidao and Zhu Tiandao wouldn't have noticed him at all if it wasn't for the Super Sensory Jade.

At the same time.

Hu Qi was seated alone in front of the Super Sensory Jade. A short while later, Niu Baidao's voice transmission arrived, "It's fine now. That fellow must have exited the city by now."

Hu Qi left without saying anything. The dot on the jade representing Xu Bin on the Heart Paradise Island transformed from the Mountainsea Realm to the Cloudbreach Realm. That was Su Yu's actual combat strength according to the jade. As the creator and controller of the jade, Hu Qi was able to easily change the label on it.

After leaving the hall, she sighed. Hopefully, everything would be fine. Some of her old friends were really at the end of the line. She looked in the direction of the prefect's residence and lowered her head with guilt. She could only apologize to her student, Zhu Tiandao. This one time, she wished to be selfish. She hoped that he would understand her.

Prefect's estate.

Zhu Tiandao was lounging on his chair while listening to some music when he smiled. Had the kid departed?

His people failed to follow that kid? Forget it. So be it. Since the kid did not want a protector, he wouldn't force it.

That damn Umbra was only strong without the brain to use his strength. Su Yu had called for dinner last night. Thus, he would definitely be leaving today. Meanwhile, that dumb Umbra was still waiting around the Heart Paradise Island. No wonder he had remained a servant all this while. He had the cultivation of a seventh-stage Sunmoon but the brain of a seventh-stage Source Opening cultivator.

"A troublemaker has descended from the heavens. Oh, how he loves making trouble..."

Zhu Tiandao started singing. This departure from Great Ming could very well be the start of Su Yu's journey to troublemaking. Whatever.

Perhaps it was time for the kid to suffer some hardships. Only then would he realize how much Old Zhu loved him. He would then realize that he should return and focus on cultivating instead of running everywhere.

Zhu Tiandao continued humming to the music, confident that everything was still within his grasp. Not far away, Zhu Hongliang had just returned home. When he heard his grandfather singing, he blanked out. Was this something good or bad?

Why did he have a feeling that nothing good would happen whenever his grandfather sang? Did an enemy of his grandfather die or something? What a pitiful guy.

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