Chapter 2912 — The Legend of Two People (Part 4)
The Blossom Guardian · Page 2 of 2
After Tu Wanghai left, Tu Qingsong inherited the position of sect master. But what he never expected was that once his father and those two seniors departed, more than ten years would pass with no word at all!
Over the years, Tu Wanghai had also made inquiries of the other ancient sects, asking whether there was any news of their departed sect masters, grand elders, supreme elders, and the like—but no one had any word. These people had simply vanished into thin air...
And afterward, in everyone's view, these people were most likely no longer among the living. The affair of that year had probably been a swindle all along—those two Heavenly Dao adepts had led those late Heaven Rank peak, great consummation experts away and done away with them...
Of course, there was no end of theories. Some said that Heavenly Dao adepts belonged to an entirely different tier of power, that these people were cultivating elsewhere, in a place called Cloud-Tier Island, where the spiritual qi of heaven and earth was beyond all comparison with this side; that after advancing to the Heavenly Dao, these people were bound by the constraints of that tier and could not leave Cloud-Tier Island at will... and so on. In any case, opinions differed and all was conjecture.
Even if what those people said was true—that Heavenly Dao adepts could not leave Cloud-Tier Island at will—Tu Qingsong still wanted to know where Tu Ranran had gone! Yet when he went with Tu Qingshui once more to the Miao lands to seek Lin Dongfang, he found that the market was long gone. A landslide had occurred there, and the place where the market had stood was now nothing but scattered rubble...
And the Miao lands were vast—how could Tu Qingsong find the time to search slowly? Even if he searched, he might not find anything. Had it not been said that Tu Ranran had been sent to the side of Senior Yang Zhao? So Tu Qingsong could only return with Tu Qingshui to the Western Regions.
Now, quite unexpectedly, Tu Qingsong had received word of those two men's descendants. His heart surged with excitement and elation, yet he dared not immediately ask Wei Zhao about the whereabouts of Seniors Lin Dongfang and Yang Zhao. He could only let the Earth Tyrant and Wei Zhao become acquainted first, and look for an opportunity to inquire later!
The one thing to be grateful for was that Tu Ranran was presumably with Wei Zhao—and the earth-attribute essence liquid that Wei Zhao had demanded from the Yellow Earth High Sect had likely been requested on Tu Ranran's behalf as well.
"Uncle, what's wrong? Why have you gone silent?" the Earth Tyrant asked. After he had spoken of the "earth-attribute legacy inheritor," Tu Qingsong's excitement was, in his view, only natural—but surely not so great that he would fall silent for so long?
So at last the Earth Tyrant could wait no longer, and spoke up to ask.
"It's nothing—I am simply overjoyed!" Tu Qingsong felt that some matters were better left unspoken to the Earth Tyrant for the time being. After all, the Earth Tyrant was young and impulsive, his temperament unsteady; if he revealed the truth, it would only make the Earth Tyrant more fearful—or all the more eager to curry favor with Wei Zhao—and that would not do at all.
Moreover, regarding Tu Ranran, it was only conjecture. Though he was more than eighty percent certain, he had not yet seen Tu Ranran with his own eyes, so it was not easy to be sure. He decided to first obtain Tu Ranran's photograph and name, and only after he had truly confirmed her identity would he decide whether to tell the Earth Tyrant of this matter. (***: Away from home, my stockpile of drafts has run out. Two chapters a day; resuming on the 6th.)