Super Elation Under the Sun

Chapter 98 Climb up the Mountain

As the top Taoist nowadays, the temple owner came to Qing Mountain in person, and anyway it was the greatest honor for Qing Temple since it was built. If it was possible, Yang Haizhi even wanted to beat drums and strike gongs and tell all people in the world. However, since he could be the owner of a temple, Yang Haizhi was clear about the order of priority, so after he met the temple owner, he gave up the plan to go down the mountain and turned back to wander with the temple owner on the mountain and watch the scenery.

The temple owner dressed in plain clothes looked calm, talking about where he had been and what he had done after he left Chenxie Mountain this time, which made Yang Haizhi breathless with wonder. Although the news had spread that the temple owner went to Yuwu Mountain and almost destroyed the Tranquilization Pavilion, most people weren't clear about what happened that day as they didn't see it with their own eyes. However, when the temple owner talked about it in person, it was different. Yang Haizhi walked behind the temple owner and sighed with emotion while smiling. "Sir, your cultivation base becomes deeper these years and you never stop even for one day. Now you are standing at an isolated peak and can make Yuwu Mountain bow only with your soul out of your body. It appears that you can finish the last step in no time."

The temple owner expressed indifferently, "If it's so easy to finish it, I won't have read books for so many years in the Sky Building. The Ocean Stage is the destination of a cultivator, and nobody knows its secret except the sages. How can it be so easy to finish it? Master Yang, you were ambitious those years and said that you wanted to make Qing Temple known to the whole country, Dayu, but I asked many people all the way when I came here, and nobody said that he knew it. Till I came to the border and asked some people, who told me that they knew it."

Yang Haizhi blushed on his old face. Which young man in the world didn't have a great ambition? However, at that time, they didn't know that life was hard, so they talked big. After they grew older, they realized that they didn't know the immensity of the universe, so they never mentioned their goals they had set those years. However, Yang Haizhi didn't get angry as the temple owner exposed him. After all, he could do nothing but listen to this man, the only one among his few friends, when the latter reasoned with him.

They walked around the bamboo cottage on the mountainside and came to Qing Temple at the mountaintop, yet they just showed up in a small courtyard in the temple instead of the front yard. The temple owner had sharp eyes and saw a bamboo chair in the courtyard at a glance. He didn't hesitate to lie on it after walking two steps forward. Then he exclaimed as it was comfortable. He narrowed his eyes and stated with a smile, "Everybody says that I am powerful and awesome after I went to Yuwu Mountain, but who knows that I was wounded seriously while I looked carefree after I left Chenxie Mountain in this condition and beat Yang Changsheng, even though it will be an extravagant hope for him to cultivate in the future? After I went down that mountain, I came here. I just wanted to have a rest, but who knows that I am targeted, too?"

Yang Haizhi was scared. As the most powerful Taoist and the temple owner on Chenxie Mountain, if he was on his mountain or left the mountain at his peak, nobody dared to have other plans, yet now the temple owner was injured outside his mountain, perhaps many capable Taoists in the world would have evil intentions. The temple owner was not the only factor to decide if Chenxie Mountain could be the top of the Taoist sect, but he was very important.

Yang Haizhi stayed silent for a moment and then suggested, "I will drive all the outsiders away from the mountain and close Qing Temple, in case that the news spreads."

The temple owner waved his hand and shook his head with a smile. "No need. When I am on the mountain, if somebody dares to climb up, I will reason with him. I think few people from the Taoist sect dare to reason with me. Master Yang, have you noticed a different breath?"

Yang Haizhi was dumbfounded and looked confused, as he didn't understand what the temple owner meant.

The temple owner whispered, "There is a wisp of sword Qi."

After eating the porridge made of watermelon and tremella, the old Taoist Yu Zhen and Li Jingle prepared to return to the hotel, but halfway, they saw Leng Pingxue wearing a purple dress and Li Baizhu who held a lot of things.

The two girls were bargaining in front of a stall and didn't notice Li Jingle and Yu Zhen. Li Jingle looked at his favored student and his daughter in the distance and scratched his head helplessly.

Before they came out, he told the two girls to climb up the mountain and investigate the case carefully, but now he found that they were in the town, which was beyond his expectation.

Li Jingle took a few steps and came to them. Seeing that his daughter held a lot of baubles in her arms, he asked helplessly, "Baizhu, you came down the mountain secretly?"

Hearing her master's voice, Leng Pingxue turned around instantly and bowed while greeting, "Master."

Li Baizhu turned her head and looked at her father who was always gentle. Feeling guilty, she didn't dare to speak and just tried to hide behind Leng Pingxue.

Leng Pingxue rarely clarified her junior sister apprentice with a smile, yet she didn't say much. She merely told Li Jingle what had happened on the mountain. Li Jingle pursed his lips and didn't dislike the news that a young Taoist fell in love with a girl outside the mountain, while the old Taoist Yu Zhen next to him frowned. "It's not easy to cultivate, and it's a Heaven-sent chance. This young Taoist doesn't cherish it and even ruined his cultivation for a girl in society. He is so brainless. Yang Haizhi is the temple owner but turns a blind eye, and he is too thoughtless."

Li Jingle laughed. "There are thousands of ways in the world. It's hard to say."

Yu Zhen furrowed his brows and kept silent, turning around to climb up the mountain. Li Jingle smiled bitterly and followed him. Before leaving, he told Li Baizhu and Leng Pingxue to pay attention to anything unusual on the mountain.

Li Baizhu nodded repeatedly, yet it was uncertain if she listened to him seriously.

Leng Pingxue just nodded slightly and didn't say anything.

After Li Jingle was lost in their sights, Li Baizhu asked her senior sister apprentice with a smile, "We have bought almost all the things that the young Taoist told us to buy. Can he get married in the next two days? I have never seen a Taoist get married. We need to stay and watch his wedding then."

Leng Pingxue didn't speak much. After she nodded, she got many things from Li Baizhu's arms and then walked back to the mountain.

After they took a few steps, Li Baizhu suddenly asked, "Pingxue, have you seen my father and mother get married?"

Leng Pingxue was stunned and stayed silent for a moment. Then she shook her head. "No. Master got married earlier than I entered the academy."

Li Baizhu replied "Oh" and felt disappointed. She was born and grew up in the academy since childhood, but she had never seen her mother who was said to have died of a disease at a young age. She could only look at her mother's picture in her father's study, so from her childhood, she always wanted to see her mother, and it was fine even if she heard others talk about her mother.

However, such a simple request was never fulfilled. It was said that because her father was too sad, he never mentioned her mother these years, and the others in the academy kept silent when she asked about her mother.

Leng Pingxue probably saw that her junior sister apprentice was unhappy, so she comforted her. "It's fine after we watch the young Taoist get married on the mountain."

Li Baizhu didn't answer but slowly walked in the front alone.