“Mr. Wu Qu.” Qing Yu and Feng Jiu bowed and saluted.
“Mengde, won’t you explain?” Wu Qu’s face was so ancient that it was impossible to see exactly what he was thinking.
“Sir saw it?”
A light breeze blew by, and Wu Qu was silent, still waiting deeply and closely for Qing Yu.
A complex, unnamable look flooded Qing Yu’s face and he sighed tersely, “Sir, forgive me. I did not mean to hide it. I have already made up my mind to help Brother Feng to ascend to the throne of the Crown Prince. If I do so, I cannot become a core student of the academy and involve the academy in this.
The academy does not stipulate that ordinary students cannot be involved in politics, so the student concealed it.”
The ordinary scholars of the academy do not have the same representative power as the core scholars. Moreover, some ordinary scholars came from powerful families in the divine capital, they were born with the seal of their families, and the people they served were the people they served, but the academy side could not prohibit them from serving certain people.
When Qing Yu finished speaking, he bowed deeply and did not straighten up.
Wu Qu then quietly looked at Qing Yu for a long, long time ——
“If that is the case, why did you fight with them?” Wu Qu suddenly spoke out and asked.
They, naturally, referred to Xie Guangran’s three.
“The three of them bullied people too much, and they were unhappy in their hearts, so naturally they had to fight.” Qing Yu still maintained his bowing and bending posture, and his voice, slightly muffled by this posture, came from under his lowered head.
“Then why do you speak obscenities and insult those who have pa*sed away?”
“The student does not feel it to be an obscenity to open his mouth and speak the truth; my heart and my actions are clear.” The words were clear, and though his voice was still dull, he could not conceal an aura of awe.
“Alas ——” Wu Qu sighed abruptly, “get up.”
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Wu Qu still looked at Qing Yu, but no longer expressionless, but a little complicated hard to name, the expression on Qing Yu’s face just now, as across space and time, appeared on Wu Qu’s face.
“The battle of the royals, the dark shots and arrows, the intrigues are endless, do you dare to say that you can get through all the crises unscathed? Or, do you have the confidence to say that you will not become the practitioner of intrigues and tricks?”
“I have no regrets about having to face up to the dark and the clear, and I have no regrets about having to choose my own life and death. I have no regrets, but if I become a person who specialises in conspiracies and tricks, frankly speaking, although I am confident that I will not do so, I cannot guarantee it 100%, which is why I am practising “Ho Yin Zheng Qi”. Qing Yu pressed his hand to his chest, and his words were loud and clear.
“What about Feng Jiu, have you decided to join this tragic drama of brothers taking over the throne?” Wu Qu’s gaze turned to Feng Jiu who had not spoken.
In a gentle but firm tone, Feng Jiu said, “I have decided long ago. If the other brothers take the crown prince’s throne, it is inevitable that they will settle scores afterwards, and of the thirteen brothers, I don’t know how many more there will be in the future. As early as the day of the 8th day of the waxing festival, Feng Jiu had already decided that he would join his brothers at home and the waxing porridge every year in the future.”
“So ——” Mr. Wu Qu pondered for a long time ——
“Meng De, go back and punish yourself by copying the Book of Rites – Confucian Conduct three times, understand the lack of your own words and actions, and do not speak lightly of the deceased in the future.” With these words, Wu Qu disappeared directly from sight.
The strong wind brought up by the wild lightness characteristic of him lifted the snow all the way.
This pa*sed, and Qing Yu and Feng Jiu looked at each other.
”Good acting skills.”
”Each other.”
The two outliers among the Confucians looked at each other and smiled, giving each other praise for their superb acting skills.
And among them, Qing Yu smiled with an extraordinarily deep meaning.
Mr Wu Qu thought that he had inadvertently discovered that Qing Yu possessed ‘Hao Ran Zheng Qi’, but he did not know that this was revealed to him by Qing Yu of his own accord.
He thought that with Qing Yu and the others’ cultivation at the Innate Realm, they would not have noticed that he was around, even though he himself was not good at hiding his tracks.
However, he did not know that it was because he had sensed his presence that Qing Yu had used his “Hao Rang Zheng Qi” against the enemy, revealing this secret to him of his own accord.
Qing Yu’s spiritual awareness was already far beyond that of ordinary people, and he was comparable to the Divine Origin realm with his realm of Innate Heaven. Now that the Hidden Vein has been opened and the Black Heavenly Book has been practised, his spiritual awareness has increased even more. It is important to know that the Black Heavenly Book is a shortcut to God Refinement. If Qing Yu practises it, he dare not say that he will directly become a God Origin realm, but he can also be said to be a crippled version of the God Origin realm, and an ordinary God Origin realm martial artist who has pressed his power to the same realm as Qing Yu may not be able to defeat him.
Therefore, while Martial Qu could hide from Feng Jiu and the others, it was impossible to hide from Qing Yu. It would be more or less the same if he was replaced by someone who was good at hiding his breath at the Divine Origin realm.
The main reason for this was the mission that Lu Qifeng had given Qing Yu, to take part in the literary world and compete with the scholars on stage.
However, Qing Yu still did not know what medicine was being sold in Lu Qifeng’s gourd and what method he was going to use to get Qing Yu, a new student, to represent the Shanhe School on stage.
However, not knowing exactly how to act does not mean that Qing Yu will not prepare for this. And the first preparation to be made was to let the academy know that he would be ‘hao yan zheng qi’. We can’t wait for the literary world to begin before Qingyu suddenly reveals his “Hao Ran Zheng Qi” and explodes in the eyes of the world.
That would be a bit too suspicious. Zhuge Longjue and the others are just righteous, not stupid. A fool would not be able to become the director and lecturer of the Mountain River Academy, let alone practise “Hao Ran Zheng Qi”. Those who practise “Hao Ran Zheng Qi” are well read in poetry and books, and books are things that enlighten the intellect; those who can be well read in poetry and books, no matter what, will not be a fool. It was for this reason that Qing Yu felt ridiculous at Xie Guangran’s trio’s behaviour of treating the people of the Shanhe School as pedantic fools.
However, if it had been revealed beforehand that he knew “Hao Ran Zheng Qi”, it would have greatly reduced the Shuyuan’s suspicions. At least it would not be easy to suspect that Qing Yu had a ghost.
In this way, after the literary battle for the throne, one could still stay in Northern Zhou. Having controlled Feng Jiu and laid down some foundations in Northern Zhou, Qing Yu did not want to give up so easily. As for how to get Department Six to agree to stay in Northern Zhou instead of returning to Great Qian, that would depend on his own means, and in this regard, Qing Yu was still quite confident.
The only downside to this was that without Ming Rui as a cover, there was a high chance that Qing Yu would be able to detect that his ‘Hao Ren Zheng Qi’ was a disguise. But that was before, now, having practiced the ‘Black Heavenly Book’ and having the power of a thousand transformations of robbery would Qing Yu still be afraid of his disguise being detected? Didn’t you see that Feng Jiu had started hanging out at the academy a few months ago with the name of a core student.
“Now, it’s up to this literary world to fight for position ——,” Qing Yu thought in his heart as he looked up at the sunset after the snow.
