Chapter 95 You Have No Parents

When Song Xixiao saw that Mei Liangyu had really left, she frowned and was about to stop her when Mu Wu and Zhu Rong came over to smooth things over and stopped her. Zhang Yuxuan then said some nice things politely before she went to chase after Mei Liangyu.

After Mei Liangyu left, Gu Gan lowered his guard, glanced back at Wen Yanghui, and guessed that he was also feeling bad, so he held back and didn't say anything.

He could take matters into his own hands if his own people made mistakes, but he couldn't stand seeing Mei Liangyu teach Wen Yanghui a lesson in person.

The two groups already had a grudge against each other, and this hatred was amplified after their trip to Zhanlong Cave. Gu Gan would not stand idly by when Mei Liangyu and his group attacked Wen Yanghui.

As for Sheng Fei, he's always been like this, and Gu Gan is too lazy to bother with him right now.

"Let's treat the injuries first," Gu Gan said calmly.

Wen Yanghui was supported by Huo Xiao, his eyes filled with hostility as he looked down.

The golden lightning struck the ground unexpectedly, and he was caught off guard. He choked on his own blood, his five elements were in disarray, and even breathing was painful.

The remaining lightning seal could be burned away, but the humiliation of being slapped away in front of so many people was unacceptable to Wen Yanghui. He held his breath, and even though his five elements were in disarray, his five fingers gripped the armrest of the seat tightly.

Wen Yanghui leaned back in his chair and slowly closed his eyes, hiding all his emotions.

Dare to go to the mechanical island.

He can just wait to die.

Yu Sui heard a knock on the door. It was Li Jinshuang calling her. She got up to open the door and at the same time had the Five Elements Light Cores in the Legalist Square chase after Mei Liangyu and leave.

"Let's go," Yu Sui said with a smile to Li Jinshuang, who was standing outside the door.

It was already evening, and it was almost time for the recharge at the dining hall. There weren't many people on the way to the dining hall.

As Yu Sui and Li Jinshuang walked and talked about their experiences in the Dragon Slaying Cave, they saw Mei Liangyu being chased by Zhang Yuxuan at the intersection ahead when they were almost at the dining hall.

On the same flower-lined road, she once stood below, while Mei Liangyu sat at the window upstairs in the dining hall.

The stone lanterns on both sides of the road were shining brightly. Mei Liangyu, who was walking from the front, also saw Yu Sui, but she turned her gaze away first and spoke to Li Jinshuang with a smile, no longer greeting her with a smile and calling her "Senior Brother" as before.

Yu Sui avoided eye contact and also avoided the path, walking straight into the dining hall.

Mei Liangyu glanced thoughtfully at the scene, not paying attention to what Zhang Yuxuan was saying for the time being. Only after seeing Yu Sui's figure disappear into the dining hall did she casually hum in agreement.

Zhang Yuxuan sighed: "You weren't even listening, were you?"

Mei Liangyu nodded: "Mm."

"I think you should be careful when you go to the Mechanical Island. Wen Yanghui was humiliated in public by you, and he definitely won't swallow this insult," Zhang Yuxuan muttered. "The elders of the Wen Yang family won't just stand by and watch you bully him, will they?"

Mei Liangyu scoffed, "Who's bullying whom?"

Zhang Yuxuan said, "Anyway, you should be careful."

Mei Liangyu responded and casually said, "Go ahead and do your work. Don't worry about me. He wouldn't dare to lay a hand on me on the road. I'll go check on my master first."

Yu Sui had just reached the second floor of the dining hall when he heard this and looked out the window. In the darkness, he could only see the bright stone lanterns on the road and could not see the figures of the people who had just been walking by the roadside.

She didn't go to the Ghost Path Holy Hall to see her master immediately after returning. Although she had many questions to ask, she now had to think about what she should and shouldn't say.

It was unexpected that Mei Liangyu was punished to go to the Mechanical Island for violating the rules of the academy as soon as he left the Dragon Slaying Cave, but it was also expected that he would go to see his master before leaving.

Yu Sui sat down at the table, poured herself a glass of water, and then poured one for Li Jinshuang.

She waited patiently, but Mei Liangyu strolled leisurely towards the Ghost Path Sanctuary. He didn't even use his Wind Control Technique, and seemed to be in no hurry at all. He walked all the way from the Legalist School to the Ghost Path Sanctuary.

After Yu Sui finished eating, Li Jinshuang had already left, leaving only her sitting there. Only then did Mei Liangyu walk to the Guidao family.

Hiking is also a form of exercise and self-cultivation, allowing Mei Liangyu to calm down and think more deeply. He keeps himself calm and rational so that he can suppress the anger deep in his heart.

Either get your body moving or get your mind working.

No one knows what Mei Liangyu is thinking; only he himself knows.

When they arrived at the entrance of the Ghost Path Temple, Mei Liangyu looked at the lit stone lanterns inside, then his gaze shifted gently to the apricot tree beside him, which had lost its blossoms and fruit but was now covered in lush green leaves.

I've been thinking about my junior sister way too often lately.

Mei Liangyu withdrew his gaze and suppressed his thoughts as he walked towards the main hall of the sanctuary.

Yu Sui held the warm teacup in both hands, looked down at the halo reflected in the cup, and saw Mei Liangyu standing in the Ghost Path Sanctuary through the water.

The senior brother didn't directly talk about the strange fire. Instead, he leaned back in his chair and chatted casually with his master. The first thing he talked about was how he beat up Wen Yanghui as soon as he came out.

Saint Changgen didn't ask why, and Mei Liangyu explained: "He might not have made a move if it were someone else, but out of respect for his own Class A disciple, he would never fight against a mere First Realm disciple."

If it had been someone else instead of Yu Sui, Wen Yanghui would have let Princess Shangyang deal with them as she pleased.

“I haven’t paid much attention to him these past two years, which has emboldened him to think he can bully my junior sister.”

Mei Liangyu turned over in the recliner, put his hands behind his head, his expression inscrutable, and when he half-closed his eyes, the slight upturn at the corners of his eyes became even more obvious.

Yu Sui's gaze faltered slightly upon hearing this.

What kind of attitude is this?

Sage Changgen said, "If you fight with the instructor, I cannot speak up for you."

Mei Liangyu: "Why should I fight with the instructor? I can just dodge her attacks."

He truly deserves to be my genius apprentice.

The scroll hanging on the stone statue was gently lifted and lowered by the night breeze, the soft rustling of the paper seeming like the low laughter of the sage Chang Gen.

Mei Liangyu chatted with Sage Changgen about everyday matters, and Sage Changgen responded to each of them.

The eldest disciple sometimes felt that it wasn't that he needed his master, but that his master needed him.

Mei Liangyu, who had just arrived in Taiyi, spent a long time on the Mechanical Island, and was only sent back to the Ghost Path Holy Hall for a few days at a time to listen to the teachings of the Sage Changgen.

Mei Liangyu still remembers that at the beginning, his master didn't say much. Apart from necessary guidance on cultivation, he rarely said anything else.

It was the summer of his second year in Taiyi. The boy sat on the steps, resting his chin on his hands and looking at the stars in the sky. His still somewhat immature face looked rather adorable against the starry night.

The Sage Changgen urged him, "You should go back now."

Upon hearing this, the boy simply spread his arms, leaned back, and lay down on the ground, pouting and complaining, "I don't want to go back. The kids over there are so annoying. They're always gossiping about me, they hate me, and they won't play with me. I'm all alone, and nobody talks to me."

Those clear, black and white eyes reflected the Milky Way in the sky, holding the stubborn loneliness that the young man was unwilling to show.

Before Changgen Saint could reply, he said to himself, "Is it something to talk about every day that I don't have parents? I'm tired of hearing it. Master, tell me who my parents are and where they are. It doesn't matter if they abandoned me or not, just prove that I have parents."

The Sage Changgen replied to him, "You have no parents."

"Nonsense!" The boy sat up angrily, turned around, sat cross-legged, with his back to the steps and facing the main hall of the temple. "Everyone is born of parents. I don't have parents, so how did I come to be? Did I pop out of a rock?"

Chang Gen the Sage: "You can understand it this way."

The boy frowned and said, "Then wouldn't I be better than all of them?"

The sage Chang Gen was silent.

The boy crossed his arms and snorted, "Serves them right for losing to me in the mechanical arts competition."

That night, he told Saint Changgen about his experiences on the Mechanical Island for the first time, recounting everything that had happened to him—the ridicule, ostracism, and beatings he had endured. The boy spoke angrily about how people ostracized him, and proudly recounted his victories.

He said I didn't like the other children, but I liked the two brothers, Wen Yangzhou and Wen Yangxiu.

Because only these two brothers liked him.

He doesn't like people who don't like him; he only likes those who like him.

The boy kept going back and forth between liking and disliking, while the Sage Changgen listened in silence without responding.

It's always the boy who talks.

The Sage Changgen always listened in silence.

The boy confided in him, asking the Sage Changgen, "Master, aren't you lonely here all by yourself with no one to talk to? I feel very lonely on the Mechanical Island, with no one to talk to."

The consciousness of the Sage Changgen cannot wander around at will.

The boy looked at the portrait in the main hall of the sanctuary and said, "Even consciousness would be sad to stay in the same place forever with no one coming."

"I have no one to talk to on the Mechanical Island, and you have no one to accompany you in the Holy Hall, Master. Is this some kind of sect tradition? Can I choose to switch to another sect?"

The Sage Chang Gen said, "No."

The boy was actually very smart from a young age. Even if he lost his memory of a certain period of time, he could still quickly adapt to the current environment and perceive the emotions of others.

For a period of time, he went to the Ghost Path Holy Hall every night to chat with his master. One day, he suddenly stopped going. After ignoring Saint Changgen for three to five days, he came back. The boy noticed that his master was replying to him more often.

The boy began to repeat this process, going frequently for a period of time before stopping, and then going again after a few days, at which point his master would speak more.

His master never told him to remember to come back and keep him company, nor did he ever answer the question of whether he was lonely. But the boy knew that his master was lonely, and he also wanted someone to keep him company.

Because his master's attitude towards him became more and more gentle.

The former Saint Changgen seemed to be deliberately keeping his distance, only watching in silence, but now he has spread his wings and embraced him.

Chang Gensheng believed that Mei Liangyu needed him more.

However, Mei Liangyu believed that her master needed her more.

Yu Sui watched patiently for a long time, only to find that his senior brother and master were talking about trivial matters. He even mentioned that on the night he was trapped by Qian Ying's Five Profound Poison Array, he was playing around with Pang Rong and the others, skipping stones to kill time. Chang Gen Saint even asked him who won in the end.

Mei Liangyu said that skipping stones requires the application of the five elements, so I'm sure I'll win.

They even mentioned such trivial matters, but made no mention of the divination within the sacred tree seed or the unusual movements of the three thousand diverging paths.

The Sage Changgen asked, "How is your junior sister?"

"She accidentally fell off a cliff halfway through, but luckily she's smart and reacts quickly, so she wasn't eliminated. I searched for her all night, getting soaked in the rain for more than two hours before I finally found her." Mei Liangyu recalled that night, and couldn't help but sit up and stretch her neck, making a clicking sound.

He bent slightly at the waist, his elbows supporting his knees, looking down at the ground, his eyes flashing slightly.

Long Zhongyu and the memories of the rainy night flashed through his mind, all of them showing Yu Sui's appearance.

His thoughts, which he had suppressed, surged forth as if in retaliation after his master's question.

Mei Liangyu recalled the moment when Yu Sui rushed into his arms in the Dragon Fish Cave, wiping away her tears while clutching his sleeve; he recalled the moment when Yu Sui squatted down behind him at the Three Thousand Crossroads, telling him to get lost in a slow and gentle tone, leaning forward to lightly bump his forehead, her fearless gaze fleeting in an instant.

He also recalled that when they met in the dining hall, Yu Sui acted as if she hadn't seen him, turning her gaze away nonchalantly and walking further and further away.

When the two exchanged those words at the crossroads, their tone and expression changed in extreme ways.

His emotions at the time seemed not to have been fully processed, or perhaps something else was hindering him, making the relationship between him and Yu Sui delicate.

Until Mei Liangyu said he was going back to the dormitory to wash up before going to the Mechanical Island and leaving the Ghost Path Holy Hall, Yu Sui did not hear him tell his master about the Strange Fire, nor did he mention the topic of the World Destroyer.

Mei Liangyu used the Wind Control Technique to travel this time, and the Five Elements Light Core took the opportunity to stick to his clothes.

Yu Sui's control over the Five Elements Light Core has improved considerably. The first time his senior brother noticed him was because the power of the Light Core had not yet been upgraded. The second time his senior brother noticed him in the valley was because he used the Divine Mechanism Technique.

Now, as long as his senior brother doesn't use the Divine Calculation Technique, there's absolutely no way he can discover the existence of the Five Elements Light Core.

Even if they discover it, they won't know that the Five Elements Light Core can be monitored.

Therefore, it is not possible that Mei Liangyu knew she was being monitored and therefore did not intend to mention the strange fire.

Senior Brother definitely knew about the fluctuating power of the strange fires within the Three Thousand Crossroads; otherwise, he wouldn't have concealed it when the two Saints arrived.

Since he was also being stared at by the ancient dragon's power, it meant that it didn't matter if such an anomaly was discovered, unless he thought it was something that couldn't be discovered as a strange fire, so he lied and concealed it.

They know it all, but they don't say it.

Yu Sui thought that Mei Liangyu would tell his master.

Isn't his master the closest person to him in this world?

Yu Sui didn't pay much attention to Mei Liangyu at first, and didn't know much about him. Most of the time, he would just glance at him casually and remember the general idea.

Because previously, she only cared about Saint Changgen.

As fellow disciples of the Saint Changgen, and also because she frequented the Ghost Path Sanctuary, the two inevitably encountered each other there.

Mei Liangyu, as the senior brother, seemed to be impeccable, which was why Yu Sui didn't care much about him and just wanted to maintain the relationship between the two of them as senior and junior brothers and sisters.

Most of the time, Yu Sui heard about Mei Liangyu from other people, what he had done, his attitude, what others thought of him, what kind of person he was, etc., but he never heard Mei Liangyu himself describe what happened.

Even when his master said he wanted to destroy the world, it was the same.

At first, Yu Sui thought it was just a joke, but it was only on that rainy night in the valley, when Mei Liangyu woke up and couldn't suppress his murderous intent, that Yu Sui realized it might not be a joke after all.

No one would want to destroy the world for no reason.

Having a destructive desire in one's heart is one thing, but letting others destroy the world and kill oneself is quite another.

Mei Liangyu did not want to die at the hands of others.

The darker a person's inner self is, the less willing they are to let others control their life and death.

The destructive urges that tormented Mei Liangyu day and night had to be channeled through his own hands, not handed over to others.

When you learn that someone else possesses a world-destroying power like a strange fire, you can't be entirely sure that your senior brother will help you conceal it because of his own destructive desires.

Thinking about it carefully, they never had a single heart-to-heart talk.

Yu Sui wouldn't be presumptuous, nor would she be the kind of person who blindly trusts others and only regrets it when death is imminent.

She came to her senses, her consciousness passing through the Five Elements Light Core, and saw that Mei Liangyu had returned to the inn. In the bathtub in his room, his outer clothes had been taken off and hung on a clothes rack, and the hot spring water in the tub was steaming, with heat spreading throughout the room.

Mei Liangyu revealed the strong and smooth muscle lines of his upper body. He stepped forward and put his hand into the bathtub to test the temperature. He turned around and took a few steps forward, allowing Yu Sui to see his thin shoulders and back. The lines of his shoulder blades had a beauty that concealed strength, which became more obvious as he walked and reached out.

Yu Sui remained seated by the window of the dining hall, quietly watching Mei Liangyu undress and bathe. She gazed at the man's eyes and brows for the second time.

Compared to her previous nonchalance, she now looked at him with more seriousness. Yu Sui recalled every moment they had interacted. Perhaps the only answer she could find was what her senior brother had said in person.

[Author's Note]

Thank you so much for your support! I will continue to work hard!