Chapter 246 Dilemma
Li Jian stopped taking the food out.
After a long while, Li Jian said, "Until now, I still treat you as a friend."
Zhao Yushu did not answer. He was not good at lying. The moment Li Jian responded to his request and appeared in the prison, he could no longer consider Li Jian as a friend.
"I'm really happy to see that you're okay. I didn't lie to you about your punishment. Father did say so when we were chatting."
Zhao Yushu wanted to say something, but was interrupted by Li Jian: "As for your question, I have to say that you are really smart. You can infer things that others cannot see from many irrelevant things. Even my brothers and even the crown prince don't know what the emperor promised, but you know it."
Zhao Yushu sighed: "I'm not trying to sow discord. You grew up in the palace, so you should know which words are just talk."
"But at least he said it, and you, you won't even say it." Li Jian raised his head and looked into his eyes: "Am I so useless in the eyes of your academy?"
Zhao Yushu was silent for a long time: "If the hawk in the sky can't see the ants on the ground, then it shouldn't let the ants bow to it. Do you remember that I suggested you go to the south to have a look? In addition, my friendships have never been related to cultivation."
Zhao Yushu picked up the chopsticks: "Thank you for the wine and food."
Li Jian nodded, stood up, and left the prison without looking back.
A friendship is vulnerable in the face of an unattainable dream.
After cultivators comprehend the heaven and earth, they are absorbing and exhaling the spiritual energy of heaven and earth almost all the time. Therefore, except for cultivators who are extremely good at hiding themselves, it is basically impossible for one inner vision to hide the inner vision of other people silently.
The moment Meng Yan and A Li were sent to Chang'an, everyone who should know knew it.
But even so, not everyone can keep an eye on the interior scene. If you want to contain an interior scene, you must at least have a strong exterior scene.
If you want to control the interior of the academy, you need at least a strong interior.
Chang'an Academy had always been at odds with Baima Academy, so Baima Academy did not set up a sufficiently influential base in Chang'an.
In the inn, Meng Yan and A Li both realized a big problem: the teacher did not come to find them.
Although the old man is proud, he is not conceited. When he knows that his disciples have come to Chang'an, whether he wants to keep them or drive them away, he will at least inform them and will not do it silently.
"The teacher can't be trapped by them!" Meng Yan fanned himself quickly as the weather was a bit hot.
"If the teacher is trapped, they will come to kill us the moment we appear in Chang'an." Ali gave a seemingly reasonable inference.
"Then why didn't he come to us?"
"I don't know, maybe he has more important things to do."
Meng Yan hesitated for a moment: "What should we do now?"
Ah Li seemed to have expected this question: "Let's split up. You go find the whereabouts of Junior Brother, and I'll find the whereabouts of Teacher."
Meng Yan immediately objected: "Don't even think about getting me out of here. Junior Brother has been sent to the Heavenly Prison. There's no need to look for him."
Ali glanced at him and said, "Then I'll go to the prison to see him, and you go find the teacher."
Meng Yan opened his mouth and said, "There must be someone watching in the prison."
"I know."
In the Daming Palace in the northwest of Chang'an, there were five great masters of external sceneries sitting around a side hall. They sat in a fan shape outside the hall, all looking towards the direction of the main hall.
Monks are not afraid of cold or heat, but these five people felt a chill that penetrated their bones.
There were only two people in the hall.
Master Zhang Tianshi looks very young, at least his black hair makes him look much younger than the old man opposite him with snow-white hair.
But his actual age is nearly seventy. People who practice Taoism are best at maintaining health, so it is not difficult for him to maintain his current appearance until his death.
"Your two disciples have arrived in Chang'an, do you want to go and see them?"
His voice was very soft, as if he was afraid of waking someone, but no one responded to him.
"I never thought that one day I would actually sit across from you and say these words to you. The most ridiculous thing is that you can't even refute it."
Still no one responded.
Zhang Tianshi sat cross-legged on a cushion, with a hint of coldness emanating from his body.
"Ugh."
Master Zhang Tian sighed and slowly closed his eyes, as if he had fallen asleep like the old man opposite him.
It is not easy to trap the best in the world.
Zhao Yushu no longer considered whether the teacher would come to save him. Yan Hui came with the Thousand Miles of Rivers and Mountains, but the teacher did not come, which indirectly indicated that the teacher’s current situation might not be very good.
Considering how a small figure like himself could cause three obviously unreasonable things to happen among the top five people in the world, no matter how stupid Zhao Yushu was, he realized that he was just the instigator.
They want to deal with the academy.
In the past, he had a blind confidence in the ability of the academy, especially the old man's ability. He believed that as long as the old man was alive, there would be no problem in the world that could not be solved. If there really was a problem, he would let the old man solve the person who raised the problem.
But now this confidence began to waver, and the old man seemed to be in real trouble.
Yan Hui might really not want to kill himself, but entering Dabei Temple to become a monk would be more painful than letting him die. If it really comes to that, he wouldn't mind using Madam Xu to slit his own neck to see if he could travel through time again.
The academy does not covet power, so its desire to attack is very low. The result is that the opponents are always well prepared and deal with the academy in a very targeted manner. For example, when Prince Fu attacked the Shen family, all the combat power of the academy was tied up. Although I was only in the first level at that time, if I were not there, the people in the academy would have to spend more effort to rescue Shen Qi.
The academy has been able to stand for a thousand years thanks to the extraordinary strength of generation after generation of leaders who have managed to hold it together.
I should be able to hold on this time.
Now that I have figured out that the emperor's goal this time is to take over the entire academy, it would be too unwise for me to stay here and passively wait for the opponent to attack me. Even if I can't get out, I have to find a way to contain them.
I am the Sixth Master of the academy, and I am also the fighting force of the academy. When you plot against them, you should also take me into account.
Zhao Yushu quietly transformed into an Assassin, and with a movement of his spiritual power, the entire sky prison became pitch black.
Darkness is the home turf of Shadow Step, and Assassin, who can create darkness anytime and anywhere, is tailor-made for Shadow Step, even if this darkness can only cover a few feet now.
Zhao Yushu appeared on the first floor of the Heavenly Prison. He didn't believe that no one was watching him. If he wanted to watch over the fifth floor of an academy without coming to the seventh floor, it would be too disrespectful.
It turned out that the emperor did look down on him a little.
Guarding the first floor of the Heavenly Prison was a scholar in a bachelor’s robe, the Sixth Heaven.
"Zhao Yushu, are you going to flee for fear of punishment?" The scholar's hand that was painting shook unconsciously when he sensed the sudden fluctuation of spiritual power behind him. A titmouse wing on the paper was stretched out, and the whole painting was ruined.
Zhao Yushu was a little disappointed. Even if it was the sixth level, one had to be at least at the level of a junior heavenly master to be qualified. This person was too weak in both cultivation and state of mind.
Zhao Yushu shook his sleeves to hide Assassin, and at the same time took away Chengying hidden in the other sleeve.
"Escape? You should be glad that I don't want to leave, otherwise you wouldn't be injured."
The scholar frowned and said, "Are all the people from the White Horse Academy so arrogant?"
Zhao Yushu smiled: "So you are from Chang'an Academy. I heard that you have always been dissatisfied with us."
The scribe put down his pen and picked up an iron ruler.
Zhao Yushu moved his wrists: "That's because the beating you received wasn't painful enough."