Ze Tian Ji

Chapter 549 – Continuing Matters of the Past in Front of the Broken Monolith

Translated by: Hypersheep325

Edited by: Michyrr

Ji Jin, from Scholartree Manor of the south. After swearing a blood oath and becoming a Monolith Guardian, he could not leave the Mausoleum of Books for the rest of his life.

Last year, this person attempted to help the Scholartree Manor student Zhong Hui to view the monoliths and comprehend the Dao so that he could surpass Chen Changsheng and Gou Hanshi. He had issued many biting jeers and criticisms towards Chen Changsheng and Gou Hanshi’s method of comprehending the monoliths, but Chen Changsheng and Gou Hanshi ultimately used facts to shame him into silence.

Ji Jin stared at Chen Changsheng, his eyes containing hostility and hatred.

Although the Monolith Guardians could never leave the Mausoleum of Books, they weren’t cut off from the world. Bit by bit, news from outside the Mausoleum of Books had also made its way into his ears.

Chen Changsheng took a single day to view the entire front mausoleum; he had become the youngest Principal of the Orthodox Academy; he had gone to the Garden of Zhou; he might have died but then turned out to have survived; he journeyed together with Su Li back south; he traveled one thousand li on the path of the sword in a single day and surpassed cultivation levels to defeat Star Condensation cultivators, and even defeated the pride of the generation, Xu Yourong; he had finally been confirmed as successor to the Orthodoxy…

Zhong Hui, the student of Scholartree Manor that he had placed his hopes on, had obtained third rank on the first banner of last year’s Grand Examination, beneath Chen Changsheng and Gou Hanshi. In the brief span of a year, Zhong Hui had achieved enormous progress and shocked the entire south, but how could he be compared to Chen Changsheng?

Crucially, this place was the Mausoleum of Books, the Mausoleum of Books that he had been willing to offer his life and freedom for so that he could remain!

For what reason can you just casually walk in!

Xu Yourong did not recognize Ji Jin, but she could perceive that this Monolith Guardian with unfathomable cultivation was clearly hostile towards Chen Changsheng.

Chen Changsheng seemed to understand where Ji Jin’s anger came from. He slightly bowed his body, not saying anything.

Based on principle, it was Ji Jin that should have bowed to him, but he felt that given Ji Jin’s age and his life spent here, he should greet first.

But Ji Jin seemed to have no intention of greeting him, only staring.

Xu Yourong was very calm, her eyes gazing at Ji Jin gradually growing brighter.

Chen Changsheng shook her head and led her to the other side of the mountain path to walk past.

The two hands extending from Ji Jin’s sleeves were trembling, and when Chen Changsheng and Xu Yourong brushed past his body as they walked past, their veins were even showing.

In the end, he did nothing, because he did not dare.

He had lived these last few years in depression and wished deeply to vent his feelings. Chen Changsheng was naturally the best target.

But even though he was in the Mausoleum of Books, his family and Scholartree Manor still remained outside of it.

If he did not wish for his family and Scholartree Manor to be burned to ash by the Orthodoxy’s fury, he could do nothing.

He did not need to bow to Chen Changsheng, but he could not move against him.

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The sun gradually rose but the clouds had already dispersed. The capital in winter had a different feeling, imbued with a sort of broad and open beauty.

Standing amidst the trees of the mausoleum and gazing at the distant streets of the capital, Chen Changsheng thought of how he used to sit on the great banyan tree in the Orthodox Academy and gaze at the streets with Luoluo. He said, ”I once had Luoluo help me investigate any information on you. Since…I’ve found you, I feel I should tell this matter to her, so I mentioned it in a letter I wrote to her.”

Xu Yourong softly replied, ”When I was at Mount Li, I had thought you were dead, so I told Senior Brother of the events in the Garden of Zhou. Senior Brother was somewhat worried about me. A few days ago, after eating beef ribs, I wrote a letter to him.”