Chapter 184: Decision
Translator: Henyee Translations Editor: Henyee Translations
“Don’t say you’re sorry. I’m the one who should say it. Thank you.” Yu Huang had taken the risk to come to the Broken Cliff to look for her. This was the greatest kindness to Anna Tao.
How could she blame Yu Huang?
Seeing that they had something to say, Sheng Xiao left considerately.
Lin Jiansheng noticed that Sheng Xiao had left. He clapped his hands happily and turned around to tease Anna Tao. “Little one, I was the one who saved you from the Nightmare Spider. You can’t just thank Yu Huang and not me.”
Lin Jiansheng had lost his long hair and beard, and he was not wearing a Purifying Spirit Master robe. Anna Tao almost did not recognize him.
Fortunately, she still recognized Lin Jiansheng’s scepter.
“Dean Lin!” Anna Tao quickly knelt down and kowtowed a few times to Lin Jiansheng. “Thank you, thank you for saving me, Dean Lin. I will forever remember this kindness!’
Lin Jiansheng accepted Anna Tao’s greeting.
“Alright, get up.”
Lin Jiansheng smelled Anna Tao’s sour smell. “There should be a stream in the mountains. Take her to take a bath first before we talk.” Then, Lin Jiansheng chased after Sheng Xiao. Yu Huang helped Anna Tao up and led her deeper into the forest.
After walking a distance, they found a small stream.
Yu Huang took out a set of clean clothes from her interspatial ring and placed it on a rock. Only then did she say to Anna Tao, “Go take a bath. I’ll start a fire.”
“Okay.”
Anna Tao stripped off her sour, wet clothes and jumped into the stream pool. Yu Huang heard the sound of water falling and turned to look at Anna Tao.
When she turned around, she saw Anna Tao’s back full of wounds.
Those scars were mostly whip marks, and there were also some cuts that could only be caused by sharp blades cutting through flesh.
What did Anna encounter at Yu Hui Academy?
Yu Huang frowned deeply and took a deep breath before barely suppressing the anger in her heart. Only then did she bend down to pick up the sticks on the ground, put them together, and started a fire by the stream.
It was cold in winter, and Anna Tao was shivering in the cold water. However, she still carefully washed her entire body before wearing the clothes Yu Huang gave her. She shivered and walked to Yu Huang’s side to sit down.
Yu Huang quickly released the belt of her windbreaker and pulled Anna Tao into her arms while using her body’s warmth to warm her up.
Anna Tao leaned into her arms and put her arms close to the fire to warm herself for a while. Only then did Anna Tao’s bruised cheeks regain their color.
Now that her body was warm, Anna Tao had the desire to confide in her.
“Is it my fault?” Anna Tao suddenly asked in a low voice. “Why are they all bullying me?”
Yu Huang had no idea how to answer her question.
As if she was talking to herself, she continued, “In the beginning, I also looked for the professor to report them. However, the professor asked me why they didn’t bully others and only bullied me. They even asked me to reflect on myself…”
Anna Tao was so angry that her lips were trembling. She scratched her curly hair and said in anguish, “I don’t know what I did wrong. Is it because I stutter?”
Anna Tao looked up at Yu Huang and asked, “Yu Huang, is stuttering a crime?”
Was stuttering a crime?
“Stuttering is never a sin.” Children who were bullied were usually innocent.
“Then why did they bully me?”
“Because they’re all trash.” Yu Huang poked the fire in the bonfire with a wooden stick. She said, “Only trash who can’t find a sense of accomplishment in life will band together to bully the weak. Anna, it’s not a crime to stutter and be weak, it’s them who are guilty.”
When she received a completely different answer from what she got from the professor, she suddenly burst into tears.
Her cries were earth-shattering, as if she wanted to cry out all the grievances she had suffered in the past six months.
After crying for a long time, Anna Tao carelessly wiped away her tears.
“Yu Huang, I don’t want to be bullied anymore!” When she said this, Anna Tao no longer stuttered. At the same time, her gaze became firm and cold.
She did not want to be bullied anymore.
She had had enough!
Yu Huang was not surprised that Anna Tao would have such thoughts. She asked calmly, “Then what do you want to do?”
Anna Tao did not say anything, but her eyes were filled with killing intent and destruction.
Yu Huang could guess what Anna Tao was planning. She was supposed to advise Anna Tao not to act rashly and not ruin her future for those sc.u.mbags.
However, she was not the one who was whipped, cut, and humiliated. She had no right to ask Anna Tao to be a magnanimous good person.
Yu Huang threw the wooden stick in her hand into the flames, causing sparks to fly.
“If you don’t want to be bullied, then you should become stronger!”
Upon hearing this, Anna Tao raised her head and stared at Yu Huang. “You… you’re not going to stop me?” She thought that Yu Huang would persuade her to let go of all her grudges and be a good person.
Yu Huang gave her a faint smile and said, “Becoming strong doesn’t conflict with being a good person. But Anna, remember, it’s not wrong to return a tooth for a tooth, but killing the innocent isn’t allowed. Remember, don’t go down the wrong path.”
Anna Tao stopped talking for a moment.
She could not guarantee that she would not go down the wrong path.
Anna Tao didn’t want to lie to Yu Huang, but she also didn’t want to disappoint her, so she changed the topic. ‘I l didn’t expect you to be with Master… Supreme Master Sheng. I wish you all the best, Yu Huang.”
Yu Huang could tell that Anna was deliberately changing the topic, but she was considerate enough not to expose her.
Nodding her head, Yu Huang said, “Thank you.”
It became silent again.
In the end, it was Yu Huang who broke the silence first. She asked Anna Tao, “What plans do you have in the future?”
Anna Tao thought about it seriously before saying, “I’m going back to Yu Hui Academy. Once I’m done, I might become an itinerant cultivator.”
Even though Yu Huang knew what Anna Tao was going to do when she returned to school, she still pretended to be confused. “What are you going back to Yu Hui Academy for?”
Anna Tao fell silent.
“Anna, think carefully. Once you leave, there will be no turning back. In the future, you will become a fiendish cultivator that everyone will detest. ”
A Mutated Devouring Beast was a demonic beast. It could devour other people’s beast forms to increase its own cultivation. Who wouldn’t be afraid of such a Beast Tamer?
Anna Tao smiled in relief and said, “Then I won’t go. I’ll… I’ll just be an itinerant cultivator. I won’t go back to school.”
Yu Huang, not believing her words at all, looked at her deeply.
Anna Tao felt unsettled by Yu Huang. She quickly stood up and threw all the firewood that was still burning in the fire into the stream.
Doing so would prevent the mountain fire from erupting.
When Anna Tao was done, she said, ‘Yu Huang, Supreme Master Sheng and the others are here. You should go back. I…” She looked down at the clean white sneakers on her feet. “1 should go,” she whispered.
Yu Huang turned around and saw Sheng Xiao and Lin Jiansheng waiting for her.
Anna Tao gave Yu Huang a sweet and cute smile. She made a gesture of goodbye to Yu Huang. “Let’s go. See you next time.”
See you next time?
After all, Yu Hui Academy was a high-level Beast Tamer Academy. Although there weren’t many masters in the academy, there was still a group of masters overseeing it. If Anna Tao really ran back and killed someone, would she be able to leave Yu Hui Academy alive?
They would probably never see each other again.
Anna Tao’s smile faded when she saw that Yu Huang hadn’t left. She looked up at the dark sky and said, “It’s getting late, so I’ll be leaving first!”
After saying that, Anna Tao bowed to Lin Jiansheng, who was in the distance, and ran off into the forest.
Sheng Xiao and Lin Jiansheng walked over.
Seeing that Yu Huang was still staring at the direction Anna Tao left in a daze, Sheng Xiao said to Yu Huang, “Everyone has their own fate. She has to walk her own path.”
Everyone has their own fate?
Lin Jiansheng also said, “Let’s go. It’s time for your break to end.” Yu Huang was a new student, so she would be punished if she missed cla.s.ses.
Yu Huang left the Broken Cliff with Sheng Xiao and the rest.
The barren mountain below her was vast and boundless. It swallowed Anna Tao, and she could not even see her clothes.
The aircraft flew towards the city. After flying for a while, Yu Huang suddenly said to Sheng Xiao, “Send me back!”
Sheng Xiao was stunned.
Lin Jiansheng, who was dozing off, raised his head and looked at her.
As if he knew what Yu Huang was going to do, Lin Jiansheng asked, “Have you thought it through?”
Yu Huang nodded and stared at Lin Jiansheng. She said, “Mentor, you once told me that when you first entered the Divine Realm Academy, you were once looked down upon and looked down upon by other students. It was the Prime Master who helped you out in public and praised you for being an outstanding student. That was why those students changed their opinion of you.”
After a pause, Yu Huang continued, “Mentor, have you thought about what kind of life you would be living now if he hadn’t helped you out back then? Would you still be on the path of a Purifying Spirit Master?”
Lin Jiansheng was speechless.
He couldn’t help but seriously consider Yu Huang’s hypothesis. If it wasn’t for the fact that the Prime Master had helped him out back then, then his school life would definitely be filled with ridicule and exclusion. His confidence would be crushed, and he would never be able to recover from this setback. He would live a life of mediocrity.
Yu Huang tilted her head and looked at Sheng Xiao. She said, “You said that everyone has their own destiny. If that’s the case, why did you go to the Black Dome to help me find the Purifying Spirit Sacred Pearl after confirming that my beast form had failed?”
Sheng Xiao’s lips moved. He did not know how to explain himself.
“The selfless Prime Master changed my mentor’s fate, and Sheng Xiao changed mine. Why can’t I change Anna’s fate?”
Yu Huang clenched her fists tightly. She said, “1 clearly know that after this separation, Anna will go down the wrong path. How can I sit by and do nothing?”
“I’m not trying to be a good person and save the world. I just want to help her. Just like how the Prime Master helped my mentor and Sheng Xiao helped me find the Purifying Spirit Sacred Pearl.”
Sheng Xiao did not refute her. He turned the aircraft around and flew back to the Broken Cliff..