Song of Adolescence
Chapter 102 Step Out of Seclusion Onto Snow

Chapter 102 Step Out of Seclusion Onto Snow

Xiao Yu's face showed a bit of complacency. "Really?"

Ye Anshi looked at the heavy snow falling outside the cave and nodded. "Really. If I don't go, you will die. My relatives are running out. I hope the two of you stay alive."

"Do you have any conditions?" Xiao Yu asked plainly.

"Yes," Ye Anshi also replied plainly, "Don't let me meet her."

"Okay." Xiao Yu smiled. "I promise you. But now, I have an urgent matter that needs your help."

"I just agreed to help you, and you’ve already assigned work to me? Aren’t you a little impatient?"

"This matter is really urgent, because Xiao Chong has already made his move. They are tracking down a person, and they probably want to control him. That person is very important and I must not let Xiao Chong get his way. So I need you to help me take him first. Or kill him." Xiao Yu looked very serious.

"Who is this person who could be so important to two princes?" Ye Anshi raised his eyebrows.

"I heard of your previous run-in with him, so you know that person too." Xiao Yu hedged on a bet and didn't say any further.

Ye Anshi was stunned for a moment, and then suddenly realized. "That person, could it be his surname is also Xiao."

"Yes." Xiao Yu nodded.

"Xiao Se?" Ye Anshi frowned slightly.

"No matter what his name is now, that’s right, he’s the person you’re thinking of." Xiao Yu saw that Ye Anshi's expression seemed to have changed, and he was a little worried. "You and him share a deep friendship?"

Ye Anshi nodded. "Yes. We are friends. I have very few friends, and he counts as one. But you can rest assured, I agree to your request, except for one point."

"What is it?" Xiao Yu asked.

"I will guarantee that the White Prince Xiao Chong will never get him, but neither can you. Xiao Se cannot die, this is my bottom line," Ye Anshi said decisively.

"What if Xiao Se also wants to return to Heavenly Revelations City?" Xiao Yu asked after thinking about it.

"That's a separate matter. But from what I know about him, he doesn't seem to be interested in the position you all want." Ye Anshi glanced at Xiao Yu. "Where are they now?"

"I received news yesterday that they’ve just come down from Qingcheng Mountain and are headed for Lei Clan Fort, but there are several waves of assassins waiting to ambush them on the road. Traveling with him are Li Hanyi's disciple Lei Wujie and Sikong Changfeng's daughter, Sikong Qianluo. Both of them have entered the Vajra Mortal Realm, but that’s still woefully insufficient to stop those assassins," Xiao Yu said.

Ye Anshi sighed. "I thought I would enter the Spirit Wandering Profound Realm before I re-enter the martial world, but now there’s no way. We live in a world that’s difficult to be unrestrained, even more difficult to be unfettered and near impossible to be spirit wandering. When Ji Ruofeng theorised the four pinnacle realms, besides martial arts, it applies even more so to the human realm." After saying this much, he smiled again and muttered to himself in a low voice, "That day, you protected me all the way. This time, let me be the one to protect you all the way."

"Shall we leave together?" Xiao Yu asked.

Ye Anshi turned around and looked at Xiao Yu. "I have a question, have we met before?"

Xiao Yu nodded. "Back then, when Jin Xian Gonggong visited Snowy Peak Temple, I cried and demanded that he take me with him. I was by his side when you were drinking wine and discussing scriptures."

"Nonsense." Ye Anshi grinned. "Obviously we were drinking tea."

"I was the attendant in charge of pouring wine that day. You changed the tea in the pot to wine behind Master Wangyou’s back. In fact, I was the one who did it." Xiao Yu scratched his head.

"Hahaha." Ye Anshi nodded. "Okay. I'm going now, but I need someone to accompany me." He suddenly flashed, passing behind Xiao Yu, and stopped directly in front of the other three men.

Yan Sen and Long Ye were shocked. They had seen all kinds of brilliant lightness skills, but they had never seen this. That his lightness skill could be so natural and comfortable, like a casual step, and yet moving like flowing clouds and water.

Divine Step, fortune’s figure, to move as one desired.

Ye Anshi stretched out his hand to pull on Ming Hou's sleeve. "You come with me."

Ming Hou glared at him with anger, wielding that door-like blade on his back and swinging it down angrily. "The lunar maiden bids with a smile, the nether duke kills in fury.” Ming Hou had lost his awareness and became a medicine man, but his skill and power were better than before. Yan Sen and Long Ye hurriedly stepped aside to avoid that slash of overwhelming blade power.

Ye Anshi was not surprised. He turned sideways to avoid that blade as swift as tempest, stretched out his right hand, and pressed it on the blade. Ming Hou was taken aback for a moment, and wanted to withdraw his blade. But Ye Anshi struck with his palm and pressed the entire blade onto the ground.

"What overwhelming martial arts," Yan Sen exclaimed.

Long Ye frowned slightly, and saw several possibilities. "This is the martial arts created by Ye Dingzhi after he entered Lingyin Temple to discuss Buddhism, Kā?yapa Palm."

"Insightful." Ye Anshi could even glance distractedly at Long Ye at this moment.

However, Ming Hou angrily pulled his blade out of Ye Anshi's hand, and swung it downwards again.

"Stop, Ming Hou." Xiao Yu spoke suddenly and coldly.

Ming Hou, who had been angrily brandishing his blade, immediately calmed down, stuck the blade into the ground, and silently looked at Xiao Yu.

Xiao Yu asked Ye Anshi, "Do you want to take him with you?"

"I did have a shared fate with him before. It’s a real pity to see him the way he is now. Why don't you give him to me?" Ye Anshi patted Ming Hou's shoulder gently. This time Ming Hou didn't do anything, but when Ye Anshi tried to take the titan blade, he waved it angrily and pushed Ye Anshi back.

There was something odd in Xiao Yu's eyes. "Can you cure him?"

"I can't, but someone can." Ye Anshi looked up at Ming Hou. "Ming Hou, where has your good friend, Yue Ji, gone?"

Hearing the words Yue Ji, Ming Hou's blank pupils suddenly revealed a bit of light. He opened his mouth, his voice was low and hoarse, as if it was forced out of his throat. "Yue Ji?"

"Don't ask him about Yue Ji again. Otherwise, he’ll smash this place to bits," Long Ye warned in a low voice.

Ye Anshi patted Ming Hou on the shoulder. "It's okay. Wait until we meet that person. I’ll get him to cure you."

"Take him with you, then." Xiao Yu sighed.

Ye Anshi pulled Ming Hou's arm and glanced at Xiao Yu. "After I settle all this, I’ll look for you at Heavenly Revelations City."

Xiao Yu nodded. "Okay."

"They cannot die, this is my bottom line," Ye Anshi emphasized again.

"Fine." Xiao Yu still nodded.

Ye Anshi also bowed his head towards Xiao Yu, and when he raised his head again, he pulled Ming Hou with him and flashed past Xiao Yu. Yan Sen, Long Ye and Xiao Yu chased after him to the entrance of the cave and found that Ye Anshi, who was wearing a white robe, was moving at breakneck speed across the ice sheet, pulling the black-clothed Ming Hou along. The terrible weather seemed to have no effect on his movement whatsoever.

Yan Sen couldn't help but sigh. "What a scary person."

Suddenly, Long Ye remembered something. He turned around and walked into Langyue Paradise and said, "This entire room is full of martial arts secrets, and he trusts us to just leave us here with it?"

Yan Sen shook his head. "Outerheaven’s martial arts must require its own core fundamentals to cultivate. If you simply pick up a book and practice, before your cultivation reaches the halfway point, you’d probably lose your life."

Xiao Yu suddenly sighed at this moment.

Long Ye and Yan Sen hurriedly turned around, and Yan Sen asked, "Young master, what's the matter?"

Xiao Yu looked bitter. "I'm thinking, without Ming Hou, the method we used to come in earlier won’t work now. So, how are we going to get out?"

Long Ye and Yan Sen looked at each other, and couldn't help laughing bitterly.