Chapter 69: Grand Master

Except for Wu Laogui, none of us dared to move near the row of characters. It was because the corpse of the big snake was lying in front of the row of characters, completely blocking the characters.

And to go over there meant to get close to the corpse of the big snake. We still remember vividly the overwhelming number of bugs in the cave of the young fox.

Ru Xue said she wanted to dispose of the snake’s corpse, and her method was so strange. She actually cut open the place where the bugs had entered her body, and the blood that came out was black.

I couldn’t help but feel nervous. Could it be that Ru Xue was poisoned? Ru Xue looked at me, signaling with her eyes that I was fine. When I looked more closely, the blood was not black at all, but dark purple!

Purple? This color that makes me sensitive makes me feel more nervous than looking at black blood, because as long as it is about this purple color, the memories left to me are extremely unpleasant. But now, Ru Xue is actually bleeding purple blood?

The blood flowed on the ground, and I didn’t know if I was hallucinating. There was a faint glow, or maybe it was the light reflecting off of Ruoxue’s face, making me feel dizzy and unreal. I felt like Ruoxue was so far away from me, and full of mysteries that I couldn’t solve.

I was so immersed in this emotion that Chengxin shouted beside me, “Wu Laogui, what are you reading? Do you dare to read it to me again?”

His tone was so agitated that it was abnormal, but at that time I was still in a daze. Chengxin didn’t know what I was thinking at the moment, so he grabbed me and shouted, “Chengyi, did you hear that? Did you hear that?”

At first glance, I saw that Chengxin’s eyes were red and his usual smile was gone. He was so excited that I was a little confused. Was something wrong? What should I hear?

Chengxin didn’t notice anything was wrong with me at all. He grabbed my arm even harder. It was at this moment that Wu Laogui’s voice came again: “My disciple, my successor, ask yourself if you have no worries, are not stained by the dust, have already attained the Dao, and have become the Dao. Ridiculous, ridiculous! The word “love,” the word “love!”

What is this? I could quickly understand the meaning of the first half of the sentence, but what is the second half? It’s not very profound, and there are no deep words. I looked at Chengxin brother with a puzzled look, wondering why he was so excited about this.

But Brother Chengxin didn’t pay any attention to me at all, but instead stared at Wu Laogui, as if his lips moving up and down at the moment could say a flower.

“The demon spirit is left to the younger generation to complete the greatest regret of this life鈥擮ld Li.” That’s what Wu Laogui said.

After he finished reading it, I also went crazy, just like Chengxin, my eyes suddenly burning and turning red! I deeply felt that compared to me, Chengxin was absolutely restrained!

Because I almost rushed to the row of characters without paying attention.

“Chengyi…” Ruoxue called out to me, but I didn’t hear her. I couldn’t help but be excited, because this was the first time in my thirty-some years of life that I had seen something about my master’s master other than what my master had passed down to me. It was also very likely that it was a handwritten inscription left by him!

When I was very young, my master told me that there were many legends about my grandmaster. When I grew up, I often wondered if such a magical figure as my grandmaster must have left many traces in China, but no, I had never found any, and my master had never mentioned it.

But my master spent his whole life following in his master’s footsteps. How could he have imagined that one day his apprentice would meet his master’s footsteps here?

I was a sensitive child, and my sensitivity was so extreme that I was often scolded by my master for being a sniveling snot. After he left, I deliberately acted against him in my bones, or perhaps to prove something, often restraining my emotions, not crying, not wanting to get close to people easily, for fear that having a heartache would hurt and be unbearable.

But I am not a ‘tough guy’ and this kind of pretense is too tiring. So today, after learning that these may be my master’s notes, I took the first step and tears flowed down my face. I don’t know why I was crying.

Chengxin was also following behind me. I saw in the corner of my eye that Chengxin, who was always gentle and never cried, had tears hanging on his face. I was afraid that he didn’t know he was crying either.

One step, two steps, we completely ignored the handwriting of the master, and within a certain distance, the corpse of the snake suddenly changed. The head began to rise slightly, as if it had come to life, but we ignored it.

Then, a huge number of insects poured out of the snake’s body, naturally towards me and Chengxin, who had dared to step over the line, but where could we care?

We just walked past like pilgrims, and the sea of bugs mysteriously ‘swarmed’ past us, and then quieted down. I only then remembered that Ruoxue was behind me, and I looked back at her. I guess that was the ‘most ugly’ look Ruoxue had ever seen me in. My eyes were red, tears were hanging on the sides of my cheeks, and I hadn’t even wiped my nose. But Ruoxue only said one thing to me: “Go with peace of mind.”

I saw that in front of her, there was a long purple streak of blood, and all the bugs were rushing towards it. Then there was a strange sound from her body, and I only knew that it was the bugs… the bugs on her arm!

What kind of existence is that? My mind couldn’t think of an answer, but I was relieved to see that the bugs were doing the same thing as the ones in the fox’s den. With that relief, I ignored the rapidly ‘drying up’ corpse of the snake and finally reached the row of characters with Brother Chengxin.

“My disciple, my successor, ask yourself if you have no worries, no dust, have already attained the Dao, and have become the Dao. Ridiculous, ridiculous! The word love, the word love! The demon spirit is left to the successor to complete the greatest regret of this life鈥擮ld Li.”

Such a short sentence, such a simple few dozen words, after we read it for a second, we already recognized that it must be the handwriting of the master, because every one of us has a copy of the master’s handwriting!

My brother and I both knelt down at the same time, bowed deeply, and hit our foreheads on the ground, making a dull sound. Who cares?

He has never been in our lives, but he is our idol, the master of the master, and the father-like existence of the master!

He was also a “father” to the masters, which is why they followed him for their entire lives. He was the simplest, simplest, and most natural thing in the world!

Three bows and nine prostrations, the Grand Master deserves it, and the meaning behind that sentence is not something we can fully understand, but we know that the biggest regret of his life is that we left this behind.

After standing up, Chengxin couldn’t help but wipe the dirt off his face and touch the characters, crying. I heard Chengxin say, “Grandmaster, it’s hard. We’re weak everywhere we go. Grandmaster, Master is gone, we’re bullied, I have no one to rely on! Grandmaster, did you know this would happen, so you left the demon spirit, Grandmaster…”

Grandmaster! My tears also came pouring down.

I felt that Chengxin and I were behaving like two idiots, but that’s what idiots do, even if they’re crazy. Seeing words is like seeing people. We were just pouring out our grievances! Grandmaster deserves our confessions!

and also deserve our weakness at this moment!

But the two of us, as big men, crying like this, still caused Zhang to be surprised. He couldn’t help but say to Wu Laogui, “These words, gah, made the two little brothers cry like this?”

Wu Laogui hurriedly came up to us and coughed, reminding us to pay attention to our ‘image’!

At this point, Chengxin and I suddenly pulled ourselves out of that mood. Chengxin wiped his sleeve across my face and shouted, choking with emotion: “What are you crying about? It’s ugly! We still have to find the master. Look at you, you’re so pathetic. Quickly get rid of the demon spirit!”

I also wiped my sleeve on my brother’s face: “You’re so fucking shameless. You’re older than me, and you started crying first. If I don’t cry, won’t that make you lose face?”

Wu Laogui, with his hands in his sleeves, said with a smug look on his face, “Gaha, you’re crying, so what? I’m telling you, I’ve seen it all.”

“Shut up!” I and Brother Chengxin shouted at the same time. When I looked at the handwriting of the master again, I suddenly felt at ease.

Suddenly, I felt at ease!