Chapter 146: Three Days (Part 1)

This gathering at the venue and the hurried conference did not last long. In fact, the main purpose was to announce that I had become the master of the Snow Mountain clan.

But I don’t know much, and there are many trivial matters that I can’t handle or decide… After all, this master should be strictly speaking, the principal, and in the case of not yet understanding, there is no way to be the principal… Therefore, some of the remaining specific decisions or trivial matters do not need me to participate one by one.

My main task is the same as everyone else who came here, that is, to seize the remaining time to practice, and for our kind of practice, the Snow Mountain School will provide full support and as many resources as possible.

Other than that, I need to do is to participate in a real grand ceremony, officially announcing the news to the circle of cultivators in China. The point is that the Xueshan lineage is a real grand sect, and there are many rituals and rules for becoming its true head.

This is different from the casual and carefree way of doing things in our Li family. The major sects always have to pay attention to some majesty and momentum.

However, I don’t have the heart to think too much right now… With only three days left in my life, I suddenly realized that I still have a lot of things to do and a lot to say… I don’t know if I have enough time in these three days.

The gathering just now has made my life less regrettable… However, I also sensitively discovered that the people who came with me were not there, and they were also the most important existence in my life. I asked privately and was told that all of them were practicing, and perhaps there would be some free time at night.

In addition, among all the people, I didn’t see Ruixue… Three days later, I will no longer be me. At this time, I have a kind of penetrating vicissitudes of life… I also feel that it doesn’t matter whether Ruixue wants to see me or not. What’s important is that I must see her in these three days.

Yes, I was just greedy, greedy to make my life completely free of regrets.

It was Elder Qiu who led me out of the meeting hall. It was a strange surname… He volunteered to tell me that he and the old man who guarded the underground cave both had the surname Qiu… He said that this was a surname they had given themselves, and that their real surnames were not like that.

He took me back to the main gate of the Snow Mountain Sect. In theory, I should have been taken to the highest cave… that’s where the master of the Snow Mountain Sect should be. However, as I said, it would take three days, and I wouldn’t be practicing during those three days… so I was still arranged to stay in a normal house on the platform.

However, because of my different status, the house I was temporarily staying in was very large, basically a separate courtyard. Other rooms also housed people other than Elder Qiu, and I could feel their powerful aura… Elder Qiu explained to me that there were still some “special guests” in the Snow Mountain Sect for the time being. Now that my status was different, according to calculations, I was also the key to the war… Therefore, someone had to completely protect me.

Protected? After hearing this, I was a little stunned. I have been wandering for half my life… except for the obvious protection of my master when I was young, I never thought that I would be protected like this again. It feels very strange… and I didn’t ask too much about those special guests… In fact, when I first came to the Snow Mountain Sect, didn’t a few lamas come with me? Presumably, Elder Qiu was referring to these people.

How to deal with them… I don’t think I need to worry about it. Specifically, I don’t want to worry about it for the next three days.

The room was quiet. How could it not be quiet when I was the only one in such a large room? My master had also been taken away to practice… In preparation for the great battle to come, I was inexplicably alone for the last three days of my life.

But there was no way to tell anyone. As the great battle was approaching, I didn’t want to burden anyone with my feelings, or make them feel sorry for me.

In this suffocating solitude… my room door was pushed open… I thought it was someone looking for me, but I saw Elder Qi standing in front of my door: “Master, you just came out of the underground cave and are still very weak. I have prepared some medicinal food for you here, as well as some soup made with secret methods from the Snow Mountain lineage… You should eat first, and after that, soak in a special fragrant bath for a while… Although you don’t need to practice for these three days, it is necessary to condition your body.”

I nodded numbly. I had never had such a comfortable life of just practicing in my entire life… Even in the Bamboo Forest, that hateful master would make me work as a child laborer, cooking and doing laundry, in addition to going to school… My dream life is nothing more than this, quietly practicing, with the important people in my life by my side.

Now it seems that this is the case… but will I only have these three days of solitude?

In the meantime, Elder Qiu had already had someone bring the things they had prepared. I didn’t look at what they were, and I just sat at the table, quietly and quietly starting to eat and drink… Elder Qiu stayed by my side, and I asked casually, “Where are my family and friends that Jenny brought to the meeting just now?”

“They have been properly arranged. The war is imminent… The main reason for their arrival is to reassure you, but they themselves don’t want to take up too much of your time. So, if the head of the clan is willing, you can still spend an hour or two a day to visit them.” Elder Qiu helped me with the dishes and kept me company, but didn’t eat much.

“I don’t need to practice for the next three days, and I can’t go visit them freely?” I suddenly felt a little uncomfortable, but I couldn’t say anything. I only had three days left.

“In theory, there should be no problem… But you are the head of the sect, and sometimes you must be careful about your words and deeds, and the impact they have on others… Go again at night. And before the battle, there will be a few days for you to get together, so the head of the sect doesn’t have to worry.” Elder Qiu said to me with a smile.

This is a very tactful way of saying it, but the actual meaning is to remind me that even if I am resting these three days, it is best to go at night when there are fewer people because of the impact… because I am the head of the sect.

Yes, I am the head of the clan… But I am not happy at all. It will take a long time for the country boy Chen Chengyi to adapt to this identity… But what time do I have?

Thinking about this, I suddenly put down my chopsticks and said to Elder Qiu, “Is it okay for them to come see me? I insist on this. Just don’t tell my parents and sister about it. They… I will go see them myself.”

After all, my family knows me best, and I’m really afraid that they will know something… It would be too cruel for them. Three days later, I was still standing in front of them, but I was no longer me.

Elder Qi didn’t expect me to say that, and was a little stunned… Then he said to me, “Well, if the head of the clan really insists…”

After that, there was a long silence… After I finished eating, Elder Qiu left, and someone naturally brought the secret fragrant soup… I stood in front of the window, not in a hurry to soak in the fragrant soup… but looking out the window.

The courtyard faces the entrance to the mountain gate… the gate is not closed, and the view is excellent… I can see the sky beyond the mountain gate… it is already sunset, and the children of the Snow Mountain clan are walking back and forth, looking busy… I know that it is probably time for dinner, and the Snow Mountain clan has a place similar to a cafeteria where they eat together, and they are busy going to eat.

It was a very lively scene… I thought I wasn’t afraid of death, but suddenly I realized that I actually had so many attachments to life.

I didn’t want to think too much about it… so I finally took my eyes off it and threw myself into the fragrant hot spring… In the steamy mist, I tried to calm my mood, but I didn’t want to… at this time, the door to my room was pushed open again.

I thought it was Elder Qiu, but when I looked up, it was Su Rou and Qin Huai carrying a package and a few bottles of wine standing outside my door.

I instinctively wanted to laugh, but I didn’t expect these two guys to suddenly scream, rush into my room, drop the things in their hands, and rush towards me… Before I could react, they rushed next to me… Then they pressed my head into the water and laughed heartily…

In fact, I am a cultivator, and I am very good at holding my breath in the water. And they are no match for me. After I came to my senses, I suddenly rushed out of the water and splashed the so-called precious fragrant water all over them. Then the three of them burst into laughter… like the fun I had when I was a kid.

After enough fun, Qin Huai and Su Rou also soaked in the wooden tub… Because they were all wet, and the tub was already huge, like a small pool, three big men soaking in it didn’t seem crowded, but rather just right.

“I never thought that one day I would be able to soak in a fragrant bath with crispy pork… This is a luxury that money can’t buy.” A pot of wine was passed between us, along with a cigarette… When Crispy Pork said this, he passed the wine to Qin Huai…

“Look at you, you’re so down to earth. It’s just a hot spring. In the future, Chengyi will be the head of the clan. I’m thinking that if I make a hot spring, and then pour it out, who would dare say no? I’ll just bring out Chengyi and say that the head of the clan said it was okay, and those old men won’t be able to do anything about it. Hahaha…” Qin Huai was still acting like a carefree young man, and after taking a sip of wine, he spoke with a heroic air.

“That’s enough. You’re just looking for trouble for Chengyi,” Su Rou said with a look of contempt for Qin Huai.

Qin Huai looked at Su Rou with contempt and asked, “Do you have any sense of humor?”

In the meantime, the wine had already been passed to me. I took a big sip of the unique snow wine from the Xueshan Mountain Range, then smiled and watched them make a scene… The sunset outside the window was at its most intense, shining in the room. I suddenly said something inexplicably, “Do you remember when we first met?”