Chapter 151: Confrontation

“What was the sound of my voice when I first spoke? Master Jiang, take out the Tianwen Stone in your hand. You know what I want.” Yang Sheng didn’t care about my question at all, but stared at my master and slowly said these words.

It seems that Yang Sheng has forgotten the past, which was only me. As I and Yang Sheng grew apart, he probably forgot about the past.

I vaguely connected the whole thing together. Yang Sheng’s release of my cousin to Xiao Chengqian may have been a conspiracy, and was it with Wu Tian’s cooperation? If Wu Tian was involved, why did he want to kill me? As for my master, he was holding the Tianwen Stone and looked confident. Did my master know something?

I looked up in confusion and saw Yang Sheng standing at the bow of the ship, wearing a mask and a tightly wrapped trench coat, his hands on the railing, wearing gloves.

And standing with Yang Sheng was Wu Tian… him…

As for the people behind them, naturally they were Wu Tian and Yang Sheng. I saw the familiar ten people again, as well as the top young generation of the so-called four evil sects.

What made my heart jump was that I didn’t see Xiao Chengqian.

I had a lot to say to my master, and I began to feel annoyed. Why had I not mentioned my experiences before, even though I had so much time? It was as if I was afraid of breaking the tacit agreement that they would not ask, and I would not say, and I would not ask, and they would not say.

But now I want to say it, and it is obviously inappropriate.

I silently calculated our fighting strength in my heart and found that if the two sides confronted each other, we would definitely lose.

My hands were trembling slightly. Could it be that a happy ending was just a dream? I felt that I and Yang Sheng had reached a point of irreconcilable differences. What we had to do was precisely the biggest obstacle to him. I couldn’t think of any reason why he would let us go.

However, compared to my slightly worried expression, Master was unusually at ease.

He took the last remaining tobacco leaves, slowly lit it, and then turned to Hui and said, “Do you want a drag?”

“No, if you’re so capable, get me some eggs. I haven’t eaten in a few days, and my mouth is so bland.” Master Hui didn’t appreciate Master’s tobacco at all.

The master took a sip of tobacco with a smile, closed his eyes in enjoyment, and then said, “I don’t blame you for not knowing the value of this tobacco. I don’t buy it from special channels, but you say you haven’t eaten eggs and your mouth is bland. Why don’t you spit out a bird?”

“You’re a dead ox nose. Why are you looking for trouble? Are you challenging me?” Master Hui always couldn’t resist a few words of provocation from his master, and the word “challenge” popped out of his mouth again.

“Silly, haven’t you seen the pipe?” The master glanced at Master Hui.

I knew that another “tragic” duel was about to unfold before my eyes. I sighed subconsciously. If the master was a bachelor, then the master was the ultimate embodiment of the bachelor spirit. The more boring and tense the confrontation, the more he would talk nonsense. Master Hui was sometimes so confused that he was dragged into the situation by the master.

At this time, Xiao Laoba once again stepped forward. Looking at his deeply worried expression, I guessed that he was going to try to stop the fight again.

On the entire ship, only Wu Liyu and I had the same expression. He seemed to be afraid to look up at the ship, his brows slightly furrowed, and the complex but worried and anxious emotions could not be concealed.

“Hey, Master Jiang, you don’t have to act like this, do you? In my heart, you have always been a person with a clear mind. Why do you have to act like a cynical, confused person to fool everyone?” Yang Sheng probably didn’t want to be verbose, so he broke the intentional farce of my master.

At this point, Master Hui also stopped arguing with my master and turned to look at Yang Sheng, saying, “Who are you talking about? I only remember that there was an honest and kind-hearted Yang Sheng in the past, but I never thought he was blind.”

Master Hui is such a straightforward person, but Master Hui waved his hand in front of him and said calmly, “I have a clear idea in my heart about what kind of attitude I want to use to face a matter, and about my life. I don’t have any big ambitions. I just do what I want to do, and as long as I can live up to my conscience and my bottom line, I’m happy. I like to make jokes with Master Hui, so why not?”

“Master Jiang, your eloquence is still as powerful as ever.” Yang Sheng’s voice was hoarse, but he began to clap his hands in a pretentious manner, and the applause echoed crisply between the two boats.

“No, no, I just want to say what I want to say. But you, you don’t have to pretend to call me Master Jiang. You still have the heart to call me Master Jiang. Are you denying yourself or slapping yourself in the face? Of course, I don’t deny that you are really sincere. If that’s the case, then get out of the way and don’t block it.” My master’s tone became stern at the end, and the smoke from the pipe obscured his face, and I couldn’t see his expression clearly.

“Haha…haha…” Yang Sheng laughed a few times in response to my master’s words, and then suddenly his tone became stern: “Since you want to tear off your face, I don’t need to call you Master Jiang anymore. Jiang Lichun, I came here today to solve all the hidden dangers, and it doesn’t matter whether you hand over the Tianwen Stone or not. Do you think I can’t get it?”

Yang Sheng’s words clearly contained a hint of threat. As he said, since the face had been torn, there was no need for hypocrisy.

“We’ve already broken our face. Since the moment you left in a helicopter, has there been any face between us? It’s just that my apprentice is stupid, and has been sad for you for many years. But there is no need for things that are not worth it. The Sky Pattern Stone is already useless. I believe you don’t want it, but the Kunlun Spirit inside it, right?” As he spoke, the master took out the Tianwen Stone from the yellow cloth bag he was carrying, and tossed it around, acting as if he didn’t care.

However, Yang Sheng seemed a little excited, and couldn’t help leaning forward a little. Obviously, the master had hit the nail on the head, and when he saw the stone, he couldn’t control his emotions.

In fact, I looked at Yang Sheng and suddenly felt a little sorry for him. At first, he just wanted to fulfill his teacher’s lifelong research wish. Now that he has come this far, things may have turned out differently than he expected. He is like a man being pushed forward by his own obsession and the fate he has chosen.

Occasionally, does he also want to turn back in the quiet of the night?

However, many people are creatures who cannot pay a price. If they pay, they want to be rewarded… Just like in love, the more you give, the more you cannot let go! Sometimes, it may not be love anymore, and what you are unwilling to accept is only your own contribution.

This principle can be applied to many things. If you can’t see through it, even if you want to turn back on something, you will deny yourself.

Why is it so tragic to be a hero who cuts off his own arm? It is a kind of self-sacrifice, which is a huge psychological challenge. How many people can see through it? There is no regret when giving, only because you want to give. There is no resentment when letting go, only because it is time to let go.

So, I looked at Yang Sheng, who was a little agitated, and thought that he must have gone through a difficult psychological process, otherwise he wouldn’t have used a few times to save me to completely settle our relationship.

I really wanted to say to him, “Brother Sheng, come back,” but I knew that saying it would only add to the sadness and destroy the last shred of friendship buried deep in my heart.

While I was thinking about it over and over again, Yang Sheng had already returned to normal. When he saw the stone of the heavenly pattern that the master took out, he just greedily looked at it a few times, and finally said, “Jiang Lichun, I am actually very curious. How did you break the fate tablet and get back the souls of your people who were imprisoned in the village? If it weren’t for that, I really wouldn’t have to fight today. Even if the friendship is gone, we are still acquaintances after all, and it would be ugly to fight.

When he finished, Yang Sheng was adjusting his gloves, as if checking whether they were on properly. His tone was somewhat frivolous, but the person who had been standing silently behind him had a different aura. A suppressed fighting spirit began to fill the entire ship. It seemed that the situation was about to erupt!

However, this serious fighting spirit was interrupted by a sneer from the master. He shook his head and said, “Yang Sheng, since you know that I can break the life token, and I am a Taoist priest who has also done a lot of research on the soul, then it will be easy to do business. Why not give you the stone of the heavenly pattern? Do you dare to take it?”

At the end, the tone of the master suddenly became calm but serious. At this point, the verbal confrontation had reached a critical point.

However, Yang Sheng was no longer as excited as he had been at first. He just looked at his master and said, “Am I afraid? In the Holy Village, if I remember correctly, your disciples and their descendants are still there. They are eating and drinking well now, but I can’t guarantee that they will be after that.”

“Ancestor, are you really so heartless as to treat us this way?” At this moment, Wu Liyu, who had been silent, suddenly spoke excitedly.

He called his ancestor, so he must be Wu Tian!