Da Xuan Martial Saint

Chapter 667: Chapter 383: Return to Yu County

Time flows like water, fleeting in a moment.

The Purple Bamboo House.

“Brother?”

Chen Yue’s figure appeared outside the cabin, calling into the interior, but she received no response.

Her gaze hesitated for a moment, then with a touch of disarray, she ran into the room, only to see it empty, without a soul, bamboo bed and desk both as polished and new, nothing else of length.

Staring at the empty bamboo house, Chen Yue was momentarily lost in a daze.

Has he left?

During her time at Spirit Profound Peak, Chen Mu spent most of it cultivating, but in these past few days, he had been with her, Xu Hongyu, and others, guiding their cultivation.

Chen Yue, with her keen mind, knew Chen Mu’s day of departure was near, yet since Chen Mu did not tell when he would leave, she did not ask, simply coming each day to look for him. Now, gazing at that bamboo bed, Chen Mu’s mild and gentle face seemed to still be before her eyes, softly calling out ‘Yue’er has come’ with a faint smile.

Chen Yue stepped into the cabin.

Her small hand slowly caressed the empty purple bamboo case, its clean and lustrous surface reflecting her face, black tresses cascading down, her pretty cheeks no longer green, but now bearing a few more strokes of intellect.

In a corner of South City in Yu City, the girl who depended on Chen Mu for survival in two lowly huts, now stood tall and elegant, having reached her most flourishing age, her Martial Arts Cultivation stepping into the Five Viscera Realm, dominant enough to rule unchallenged in remote places.

Chen Yue moved past the table and sat by Chen Mu’s bedside, looking out the window, lost in thought.

Six years.

She always remembered the time Chen Mu left Yu County; to this day, it has been more than six years.

Since Chen Mu left Yu County, there had been few meetings and many partings between them, even after she and Xu Hongyu and others moved to the State Government Office in Yu State, Chen Mu still spent the vast majority of his time away.

She knew that now Chen Mu had a different status, a different standing, a renowned figure in Yu State, an influential sect elder, and so she too dedicated herself to cultivation, never slackening, not wanting to be a burden to Chen Mu. But she still missed the days spent living in Yu County.

Especially after Chen Mu began to make a name for himself, when the home was no longer lacking food or clothing, those days she spent in the Inner City of Yu County learning martial arts, she eagerly awaited news from Chen Mu, sending him messages, and Chen Mu would also come to see her.

But those times are gone forever.

Given the chance, she would wish for the family to be together, spending a lifetime in peace in a quiet corner of a prosperous and stable era, but the world does not shift according to her will; ultimately, these are troubled times, and no place, however secluded, can avoid strife.

The first time she traveled with Chen Mu, leaving Yu City, she asked Chen Mu what was the Martial World. Chen Mu said that the place they were in was the Martial World, that they were always within it. Back then, she was confused, but now she understood the meaning of his words.

In the Martial World, one cannot help but be influenced.

Chen Mu, with his exceptional talents, rose step by step, becoming a figure who stunned the world, but it also doomed him to having no way back. Once on that path, he had to follow it to the end, especially after the war at the Ice State Abyss, a battle which shook the world, there was no turning back.

The youngest Qiankun Grandmaster of his time, the most hopeful contender for the world’s pinnacle, even were he to retire to the ends of the earth, troubles would relentlessly seek him out. Even a Great Sect like the Seven Profound Sect could not live in peace, hence Chen Mu had to leave, leave the Seven Profound Sect, leave Yu State, to take that final step that would span the whole world.

If successful, the whole world would be silent.

If defeated, he would still leave a mark in the annals of history.

For a moment.

Chen Yue’s thoughts also started to drift. As the person closest to Chen Mu, the one who had grown up alongside him since childhood, she felt somewhat bewildered by these more than ten years of experiences, because the Chen Mu from the first half of her memories and the second half are as different as heaven and earth, as if ever since Chen Mu’s serious illness, he possessed a spirituality he had never had before.

She had once read about ‘Enlightenment’ in books; perhaps at that time, some inexplicable fate befell Chen Mu, leading him to enlightenment and wisdom, and afterward, he soared up step by step, ascending to the heavens.

Suddenly.

While Chen Yue’s thoughts were adrift, another figure walked into the bamboo house.

“Yue’er?”

Xu Hongyu looked at Chen Yue, seated on the bamboo bed, and was slightly startled. Then her eyes swept over the empty cabin, understanding what had happened, knowing that Chen Mu had already left, slipping away quietly to avoid complications.

“Hongyu sister.”

Chen Yue came to her senses and looked at Xu Hongyu. Although she was supposed to call her ‘sister-in-law’, old habits had persisted for many years without changing. Standing up from the bamboo bed, she said softly, “When do you think Brother will come back this time?”

Xu Hongyu looked out the window, gazing at the distant mountains, and said,

“It will be a long time, perhaps ten years, or maybe twenty…”

Though she was not a Grandmaster, she too had entered the Six Viscera Realm. She understood how difficult the step from Marrow Cleansing to Blood Exchange was. Marrow Cleansing is the ‘Ascension Pass,’ symbolizing the difficulty of ascending to the heavens, while Blood Exchange is the ‘Life and Death Pass,’ indicating the hardship of crossing the threshold of life and death.

For an ordinary Grandmaster, the process of advancing from the Marrow Cleansing Realm to the Blood Exchange Realm takes nearly twenty years at the fastest, as they say in the Martial World, life and death are vast and uncertain, and twenty years pass in the blink of an eye.

But Chen Mu’s cultivation is of the Qiankun Path, and his talent and insight are unparalleled in a thousand years; such a person cannot be measured by ordinary standards. Maybe it will take ten years, or perhaps twenty years, thirty years, no one can say for sure.

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