Chapter 1082.1: All People of This World, Pressing Onward Wave After Wave - Part 1

Suining Mountain welcomed the most distinguished guest since the establishment of the Morning Dew Sect.

It was just that the ceremony for receiving the guest was all show and no substance.

Because over at the Morning Dew Sect, there was no grand reception involving the entire mountain. No one said that all the disciples on the mountain would come down at this moment and line up along both sides of the mountain path to welcome the Lord Warden Commander, without whom the Morning Dew Sect could be said to have never been established.

Below the mountain, in front of the mountain pass gates, there were only two people waiting to welcome him.

Neither of them had a low status.

One was Sect Master Feng Liu, a genuine powerhouse at the end of Nepenthe. Among all the itinerant cultivators, even when two cultivators at the end of Nepenthe had appeared on the Autumn Sound Sect's side before, there was still no one who could claim to stand alongside Feng Liu.

The other, by comparison, did not have quite as great a reputation. He was the Morning Dew Sect's Vice Sect Master, Xu Fuchen, likewise a powerhouse at the end of Nepenthe.

The two descended the mountain together, naturally representing the highest courtesy.

It could be said that in this world, even if the young temple master of the Infatuation Daoist Temple were to arrive, he would not receive such treatment.

Before the mountain gate, Chen Chao stood with his hands behind his back, looking somewhat absentmindedly at the three characters “Morning Dew Sect” on the plaque above the gate. It was only after Feng Liu and Xu Fuchen arrived that Chen Chao came back to himself.

As Feng Liu walked over, he smiled and said, “I heard before that Lord Warden Commander was in Ying Prefecture, and I was wondering whether Lord Warden Commander might come to the Morning Dew Sect for a look. I never expected Lord Warden Commander to leave just like that. I was still regretting it when, who would have thought, Lord Warden Commander actually came back.”

Feng Liu was still dressed in a red robe. This cultivator known as the Romantic Earth Immortal was indeed quite romantic.

Xu Fuchen chuckled lightly. “The Morning Dew Sect came into being because of Lord Warden Commander. We have actually wanted to invite Lord Warden Commander to come and have a look all along, but Lord Warden Commander has countless affairs to attend to and is busy with official business, so we did not dare bring it up.”

The two sang in harmony, and there was nothing one could find fault with.

Chen Chao smiled and did not hurry up the mountain. Instead, he asked, “Sect Master Feng, if this official had immediately come to Suining Mountain after leaving the Autumn Sound Sect back then, would Sect Master Feng really not have had the slightest worry?”

Feng Liu gave Xu Fuchen a surprised glance before looking back at Chen Chao. “What is Lord Warden Commander saying? The Morning Dew Sect is not a bunch of dogs like the Autumn Sound Sect. No matter when Lord Warden Commander comes, we can only be happy. There is nothing else.”

Chen Chao narrowed his eyes and also showed an expression of understanding, “I see. I see.”

“Come, Lord Warden Commander should still go up the mountain for a look. Ever since the Morning Dew Sect came to Suining Mountain, Lord Warden Commander has yet to come and see it. I have been telling everyone that the Morning Dew Sect was established entirely because of Lord Warden Commander. But now that I have put those words out there, Lord Warden Commander has not come even once. That really leaves me with nowhere to put my face.”

Feng Liu sighed repeatedly, as aggrieved as a young wife whose husband had been lingering outside and had not returned home for a long time.

Chen Chao glanced at the sect master of the Morning Dew Sect and smiled. “Didn’t Vice Sect Master Xu say so himself? This official is truly entangled in official business and cannot get away. Besides, there was just a great battle in the Northern Frontier before this. Things were not easy for me either. This official almost died over there.”

Hearing Chen Chao mention this matter, Xu Fuchen glanced intentionally or otherwise at Feng Liu, while the latter remained completely composed and sighed with emotion. “Speaking of which, quite a few of my Morning Dew Sect disciples also died over there.”

Chen Chao was taken aback and had not yet had time to continue speaking when Feng Liu suddenly changed the subject, “But the imperial court is indeed a good imperial court. As soon as the great battle ended, it sent people over. This made everyone on the mountain feel very warm.”

Chen Chao sighed. “In the end, those people are already gone. Doing these things is merely to put one's heart at ease.”

As he said this, Chen Chao finally walked forward and crossed through the mountain gate.

Feng Liu intentionally or otherwise fell one step behind Chen Chao, but after a few steps, Chen Chao slowed his pace even more. How could a shrewd man like Feng Liu not understand Chen Chao's meaning? After smiling, he stepped forward and walked alongside Chen Chao.

Xu Fuchen followed behind the two, his gaze sweeping over their robes, his thoughts complicated.

On the way up the mountain, Chen Chao remained silent for a while before Feng Liu took the initiative to speak. “There will certainly be more cases like the Autumn Sound Sect's. And they definitely did not only begin in recent years. The demon race has capable people among them, and they prepared for a rainy day long ago.”

Chen Chao nodded. “It was probably that High Priest. He knows a great deal about the human race, and among the demon race, he holds a position of great power, second only to the Demon Emperor. There would be no problem at all for him to accomplish these things.”

Feng Liu hesitated for a moment before saying, “Lord Warden Commander should spend some time investigating this thoroughly.”c

“A world with sects standing everywhere is indeed difficult to investigate. Though this official holds a high position, there are truly too many places for a pair of eyes to see everything. Sect Master Feng has it somewhat better. You only have to manage a single Suining Mountain. There are not as many matters, nor is it as exhausting, and you can see things more clearly.”

At this point, Chen Chao paused and reached out to pluck a leaf from the wild grass beside the mountain path. With his back to Feng Liu, he seemed to be asking a question, yet also seemed to be talking to himself. “Can you really see clearly?”

Xu Fuchen had already stopped when Chen Chao said those words. He nervously raised his head to look at the young man in black before him, and also at his old friend of many years.

Feng Liu smiled. “I won’t speak of other places. It’s only a single Suining Mountain, a tiny little place. How could I not see it clearly? Everything, from top to bottom, is in this Feng’s heart.”

Chen Chao smiled, released the leaf in his hand, and let it fall. “That’s true. Sect Master Feng naturally has that kind of insight. Seeing things clearly isn’t a problem. After all, as the sect master, you naturally know everything within the sect very well.”

Xu Fuchen, who had just breathed a sigh of relief, became tense again after hearing this, even more so than before.

He even felt that after the Lord Warden Commander said those words, the entire air had become still. He could no longer hear the sounds around him. Instead, he could hear his own heartbeat with startling clarity.

No one knew how much time passed, but in reality, it should only have been a moment.

Feng Liu smiled. “Naturally. This Feng established this Morning Dew Sect myself. Every blade of grass and every tree, every brick and every stone on the mountain is inseparable from me, so this Feng knows it all very well.”

Hearing this, Chen Chao suddenly turned his head and glanced at Xu Fuchen before teasing, “How come this official has always heard that you, Great Sect Master Feng, are the kind of man who leaves everything to others?”

Feng Liu's expression did not change as he smiled, “Fuchen manages the affairs of the mountain, while this Feng manages Fuchen.”

Chen Chao pondered this and said nothing more.

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