Song of Time - Dusk Awakening Verse - Chapter 47

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The sudden old voice floated back and forth in the bamboo forest in the chilly night. It gradually echoed and sounded quite frightening.

Hsuan seemed to had been accustomed to this kind of malicious scare. He calmly took a sip of the wine and glanced out without answering.

On the stone lamp not far away from him, a concise and strange figure was sitting. The man was almost as tall as Hsuan’s knees. He wore a long purple robe with complex patterns, and a thin gold thread was tied around his waist. His dark blue short hair danced above his head like flames, with countless shining lights. His skin was as blue as a clear ocean. Obviously, he was not a human. His long snow-white eyebrows and beard covered more than half of his face, but his bright silver eyes were particularly eye-catching in the dark night.

The strange short man was still holding a short and wide golden strange pipe in his hand. Seeing that the Priest was looking at him, he threw the pipe down and knocked hard on the stone lamp, making a light sound of empty to prove it. Then he grinned and said, “See? It’s already empty… I’ve been waiting for you in the study for a few days, but you didn’t show up. So I have to come to you! “

They came to collect their debts day and night…Hsuan glared at him with a cold face. He put the cup on the table casually, took out the cloth bag, and waved her hand—a white light shot at him. When the short man saw the white light flying over, he immediately pointed at it with a smile and stood in front of it. He gently blew away the shining light with a breath, revealing his true face. It turned out that this flying object was a pure Psychedelic flower. The two flowers were about the size of his two palms, and the crystal-like surface was faintly glowing with light, which was unusually exquisite.

The old man couldn’t help holding the Psychedelic flower in his hand. He looked at it again and again, grinning from ear to ear. He lowered his head and sniffed the flowers. Then he shook his head intoxicatedly and put the flowers into the golden pipe. With a flash of purple light, white lines were floating on the pipe. The old man quickly put the pipe to his mouth and took a big drag. After closing his eyes, an invisible ripple appeared and quickly disappeared in the air.

Hsuan didn’t say anything sarcastic when he saw his elder friend’s infatuated look. He was an old smoker and knew well about the resentment that he wanted to smoke but couldn’t smoke. However, he was smoking, and this was the precious Psychedelic flower… He didn’t walk out of the pavilion until the old man took a few breaths of relief. Leaning against the pillar, he said with a faint sneer, “Won’t you go to ask Yuno. Why don’t you make some desserts for him?”

“Hi… Not to mention that he hadn’t seen anyone all day long, so he left a note saying that he wanted to go far… The silly bird and the little girl are not here. There is no one in this big study now. I think it’s time to close the door sooner or later! “The old man complained about a cigarette in his mouth and took a few more puffs as if to turn grief and indignation into the motivation of smoking.

“travel far away?” Maybe he was on a mercenary mission again. The doctor had gone out several times before, so the Priest didn’t think too much. He took out a cigarette from his bag, knocked it down on the railing, and poured it. While he was touching the cigarette, the old man casually asked, “Did someone recognize the little girl?”

“……You are well-informed. “

“Haha, is there anything in the world that can hide from me?” The strange old man named Blake spat out an invisible wave circle complacently. Seeing the Priest’s face darken, he smiled mischievously and said, “Let me tell you, you can take her back. What are you thinking about? Who dares not to listen to you?”

“You are really good at making sarcastic remarks…” Absent-minded, Hsuan picked up the cigarette, wiped the white light, and lit it. She took a deep breath and spat out a thick white line as if to pour out all the troubles in her heart. “That fat bird did a stupid thing. Why should I help it?”

“Everyone knows that it has been with you for so many years? If I don’t blame you, will I blame a bird? “

“……So what?  Is there anyone who dares to question you? “

“That’s exactly the reason…” The old man smiled and smoked. He didn’t care about the slightly irritable attitude of the Priest. “Then why don’t you bring her back directly and ask them to go. Anyway, no one can find you.”

Hsuan was speechless. If he really brought her back like this, wouldn’t it be true? How could he claim himself to be Priest in the future? Although he said that he didn’t care about it, he took his position for a thousand years seriously. Otherwise, he didn’t have to attend the Apocalypse on time every time.

Holding the pipe in his hand, he was thinking about how to refute. At this moment, master Blake sneered, “Some people just like to pretend. They want to interfere in their hearts, but they don’t say it…”

His words made Hsuan a little angry. He knocked the pipe hard on the pillar, shook his sleeve, and shouted, “Who are you talking about!? I don’t want to meddle in these trifles. Don’t bother me from now on! “

“Okay, okay!”The old man touched his palm and laughed. “That’s exactly what I should do! From now on, let’s travel around. You haven’t left this world yet. I’ll take you to the nearby star field to have a look. What do you mean by the vast universe and the ocean of starlight? “

The Priest lowered his head and smoked hard. He didn’t answer, as if he was sulking. Seeing him like this, Blake didn’t comfort him. He smiled and took a few puffs of smoke. Suddenly, he said, “Another disaster!”

“Where is it?”The Priest asked subconsciously. Instantly, he realized that he was fooled, and his face twitched. Looking at the hateful old man laughing back and forth, he moved his lips and didn’t know what to say. He could only put the pipe into his mouth unhappily and complained, “Do you think I want to. If it weren’t for that call, I wouldn’t have traveled all over the world like this. “

“Haha, if it weren’t for that call, you would have turned into ash. How could you complain here?”

Hear this, Priests face darkened in an instant. He took a drag on his cigarette, squinted his eyes, and sneered at himself, “I don’t care about my life span of one thousand years. If anyone wants it, just take it. Hsuan doesn’t know care. If he dies, it will be fine. “

“Again, again, again. Alas, young people nowadays are always courting death if they don’t get along well with each other. Alas… “The old man shook his head and sighed. Seeing that he was still expressionless and gloomy, he raised his long eyebrows and said, “All right, all right. It’s my fault. I’ll accompany your boss!”

Hsuan didn’t respond to his insincere apology. He just crossed his arms over his chest and leaned against a pillar, staring blankly at the full moon in the sky. Once upon a time, he was just an ordinary cultivator in the holy tower, living an ordinary life and having an ordinary dream. It was not until that grand and unprecedented summon that the light of saving the world finally came through space and time under this full moon.[Read this novel and other amazing translated novels from the original source at the “Novel Multiverse dot com” website @ novelmultiverse.com]

He stared fixedly at the plump moon wheel. In an instant, countless memories surged like the tide, making him unable to control himself. This tremor from the depths of his soul swept across his empty heart and finally ended up with an inaudible sigh. “If I could choose…I just hope that it wasn’t me… “

Blake sighed when he saw the sadness all over his body. It had been more than two thousand years, but he still kept this tone. It was really helpless to be melancholy. He stroked his long beard and thought for a while. Then he inserted the golden smoke pipe into his belt. Without saying anything, he waved his hand, and a purple light flashed. He changed the bamboo forest into a star space that was constantly rotating.

Hsuan’s thoughts were suddenly interrupted, and he was unhappy. When he turned around and was about to question, the old man chuckled and pointed forward. “Look…”

The Priest looked back and saw a blue water planet in front of him. As his vision gradually developed, that continent was exactly the same as Verharen. He was stunned to see Wong, Jing, and the almighty holy tower appears on that continent. There was also a young man named Hsuan in the tower. He wasn’t outstanding or smart. Instead, he was strong and optimistic. He had many good friends. He had been cultivating with teachers in the tower for ten years and became an official white robe. After years of hard training, he finally got the recognition of the upper echelons. He was promoted to a middle manager and accepted a few disciples.

However, because of his limited talent, he had never been able to become a golden robe in his entire life. Such examples could be seen everywhere in the sacred pagoda. He was just one of them. Many relatives and friends came to see him off when he was dying, but there was no family. Because he was an orphan, and he was always busy with cultivation, and he was unmarried all his life.

Staring blankly at his fading life, Hsuan suddenly shivered. He understood what the old man meant. If he hadn’t been chosen that year, his life would have ended without leaving any marks, just as what had just happened. He mechanically turned around to take a look at Blake, who still pointed forward with a smile and said, “Look again.”

Another figure appeared in front of Hsuan’s eyes. It was a woman. The person that was the most difficult for her to give up was her once-beloved wife; looking at her smiling figure with long hair flying in the air, priest Dean’s eyes couldn’t help feeling hot. He reached out his hand subconsciously and wanted to go forward, but he suddenly stopped. He suddenly realized that he had never seen any trace of himself in the woman’s short life because he had been old, dead, and no longer alive before she was born.

“After your birth, I’m old. Time was the most helpless thing in the world. It never stopped, never compromised, never responded to your begging, and never favored. For everyone, everything was fair but incomparably cold. “Looking at the woman’s receding figure, Hsuan could only feel their attachment, their tenderness, and all the beauty and pain in the past. At this moment, they seemed to have become illusory flowers, piled up in the illusion, but could never be touched.

He felt great fear, but he could not speak out the reason for the fear for a moment. He could only stand there like a sculpture and look at the figure rapidly flashing through the sea of stars. He saw his old friend who had betrayed him, his beloved disciple who had died in an accident, the evil emperor, and countless people who had entered his life. Their life paths might be different, but they no longer had their own involvement. However, the strange thing was that their ending did not seem to be much different from what they had remembered. It was all because of various coincidences that they finally returned to the same fate.

He stood there, dejectedly as if he had gained something. If he had comprehended something, looking at those flying and disappearing figures, he would throw his mind out of the sky. After a long time, when he gradually came to his senses, the starry sky around him had already disappeared. The bamboo forest was filled with the sound of insects, and the fragrance was slowly and peacefully.

He couldn’t help taking a deep breath. The cold and fresh air filled his body, making his restless heart calm down again. He turned to look at the old man. Master Blake was still sitting on the lamp leisurely, smoking. He squinted at the old man from time to time with a mysterious smile.

“Even without you, their fate can’t be changed… Life and death are in vain. “The old man sneered at him slowly when he came to his senses.

“I know life or death doesn’t depend on people, but it’s just that I can’t forget it. I don’t want to experience that powerless separation anymore… I don’t want to be involved with anyone anymore…”

“You don’t want to get involved? Then why did you take her back to the study? “

“……I have to meddle in her prophecy, right? “

“Well, that’s true. Then why do you keep Yuno in the study?”

“……He wanted to stay by himself. I didn’t force him. “

“Isn’t it because of the explosion eight years ago? How dare you say that you don’t feel guilty at all? “

Hsuan didn’t know what to say for a moment. The old man took a drag on her cigarette, pointed at the distance, and smiled, “And the little guy next to you. Didn’t you take the initiative to bring him back? You are just too stubborn and soft-hearted. You said you didn’t care, but in the end, you have to bear it yourself. How can you be so aloof? How can you not be in love? “

After saying that, he stared straight at the Priest. Seeing that the Priest was still silent, he shook his head and sighed, “Since we can’t escape from this mortal world, why don’t we just open our hearts? At least, it’s better to take it as training… Over the years, it has been difficult for you to improve your cultivation base. In my opinion, it has something to do with the deeper and deeper knot in your heart…”

“Well, let’s cut the crap. I’ll go back first.” After saying that, Blake put the pipe into the ashtray, clapped his hands, and stood up. He glanced at priest Dean again and then disappeared in a thick purple light with a long smile.

Hsuan sat in silence, looking at the dim moon. Thinking of his old friend’s persuasion, a myriad of thoughts crowded into his mind.” Let go of the knot? How should I let go of the grief and joy of the past thousand years… “While he was wandering in this distress, he suddenly heard a weak low voice from afar, “Sir? Sir? Where are you? I’m so hungry. He couldn’t get up. Sir? “

The incessant and annoying cries made Hsuan’s forehead veins stand out. He couldn’t help but turn his head and shouted, “Stop shouting! Climb back by yourself! “

The young man seemed to be frightened by the sudden rebuke. He paused for a moment and then lowered his voice to beg, “Sir, I really can’t get up. Please help me…”

“This short-lived debt collector! I’m really making trouble out of nothing. “The Priest took a few deep breaths and tried hard to suppress his anger. He strode towards there and glanced at it from a distance expressionlessly. In the faint yellow light, the young man struggled to raise his elbows and looked up at himself. His face was covered with black sweat, and he was grinning with white teeth.

Seeing his embarrassed look, Hsuan somehow cooled down a lot. He threw a white light around the young man and pulled him up. He glanced at him up and down and sneered, “You still remember to wake up? Why don’t you sleep to death so that I won’t be bothered? “

Gian didn’t dare to say anything more. He scratched his head shamelessly and asked in a hurry, “Sir, can we have dinner now? I’m starving to death… “

“Dinner?Hum… What time is it now? There is no food left. Let’s talk about it tomorrow. “

“What? Is there nothing left? “The young man pleaded with a bitter face, “Sir, you can give me a few steamed buns, and BUN can alsoI’m starving, sir… “

“It’s all gone. Go and eat bamboo.”

“How to eat bamboo? It’s so hard… “

Gian’s plaintive sigh filled the quiet bamboo forest, but Hsuan turned a deaf ear to it. He just walked forward, followed by a dejected young man.

However, there were many wrapped lunch boxes placed on the square table in the small bamboo house in the distance. The air was filled with a faint smell of food, and it was extremely warm against the magical yellow light, waiting for the two to return.

In the quiet night, only the young man’s joyful cry disturbed the bamboo forest full of worries.

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