Chapter 383

Chapter 383: You Might As Well Just Send Him On
“Please,” Bu Yan said.

He led Yu Zhao to an old, simple room, then stopped and gestured for her to go in.

Yu Zhao nodded to him and walked in calmly.

She had seen Abbot Jie Tan at the Cultivation World Grand Tournament before. Her impression of him was that of a strict and serious High Monk.

So when she saw the old monk standing by the window with a kindly smile, a trace of surprise flashed through her eyes.

“Disciple Yu Zhao greets Abbot Jie Tan,” she said.

“You are here,” Abbot Jie Tan said.

When Abbot Jie Tan saw Yu Zhao, he smiled and waved her over.

Yu Zhao stepped forward as he asked, stopping at an arm’s length from Abbot Jie Tan.

“Look outside the window. What can you see?” Abbot Jie Tan suddenly asked.

Yu Zhao looked outside and saw a section of dry, rotten tree standing in the courtyard.

“An old tree,” she replied.

“Do you think it is dead?” he asked.

“No.”

“Why?”

“Because its roots are still there. As long as the roots remain, there is still hope.”

“Very good.” Abbot Jie Tan smiled and nodded. “You already have the answer to your question. You may go back now.”

Yu Zhao was stunned.

Yu Zhao paused in surprise, then quickly cupped her hands and said, “Yu Zhao is dull-witted. I hope Abbot Jie Tan can explain it to me in detail.”

“The answer you want is in yourself. Remember, this is the last chance,” Abbot Jie Tan said.

After he finished speaking, he did not give Yu Zhao any chance to ask more questions. He sent her out of the room.

Yu Zhao stood outside the door and looked at Bu Yan. The two of them stared at each other.

After a long moment, she asked, “Does Abbot Jie Tan always speak in such a half-hidden, half-revealed way?”

Bu Yan stayed silent.

Not denying was the same as admitting it.

Yu Zhao understood, but her brows still furrowed slightly.

She had wanted to ask how to restore the Heavenly Ladder, but Abbot Jie Tan’s answer was that the solution lay in herself, and he had even stressed that there was only one last chance.

[What does that even mean?]

Yu Zhao had no idea. She wanted to ask again, but it was as if Abbot Jie Tan inside had read her mind. With a bang, he shut the door.

She rubbed her nose and could only give up on asking Abbot Jie Tan for now.

Bu Yan was about to send Yu Zhao back when he suddenly received an urgent message transmission from Senior Brother Bu You.

His face changed slightly. He had just taken two steps when he thought of Yu Zhao and stopped again.

Yu Zhao could tell he had something urgent to deal with, so she waved him off and said, “Go take care of it first. I will walk around the temple.”

She also happened to need some time to calm down and think carefully about the hint Abbot Jie Tan had given her.

Bu Yan hesitated for a moment, then handed Yu Zhao a jade slip with the temple’s routes carved on it before hurrying away.

When he walked quickly to the outside of the reception room, he heard Long Fei Fei’s angry shout from inside.

“This great Miss has never seen you before! Do not even think about taking advantage of me!” she yelled.

Bu Yan also knew that Long Fei Fei was restless by nature, so he was not surprised to hear her voice here.

What puzzled him was how she still had the energy to cause trouble when her hands and feet were all tied up like that.

If Long Fei Fei knew what he was thinking, she would definitely shout that she had been wronged.

This time, she really was not the one who started it.

She had secretly snuck to the reception room only because she wanted to see who Bu You was receiving. But she had forgotten she was still injured and could not move as lightly as before. She had been discovered before she even got close.

Then a crazy man had suddenly rushed out from inside, crying as he called her “Fei Fei.”

How could Long Fei Fei bear a stranger calling her so intimately? She exploded on the spot.

But the other party, a cultivator at the Body Integration Stage, acted as if he were deaf and blind. He did not respond to anything she said. He just silently shed tears as he looked at her, his eyes looking at her as if she were already dead. Her lungs almost exploded from anger.

If Bu You had not held her back, she really would have used her hands, which were tied up like wooden sticks, to knock the crazy man out and see if he still dared to shout nonsense.

When Bu Yan walked in, he saw Long Fei Fei scolding non-stop, Fang Cheng Lang silently bowing his head with tears, and Su Ming and Cui Jue, the two fellow disciples, staring awkwardly at the floor.

He rubbed his prayer beads without thinking.

[This is bad. I feel like I am about to break my vows.]

“Monk Bu Yan, there is a lecher here. Hurry and catch him and beat him up! No, that is too easy on him. You might as well just send him on right now, so he will not harm any more women!” Long Fei Fei shouted.

Long Fei Fei’s whole body was wrapped tightly in bandages, leaving only her eyes exposed.

Just from those eyes, which were full of anger, one could see how furious she was right now.

Bu Yan looked at Bu You, asking with his eyes.

Bu You gave a bitter smile.

He also did not quite understand what was going on.

It was clear that Fang Cheng Lang of the Five Elements Dao Sect knew Long Fei Fei and cared deeply about her, but Long Fei Fei treated him like a total stranger and even felt strong disgust because of his sudden behavior.

Bu You was not good at dealing with love problems between men and women, so he could only ask his Junior Brother for help.

After looking around the room, Bu Yan did not ask questions right away. He first greeted the three people from the Five Elements Dao Sect.

Cui Jue and Su Ming responded to the greeting at once, as if they had been pardoned. When they saw Fang Cheng Lang standing there in a daze, they reached out to tug on his sleeve.

Fang Cheng Lang almost got pulled over before he finally came back to his senses a little.

He raised his sleeve to wipe away the tear marks from the corners of his eyes and forced a small smile: “Monk Bu Yan, pardon my rudeness.”

Bu Yan carefully looked Fang Cheng Lang over.

He saw that Fang Cheng Lang’s eyes were clear and only a little red from crying. He looked a bit worn, but not like someone whose mind had broken, so Bu Yan had a basic idea in his heart.

“Senior Brother Fang, do you know Long Fei Fei?” he asked.

Long Fei Fei said unhappily, “Monk Bu Yan, whose side are you on? Why are you speaking for him!”

Bu Yan ignored her and quietly watched Fang Cheng Lang.

Fang Cheng Lang was silent for a long time before he shook his head and said, “We have never met.”

Long Fei Fei jumped angrily and said, “See, I told you I did not know him! He is just trying to take advantage of me!”

“Then why does Senior Brother Fang know Long Fei Fei’s name?” Bu Yan asked.

At that, both Long Fei Fei and Fang Cheng Lang went silent.

Long Fei Fei had a very good memory. She could remember anyone she had met even once.

For example, she had recognized the priest Zhu Qing of the Heavenfire Divine Sect at a glance.

She was sure she had never seen Fang Cheng Lang before.

But the strange thing was that not many people in the Cultivation World could call her by name. After all, her master could not be known openly, and she would never go around telling others her own name.

So where had Fang Cheng Lang learned her name?

And how could he still recognize her at a glance when she was wrapped up like a rice dumpling?

The more Long Fei Fei thought about it, the more chills she felt.

[Could it be that someone had already set their eyes on me long ago?]

Cui Jue and Su Ming were secretly anxious.

After they had gotten back their memories from the last life, they naturally knew the story between Long Fei Fei and their First Senior Brother. The two of them had loved each other, but because of all kinds of misunderstandings, they had never ended up together.

Long Fei Fei’s death had become a pain that First Senior Brother could never let go of.

After First Senior Brother regained his past life memories, he had never mentioned Long Fei Fei again. Cui Jue and Su Ming knew it was because he did not want to drag her into it anymore.

But no one had thought that Long Fei Fei would suddenly appear again, and in such a badly injured state at that. It had stirred up First Senior Brother’s memories, and the feelings he had buried for so long had burst out completely. That was why he had lost control and cried without stopping.

The problem now was that they knew the truth, but the others did not.

Especially Long Fei Fei herself, who did not know anything about it. They had no doubt that if she could move freely, First Senior Brother would at least get slapped twice.