Peace Order

Nan Hanwen had prepared fine wine and delicacies; when he came over, he happened to see this scene and heard their final exchange, so he said regretfully, "Leaving already... Stargazing School."

Nan Hanwen stroked his beard, slightly puzzled, then muttered to himself:

"Come to think of it."

"For some reason, Mr. Po Jun doesn’t seem inclined to watch Your Majesty and Miss Yaoguang’s grand wedding, so he calculated the time in advance and also returned to his sect?"

"It seems... it was also this Stargazing School?"

............

The next day, Shaking Light and Li Guanyi arrived at a secluded place and found the location of the Stargazing School. The silver-haired girl used a secret technique to open the starlight that had originally shrouded the school’s hidden grounds.

The Stargazing Magic was like two parted waterfalls, and beneath the waterfalls the buildings were ancient and simple.

They were built along the mountain’s contours and the flow of water.

There was naturally a faint taste of being three parts removed from the mortal world.

Li Guanyi also met Shaking Light’s master and master’s wife. Her teacher was a middle-aged man who looked somewhat stern and was not tall, while her master’s wife was a gentle woman. Seeing Shaking Light return, the two were only slightly surprised.

Her master’s wife, Chu Wenxuan, stepped forward a few paces, took hold of Shaking Light’s arm, her expression intimate and delighted, saying she had gotten thinner yet again, and that in all this long time, aside from a few brief letters reporting her safety, she hadn’t thought to come back.

Her teacher’s eyes were faintly stirred, but his face remained solemn; he did not reveal too many emotions, only saying, "It’s good you’re back, it’s good you’re back."

Li Guanyi was just about to speak when he heard Shaking Light’s teacher say:

"If you can no longer stay over there with Emperor Qin, then just come back."

"My Stargazing School has endured for a thousand years; you are the contemporary inheritor. The world is vast—where can you not go?"

Li Guanyi: "Huh???"

The Fire Qilin, which had turned into a cat on his shoulder, widened its eyes even more.

Hm??? Can’t stay with Emperor Qin anymore?!

When did that happen?

It suspiciously looked at Li Guanyi, then at the silver-haired girl over there, then turned back to look at Li Guanyi again, its eyes filled with question marks.

Li Guanyi returned a look, indicating: Don’t look at me, I don’t know either.

Just as the two of them were silently communicating in secret—

At this moment, that middle-aged man also said to Li Guanyi, "Many thanks, young hero, for escorting my disciple back. I am Yu Yanming, currently an instructor of Shaking Light’s line within the Stargazing School. May I ask how to address you, young hero?"

Li Guanyi cupped his fists in salute and said, "I am a man of Jiangzhou, a disciple of the Academy’s Taoist, Pharmacist Li." Then he produced the Taoist Dudie Elder Zu had given him. Yu Yanming’s expression softened as he said, "So you are an outstanding disciple of the Taoist; no wonder you are such a fine-looking youth."

"Please come in. Though my Stargazing Lineage has long dwelt outside the dust of the world, we still understand the way of hospitality. Our sect still has good wine, and we are not lacking in chicken or pork. Taoist, please."

"Sir, after you."

Out of the corner of his eye, Li Guanyi saw Shaking Light speaking softly with her master’s wife, and felt at ease. This unsmiling middle-aged man ordered the other disciples to gather wine and meat and prepare a family banquet. After three rounds of wine, Li Guanyi was naturally fine, but Yu Yanming, being a Magician and lacking the robust physique of a Martial Artist, was already somewhat drunk.

Taking advantage of this drunkenness, Li Guanyi casually asked, "Sir, you said Shaking Light could no longer stay with Emperor Qin—what do you mean by that?"

"From what I know, Miss Yaoguang and Emperor Qin, hmm... met when they were thirteen or fourteen. It’s been over ten years now; they’ve gone through many trials of life and death together. Why would you say such a thing?!"

Yu Yanming let out a long sigh, grumbled for quite a while. This old-fashioned Magician who had once told Shaking Light that the heroes of the world were simply those who killed the most people in the world only said:

"Emperor Qin, hmph, Emperor Qin... is actually not that bad..."

His master’s wife had just come over to pour wine; seeing him grumble for so long only to say this, she rolled her eyes and said, "Still talking like that. Usually, aren’t you always muttering to yourself that through the ages, it’s rare to see something like today’s White Tiger Sect, which has gathered the two lines of the Stargazing Lineage and also opened up a Ye?!"

"What’s with you now?"

"Yet you say such things in front of these young people, putting on the airs of an old stick-in-the-mud and not even feeling ashamed."

Rebuked twice, Yu Yanming looked a bit tongue-tied and embarrassed, saying, "Th-this is another matter altogether."

Seeing Li Guanyi looking over, Yu Yanming could only act as though nothing had happened and said, "Still, I’ll tell you the truth. It was good—very good, in fact. But the heir of the Breaking Army line is different from Shaking Light. They often write back, and lately they’ve gotten even more smug."

It seemed that bringing this up made Yu Yanming quite disgruntled.

He put the cup in his hand down on the table and said, unwilling to accept it, "In the latest letter, he claimed that the Breaking Army line has completely surpassed our Shaking Light line, saying—"

"『From this day forth, Breaking Army’s line has won a great victory; Shaking Light is no longer the Lord’s strategist, no longer.』And so on."

"That old man from the Breaking Army line came over several times with his disciple, beaming with pride."

"He even left the letter with me just to make me mad!"

Li Guanyi was stunned.

"A letter?"

Yu Yanming glanced at him, drunkenly, and said, "Yeah, loads of them, all written by that kid of the current Breaking Army. Who knows how many over the past ten-odd years—a thick stack. His teacher and grandmaster carried them all over in a bundle."

"Do you want to read them?"

Li Guanyi’s expression turned odd. "I see no reason not to..."

At the same time.

A certain strategist with purple eyes once again arrived here, bringing his grandmaster and master with him.

After today, the Breaking Army line has completely surpassed you, Shaking Light’s line!

Back to first place on the Stargazing Lineage’s strategist ranking!

The genius strategist’s lips curled; with a sweep of his sleeves, he stepped in unhurriedly, his gaze tinged with arrogance, the corners of his mouth lifted, as he saw the main hall of the Stargazing School, saw the gentle woman over there, saw the White one squatting beside her stroking a cat, and then...

Hm?? Wait a second?!!

White?!!