Super Invincible Immortal Doctor -
Chapter 1228: Tianyuan and Thirty-three
Chapter 1228: Chapter 1228: Tianyuan and Thirty-three
"So, Grandpa, you came when the world needed you, and now that they don’t, you’re just going to walk away in desolation?"
Su Linyuan chuckled and then retorted, "What else should I do? Create havoc and plunge the recently stabilized Xia Country back into turmoil? Or should I just overthrow the current regime?"
A barrage of questions left Su Chengyu somewhat dazed, but he soon clenched his fists tightly, "If it really was the Zhao Family wanting to discard us after we’ve outlived our usefulness, they should at least pay the rightful price!"
Su Linyuan listened to Su Chengyu’s response with a smile and said nothing. Su Chengyu blinked and asked, "Why? Grandpa, do you think I shouldn’t think like this?"
Su Linyuan shook his head and said softly, "Your father once asked me a similar question, and his answer was different from mine and from yours as well. The same situation can have different answers for different people, which is normal, but remember what you promised me before."
Su Chengyu frowned and pouted, "But Grandpa, you haven’t told me anything."
Su Linyuan gave him a look, "What else do you want to know? Isn’t one Yang Chengyin enough for you to handle? You’re already so bold with just a Nascent Soul, what if you really entered the Hollow Vacuum? Wouldn’t you be smashing Land Immortals with a flip of your hand?"
Facing Su Linyuan’s joking words, Su Chengyu’s gloomy mood finally eased a bit. He sighed deeply and said, "Grandpa, you’ve lived in seclusion in Lin Jiang for so many years. Doesn’t it really hurt?"
Su Linyuan’s gaze drifted into the distance, as if reminiscing about those times. After a while, he spoke softly.
"Occasionally there is some pain, after all, it was my own disciple who betrayed me. But more than feeling upset, what perplexes me most are their motives."
Su Chengyu began to understand, "With Grandpa’s temperament, anyone who just talked to you directly, you would leave the Capital City and the court, right?"
Su Linyuan nodded, "I never served for the sake of wealth and power. I joined Grand Ancestor in battle with the shared goal of revitalizing Xia Country. That we were able to create the Xia Country of today was something that just came with the flow."
A Land Immortal who was willing to sever Heaven’s Gate, how could he covet such power and status?
That was what he could not understand the most. If they wanted him gone, why go to such lengths? It could have been settled in just a few words.
"Maybe they were afraid."
Su Chengyu’s sudden remark drew a puzzled look from Su Linyuan.
"Afraid? Explain."
Being asked by his own Grandfather for the first time made Su Chengyu a bit nervous, but facing Su Linyuan’s gaze, he had no choice but to speak his mind.
"Grandpa might have stood on the mountain’s summit for too long, not understanding the thoughts of those below. Faced with someone whose strength is far beyond their estimated measurement, even if there’s a ninety percent chance they won’t act, the people below must prepare for the worst-case scenario, or even... choose outright to avoid it. After all, they can’t afford to lose."
"Perhaps you’re right," Su Linyuan mused for a while before remarking with a sigh, then looked at Su Chengyu with some relief and continued, "I never thought there would come a day when I would learn a lesson from you. Yu Er, you’ve truly grown up."
"Grandpa..."
At these words, Su Chengyu’s eyes began to redden slightly; he could sense that Su Linyuan’s words had an air of finality to them.
Su Linyuan smiled and extended his hand, patting Su Chengyu’s head just like he had in the old days, "Your father hasn’t been seen since my incident. At my behest, he chose to stay away, and I know how hard that has been on him."
"Father probably wants to demand justice for Grandpa more than I do."
"Yes, but his nature is too carefree. It was the same with his dealings with Qing Luo. If he’d handled that matter more carefully, it wouldn’t have escalated to what it became in the end. That’s why, deep down, I also don’t want him to know too much."
Su Linyuan had no doubt that if Su Zhedian knew everything, he would go straight to Yang Chengyin without any hesitation to demand an explanation.
And if Xia Country’s stability was at stake, Su Zhedian would not hesitate to take action against the Zhao Family, potentially plunging the entire Xia Country into chaos again—something Su Linyuan least wanted to see.
After all, that was the realm he had established with his own hands.
"Yu Er, if you ever see your father, apologize to him for me, I was too restrictive with him."
Su Chengyu blinked and nodded, "I’m sure Father will not blame Grandfather."
"He’d dare!"
Su Linyuan suddenly burst into laughter, then remembering something, said, "Right, Yu Er, if you do see your father, don’t dwell too much on the fact that he left you alone all these years. For one thing, it’s my fault, as he really didn’t want to stay in this place, and secondly... venturing into the outer realms is also a very important matter."
"Is Father really in the outer realms?"
Su Linyuan nodded his head, then his gaze shifted towards the mountain below, "Before, I wasn’t fully certain about this, but when I saw that child, I became completely sure of where your father is now. I can’t guarantee he’s still alive, but although he’s a bit rash, he’s probably not so easy to die."
Su Chengyu took a deep breath and nodded heavily, looking at Su Linyuan who seemed to be settling his final affairs, and tried to speak several times but then closed his mouth again.
"Yu Er, do you play chess?"
Suddenly Su Linyuan spoke up, which caught Su Chengyu by surprise, then he nodded.
"I know a little."
"Let’s then play a game of chess, our last game as grandfather and grandson."
As he spoke, Su Linyuan flicked his sleeve, and a delicate chessboard immediately appeared on the stone table in the pavilion.
Su Linyuan unceremoniously sat at the position of the black pieces, placing the first piece on the central point.
Su Chengyu took a deep breath and sat opposite him, slowly placing a white piece onto a star-point position.
As the two continued to place their pieces, the Spiritual Energy in the Thousand-Mile Mountain and River Map began to stir rapidly, with the entire realm’s Spiritual Energy seemingly drawn towards the peak of the mountain.
Yu Yanshu, who was cultivating the Daoism Method at the base of the mountain, furrowed her brows at this scene, and beside her, Bai Huang, oblivious to what was happening, was somewhat panicked, "Senior Sister, what’s going on?"
"The Spiritual Energy of this Small Opening is converging toward the summit. At this rate... this Small Opening will likely collapse directly."
"Won’t our Master be in danger, then?"
Bai Huang asked instinctively.
Yu Yanshu, equally concerned about the situation, couldn’t bother with caution and straightaway released the shackles from her eyes, and her Primordial Eye looked towards the summit.
Under the power of the Primordial Eye, she saw the two engaged in their game, and with each move they made, the realm’s Spiritual Energy was drawn in and entirely poured into Su Chengyu, who had entered the Realm of Selflessness.
Watching Su Chengyu, whose body was now completely saturated with Spiritual Energy, Su Linyuan, who had been placing pieces rapidly, finally slowed down, holding the last piece in hand and softly said, "It seems we can only play up to here."
With those words, Su Linyuan’s final piece landed on a three-three point.
Beginning with the central point, ending at three-three.
Su Chengyu played chess, while Su Linyuan gambled his entire life.
And now, he had bestowed it all to Su Chengyu.
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