Chapter 1232: A Great Romantic Beyond Reach
As they walked through the mountains, wind stirred the pines into roaring waves. If one heard swords and halberds ringing, birds beyond the cliff flew toward birds above, and clouds rose from within clouds.
The black-clothed little girl had made her way to the cliffside on her mountain patrol, followed by two hangers-on: Chief Zhou and Great Sword Immortal Mi.
Once seated, Little Millet began handing out melon seeds. Even without anyone saying a word, no one found the atmosphere awkward.
Cracking melon seeds, Chen Ping'an suddenly asked a strange question. "Would Jiang Shangzhen of the past, upon becoming Chief Zhou of today, feel great regret?"
The peak master of Jade Guizong's Jiuyi Peak; Thief Jiang of Northern Juluzhou; Zhou Fei of Chun Chao Palace in Lotus Flower Blessed Land; the Jiang Clan head who had slaughtered without restraint in Cloud Cave Blessed Land; Sect Master Jiang of True Realm Sect at Book Scroll Lake, before whom even rogue cultivator Old Man Liu Cheng had not dared harbor the slightest disloyalty; Jiang Shangzhen, whose chair had been thrown inside Shenzhuan Peak's Patriarch Hall.
For Jiang Shangzhen to adapt to and integrate into Luopo Mountain was equivalent to accommodating Luopo Mountain. It meant Jiang Shangzhen was no longer the Jiang Shangzhen he used to be. The most troublesome part was that Luopo Mountain had no shortage of clever people. If Jiang Shangzhen were merely pretending, if he were one person within Luopo Mountain and another outside it, then it would again amount to a union in appearance but separation at heart, a relationship doomed not to last. Therefore, Jiang Shangzhen, who had always "cultivated and conducted himself as he pleased, never forced into a choice," seemed to have no choice but to pick one