Jiang Donghua walked hurriedly through the Jia Nan Academy Outer Court solemn buildings and went straight to the dean's tower, which symbolized the highest power.
He took a deep breath, calmed down his somewhat anxious mood, and raised his hand to gently knock on the heavy wooden door.
"Boom, boom, boom."
The knocking on the door was particularly clear in the quiet corridor.
Almost at the moment when the knock on the door fell, a strong and somewhat easy-going voice came from inside the door.
"Come in."
Jiang Donghua pushed the door open and entered.
The layout of the dean's office is simple and elegant. Dean Lei Tian is sitting behind a large desk, seemingly reading a book.
He looked up and saw that the person coming was Jiang Donghua. A smile appeared on his serious face and he put down the book in his hand.
"Oh? It's Dong Hua."
Lei Tian Dean's tone was quite gentle.
"The champion who shined so brilliantly in the Outer Court competition, how come you have time to come to me today? What's the matter?"
His attitude is very cordial, and he obviously values Jiang Donghua, the rising star of the academy.
Jiang Donghua didn't exchange too many greetings. He took a step forward, bowed respectfully, and then went straight to the topic.
"Dean Lei Tian, this junior has taken the liberty to come here because I want to ask you about some past events about my teacher, Elder Mo Xuan."
"Mo Xuan?"
As soon as he heard this name, the smile on Dean Lei Tian's face instantly faded a little, and an extremely complicated look flashed in his eyes. There was nostalgia, regret, and even a trace of guilt?
He subconsciously tapped the table with his fingers and leaned back slightly, his whole person showing obvious embarrassment and embarrassment.
Jiang Donghua's heart immediately sank! There's something wrong!
This old guy really knows the inside story!
Judging from this reaction, he probably knows a lot!
Lei Tian Dean pondered for a moment, seeming to organize his words. Finally, he sighed and his tone became solemn.
"Dong Hua! There are some things. It's not that I don't tell you, nor that I don't want to help you as a teacher. It's just that I am Dean of the Outer Court of the Jia Nan Academy. My position is to first consider the stability and interests of the college."
"Many things are very involved, and it is not convenient for the academy to intervene directly. Boy, don't blame me for not helping your master!"
What he said was a bit haphazard, as if he was trying to clear up the relationship in advance, or he was explaining his difficulties.
Jiang Donghua immediately heard the implication and said quickly.
"Dean, you have misunderstood. This junior does not want to ask the college to do anything for the teacher. The teacher has already gone to Central Plains alone. His decision is powerless and cannot be stopped by the disciples."
"The junior came here today just to learn about the teacher's past experiences, what kind of existence Netherworld Sect is, and what the teacher is carrying. As a disciple, if you don't even know the master's enemies and the source of pain, the disciple will be really uneasy!"
His tone was sincere and firm, and he looked at Lei Tian with burning eyes.
Lei Tian Dean had a look of extreme astonishment on his face when he heard this, as if he had heard something incredible.
He leaned forward and asked in disbelief, his voice rising slightly.
"Your master, he didn't tell you? He didn't tell you anything and just left like that?!"
Lei Tian The shock on Dean's face gradually turned into a feeling of deep helplessness and heaviness.
He leaned back in his chair and tapped his fingers on the table unconsciously, making a dull clicking sound, as if he was experiencing a fierce inner struggle.
After a long time, he let out a long sigh, looked at Jiang Donghua with complicated eyes, and slowly shook his head.
"Since your master chose not to tell you and left with all this alone, I can't even tell you. He has his own considerations, and he has his own reasons for not wanting you to get involved."
He looked at the eagerness and unwillingness that instantly surged on Jiang Donghua's face. His eyes were very much like Mo Xuan's when he learned the bad news, stubborn and painful, but with a stubbornness that refused to let go.
Lei Tian's heart seemed to have been stabbed, and he sighed heavily again, his tone softening, with a helpless compromise.
"Oh~ What a stubborn donkey! Taking on a disciple is also a little stubborn donkey!"
He seemed to be scolding Mo Xuan, and also seemed to be talking about Jiang Donghua.
"That's all!"
Lei Tian waved his hand to dispel the heaviness in the air, stared at Jiang Donghua sharply, and spoke in an unprecedented serious tone.
"Before I tell you, you have to make a promise to me!"
"After listening, you must calm down! Don't get too excited and think about running to Central Plains right now! That's not a place where you go to die! Promise me!"
"Student, I promise you! I will never rely on force or act rashly!"
Jiang Donghua immediately nodded heavily with a firm voice.
All he wants now is to know the truth.
Lei Tian Dean looked at him deeply, as if to confirm whether his promise was sincere.
There was a brief silence in the office, with only the faint sound of wind coming from the window.
The old man's eyes became distant and painful, and the memories penetrated time and space, returning to the unbearable past decades ago.
When he spoke, his voice was low and hoarse, and every word seemed to be squeezed out from under a heavy boulder.
"That's a real Blood Sea Deep Grudge."
"Decades ago, your teacher Mo Xuan and his childhood sweetheart Ning Ling were both extremely outstanding students of the Jia Nan Academy Inner Academy. They were extremely talented and had a deep relationship. They were a pair that everyone in the academy envied."
"After graduation, they traveled together to hone their skills. Once, they went to the Northern Region of the Central Continent to practice but unfortunately, they were targeted by a core figure in that damn Netherworld Sect."
Lei Tian's voice became extremely cold here, even carrying a hint of irrepressible anger.
"That devil took a fancy to that girl Ning Ling's special physique and cultivation, so he actually forcibly kidnapped her and used her as a Cultivation Cauldron who practices evil arts!"
Cultivation Cauldron, he almost said it through gritted teeth, full of endless hatred.
Jiang Donghua Hearing this, his heart shrank suddenly, and a chill ran down his spine. He had already foreseen the extremely cruel ending.
Lei Tian Dean closed his eyes, the muscles on his face twitched, as if he couldn't bear to recall the next scene, and his voice was trembling.
"By the time your master finally found the clues after going through all kinds of hardships and tried his best to find the place, it was already too late."
"What he found was already a withered corpse that had been drained of its origin and vitality!"
The air in the office seemed to have solidified and was so heavy that it was suffocating.
Lei Tian opened his eyes, filled with endless heartache for his old friend.
"At that time, your master was just a little Third-grade Alchemist, and his cultivation level was even more insignificant. He didn't even have the qualifications to fight against that behemoth, the demon who killed his beloved."
"He could only take the body of Ning Ling, like a bereaved dog, and fled back to Black Corner Region, back to the Jia Nan Academy, and closed himself up. He turned all the pain and hatred into the motivation for training and refining medicine, and improved himself almost masochistically until now, breaking through Dou Emperor and achieving Sixth-grade Alchemist."
"He felt that he finally had the minimum qualifications to touch that hatred."
The truth is like the coldest blade, cruelly cutting open the past, exposing the blood and hatred that had been buried for decades nakedly in front of Jiang Donghua.
He finally understood where the deep-seated hatred in the teacher's eyes came from, and where the determination to die came from.
It was not a momentary conflict, it was the love of my life taken away, decades of wasted time, and pain gnawing at me day and night.