Chapter 552: Variables 3

Chapter 552 Chapter 551: Variables 3 (1/3)

Dream Dao Attainment, Opening Scheme Against Cultivators

Dream-Making Expert

Dawn had arrived, and the sky was about to brighten.

Within Lin Qi’s palace, candlelight curled around the beams.

White steam gurgled from the Red Clay Small Stove, the lingering warmth of the charcoal evaporating the last of the soup in the pot.

Lin Qi shook the wine pot in his hand and laughed. “Second Brother, can you drink one more cup?”

Daoist Juntian immediately rose, deftly took the wine pot, and filled Lin Qi’s cup once more.

Then he poured himself a cup, and without another word, drank it down boldly. “Big Brother, I’ll finish first as a toast.”

“Second Brother truly has a fine capacity for wine.”

Lin Qi raised his cup, but did not drink again, speaking with a trace of drunkenness.

“Second Brother, we’ve been drinking for three days and three nights. Be honest with Big Brother.”

“Did you calculate long ago that I would come?”

“You can’t lie to Big Brother, you know.”

Daoist Juntian’s face was red as a monkey’s rear, his breath thick with wine.

“I would not dare deceive you, Brother.”

“This little brother did indeed once have some skill in divination.”

“Before the Sky Abyss Cataclysm occurred, I had already calculated it.”

“Unfortunately, man’s plans cannot match heaven’s.”

“This little brother has always been an outsider in the Great Cosmos of Tianyuan. Though I calculated the Sky Abyss Cataclysm, in the end I still could not escape disaster.”

“Fortunately, this little brother once had some ability, and left a contingency in my old home.”

“Of course, the original intent was definitely not to drag you down, Brother.”

“It was just a precaution.”

“Heh, who would have thought that what was originally just a precaution would in the end become this little brother’s thread of survival in a dead end.”

Daoist Juntian’s expression suddenly turned lively.

“The reason I chose to abandon everything after the Sky Abyss Cataclysm, leaving behind this crippled body…”

“Was because I thought of that contingency I had left behind.”

“In the first ten thousand years after the Sky Abyss Cataclysm, I thought that no matter who came, as long as they could help me escape my current predicament…”

“Then I would not only let bygones be bygones, but also give them all the benefits I had accumulated, in thanks for saving my life.”

“But no one came, and I suffered for a full ten thousand years.”

“So by the second ten thousand years, I decided that even if someone came to save me…”

“I would at most let bygones be bygones, but other benefits could not possibly be given.”

“Then came the third ten thousand years.”

“Thirty thousand years!”

“Do you know how I spent these thirty thousand years?”

“A full thirty thousand years of the Five Signs of Decay, enduring every kind of humiliation.”