Chapter 0400 – Lost Confidant – Absolute Returns

The Palace Master Hall of the North Sea Ice Palace was located at the top of a tall tower.

The tower, like a huge icicle, stuck straight up into the sky and was full of mystery.

Standing at the entrance of the Palace Main Hall, Cold Snow suddenly remembered the words that Jian Wuji had said:

-I, for one, value the reasons of my friends above the interests of the sect.

She asked Coldmoon, her beloved, who was standing behind her:

“Do you have a reason too?”

Leng Meng asked with a bewildered look on his face:

“What reason?”

“I mean, do you have any, any reason that I need to understand?”

He didn’t understand at all why Coldsnow was asking this question.

“No.”

He replied briefly. Without saying anything else, Cold Snow turned around and walked into the main palace hall.

Leng Meng looked at her back, his heart filled with doubt. He had never thought that Cold Snow would ask him such a question.

”Young Palace Master, could it be that I’ve done something wrong and need your understanding?”

Cold Snow walked up the ice ladder and up the high tower. Everything here, built with ice, was crystal clear and beautiful. The sunlight shone through the windows, refracting colorful rays, like a dream.

But her mood at the moment was incredibly heavy.

”That’s normal, between superior and subordinate, why should they understand each other? Even between parents and children, they can’t understand each other.’

Her mother, at the top of the tower, was waiting for her.

Ice Palace Palace Master, Cold Shujing.

She was an iron lady whose heart, it was said, was made of ice.

It was said that she was the one with the highest and strongest martial arts among the recent generations of Ice Palace Palace Masters. Of course, she had never shown her face in the jianghu, so no one knew just how strong she was.

The power of the Ice Palace was reflected in this mysterious and unpredictable.

“Palace Master.”

To her, Cold Shujing, was not her mother, but her Palace Master.

She had been brought up this way, her mother, who had never given her a warm hug. Every time she took a step closer to her mother, her mother would take two steps back. She had been raised as a young palace master from a young age, and her mother, to her, had only harsh discipline.

If it wasn’t for the fact that they looked so much alike, she would have even wondered if she was her real daughter.

The distance between them was less than five steps, but it was as if there was an insurmountable chasm between them. They stood at opposite ends of the chasm, staring at each other.

“The person who kidnapped the Second Prince of the Northern Blood Sect is indeed someone from the Demon Sect.”

Cold Snow reported an important piece of news, but Cold Shujing, however, remained unchanged.

“It was his men, who took the liberty, and the young preceptor, who seemed to want to harbor him.”

Cold Shujing asked for the reason with her eyes, but Cold Snow, however, was unable to answer. Because, she also did not understand why Jian Wuji was doing this.

“He seems to value that henchman.”

Cold Shujing said calmly:

“Even if we give it more importance, we can’t let the Second Prince of the Northern Blood Sect, die in their hands.”

The Northern Blood Sect, had asked for help from the Ice Palace, and her mother, too, had agreed to their request.

Cold Snow didn’t know what kind of agreement had been made between her mother, and the Northern Blood Sect Sect Master.

“I’ve told the Young Prelate to hand over his men.”

“If he really valued that henchman that much, would he hand him over so easily?”

“I guess not.”

The look in Cold Shujing’s eyes seemed to say, You should know, what to do.

Cold Snow, sighed in her heart. She had lived under such pressure since she was a child.

Her mother, who always let her find her own answers, believed that it was the only way to make her stronger. She was like a, never-ending machine that could never go wrong.

‘Mother, you are wrong.’

She had hoped that her mother, could give her a warm embrace, so that she could find a touch of solace in the cruel reality. She had hoped that on this lonely road, her mother, could welcome her with open arms.

But now, she no longer wished for that.

“I’ll figure it out.”

She bowed respectfully and turned around, ready to leave. At that moment, she suddenly remembered something else.

“By the way, the Young Sect Master and the Drunken Demon, who came to the North Sea, are here for the Dean of the Hundred Wine and Snow Courtyard.”

“Drunken Devil, what was the reaction to her death?”

“He didn’t seem to believe that she had committed suicide.”

“The Drunken Demon, shouldn’t leave so easily.”

Cold Shujing knew what kind of relationship the Drunken Demon had with the head of the Hundred Wine and Snow Courtyard.

“I’ll leave you then.”

Cold Snow saluted once again before turning to leave. Although she was the daughter of Cold Shujing, she was just like those subordinates, towards Cold Shujing, there was only awe and no affection.

They don’t seem to care about that.

“Young Palace Master,”

Cold Shujing suddenly called out to her. Cold Snow turned around.

“The Young Sect Master, is not an ordinary person, he is the one who facilitated the joining of the three paths of righteousness and evil. Don’t underestimate him.”

When her mother, spoke in that tone, it meant that the matter, was very important.

Although Cold Snow, had yet to feel the power of Jian Wuji, she still replied respectfully:

“I know.”

Cold Shujing watched Cold Snow’s back, disappearing at the end of the ice stairs.

Drunken Devil and I, standing on a snow-covered snowfield.

After a while, the drunken devil suddenly said:

“This is the place, where she first confessed her love for me.”

That was a long time ago, back then, he wasn’t a Demon Lord, he was still young.

“Why did you turn her down?”

The drunken devil looked at me and said:

“At that time, my whole mind was on the wine.”

“What do you mean?”

“My competitors, they’re all obsessed with wine. And I ……”

“You don’t like wine as much as they do.”

Drunken Devil nodded.

That’s when I realized that the Drunken Devil, as it turns out, didn’t start out liking alcohol.

Yes, life, it is always full of accidents. A kind person may turn out to be a killer, and a person who is afraid of swords may become a swordsman.

And, they will quickly adapt to their new identities.

“You are, now, enjoying your drink.”

The drunken devil laughed and said:

“More than a favorite, it’s my life.”

I laughed too.

“You’re the way you are because of her, aren’t you?”

“Yes, at first, we just corresponded with each other and talked about things about wine. She told me about the wines she made, and I told her about the wines I’d had, and we had great conversations.”

I could sense that she was a confidant to the drunken demon.

“The reason why I became a Demon Sovereign, the reason why my martial arts have been accomplished, is all because of her. She has been kind to me, but I’m just now coming to see her. I am truly an asshole.”

That’s what made the Drunken Devil angry; he’d lost his soulmate, and, he’d never be able to make up for his transgressions again.

Life, that is.

I was going to comfort him, but I knew that he didn’t, right now, need comforting.

“You’re such an asshole!”

Drunken Devil nodded.

“That’s right, I’m an asshole.”

As if in response to his self-condemnation, the sky, began to drift snow. In the Central Plains, it was already spring, while here, it was still snowy.

The drunken devil looked up at the sky and shouted:

“I’m an asshole!”

His voice, echoing across the snowy plains.