2181 He’s the black robed man!(Chapter preview)

Looking at the person in front of her eyes, Sima You Yue was not the least bit surprised.

"Aren't you the least bit surprised to see me?" Emperor Qing Dao had both hands crossed behind his back as he appraised her.

"Emperor!" Sima You Yue bowed to Emperor Qing Dao. Although it was just a soul, based on their initial relationship, she still had to pay her respects.

"It looks like you have already seen the other souls." Emperor Qing Dao said confidently.

"I met a divine sense in the Heavenly Pavilion, and another one in the fake mausoleum. Another time when I sensed it, I met you, Old Man." Sima You Yue said.

"Hahaha-" Emperor Qing Dao guffawed when he heard her call him an old man, "I am obviously very young. Why do you call me an old man?"

"It's already been more than a few hundreds of thousands of years. If you're not an old man, then what are you?" Sima You Yue asked.

"Hundreds of thousands… So much time has already passed!" Emperor Qing Dao suddenly appeared in front of her. Then, before she managed to react, a ray of light surrounded her.

Sima You Yue never thought that Emperor Qing Dao would harm her, so she was not on guard at all. She was shocked for a moment, but she was not too worried.

Very quickly, Emperor Qing Dao returned to his original position and sighed, "So there have been so many changes in the outside world."

Sima You Yue now knew that he had been searching through her memories earlier on.

"Emperor…"

Couldn't he have told her beforehand? He gave her quite a scare!

"Haha. It's not like you're a cowardly person." Emperor Qind Dao's voice was velvety. It made her think of the phrase: Just hearing it would get you pregnant.

"That doesn't warrant such a sudden act!" Sima You Yue rolled her eyes.

"You have the maps of a few other mausoleums. Why didn't you go there?" Emperor Qing Dao asked.

"Some things happened, then I never had the time." Sima You Yue wanted to say that he had already taken a look into her memory, so how could he not have known that she just woke up!

"You forgot about them." Emperor Qing Dao said.

"Cough cough." Sima You Yue rubbed her nose sheepishly. She did forget about them.

Ever since she woke up, all she could think about was the issue with the black robed men. She didn't pay attention to Emperor Qing Dao at all. Even when she came here, she did not even think about the fact that Emperor Qing Dao had already given her a map. Otherwise, she would have found out that this place was marked out on the map, and was also the largest area on the map.

"You're worried about the situation with the black robed men." Emperor Qing Dao could guess what she was thinking.

"Yes." Sima You Yue admitted it. Especially about the unscrupulous things they were doing in broad daylight. It might even have something to do with her. When she thought of this, she felt like it was her fault. Especially with what Little Helper said. It filled her mind with this.

"You're not only worried, you're also afraid." Emperor Qing Dao easily saw through the deepest parts of her heart.

Sima You Yue did not deny it.

The more she cared about it, the more worried she became. Of course, that gave birth to terror.

However, she had never thought about this before. She had also never admitted to the terror in her heart.

"You're not only frightened. You're also scared." Emperor Qing Dao continued.

Sima You Yue fell into deeper contemplation.

"You're afraid of this situation happening, and you're also afraid that it will implicate the people you care about. Am I right?" Emperor Qing Dao did not enjoy the monologue and would not let her keep from responding.

However, Sima You Yue felt like all of her thoughts had been exposed by him. It was as if her final loincloth had been torn away.

However, it's not like these things would stop existing if she stopped thinking about it.

She sighed, "You are right. I am worried and afraid. That is why I didn't go with them when they went to investigate."

"Why are you afraid?"

"I don't know. I feel like something bad will happen. If I investigate, I will find out about things that I do not wish to know about." Sima You Yue said.

"No, you know it. That is why you do not think about it." Emperor Qing Dao said, "You're afraid that things will turn out like how you think they will."

Sima You Yue fell into deeper contemplation. A long time passed before she finally nodded, "Yes."

"Tell me about it?" Emperor Qing Dao felt a little gossipy.

Sima You Yue felt three black lines on the back of her head. However, she hadn't seen Wu Lingyu ever since she woke up and was unable to speak to someone about how she felt. After she spoke to him, he would be gone once he dissipated and it would not have any impact. There would be no lasting repercussions.

"It's about a friend of mine." She said, "Ever since he was born, he had a very powerful energy in him. In order to keep him alive, his clan members sealed that energy away. Because of that, he has not been able to walk for a few hundreds of years. He has never been able to see either."

"What happened next?"

"Later on, I treated his eyes and disability. However, I realised that his seal had been loosened."

"Because of your treatment?" Since that situation arose because of the seal, since she managed to treat it, it was natural to think that it was a result of her doing.

"No." Sima You Yue shook her head, "That seal had a time limit. Perhaps it was because of their strength that they were able to seal it for such a long time. However, this is what I'm worried about."

"Oh?"

"That friend of mine is from the hidden sects. His strength is extraordinary. It's something that even they have no way against, which makes it a force to be reckoned with." Sima You Yue said, "If that thing breaks through the seal, my friend… I don't know what will happen to him."

"You think that… the seal is already useless." Emperor Qing Dao said.

"I can't be certain, but the last time I saw him, based on how he spoke and the things he did, it was too strange." Sima You Yue thought of how Xuan Qiu He was acting back then and got a shock when she compared him to how he was like before.

What did he mean when he said that she had to remember him when he was gone? Did he mean that she would never see him again?

No matter how she thought it, she felt like there was a possibility that the seal was going to break. Or maybe… it had already been broken.

"Do you feel like he has anything to do with the black robed men?" Emperor Qing Dao asked.

She wondered whether it was because this was his illusion or because she had obtained some of his inheritance, but Sima You Yue felt like he could see into her heart and her thoughts.

She fell silent and Emperor Qing Dao did not pressure her. It was as he was waiting for her to pour out her emotions. She didn't say anything and he wasn't anxious either.

Actually, it had always been this way. Even if she told him things, there was nothing he would do. Of course he had no need to be anxious and he wasn't curious either.

As if she had just fought an internal better, she told him her deepest, darkest secret, "Ten years prior, when I was in a deep sleep, my disciple came to visit me. He was captured from the stone room where I lay in. At that time, I felt like the fight was strange. My disciple was worried for my safety, so that was understandable. However, that black-robed man seemed to hold back as well. It was as if he was worried that their battle would harm me."

"You think that he's that person?"

"I didn't recognise it back then. I merely thought that his silhouette was rather familiar. However, their auras were too different as well. Thinking about it now, he was that black robed man!"