Chapter 154: A Proper Goodbye
Chapter 154: A Proper Goodbye
Over the last 3 months, Ning had taken small time out of his free time to write the different knowledge that was in his mind. He had spared no effort during the last time he taught her, but she was too amateur to be handed everything at once.
That would just overwhelm her. So instead he had only passed along the basics. Of course, the basic alone was more advanced than anything the people in the pure cleansing sect could’ve learned.
Anya happily took the book and flipped through it. Her eyes turned wide when she saw new knowledge she wasn’t aware of previously.
“Woah, thank you, Master,” she said.
Ning felt happy seeing her face. ‘Maybe I really like being a teacher,’ he thought. He spent a bit longer with Anya and returned back to the Blue Dragon sect.
He wanted to break through just once more, so he seriously cultivated for the remaining 2 months. During this period, his time was separated into 4 parts.
Dealing with the disciple’s injury along with the new doctor, Training new techniques, going to meet Anya from time to time, and Cultivating.
Cultivation took the majority of the time.
Unfortunately, even by the end of the two months period, he couldn’t breakthrough. He knew it was impossible, but he was still hoping to be able to do so.
He went to visit Anya one last time and said his goodbye. Learning that this was perhaps the final time she was going to see Ning, she cried a lot.
Ning got a little teary-eyed as well. He never really got to say goodbye to anyone before. His parents died before he could say goodbye, the orphanage kids left without notice, and he himself died with no one to say goodbye to.
After reincarnating, he had met Freya, who he couldn’t say goodbye to either. And then there were the Klavi people. He cared for the entire village and he couldn’t say goodbye to any of them.
This was the first time he could properly say his goodbyes, and that made him nearly cry. “It’s okay. I will come to check up on you when I ever have that ability,” Ning said.
“But— But you will be so far away. Can you really come to visit me?” Anya asked.
Ning smiled a little and said, “It may be impossible for others, but not for me. Once I am stronger, I can come to visit you in a snap of a finger.”
“Really?” Anya was a little skeptical.
“Of course. So just continue cultivating and learning the books I gave you. Take care of your father and brother. I will see you later. Goodbye,” Ning said and patted her on her head one last time before leaving.
Anya started crying harder, but Ning didn’t turn around. He knew if he did, he wouldn’t be able to leave. He kept on walking and left the sect grounds of the Red Tiger sect.
He returned to the Blue Dragon sect and rested for the day. He didn’t bother treating people, or training, or cultivating. He simply rested for the day and woke up the next day.
A knock came on his door. He opened the door and saw a disciple.
“It’s time to leave senior,” he said. Ning nodded. It was time to leave for the Triennial Tournament. He packed everything that he could and left.
There were 6 Blue Dragon sect disciples staying around with a few elders and Ning met them. Once they were all there, including the sect leader, they left.
They started walking to the northern part of the island, towards the right ear, and met with the people from the Red Tiger sect who were already there.
There was a boat waiting for them and they got on it.
“Ah, good to see you, doctor Ning. I hope you can bring glory to the Deepskull island,” Gion said with a big smile.
“I will try my best, sect leader,” Ning said and started looking at the ocean again. No matter how many times he saw the ocean, it was still very unfamiliar to him.
“How long will it take us to reach the Hub island?” Ning asked.
“Oh, it’s quite a long way from here. We have to pass a few islands along the way, so about a day and a few hours. You should just go and do something to pass your time,” Gion said.
“I will do that later. Thank you for telling me,” Ning said. He talked with Gion for a bit longer and went to the deck to watch the ocean.
He socialized with a few other disciples that were there. However, he could never talk to them as a peer due to his status as a doctor. That made him feel a little isolated.
He looked at the ocean and the massive expanse that it was.
‘I see, so this is the speed we will move on huh? No wonder we will reach Hub island in just a little over a day. The ship is so fast,’ Ning thought as he looked through the map on his head.
The hub island was about 2000 kilometers away from Deepskull island. Normally, it would’ve taken a lot of time to reach there on a boat, but given how fast the boat was, it was going to be much less time.
Ning felt the boat with his palm and thought, “is this boat a spirit artifact s well?”. There was no other reason why it would be so fast.
After spending a few hours on the deck, he went to his room inside the ship and started cultivating. The Qi was quite sparse in the ocean, so cultivation didn’t help a lot.
However, he was body cultivating and tempering his mental strength as well, so he continued it.
He left his room from time to time to go outside and see the different islands that he would pass by, but most of the time he just spent holed up in his room.
Finally, he felt the ship slowing down after a day. He walked out onto the deck and saw an island not far away. They had finally reached Hub island.