Chang Geng gently refused: "Back then at the Marquis' Manor, I had asked my instructor: when you were young, you had practiced swordsmanship and martial arts here in this manor as well. How were you able to become so powerful?

"The instructor told me, solid skills mainly depend on how much effort one is willing to put in training. But to become powerful, it was mainly because one had gone through many life and death encounters on the battlefield. Who taught them was not of importance."

Gu Yun's smile disappeared.

Chang Geng: "Yifu, I have thought about it carefully, I still wish to go out and see the world."

Gu Yun frowned: "Is the heaven and earth of the capital and the heaven and earth of the frontiers not the same? What more do you want to see, Great Liang isn't enough for you anymore? Do you want to swim to the Western countries as well?"

This pair of father and son were about to fight again - the Black Eagle soldier stood quietly at the back, not daring to make any sound - the towering killer of the sky held onto his long sword, pretending to be a pile of charcoal that someone forgot to clean up.

Chang Geng didn't say anything. He just looked deeply into Gu Yun's eyes. For a moment, he wished to vomit out everything he had suppressed in his heart all along, but decided against it - he tried to imagine all the possible ways Gu Yun could react, feeling that he would not be able to handle it.

Gu Yun: "You don't have to say anything. I don't want to know where these thoughts of yours came from. Tomorrow, tell that monk to get off, you will be going back to the capital. If you don't want to go to the Northwest, stay home, no need to go anywhere anymore!"

Chang Geng wanted to scream out loud: "The manor is not my home."

But as these words reached his lips, he had already bitten them in half and swallowed them down. He was instinctively afraid his words would hurt Gu Yun's heart — although he did not know if Gu Yun even had a heart to feel hurt.

"Yifu," Chang Geng said quietly. "This time, I have troubled you to travel here from far away in the Northwest, I truly feel very saddened, but if you don't want to talk reasonably, I can only act at will. I have run away once; I can run away for the second time. You can't keep watch over me forever, the manor's guards won't be able to hold me back."

Gu Yun was furious. His heart had always gone out to the manor. No matter how much he despised the idea of returning to the capital, as he thought about how he was finally able to go home, he had always looked forward to it greatly.