“Are you okay?!” Yu QingTang recovered from his shock and subconsciously reached to help her up. MiaoYin Xian grabbed his hand: “Don’t be reckless. You’re no match.”
Yu QingTang hadn’t planned to be reckless either.
He was even exclaiming quietly, sure enough, MiaoYin Xian was worthy of the position of female lead. She was indeed much stronger than him. Despite carrying so many debuffs, she wasn’t sent flying almost a mile away like he’s supposed to.
“Oh right.” Head finally in gear, Yu QingTang stuffed the Dragon Heron Zither into her arms: “Play this, this is very powerful!”
Startled, MiaoYin Xian said: “This is…… The Dragon Heron Zither?”
Now it was Yu QingTang’s turn to be surprised: “You recognize it?”
MiaoYin Xian’s eyes flashed briefly: “Shifu told me, once the Heavenly Music Sect had a flute and a zither, both top-tier spirit weapons that possessed humanlike characteristics. However, there was upheaval within the sect later on, and a certain elder took the Dragon Heron Zither and left the sect, losing knowledge of its whereabouts henceforth.”
Yu QingTang opened his mouth slightly. So they were really from the same family 800 years ago.
“But now is not the time to talk about this.” MiaoYin Xian held his hand with a solemn expression: “With the Dragon Heron Zither, perhaps we can give it a try.”
“Try what……” Yu QingTang wasn’t able to keep up with the tempo.
MiaoYin Xian, however, already grabbed him by the shoulder and threw him upwards: “Enter the Orchestral Array, activate!”
Yu QingTang, who was forced to join the battlefield: “…Wait, this zither is not intimate with me and won’t listen to me!”
Seeing Wu TianLong’s sandbag-sized flaming fist about to strike him right in the face, Wu TianJiao shouted in alarm: “Big bro, don’t aim for her face!”
Yu QingTang: “……”
You’re such a good person, wow.
Turning a deaf ear, Wu TianLong basically had no intentions of showing mercy to the fairer sex and attacked without holding back his punches the slightest.
“Careful!”
Ye ChenYan had been moving about nimbly, not clashing head on with the opponent’s overflowing spirit energy. However, for Yu QingTang’s sake, he had no choice but to withstand this hit forcibly right now.
The two people clashed and separated. Wu TianLong remained completely unaffected. Slowly and leisurely flexing his wrist, he sneered as he watched Ye ChenYan back up two steps, the arm that caught the attack just now scorched black.
Despite knowing that this only counted as a minor injury in Long AoTian’s power up journey, seeing it in person still made Yu QingTang aghast at the shocking sight.
Gritting his teeth, Yu QingTang set the zither properly. If he was going to be sent flying a mile away, then let him be sent flying a mile away. This was the second time already! This Wu TianLong guy has been aiming for his face every time. Only picking soft persimmons to squeeze, was he?!
Even clay figures possess some degrees of fire. Before he’s sent flying today, he must give this flaming muscle man a disembodied flick to the forehead!
Slender fingers glided across the strings of the zither, a resounding and murderous aura appeared suddenly. Corresponding perfectly with the counterattack of Ye ChenYan’s spear, which shot straight at Wu TianLong’s forehead with a sharp lethal air, it actually made Yu QingTang feel invincible and unparalleled for an instant.
Wu TianLong subconsciously took a step back. However, he became furious immediately afterwards and insisted on intercepting this spear head on.
The two exchanged blows, both taking two steps back respectively. However, amongst the cultivators maintaining the array behind Wu TianLong’s back, two coughed up blood and collapsed.
Ye ChenYan looked at his own palm in shock, then subconsciously turned his head to look at Yu QingTang.
Eyes lowered and demure, the hems of his garments fluttering elegantly, the white-clothed zither cultivator looked like an otherworldly being— As Daoist XianHe once said, Yu QingTang was only a bottle of silencing potion away from being a peerless beauty.
Occasionally when serious, that face of his actually looked pretty convincing.
We’re sorry for MTLers or people who like using reading mode, but our translations keep getting stolen by aggregators so we’re going to bring back the copy protection. If you need to MTL please retype the gibberish parts.
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Ye ChenYan turned a deaf ear. Carrying some hints of viciousness, he wiped away the fresh blood on the corner of his mouth and scoffed, pulling out the spear: “Taking advantage of his status to bully others?”
He abruptly picked up the spear and threw it. The tip of the spear skimmed Wu TianJiao’s scalp and pinned into the tree trunk behind him. We TianJiao, who was just planning to call reinforcements secretly, let out a shriek and collapsed onto the ground, a jade medallion rolling onto the ground.
At this moment, Yu QingTang opened his eyes shakily— His mind had gone completely blank just now, practically finishing the song based on muscle memory, but it looked like he had performed much better than normal.
But, why didn’t he get sent flying?
Yu QingTang didn’t have time to consider too much. The corner of his mouth twitching, he pressed down on his aching DanTian— Kidney deficiency, this always occurred after an overexertion.
Vision going dark, he spat out a mouthful of fresh blood and then fell back, not seeing the scene of the Dragon Heron Zither shining excitedly as it absorbed his blood and recognized him as its master.
“QingTang!”
MiaoYin Xian and Ye ChenYan practically reached for him at the same time. In the end, Ye ChenYan was one step faster and caught him in the air with a princess embrace.
He subconsciously examined the Dragon Heron Zither— Previously, its brilliance was subdued, so it looked like a regular low-tier spirit weapon. Only when it showed off its ability a second ago, did it display an unnatural strength.
After absorbing blood and recognizing its new owner, the Dragon Heron Zither dove straight into Yu QingTang’s storage ring.
Finally, Ye ChenYan withdrew his gaze and put away his pensive expression.
MiaoYin Xian rushed over swiftly and carefully examined his injury. She released a breath of relief: “It’s alright, just an overexertion of spirit energy.”
She shook her head exasperatedly: “No wonder QingTang wanted me to play the zither. A top-tier spiritual weapon might have formidable strength, but the consumption is also staggering.”
“This Dragon Heron Zither has been suppressed by numerous restrictive wards. Most likely, an elder in his sect placed them out of fear that he might not be able to handle it.”
MiaoYin Xian looked up at Ye ChenYan, a light twinkling in her eyes: “I think, she had activated it forcibly with her spirit energy, without any regard for her safety, out of desperation to save you……”
Ye ChenYan lowered his head and looked down at him—
At this moment, Yu QingTang’s eyes were tightly shut, and his complexion was white as paper. The fresh blood on the corner of his mouth looked especially piercing. He appeared extremely pitiful.
The light in Ye ChenYan’s eyes flashed as he carefully used his sleeve to wipe away the blood on the corner of Yu QingTang’s mouth. He whispered in a low voice: “I understand.”
Sending off the rescued female cultivators, only Ye ChenYan and the still unconscious Yu QingTang remained on the spirit boat.
Observing the other with a hand propped under his chin, Ye ChenYan picked up the fan pendant, dangled it in front of Yu QingTang’s face, and waved it, looking at him pensively.
“You did it on purpose.” He stared at Yu QingTang’s face, thinking about who knows what, then he squeezed the fan pendant: “Or maybe not.”
“Tsk.” He glanced at the burns on his arm and reached out to squeeze Yu QingTang’s nose: “Why aren’t you waking up yet? If you don’t wake up soon, my injury will heal already.”
Yu QingTang’s eyelashes trembled.
Ye ChenYan instantly sat upright and proper, pretending to be meditating and adjusting his breathing.
Yu QingTang slowly opened his eyes. He scratched his head sluggishly with a dazed look as if his brain had just restarted.
“You’re awake?” Pretending to have just sensed this, Ye ChenYan opened his eyes and handed him a water pouch: “Take a sip of water first.”
Yu QingTang took a sip obediently before his thoughts recovered slowly. He asked hastily: “Where’s MiaoYin Xian?”
Ye ChenYan narrowed his eyes with a complicated expression and muttered quietly: “Asking about her already immediately after waking up?”
He crossed both arms in front his chest and leaned back: “She returned to her sect. Before leaving, I sent those female cultivators away as well. We have already left the boundaries of the Jin Province. This is the Yun Province.”
“The Yun Province?” Yu QingTang opened his eyes wide in shock: “She left? What about the zither?”
“Zither?” Ye ChenYan pointed at his storage ring: “It returned home on its own.”
Yu QingTang subconsciously pulled out the zither and then opened his eyes in astonishment: “……Is this my zither? Why is it so shiny?”
Ye ChenYan couldn’t help but release a muffled laugh: “Originally, its brilliance was subdued, I didn’t even recognize it as a top-tier spirit weapon.”
“Now that it has recognized you as Master, and absorbed your essential blood, it……”
“Wait a second!” Yu QingTang recognized the crux here and turned his head somewhat stiffly: “It recognized who?”
“You, of course.” Ye ChenYan raised an eyebrow: “Did you forget? Before you fell unconscious, you vomited blood.”
He pointed at the zither: “Sprayed it all over the zither.”
Yu QingTang felt like his recently awakened brain stopped being very coherent again.
Oh no, it’s all over.
Can’t return to the Jin Province anymore. MiaoYin Xian had flown away. The Dragon Heron Zither had gone blind. He needed to board the pirate ship to the Qing Province.
Ye ChenYan purposely held out his injured hand in front of Yu QingTang’s eyes and waved it: “What’s the matter?”
Unsurprisingly, Yu QingTang noticed his injury: “Your hand……”
“It’s fine.” Ye ChenYan withdrew it with a grin: “A minor wound, will be better soon.”
“Just look.” He circulated his spirit energy and urged the injury to heal rapidly. The black charred scabs fell off piece by piece, revealing the perfectly intact skin underneath.
“Wow—” Yu QingTang applauded praisingly: “Just like a Beggar’s Chicken.”
Ye ChenYan’s smile stiffened as he turned his head slowly to look at Yu QingTang.
Yu QingTang covered his mouth and corrected himself immediately: “Cough, I mean, what an impressive body-strengthening technique.”
Propping his chin up with a complicated expression, Ye ChenYan sighed and handed him a piece of gold paper.
Yu QingTang hesitantly accepted: “What’s this?”
Ye ChenYan said in a sour tone: “Your Miao. Yin. Xian. gave it to you. She said it’s a mental cultivation technique, as a thank you gift.”
Yu QingTang looked down. There was a zither tune written on the golden paper, The Song of Self-Inquiry.
—Supposedly when Ye ChenYan ascended to the next cultivation level in the original novel, this was the song that MiaoYin Xian played for him.
Yu QingTang’s expression became complicated.
From this point of view at least, it seems like this world was still doing its best to pile everything Long AoTian required in the future onto him.
But looking at it now, the priority of the harem has been placed behind miraculous encounters that enhanced strength. In other words, MiaoYin Xian can be dropped by the butterfly effect, but the buff that she provided to Ye ChenYan’s power up didn’t.
Yu QingTang narrowed his eyes. He had no choice but to admit that this world had a strong sense of professionalism and was pretty devoted to its job.
It’s just that, because he had randomly stuck his foot in, MiaoYin Xian lost a top-tier spirit weapon for no reason, which was a bit unfortunate for her.
Yet on second thought, she no longer needed to join the Long AoTian’s harem, which seemed…… not particularly unfortunate for her?
Yu QingTang pondered with a hand propped under his chin, for a second, not knowing if he had screwed her over or not.
Ye ChenYan glanced at him twice before clearing his throat and asking: “What are you thinking?”
Yu QingTang answered subconsciously: “MiaoYin Xian.”
“Oh—” Ye ChenYan raised an eyebrow: “You like her?”
“Ah?” Yu QingTang jolted in alarm.
“Feeling like close friends at first sight?” Ye ChenYan moved in purposely: “Meeting a bosom friend amidst high mountains and running waters, don’t you zither cultivators all love this trope, right?”
Yu QingTang was somewhat dumbfounded, then he remembered immediately afterwards— It’s true. In the original novel, Ye ChenYan seemed to have gotten jealous of harem interactions before.
Yu QingTang’s expression changed somewhat. You brat, how are you jealous over everything?
Sighing, he decided to continue this lie for the sake of his character setting.
He expressed sincerely: “I like men.”
Eyes widening abruptly, Ye ChenYan sat upright reflexively: “Ah?”
Yu QingTang felt it was somewhat strange: “Why are you surprised?”
“No, no.” Ye ChenYan looked away: “I’m saying, hey, aren’t you cultivating the Emotionless Path?”
“That’s right.” Yu QingTang said confidently, with conviction: “But didn’t you say, I have to transition from having emotions to being emotionless?”
The two people stared at each other, big eyes meeting small eyes, brooding at the same time over their mistakes.
Right at this time, there was a clap of thunder in the sky. Yu QingTang jumped in fright and subconsciously raised the zither up above to cover his head.
— Don’t tell him, the heavenly lightning was coming to strike him for telling too many lies!
Ye ChenYan abruptly withdrew his gaze: “Ahem, it’s about to rain. Let’s find a place to take shelter first.”
The Author has something to say:
Ye ChenYan: I’m not a straight guy.
Yu QingTang: I like men.
The Heavenly Principles thunders to express, got it.
As usual funny 😀
Thank you for the update
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haha … so much funThanks ☺
Lol the heavenly principles approve 😂 the novel is hell bent on making qingtang the heroine and it’s proving to work lolol
Even Heavens agree on this relationship xD
Thank You for the new chapter ♡(ӦｖӦ｡)
‘Ye ChenYan said in a sour tone: “Your Miao. Yin. Xian gave it to you. ‘
I think MiaoYin Xian got her name messed up a bit. Thanks a lot for translating this chapter!
Ahh, no. He’s saying her name with a pause after every syllable because he’s chugging vinegar 🤣🤣🤣
thaaaank you for translation, I’m looking forward to every Sunday now 💜
I LOVE THEM SO MUCH AND THEIR INTERACTIONSS!! ty for the chapter translation!
Omg now he’s done it! Hilarious. Thanks for the update
i really hope it’ll stay this fun to read lol
He so jelly and then blue screened over mc saying he likes men.
Reason being he realizes that mc is a gay man. And that he might be gay for mc.
I love this story.