Chapter 5: Tactful Refusal— XianZi, you can just use me as a stepping stone!
“The situation has already reached this point.” Pushing on his back, Da-Shijie sent him down the mountains: “Not going out would seem somewhat rude.”
“If you keep dallying, what if Ye ChenYan fights his way inside!”
With a disgruntled face, Yu QingTang scooted towards the gate. All the sect members stood in a row not far behind him, looking at him with their necks extended.
Yu QingTang pivoted: “How about we……”
“Slow down!” Da-Shijie said with a stern face: “You have to turn slowly!”
Movements stiffening, Yu QingTang slowly turned back around: “……Forget it.”
The view of his back inexplicably carried a certain anguish only seen in the chilly howls of winds and cold, bleak waters.
—These people from his sect, were each unreliable in their own unique ways; he already knew this.
However, after spending so much time together, they more or less developed some family-esque feelings. Not to mention……
They originally didn’t need to get involved in anything to do with Long AoTian.
Inside the novel <<The Young Ruler of Gods: Unifying the Cultivation World>>, he was the only character to appear from the BieHe Sect.
And perhaps it’s precisely this reason that— just like how fish that never see each other in the deep oceans grow freely, background characters in the story plot that never appear and were only used to fill the world, also grew freely in places unseen by the plot.
Yu QingTang sighed sullenly and turned back to take a glance at them.
Even though they were unreliable in their own unique ways, Yu QingTang still preferred watching them grow and develop freely in the wild, unrestricted by the story plot.
Taking a deep breath, he straightened his clothes and carried the zither on his back, gaze gradually become determined— For the sake of this group of unlucky fools, he needed to finish his script as soon as possible and break free from the plot, then continue his salted fish yet happy cultivation life!
Wasn’t it just tactfully refusing the Proud Dragon Son of Heaven? He’s fine, he can do it!
Yu QingTang finally started walking forward slowly.
The small boy guarding the mountain gates ran down ahead of him: “Xiao-Shijie, I’m going down first to give him some mental preparations!”
“I feel like I’m the one who’s more in need of that mental prep.” Yu QingTang mumbled quietly, but still nodded.
The small boy ran super fast and shouted at the top of his lungs: “Xiao-Shijie is here!”
Ye ChenYan turned around: “Finally……”
“Ah—” The small boy reached the mountain gate first. Taking a closer look, he let out a scream and fell on his butt in front of the gate.
Looking up through the mountain gate, Ye ChenYan could vaguely see a figure in green. Before he could scrutinize carefully, however, the small boy reached out and grabbed the corner of his clothes, dragging himself back up with his support: “You, you…… killed the Green Demon Monkey!”
Only then did Ye ChenYan look down and raise an eyebrow in amusement: “Why are you so frightened?”
He suddenly considered a not-so-great possibility. For a second, his expression turned unnatural. Clearing his throat, he asked somewhat guiltily: “This monkey wasn’t raised by your sect, right? It was the one who provoked me first.”
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The small boy gathered his courage to take a closer look at the horribly mangled Green Demon Monkey. He couldn’t help but raise his head and ask: “You killed this by yourself? In such a short while?”
“En.” Ye ChenYan looked confused: “Isn’t this just a rank 7 ferocious beast? Not to mention, the type known for its cunning deceit, not anything particularly strong.”
“It’s already been harassing our sect for many months!” The small boy strangely felt somewhat aggrieved and attempted to let him know how terrifying this ferocious beast was: “It kept on entering our kitchen, repeatedly causing trouble, and almost kidnapped our Shijie! Shifu was almost at his wits’ end, wanting to activate the Great Mountain Defense Array!”
“That aggressive and rampant?” Ye ChenYan muttered: “The Green Demon Monkey only has a habit of stealing things, nevertheless…… You guys really couldn’t do anything about it?”
“Now that’s not the case.” The small boy puffed up his chest and held his head high. With a certain pride, he pointed behind him at Yu QingTang, who had finally walked closer: “Xiao-Shi…Jie’s Song of Tranquility is very powerful. Everytime she played it, it could pacify this ferocious beast’s fury.”
Ye ChenYan didn’t seem to have heard him.
Eyes widening slightly, he stared at Yu QingTang’s face, almost as if he had forgotten how to breathe.
A gust of wind blew, rustling the leaves of the mountain forest. For an instant, it seemed as if he had been transported back to the back mountains of WanXian Pavilion, back to when the peach blossoms fell gently to the ground, where he caught the glimpse that lasted 10 thousand years.
“It’s…it’s really you?” Ye ChenYan actually looked somewhat nervous. Finally, he remembered to wipe off the blood on spear in panic.
Yu QingTang kept in mind his “cold and pristine’ character setting. Even though his face had turned pale in fright over the Green Demon Monkey, who had died so horrifically that its face should be censored with mosaic, he still resisted the urge to hug the other’s big thighs and chicken out.
But the script that he had memorized masterfully a second ago to snap off this peach blossom, he really didn’t dare to say it right now.
Otherwise, he suspected that in a while, the person laying there in place of the Green Demon Money, would be himself.
Perhaps because his gaze was too overly ardent, Ye ChenYan finally reacted and moved away his foot abruptly, wiping it on the ground in an inconspicuous manner that only made matters worse.
Yu QingTang: “……”
“Cough.” Ye ChenYan gave him a somewhat embarrassed smile.
Following the principle of ‘being unable to strike a person who has already smiled apologetically for their mistake’, Yu QingTang decided to give him some words of praise first: “The ferocious beast has wreaked havoc and harassed the sect. Many thanks for lending a hand in assistance.”
“Ah, no need to thank me.” Ye ChenYan waved his hands immediately: “It attacked me first, I only struck back. It was just self-defense. Not to mention……”
He looked around, gaze sweeping over several places that looked like normal focal points of an array: “This mountain array can gather the power of nature. If it truly activated, it would surely have no trouble in dealing with this Green Demon Monkey.”
The Ye ChenYan at this time has already begun to display his demeanor as the “Young Ruler of Gods”. At the peak of his energy and vigor, with a sharpness that cannot be concealed, his every gesture and movement were filled with an extraordinary air.
Practically writing “This one is no ordinary person” right on his face. Other than being especially great at attracting peach blossoms, he’s also especially in need of a proper beating.
Yu QingTang laughed dryly twice. The small boy popped out from behind Ye ChenYan and pointed at the corners of his mouth to warn him. Yu QingTang immediately pressed the corners of his mouth back down and did his best to look a bit smarter.
Actually, Ye ChenYan wasn’t wrong. Their BieHe Sect’s Great Mountain Defense Array would have had no trouble in dealing with a mere monkey. However, every monster that Long AoTian defeats in his early stage is beneficial in some ways for him.
The stray strand of hair that falls off this monkey’s head could also be considered an important magic item in his early stage. It had a certain likelihood of automatically stealing small-sized magic items nearby.
—-Since it had such a convenient setting, the things it stole were naturally all nice stuff.
If possible, it’s best to not touch things that belonged to the Proud Dragon Son of Heaven.
Afraid his Master might snap and take action, Yu QingTang even dissuaded them several times previously, just to leave this monkey for Long AoTian.
He has no idea how the plot had managed to reasonably make the BieHe Sect endure it for several months, but in any case, he did his best.
He secretly took a glance. This monkey did indeed have a very shiny strand of hair on top of its head. Looks like Long AoTian didn’t pluck it yet.
Yu QingTang had dazed off for a somewhat long time. Long AoTian looked up at him prudently and called out: “XianZi?”
The small boy mediated aptly: “My Xiao-Shijie is naturally taciturn and quiet.”
“Oh.” Ye ChenYan looked at him eagerly and cleared his throat: “XianZi, I came this time because there’s something I’d like to ask you.”
Here it comes!
With a tremble in his heart, Yu QingTang clenched his fists tightly. He just needed to say his words of rejection!
Ye ChenYan took a deep breath: “The Qing Province’s Golden Core Competition is summoning all of the world’s heroes. I… I want to invite XianZi to travel there together with me. I don’t know if XianZi can, uhh……”
It seemed as if he rarely said such genteel and cultured words. Stumbling several times in one sentence, he glanced up at Yu QingTang with a red flushed face, pure and innocent.
“I don’t…… En?” Yu QingTang spoke halfway before finally responding appropriately, eye widening: “Golden Core Competition?”
The small boy was also shocked: “What? You didn’t come to propose?”
Good question!
My future Xiao-Shidi, my substitute speaker for the moment!
Yu QingTang glanced at the small boy gratefully. Ye ChenYan rubbed his nose bashfully: “I…… Naturally, I had fallen in love with XianZi at first sight, but proposing immediately upon arrival is a bit too presumptuous. It’d seem as if my GuiYi Sect is bullying you with our power and influence.”
Yu QingTang: “……”
So you’re aware of this as well!
Ye ChenYan blushed to himself: “But that’s what you said back then, so, I still wanted to let you know……”
“I didn’t forget.”
He suddenly took a step forward and reached for Yu QingTang’s ear. A small delicate earring dropped down from his fingertips and swayed gently, a faint light flashing fleetingly.
Eyes glimmering with light, Ye ChenYan bent down and whispered in his ear: “It really is you.”
Yu QingTang’s gaze landed on the earring in his hand, expression dumbfounded— So he had dropped his earring back then?
No wait!
He suddenly recalled the details of what happened back then. Ye ChenYan had picked up the peach blossom petal on his head, then his hand moved down to the right and brushed past the rim of his right ear……
He had swiped that!
Yu QingTang narrowed his eyes. You brat, those little hands are really not very clean, so good at taking advantage of a crisis for personal gain!
Ye ChenYan looked over. Yu QingTang immediately shifted his gaze.
He didn’t have any evidence.
Even if he did, he didn’t dare to mention it.
“I asked my Master to calculate for me in advance.” Ye ChenYan snuck glances at him: “You should also be a Golden Core right now.”
Yu QingTang: “……”
His gaze flitted about faintly: “Your Master, what else did he predict?”
Ye ChenYan smiled sheepishly: “Your sect, location, cultivation level, and single status. Then I searched the cultivation sect’s directory……”
Yu QingTang: “…….”
So it turns out, there’s no privacy in the cultivation world.
He did his best to move the corners of his mouth: “That’s amazing.”
Since your Master predicted everything, why didn’t he also predict that I’m a man?!
With a dried tongue, he followed the script given to him originally by his Shijie and said: “So, the marriage proposal thing, I… I’m cultivating the Emotionless Path……”
“Ah?” Ye ChenYan was somewhat caught off guard: “The Emotionless Path?”
“Yes.” Yu QingTang took a deep breath and finally spoke his lines: “I… cannot forsake my sect, so I can only forsake thee.”
“Since it’s the Emotionless path……” The light in Ye ChenYan’s eyes dimmed for an instant, which actually seemed somewhat unbearable to watch.
Yu QingTang was just about to comfort him slightly when he suddenly heard the other say: “Then you have to transition from having Emotions to being Emotionless.”
He looked up and said devotedly: “XianZi, you can just use me as a stepping stone. I’m willing.”
Yu QingTang: “!”
Is this how you cultivate the Emotionless Path? He had no idea!
“Since XianZi is dedicated to cultivation, then there’s more reason for you to not miss the Golden Core Competition.” Eyes forlorn, Ye ChenYan forced himself to perk up and suggested: “How about traveling with me.”
Seeing Yu QingTang not answering immediately, he looked even more dejected: “Or does XianZi not even want to travel together with me?”
The Author has something to say:
Yu QingTang: Protecting one’s privacy starts with the GuiYi Sect!
His master is a whole hacker
and we were all wondering how did he find him… little thief
He is so smart for being child stealing girl thing in board day light aaaahhhhh he should be punished 😜
Omg I love the emotionless path setting, with and without rebirth/transmigration and wether it’s a lie or not I’m screeching 🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️
Tysm for all the hard work 🙇🏻♀️🙇🏻♀️🙇🏻♀️🙇🏻♀️
Wow, it really went weird way 😂
Thank You for the new chapter (ฅ’ω’ฅ)♥
I wonder how long it takes until he finds out that YQT is actually male… or maybe does his master know that there is something wrong with ‘her’?
Thank you for the chapter! ❤
Bro got doxxed before the invention of the steam engine, let alone the internet ☠️
I have a feeling gong knew that shou is male from the get go lol
The master must be a spy from his previous life 😂
HAHAHHA lmao what kind of master does he have? 🤣