Chapter 29: Mu Chen lifted his leg and gave Gu Yunjue a kick on the bottom, scolding: “Such a lech!”
writer:黑猫睨睨      update:2022-08-10 14:39
  Then, regardless of what Chen Mo thought, Mu Chen drew his attention back to the catalogue again. Having browsing all the items listed in the catalogue, Mu Chen threw his eyes onto Gu Yunjue, who, upon getting that, came close to his Master immediately.

  Looking at his Master pointing at some items on the catalogue with his slender forefinger, Gu Yunjue hastily nodded.

  The items Little Master pointed at just now, he wanted them all.

  Noticing that Mu Chen looked calm, Chen Mo still ventured after a moment of hesitation: “He is gonna die, so he misses you very much and wants to see you again. Go and see him one last time at your convenience. That’s also why I come here to see you today.”


  Hearing that, Mu Chen’s body froze instantly and he gave no response even when Chen Mo walked out of the room. Gradually, his eyebrows knitted together and a flicker of bitterness unwittingly rippled across his eyes, when a cool candy was put into his mouth and melted in a minute with fruity aroma extending in his mouth. Mu Chen turned to look at his little disciple, only to see Gu Yunjue reach out and gently rub between his eyebrows, smiling: “No matter where you go, I will accompany you and never leave you alone.”


  Staring in silence at the little disciple whom he personally brought up, Mu Chen suddenly lifted up his hand and patted Gu Yunjue on the forehead, looking relieved a lot, “You little one!”


  Sensing his Master in a better mood, Gu Yunjue then put one more candy into the other’s mouth. When his finger touched the faint lips of Mu Chen, Gu Yunjue’s eyes deepened and then he smilingly licked candy pomace on his hand, complimenting: “The candy Master bought is really the sweetest.”


  Mu Chen pulled out a handkerchief and cleaned his disciple’s hands with an expressionless face.

  Licking hand at such an age! Isn’t it dirty?

  After a little while, the auction started.

  Then, a girl who seemed like 17 or 18, presided over the auction. She just entered the foundation establishment stage but even with a weak cultivation base, she still looked exceedingly beautiful. She wore a red gorgeous long dress that accentuated her hot and shapely body completely, and smiles had never been taken off her face. When she opened her mouth and spoke, a lure was brought out with her ringing voice that rippled across everyone’s heart, “Your respected immortals, today we have prepared thirty good items. As men of great wits and tastes, I believe, you won’t miss any chance to obtain what you want today. Then a notice shall be mentioned that the last item today is the demonic beast at its Golden Core stage —— Nine-tailed Fox.”


  When she stopped, everyone started to whisper to each other. Although their discussion wouldn’t reach the room where Mu Chen was, he still could hear clearly what they were talking because of his strong spiritual sense. Most of them were discussing how shockingly the price to buy the Nine-tailed Fox would be hyped, but still many young people showed their interests in the attractive and seductive host. Tilting his head toward his disciple, Mu Chen found the latter looking out and immediately Mu Chen changed into an unpleasant look.

  ‘Such a big screen before you is not enough for you! You even cling to the door and peek into the outer hall. When did you become so shallow?’


  Sensing the killing intent surrounding him, Gu Yunjue turned his head back in surprise and then noticed Mu Chen’s vexed look. A doubt occurred to him.

  Who made Little Master angry again?

  “Humph!” Mu Chen hummed and thought, ‘I should thank God to see Gu Yunjue finally become a good boy after a long-time discipline from me. But if he covets the beauty and becomes a lech, then I will hit him to death so that he won’t do harm to others.’


  Gu Yunjue was greatly stunned by his Little Master’s attitude.

  Master became furious because of me?

  Gu Yunjue thought it again and again.

  ‘What on earth have I done that irritated Master?’


  However, nothing was figured out. So Gu Yunjue felt a little bit curious and then look out again.

  He had sensed a hint of demonic air just now.

  Noticing that Gu Yunjue still looked out, Mu Chen lifted his leg and gave Gu Yunjue a kick on his bottom, scolding: “Such a lech!”


  Looking at the footprint on his own bottom, Gu Yunjue didn’t know how to react, and at the same time, he also realized that Mu Chen got him wrong. But Mu Chen’s look showed like he was being jealous, Gu Yunjue was too overjoyed to explain himself, and he even deliberately gave a glance over the girl on the stage as if he didn’t understand what Mu Chen was thinking.

  Mu Chen: “.……”


  The little one really needed a good lesson!

  Every time an item was shown, Gu Yunjue would look out as if he didn’t notice the freezing stare of Mu Chen. Looking at Gu Yunjue, more and more anger accumulated in Mu Chen’s mind and when he finally failed to suppress it, Mu Chen banged the table with a cold face and shouted “One thousand!” soon after someone saying five hundred spiritual stones of second rank, actually he didn’t hear clearly what the item was. A gasp rose up among people and in a minute, everyone fell into silence, even a needle falling could be heard. Room No.1 bid on a double-cultivated furnace in such a domineering manner.

  T/N: double-cultivated furnace here refers to someone with a special property that can improve the cultivation of anyone having sex with him/her.

  Gu Yunjue’s face turned into black, “Master!”


  ‘I overdid it. Master is mad now.’


  Mu Chen gave him a cold glance, thinking, ‘The airs of a strict Master must be put on!’ and he looked peremptory like ‘I must get it. You can try and stop me’ as he thought to himself that this little one shall be punished to kneel down and never expected to get up if he still refused to admit his mistakes.

  After a while, that girl broke the silence with a lovable smile: “One thousand spiritual stones of second rank. Anyone else?”


  The hall was in total silence.

  Five hundred was the highest price for a male furnace. One thousand? No one would try unless the one being sold was his true love.

  At the same time, Mu Chen realized that he might have messed something up and then with his face looking embarrassed, he picked up the teacup which already cooled, his hand trembling.

  In a minute, a waiter sent a Contract to Mu Chen. The Contract was similar to master-servant contract. Once you signed it and paid spiritual stones, the man being sold then belonged to you.

  Mu Chen put on a cold look and wanted to leave right now, but when he saw the comely teenager, a feeling of sympathy stoke him because the teenager seemed like at the same age as his disciple yet he was arrested here to be sold as goods. Then Mu Chen picked up the Contract with a gloomy face, signed it and threw a pocket of spiritual stones over to the waiter, saying in a chill voice: “No need to show the teenager to me. Send him away.”


  “Send…… send him away?” Never heard that someone would refuse the goods after paying for it.

  Watching Mu Chen’s face, Gu Yunjue deliberately shouted: “It is way too brutal to take a man as a tool for cultivation. Master is kind enough to save his life. Then you just follow Master’s words and send him away.”


  Hearing that, the waiter glanced at him in awe, and responded instantly: “As you say!”


  Gu Yunjue said these words in a high voice so that others outside could hear it. It not only cleared his Master’s name, but also warned others not to seize the teenage up soon after they just let him go.

  Looking at Mu Chen, Gu Yunjue’s heart was softened and then he poured a cup of tea for his Master, comforting him: “It’s said that senior brother sold some tea here. It must be the same as what we drink at home. Have a drink and suppress your …… anger.” ‘Shock’ was coming to the tip of his tongue and then he changed into another word because he knew the man before him would definitely be annoyed to give him a sound beating and might also feel embarrassed for several days if he spat that word out. It was too heavy a loss for him to take.

  Mu Chen took the cup, sniffed it and shook his head, “It’s dirty.” Gu Yunjue didn’t understand, and then Mu Chen explained: “What your senior brother sells is inedible, only what he sends us as a gift is clean.”


  Hearing that, Gu Yunjue thought of the scene again that the child cultivators of Qiyang Palace swept the fallen flowers with brooms in their hands and made wine at the back mountain. So, Gu Yunjue took away the cup in Mu Chen’s hand and made tea himself with a set of tea tools and tea leaves from his interspatial ring.

  After drinking the tea, Mu Chen felt easy now and had no desire to bid, looking a little bit bored.

  Knowing Mu Chen being shocked by the accident, Gu Yunjue bought those which Mu Chen had pointed at just now. Behind his expressionless face Mu Chen’s beautiful eyes flashed occasionally as if he was still in the shock. Gu Yunjue put his head in his hands quietly and couldn’t remove his eyes away from his Master. His Master looked quite lovely even though it was just a subtle emotion on his face.

  ‘I have been enchanted by Master, but he still hasn’t realized it. It’s so unfair! Umm……I must find a way to get some compensation.’


  Finally, the last item —— Nine-tailed Fox. Only by then did a flicker of interest glimmer in Mu Chen’s eyes. He still looked cold and sat straightly like an ethereal immortal with his face cold as a frost. But Gu Yunjue didn’t miss the interest in his eyes. Curling his lips, Gu Yunjue thought to himself.

  ‘Little master is so cute. Why not hide him from others in the future?’


  Having no idea about the dangerous thought of his disciple, Mu Chen just focused on the screen. After the introduction, a crashing sound of big chains approached and a cage covered by a black cloth was pushed onto the stage. Noticing everyone being aroused, two waiters took off the black cloth and exposed the demonic beast to everyone.

  A one-meter-long white fox was powerlessly lying in the cage, three tails behind him, arms and legs chained by spirit-sealing lock, as well as a beast-taming loop. No matter how powerful it was before, it had to serve others once it was contracted with human cultivators, its life falling to the hands of its master. Weakly glimpsing at the people under the stage, the white fox looked desperate with a trace of bloodthirsty ferocity hidden in its eyes.

  Sympathy overtook Mu Chen as he looked at the fox. In the previous life, Jing Ming went out to do all kinds of bad things and finally was arrested by someone in the same way, but fortunately, Gu Yunjue rescued him back. No matter what he did to others, Gu Yunjue really cared about everyone in Yanyang Palace. Thinking of that, Mu Chen extended his hand to pat off the footprint on Gu Yunjue’s bottom, constrainedly forgave him and thought to himself, ‘I must educate him in a good manner and help him get rid of the habit of being lecherous .’


  At the very moment, Gu Yunjue grabbed Mu Chen’s wrist and held the fair-skinned hand in his palms, asking with a smile: “Master, why did you touch my bottom?”


  Then, Mu Chen just raised his leg and gave him another kick!

  So moody. Kick or hit, Mu Chen had already gotten used to treating Gu Yunjue in such a manner. Then, Gu Yunjue dodged nimbly behind Mu Chen and put his arms around Mu Chen’s shoulders, gazing at him with smiles. Mu Chen hummed, “Coquetry doesn’t work!”


  Some smiles in his eyes, Gu Yunjue touched slightly the corner of Mu Chen’s forehead with his lips and held him more tightly, “Master, you have spoiled me. So, I can’t get rid of that bad habit even if I want to. So, Master, you’d better take the responsibility for me.”


  Hearing that, Mu Chen raised his hand and flicked the forehead of Gu Yunjue, having no choice but to accept this little one who had been spoiled by him, “You actually learned how to act shamelessly. Did I teach you that?”


  “I learned it by myself.”


  “Of course, you teach yourself how to be shameless.” Now, there were many people bidding for the fox outside. The price soared from one thousand spiritual stones of top rank to five thousands, seeming to increase more. After scolding Gu Yunjue, Mu Chen said: “Ten thousand.”


  His bid silenced all. Then there came a sudden voice of a girl, “Eleven thousand.”


  Gu Yunjue located that speaker by use of his divine sense, his eyes squinted gradually and a faint smile crawling on his face. The demonic air he had sensed came from her.

  Then again, Gu Yunjue sensed a strong killing intent!

  Chapter 30: This Lecher Disciple Should Be Kept Close in Sight or He Would Just Fool Around with Female Cultivators! (1)

  Feeling the murderous air behind his back, Gu Yunjue turned around and saw Mu Chen looking at him sullenly with extremely cold aura sent out from his body. Then Gu Yunjue realized that it wouldn’t be that easy to coax him this time. Now it was Gu Yunjue who didn’t know how to react, but he did know that he had to stop teasing his Master, or else the only one that was going to suffer would be himself.

  “Twenty thousand!” Mu Chen said that coolly. He must have learned this habit of spending money wastefully after getting mad from his Master, Dan Yangzi.

  “Twenty-one thousand!” The girl covered her mouth while chuckling. With a red gauze scarf covering her face, she gave out a very dulcet and seductive laughter. Then she said, “I know you can catch this demon fox without any effort. Why do you have to compete with a little girl like me?”


  Competing with a little girl was surely a shameless thing for those so-called decent guy in the immortal world. As a person who already achieved a high position like Mu Chen, he could simply just ask for anything. There were tons of cultivators who would present him whatever he wanted in exchange for an elixir to remold themselves. However, Mu Chen, caring nothing about what others would look at him, opened his mouth with no mercy, “Forty thousand!”


  The one who offered higher price could get the product, no matter if it was a man or a woman. There were so many people in the immortal world dying in the hands of the female cultivators because of their lust. So Mu Chen would never underestimate anyone, especially a woman. Sometimes when a woman wanted to achieve something, they possessed a more scheming and persevering character than a man. By looking at those female cultivators in the Hongxiu Palace who went out their ways to improve their looks, he knew how persistent they could be.

  Forty thousand of high quality spiritual stones were enough to get a brave hunter to hunt any monster beast in the black market. Even twenty thousand of high quality spiritual stones were way too high for buying a nine-tailed fox. And now Mu Chen just called out a price of forty thousand spiritual stones, which rendered all the people there silent. Because they had not seen such a spendthrift for a long time!

  With the expression on her face twisted, that girl took back her teasing tone and said seriously, “I need this demon fox to save somebody’s life. Immortal priest, could you please let me have it?”


  Save somebody’s life? Mu Chen snorted. Only fool would believe her.

  Right at this moment, Gu Yunjue responded her, “I also fancied this demon fox. This beast is perfect for our guardian of the mountain.”


  Then the girl clenched her fists bitterly. With smile on her face and murderous look in her eyes, she said, “Forty-one thousand!”


  “Sixty thousand!” Gu Yunjue said that calmly as if he was merely giving out a penny.

  At last, they managed to purchase the nine-tailed fox which only had three tails now with sixty thousand spiritual stones of high quality. After signing the paper and paying for the fox, Mu Chen looked at the white fox which was sent to the room with his eyebrows knitted. He found that the host was so sneaky that they had used a false illustration of the fox! This fox’s fur was not as soft, smooth and touched like silk as the illustration had claimed.

  However, he had already completed the purchase, so he could not just throw the fox away. But obviously Mu Chen had lost his interest. He turned around and wanted to leave at once.

  Gu Yuejue saw through what Mu Chen had thought. Then he held back the smile at the corner of his mouth while coaxing his master, “Its fur will get better after we keep it for a while.”


  Mu Chen looked at the white fox doubtfully, being not sure if this little creature could be domesticated. Seeing its half-dead condition, Mu Chen, with his eyebrows raised, crushed the steering loop on its neck and unlocked the chains on its legs. After that, he lifted it up and threw it toward Gu Yunjue.

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  Right after they had gone out of the auction house, a comely young boy ran toward them. He went down on his knees suddenly in front of them before Mu Chen could even speak. This boy was about the same age as Gu Yunjue, who was around 15 or 16 years old. With his eyes filled with tears, he said pitifully, “Immortal priest, please take me in!”


  Mu Chen recognized at the first glance that this boy was the ‘furnace’ he had bought unintentionally just now. It was so miserable for the boy to have such an unfair fate like this. However, Mu Chen didn’t have the intention to bring this boy back.

  Powerful people didn’t need to be sympathized while the weak people didn’t deserve the sympathy. That was the fate of all the people who were willing to seek immortality by fighting against the human nature. Death was the only option for them if they could not win the fight.

  Mu Chen had already done a huge favor to this boy by saving his life. He had no obligation to care for this boy’s life afterwards. There were too many people in this world who were treated unfairly in their lives. Mu Chen was not even able to save himself, not to mention other people.

  Then Mu Chen threw a china bottle to the boy randomly while saying indifferently, “The elixir in it could suppress your status momentarily. What you will become in the future all depends on yourself.”


  Gu Yunjue followed his Master smilingly while reached out his hands to hold the ones of Mu Chen’s. Then Mu Chen rolled his eyes toward Gu Yuejue helplessly, saying, “You are already old enough to stop acting like a spoiled child. Don’t you feel shy?”


  “I’ll never feel shy to hold my Master’s hand.” Gu Yunjue said that.

  Mu Chen could not help laughing. ‘What a naught boy!’ He thought.

  The boy who was still kneeling on the ground grasped the bottle in his hand tightly. He stared at Mu Chen’s back blankly as if he was about to engrave that figure deeply in his soul. He was born to become other people’s toy. It never occurred to him that someday a person would treat him equally. And he might not be able to meet his extremely superior savior ever again. His gaze toward Gu Yuejue contained a trace of jealousy which wasn’t even detected by himself. He was reluctant to take his eyes back from them until Mu Chen’s figure completely disappeared.

  At last, that white figure was totally out of his sight and the boy knew Mu Chen would never change his mind and came back to him. Having got up and eaten the elixir, he grabbed the dirt on the ground to cover his face. Then he fled out of town.

  After they had left there, Mu Chen forgot about the boy and put his mind completely on the white fox in front of him, asking it, “Male or female? I guess you can talk as a three-level demon beast.”


  That half-dead while fox glanced at Mu Chen, then it rolled its eyes. However, before it could implement the plan in its heart, it was pulled out from Gu Yuejue’s arms by Mu Chen. After that, Mu Chen straightly threw the fox to the cliff opposing him. The whole body of the demon fox was inserted into the caesious slate, so deep that it couldn’t even raise its head.

  “Thinking about running away?” queried Mu Chen with a cold face.

  It stared at Mu Chen furiously after pulling its head out of the slate. After all, it had only thought of escaping and never had the chance to accomplish its plan. ‘This person’s so unreasonable!’ The fox thought.

  Mu Chen looked coldly at the fox in the air. The only rule in both the monster and demon worlds was that only the strong reigned. If he wanted this fox to obey him, the only thing he needed to do was to beat it until it dared not to resist. This demon fox seemed hard to be trained. So he decided to tame it before bringing it home.

  He reached out his hands to strangle the demon fox while tending to grab its hind legs as he talked, “Male or Female?”


  “Male!!” The demon fox roared that while striking a posture to tear Mu Chen apart. It didn’t know why Mu Chen had purchased it. ‘This man has no intention to sign a contract with me or kill me to acquire the demon elixir. Instead, he asks my gender. So what’s point in spending sixty thousands high quality spiritual stones? If it were not for a vile person who set me up, I would never lose most of my cultivation and end up like this.’ The fox thought.

  Mu Chen was confused now. This demon fox gave him a strange feeling.

  Gu Yuejue approached there with his eyes narrowed, saying, “Why don’t you give it a name, my Master? We can let Black Egg train it for a few days.”


  “Name?” Mu Chen got a glimpse of Black Egg which was following them from a distance and came out a name right away, “White Egg.” If there were other members joining the team, he then could name them Red Egg, Yellow Egg, Green Egg, Purple Egg, Colorful Egg according to the color of their fur. How convenient was that!

  The demon fox almost died of anger, shouting, “I have a name! My name is Yuwen Qing!”


  “Your last name is Yuwen?” Mu Chen ran the last names of all the powerful forces in the demon world in his mind and concluded after confirming it was not the son of the Demon Sovereign, “Then White Egg it is!”


  The white fox picked itself up and looked at Mu Chen ferociously with its bare teeth exposed. With a click of his tongue, Mu Chen raised his hands again and slapped. Thwack! As a result, there was a mark of the fox on the ground. The white fox climbed up again and Mu Chen just slapped again. Bang! Another mark of the fox appeared on the ground. Then the white fox got up once more. Before it exposed its teeth, Mu Chen raised his hand with coldness on his face. Bang! Bang! Bang! After dozens of rounds, the white fox was finally inserted deep into the slate tightly.

  Black Egg was now combing its own feather with its mouth on the tree, looking at White Egg as if the fox was an idiot. ‘I used to have a more domineering name, OK? My full name is The Untouchable and my nick name is The Buster. Other people called me Destroyer. And now what? They still call me Black Egg. And I even become used to it. Why do you have to get beaten? You moron!” Black Egg thought.

  Gu Yuejue picked up White Egg right away. Since White Egg’s fur was still undeveloped, he threw it to the back hill of the Yanyang Palace in case his little Master would fondle it admiringly after it became downy. Black Egg chased after the white fox instantly and followed it from a distance, estimating the rate of defeating the white fox. Then Black Egg decided to beat the white fox fiercely if it could occupy the dominant position. However, if the white fox was stronger, this Black Egg would have to think of another way to suppress the fox. How shameless was Black Egg!

  Jingting had been closing himself up for training and couldn’t afford a minute to discipline his young brother, Jingming, who, therefore, lived a comfortable life during this period. When he heard that there was a new member called White Egg joining them, he ran straight to the back hill to pay a visit to the white fox.

  Jingming was being kind to present lots of dried meat to White Egg as a meeting gift. He also crowed about the goodness of Mu Chen, promising the white fox that as long as it followed the lead of his Palace Master, it would live a prospering and fine life for good.

  White Egg looked at Jingming surprisingly because it could sense that Jingming had not signed a contract yet. Then White Egg turned angry instantly, “Why haven’t you fled from this place yet since you have never signed a contract?! You just have to follow a two-leg creature, right? You are the shame of the Demon world! The loser of the beast!”


  Jingming also got mad. “I was just being kind to send you some food. How dare you curse me! I’ll beat you to death!”


  Black Egg, who was about to beat the new member to show its domination here, saw a white wolf pressing a thin white fox underneath biting and ripping, which made a dramatic scene. Nevertheless, Jingming still hadn’t fully vent his spleen. He then changed into human form and pointed at the white fox, “Just wait there, you bastard. I’ll let my brother beat the shit out of you when he comes out!”


  The white fox almost fainted because of anger. ‘Isn’t it normal that only the one who lost will make the trash talk? You have already won and still want your brother to beat me? This place is full of unreasonable persons indeed!’ With that in mind, it made up its mind to revenge for itself when its power got recovered.

  Chapter 31: This Lecher Disciple Should Be Kept Close in Sight or He Would Just Fool Around with Female Cultivators! (2)

  While Mu Chen went to practice alchemy, Gu Yuejue sent for Guan Shan.

  Guan Shan had already made the whole Yanyang Palace in perfect order during ten years. When he saw Gu Yunjue, he bowed respectfully with an even more devout attitude. Though he had been forced to respect Gu Yunjue before, now he really looked up to his master. Then Guan Shan said, “Young Master.”


  Guan Shan didn’t call Gu Yunjue Young Master because of who Gu Yuejue had used to be. The reason why Guan Shan called him that was because now everyone in Yanyang Palace called Gu Yunjue Young Master instead of Little Palace Master.

  Gu Yuejue was drawing the back view of Mu Chen taking a nap in the bamboo forest on a fan. The rib of the fan was made of grey jade while the surface of the fan was made of white flood dragon skin, on which Gu Yuejue painted an elegant beauty who discharged his indifferent appearance and showed a lazy and sexy look occasionally in black ink. The expression on Gu Yuejue’s face was quite reverent. He drew the picture with smile in his eyes as if he could draw out the obsession in his heart by doing this slowly. After he had finished the clothes of the beauty in the painting, he said, “There’s a female devil cultivator in the auction house. She might work for my eldest brother.”


  Darkness flashed in Guan Shan’s eyes, and he looked more serious.

  Gu Yunjue said calmly. He seemed not too concerned about that, “Send her corpse to my dear brother and deliver him a message. This time I have cut off his claws, next time I’ll cut off his head if he gets any closer.”


  With his head lowered, Guan Shan responded, “I’ll do it right away.”


  “Don’t do business which involves human lives when my Master’s here afterwards. I don’t want him to get angry.”


  Guan Shan realized Gu Yunjue must be talking about the ‘furnace’ boy. So he replied primly at once, “This servant will keep that in mind.”


  Having grunted assent, Gu Yunjue nodded to indicate Guan Shan to leave. Then he continued to draw the beauty on his fan. It seemed that nothing in this world was more appealing to him than the person in the painting.

  ————


  The competition among the four Sect was just around the corner. Naturally, Lofty Cloudy Sect should offer some valuable awards which all the disciples would want to compete for. So Yue Mingze asked Mu Chen to refine a bottle of Little Rebirth Elixir.

  The Little Rebirth Elixir was used for curing the wound. As far as the person wounded still got a breath and he was under the stage of the nascent soul, he could recover as before. This elixir belonged to the middle level elixir and one piece of it was equivalent to another life. So using this elixir as the first prize was perfectly suitable.

  For Mu Chen, this kind of elixir was easy to make. There were already a hundred pieces of the Little Rebirth Elixir in the space ring of Gu Yuejue, who would be fed a bottle of this elixir by his Master even when he tumbled. Also, refining this elixir was too boring for Mu Chen. He preferred to investigate the herbal medicine in front of him.

  There were about a dozen or so spiritual herbals on the stone table in the bamboo forest. All of them were displayed in the niveous jade plate, with sparkling light covering their bodies. Clearly, they were just picked because they still had rich spiritual nimbus in their veins, with fragrance exuded from them.

  Mu Chen sat by the table while pinching the herbs one after another. Having taken a look and smelled them, he put them down with his eyebrows wrinkled.

  The child cultivators looked at him gingerly. When they saw Mu Chen pick the herb up, they all held their breath nervously. And when they found him put it down, they let out a sign of relief. Then Mu Chen picked the herb again, and they felt hard to breathe one more time. What an infinite loop……

  Finally, being watched by all those anxious child cultivators, Mu Chen bit a piece of the herb leaf. Seeing him chewing the herb with no expression on his face to feel the pesticide effect cautiously, some of the child cultivators turned completely pale——’Our Grand Master, please bless the Master!’ The child cultivators prayed that secretly.

  The moment Gu Yunjue came back he found Mu Chen tasting the medicine again. Then with sullen look in his eyes, Gu Yunjue fell by the side of Mu Chen directly. Then he grabbed the half-eaten herb in Mu Chen’s hand, sending out a rigorous signal when he was not smiling, and said, “Don’t eat that anymore. Someday you’ll get sick by tasting those things!”


  Mu Chen grumbled impatiently. This disciple had surely grown up and even dared to discipline his Master. However, Mu Chen wrinkled his nose and after detecting a woman’s floral fragrance from Gu Yunjue, he pulled a long face right away, asking with displeasure, “Where have you been?” He realized he had to keep this disobedient disciple in his sight. ‘How dare he fool around with a woman! What if one day……’ Mu Chen began to picture the scene of his little disciple and an ugly girl kneeling before him with a baby while asking him to perform the marriage for them. Suddenly Mu Chen felt suffocated. Damn it!

  Gu Yunjue had figured out why Mu Chen was mad after several times of his sudden mood shifts. It seemed that as long as Gu Yuejue got in touch with a woman, his Master would be irritated. Did it mean that Mu Chen was being jealous? Was it possible that his Master had a thing for him in his last life? And that was why Mu Chen would keep Gu Yunjue by his side and doted on him after the time had been reversed?

  Mu Chen felt that there seemed to be starlight in his little disciple’s eyes. The ardent gaze of Gu Yunjue nearly pierced Mu Chen’s soul. Then Mu Chen raised his hand in a bad mood and patted Gu Yuejue’s charming face. How could a disciple look at his Master with such a fiery gaze! He deserved the spank! “Answer my question, where have you been?”


  Gu Yunjue covered his forehead which was beaten red, explaining with a smile, “I’ve met my fourth senior sister. So I spent a little time there.”


  Mu Chen frowned. ‘Stupid you. Why are you so happy after being beaten? What have you done with the female cultivator in the Hongxiu Palace? You little lecher! I should beat you more!’


  Seeing Mu Chen raising his hand again, Gu Yuejue grabbed Mu Chen’s finger immediately. The warm touch from the fingertip made Gu Yuejue’s heart quiver. Then he found that although Mu Chen still glared at him with a cold face, his Master had no intention to dump his hand. So Gu Yunjue moved his fingers up slowly until he grabbed Mu Chen’s hand. After that, he put a dragon design ring in Mu Chen’s hand. The black dragon pattern had a silver rim around, which looked modest and luxury with golden halo around. Mu Chen recognized that the ring was a precious piece at a glance. Then he heard Gu Yunjue saying, “Actually I have asked fourth senior sister to do me a favor. I had personally asked third senior brother to smelt a ring for me but he didn’t agree no matter how I pleaded. So I could only ask fourth senior sister to make a request.”


  On these words, he held Mu Chen’s hand and put the ring on his finger toughly, “Don’t take it off, all right Master?”


  Mu Chen didn’t know how to react now, asking, “Why do you want to present me this?” Gu Yuejue always gave some little gifts to his Master. There were big or small ones of all kinds. Sometimes Gu Yunjue purchased the gifts and sometimes he just made the gift himself. There had been one time he had found a beautiful leaf on the back hill when practicing swordplay. Then he had picked it up and brought it back to his Master. Now he even presented a ring to Mu Chen this time. What’s more, that was a high quality ring. According to the artifact refining skill of Mo Jinyang, this ring stood for his best work. So why had Gu Yuejue taken great pains to make this?

  Gu Yuejue held Mu Chen’s neck smilingly and rubbed him, saying, “This ring called One Heart Ring. After it recognizes you as its master, I’ll be able to find you no matter where you are, Master.”


  Mu Chen was touched by Gu Yunjue’s ‘filial’ gesture. Then he changed into a kindly attitude, saying, “The hill where your fourth senior sister lives is the scariest place in the whole Lofty Cloudy Sect. Don’t go there so often afterwards.” Mu Chen was afraid that his disciple was not able to catch his indigestible words, so he explained, “The fact Bai Xunrong is able to gain a firm foothold in Lofty Cloudy Sect as a female cultivator is enough to show her toughness. If you have to compete with your senior fellow apprentices, I prefer you to choose Liu Hanzhi rather than Bai Xunrong. That woman is so hard to control when she gets mad.”


  Gu Yunjue nodded while agreeing with Mu Chen. Then he let someone collect the herb medicines in front of them in case Mu Chen would eat those things after a while.

  Mu Chen’s mood was improved by his disciple’s coaxing. After taking over the tea served by the servant, he continued to instruct Gu Yunjue sincerely, “When you want to find a partner, you have to bring her back to me first. Pretty girls are either wicked or malicious. They are even scarier than the demon beast or the monster beast. Your third senior brother are so shallow that only values the appearance. That’s why he falls in love deeply with a monster beast like your fourth senior sister who would go ballistic easily.”


  “Monster beast……” Gu Yuejue nodded while laughing. He was obsessed with Mu Chen’s look which was trying to scare him. Was his Master afraid that he would fall for another person? Then maybe he had guessed it right. ‘Master had done so many things for me with no regret in my last life and tried to protect me at the cost of his life when everyone in the immortal world wanted to kill me. Could it be possible that he has fallen for me?’


  Seeing Mu Chen waiting for his answer, Gu Yunjue squinted his eyes and rubbed Mu Chen’s cheek, saying in a soft and meaningful voice, “I have you, Master. I don’t need any partner. And I will never fall in love with a woman.”


  Mu Chen kneaded Gu Yunjue’s head, feeling that his disciple was so tame at this moment by listening to everything he had said. Although Mu Chen knew that it was unrealistic for Gu Yunjue not to find a partner and his disciple had only been childish and impulsive to say that, he still felt satisfied as a master that his disciple would not become a demon and knew how to respect his master.

  What Mu Chen didn’t see was the deep affection and possession in the eyes of the young boy in his arms.

  As they were enjoying the tender moment, there was a crashing sound coming from the gate of the mountain. Mu Chen looked over doubtfully and saw the air was filled with smoke as if there had been an attack just now. After that, Jingming ran over hurriedly and said with excitement, “Palace Master, a fat guy at the gate of the mountain just challenged the Head of the Sect.”


  Challenge Yue Mingze?

  Mu Chen snorted with coldness on his face. The competition among the four Sects on every 20 years was about to begin. And this year the competition was held in Lofty Cloudy Sect. So all these free cultivators who wanted to make a fame badly now wanted to challenge Yue Mingze, the kid who was also the Head of the Sect. Did they really think that Lofty Cloudy Sect was so easy to bully?

  Gu Yunjue took over the kerchief which was passed over by the servant and rubbed the herb juice on Mu Chen’s hand away. Then he followed his Master out of Yanyang Palace rapidly. Gu Yunjue stood in the air above the gate of the mountain and found so many people there. There were lots of disciples of the third generation and a few elders. Chu Qianshuang had already rushed over to watch the fun. When he saw Gu Yuejue and Mu Chen flying over, he approached Mu Chen intimately.

  Then Gu Yuejue held Mu Chen’s hand and pulled his master near him.

  Having only caught the air, Chu Qianshuang saw Mu Chen and Gu Yunjue holding hands so spontaneously and then imagined the picture of himself holding hands with his own Master. Then somehow, he shook his body with sweats on his back. ‘I’ll be dead if I do that! I will be chopped to death!”


  Although both his grand master and his master were tight-lipped and poker-faced, they still gave Chu Qianshuang totally different feelings!

  On the square in front of the gate of the mountain, a sturdy guy, with his two black hammers on his shoulders, was standing proudly on the place where the young boys had been tested. He pointed at those disciples of the second generation while mocking in a voice which made the eardrums of all the people there rumble, “Are the elders too scared to let your disciples to die for you? In that case, I’ll show no mercy with my hammers!”


  A young adult who wore uniform of the second generation disciple held his junior fellow apprentices behind his back and said in a serious look, “You are no match for him. I’ll take the challenge.”


  Mu Chen knitted his eyebrows. He recognized that the guy who wanted to challenge them was already in the demigod realm. With a power of that level, this guy must possess a fame in the immortal world. However, Mu Chen also felt that the spiritual power on that guy was strong but unsteady. Then Mu Chen realized that this guy must have just reached the demigod realm with the help of medicine. This guy was just being an idiot by stopping practicing in his own place to consolidate his power and coming to challenge other Sect. Nonetheless, this disciple of the second generation couldn’t beat this guy. Thinking of this, Mu Chen took a step forward.

  Right at this moment, a green light flew here with the scolding of a woman, “Which riff-raff dared to come here? Get the hell out of here if you want to live!”


  Bai Xunrong was here!

  Mu Chen who had intended to tested the power of that guy now turned around to look at his disciple with a thoughtful look on his face, saying, “Pretty female cultivator might be transformed by a monster beast. Your fourth senior sister was about to show you that.”


  Chapter 32: Drawing back his sight, Gu Yunjues eyes looked dark as ink, deep as the ocean and serene with danger and killing intent hidden beneath. (1)

  "Pretty female cultivators might be transformed by a magical beast. Your fourth senior sister is about to show you that."

  Hearing that, Gu Yunjue hastily nodded, looking lovable and obedient like saying ’what you say is always right and it is bound to be kept deep in my mind’.

  The burly man on the square was also stunned by Bai Xunrong’s arrogant words. However, he quickly came to himself and turned hostile again, "I won’t fight with a woman. Only with Yue Mingze!"

  Noticing the contempt in the man’s eyes, Mu Chen educated Gu Yunjue: "Don’t ever judge people by their looks. Or you’ll die for that."

  Bai Xunrong also noticed that but she only smiled, then the air pressure surrounding them dropped sharply. Mu Chen immediately set a boundary to shelter Gu Yunjue and others around him. Then, two kinds of strong spiritual powers —— wind and soil intertwined together, stand and stones flying and the world darkening around in a minute. Rocks on hills broken into pieces turned into a soil dragon and swept the big man along, growling and shouting as if showing its enemy its great killing intent. Those off-guard disciples of second generation were straightly rolled away by the spiritual power, their mouth stuffed with stands and their ears suffused with the rumbling of the fight.

  Gu Yunjue, who himself never saw Bai Xunrong fight with others, finally understood why Mu Chen said that she might be transformed by a magical beast. Soon after, a machete about two meters long showed up in the hands of Bai Xunrong with a petite figure as her spiritual power was being acted.

  The machete’s body was half of a meter wide and dazzlingly golden to the point of even blinding the bell-like big eyes of the strong man. Blood slots on its both sides were carved into the giant dragon shape, glittering and aggressive with strong killing intent.

  Bai Xunrong lifted up her machete with only one hand and pointed it at the nose of the big man who had already been blindsided in shock, sneering in a peremptory way: "Despise women? Son of a bitch, let me teach you how to behave today!"

  Hearing Bai Xunrong’s harsh words, Gu Yunjue was coming to laugh when warm palms covered his ears, then an emotionless voice from his Master came into his ears: "Don’t you ever follow her to talk like that. Fight makes her become a rude person."

  Having nothing to say, Gu Yunjue grabbed Mu Chen’s hands, held them in his palms and kneaded them, the exquisite feeling of touch evoking his desire to take a bite of Mu Chen’s hands.

  And then, Mu Chen seized this chance to explain: "The weapon your fourth senior sister holds now is called Beheading Soul Sword that weighs nine hundred kg., a spirit tool of the top rank."

  "It should really be named ’World Devastator’!" Jing Ming supported his chin with his hands and spoke out what he learned from small picture books. Seeing Bai Xunrong using her broadsword to give a hack at that big man’s giant hammer, which made the earth tremble, the mountains sway and knocked the man far away into the air, Jing Ming added in all apparent seriousness: "Impressive and powerful! F*ck the earth and shatter all!"

  When Jing Ming finished his last word, Mu Chen kicked down Jing Ming in a minute, and with his face frozen, Mu Chen trod on Jing Ming’s back several times, seemingly to punish him. But Jing Ming, who was under Mu Chen’s feet, sounded quite enjoying it. And indeed he was:

  ’Pity that I cannot turn over because of Master’s foot on the back, or I would even lie down here and then my belly can also enjoy being trodden by Master.’


  Gu Yunjue glance down at the white boot on Jing Ming’s back, his eyes darkening and then fixed on Jing Ming. At the very moment, Jing Ming sensed a cold killing intent for no reason, raised his head and looked around, yet finding no clue of where that killing intent came from. Seeing Jing Ming still not quieting down after being kicked, Mu Chen gave him a hard kick again.

  ’You little one! Learn no good and even act disobedient to me!’


  Although his eyes grew darker, Gu Yunjue still cracked a mild and warm smile on his face, held Mu Chen’s hand up close to his lips and gave it a quick kiss, smiling: "Master, I’ve remembered that. Female cultivators may be magical beasts. So I will keep my eyes only on Master. You are a treasure for me thousands of times more valuable than any others, even she is an exquisite beauty."

  Hearing that, Mu Chen opened his mouth but failed to utter a word because he had no idea how to correct these words with different interpretations. As a matter of fact, Mu Chen meant to warn his little disciple not to be lecherous, but now it sounded a little bit weird somehow.

  Before Mu Chen thought deeper, Gu Yunjue had grabbed his wrist, put one arm around his waist and dragged him away, half pushing and half hugging.

  When seeing this scene, other cultivators had gotten used to it and would never feel surprised because cultivators in Lofty Cloud Sect all knew that Gu Yunjue had been spoiled by his Master and he was allowed to do whatever he wanted; besides, Gu Yunjue himself was a talent, so others dared not to judge him.

  Jing Ming eventually got up and wanted to pat the footprint on his back, but he found he couldn’t reach it. As a result, he just anxiously turned circles at where he was like a little wolfhound turning back to bite its own tail.

  Suddenly, Mu Chen asked: "I plan to take Jing Ting and Jing Ming as my disciples after Jing Ting finishes his closed-up training. What do you think?"

  Gu Yunjue smilingly tightened his grip on Mu Chen’s hands, seemingly not care about that: "It’s okay if you like, Master. This disciple doesn’t mind it."

  Mu Chen was surprised by his generosity.

  ’Gu Yunjue is so possessive that one more glimpse at others from me will make him jealous. But he does not care a hang about me taking Jing Ting and Jing Ming as disciples today. What’s wrong with him?’


  Perhaps Gu Yunjue saw through Mu Chen and knew his confusion, so he explained seriously: "Master, I know you want them to go out to experience, right? Then, the name of Yanyang Palace can save them a lot of troubles." And far more importantly, Gu Yunjue was no longer content with the master-disciple relationship, but it was not the time to put cards on the table yet.

  Mu Chen nodded as that was exactly what he was thinking about and it felt great that his little disciple could understand that.

  Back to Yanyang Palace, Mu Chen entered into alchemy chamber again because Yue Mingze had requested a Little Rebirth Pill as the prize for the Four Great Sects Competition.

  Sitting on the wooden chair by window under the sunshine, Mu Chen drowsily observed Gu Yunjue and wondered whether he could succeed in refining a Little Rebirth Pill. He knew that his little disciple had such poor talent as a pill alchemist to the point of even making Gods and people furious at his stupidity and believe what he was doing was merely a waste of materials!

  Then, Gu Yunjue took a herb and turned back only to see Mu Chen’s profile. Sunshine reflected Mu Chen’s long eyelashes onto his fair-skinned face and left a fan of shadow, stirring such a strong urge in Gu Yunjue’s heart that he couldn’t help getting closer to feel the touch of the trembling eyelashes.

  Then, Gu Yunjue walked closer to Mu Chen and hugged him from behind with the tip of his nose rubbing against his Master’s auricle, saying in a sincere and serious tone: "Master."

  Pushing the head lying on his shoulder several times, Mu Chen impatiently turned around when Gu Yunjue was also staring at him, the tip of their noses touched and their eyes meeting in the air. Gazing at Gu Yunjue’s smiling eyes, Mu Chen’s mind wandered in a sudden.

  ’Little disciple has grown up. What I can see in his eyes does look similar to that in his previous life.’


  All of a sudden, Mu Chen felt a quick warmth on his face and was drawn back from his mind-wandering by the gentle and soft touch, then he was ashamed into anger.

  ’This little one! How many times I have warned him not to kiss me! Coquetry comes soon whenever he wants and clings to me like a sticker. What a horrible habit! Why doesn’t he get rid of it?’


  Aware of a coming kick, Gu Yunjue held Mu Chen firmly and dared not to loosen a bit, smiling: "Master, I have no idea how to express my feelings to you. What should I do?"

  Hearing that, Mu Chen put on a cold look and a layer of blush showed up on his face.

  ’Is there anyone using a kiss to express his feelings on everyone he likes? Is there anyone who will hold a girl’s face and give her a kiss when he finds his passion to her? If any, is it not the same as a lecher?’


  Looking at his disciple’s face which was quite seductive to women, Mu Chen felt worried more.

  ’A lecher with such an enchanting face may fascinate people head over heels. If he goes out with such a beautiful look, how many girls will fall for him?’


  With that thought, Mu Chen pointed to the herb on the table to vent his fury on Gu Yunjue, ordering in an emotionless manner: "Go to refine the medicine, hurry!"

  ’Only if his mind gets cultivated could Gu Yunjue’s desire for women be reduced.’


  Gu Yunjue followed his Master’s order to refine the pills, but he looked clumsy in his movement. Looking at that, Mu Chen felt anxious.

  ’Such an idiot! How could he be so stupid! He has already grown up but he even can’t refine a pill of second rank. How could I be at ease to let him out to experience?’


  With his awkward refining techniques, Gu Yunjue finally manage to concoct ten Little Rebirth Pills after he failed several times.

  Glancing over ten black pills laid on the plate, Mu Chen was speechless, his face twisted into an expression of shock, "What is it? Why does it look so weird?"

  ’Why isn’t pill round? And these pills little disciple refined are in such strange shapes, there is even a triangle one with defects!’


  Gu Yunjue looked troubled and with a distressed face, he put his arms around Mu Chen’s waist with his head against Mu Chen’s belly, enquiring in a low voice: "Master, I am so stupid. Will you dislike and avoid me?"

  Gu Yunjue’s words surprised Mu Chen so much that Mu Chen’s hands trembled and by accident, the pill in his hand fell on the ground. Mu Chen hurried to pat his little disciple on the head, comforting: "No, I won’t."

  ’Little disciple’s sensitivity has taken strong root. The book says, teenagers at his age are prone to getting distorted in their mind, so even I really dislike his clumsiness in pillconcocting, I should not let him know. It’s all my fault. I scolded him so many times before that my little disciple started to deny himself. As his Master, I’d better note my manner in future.’


  Gu Yunjue just trembled but didn’t get up. Then, Mu Chen patted his little disciple on the back again with his face frozen, feeling a little bit sorry, "Don’t worry. You have your Master in your company."

  ’It’s not a big deal! I’ll come with him when he goes out to experience. Then, no one can bully him without my permission.’


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  With that decision made, Mu Chen bent over to pick up the pills with dusts on the ground and put them on the plate.

  ’Little disciple refined them all. They shouldn’t be wasted.’


  Staring at Mu Chen putting those pills into a bottle and then throwing it into his own interspatial ring like saying ’I am to treasure them up and no one can get it’, the child cultivator standing beside reminded him: "Palace Master, Sect Leader will send a person to get that pill. Then, what shall we do?"

  Thinking about it for a minute, Mu Chen pointed to the small gap between table legs and flowerpot. He remembered that there was a Little Rebirth Pill left half a year ago and its effect might still be okay.

  The child cultivator immediately got it and moved the flowerpot away, and there right in the gap indeed lay a pill. He picked it up, blew off its dusts and rubbed it against his own clothes, only to find a footprint that led him subconsciously to look at his Palace Master’s exquisite white boots. He now realized that why it was hidden here was because Palace Master had carelessly stepped on the pill but was unwilling to pick it up because of the dirt.

  It must be admitted that Mu Chen’s mind was way too easy to figure out.

  Watching the child cultivator stuffing the pill with footprint into a bottle, Mu Chen, with a deep look of significance, patted the head lying on his own belly, "Join and compete with them this time."

  Before Gu Yunjue open his mouth, Mu Chen patted his little disciple on the shoulder, "Win this pill back for me."

  ’It may damage Yanyang Palace’s reputation if that pill with footprint on it is won by other cultivators. Anyway, it’s time for little disciple to experience some real fights. And under my watch, he won’t be dead no matter how badly he’s wounded. Little disciple should be taught in a strict way when necessary. I am a severe Master!’


  But hearing that, the corner of Gu Yunjue’s mouth twitched slightly.

  ’Let me compete with a group of kids under the Golden Core Stage? What if I kill them by accident? The consequence may be too horrible to think.’


  The news that Gu Yunjue was to take part in Four Great Sects Competition spread far and wide in a few days in Lofty Cloud Sect.

  For other disciples, especially those of third or fourth generation, Gu Yunjue was the spokesperson of luck, and in their view, what he achieved might all be owed to his good and powerful Master. With a Sect Elder who spoiled him so badly, Gu Yunjue could easily get the resources other disciples had to fight for. Mu Chen would lay before him whatever he wanted, which led all other disciples to wonder, ’Were such abundant resources laid in front of me, would I achieve better cultivation than Gu Yunjue?’


  At the very moment, a young man at his 20s stared at the flashing thunder light in his hand, whose face looked much gloomier when the light flickered on at random, and then a cold glint in his eyes couldn’t be restrained any more. He ground his teeth and said with hate out of jealousy: "Gu! Yun! Jue!"

  This young man was ever the most talented among those disciples who joined Lofty Cloud Sect at the same time with Gu, but Mu Chen chose Gu Yunjue as his disciple. As a result, Gu Yunjue was two generations senior than him because of Mu Chen’s high status in the sect, even Gu Yunjue’s cultivation base overwhelmed him. He himself put up a desperate fight for resources but clearly the latter was the next Master of Yanyang Palce. How could their fate be so unfair!

  He wanted to show his ability to Mu Chen and let him know that he had made a wrong choice!

  ’Gu Yunjue, I’m waiting to fight with you!

  Chapter 33: Drawing back his sight, Gu Yunjues eyes looked dark as ink, deep as the ocean and serene with danger and killing intent hidden beneath. (2)

  At the same time, Gu Yunjue, who hadn’t realized he had already become someone’s target, was not in a good mood either because Mu Chen suddenly received some message he didn’t know, then got rid of him and flied away. Gu Yunjue kept his freezing eyes on the back of Mu Chen and saw his little master disappear out of his sight like the wind he couldn’t catch, leaving him only to watch his Master leave away from him.

  Although seeming calm on his face, even no complaints being caught in his eyes, still the killing intent extended from Gu Yunjue revealed his terrible mood now. He could catch up with his Master but he couldn’t do that because his devilish power might be exposed. In that case, he would lose the one he wanted to protect. He couldn’t afford such a heavy loss.

  Sensing that threatening killing intent, Guan Shan, who had just arrived in a hurry, paused where he was immediately and dared not to get a step closer.

  Gu Yunjue drew back his sight and his eyes looked dark as the ink, deep as the dark ocean whose end no one could see through, and serene with terrifying danger and killing intent hidden beneath.

  Guan Shan’s heart trembled at that glance and he said hastily: “Young Master, what you asked me to investigate is all here. Please check it.” With that, Guan Shan handed a jade slip over before Gu Yunjue in a polite manner with his head lowered.

  Gu Yunjue took the jade lip and read it over soon, his face, which looked fairly calm minutes ago, was now decorated with a flicker of smile, his tone sounding as usual but the killing intent hidden in his words made Guan Shan shudder out of fright.

  ‘I know that. I know once Young Master hears about this news, he will become furious.’


  “So, I see.” Gu Yunjue slightly narrowed his eyes and crashed the jade slip into pieces. He had ordered his men to investigate the relationship between Mu Chen and Chen family, and now the result was in his hand.

  ‘His Master, who he cherishes with all his heart, does have such a family behind him.’


  ‘No wonder my little master has such a cold temperament.’


  The powers controlling the Immortal World included four Sects, three Islands and five Clans, and Chen was one of the five Clans. Mu Chen’s mother - Chen Yixin was the beloved daughter of the last leader of Chen Clan, who had such an exceedingly beautiful appearance and an outstanding talent that her family placed great hope on her; but no one had expected that her spiritual vein would be destroyed when she was out learning through experience, and worse, she got pregnant before marriage and eventually gave birth to Mu Chen.

  In two years after Mu Chen was born, she passed away.

  However, Mu Chen’s father never appeared even when his mother died. No one knew anything about his father except for his family name, Mu.

  Chen family all hated Mu Chen’s father who they even considered as the chief criminal of Chen Yixin’s death. Then, Mu Chen, who was just two years old at that time, lived alone in Chen family. Without Chen Mo, his little master’s elder cousin’s shelter, Mu Chen would have already been executed. But even so, Mu Chen had been mistreated and almost killed several times. Mu Chen managed to grow up to 13 years old with the help of Chen Mo. To have someone accompany Mu Chen, Chen Mo particularly adopted Liu Hanzhi who was ever an orphan as Mu Chen’s playmate. So Liu Hanzhi and Mu Chen lived together since very young, bound to each other much more intimate than true brothers.

  As his thoughts stopped there, what was interrupted by Mu Chen when talking with Chen Mo occurred to Gu Yunjue.

  ‘The one who wants to see Mu Chen the last time must be little Master’s nominal grandfather, the leader of Chen Clan - Chen Xing who failed to breakthrough into Synthesis Stage and is dying.’


  ‘Regretting what he has done when he is about to die? Or he just misses his own daughter because little master is the only child of his daughter? Or is it a cry for help because of little master’s profound cultivation and high status?’


  Then, a cold smile came up on the corner of Gu Yunjue’s mouth, and he just hummed with no expression.

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  As for Mu Chen, he left others behind and hid his own trace to the back mountain of Hanyang Palace, only to see a little one arching under leaves in a hillock with only its bare head exposed to the air.

  Mu Chen stared in shock as the little spotted pig hidden in leaves crawled out, who was about the size of a palm and whose body was decorated with seven white plum blossoms in a Big Dipper form, so shining and richly dazzling in the darkness. Mu Chen immediately recognized this little pig, “Xiao Liu?”


  Shaking off dusts on his body and with his eyes red, Chu Qianshuang ran to Mu Chen, so quick that his body turned into a flash of golden light, and stopped in front of Mu in the blink of an eye, “Grand Martial Uncle!” Chu Qianshuang’s voice sounded helpless like a child who lost his parents, whose weakness softened Mu Chen’s heart.

  Then, Mu Chen offered his hand to let Chu Qianshuang lie on his palm; and staring at this little spotted pig who had ignored the boundary to send pills to him in his previous life, he just felt thousands of feelings springing up in his heart.

  ‘This little pig was somehow the last one I could count on most at crucial moments. What had I ever done to him that he would give his faith in me? Chu Qianshuang believes me, so does Jing Ting and Jing Ming. What is it in me that attracts such little ones with pure souls to come close to me?’


  After casting a body-cleaning spell on Chu Qianshuang, Mu Chen asked: “What happened?” A few minutes ago, Chu Qianshuang sent a message asking for help and asked him not to tell anyone, not even Liu Hanzhi. And now looking at Chu Qianshuang’s poor situation, Mu Chen was naturally worried, “You feel sad because your Master finds who you really are?”


  Chu Qianshuang shook his head, “Master has already known it.”


  Hearing his reply, Mu Chen felt confused and waited his explanation with his eyes still on the little golden pig in his palm.

  “Master abandoned me. Grand Martial Uncle, Master let me leave!” Chu Qianshuang said with his tail dropping down.

  Obviously, Chu Qianshuang was so frightened by his Master’s words that he turned into a little pig because that gave him a sense of security.

  With his eyes wide open in shock, Mu Chen thought, ‘Although looking cold and strict, Liu Hanzhi still loves his little disciple and has never planned to take a new one. Chu Qianshuang may act naughty sometimes but still is obedient and thoughtful. Then, what on earth has Chu Qianshuang done that irritated his Master to such an extent?’


  With that in mind, Mu Chen kneaded his pig ears and comforted: “I’ll escort you back. It’s better to speak it out if there is any misunderstanding.”


  Chu Qianshuang shook his head as he dared not go back.

  “Then, what about coming to Yanyang Palace with me?”


  “No. I don’t want to go there either.” Chu Qianshaung would rather stay at hills in cold winds than go back to Yanyang Palace with Mu Chen at the thought of Gu Yunjue’s eyes that would freeze his blood the moment he got close to Mu Chen. “Grand Martial Uncle, could you put a good word for me in front of Master and tell him not to drive me away? I promise I will never say no to his words and will show my filial piety to them.” Chu Qianshuang thought, ‘Master often does what Grand Martial Uncle asks. As long as Grand Martial Uncle opens his mouth to ask, Master has to follow.’ Chu Qianshuang was picked up in Lost Forest and adopted by Liu Hanzhi since he was very young, so Chu Qianshuang depended on and loved Liu Hanzhi very much. When he realized he was going to be abandoned by Master, a strong feeling of hopelessness overtook him.

  ‘Hanyang Palace is my home and if Master abandons me, then where could I go?’


  “Them?” Hearing this, Mu Chen got confused again and thought, ‘Why is there one more person?’ When realizing this person might be the main cause to Xiao Liu’s fear, Mu Chen held him up and looked into his eyes, asking: “Does it have anything to do with your Second Martial Uncle?”


  Chu Qianshuan’s shocked eyes proved it all.

  When his speculation was verified, Mu Chen found it both funny and annoying. Duanmu Feng was gentle in nature with a fine and attentive mind, while Liu Hanzhi hated to speak out his real thoughts, so Liu Hanzhi wouldn’t ever say it out bluntly if he loved someone. In the last life, both of them didn’t open their heart to each other for over one hundred and fifty years. And there had been a time, because of Mu Chen’s intimacy with Liu Hanzhi, when Duanmu Feng got the latter wrong and refused to talk to Liu Hanzhi for over twenty years; they almost became strangers. Mu Chen hadn’t realized that his close relation with Liu Hanzhi would cause a serious misunderstanding between the two.

  ‘Then, it seems many misunderstandings already exist between them.’


  “Master became angry when he saw me return from second martial uncle’s palace. He said to me, ‘Go to Qiyang Palace and never come back.’” Chu Qianshaung looked discouraged with his ears down, “I eat a lot. Master must hate that.”


  Mu Chen fell into silence, feeling quite speechless.

  ‘You’ve eaten much for so many years. He never said anything before. Apparently, Liu Chanzhi vented his anger on his disciple who was not to blame.”


  Staring at the direction toward Hanyang Palace for a while, Mu Chen blurted in a sudden: “Idiot!”


  ‘Tell him if you like him. Otherwise he is prone to getting you wrong. You even vent your anger on your disciple now! Such an idiot!”


  Eventually, Mu Chen still accompanied Chu Qianshuang back to Hanyang Palace.

  Sensing that Mu Chen didn’t hide his own traces, Gu Yunjue, who had been playing I-Go with his left hand against his right hand in Mu Chen’s room, immediately dropped the black piece down to the chess board, rose up and darted out of Yanyang Palace.

  Gu Yunjue arrived at Hanyang Palace, only to see Mu Chen and Liu Hanzhi floating overhead in the sky, one in the east and the other in the west. Both of them just stared at each other with no talk as if two mutes were fighting with eyes, their faces looking colder than each other and the atmosphere around them so freezing as if next second they could put the world into lightning and thunders.

  Liu Hanzhi’s cool look was his normal life while Mu Chen looked cold when he was furious.

  No one knew how these two managed to get along with each other.

  All at Hanyang Palace watched them with anxiety, fearing that they might start a fight next second so powerful that the sky or the ground might be split into pieces, the sun and the moon might be eclipsed, and even Hanyang Palace might be destroyed.

  Gu Yunjue only stood in the distance and had no intention to get closer, but he read some feelings out from Mu Chen’s expressionless face: disliking, despising, and scolding the ‘idiot’ facing him.

  But what was on Liu Hanzhi’s face was only embarrassment.

  Finally, after a period of having a cup of tea (roughly ten minutes), Mu Chen hummed angrily, and called him: “Idiot!”


  Hearing that, Liu Hanzhi’s cold face twisted.

  Finishing his scolding, Mu Chen pulled Chu Qianshuang who was hiding behind him out and threw him straight to Liu Hanzhi, “How very capable of you to scare a little kid with such low IQ!” Hearing that Mu Chen said he had low IQ, Chu Qianshuang dared not to refute. And upon seeing Liu Hanzhi’s emotionless face, Chu Qianshuang couldn’t help feeling scared and naturally shrank his neck, looking quite poor and pitiful.

  After his last word fell, Mu Chen came next to Gu Yunjue and walked away with his disciple hand in hand.

  Sensing his Master still in anger, Gu Yunjue reached his hand to pat Mu Chen on the back, asking in a gentle tone: “Master, are you still angry?”


  Mu Chen hummed, “Idiot!”


  Gu Yunjue actually felt furious and hadn’t let it off when he found his Master deliberately get rid of him. But now seeing Mu Chen’s lively expressions, Gu Yunjue was amused. His little master really possessed magic charms and could easily bewitch him with one simple expression.

  But those expressions on Gu Yunjue’s face didn’t fall into Mu Chen’s eyes because the latter walked in front. With the most intimate person beside, Mu Chen became rarely more talkative and huffed: “Man must know clearly what he wants. Never put on airs and never take the other’s mistake too seriously because you may not find the one you love back if you lose the other. If you want someone, grab the one tightly and firmly, don’t let the one go and don’t give up halfway! If you don’t want the one, let her go and never turn back. Doing it neatly will do good to anyone!”


  “It would be such a fool to discard the one you’ve fought hard to get, regret after giving up and then repursue the other again.”


  “Keep the one you love in your arm’s length but give no concern to the other’s true heart, and order the other to do whatever you want, or calculate and take advantage of the other’s love, that kind of person is scum.”


  “Then, true love is here but you torture each other because of the fear of losing face, that is an idiot!”


  “To be concluded, an idiot is much worse than a fool or scum because the former knows his own feelings but he refuses to think for his own sake. So, if you have a crush on someone in future, you must say it out loud. Never regret when you lose her, like this idiot out there.”


  The Sect Elder Liu who was called ‘idiot’ turned livid.

  Noticing Gu Yunjue staring at himself in shock when he finished his words, Mu Chen exhaled a long breath in anger, “You may not understand what I said just now. But you will know it when you grow up.”


  “Master.”


  “Hmm?”


  “If I meet someone I love, I will never let the other go.”


  Mu Chen frowned: “If the other person doesn’t like you, you can’t force her. That is not what a man does.”


  Gu Yunjue smilingly squinted his eyes, “Master, you’re right. I won’t force the one I love.”


  ‘I will vie for him. No one can escape from me once I like him. I will take him body and soul. If he disobeys me, I will tie him up. That’s what Master said just now, to grab my love tightly and never let go of him. Little master is so cute. He does have the same vision of love as I do.’


  When they came back to Yanyang Palace, the child cultivator was waiting at the door, looking rather nervous. Mu Chen had already seen what was in his hands from a far distance, his look becoming more frozen.

  ‘Why do I have such a bad day?!”