After Crossdressing and Provoking Long AoTian

Yu Qingtang had not exactly wanted to take on this job, but since he was already here, he had every intention of doing it properly.

That was why, no matter how mortifying things had gotten just now, he had gritted his teeth and kept quiet.

But now that he had already been exposed...

Yu Qingtang's face was red as he cautiously asked, “H-how did you know it was me?”

Ye Chenyan let out a low laugh, a sly smile flashing across his face. “I bluffed it out of you.”

Yu Qingtang: “...”

What had he said? He'd known from the start he couldn't handle this job!

“I wasn't sure before, but I am now.” Laughter brimmed in Ye Chenyan's eyes. The hand that had shown at least some restraint before now shamelessly pinched Yu Qingtang's waist.

Yu Qingtang jolted violently and bared his teeth at him. “Don't pinch me there! I'm ticklish!”

“I'm telling you, I can't move right now, but afterward—”

Ye Chenyan's expression turned peculiar. “You... can't move right now?”

Their eyes met.

Yu Qingtang had the distinct feeling he'd just said something he absolutely should not have said.

Ye Chenyan slowly tightened his arms around him, pulled him onto his lap, and looked up at him with a smiling gaze.

In a low voice, he asked, “This isn't another part of my trial, is it? Deliberately letting me find out you can't move?”

Yu Qingtang: “...”

“Think about what I told you when you first came in.”

Ye Chenyan pondered. “You said a lot. Which part?”

Yu Qingtang sighed. “Calm your mind, steady your spirit, and keep your desires in check!”

Ye Chenyan buried his face against him. “Can't hear you.”

Yu Qingtang closed his eyes. “We're doomed.”

Ye Chenyan laughed into him, reached out, and tugged lightly at the gauze draped over Yu Qingtang's body.

In a low voice, he said, “How about... we just don't leave?”

Yu Qingtang: “...”

“You look like some lust-addled tyrant about to throw away his whole kingdom.”

Ye Chenyan burst out laughing.

He scooped Yu Qingtang up by the waist, lightly bounced him in his arms, then raised an eyebrow. “You really can't move?”

Yu Qingtang was stuck in the exact same pose as before and could only give him a wary look. “What are you doing? Comrade Little Ye, your eyes look extremely dangerous right now, I'm warning you...”

Ye Chenyan laughed. He casually kicked over a table, sending the fruit on it rolling all over the floor, then kicked it upright again and bent down to lay Yu Qingtang on top.

Yu Qingtang reacted as though facing a mortal enemy.

“Wait!”

He could still open his mouth.

That meant he could at least control the muscles in his face!

“Watch my face and take your cue from it!”

Ye Chenyan raised an eyebrow and instinctively looked over—

Yu Qingtang crossed his eyes, twisted his mouth sideways, and made the ugliest face he could manage.

Ye Chenyan: “...”

Yu Qingtang furtively cracked one eye open. “You can still have wicked thoughts while looking at a face like this?”

“Sure.” Ye Chenyan beamed and pinched his cheek. “Cute.”

“Huh?” Yu Qingtang looked horrified.

He was just about to urge Ye Chenyan to turn back before it was too late when Ye Chenyan leaned over him, looking down from above with a quiet laugh.

“You've already been delivered right to my mouth, and you still expect me to spit you back out? You're giving me way too much credit.”

He seemed about to lower himself onto Yu Qingtang.

Amid Yu Qingtang's startled cry, however, Ye Chenyan suddenly flung a hand backward. A vortex of spiritual power erupted, yanking an inconspicuous maid out of the crowd.

His hand closed around her throat.

Outside the water mirror, Li Ji's expression shifted.

Before she could move, the demonic weapon Ye Chenyan had left outside flashed over in an instant, its spearpoint aimed directly between her brows.

Ye Chenyan glanced at Yu Qingtang, who was still lying dramatically on the table, fully committed to his performance.

Yu Qingtang squeezed his eyes shut, wearing the heroic expression of a man marching to his death.

“Losing yourself in women—no, wait, men—will keep you from ever accomplishing anything! Wake up, Ye Chenyan! This world needs you!”

“Think of your master! Think of my master! Think of the kittens we just adopted—”

“All right.” Ye Chenyan's eyes curved with laughter. “I've already broken the formation.”

Yu Qingtang opened his eyes, looking almost disappointed that he hadn't gotten to finish. “You broke it? That fast?”

By the time Ye Chenyan was halfway through his lust-crazed act and started talking about not wanting to leave, he had already figured out what this guy was trying to do. He had simply played along.

Of course, the touching had been real.

And most of Yu Qingtang's yelps had been real too.

Ye Chenyan bent over him and murmured, “If we don't leave now, we really won't be leaving.”

“Huh?” Yu Qingtang blinked innocently.

Ye Chenyan reached out and rubbed his stomach.

Yu Qingtang's eyes widened in outrage. “Hey, wait! The act is over! Why are you still taking advantage of me?”

Ye Chenyan laughed under his breath, then turned toward the maid whose throat he still held despite her utterly expressionless face.

“The formation eye inside the formation is already in my hands. And outside...”

He gave a soft, amused snort.

“The core is in my hands too.”

“Miss Li Ji, would you say that means I have victory firmly in hand?”

“Li Ji!” Ren Jiangliu paled and immediately moved to help, but Li Ji raised one hand slightly, signaling him not to act rashly.

She gave a small nod.

To everyone's surprise, approval actually flickered through her eyes.

“Good. Not bad.”

“You made arrangements both inside and outside the formation. Thorough enough.”

The moment she finished speaking, the maid whose throat Ye Chenyan held transformed into a water mirror.

Clearly, the exit had been opened.

Yu Qingtang breathed a sigh of relief. Still lying helplessly on the table, he called, “Come fish me up. I still can't move.”

Ye Chenyan laughed quietly. “Coming.”

He bent down and picked Yu Qingtang up.

Then he swiftly kissed him on the cheek.

“Hm?” Yu Qingtang stared at him in shock before snapping in exasperation, “Does this seriously count as passing? No matter how I look at it, you absolutely did not pass the lust test!”

“Miss Li Ji, why don't you put him back in and test him again!”

Ye Chenyan carried him out of the Three-Lives Water Mirror illusion, grinning brightly.

“You really think she wanted me to become some ascetic without a single desire? This is a trial for choosing the master of this realm, not an exam at the Dharma Academy. Why would I have to go celibate?”

“Hm?” Yu Qingtang blinked.

That... did make a certain amount of sense.

Back when he'd read this part, he'd been too busy watching the two of them scheme against each other and get hopelessly tangled together to think too deeply about it.

“You might have a point.” Yu Qingtang jerked his chin toward his back. “That whatever-it-is talisman on me. Help me take it off first.”

“Mm...” Ye Chenyan actually hesitated.

Yu Qingtang's eyes went wide. “What are you waiting for? Don't tell me you're planning to leave this thing stuck to me!”

“It was kind of fun.” Ye Chenyan glanced at Ren Jiangliu. “But I can't let somebody else control you.”

The demonic weapon's spearpoint was still pressed toward Li Ji's brow, yet she showed no fear whatsoever. She even laughed.

“That's easily solved.”

“If Young Master Ye only wants the occasional bit of fun involving someone being completely unable to move, I know several methods I could teach you.”

Ye Chenyan had just torn the Mimicry Talisman from Yu Qingtang's back.

The instant Yu Qingtang heard that, he sprang away from them, putting distance between himself and the others. He backed up another two wary steps as though surrounded by mortal enemies.

“Miss Li Ji! You can't enable him like this!”

Li Ji chuckled. “Once he becomes master of this realm, techniques like those will amount to nothing more than trivial tricks. He'll be able to use them with a wave of his hand.”

“All I'm doing now is...”

Only then did she lift a hand, carefully avoiding the spearpoint as she gently pushed the peerless killing weapon aside.

Ye Chenyan had never truly intended to fall out with her. Seeing that he'd made his point, he withdrew the demonic weapon into his hand.

Li Ji laughed softly.

The pressure around her eased, leaving her noticeably more relaxed than before.

“Young Master Ye is right. This trial was never intended to make him purge himself of desire. More precisely, the trial for choosing the master of this realm has no explicit standard at all. I merely wished to see how he would conduct himself in a situation like this.”

“Only when something happens can a person's true nature be revealed. Young Master Ye...”

Her gaze flickered, and she nodded as if granting her approval.

“You do have some methods.”

Ye Chenyan laughed softly. “Just a little trickery.”

“All the better.” Li Ji nodded and looked toward the depths of the Sea of Returning Ruins. “You intend to inherit the Realm Stone while only at the Integration stage. Afterward, what you will face includes not only the immortals of this realm, but also otherworldly evil demons.”

“If you intend to contend against the strong while you yourself are weaker, rigid scruples will get you nowhere. Naturally, you must be willing to use unconventional methods.”

“On behalf of the sea folk of the Dragon Palace, I recognize you as a candidate to become master of this realm.”

She glanced at Ren Jiangliu. “What does the young sect master of Stillwater Sect think?”

Ren Jiangliu curled his lip, clearly dissatisfied. “Good enough, I suppose.”

Ye Chenyan lifted the demonic weapon slightly.

Ren Jiangliu turned his back on him with a cold snort.

“I may not be able to stand this man, and he can't stand me either, but I trust Miss Li Ji's judgment. Stillwater Sect has always advanced and retreated together with the sea folk of the Dragon Palace.”

“So let him be a candidate for master of this realm.”

He muttered under his breath, “Whether he can actually take the Realm Stone is still up to him.”

Yu Qingtang grew a little nervous. “Is the Realm Stone that difficult to take?”

He remembered things going fairly smoothly in the original novel.

No one could lift that stone.

Even the strongest among the sea folk, capable of hoisting weights of tens of millions of jin, couldn't budge it in the slightest.

After all, this was the Realm Stone that anchored and suppressed this world.

If you really had to put it into words, what it carried was the weight of the world itself.

But once Ye Chenyan arrived, he lifted the Realm Stone as easily as could be, making every sea-folk jaw drop.

—Assuming they even had that particular body part.

“If he is truly the Born Supreme, a child of fortune favored by the Heavenly Dao, then naturally it will pose no difficulty.” Li Ji gave him a deep, meaningful look. “If he isn't... then we'll have to think of another way.”

Her voice dropped.

“Deceive Heaven.”

Ye Chenyan's expression shifted slightly.

He turned to look at Yu Qingtang.

Yu Qingtang looked deeply worried, clearly lost in thought.

Ye Chenyan planted a hand on top of his head.

Then abruptly shook him back and forth.

“Hey, hey, hey!” Yu Qingtang hurriedly grabbed his own head. “Stop shaking me! Stop! We're already at the bottom of the sea—what if water actually gets in?!”

“No overthinking.” Ye Chenyan held his head still. “Throw all that nonsense out of there. Right now, what's the first thing that comes to mind?”

Yu Qingtang's head was spinning.

He answered honestly, straight from the heart.

“Is there anything to eat down here?”

Ye Chenyan muffled a laugh. “And?”

Yu Qingtang paused, then leaned closer and asked suspiciously, “When did you realize it was me? Exactly when?”

“I thought my acting was pretty good...”

He pointed at Ren Jiangliu. “Maybe his movements weren't up to standard.”

“Hm?” Ren Jiangliu glared at him. “There was absolutely nothing wrong with my movements!”

“If you don't believe me, ask Li Ji. What I did just now was soul-stealing, heart-snatching, naturally seductive to the bone—”

Li Ji nodded lightly. “One does wonder how the young sect master of Stillwater Sect came to know such... brothel tricks.”

Ren Jiangliu instantly fell silent.

His eyes darted away.

He didn't dare make another sound.

“I knew almost immediately.” Ye Chenyan glanced at the two of them, then leaned close to Yu Qingtang's ear and lowered his voice. “It's just... at first I thought you were an illusion, so I hit a little harder than I should have.”

He rubbed the back of Yu Qingtang's head.

“It doesn't hurt, does it?”

Yu Qingtang honestly shook his head. “Not really.”

He was a Soul Transformation cultivator, after all. He wasn't that fragile.

A hint of laughter flashed through Ye Chenyan's eyes.

“But the moment our eyes met and I saw your expression, I knew it was you.”

Yu Qingtang's eyes widened slightly.

He was even a little touched.

Then he heard Ye Chenyan continue—

“What kind of seductive illusion bangs its head and immediately makes that teeth-baring, grimacing face?”

Yu Qingtang silently swept his sleeve around and turned away.

“I'm leaving.”

So now he was making fun of him too, huh!

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