After Crossdressing and Provoking Long AoTian

Not far behind them, Jin Yangzi lowered his eyes and gave a cold snort. “Ye Chenyan.”

“No need to rush.” Behind him, a Daoist in a yellow robe advised him, “His arrogance will only last a moment. As for Guiyi Sect, we should still first...”

He gave Guiyi Sect’s group a meaningful look, his gaze clearly landing on Wen Rubing.

“Hmph.” Jin Yangzi’s expression was indifferent, as though he were looking at ants. “Shortsighted fools, that’s all.”

...

Yu Qingtang did not even have time to say a word before Ye Chenyan dragged him off in a clean escape.

Once he came back to himself, he narrowed his eyes at Ye Chenyan. “I didn’t expect your acting skills to be so good...”

Ye Chenyan’s expression froze. Then he propped his chin up and showed him a smile. “Not really, right? You really were frightened.”

He sighed. “You don’t understand. Eldest Senior Brother treats me very well, so I can’t be disrespectful to him, but he really does nag. He’s so young, yet he talks even more than my master.”

Yu Qingtang was filled with solemn respect.

More talkative than Tianji Zi? Then he really could talk.

He shook his head and returned the gourd to him. “Here.”

Ye Chenyan raised an eyebrow and looked at the gourd, then at him.

Yu Qingtang stared back at him, wide-eyed. After a while, Ye Chenyan finally gave up on speaking in riddles. He sat cross-legged with a helpless sigh and, somehow, even looked a little dejected. “How do you still not understand? Are you stupid?”

“This is for you.”

“Huh?” Yu Qingtang blanked for a moment, somewhat caught off guard. “For me? All of it?”

“Mm.” Ye Chenyan turned and leaned against the spirit boat. “I already soaked. You didn’t. Of course it’s all for you.”

He smiled. “Don’t worry. I stole it straight from the dragon-head fountain. No one has touched this spiritual liquid yet, so even a clean freak can soak in it.”

“But there’s so much...” Yu Qingtang opened his mouth and gestured in a huge circle. “There’s enough to soak me until I swell up! How could I use that much?”

He pushed the gourd toward him. “If-if you want to give me some, just give me a little. Even if you don’t use it, you can take it back to Guiyi Sect.”

“I let Guiyi Sect display their own abilities and steal their share themselves.” Ye Chenyan smiled and pressed the gourd into his arms. “This one is all yours.”

“If you can’t use it all yourself, take it back to Biehe Sect. Didn’t Fifth Senior Brother say none of you had ever seen spiritual liquid?”

Yu Qingtang looked at him with pleading eyes.

“What are you looking at me for?” Ye Chenyan turned his head forward. “Look down there. Observe carefully. See if there are any rare heavenly treasures. We’ll split them between us.”

The scene inside the Ancient Academy Realm was different every time. This time, after the Dragon Transformation Pool, there seemed to be a stretch of wasteland. But in midair, all kinds of magical artifacts drifted past, each giving off a different glow.

Some glowed faintly and looked close to scrap. Others had restrained brilliance, clearly still quite useful.

Ye Chenyan casually caught a tree branch. The jade-like branch, which had been giving off a soft glow, turned to powder the moment it landed in his hand and scattered with the wind. Clearly, it had weathered for who knew how long.

Ye Chenyan blew the ash from his hand with a whoosh and looked thoughtful. “It seems what we see on the surface isn’t necessarily the true state of these treasures. It may only be their future or past form.”

“Whether we can fish up a useful treasure seems to depend a bit on luck.”

He asked Yu Qingtang with great interest, “Which one do you think we should catch?”

Now you’re asking the right person.

Whether my luck is good is hard to say, but I’ve read the script!

Yu Qingtang cleared his throat and confidently pointed at the small flag to Ye Chenyan’s left. “That one. That one is definitely good!”

Before Ye Chenyan could move, his expression suddenly sharpened. He pressed Yu Qingtang’s head down with one hand and turned sideways, dodging a dart flying from behind.

The other party seized the chance to get ahead of them and reached out to grab the small flag first. The instant he touched it, he let out a sudden scream. Eight wounds deep enough to show bone appeared on his body, and with a tilt, he fell to the ground below, his life or death unknown.

Ye Chenyan: “...”

He narrowed his eyes at Yu Qingtang and raised an eyebrow. “Good?”

Yu Qingtang’s eyes widened in horror.

That shouldn’t be right. The plot never said this flag was this dangerous!

He stammered, trying to explain, “It-it’s that fierce, so that means it’s powerful!”

“Oh—” Ye Chenyan dragged out the word.

Yu Qingtang took a deep breath. Thinking of the gourd of spiritual liquid in his arms, he loyally rolled up his sleeves. “I’ll help you get it!”

“Hey—” Ye Chenyan quickly pulled him back. “Sit properly!”

He raised his hand and protected both hands with spiritual energy. “I’ll try.”

He had prepared himself for an attack, but when his hand reached over, the black flag merely trembled slightly and did not launch an attack.

Ye Chenyan had doubts, but he still took it out in one go.

Yu Qingtang leaned over to look. “See? The flag surface is intact, the spirit patterns are full. It can still be used, right?”

“Then why didn’t it attack me?” Ye Chenyan curiously turned it over and over. “Could there be an interval between attacks? Did that unlucky bastard just happen to block one for us?”

“Maybe...” Yu Qingtang was not sure either.

Long Aotian had many treasures on him. Plenty of them looked like they carried foreshadowing or would appear again later, but they were barely mentioned afterward. Who knew whether the author had forgotten?

Yu Qingtang patted him. “This one’s yours.”

“Since it’s a gift from you, I’ll accept it.” Ye Chenyan’s eyes curved with a smile. Like someone who had obtained a novel toy, he flipped it back and forth, then unfolded the flag surface toward the sun. “Hey, look. There seems to have been a character on here that got covered over. It doesn’t look like ordinary dirt. It’s more like it was sealed.”

Yu Qingtang asked curiously, “Can you recognize it?”

“No.” Ye Chenyan raised an eyebrow. “It doesn’t look like human writing. If we run into the demon race, we can ask them.”

As if sensing something, he narrowed his eyes and looked into the distance. Then his eyes lit up, and he pointed ahead. “Look who that is!”

“Who?” Yu Qingtang looked over as well, somewhat surprised. “It’s Chi Yantian! He’s moving alone too?”

Yu Qingtang remembered that Chi Yantian had a naturally impatient temper, and with his cultivation method on top of that, the slightest spark could set him off. He was like a firecracker.

In the plot, he had clashed with Ye Chenyan, but he was not exactly a villain. After fighting, they had even developed a bit of friendship. Especially later, after Ye Chenyan developed feelings with Tu Jiaojiao, Chi Yantian, as Ye Chenyan’s brother-in-law, had a pretty good relationship with him.

Yu Qingtang scratched his head. Now that the Tu Jiaojiao layer was gone, he did not know whether their relationship could still become that good.

Ye Chenyan asked in a low voice, “Do you still remember how he rode that Blazing Rhinoceros and charged at you?”

Yu Qingtang corrected him. “He almost hit me. There’s still a difference between succeeding and attempting—hey!”

He did not have time to stop him. Ye Chenyan had already called out, “Chi Yantian!”

The red-haired man came back to himself and raised an eyebrow. “You? Why are you only here now? So slow!”

After soaking in the Dragon Transformation Pool, he had barely paused and had immediately rushed deeper inside without stopping. From the look of it, he seemed to be searching for something.

Ye Chenyan was direct. He showed his silver battle spear. “Fight?”

Without another word, Chi Yantian drew two long flame blades and hacked straight at him.

Yu Qingtang quietly steered the spirit boat to a safe distance, clung to the wall, and cautiously watched the battle. He could not help reminding him, “...Shouldn’t you at least ask why?”

“What why?” Chi Yantian’s temper was explosive. His fiery red hair surged wildly in the wind as though it had ignited, loose and blazing like a scarlet demon. “If he annoys me, we fight!”

Yu Qingtang: “...”

Fine. Truly admirable.

“Good.” Ye Chenyan was not vague either. After exchanging one move with him, he pulled back. “But there should be stakes for winning and losing.”

Chi Yantian kept moving even while speaking, and the temperature of the air around him rose steadily. “What are you betting?”

Ye Chenyan showed the small flag. “A magical artifact I just picked up from the secret realm.”

“Fine.” Chi Yantian glanced at it casually, looking not very interested. “What do you want?”

Yu Qingtang lay inside the spirit boat to watch, propping his chin up gloomily. If this were the original Long Aotian, right now, he should have asked for something related to Tu Jiaojiao.

But now...

He looked at the Blazing Rhinoceros with a complicated gaze.

Who would have thought that the one to replace Tu Jiaojiao would be you?

The Blazing Rhinoceros was unmoved. Steam burst from its nostrils, and it charged headfirst toward Ye Chenyan.

Ye Chenyan kicked it back with one foot, not falling behind in the slightest even when clashing head-on with a demonic beast’s brute strength. He smiled and pointed at the beast. “If you lose, I’ll roast it and eat it.”

Chi Yantian flew into an instant rage. “No!”

“I raised it from childhood. It’s like my son! If you dare eat it, I’ll eat you raw!”

Ye Chenyan froze. He dodged the blade slashing toward him, his expression strange. “Huh?”

Yu Qingtang: “...”

Ye Chenyan retreated two steps and looked back at Yu Qingtang. Clearly caught off guard, he weighed his words and asked, “Then... do we still eat it?”

Yu Qingtang said, “...How could anyone still put it in their mouth after hearing that!”

He tried to smooth things over. “Forget it, forget it.”

But the other party involved—or rather, the demonic beast—did not seem inclined to smooth things over. It spewed flame from its mouth, scraped its forelegs against the ground to gather force, and slammed toward Ye Chenyan.

Ye Chenyan stepped on its head, making it let out a mournful cry.

Yu Qingtang’s eyebrow twitched, and he quickly advised him, “He already said that’s his son. Don’t-don’t step on its head!”

“Then...” Ye Chenyan seemed not to have any experience fighting children either, and tried to negotiate. “Kick its butt?”

The question only made Chi Yantian even angrier. “You dare!”

Ye Chenyan’s expression was strange, but his moves were not the least bit vague as he pushed Chi Yantian’s offensive back.

“I thought about it.” Ye Chenyan pointed at the Blazing Rhinoceros. “It’s a demonic beast, so I can let it off for not knowing better.”

Yu Qingtang nodded along like a pecking chick. “Right, right, right.”

The tip of Ye Chenyan’s spear pointed at Chi Yantian. “But you should know better.”

“If a son is not taught, it is the father’s fault. You brought it along to charge at people in the street. One offense on top of another!”

Yu Qingtang’s nodding motion got stuck. “Hey?”

Chi Yantian frowned, seeming to recall. “In the street?”

“If you lose, you let him hit you twice!” Ye Chenyan launched his attack. “No fighting back, and no holding a grudge.”

Chi Yantian huffed through his nostrils, and when angry, he looked exactly like his son. He roared, “You think I’m afraid of you? Forget two hits. If I lose, I’ll let her hit me until she’s satisfied!”

Yu Qingtang opened and closed his mouth. In the end, he said nothing.

In the original, Ye Chenyan and Chi Yantian had also had a fight. After it ended, even though Chi Yantian was unconvinced, he had at least felt some mutual respect.

Back then, it had been quite hot-blooded. But now...

Yu Qingtang scratched his chin with a delicate expression. This scene, well, the general direction was more or less the same, but every detail had something wrong with it.

It was like elementary school kids arguing. Furious, but kind of funny.

This probably had nothing to do with him, right?

Yu Qingtang met the eyes of Chi Yantian’s fine son. The Blazing Rhinoceros had taken a few hits from Ye Chenyan and was dizzy, but it still seemed unconvinced.

Its temper really was a lot like its father’s.

It turned and saw Yu Qingtang.

One man and one ox stared into each other’s eyes. Yu Qingtang suddenly had an ominous premonition and shouted, “Ye Chenyan, it’s going to gore me!”

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