After Crossdressing and Provoking Long AoTian

Before the Blazing Rhinoceros could exert any strength, it was flipped onto the ground again. Ye Chenyan pressed down on its head, the tip of his spear pointed at its neck, his smile dangerous. “Don’t move.”

He was not saying it to the Blazing Rhinoceros.

He was saying it to Chi Yantian.

Yu Qingtang followed along, borrowing the tiger’s might. “Hear that? Don’t move! Or we’ll slaughter your precious ox!”

Chi Yantian’s hands trembled slightly around his two long flame blades. He threw his head back and shouted, “Aaaaaah, I’m so furious!”

Yu Qingtang thought he was about to launch a reckless surprise attack and prepared himself to turn and run.

Who knew Chi Yantian would whip around instead and swing both blades straight at the mountain beside him? The entire mountain looked as if someone had taken a bite out of one side.

Yu Qingtang: “...”

It was honestly rather artistic. Later generations could look at that shape and make up some thrilling story about immortals fighting to the death.

After Chi Yantian ruined half the mountain, he finally calmed down a little. Red-eyed, he asked, “What exactly do you two want!”

“You won’t even fight properly. What are you even here for!”

“Who isn’t fighting properly?” Ye Chenyan raised an eyebrow.

“You fight him.” Yu Qingtang pointed at the two of them, then pointed at the Blazing Rhinoceros lying sprawled on its back. “But it can’t fight me.”

Chi Yantian ground his teeth. “On what grounds!”

Yu Qingtang stood beside Ye Chenyan, his arrogance blazing. “On the grounds that your precious ox is in our hands!”

“It’s my demonic beast mount!” Chi Yantian stuck his neck out. “It’s only right and proper for me to fight the enemy together with it! I raised it in the first place because it would be a major source of support!”

Yu Qingtang advised him, “You can’t raise a son with such a utilitarian mindset!”

Chi Yantian was frantic with anger. “What the hell?”

Yu Qingtang was about to advise him a little more, but Ye Chenyan suddenly let go and tossed the Blazing Rhinoceros over.

Chi Yantian caught it with one hand and was smashed several steps backward, but he still protected his precious son, whose weight was astonishing.

Chi Yantian raised an eyebrow. “What’s this supposed to mean?”

“You can bring it if you want.” Ye Chenyan flexed his wrist. “Two against two.”

He turned back with a beaming smile and pressed Yu Qingtang’s head once. “Cover me.”

As he spoke, he charged forward in one step, his long spear flying out of his hand.

Yu Qingtang said, “Hey!”

At least ask my opinion first!

With a sorrowful heart, he took the qin out of his storage ring. In this battle, he was actually on the same level as the mount ox.

Then again, if it came to a one-on-one fight, he really might not be able to beat the ox. It was hard to say who was at more of a disadvantage here.

Yu Qingtang stuffed a Spirit Recovery Pill into his mouth and urged indistinctly, “Fight faster!”

He could not hold out for long!

Without looking back, Ye Chenyan answered, high-spirited, “Three moves!”

Chi Yantian mounted the Blazing Rhinoceros, like a burning flame chariot. “You’re courting death!”

As everyone knew, when a Long Aotian said something, he did it. Three moves meant three moves.

Three moves later, the Blazing Rhinoceros and Chi Yantian lay on the ground with all four limbs in the air, looking very much like father and son.

Yu Qingtang lay sprawled over the spirit boat and silently bit open the sweet-flavored Spirit Recovery Pill in his mouth. Feeling abundant spiritual power pour into his Golden Core, he finally let out a breath.

“I won.” Ye Chenyan put away his spear, turned back, smiled at him, and held up three fingers. “Three moves.”

Yu Qingtang’s expression was complicated.

Damn it. He had let him show off again.

You brat really were born to be the male lead.

He clapped perfunctorily. “Amazing, amazing.”

“Ah.” Ye Chenyan sighed, crouched in front of him, and gave him a hand. “Even if you don’t seek the Great Dao and a path to heaven, you still have to cultivate a little more diligently. At the very least, you should be able to last through one piece, right?”

He reached out and poked Yu Qingtang’s forehead. “Otherwise, what will you do if something happens later?”

Chi Yantian lifted his head with difficulty. He had clearly lost, but he was obviously still unconvinced. “What is wrong with this qin cultivator? He’s weak and strong at the same time!”

Say he was weak, but that piece just now had made Ye Chenyan even fiercer, and had irritated Chi Yantian so badly that he had nearly thrown his own formation into chaos.

Say he was strong, but he had only plucked the qin three times in total just now, and now he looked as if he could not get up.

“Haha.” Yu Qingtang laughed dryly twice.

Was that so hard to understand? He was the weak one. The qin was the strong one.

Ye Chenyan raised an eyebrow. “Do you admit defeat?”

“No!” Chi Yantian glared, sticking out his neck as he answered. “But I won’t go back on what I promised earlier.”

“You. Hit me.”

He closed his eyes with an air of letting others do as they pleased.

Yu Qingtang’s eyes widened blankly. “Actually hit you?”

“What, was it fake?” Ye Chenyan put an arm around his shoulder. “Go. Hit him.”

Yu Qingtang: “...”

He sized Chi Yantian up. That whole body of solid muscle looked, no matter how he examined it, like the result of successful body-tempering. Yu Qingtang suspected that if he punched him, the person injured might be himself.

He tried asking, “Where’s your weak point?”

Chi Yantian opened his eyes and looked wary. “How could I possibly tell you that!”

“True...” Yu Qingtang rolled up his sleeves and extended his hand. “Then this is the only way.”

Ye Chenyan was interested. “What way?”

Yu Qingtang bent his finger and flicked him on the forehead with a POP. Chi Yantian’s slightly raised head slammed into the ground with a THUD, kicking up quite a bit of dust.

Ye Chenyan’s eyes widened in considerable shock.

Yu Qingtang proudly displayed his long fingers. “Impressive, right?”

“We qin cultivators may not have much else, but our fingers are definitely stronger than ordinary people’s!”

At least he had cultivated immortality. He had a little unique ultimate technique besides begging for mercy!

Perhaps because Ye Chenyan’s gaze was too shocked, Yu Qingtang cleared his throat and reservedly withdrew his finger. “I don’t usually hit people. This is also... adapting to local customs.”

Chi Yantian bared his teeth and grimaced as he touched his forehead and sat up. “...I underestimated you!”

He stubbornly lifted his head. “Again!”

“Again what?” Yu Qingtang looked baffled. “You still want to take a second one?”

Chi Yantian glared. “Didn’t you say you could hit me until you were satisfied? One hit and you’re satisfied?”

Yu Qingtang: “...”

He turned his head and quietly asked Ye Chenyan, “Is he a little one-track-minded?”

Ye Chenyan nodded with deep agreement. “More than a little.”

“One is enough.” Yu Qingtang waved his hand. To avoid this one-track-minded man continuing to pester him, he proactively changed the topic and casually asked, “Why aren’t you moving together with the people from Heavenly Fire Cult? What are you looking for?”

He asked so naturally and casually that Chi Yantian actually answered just as naturally and casually. “I’m looking for Sage-Hearing Academy’s artifact-refining office.”

Yu Qingtang and Ye Chenyan looked at each other. Yu Qingtang slowly said, “...Is that something you’re allowed to say?”

Chi Yantian thought about it. “Seems not.”

Yu Qingtang’s expression was complicated. “Then why did you...”

Chi Yantian had already sat up. He took a handful of hay out of his storage ring and fed it to the drooping Blazing Rhinoceros, then waved a hand with perfect confidence. “I already said it without thinking. What can I do?”

“At worst, I’ll take you two along.”

Ye Chenyan became slightly interested. He asked, “Sage-Hearing Academy has an artifact-refining office too?”

“It does.” Chi Yantian was utterly certain. “When the elders in our cult were sorting out the genealogy, they discovered that one of their great-great-great-grandfathers once held a post in Sage-Hearing Academy. He was a forging master in the artifact-refining office.”

“From that, it can be seen that Sage-Hearing Academy definitely had its own artifact-refining office.”

When Chi Yantian spoke of this, his eyes shone. “An artifact-refining office from the primeval era. Who knows? Maybe we can find some lost artifact-refining techniques. That legendary artifact-refining room—even getting one look at it would be worth it!”

“But...” He glanced at the two of them. “There might not necessarily be any finished magical artifacts there. If you’re coming for magical artifacts, you’d be better off going with everyone else to look for the treasury.”

“Since we’re already here, we might as well join the fun.” Ye Chenyan showed some interest. “Don’t worry. Neither of us knows artifact refining. Anything related to artifact refining is yours. For the rest, we’ll each rely on our own ability.”

“Fine.” Chi Yantian agreed readily. “Each of us relies on our own ability!”

...This was an unexpected delight that did not exist in the original novel.

But Yu Qingtang was already used to the plot running wild from time to time, so he nodded with an extremely broad heart. “Then lead the way.”

Chi Yantian scratched his head. “I haven’t found it yet.”

Yu Qingtang: “...”

“Why are you looking at me like that!” Chi Yantian took out a piece of blood jade, unconvinced. “That sect elder of ours gave me his bloodline jade tablet. If it senses the aura of an ancestor, it’ll give some guidance.”

“It guided me here, then stopped reacting. Either there’s something strange here, or it’s right here.”

He nodded firmly. “I’m guessing it’s right here!”

Ye Chenyan was thoughtful. He pointed at the magical artifacts constantly sweeping past around them. “Could it be among those?”

“The time and space around these magical artifacts are all chaotic. Maybe one of them can bring people into the artifact-refining office.”

“How are we supposed to find that?” Chi Yantian scratched his head. “That’s like fishing for a needle in the sea.”

But he was not discouraged at all. “We’ll try them one by one!”

“This sort of thing depends on fate.” Yu Qingtang spoke with the air of an old master. “If you’re fated, you’ll naturally find it.”

If they relied on brute force one by one, who knew how long it would take?

Ye Chenyan raised an eyebrow and suddenly asked him, “Which one do you think it is?”

Yu Qingtang froze. “Me?”

“Finding that flag was already me performing beyond normal limits. I really don’t know about this...”

“You just said it depends on fate.” Ye Chenyan smilingly put an arm around his shoulder. “Pick one at random and let’s see your fate.”

Yu Qingtang hesitated, staring at the magical artifacts whooshing by overhead. There were towers, diagrams, swords, all sorts of things.

Related to an artifact-refining office...

He closed his eyes. “That bowl!”

Chi Yantian expressed doubt. “A bowl? Don’t tell me you’re hungry.”

Yu Qingtang shrugged. “I’m just guessing anyway.”

“Fine.” Chi Yantian lifted his chin at him. “You guessed it, so go verify it.”

“Heh-heh.” Yu Qingtang revealed a smile and tucked his hands into his sleeves with perfect confidence. “I don’t have hands.”

Chi Yantian looked as if this was his first time seeing someone be so cowardly, righteous, and full of nonsense all at once. For a moment, he glared and could not say a word.

“Cough.” Ye Chenyan failed to hold back a laugh. He stepped forward and stopped the broken bowl as it flew past. “As it happens, I have hands. I’ll do it.”

The moment his hand touched the edge of the broken bowl, the broken bowl shuddered slightly and emitted a primordial glow. Ye Chenyan vanished directly from where he stood.

“There’s movement!” Chi Yantian’s spirits lifted. He immediately mounted the Blazing Rhinoceros and chased after it. “We said we’d advance and retreat together. We’re going together!”

“Safety first!” Yu Qingtang ducked into the spirit boat and cautiously followed behind him, then also touched the broken bowl.

After they entered, the broken bowl emitted wave after wave of dazzling rainbow light, then exploded with a BOOM. A ruined ancient building appeared out of thin air and crashed onto the ground.

Countless prodigies came rushing over at the sound, but the magical artifacts that had originally been floating in this area were now all drawn in, forming a formation around the building. Each displayed its own abilities, not allowing anyone to approach at all.

Scholar Xiao of Four Books Academy stared at the building, a strange light flashing through his eyes. He clapped his hands in surprise. “An Object Formation!”

Seeing people look over, he shrugged regretfully. “Once an Object Formation opens, the opening gets hidden away. No one can go in now.”

And at this moment, the three people and one ox who had already entered the building’s interior...

As soon as they stepped into this space, there was a violent tremor. Amid heaven and earth spinning around them, Yu Qingtang was tossed until he saw stars. In the crucial moment when he was about to be flung out of the spirit boat and have an intimate collision with the ground, Ye Chenyan grabbed him around the waist and hauled him back.

Yu Qingtang was dizzy and dazed, thinking that cultivating immortality really had given him quite a few brand-new life experiences. He could even experience the inside perspective of a front-load washing machine.

Chi Yantian had punched one hand through the wall, gripping the broken edge to keep himself steady. His other hand was still holding the Blazing Rhinoceros. At this moment, he was still hanging from the wall.

After the space stabilized, he landed on the ground with a THUD, looked around excitedly, and took a deep breath. “That’s right, that’s right! This is definitely the place!”

“The metal-and-iron energy here is especially dense, and abundant fire elements are gathered here too. This must be the legendary artifact-refining office!”

“I knew I was fated with this place!”

Yu Qingtang corrected him. “I picked it. It’s fated with me.”

Ye Chenyan followed with his own correction. “I verified it. It’s fated with me too.”

Chi Yantian opened his mouth, found no way to refute them, and bared his teeth in irritation as he walked inside. “I get it, I get it! Are you two done being annoying? If there’s anything good, I won’t forget you!”

Yu Qingtang and Ye Chenyan looked at each other, then followed him with beaming smiles.

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