After Crossdressing and Provoking Long AoTian

“The mood has already reached this point.” Eldest Senior Sister pushed at his back, sending him down the mountain. “If you don’t go out now, it would be somewhat impolite.”

“And if we keep dragging this out, what if Ye Chenyan fights his way in?”

Yu Qingtang’s face was foul as he slowly shuffled toward the gate. Not far behind him, everyone from the sect lined up in a row, craning their necks to watch him.

Yu Qingtang turned back. “Why don’t we...”

“Slow!” Eldest Senior Sister’s expression was solemn. “When you turn around, do it slowly!”

Yu Qingtang’s movements stiffened. He slowly turned back again. “...Forget it.”

For some reason, his back carried a tragic air, as though the wind howled cold over the Yi River.

Every single person in his sect was unreliable in their own special way. He should have known that long ago.

But after spending so much time together, he had developed at least some familial attachment to them. Besides...

Originally, they did not need to have anything to do with Long Aotian at all.

In the novel Young God-King: Unifying the Immortal Sects, Yu Qingtang was the only character from Biehe Sect who ever appeared.

Perhaps that was precisely why. Just as fish in the deep sea, where no one could see them, were free to grow however they liked, Passerby A characters who never appeared onstage and existed only to fill out the world were also free to grow however they liked in the places the plot could not see.

Yu Qingtang gave a melancholy sigh and glanced back at them.

Although each of them was unreliable in their own way, Yu Qingtang still preferred them like this—unbound by the plot, growing wildly and freely.

He took a deep breath, straightened his clothes, slung the qin onto his back, and his gaze gradually firmed.

For the sake of this pack of unlucky fools, he had to escape the plot as soon as possible, finish his role, and continue his lazy but happy immortal cultivation life!

It was just a gentle refusal of Long Aotian. He could do this. He had this!

At last, Yu Qingtang slowly took a step forward.

The child guarding the mountain gate ran down ahead of him. “Little Senior Sister, I’ll go down first and give him some mental preparation!”

“I feel like I’m the one who needs mental preparation,” Yu Qingtang muttered softly, but still nodded.

The child ran swiftly, shouting at the top of his lungs, “Little Senior Sister is here!”

Ye Chenyan turned back. “Final—”

“Ah—” The child reached the mountain gate first, focused his eyes, let out a scream, and fell backward onto his bottom in front of the gate.

Ye Chenyan raised his head to look inside the mountain gate. He could vaguely make out a figure in green robes. Before he could take a closer look, the child had already grabbed the hem of his clothes and barely managed to support himself upright. “Y-you... you killed the Green Fiend Monkey!”

Only then did Ye Chenyan lower his head to look at him. Amused, he raised an eyebrow. “Why are you so scared?”

He suddenly thought of a rather bad possibility. His expression turned unnatural for an instant. Clearing his throat, he asked with a hint of guilt, “This monkey wasn’t something your sect raised, was it? It provoked me first.”

“Of course not!” The child’s face flushed red. “That’s a vicious beast!”

“Then that’s good.” Ye Chenyan breathed out in relief. He casually pulled out his spear and was about to continue looking carefully at the figure walking down the mountain. Just from the outline alone, she was clearly a beauty with an otherworldly air. She was simply walking a little too slowly.

The child boldly leaned closer to look at the Green Fiend Monkey’s mangled body, then could not help raising his head to ask, “You killed it by yourself? In such a short time?”

“Mm.” Ye Chenyan looked baffled. “It’s only a seventh-tier vicious beast, and one known for being cunning at that. It’s not especially strong.”

“It’s been harassing our sect for months!” For some reason, the child felt a little wronged. He tried to make Ye Chenyan understand just how frightening this vicious beast was. “It breaks into our kitchen every time and causes trouble, and it almost carried off Senior Sister! Master was nearly at the end of his patience and wanted to activate the mountain-protecting grand array!”

“That arrogant?” Ye Chenyan muttered. “Green Fiend Monkeys do have thieving habits, but... you really couldn’t do anything about it?”

“That’s not it.” The child puffed out his chest and lifted his head. With a certain pride, he pointed behind himself at Yu Qingtang, who had finally reached them. “Little Senior... Sister’s Heart-Cleansing Melody is powerful. Every time he plays it, he can calm the vicious beast’s anger.”

Ye Chenyan did not seem to have heard much of that.

His eyes widened slightly. He stared at Yu Qingtang’s face, as though he had forgotten how to breathe.

A gust of wind blew past. Leaves rustled through the mountain woods, as though, in an instant, it had carried him back to the back mountain of Ten Thousand Immortals Pavilion, where peach blossoms fell softly and one glance lasted ten thousand years.

“Is... is it really you?” Ye Chenyan actually seemed somewhat nervous. Only now did he remember to hurriedly wipe the blood from his spear.

Yu Qingtang kept firmly in mind his persona of cool, noble aloofness. Even though the Green Fiend Monkey’s death was so gruesome it practically needed to be censored with a mosaic, frightening all the color from his face, he resisted the urge to hug Ye Chenyan’s leg and admit defeat.

However, the peach-blossom-severing lines he had memorized so thoroughly just now—right now, he truly did not dare say them.

Otherwise, he suspected that in a moment, the one lying there in the Green Fiend Monkey’s place would be him.

Perhaps his gaze was too intense, because Ye Chenyan finally reacted. He abruptly moved his foot aside and, in a clumsy attempt to cover it up, rubbed it against the ground.

Yu Qingtang: “...”

“Cough.” Ye Chenyan gave him a somewhat embarrassed smile.

In accordance with the principle that one should not strike a smiling face, Yu Qingtang decided to praise him first. “A vicious beast ran rampant and harassed our sect. Many thanks for your assistance.”

“Ah, there’s no need to thank me.” Ye Chenyan quickly waved a hand. “It attacked me first, so I struck back. It was only self-defense. Besides...”

He swept his gaze around. His eyes passed over several array eyes that looked perfectly ordinary. “The arrays in this mountain can draw upon natural power. If they truly activated, I imagine they wouldn’t be unable to deal with one Green Fiend Monkey.”

At this point in time, Ye Chenyan had already begun to show the bearing of the “Young God-King.” He was just at the age when his spirit soared high and his sharpness remained unsheathed, his every movement extraordinary.

He practically had the words “I’m not an ordinary person” written across his face. Aside from being especially good at attracting romantic trouble, he was also especially asking for a beating.

Yu Qingtang laughed dryly twice. The child popped out from behind Ye Chenyan and pointed to the corners of his own mouth with both hands to remind him. Yu Qingtang immediately pressed the corners of his mouth down again, trying hard to look a little smarter.

Actually, Ye Chenyan was right. Biehe Sect’s mountain-protecting grand array was not so weak that it could not handle one monkey, but every monster Long Aotian fought in the early stages came with its own benefit.

The cowlick that fell from this monkey’s head counted as an important early-stage magical artifact. It had a certain chance of automatically stealing nearby small magical artifacts.

Since it had such a convenient setting, anything it stole later would definitely be good.

Anything belonging to Long Aotian was better left untouched if possible.

Previously, Yu Qingtang had been afraid his Master would lose patience and make a move, so he had persuaded them several times, all for the sake of leaving this monkey to Long Aotian.

He had no idea how the plot had reasonably made Biehe Sect endure it for several months. In any case, he had done his best.

He stole a glance. Sure enough, there was a shining cowlick on the monkey’s head. It seemed Long Aotian had not plucked it off yet.

Yu Qingtang was distracted for a little too long. Long Aotian cautiously lifted his eyes to look at him and called, “Fairy?”

The child timely helped smooth things over. “My Little Senior Sister is naturally silent and reserved.”

“Oh.” Ye Chenyan looked at him eagerly and cleared his throat. “Fairy, I came this time because there is something I wish to ask of you.”

Here it comes!

Yu Qingtang’s heart tightened. He clenched his hands. As long as he said the refusal out loud!

Ye Chenyan took a deep breath. “The Qingzhou Golden Core Competition has summoned outstanding heroes from all under heaven. I-I would like to invite Fairy to travel there with me. May I ask whether Fairy would, uh...”

He seemed unused to saying such refined words. He spoke haltingly, then lifted his eyes toward Yu Qingtang with his face flushed completely red, innocent and pure-hearted.

“I don’t... hm?” Yu Qingtang was halfway through speaking before he reacted. His eyes widened. “Golden Core... Competition?”

The child was shocked too. “What? Aren’t you here to propose marriage?”

Excellent question!

My future Little Junior Brother, my current mouthpiece!

Yu Qingtang cast the child a grateful glance. Ye Chenyan scratched his nose in embarrassment. “I... I naturally fell in love with Fairy at first sight, but coming up and proposing marriage right away would be far too presumptuous. It would also make it seem as though Guiyi Sect was using its power to pressure others.”

Yu Qingtang: “...”

So you do know!

Ye Chenyan continued blushing to himself. “But that was what you said back then, so I still have to let you know...”

“I haven’t forgotten.”

He suddenly stepped forward and reached toward Yu Qingtang’s ear. A small earring dangled from his fingertips, gently swaying as a faint gleam flashed over it.

Ye Chenyan’s eyes moved slightly. Lowering his voice beside Yu Qingtang’s ear, he said, “It really is you.”

Yu Qingtang’s gaze fell on the earring in his hand, his expression blank.

So he had dropped an earring back then?

No, wait!

He suddenly remembered the details from back then. Ye Chenyan had picked a peach blossom petal from his head, then his hand had followed down along the right side and brushed past the curve of his right ear...

He stole it!

Yu Qingtang narrowed his eyes. You brat. Your little hands aren’t very clean, are they? Even stealing things in passing now.

Ye Chenyan looked over. Yu Qingtang immediately turned his gaze away.

He had no proof.

Even if he did, he would not dare say it.

“I had Master calculate it in advance,” Ye Chenyan said, secretly looking at him. “You should happen to be at Golden Core now too.”

Yu Qingtang: “...”

His eyes wavered slightly. “What else did your Master calculate?”

Ye Chenyan smiled sheepishly. “Sect, location, cultivation level, still unmarried. Then we checked the immortal sects’ registry...”

Yu Qingtang: “...”

So the immortal cultivation world had no privacy either.

He barely tugged at the corner of his mouth. “Amazing.”

Your Master calculated all that, so why didn’t he calculate that I’m a man while he was at it?

Dryly, he recited the lines his Senior Sisters had originally instructed him to say. “Well, about the proposal, I—I cultivate the Dao of Emotionlessness...”

“Ah?” Ye Chenyan was caught off guard. “The Dao of Emotionlessness?”

“Yes.” Yu Qingtang took a deep breath and finally said the line. “I... cannot betray the immortal sects. Thus, I can only betray you.”

“Since it’s the Dao of Emotionlessness...” Ye Chenyan’s eyes dimmed in an instant, actually making him seem a little pitiful.

Yu Qingtang was just thinking of consoling him with a few words when he suddenly heard Ye Chenyan say, “Then one must enter emotion before transcending it.”

He lifted his eyes, sincere and utterly earnest. “Fairy can just use me as a stepping stone. I’m willing.”

Yu Qingtang: “!”

Was that how the Dao of Emotionlessness was cultivated? He had no idea!

“Since Fairy has her heart set on the Dao, then you have even more reason not to miss the Golden Core Competition.” Ye Chenyan’s eyes were desolate, but he rallied his spirits and suggested, “Why not travel with me?”

Seeing that Yu Qingtang did not immediately answer, he looked even more disappointed. “Or is Fairy unwilling even to go together with me?”

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