Ch124 - That’s my name (1/2)
9.9 – That’s my name
translator: xiin
editor: alamerysl
It was a very dangerous thing to fall into Qi deviation on the path of cultivation. One wrong step and they would fall into the devil’s path, and lose their life. Every step was very dangerous.
Fortunately, his Master was very obedient and well-behaved after he entered Qi deviation. He was very quiet as long as he could see Xue Ling, and his pair of slightly red eyes were wide open as they locked onto him. He didn’t make noise, didn’t make a mess, and didn’t try to cut down trees.
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Xue Ling remained within his line of sight, and the two of them looked at each other for a long time. Finally, he couldn’t bear the weird atmosphere anymore, and asked the system that was squatting beside him looking completely at ease and comfortable: “What should we do now?”
The system looked at its host in some surprise. Its host had always had his own opinions. For him to reach the point where he was asking it what to do, this was…
“You’ve gone overboard.” The system learned from Xue Ling’s usual lazy tone, and there was a bit of mocking intent contained in its voice. “I told you long ago that you should give him some immunization. Otherwise, sooner or later you would choke him up to the point where something goes wrong. He went into Qi deviation just by learning that there was another person on Still Peak. If he finds out that you treat Yu Shaofeng as a son, won’t he directly turn into a devil?”
Xue Ling rolled his eyes. Faced with his system’s tone, he also had no intention of being polite. “You’re the one encouraging me behind the scenes. When I did this, you were clearly waving a flag and shouting in support.”
System: “…” Well yeah, as long as the man was unhappy, it would be happy, so it had indeed been waving a flag and cheering.
“Based on his current appearance, it looks like he’s trapped in his mind. But his power level has not changed, and I can’t leave his sight. It’s really quite difficult to deal with.”
“No one wants to go into Qi deviation and fall into the devil’s path, so let’s calm down and think about what to do to fix this.”
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“Don’t I look calm enough?” Xue Ling had never been more calm from beginning to end. He has experienced so many worlds that fewer and fewer things can surprise him. Hadn’t the man just gone mad out of jealousy? It was really something that this repressed man would do, and wasn’t surprising at all. “In the cultivation world, there are usually two ways to deal with Qi deviation. One is to wait for it to ease up on its own, and the other is to feed him medicine.”
“It’s not like you don’t know what to do. If you’re sick, you should take medicine. Just give him some pills.”
It was obvious that the system didn’t care about this man’s life or death. Xue Ling couldn’t just do that – things like Qi deviation were usually caused by an unsettled heart, coupled with paranoia, which led to a confused consciousness.
The man had never been paranoid before, so even when his consciousness was being eroded by his spiritual root, he had not entered Qi deviation. It was only now that Xue Ling was here that he began to be restless all the time.
After this point had been made clear, the system helplessly asked its host: “The source of his paranoia can only be you, and it’ll be fine if he can obtain you or something. What are you going to do now? Go up and let him do you?”
Xue Ling tilted his head and thought about it, then asked the system: “Isn’t this the traditional route for dogblood novels? Master goes into Qi deviation and tops the disciple, and forgets about this matter after they wake up while the disciple endured the humiliation and had to carry the burden alone. After that, he distanced himself from his Master so that he would not have to go back to that cold and cruel time in his memories. He wanted to have a normal life, but on the day he was about to start a new life, his Master remembered what had happened that day and all that they had done together.”
System: “Then there’s little black room play. I know! If you want to try that, I can find you a prisoner’s body in the next world.”
Xue Ling rolled his eyes at the system: “If I’m really imprisoned, I’ll probably pull out all your fur and then destroy the world to start over.”
System: “…” Did it have nothing to threaten its host with at all? … Why did it feel like being a system was an increasingly sorrowful thing…
“Why do you have such trivial things in your head?” Xue Ling knocked on the system’s head and laughed as he said, “How can you really believe that I really have to do those kinds of things with him to wake him up?”
“Probably because I’ve been influenced by you pair of dogs after so many worlds.”
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“Tsk.” Xue Ling did not bother with the system who had clearly seen through the fetters of the world and was a lonely single dog that got no love. He turned and sat down beside the man. “I wonder how far I have to go to wake him up?”
“The full set.”
Xue Ling: “…” The system has already broken down. It was pitiful hearing it speak in this kind of loveless tone.
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As long as Xue Ling did not leave his sight, Chi Lan would not make any unnecessary moves. In order to measure out the distance that he could leave between the two of them, Xue Ling even did some tests.
He spent the morning testing it out, but Chi Lan seemed to be getting worse from all the excitement, so Xue Ling finally had to stop… He realized that he probably wouldn’t be able to leave the courtyard for a while.
He had originally been naïve enough to think that he could make something like a stand-in, sticking his leaves on the body and infusing it with his Qi to fool Chi Lan, but Chi Lan had only gone into Qi deviation and lost his rationality, and had not become a fool, so he held on tightly to Xue Ling and refused to let go. Xue Ling tried many different methods, but had no way to get away from him. This gave Xue Ling a headache, and he finally had no energy left to mess around with him and could only let the other party tug at his sleeve with a look of grievance on his face.
The system watched the whole process and finally told its host, “Give up. Stop struggling and use your body to wake up his mind!”
Xue Ling answered it very simply: “Get lost!”
Although his answer had been explosive and domineering, Xue Ling had actually thought about this solution, but he was held back by moral integrity.
The relationship between him and Chi Lan in this world was not at the point where he could take the initiative to devotedly go ahead and do it. If things went on like this, he would be going OOC.
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The system had already been left outside. After it turned dark, Xue Ling brought his Master, who still wasn’t in a good state, into the room and tried to save him once again.
Compared with this morning, Chi Lan seemed to be a little better. At least, the gaze he used to look at Xue Ling was no longer like a child who was eyeing their own possession. There were some additional, unusual emotions that were suppressed with great effort. He seemed to be hesitating, bewildered, and his confusion was like that of a child.
Xue Ling’s heart softened when he saw this kind of gaze.
Exactly. Even if he talked outrageously with the system and had even more fantastical thoughts, when he was faced with this man, he would still be completely influenced by him. Just like how he would break out of the character he had designed for himself in the last world because of the man’s words of love, in this world, his heart once again melted when he was faced with this kind of gaze.
But he couldn’t repeat the same mistake again. Xue Ling suppressed his desire to push the other party down and bite him from head to toe. Instead, he first held Chi Lan’s hand and smiled as he told him, “Promise me you’ll calm down.”
Chi Lan stared at him for a long time, and finally nodded reluctantly.
He clutched Xue Ling’s hand tightly and looked at him with unhappily: “You brought strangers into Still Peak…”
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Xue Ling thought to himself that since he still remembered this matter, it meant that he hadn’t become completely foolish. Although his heart was full of curses, Xue Ling still had a soft look on his face, and his tone was gentle as he said: “That’s not a stranger, that’s your disciple.”
“You are my only disciple.”
“Fine then, he can be my disciple.”