Chapter 24: In That Moment Where Mu Chen Is Distracted, Take the Chance–Kiss! (1/2)
小徒弟藏在房中欺负一只鸭子，穆辰心情十分微妙，看顾云玦的眼神也很是莫测。
His little disciple was in the middle of the room and bullying a duck. Mu Chen’s mood was very subtle, and Gu Yunjue’s expression was also hard to tell.
顾云玦掩下眼底的深意，笑眯眯的跑过去，拉着穆辰的手亲昵的喊师尊。
Gu Yunjue concealed the deep desires in his eyes and ran over beaming, pulling Mu Chen’s hand and intimately calling out master.
穆辰刚想教育几句，这时管善端着一盘糖糕过来，弯腰见过礼之后笑着道：“少主，您要的糖糕。”
Mu Chen had just thought of wanting to lecture him. Right at this moment, Guan Shan brought a plate of sugar cakes over, bowing for etiquette and then happily said, “Young Master, the sugar cakes you wanted.”
穆辰走进来摸着顾云玦的脑壳，冷着脸问：“少主？”
Mu Chen entered and stroked Gu Yunjue’s head, asked with a cold face, “Young Master?”
“小宫主太难听了，”顾云玦撇撇嘴，“听起来像小公主。”
“Young Palace Master is too unpleasant to hear,” Gu Yunjue pouted, “It sounds like a little princess.”
TL note: Young Palace Master (xiǎo gōng zhǔ) is a homonym for Little Princess (xiǎo gōng zhǔ).
穆辰抬手在其脑壳上拍了一记，反问：“你现在不就被当成公主养么？”
Mu Chen lifted his hand to swat at the other’s head and asked, “Aren’t you being taken care of like a princess right now?”
“师尊，”顾云玦抓住自己脑壳上的手，有些无奈的捏了捏，感受着掌心细腻的触感，忍不住又靠近了些，仰着脸问他：“那您岂不是老公主？”
“Master,” Gu Yunjue grabbed the hand on his head and couldn’t help himself from kneading it, sensing the palms’ elegant feel. He couldn’t help himself from moving closer, facing up, he asked, “Then wouldn’t you be an old princess?”
“老？”穆辰拉下脸，有种想把这个小崽子拎起来打屁股的冲动，竟然说他老！他哪里老？和他同样修为的人分明都是老头子！
“Old?” Mu Chen frowned. He has the urge to pick up this child and spank him. To go as far as to call him old! In what way is he old? The people that have the same cultivation as him were all old man!
“即使师尊变老变丑，徒儿还是最喜欢师尊。”顾云玦观察着穆辰的脸色，很喜欢把这个清冷的人逗弄出不同的表情，或喜或怒，都能让这张绝色的脸增添几分颜色。见穆辰脸色微缓，顾云玦继续道：“等我长大了也要把师尊当成公主养，养在富丽堂皇的宫殿之内，师尊每天什么都不做，看着我便好。”
“Even if master becomes old and ugly, disciple will still like master the most.” Gu Yunjue watched Mu Chen’s face and enjoyed teasing this cold faced person into making different expressions, even adding any expression to this beautiful face. Seeing Mu Chen’s complexion relax slightly, Gu Yunjue proceeded to say, “When I grow up, I will treat master like a princess and keep you inside a sumptuous palace. Master doesn’t need to do anything, you only need to watch me..”
TL note: 富丽堂皇 – sumptuous mansions – splendorous and majestic
穆辰脸色又冷了下来，那是猪，那不是公主！
Mu Chen’s face cooled down again. That’s a pig, not a princess.
TL note: pig = zhū猪, princess = gōngzhǔ 公主
他张了张嘴，很想纠正一下顾云玦的想法，可想到小徒弟敏感的性子，用他少有的词汇量，又不知道怎么在不伤害其的情况下开口，于是一下子愣了神，面色纠结，眉头微蹙，有些烦躁。
He opened his mouth, wanting to correct Gu Yunjue’s notion. Thinking of his small disciple’s sensitive temper and using his rare vocabulary, he did not know what to say that would not hurt his feelings. As a result, his expression cooled suddenly all of a sudden, his face twisted, his brows slightly knitted, appearing somewhat irritated.
顾云玦好笑的看着他这个模样，黑色的眸子里闪过笑意，他认真的夸赞道：“师尊现在的样子真可爱。”
Gu Yunjue laughably looked at the other’s appearance, and a smiling expression flashed through his black eyes. He earnestly praised, “Master’s appearance right now is adorable.”
缩在一旁努力降低自己存在感的黑蛋再次用翅膀捂脸，这太不要脸了，连自己师尊都敢调戏，不过穆辰未必听得出来。
Black Egg who was shrinking away at the side to reduce his existence brought his wings to cover his face again. These actions are too shameless. His master even dared to take to take liberties with the other; only Mu Chen didn’t necessarily hear them.
果然，穆辰终于接上话了，立马给顾云玦纠正道：“夸赞别人的时候不能只用可爱两个字，明天背诵一百个成语，晚上考你。”
Sure enough, Mu Chen eventually resumed talking, swiftly correcting Gu Yunjue and said, “When praising others, you should not only use the word ‘cute’. Tomorrow, recite one hundred proverbs. I will test you in the evening.”
顾云玦乖巧的道：“师尊说的是，徒儿记下了。”
Gu Yunjue cutely replied, “Master’s words are right. Disciple will remember it.”
穆辰坐下来，见桌上的笔墨未干，提笔画了一株药草，开始问顾云玦这两天所学，顾云玦对答如流，把药草的用处说的一字不差。
Mu Chen took a seat and saw that the brush and ink on the desk have yet to dry. Writing down a medicinal herb, he began to ask Gu Yunjue to study it. Gu Yunjue quickly responded, saying the medicinal herb’s use word for word.
穆辰满意的点点头，夸赞道：“不错，从明天开始，你可以去藏书阁挑些喜欢的书籍和功法，拿着我给你的牌子，喜欢什么拿什么。”
Mu Chen was pleased and nodded his head, and commended the other, “Correct. From tomorrow on, you can go to the book pavilion to pick out some books and cultivation methods that you like. With the plate that I gave you, take whatever you like.”
把门内的藏书阁说的像自家书房，也就穆辰敢这样说。
He spoke as if the inner sect’s book pavilion was his personal study. Only Mu Chen would dare to speak this way.
顾云玦笑眯眯的答应，崇云门底蕴丰厚，上一世穆辰就给他权限，任他在里面出入自由，倒是找到不少好东西。
Gu Yunjue beamed and agreed. Lofty Cloud Sect’s was generous with their inside information. In his previous life, Mu Chen gave him entire access, letting him freely go in and out and find many good things.
考完了功课，穆辰这才站起身，临走时又看了眼缩成个球的黑蛋，还是忍不住对顾云玦教育道：“这黑蛋……黑蛋也是个有生命的东西，你少欺负它。”
Finishing the task, Mu Chen stood up. Before leaving, he looked back at Black Egg who was still shrunken into a ball, and couldn’t help to educate Gu Yunjue, “This Black Egg… Black Egg is also a living thing. You should bully it less.”
黑蛋：“……”有生命的，东西……
Hei dan: “……” living thing…
顾云玦抓起黑蛋搓了搓，抛向空中又接住，抓在手心笑的像个活泼的孩子，“徒儿跟它闹着玩儿呢。”
Gu Yunjue grabbed Black Egg and kneaded him, threw him up in the air and caught him. Catching him in the palm of his hand and smiling like a lively child, he said, “Disciple is playing games with it.”
穆辰好不容易见小徒弟像个正常孩子一般调皮，脸上终于露出笑容，“知道分寸就好。”
It was hard for Mu Chen to see the small disciple as a normal and mischievous child, his face eventually exposed a smile, “It’s good that you know how to act properly.”
穆辰走后，顾云玦轻抿着嘴角，两根手指捏着黑蛋的肩胛骨处，轻轻将其拎起来，看着对方生无可恋的眼神，他温和道：“黑蛋，我让人给你做了糖糕，不是来者不拒吗？快趁热吃。”
After Mu Chen left, Gu Yunjue simply flattened the corners of his mouth. Two of his fingers pinched Black Egg’s shoulder blade for punishment and lightly lifted him up. Looking at the other’s unrequited eyes, he gently said, “Black Egg, I had people make sugar cakes for you. You shouldn’t refuse them, right? Hurry up and eat them hot.”
黑蛋几乎郁卒，它跟着穆辰回来本是想在这个安逸的地方平安长大，等有自保能力再回去横扫魔界当上盛世魔君，从此以后三界横着走，凤凰见了它都要喊爹。然而理想很丰满，现实很骨感，现在却成了阶下囚，被当成灵宠养，还吃糖糕？它现在扁扁的鸭子嘴吃个毛的糖糕？一吃就粘嘴！它只想吃灵魂，却邪恶越好！
Black Egg was almost depressed. It followed Mu Chen home because he thought that this comfortable place was safe to grow up. Waiting until he can defend himself and then return to sweep across the Devil Realm and become the Devil Monarch in a golden age. From then on, he will cross the three realms, and all phoenixes that see him will call for their father. However, dreams are very plentiful while reality is terribly bony. Right now, he has become a prisoner, taken to be a spirit pet to raise, and even eating sugar cakes? Its flat duck mouth is eating a coarse sugar cake? It sticks to your mouth as soon as you eat it! It only wants to devour souls, the more wicked, the better!
半夜，顾云玦趁穆辰入定之后设下结界，把黑蛋从鸡笼里掏出来，一想到自己像个傻瓜一样牵着一只丑到爆的杂毛团子满山转悠，就想把这黑毛团子捏死。
In the middle of the night, Gu Yunjue took advantage of Mu Chen entering meditation and left the boundary, taking Black Egg from the chicken coop. When Gu Yunjue realized that he looked like a fool pulling an ugly enough to explode mixed feathery dango and wandering around the mountain, he wanted to pinch this feathery dango to death.
黑蛋再次化身被遗弃在寒风中的鹌鹑，瑟瑟发抖。
Black Egg was once again the embodiment of an abandoned quail in the wind, shivering.
管善悄无声息的出现在顾云玦的房间，恭敬的弯下腰，低声道：“少主，已经准备好了。”
Guan Shan quietly came out of Gu Yunjue’s current room. As he respectfully bowing down, he said with a low voice, “Young Master, it’s already ready.”
顾云玦点了点头，抬手一挥，护魂铃在掌心出现之后悄然放大，转瞬间，三人的身影都消失在原地。
Gu Yunjue nodded and waved his hand. After his Protection Soul Bell appeared from the hollow of his palm, it quietly enlarged. In an instant, three figures faded away from their positions.
护魂铃内，自带空间，一半鸟语花香，灵泉在侧，另一半却是无尽的灰色地带，这是缺失的坤铃导致空间残缺，只有找到另一半，乾坤护魂铃才算完整。不过，现在来说，瞒着穆辰做点其他事情的空间倒是有了。
Inside in the Protection Soul Bell was a personal space. Half of it was of birdsong and fragrant flowers with a spirit spring on the side while the other half had an endless gray area. The lack of the Earth Bell had severely damaged the space. Only when the other half is found will the Universal Protection Spirit Bell be considered complete. However, for now, there’s room to do some other things while keeping Mu Chen in the dark.
顾云玦挑起嘴角，淡淡的道：“开始吧。”
Gu Yunjue smiled and indifferently said, “Begin.”
管善道了声是，起手布阵，顾云玦捏着黑蛋，一脸轻松的围观。
Guan Shan let out a sound of agreement, raising his hands to create an array. Gu Yunjue held Black Egg and watched with a relaxed expression.
而此时，万里之外的季清远却突然感觉到一阵心悸，他站起身，还没来得及反应就感觉神魂仿佛被人抓住一角，死死的往外拽。季清远惊恐的感受着自己的神魂被抽出体内，身体颓然倒下，迅速化作一堆魔气缠绕的枯骨。
Right at this moment, Ji Qingyuan, who was thousands of miles away, suddenly felt a burst of palpitations. He stood up and had no time to react before he felt as if someone has caught his spirit soul in a corner and is firmly pulling it out. Ji Qingyuan felt terrified as he sensed his spirit soul being pulled out. His body collapsed and quickly turned into a pile of dried bones with devil qi.
他现在权利已经被御天翊全部收回，念在师兄弟一场，只被御天翊囚禁，有幸留下一命。灵脉已废，神魂还在，靠着这个希望季清远苟延残喘。之前和他交好的人因为避嫌全都和他保持距离，曾经有多么风光，现在就有多么落魄，季清远独居一个密室，根本无人发现他的情况。即使被发现了也会被当成被魔功反噬之后，魂魄俱灭，查无可循。