Chapter 56: ‘That would be quite interesting if little master sit on the chair and I behind the chair...s (1/2)
Translator: Claire.KK
Mu Chen suspected that Gu Yunjue’s origin wasn’t real. So he closed the door and prepared to cross-examine him.
Seeing his master sit down, Gu Yunjue went to him and bent over to press him on his knees. Then Gu consciously knelt before he spoke.
Stunned by this action, Mu Chen asked subconsciously, “What are you doing?”
Gu Yunjue, with a straight face, said seriously, “I feel confident to speak in this way.”
Mu Chen discontentedly smacked off the “claws” on his knees.
‘Feeling confident to speak on knees? His brain is also injured?'
“In the past few days, master has been angry all the time with a pale face and unwilling to talk to me.”
Feeling worried about Mu Chen, Gu Yunjue approached him to touch his cheek. For the same action, in the past, Mu Chen would definitely think this little child being too active. But when looking at Gu Yunjue’s eyes, Mu Chen knew that he could no longer treat him as a child.
With his head tilted away from Gu Yunjue's hand, Mu Chen reached out and grabbed Gu's wrist, saying with a cold face, “Mind your manners.”
Gu Yunjue did not feel disappointed. Instead, there was slight joy in his eyes. Mu Chen finally regarded him as a man rather than a child. In the following days, what he needed to do was just let Master adapt to him slowly. He smiled, “If Master is still angry, this disciple will add another piece of wood when kneeling.”
Mu Chen twitched his lips. Why did Gu Yunjue think he would be angry unless his disciple knelt for a while? What a ridiculous idea!
“I have never mentioned my origin to Master because I am afraid that Master will drive me out of the sect after you know it.” Gu Yunjue knelt with a sad face, as if he would be abandoned soon. That sad face softened Mu Chen’s heart, but the master had not yet calmed down from the rage caused by this evil disciple. Mu Chen was not in the mood to comfort him and continued to listen silently with a poker face.
Gu Yunjue moved closer and remained depressed.
“If I am from a bad family, wouldn’t master be my wife?”
With a violent tremble, Mu Chen gnashed his teeth and asked, “Be your wife?”
“Be my husband! You are the husband, and I am the wife!” Gu Yunjue raised his hand to make a pledge.
Mu Chen flushed with anger, stretched out his hand and patted on his disciple's forehead. “Don't mention this again!”
“Master, we must make this matter clear, we ...”
“Get to the point!” Mu Chen felt that the evil disciple would never stop talking about this, so he had to bring the topic back to seriousness, “In that I have raised you since you were a child, how could I care about whether you come from a good family or not? Just tell me the truth! ”
What on earth was this evil disciple thinking? It would be a great loss to give up him at this time, as Mu Chen had taken care of the evil disciple for more than ten years. Instead, Mu Chen would correct all this disciple's bad habits and must discipline him to keep the right attitude!!!
Mu Chen also had a stubborn temper, so at this moment, he was confronting with himself, ‘I don’t believe that I can’t even take control of a wild child who is in his rebellious period!’
Hearing that, Gu Yunjue looked up at Mu Chen with a smile and asked, “So no matter who I am, Master will not despise or banish me? With master's words, I am much relieved.”
Mu Chen nodded because that was true.
Gu Yunjue blurted, “My father is the Devil Lord.”
Mu Chen was shocked with his eyes wide open.
It seemed Gu Yunjue felt it still not irritating enough and added, “My mother was grabbed from the immortal realm by my father. She is seemingly with special physical constitution, so I am half-immortal, half-devil.”
Mu Chen covered his chest, feeling it difficult even to breathe.
Gu Yunjue took the opportunity to put his arms around Mu Chen’s waist and got close to ‘molest’ his master.
“Since I am not accepted by either Immortal Realm or Devil Realm, I won’t care much about my life. The only person I trust is Master. If Master cannot tolerate me neither, just kill me.”
After countless attempts, Gu Yunjue deeply realized his status in Mu Chen’s heart. He believed that Mu Chen would not really kill him.
What Master cared about was a person's character. He once asked master this question on purpose. Mu Chen told him that there was no good or evil in cultivation, but there were good and bad people, so no one could be regarded as an evil person because of his different cultivation.
Moreover, Mu Chen’s beautiful eyes were clear and fair to see other creatures. He never felt that the demon beasts were inferior or devil cultivation was against nature. He was not hypocritical to care for all beings, nor would he deliberately harm any species. This was the pure heart under Mu Chen's seemingly cold and aloof appearance.
Because he was pure, what he wanted was pure. As long as Gu was kind, Mu Chen would not kill him.
As expected, Mu Chen put his hand stiffly on Gu Yunjue’s back, opened his mouth, and finally uttered after a while of silence, “... Leave me alone, to calm down.”
Mu Chen was quite satisfied with his disciple's frank confession, but this fact made Mu Chen feel like a large stone pressing on his chest.
The Devil Realm was not like the Immortal Realm that was led by four sects, three islands, and five families. These major forces were interdependent and complementary to each other so that it could achieve a balance. In devil realm, only the strongest one could obtain respect and govern the vast chaotic realm as the human emperor did on the earth.
The contemporary Devil Lord had ruled the devil realm for more than 800 years. People had already forgotten his name but only knew that he was cruel, merciless and heavy-handed. As the leader of the devils, he was so domineering that no one dared to disobey.
In recent years, the devil realm played some little tricks ceaselessly to sound out the immortal realm’s reaction. For instance, the boundary between the immortal realm and devil realm was attacked frequently, which just proved their ambitions.
In the forbidden area under the control of the four sects, there stood the Anti-Devil Pillar guarding the immortal realm. As long as the Anti-Devil Pillar was destroyed, the boundary connecting the two realms would be broken. By then, devils would be able to invade successfully to plunge the immortal realm into misery and suffering.
In his previous life, Gu Yunjue did launch a sneak attack on the forbidden area to destroy the Anti-Devil Pillar.
Mu Chen looked at the disciple beside him with complex mood in his eyes, “Why did you come to the immortal realm?”
Holding Mu Chen's hands and feeling the shudder of his cold fingertips, Gu Yunjue covered them with his palm lovingly and tried to warm them up. Thinking it was better to be frank than concealing the truth by now, Gu Yunjue directly fell on Mu Chen’s knees. His calm voice didn’t reveal any of his mood.
“I am just his pawn to implement his ambition. He believes that by virtue of my talented aptitude, as soon as I am accepted by the four sects, I will be the inner disciple. Then, it will not be difficult for me to reach the forbidden area.”
Mu Chen’s eyes went dim as he thought secretly that it was right as he expected.
He should be glad that Gu Yunjue did not lie to him.
However, as soon as Gu Yunjue exposed his identity, Lofty Cloudy Sect would become the target of criticism in the immortal realm. When he looked down, Gu Yunjue, who was burying his head on his master’s laps, let all his guard down. He could reach out and pinch the fragile neck easily so that he could put an end to all hidden dangers in the future...
Mu Chen’s fingers trembled. But the thought finally vanished in a flash. He wondered why he reincarnated to live this life.
Mu Chen never expected to bring up a disciple who would care for the whole universe. He only hoped that he and his disciple could avoid the previous fate so as to do whatever they want and live in freedom.