Chapter 65: How time flew. Eight years just flashed by. (1/2)

Translator: Claire.KK

After a moment of silence, Mu Chen said suddenly, “Who taught you the devil cultivation?”

Gu Yunjue answered at once, “The devil cultivation is in my mind.” It was true. Soul Devil Cultivation was too deeply imprinted in his spirit to be forgotten.

Mu Chen’s eyes looked colder, “So it only took you a dozen years to reach the early Synthesis Stage?”

Gu Yunjue got choked by those words. Staring at Mu Chen’s face, he hesitated how to explain.

“Funny. Every time one petal of the lotus on my chest disappears, your spirit veins gets hurt. Now it’s all gone, and you’ve reached the early Synthesis Stage!” Mu Chen smiled ruefully. There was some disappointment and grievance in his tone, but more repressed rage. He clutched the wrist at his waist so hard as if he was going to break Gu Yunjue’s bones. Pulling Gu Yunjue towards himself, Mu Chen gazed at the youngster with a complicated look, “Gu Yunjue, when are you gonna stop lying to me?”

Mu Chen thought he had forgotten everything in the previous life, which was unexpectedly so clear in his mind however.

Mu Chen bit his lower lip, his eyes misting a little. Gu Yunjue had betrayed him, but finally went back to the Immortal Realm for this master, where there were a lot of enemies. He broke into the Spirit Suppression Pagoda alone with no fear of them. With his black robe drenched in blood, he was looking murderous and every step he took left a bloody footprint on the ground. But he gave Mu Chen a very sincere look.

To protect Mu Chen’s divine soul, Gu Yunjue transferred all of his cultivation to Mu Chen without hesitation. Everybody knew that how Devil Lord, the target of the whole Immortal Realm, would end up if he lost his cultivation. But all he wanted was to save Mu Chen, without taking his own safety into consideration in the critical point.

Gu Yunjue was lucky to get reborn. But he should come back to Mu Chen again and still tried to protect him!

If he hadn’t find out, would Gu Yunjue keep holding out on him?

“Master,” Looking at Mu Chen’s misty eyes, for a moment Gu Yunjue didn’t know what to do. He touched the corners of Mu Chen’s eyes, and his fingers were shaking slightly, as if they were seared by the heat. “I...” Throat tight, he uttered a word with a hoarse voice but didn’t know what else to say.

Little Master knew Gu Yunjue was reborn, who implicated him and got him killed in the previous life. So what did this look mean? Regretting taking him again as an apprentice? Unable to face the truth after all those lies? Gu Yunjue’s eyes darkened, when he was suddenly taken in Mu Chen’s arms before the hidden danger in his eyes was revealed.

The joy of getting Gu Yunjue back took Mu Chen’s mind off all that unpleasantness temporarily.

Gu Yunjue froze. He had guessed a lot about Mu Chen’s reaction after knowing the truth, among which the most common one was that Mu Chen would turn on and break up with him.

He dared not dream of a situation like this.

Noticing that Mu Chen was trembling slightly, Gu Yunjue raised his arms to hold Mu Chen tightly while his eyes were deep like the ocean. He comforted Mu Chen, “I am here.”

The words were not sweet, but they did bring comfort unexpectedly.

It was only when Mu Chen sighed at the irony of fate that he realized the man in front of him had been pretending for the last decade.

Eating, dressing, sleeping, walking, bathing, everything depended on him!

In the last decade or so, the guy was like stuck to his body. They even bathed together!

Mu Chen looked worse. With all those things in the past decade coming into mind, a flush of warm blood surged to his head. He blushed scarlet instantly, even his ear turning pink.

Bastard!

The atmosphere was good just now. It seemed that they would talk and ask a lot, and all regrets left in the previous life would be fixed in this warm and sweet hug. Looking at Mu Chen, who was obedient, Gu Yunjue touched his hair sweetly. Maybe things were not as worse as he had thought.

At this point, Mu Chen suddenly pushed Gu Yunjue away and punched him! Right in the face!

The blow in the face stunned Gu Yunjue. Why Mu Chen was fine just now but turned on him suddenly?

The look on Mu Chen’s face told Gu Yunjue everything. He looked at Mu Chen earnestly with his hand partially over his face, “Master, you know, love makes people irrational.”

Mu Chen gave Gu Yunjue a cold look, trapped in the awkwardness about how to describe his feelings. In the end, a thousand words turning into two words, “Fuck off!”

Mu Chen was furious with Gu Yunjue, the bastard, who had been pretending for the last decade, and more with himself for not figuring it out. Anyway, Mu Chen started to give Gu Yunjue a silent treatment with mixed feelings.

Gu Yunjue also knew that he had displeased Mu Chen very much this time, so no matter how hard he had tried, he couldn’t get Mu Chen talk. They were so fast this time that it only took them over a month to go back to Lofty Cloudy Sect, during which Mu Chen was still giving Gu Yunjue a hard time.

Lofty Cloudy Sect looked the same as before they left half a year ago. Looking down in the air at the mountains, Mu Chen was somehow desperate to go home after this long journey.

It was just that he took away his favorite apprentice but brought back a black-hearted bastard in sheep’s skin.

Things weren’t what they used to be, to some degree.

Maybe it was getting Gu Yunjue back that clouded Mu Chen’s mind. Though Mu Chen didn’t say a word the whole way, Gu Yunjue could still feel it.

He told Gu Yunjue in a sudden, “I need to go into seclusion.”

Gu Yunjue was prepared for that, smiling, “I’ll wait you here, not going anywhere else.”

Mu Chen looked at him worriedly, “You run away, and I’ll break your legs.” Mu Chen had been trying hard to prevent Gu Yunjue from being dark and twisty inside. Finally, he found that Gu Yunjue was still the same scheming man as in his previous life, who hadn’t done twisty things however, which made Mu Chen even more worried. So it would be better to keep this bastard disciple around and watch him over all the time.

Mu Chen chose to enter seclusion in some place among the numerous mountains northwest of rather than inside Lofty Cloudy Sect.

Looking at the Yanyang Palace in front of his eyes, Mu Chen’s eyes twinkled slightly. He didn’t come back homebut went into seclusion directly, without looking back, “I’ll leave the rest matters to you. Don’t bother me.”

Mu Chen didn’t know if Mu Qing left or not, so it would be better to hide away from him.

Gu Yunjue made some arrangement after he went back to Yanyang Palace alone and then assigned a man to the main peak to report Mu Qing’s arrival. Thanks to Mu Qing’s poor sense of direction, both Mu Qing and Yue Mingze weren’t back yet.

Gu Yunjue curled the corners of his mouth with satisfaction. He found a handy sword and an axe from the Treasury House and then went to where Mu Chen was in seclusion.

He cut down trees to build a house and stayed there in case his sweetheart run away!