Chapter 91: Master, you are seducing me. (1/2)
Translator: Claire.KK
Over ten years had passed since they parted, while Jing Ming's appearance stayed unchanged. He wore a white robe, cuffs tied, and a pair of animal boots, looking very neat. Jing Ming no longer used pills to conceal his demon power. He now had the characteristics of the Wolf Clan. His grey hair made him appear very clean, while his big blue eyes were deep and clear, as he was in his teenager years.
Jing Ming stilled kept the flute in her waist with the skeleton pendant given by Mu Chen. It was obvious that the owner had taken good care of it, as it still looked brand new.
Mu Chen stood up, and waited for Jing Ming to come into his arms. Mu Chen smiled, patted Jing Ming's shoulder and said with delight, ”Good.”
Jing Ming opened his mouth and called Mu Chen “Master” again, tears filled in his eyes.
Jing Ming was different from his elder brother Jing Ting, as Jing Ming lost his memories of Demon Realm, and everything here was new to him. Jing Ming and Jing Ting stuck together and escaped for life every day. Life had been tough to him. So Jing Ming hoped that he could go back to Immortal Realm, lived in Yanyang Palace, and returned to Mu Chen. Unexpectedly, Mu Chen came to find him before Jing Ming went back. Seeing Mu Chen, Jing Ming behaved like a child who had been away from home for many days, and finally found his immediate relative. So Jing Ming was suddenly overwhelmed with grievance, before talking to Mu Chen.
Mu Chen touched Jing Ming's head, smiled amiably at him with an extraordinarily soft look and said, ”It’s over 10 years. How do you look like before?” “When they were young, Jing Ming took Gu Yunjue around, but now Gu is a head higher than Jing Ming. Even though Jing Ming looks as he was when he left Immortal Realm, his soul power has been improved a lot and is now at Late Nascent Soul Stage.”
Talking about his appearance, Jing Ming scratched his head in embarrassment, rubbed his eyes, and explained with annoyance, ”I got it wrong in pills-concocting. I mistook Youth-Retaining Pill as Disguising Pill and ate two of such pills.”
Mu Chen couldn't help laughing. Checking Jing Ming’s outlook again, Mu Chen expressed his solace, ”Not bad. You look good.”
“Really?” Jing Ming’s eyes lit up and was encouraged by Mu Chen’s remark. “I’ve been upset for a long time until my brother said that I could wait for Master to create some medicine to turn me tall and strong. Now that you think I am good-looking, I might keep my appearance. It’s good!”
Mu Chen uttered with a wry smile, ”Yeah. It's good.” He touched Jing Ming's head with delight. “Jing Ming has kept unchanged both physically and mentally. It seems that Jing Ting has protected him well.”
”Why do you come alone? Where is your elder brother, Jing Ting?” Mu Chen didn't perceived the breath of Jing Ting, and was somewhat disappointed.
”My brother is very, very, very busy that he can’t get away. So, after receiving Senior Martial Brother’s message, I hurried here by myself.” Jing Ming emphasized Jing Ting’s busyness with three “very”. After that, he intended to hug Mu Chen and rub against this master so that he could smell like Mu. In this way, he could show it off to his elder brother and make him envious!
Hearing Jing Ming’s explanation, Mu Chen looked at Gu Yunjue and said, ”You’ve held out on me again?”
Gu Yunjue smiled and approached Mu Chen. ”I want you to be happy so I planned to give you a surprise.”
“Well?” Jing Ming sniffed at Mu Chen and said doubtfully, “How does Master have mixed smells?”
Mu Chen blushed instantly and pushed Jing Ming away, while Gu Yunjue grabbed his collar from the rear, lifted him up, put him aside and threatened, ”You can only watch Master, but can't hug him, or I’ll cut off you paws.”
Jing Ming snorted, pulled a chair over and sat down. He stuck out his tongue at Gu Yunjue and said, ”Are you kidding me? I am not afraid of you even though you are taller than me.”
Gu Yunjue didn’t haggle with Jing Ming, but instead sat next to Mu Chen, poured wine for him, and filled his bowl with food. Obviously, Gu intended to have some food first.
Jing Ming, however, was quite hungry too after such a long journey to meet Mu Chen here. He held a bowl and took his meal happily. After refreshed with enough food, Mu Chen thought of something and asked, ”Why did Master suddenly show up here? Why do you wear a hat?”
Mu Chen handed another drumstick to Jing Ming and thought that his underdevelopment of intelligence must have been resulted from malnutrition. So Jing Ming needed to have more nutritious food.
Gu Yunjue interjected and explained, ”We learned that Earth Bell is here, so we come to look for it.” Then, Gu took out a map and showed it to Jing Ming, ”This is the place where we’re going. Do you know what it is?”
Jing Ming was busy gnawing the bone and instantly goggled. ”You can't go there. It’s dangerous.”
Mu Chen was afraid of him choking on the bone, and poured a glass of water for him. ”Slow down. Take your time and explain it to us.”
Jing Ming put down the bone, wiped his “claws”, and sit up properly. ”The place is called Lost Land of the East where a phoenix lives. The phoenix is fierce and powerful. Anyone who tries to get close to its territory ends up being burnt off. Even the soul cannot escape. Everyone in Demon Realm knows it. And except the Demon Lords and my elder brother, the phoenix is another person that you shall not offend. Besides, he has not desire for power or wealth. What he does is totally out of his preference. In a word, I think we shall not mess up with him.”
”A Phoenix?” Mu Chen asked in distain, ”Could the phoenix be the rooster we met at Snow City?”
Gu Yunjue showed his detestation too and said, ”He is the only bird in Demon Realm.”
The smile on Mu Chen's face faded. “The rooster has been looking for his predestined partner yet it’s not clear who the person is. Now we’re going to look for something in his territory, I shall watch for my stupid disciple. Should he dare to hook up with the rooster, I would…Humph!”
Gu Yunjue sensed his master’s thought, and want to cry out his grievance that he has no affair with the rooster, not even a bit.
Mu Chen glared again at Gu Yunjue, and took out a map and said faintly, ”This should be the missing part of the map. I’m wondering why my Master had the map of the phoenix's territory. He might have been greedy for delicacy and gone to the phoenix’s nest to steal phoenix egg?”
”Wow. Was the map what you found Grand Master’s wooden house?” Gu Yunjue picked the map up, and put the two pieces together and they formed a complete map. Then Gu Yunjue thought that Mu Chen had already noticed the secrets in the map, yet kept those secrets from him. Gu then moved his lips as he was saying something, while the ears hidden in Mu Chen’s head moved. ”Master should hold secrets up from me. We should have been open to each other.”
Mu Chen looked coldly at his Gu Yunjue and felt for his head. “What an evil disciple!” Although Mu Chen seldom thought about teasing, yet he knew that Gu Yunjue mocked him with the words.
”How could you have the map leading to the garden of the rooster? Well! Well!” Gu Yunjue snorted and sounded sour while rubbing Mu Chen's arm with his own.
Mu Chen raised his eyebrows and asked, ”What do you want? I’ve said it’s left by you Grand Master.”
Gu Yunjue looked back and said exceptionally frankly, ”I want nothing. But I’m just jealous.”
Mu Chen reached for Gu’s waist and pinched hardly. “What a stupid disciple!”
However, Jing Ming looked at Mu Chen, then turned to Gu Yunjue, and suddenly felt that he was a bit redundant. As for why he had the feeling, he didn’t know.