books44 Chapter 8 Let's go, your master will take you to brave the gates of hell.
Chapter 8 Let's go, your master will take you to brave the gates of hell.
Mei Shiyu asked, "If I asked you to stay away from karma and immortality for the next hundred years, and travel with me to famous mountains and rivers to see the scenery of the human world, would you be willing?"
"Master, I am willing."
Without a second thought, Li Tingyun readily agreed.
It seems that the villain's failed attempt to invite him to a "threesome" in his past life, which resulted in him being reduced to ashes, left him with a deep psychological scar.
Having been reborn, Mei Shiyu seems no longer interested in getting involved in the messy battle between good and evil. He wants to live a peaceful life for a hundred or two hundred years.
Isn't this a coincidence? Li Tingyun thought so too.
"Don't rush to agree. The spiritual energy in the mortal world is insufficient. If you travel with me, your cultivation progress will be slow, which is normal. If you lose your way in the mortal world, it will be even more of a loss."
Mei Shiyu smiled, though a hint of melancholy lingered in her eyes.
"Actually, I don't want you to agree to this, nor do I want you to become my disciple. I was originally a disciple of the thirteen peaks of the Dao Xuan Sect in the cultivation world. Before coming here, I had already resigned from my position as the peak master of Hidden Sword Peak."
"I'm telling you this so that I can set up an array here to send you back to Cangyou Mountain. That's the main training ground of the Daoxuan Sect, and the master who raised me is none other than the sect leader."
“He is free-spirited and unconventional. You will be well taken care of by his side. I will send you to the main peak, and he will make arrangements for you.”
Arrangements? What arrangements? Li Tingyun frowned. Was it to stab him to death with a sword, then form an array to seal his soul, preventing him from entering the cycle of reincarnation and never being reborn?
The shrewd old man who is the sect leader of Dao Xuan Sect is not as easy to fool as his blind disciple!
"why?"
Li Tingyun countered, "Why are you unwilling to be my master?"
"My resignation to the sect leader means I have no intention of returning to the cultivation world."
Mei Shiyu turned her head to the side, but not to look at her apprentice. Her gaze was lowered, concealing her innermost thoughts.
“Yuan Che, you are born with a unique spiritual root and will achieve great things in the future. Following me will only waste your talent. I... I cannot fulfill my responsibilities as a master, nor will I be the good teacher you want.”
"Master, are you feeling guilty?"
Li Tingyun hit the nail on the head. Seeing Mei Shiyu's slightly trembling sleeves, he had a bold idea.
Do you feel guilty about the mistakes you made in your past life?
As expected, Mei Shiyu suddenly turned around and looked at him in astonishment: "Yuan Che, you..."
“You’re right. Heaven and earth are ruthless, treating all things like straw dogs. It seems that heaven is fair, giving us both the same chance to be reborn.”
Li Tingyun remained calm and composed. "You feel guilty towards me and want to avoid me, but actually it's because you're afraid. You're afraid of repeating the ending of your previous life, where you were the closest master and disciple, but in the end, you became enemies."
"Master, is it not something only a coward would do to run away out of fear?"
Mei Shiyu was taken aback by his question, her emotions churning as if a raging storm was brewing.
My heart, as calm as an ancient well, hasn't felt such intense emotions in a long time.
"Since there's a problem, you should think of a solution. Why are you running away?"
Li Tingyun continued, "Master, why don't you just tell me the reason why you betrayed the Dao Xuan Sect in your previous life and colluded with those villains in the Taiji Hall?!"
"Speak up! Why won't you say anything? Why are you making me misunderstand!"
The emotional outburst was quite well done.
Even the long-dormant system started clapping and cheering.
[Host, you always manage to come up with something new.]
"Shut up! Don't ruin my performance!"
Li Tingyun gritted his teeth and stepped forward. Now that things had come to this point, what was there that was hard to say?
He grabbed Mei Shiyu's wrist but turned his face away.
The boy looked very stubborn, like a defiant ox, but his voice had softened considerably.
"I actually... I've always felt that someone like Master would never betray the sect... I don't care what you did, anyway, you are my Master."
"In my past life, you publicly accepted me as your disciple at the grand ceremony of the immortal sects. How can you deny what you did?"
Mei Shiyu touched the burning heat of his palm, pursed her lips, unwilling to say more, but squatted down and gently embraced him, "Che'er, your teacher... feels guilty."
Li Tingyun tensed up, a cool, refreshing fragrance of plum blossoms wafting towards him, making him somewhat incoherent: "Mei Shi... Master, Master... you, you, you, you... I, that, I..."
He was defeated decisively.
This person smells amazing, it's fucking intoxicating.
I wish I could slap myself twice to wake myself up.
[Host, stop acting so worthless. The system has a task for you.]
[001 Warm Reminder: Congratulations, host, for actively triggering the side quest "Exploration of Fengdu Underworld".]
Li Tingyun's mind cleared up. "What Fengdu Underworld? Has the plot moved forward again?"
"Fengdu, the Gates of Hell, the Eighteen Levels of Hell... do you still remember them?"
The system didn't answer him; instead, it was Mei Shiyu putting away the Immortal Binding Lock and calling him "Che'er."
"Before leaving the cultivation world, I must go to Fengdu to retrieve the token of the Dao Xuan Sect Master, the Fenjing Sword."
[The Fengdu Underworld side quest is here!]
[It's normal that the plot was altered due to the supporting characters' awakening of their own consciousness.]
[Host, I know you're in a hurry, but please don't rush...]
Li Tingyun cursed his bad luck. If he had known this would happen, he shouldn't have bothered to comfort Mei Shiyu. He should have just said some harsh words and immediately severed the master-disciple relationship.
A master who leads his disciples to hell is better off without!
Unexpectedly, Mei Shiyu changed the subject, "You are still a mortal, your cultivation is insufficient, and you have not entered the realm, so you cannot go to such a place. Therefore, your master has decided to use the teleportation array to send you back to Dao Xuan Sect."
Li Tingyun: "..."
He's caught between a rock and a hard place; he might as well go to hell.
[Note: Due to your low merit points, you are not authorized to refuse entry into the Fengdu side quest!]
[Additionally, the chance of encountering the protagonist and triggering a main storyline quest while performing side quests is 100%! Make the most of this opportunity and keep the world of this story from collapsing!]
"Yo, yo, yo my foot."
Li Tingyun knew that he could run away from the beginning, but not the end.
He not only has to face the gates of hell with Mei Shiyu, but he may also encounter the real protagonist who is also traveling to the eighteenth level of hell.
Once his disguise is exposed, he will face a dismal outcome of a mixed doubles match between master and student.
What kind of hellish task has the system given me?
It seems this road to the underworld is meant to send him away directly.
[Hey, the system assesses this task's difficulty as medium to high. You'd better make me proud! My happiness for the rest of my life rests on you, sob sob.]
Do you know what you look like right now?
Li Tingyun, with a gloomy face, questioned Wang Laoliu.
What does it look like?
"You're like a bird that can't fly, so you laid an egg and let it fly as hard as it can."
Yes, that's exactly the kind of feudalistic patriarch I am.
[Rounding it up, I'm practically your dad.]
[Hehe, host, you said I won this time, right?]
What kind of bird species have you ever seen where the male lays the eggs?
Stop!
Wang Laoliu understood instantly.
[I refuse to be a male mother! I'll let you win this round then.]
Li Tingyun: "Thank you for your kind offer."
After calming the system down, he turned to Mei Shiyu and said, "Master, I'm not going back to Cangyou Mountain. I want to go to Fengdu with you."
Mei Shiyu asked, puzzled, "Why?"
"Because...because I'm afraid you'll run away!"
Li Tingyun argued vehemently, "Last time you ran off with the Master of the Taiji Palace. This time, if you go straight for the Emperor of Fengdu in the Underworld, what am I supposed to do?"
"I will not 'run away' with anyone else, nor will I 'follow' anyone else."
Mei Shiyu remained silent, wondering why the child's words always seemed a bit strange.
It sounds like they're afraid he...will elope with someone?!
Inappropriate word choice can lead to serious errors.
Li Tingyun crossed his arms and stepped forward arrogantly, saying, "I don't believe it."
"All I see is that in your past life you ran off with someone else, abandoned me, and didn't want me anymore."
"You'll never get rid of me in this lifetime!"
Mei Shiyu thought for a moment, then said frankly, "Alright, you... don't regret it..."