The Protagonist Is in the Right Position to Get Along With the Villain
Chapter 63
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Li Jinzhi struggled to get free from the tight hold on his hand, his back imperceptibly tense, “Then what? Why are you still holding my hand?”
Removing the jade slip, Ye Yu glanced back innocently and asked, “Wouldn’t it be necessary to converge the Qi in one place to merge our Evading Lights? We did it like this previously.”
“…” Li Jinzhi rubbed his forehead. In the past, it was right to hold hands. That was also for convenience. For ordinary cultivators to converge the Qi, they needed to employ a type of spell, yet the agility was far inferior to directly converging the Qi of the meridians. Only, this method of directly connecting meridians was rarely used by cultivators.
After all, no one was willing to entrust their life in the hands of another.
But no matter how convenient it was before, ever since he became aware that Ye Yu had feelings for him, the role of the other party had changed in his heart. Holding hands like this while travelling, how strange did it look.
“Relax.” Ye Yu squeezed Li Jinzhi’s palm, “Can’t we just get along like we used to?” He sounded a bit lonely.
Hearing this, Li Jinzhi also wanted to laugh. Yes, no matter what, wouldn’t it be good to get along like in the past?
Ye Yu was still Ye Yu, why did he want to keep a distance from the other just because he felt awkward at heart?
Didn’t he already decide to give himself time to slowly adapt to the change in status? Why should he create problems for himself—
Ye Yu felt the hold of his fingers gradually loosened, and his tightly pursed lips relaxed. “We will have to fly for two days, and after passing three other cities, we will be able to reach the Myriad Red Clouds Sect of the Myriad Red Clouds Mountains.”
Composing his expression, Li Jinzhi got rid of the distracting thoughts, and began to contemplate the problem that he had been struggling with since earlier, “According to the booklet, the thousand-year-old Bone Forging Milk is produced by the ten-thousand-year-old Bell Milk Tree between the three great sects. It is guarded by the late-stage Nascent Soul disciples of the three major sects. However, it is only awarded to the top three winners in the sect competition.”
“Oh?” Ye Yu knew that Li Jinzhi spoke without taking a breath, and he must have wanted to say more than that.
Li Jinzhi tilted his head, and frowned slightly. “In the competition between the three great sects, only the Inner Sect cultivators in the Foundation Building period can participate.”
Ye Yu was taken aback for a moment, then also frowned and pondered. “Why not set up a competition between Golden Core and Nascent Soul?”
Li Jinzhi shook his head, “It was not mentioned in the booklet, but I guess it was probably because the Nascent Souls were the main pillars of the sect, Golden Cores were the foundation of the sect, and the Foundation Building were the new blood of the sect, so it was decided in this way for the sake of tempering and selection.” After a pause, he added, “I’m just guessing, I really don’t know how.”
Nodding, Ye Yu proceeded to inquire, “Then what should we do? Could it be possible to hide our cultivation base again, and blend in with the low-level disciples?”
Raising an eyebrow, Li Jinzhi thought seriously about what Ye Yu offered, and, after a while, nodded, “This method is sound. It is decided. In this way, if one directly enters a sect with Nascent Soul cultivation base, it is bound to disturb the internal balance of that sect. There are sure to be many forces who would express the intention of making friends. If you want to be stable, joining a faction is unavoidable. But getting involved in the power struggle within the sect, will surely prevent us from cultivating peacefully. It is better to become an ordinary inner sect disciple and focus on cultivation. Then, there is the thousand-year-old Bone Forging Milk.”
After listening to the analysis, Ye Yu agreed, “Indeed, one Nascent Soul would not be troublesome. A sudden addition of two, would more or less destabilize the balance of power in the higher levels of a sect. When the time comes, trouble is not what we want, our only interest is to find a place where the spiritual energy is not weak to cultivate.”
Hearing this, Li Jinzhi felt a warm current flow through his heart. When he got along with Ye Yu, whether it was the decisions they made or the things they did, there were very few disagreements, and they didn’t even have a break-in period.
How about another person? Could it still be possible to achieve this?
Just like now, with the one leading the way, and the other being vigilant about the surroundings, he was even able to think about this unscrupulously. If it were another person, would he still put all of his trust in them? Entrust them with his own safety and life?
Probably not?
If he didn’t take Ye Yu’s gender into consideration, the other party was simply a partner tailor-made for him—
Unconsciously, Li Jinzhi had dropped his psychological barriers to the bottom.
After another day of flying, the two finally arrived at their destination on the afternoon of the fourth day – a small town on the edge of the Myriad Red Clouds Mountains, which was a subsidiary town of the Myriad Red Clouds sect. Both the disciple recruitment and the acquisitions of supplies were all done here. Therefore, although it was called a small town, there were more cultivators coming and going than in the Merging Cliffs city, and the scale was also grander.
Before they entered the city, both of them compressed their cultivation base to the peak of the Foundation Building period. However, since both of them were not human cultivators in the traditional sense, they had naturally never experienced this Foundation Building period. It was just kind of akin to it, but close enough to deceive the Spirit Measuring Plate.
The town had an aerial restriction, so after entering, they both restrained the evading light, and walked instead.
Walking through the Myriad Red Clouds town, the levels of the passing foreign cultivators varied: Qi Refining, Foundation Building, and Golden Core were many. On the contrary, not a single Nascent Soul was seen.
If one thought about it, those who could cultivate to the Nascent Soul realm, if they were rogue cultivators, they were powerful people. There was no need to join a sect. If one was already affiliated with a sect or a school, after the sect’s nurturing, they would have had a faction they belonged with. It was even more impossible to join another sect.
Therefore, although there were many Nascent Souls in the Green Flame kingdom, it was impossible to see them in this kind of place.
The streets of the Myriad Red Clouds town were not narrow, but rather wide. However, even such a road was still crowded, and the crowd was moving in the same direction.
Ye Yu walked in front of him. Li Jinzhi was shoved by the cultivator behind him, and stumbled into Ye Yu’s back, causing the person in front of him to turn his head.
Li Jinzhi stood upright, frowned and transmitted. “How come there are so many cultivators? If this place is subordinate, there can’t be so many—” Never had he seen such a number of cultivators crammed into a street.
With an imperceptible killing intent Ye Yu narrowed his eyes and glanced at the cultivator behind Li Jinzhi. When he heard Li Jinzhi’s voice transmission, his eyes softened again. “Just follow along and you will know.” Slightly turning his body sideways, he seamlessly isolated Li Jinzhi from the dense crowd.
They followed along to the end of the street, and saw a towering sect gate in the distance. The gathering place of the crowd was a grand and majestic palace. Written above the palace was ‘Sect Canvassing Palace’. The houses surrounding it were rather small. This grandiose palace was positioned here, which looked very out of place[1], as if it was put down forcibly…
The crowd surged into the open gate of the palace. Li Jinzhi was astonished. Although this palace was not small, the number of people rushing forth was extremely large, far from what the palace could accommodate. Yet it, against all reason, did—
After they entered the gate, everything in front of them suddenly changed. The palace, which was not too big from the outside, was astonishingly huge on the inside. Even from this distance, the other end could not be seen, and those cultivators were still walking inside.
“…” Having gotten inside, Li Jinzhi wore a stunned expression, “So it turns out that this palace was created by a magical artifact—”
Ye Yu nodded. “Indeed. It is true that there are such types of palatial magical artifacts that can expand their holding space according to the number of incoming cultivators.”
When they strode over to the middle of the palace, the procession behind them also came to an end. The palace doors slowly closed, and an old voice rang out from mid-air.
“The Myriad Red Clouds sect will officially accept disciples tomorrow. In addition, I’d like to invite all the cultivators to stand in the designated areas according to their own cultivation base, and wait peacefully.”
Having heard the words, Li Jinzhi and Ye Yu shared a glance. No wonder!
No wonder different cultivators gathered in the Myriad Red Clouds sect. It turned out to be the day when one of the great sects opened their gates and recruited disciples!
- [1] 格格不入 – [gé gé bù rù] (idiom) inharmonious; incompatible;
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