Want to Ascend? Then Fall in Love

Chapter 17 – Unwilling To Be Separated From You

Translated by juurensha

Edited by Noks and moon

—

The outer disciples got small two-people houses, which happened to match Shen Qingxiang’s task requirements exactly. As long as he and Gu Jianshen both became outer disciples, they could live together. The task would be completed, and everyone would be happy. 

The premise here was that there was no small peach blossom making trouble beforehand. 

If the little peach blossom also became an outer disciple, he would definitely want to live with Shen Qingxian.

And Shen Qingxian couldn’t really say: I want to sleep with my servant.

——Because he was, after all, a servant ma. What outer disciple? The servant would have to sleep outside. 

In order to avoid this situation, Shen Qingxian had to get Su Yu to become an inner disciple. 

As for registered disciples? The little peach blossom came from Wanxiu Mountain, so how could he be a servant? The people of their Wanxiu Mountain had no inclination of becoming servants.

It was an extremely easy matter for Shen Qingxian to have the little peach blossom selected as an inner disciple. 

Let alone the trivial matter of pouring spiritual power into his body directly, when it came to things like expanding a spiritual field, something an ordinary cultivator would find impossible, Shen Qingxian could easily accomplish. 

Whether or not you could become an inner disciple all depended on the size of your spiritual field. 

He would simply help expand Su Yu’s a bit; it would be a piece of cake.

With such thoughts in his mind, Shen Qingxian coaxed Su Yu out loud, “En, if we both become outer disciples, we’ll live together.”

Su Yu smiled happily, his eyes curving. 

Gu Jianshen looked at them and raised his eyebrows.

It couldn’t be that Su Yu really thought that Gu Jianshen should sleep outside? No, no, no, the little peach blossom was a good child; he understood Qingshen-dage’s strength very well and thought that with Gu Jianshen’s spiritual field qualifications, he would definitely become an inner disciple!

Su Yu even secretly decided: When Qingshen-dage becomes an inner disciple, I will definitely take good care of little Zhao Yan for him!

What a good child ah, it’s just a pity that there must always be a third wheel when there are three people, so his expectations could only come to naught.

When Su Yu’s turn to get his spiritual field assessed came, he was still a little nervous. After all, there wasn’t much spiritual power left in his body. If he made a mistake and accidentally became a registered disciple, then wouldn’t that be a really big loss of face?!

The cultivator in charge of the examination exhorted him, “Release your spiritual field. Remember to put in your full effort!”

The little peach blossom nodded solemnly. “Okay!”

Right now, Shen Qingxian wasn’t in a hurry to help Su Yu expand his spiritual field; instead, he wanted to inject spiritual power directly into him, allowing him to pass the examination first.

What was a little embarrassing was that Shen Qingxian, because he had been away from the world for a long time, didn’t know what kind of achievements were needed for one to be regarded as a blessed son of heaven who could then become an inner disciple. 

At this time, he could sweep his divine sense over the cultivators in charge of the assessment, but he would be doing so right under Meridian Temple. He was afraid that if he released even just a little bit of his divine sense, Ye Zhan would be kneeling in front of him the next second.

If that happened, then what becoming an outer disciple? He would directly parachute into the North Hall and become the guest of high, higher, the highest honor.

Oh, there would also be more scandalous rumors doing the rounds later on. For example: Lord Lianhua lost all his cultivation and turned into a little kid. He planned to enter Meridian Temple to cultivate again….

With this thought, Shen Qingxian extinguished any thoughts of startling Ye Zhan.

Let’s give it a try ba. He’d just give less; giving Su Yu just a slender strand of spiritual power should be enough. 

At the moment Su Yu put his hand on the water mirror to test his spiritual power, Shen Qingxian also accurately provided him with a “strand.”

The next moment— a marvelous beam shot up, and spiritual power as majestic as the mountains lit up the sky!

Shen Qingxian: “…..”

Gu Jianshen: “…….”

Su Yu: “!!!”

The rest of the people at the scene looked completely confused and were unable to react to what had happened for a long time.

The cultivator-in-charge of the assessment returned to his senses first. The little old man stood up, and his beard was nearly pointing up to the sky as he stuttered, “Little… Little Daoist friend! You… You…”

Because he was too excited, even his speech was slurred!

The cultivator next to him was relatively calm, but his face was red, and he was beside himself with excitement. “A rare one in a hundred…no, once in a hundred year prodigy ah! Hurry and go inform Elder Fuqing! Hurry… Hurry…”

Su Yu had already withdrawn his hand. He looked at his palm blankly, and his little face was confused….

What was with this situation? Was his spiritual qi so strong? No ah!

Shen Qingxian turned his head and stared at Gu Jianshen.

Gu Jianshen cleared his throat and kept looking straight ahead.

What the hell was going on? It couldn’t be that just a strand of Shen Qingxian’s power was this strong?

Of course, our Lord’s “strand” was indeed very powerful, but it really hadn’t come to this point because of him alone.

The main reason behind this phenomenon was that when Shen Qingxian had poured spiritual power into Su Yu, Gu Jianshen had also helped out by donating a “strand.”

The Heart Domain emperor, who didn’t want Shen Qingxian to sleep with Su Yu, and even more, didn’t want to sleep right outside the door, had his train of thought miraculously collide with that of his shishu’s. 

He couldn’t let the little peach blossom become an outer disciple, so then just let him become an inner disciple ba. 

Also, because Gu Jianshen, who was unwilling to expose his Heart Domain identity, also didn’t use his divine sense, he had also estimated that the spiritual power of a “strand” should probably be enough. 

Thus, Su Yu, who had been blessed by two strands simultaneously, exploded with power!

Even with the power of just one strand, Su Yu would have been recognized as the best of the best amongst the ranks of the inner disciples. Now that this power was doubled, you could imagine how terrifying it was!

The elder who was in charge of welcoming new disciples into the sect arrived at the scene very quickly. When he saw that the water mirror was so full of spiritual power that it was about to explode, his face filled with joy.

Shen Qingxian had no choice but to broaden Su Yu’s spiritual field according to this standard. Hence, when the elder gripped Su Yu’s small wrist, he nearly jumped up from excitement!

“Prodigy, prodigy! I heard that thousands of years ago, Sage Chi Yang’s spiritual field was also this vast!”

Chi Yangzi was Shen Qingxian’s second disciple. Now, he was one of the three sages, a legend even amongst legends.

Shen Qingxian tried to remember….

It seemed that Chi Yangzi’s spiritual power had been pretty normal when he had just joined; it had actually been far worse than Mu Xun’s or Xia Ting’s.

It turned out that that level of spiritual power back then was already considered as broad enough… If he had known, he would have given less….

In reality, Chi Yangzi’s hadn’t been as exaggerated as Su Yu’s was currently; it was just that because Ye Zhan was Sage Chi Yang’s disciple, so the whole Meridian Temple blindly worshiped the sect leader’s master. All kinds of magical legends were heaped on the “old man”, quite similar to how Ye Zhan blindly worshiped his shizun’s shizun, Shen Qingxian. This probably counted as a “generation gap”…..

Because of this blind worship, the truth had long been forgotten by everyone. 

Throughout this entire process, Su Yu remained stunned. Only when the elder wanted to take him away did he come back to his senses. “Please wait a minute, I’ll go talk to my friend first.”

The elder was afraid that he would change his mind about joining his sect, so naturally, he was completely and totally permissive towards him.

Su Yu shouted, “Zhao Yan…”

Shen Qingxian said with a sincere smile, “Go ba, anyway, we are still in the same sect.”

Su Yu opened his mouth, and there were many words at the tip of his tongue that wouldn’t come out. 

Shen Qingxian actually really liked the little peach blossom. He encouraged in a warm voice, “Work hard and don’t let down… expectations.”

He didn’t say the words “His Lordship’s”, but Su Yu understood. His small face immediately brightened up, and his whole person became fully energized. “En! Absolutely! Let’s fight on together!”

Shen Qingxian smiled with soft eyes.

Gu Jianshen stared at him for a long time.

As soon as Su Yu left, Shen Qingxian’s face grew cold. He glared at Gu Jianshen, his expression full of warning.

Gu Jianshen whispered, “I didn’t want to be separated from Shishu.”

Shen Qingxian: “Heh heh.”

Gu Jianshen especially liked his little eyes. He approached him and asked, “Then why did Shishu do that?”

He had provided Su Yu with a strand of spiritual power to make him an inner disciple so that he could be alone with Shen Qingxian. Then what about Shen Qingxian?

Why did he not even hesitate to “cheat” so that he could make the little peach blossom an inner disciple?

Shen Qingxian: “…”  Wasn’t it just to move bricks?!

Of course he couldn’t reply with that, so Shen Qingxian looked at Gu Jianshen and asked, “What do you think?”

Both corners of Gu Jianshen’s eyes and lips curved into a smile. “I think Shishu also isn’t willing to be separated from me.”

Shen Qingxian said, “You’re overthinking things.”

Throwing down these three words, Shen Qingxian went to take the examination.

There were many criteria required to become an outer disciple, but Shen Qingxian could easily handle it all. He didn’t worry about where Gu Jianshen would go; this guy had come to Meridian Temple just for him and probably wouldn’t go anywhere else.

Indeed, the two people were declared as outer disciples at the same time. Coincidentally, even their examination results were completely identical. 

Of course, Gu Jianshen had done that deliberately…..

What fate? The Heart Domain only believed in people being the captain of their own fates. 

Becoming outer disciples could be considered as entering the same sect, so the ninth task should be successfully completed. 

However, the task of living in the same place had not yet been achieved, so Shen Qingxian didn’t go check the jade scroll yet. 

He had thought that since both of them had become outer disciples at the same time and were familiar with each other, they would definitely get to share a small abode together smoothly. Yet, as a result, he found out that this Meridian Temple had a rule where the outer disciples had to draw lots for dorm allocation. 

The steward’s explanation went like this: “Since you have entered Meridian Temple, you will all be fellow shixiong in the future! Don’t limit who can end up living with you, all that depends on fate.”

Fate, my ass. Actually… the reason why they drew lots was because of the uneven conditions distributed across the outer disciple accommodations in Meridian Temple. 

Some places were filled with spiritual qi, some places were drained, some houses were made of solid stone, while some houses had leaky thatched roofs….

If they let the disciples choose by themselves, the stewards were afraid that they would start fighting each other. Thus, they may as well make the disciples draw lots; if you were unlucky, you couldn’t blame anyone.

Shen Qingxian’s eyes sank, and he really wanted to chat with Ye Zhan now.

Are you so poor? Can’t you properly build some small, comfortable, and warm two-person houses?

At this moment,Ye Zhan, who was discussing things (arguing) with Zeng Ziliang, sneezed….

It was also possible to cheat while drawing lots, that wasn’t something hard for His Honorable Lordship, but the problem was that he was behind Gu Jianshen in line. Gu Jianshen would draw first, and his turn wouldn’t come until Gu Jianshen finished. 

So there lay the problem. 

Gu Jianshen looked at Shen Qingxian and whispered, “It seems that it is very difficult to live with Shishu.”

The implication was that if Shen Qingxian didn’t want to live with him, then they definitely wouldn’t be able to live together. 

But if Shen Qingxian wanted to live with him, then…..

Shen Qingxian: Ye Zhan, come here. I promise not to hit your face. 

—

The author has something to say:

Ye Zhan: No! Please hit me! Your Honorable Lordship can hit wherever you want!

Gu Jianshen narrows his eyes.

Ah, it’s almost the 13th task, hey, hey.

—

Juurensha: Hahaha, nice nice, Ye Zhan’s fanboy-ness is pure!