Tyler finally found out why everyone reacted this way. He didn't even have to spy on other people to determine why they were so reluctant to send Shen Qiu away for this kind of competition. The lazy disciple had already opened his chattering mouth and uttered everything as if this person was a guide who was explaining why this thing had happened that way.
"And now that Shen Qiu had finally managed to learn his way to become a top-class alchemist, why do you people want to send him to such a place?!" Zhao Jiayi was displeased with what his master had decided. So he bluntly blurted it all out. "He would only be a nuisance if nothing else."
"Junior martial brother!" The strict teacher-like disciple glared at Zhao Jiayi, who was the youngest at the present moment. "Is this how you talk to your master?! Apologize!"
Zhao Jiayi sneered. "I'm not wrong, am I master? Senior martial brother isn't eligible for this competition. Why don't you send brother Hou Huiqing to the competition instead of Shen Qiu?"
The strict disciple got a headache after hearing this kind of conservation. "I don't want to go!"
Tyler, who was watching this scene, couldn't help but feel that the relationship between this lazy and strict disciple was way too good. He narrowed his eyes and leaned back on the wall, staring at the scene indifferently. He secretly opened the system to know more about these two characters in his system.
Zhao Jiayi was the youngest disciple who was taken in fifty years ago, and Hou Huiqing came before him and was twenty years older than the former. Both were nearly of a similar generation and had dual spiritual roots. The striking thing was that the difference between the cultivation level of these two disciples wasn't that large either.
The lazy one was at the peak of the foundation establishment stage, while the strict one was at the early level of the core formation stage.
Meanwhile, Shen Qiu acted like a silent and timid student who wasn't even present inside the pavilion.
Finally, the male lead couldn't handle it anymore and cleared his throat. "This is my decision, and I won't back down." After saying this, he waved his hand and indicated that his disciples should go back to their houses.
Zhao Jiayi looked like he wanted to say something, but he ended up biting his lips and stomping away from this place. Hou Huiqing shook his head and pursed his lips, following his junior brother.
At this time, Tyler, Shen Qiu, and the male lead were alone in the pavilion, and neither of them showed any intention of leaving the place. Tyler, who didn't want to leave Feng Chao and his junior martial brother alone, stubbornly stood inside and stared intently at the timid person with a darkened expression on his face.
He finally admitted to himself that he was jealous of seeing his lover spending time with this person. So he wouldn't back down until he could see Shen Qiu going back in the East direction.
The male lead noticed this, and for some reason, his mood lifted before he coughed and glanced sternly at his two disciples. "Should I give you two a separate order to go back? Or are you waiting for a punishment?"
Tyler pursed his lips and glanced at Shen Qiu, who finally bowed before his master and left without a word. Finally, this person was out of his sight. So Tyler's shoulders relaxed, and he left the pavilion in a satisfied manner.
The next day, Tyler was called by the male lead again, and this time, he was called all alone. He couldn't help but furrow his brows at this. Why was his lover calling him alone? Did he finally realize his identity?
But Tyler couldn't figure out what was going on in his senior's head, especially ever since the male lead had forgotten all about him. So Tyler just sighed and flew toward the pavilion.
When he reached, Feng Chao had just walked out and stood in front of the large pavilion, staring at his eldest disciple with squinted eyes before parting his lips. "I'm handing Shen Qiu to you until the competition."
The indication was clear. This person wanted Tyler to teach Shen Qiu how to fight during the competition. He couldn't help but frown at that. In the original storyline, his junior martial brother had gone to the competition and was taught personally by the male lead. But now, Feng Chao wanted his eldest disciple, Chang Hong, to teach Shen Qiu.
Why did the male lead make such a change? Did he finally realize that Shen Qiu wasn't Tyler after all? The latter frowned and stared at his master with a gaze filled with confusion.
For some reason, Feng Chao had the urge to laugh after seeing such an expression on his eldest disciple's face. He coughed and said, "I wanted to give you a chance at learning in the process. After all, when I ascend, you are going to become a master yourself and take in disciples."
It would have been fine if Tyler still had his memories. He had been through many cultivation worlds in the past. But currently, his memories were locked, and he still had to gain 10% of his powers to get those memories back. So now, Tyler didn't know a thing even after knowing everything about the original Chang Hong's past. His mind was practically a blank slate!
Tyler stared at the male lead for a while, and he couldn't help but feel that this person had probably recognized him and was doing this on purpose. He glared at Feng Chao and bowed his head, still deciding to stay in character.
He was a fast learner. So he would have a closed-door training for two-three days and practice everything that the original owner of this body had learnt.
While he was doing that, the male lead, who was deliberately making trouble for Tyler, had a big smile on his face. When Tyler was in the closed-door cultivation, Feng Chao had managed to sneak inside his eldest disciple's house and see everything that the man was doing. And after observing for a few days, this master was clear about one thing: This eldest disciple was indeed Tyler, who didn't know a single thing about cultivation.
Initially, the male lead wanted to test this person to confirm his suspicion. If his eldest disciple were an outsider, that man wouldn't perform hand seals and other cultivation techniques properly. So he had deliberately forced Tyler in such a path. But he didn't expect that Tyler would be a fast learner.
After seeing Tyler walking out of his house after three days of closed-door cultivation with a happy face, he rushed toward Shen Qiu to fulfil his duty to teach that junior of his. But Tyler didn't know that behind him, his master was following him with keen interest hidden in his eyes, watching his every step.