CH 199

The two people were eating veggie buns by themselves and soon after they wiped out the meat buns in their stomach, when a loud shout sounded out: “The Sect Chief arrived— —“

Those words made the calm Long Zhanye frown. In those five years, Long Zhanye took turns in replacing Huo Zaiyuan and Gu Linyuan and appearing before everybody, never falling in a trap. Huo Zaiyuan’s appearance couldn’t be moved, Gu Linyuan’s looks were the less meticulous, he gradually changed into himself so now, implicating the changes was unnecessary {?}. Nobody found out that Gu Linyuan was fake.

“What’s going on?” Huo Zaiyuan saw him frown: “Are the veggie buns not tasty? In fact, you don’t need to force yourself in eating veggie buns like me”

Long Zhanye’s real body was a real dragon, even if he replaced Gu Linyuan and pretended to be a Taoist Sect’s disciple, but they weren’t the same after all. In those five years, this man who liked meat has consumed many veggie and meat buns, it has been truly though for him.

“Nope, I just never expected for this person to come” Long Zhanye gazed deeply at the immortal man dressed in white being surrounded by a crowd of reverent and respectful Taoist disciples. He coldly hummed. From Long Zhanye’s attitude it was clear how much dislike there was when he said ‘this person’.

“Who? The Sect Chief?” Huo Zaiyuan looked at Long Zhanye who was in a bad mood, he raised his head to look at the crowd, however, he still had to see when he was pulled in Long Zhanye’s arms.

“Not allowed to look, what is good about that dignified guy”

Looking at the even more unsightly face of Long Zhanye, Huo Zaiyuan didn’t know why but an unusual feeling emerged in his heart. He couldn’t help any more but softly laugh.

“You… you are still laughing!!” Long Zhanye looked at his {Hzy} flowery splendid smiling expression and bent over.

The two people were sitting in an unnoticeable corner, plus the mysterious Taoist Sect Chief appeared so who would pay attention to those two people’s every movement.

It has been thousands of years since the Chief Feng Chen has taken over the Taoist Sect. Ever since ‘that matter’, he has lived in the sect in seclusion, therefore he obtained the title of ‘mysterious’ from an earlier time. He didn’t know why today there was a feeling which was hard to describe. A trusted disciple perceived his own master’s uneasiness and conveniently told him that, because the ‘dangerous’ Boundary was open, the sect was holding a competition. Two hundred disciples signed to fight over {note1}. Feng Chen carefully considered it and thought of taking advantage of this moment to relieve boredom, so he ushered his disciple to leave his own residence.

{note2: honestly I don’t understand if there’s a problem with numbers or I don’t understand. All the disciples under certain phase can join, but only 200 people can enter in the Dangerous Boundary… I’m not sure if it’s correct}

Arriving at the Taoist Sect competition ‘Martial Exchange Platform’, through the Taoist disciples’ cries of respect, Feng Chen suddenly felt a deep gaze from the crowd. He has felt this kind of gaze once throughout his thousands years of cultivation, and that was… when he subconsciously turned his face to search that deep gaze, like wind it disappeared…

Could it be him?

No, it can’t be. After that man caused havoc in the six big sects, he jumped from the snowy peak, the noise was gone… how can he be here, this was the Taoist Sect.

“Ma… master?” Feng Yan didn’t know why his indifferent and conducting himself in society of a master would show a dejected expression in this way. He swept a glance at the Taoist disciples, approached Feng Chen to softly call him out. He has never seen his master with this expression… it looked like he has lost something important and won’t get it anymore…

“Nothing” Feng Chen promptly recovered from his thoughts, his mouth displayed his habitual indifferent smile: “En… the competition is almost starting, let’s go”

“Yes”

This time, in the Taoist Sect only 200 disciples could proceed for the Dangerous Boundary. The Sect stipulated that, disciples in the first layer of heartbeat phase and under couldn’t take part in the competition. Among Huo Zaiyuan’s fellow apprentices, there were some with better aptitude who reached heartbeat phase first, second layer. He already successfully reached the Spiritual silent phase third layer, his spiritual power was confined by the bracelet. Normally his spiritual power should be at the first layer of the heartbeat phase, which was too outstanding. Just now it was enough to join the competition.

{ps I know the chaos with the phase, I thought the layers were the stages}

This time the competing Taoist Sect’s disciples were divided in ranks. Several thousands people separated in fifty sites, one-on-one. After a day only few hundreds were left. Obviously Long Zhanye and Huo Zaiyuan were also in the competition list. It was just that they were all confronting little fellow apprentices {losers}, many people were knocked down from the platform. It didn’t cause a sensation. Therefore Huo Zaiyuan was sitting on a mat and it was his first time that he saw such a competition. He really enjoyed it. Long Zhanye wasn’t interested, he leaned on Huo Zaiyuan’s body and fell asleep.

While the Chief was watching at the competition between disciples, he felt like they were small children scuffling. Feng Chen didn’t watch for a long time and led his disciple away. Before leaving, he heard his disciple’s indistinct question: “Master, will you still come at tomorrow’s competition?”

“Yes” he had nothing to do anyway, tomorrow he will walk around again.

En, it seemed that being the Sect Chief was in fact being very ridiculous… in the future the cultivating disciples needed more strength.

The first day of competition concluded when the sun set down. The Martial Exchange Platform disciples didn’t even need an hour that they dispersed, the disciples who would join tomorrow’s competition were even more quick on returning in their bedrooms, getting ready for tomorrow’s competition. Today was the first competition, and it was in each category of the Taoist Sect’s martial arts and gong fu, absolutely a gong fu where they used fists and feet. But in the second competition they were allowed to carry weapons and ritual implements.

While the other disciples were filled with concerns, Long Zhanye and Huo Zaiyuan were clearly unperturbed. After they returned in the bedroom, they comfortably bathed together and then entered in the space.

“Zhanye… tomorrow we can carry weapons and ritual implements, you… won’t have problems?”

Long Zhanye didn’t belong to the Taoist Sect, someone who didn’t know the Taoist Sect’s laws and with all the gong ti in his body… the Chief didn’t scan attentively… today’s competition, Huo Zaiyuan was very scared to look at him straightforwardly punching those fellow disciples…

But tomorrow they could carry weapons and ritual implements, moreover today’s qualified disciples were all Taoist Sect’s excellent disciples. If Long Zhanye wanted to easily beat them dizzy, then it would be a little troublesome. And doing this would be extremely showy.

“Hehe, so what if I have weapons, although I don’t understand the Taoists’ laws, but I can still act with that Taoist Sect’s fencing style. Tomorrow I will fool and deceive and it will be alright” Long Zhanye wasn’t anxious at all.

It didn’t matter if it was in the past standing in the army in the Human Boundary or now replacing Gu Linyuan in the Taoist Sect, his understanding towards martial arts was high. Taoist Sect’s disciples were outstanding, but for him they weren’t worth mentioning. It was a real thing. A finger could break them, deceiving wasn’t difficult.

“Alright, I‘m not worried about your words, but I could have some problems. I cultivated for many years that I’m not proficient in this style”

“It’s easy. I will teach you” Long Zhanye waved his hand, a Taoist Sect’s disciple common long sword appeared, and then it was handed over to Huo Zaiyuan.

Huo Zaiyuan nodded his head and reached his hand to take the long sword. He frowned: “It’s lighter”

Hearing Huo Zaiyuan’s words, Long Zhanye chuckled and hugged his {Hzy} waist: “Well, of course. This sword is broken and decaying iron, how can it be in par with your Liuying Sword. En… little devil already reincarnated, this time we are conveniently going in the Dangerous Boundary to look for some material suited for forging. I will rebuild a long sword for you. En… If we can’t find anything, then at worst I will secretly sneak in the Dragon Clan, mine stones…” a glint of craftiness flashed in his eyes, it wasn’t difficult to tell that leaving for the Dragon Clan to steal was something he would do with pleasure.

Noticing that glint, although Huo Zaiyuan still haven’t remembered everything but in those years he has gotten along with Long Zhanye. In addition there were many documents in the Taoist Sect concerning the defying dragon, Long Zhanye was absolutely an intolerant existence for the Immortals World and the Cultivation Boundary. Hiding in the Taoist Sect was already very risky… if he left for the Dragon Clan to steal treasures again and was discovered, then he ought to…

“No! I don’t want you to be in danger only because of a sword, you told me you would protect me” Huo Zaiyuan hugged him back and covered his face in his {Lzy} arms: “I only need to break through the Yuan phase and then we will live in seclusion, okay? Even inside the space, I won’t complain…”

“Okay, I will wait for you to break through the Yuan phase and then we will leave. We will live in seclusion together” Long Zhanye’s face was gentle and soft.

Dragons love freedom and soaring in the sky… but he was the defying dragon, he wasn’t allowed in the sky, only having the person in his arms… three lives, and he {Hzy} was holding this heaven defying existence without the slightest hesitation. Wherever they went he {Lzy} was happy… After the two people sweetly sticked together, Long Zhanye started to instruct Huo Zaiyuan how to use the sword.