I Want to Be Called Long Aotian

"..." Chi Yu said, "No, boss, you misunderstood. I meant you're amazing! You even sent a Nascent Soul cultivator running for his life. You're absolutely this!"

He gave him a thumbs-up.

Xie Xiyi said, "What does that mean?"

Chi Yu said, "The best!! Number one in the cultivation world!"

Xie Xiyi laughed, pleasure coloring his voice again. "You certainly have a way with words. But fame and fortune are of no use to me. If you have too much time on your hands, go compose a few more songs."

Chi Yu: "..."

OK, he had already recorded two clips of material.

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That night.

Chi Yu handed in his songs on time, and Xie Xiyi took the Image-Retaining Pearl to play them over and over again, savoring them.

He reclined on a lounge chair, his sharply defined hand lightly keeping time, looking utterly absorbed.

He looked very much like an old man listening to music by the door.

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Seeing that he was no longer needed, Chi Yu found somewhere quiet to work on practice papers.

The system had subsequently spat out several more textbooks and other science workbooks, all from the stacks in his room.

This system really was useless. He still had to rely on himself.

But if he stayed here any longer, he really would forget everything he had learned.

Chi Yu had always had excellent grades growing up, ranking first in his year every time. He was his grandparents' pride and joy.

Once I get back-

Hey, wait. Chi Yu remembered something terrifying-once he reached the Golden Core Realm, his build and appearance would be fixed.

Chi Yu dropped his paper and pen and charged into the place where Xie Xiyi was. Unable to stop himself, he brazenly grabbed his sleeve. "Boss! Help!"

Xie Xiyi tilted his head slightly, the fangs on his mask gleaming coldly. "?"

Chi Yu hurriedly said, "Boss, help me remove that Forbidden Curse that gives me cultivation when someone kills me!"

Xie Xiyi's voice betrayed neither pleasure nor anger. "Your reason?"

Chi Yu said, "I won't be able to grow up like this!"

Xie Xiyi laughed. "Isn't that good? Eternal youth. So many people dream of it, and you don't want it?"

Chi Yu said, "No! Boss, please, help me remove this Forbidden Curse."

Xie Xiyi remained unmoved, his heart like iron. "Get out."

Chi Yu was shocked. "Boss, this would barely take any effort for you!"

Xie Xiyi said, "No one can order me around. I'll say it one more time. Get out."

Chi Yu: "..."

Chi Yu stormed out, muttering, "You'll regret this someday. You definitely will. Definitely, definitely!"

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Xie Xiyi's voice drifted over. "I can hear you."

Chi Yu said, "I said it for you to hear."

Xie Xiyi said, "Want to die?"

Chi Yu promptly fled.

Ling Hezhou was numb from watching it all.

Ling Hezhou asked the question he had wanted to ask for a long time. "How do you dare talk to that demon like that?"

Chi Yu countered, "Why wouldn't I?"

Ling Hezhou: "..."

Fine, Chi Yu was not normal.

Chi Yu muttered, "He's way too nasty. It would barely take any effort, but he won't even do that. He could replace it with a different Forbidden Curse. It's not like I'm saying he can't put a curse on me."

Ling Hezhou: "..."

Cultivators had extraordinary hearing. They could even perceive every movement within the range of their spiritual sense with perfect clarity. He did not dare speak.

Ling Tian, on the other hand, spoke without any restraint. "He was a demon to begin with."

Chi Yu: "...True."

A few days later, they arrived at another cultivator city.

Xie Xiyi never interfered with Chi Yu's movements, and Chi Yu could forget about interfering with his. Upon arriving at this cultivator city, Xie Xiyi belatedly remembered that he had forgotten to massacre the previous city, so he simply decided to target this one.

Chi Yu, upon learning of the villain's intentions: "..."

Seriously, you just have to massacre a city, huh?

Chi Yu did not stop him. Who was he to meddle in Xie Xiyi's business?

The greatest secret to his surviving so long at Xie Xiyi's side without getting any younger was-dancing just above Xie Xiyi's bottom line, while never touching anything that crossed it.

Even if he wanted to save people, he would never put that above his own safety.

And so Chi Yu witnessed Xie Xiyi's method of massacring a city.

All it took was burying Spirit Stones engraved with a Forbidden Curse outside the city. A hundred could form an array that would slaughter every selected target in an instant.

And this time, Xie Xiyi had selected the Golden Core Realm.

Flames soared into the sky within the city. The furious roars of cultivators could be heard from far away, and many cultivators with low cultivation fled on their swords.

Chaos. The entire city descended into chaos. Some mortals and cultivators in the city took the opportunity to rob others and loot corpses, sparking another round of bloody fighting.

With Chi Yu beside him aboard the Flying Boat, Xie Xiyi watched everything in the city with perfect clarity. Xie Xiyi began humming Cry for Me, a Japanese song that was very emotional and brought people to tears.

Ever since Chi Yu discovered that Xie Xiyi did not actually care about how well the battle scenes matched the music, he had started choosing emotional songs, hoping to move his icy heart with music and awaken a shred of humanity in him.

Unfortunately, Xie Xiyi kept humming the songs, but his humanity remained scant.

Chi Yu looked down at the devastation in the city. Calling it hell on earth would not have been an exaggeration.

After finishing the song, Xie Xiyi asked Chi Yu with interest, "Do you know what Forbidden Curse I used this time?"

Chi Yu composed his unsettled emotions and asked as though nothing were wrong, "What Forbidden Curse?"

Xie Xiyi clapped his hands, his voice thick with laughter. "This Forbidden Curse is called Netherworld. Whether mortal or cultivator, everyone faces the fear of their approaching end. From the moment a mortal is born, death is an eternal shadow.

"And cultivators contend with heaven, with earth, with other people, and with beasts. Whenever they lose, they are certain to face death. The Netherworld is the world people enter after death. Without a special protective artifact, a Golden Core cultivator will inevitably perish upon death, their cultivation extinguished.

"This Forbidden Curse accelerates their time. A quarter of an hour is a hundred and fifty years. Golden Core cultivators have a lifespan of eight hundred years, and geniuses are few and far between. By the time most cultivators reach the Golden Core Realm, they have only three or four hundred years left. So in just the time it takes an incense stick to burn, everyone will burst into fireworks, sending them to the realm of the dead where they belong. These are my lovely well wishes for them."

Chi Yu: "..."

Chi Yu could not help saying, "Boss, if you keep this up, you'll become the enemy of the entire cultivation world. What will you do then?"

Xie Xiyi laughed. "That would be wonderful. I'll give you a few more lamps then."

Chi Yu: "..."

Xie Xiyi practically wished he had dozens of hands so he could slap dozens of faces with a single swing.

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Chi Yu suddenly remembered. "Boss, didn't you say you'd give me a lamp? Where is it? You're not trying to go back on your word, are you?"

Xie Xiyi lowered his head slightly to look at him. Under his spiritual sense, Chi Yu's face was small and fleshy, full of childishness. There seemed to be no fear at all in his tone as he spoke, expressing his emotions with complete simplicity and directness.

He was asking him for a lamp, when he had just massacred a city right in front of him.

Though he had indeed promised him one.

Was it the power of the Forbidden Curse?

Xie Xiyi looked thoughtful. "I haven't refined it yet. I'll give it to you when it's ready."

Chi Yu said, "Then it's a deal. You can't go back on your word."

Xie Xiyi said, "You're not getting it."

Chi Yu: "..."

Fuck!

I forgot Xie Xiyi was contrary to his very bones!

Chi Yu immediately took the opposite approach. "...Actually, I don't really want it."

Xie Xiyi laughed delightedly. "Hmph~"

Chi Yu: "..."

Fuck!

Author's note:

Little Puppy Fish: With Xie Xiyi, you have to say the opposite of whatever you want! Got it√

Little Puppy Fish: "We absolutely must not break up!"

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Little Puppy Fish: Fuck!

Chapter 18: I Want to Be Called Long Aotian

Chi Yu parted ways with Xie Xiyi.

After all, the two of them were not tied together. They were both free!

Chi Yu did not sit idle either. He found a town and stocked up on ingredients, firewood, rice, oil, and salt.

This was a purely mortal town, populated almost entirely by mortals.

Divine Path did not only have cultivators and Immortal Sects. It also had mortal dynasties. The male lead had come from a small village in the Tianchi Dynasty on the western mainland of the Eastern Mirror Continent.

The thought piqued Chi Yu's interest. As it happened, this town was not very far from that little village, so he decided to go see the male lead.

Chi Yu was extremely decisive. As soon as he had the idea, he acted on it immediately, without any delay.

After a four-hour flight by air taxi, he arrived at the little village.

Although the Eastern Mirror Continent had plenty of cultivators, a natural barrier separated cultivators from mortals. This isolated little village only got to see "immortals" when an Immortal Sect came every five years to select promising cultivation recruits.

They could not distinguish cultivators' ranks either. Anyone who casually performed a minor spell could be regarded as an immortal.

When Chi Yu reached the village, his first impression was that it was very poor. But with its lovely mountains and clear waters, the surroundings were excellent.

Chi Yu loved this sort of environment. He had been sent to his grandparents' home when he was very young and had grown up in a village. Only when he reached school age did his parents decide that he could not attend school in the village and send him to an elementary school in the city. Naturally, his grandparents moved to the city with him.

His ties with his parents were thin. They had eyes for nothing but their careers. Over the past dozen or so years, his family's circumstances had indeed changed beyond recognition. He knew his parents ran a very large business, and there was more money on his card than he could spend, but none of that could compare to his grandparents' companionship.

As he thought about it, Chi Yu began to miss his grandparents a little.

Sighing silently, Chi Yu put on a smile without revealing a trace of melancholy. He smilingly asked the children playing in the mud at the village entrance, "Excuse me, do you know where Yang Dali lives?"