The Distinguished Cute Master

Chapter 44 – Spirits Embracing Each Other  

Ye Chenyuan’s eyes couldn’t help widening. He wanted to refuse, but Yuan Chu’s hold on his hand was tight. He used all his strength to struggle free of her hands. In the next instant, Yuan Chu’s arms wrapped around his neck. She stood on her tiptoes and hugged him.

“We’ll do it together.”

N… No!

The lightning struck down with a bang. In its illumination, Yuan Chu hugged Ye Chenyuan even tighter. All of the magical items they found which could protect them from the lightning were all used up. This was her failure as his master. She hadn’t foreseen this type of situation and led her disciple into danger. All she could do now was to bear it with him.

His eyes widened further. The heavenly lightning might kill him, but once he succeeds, it would be the base for his future strength. However, it held no benefit for Yuan Chu. She would only suffer from it! And she hadn’t needed to suffer!

So please! Stay away from me!

He wanted to say these words, but he couldn’t. His heart pained at the burning smell wafting off of her body. He had never felt so angry before.

Yuan Chu was very miserable. She already feared pain, not to mention this soul-splitting suffering. But the more it hurt, the tighter she hugged him. She would accompany him. She was his master!

Another bolt of lightning landed. Ye Chenyuan could feel Yuan Chu’s body shaking from the intense pain. Yet, she stammered, “I… It doesn’t hurt at all. D-does it hurt for you?”

Ye Chenyuan’s eyes reddened. He no longer tried to push Yuan Chu away. Instead, he hugged her tightly to his chest!

He was in pain too, but his body was already numb. His heart was what ached the most!

The lightning enveloped the heavens and earth. The spiritual energy outside couldn’t break through so it ended up forming a whirlwind. Amidst​ the flickering fire and lightning, Ye Chenyuan hugged Yuan Chu tightly to his chest, as if he would never let her go.

This scene shook Ji Hongyan deeply. 

She had never thought before that there would be someone who would suffer lightning tribulation with another to help him keep going!

If that little girl’s cultivation was low, was she not afraid of dying there?

The final strikes grew fiercer and fiercer. Venerable Li had nothing more to say since Yuan Chu had decided to endure the lightning tribulation with Ye Chenyuan. She didn’t wish for him to give up. All Venerable Li could do was support them and hope that they would be safe and sound.

And as she hugged Ye Chenyuan, there was only one thought that kept repeating in Yuan Chu’s mind.

—She was the one who had refused to leave and she was the one who hugged him first!

Since it was already like this, she should not leave him. Whether in heaven or in hell¹, she would forever stay by his side!

Strike after strike of lightning had injured Yuan Chu even more. Ye Chenyuan hugged her, his eyes reddening further. Regret and anger made a sudden, frightening power erupt from his heart. He yelled into the sky, welcoming the final strike!

The forty-ninth strike was not a single lightning strike. Instead, it has collected into a hundred-thousand bolts of lightning, raining explosions on them. The bombardment echoed in their ears, the entire world illuminated in sparks, flooded by purple light. Meanwhile, Ji Hongyan had nowhere to hide; she also sustained many wounds.

However, she was more shocked than hurt!

This strange scene proved something. In the cultivation world, right in front of her eyes, a genius was born!

The torrent of lightning strikes continued for around ten breaths before its reluctant dissipation. Right after the last spark died away, a sudden ray of light shone down from the sky. It landed on Ye Chenyuan and rapidly healed his wounds.

Lightning no longer obstructed the surrounding spiritual energy. It rushed into Ye Chenyuan’s body, tussling to be the first to go in. He was revived from the brink of death and a faint glow radiated from him.

The apocalyptic scenery disappeared. Countless rainbow beams followed the brightening sky and descended to the ground. The earth, which became ash-gray from the lightning’s destruction, was paved with green. A variety of flowers sprang up from the ground. If Yuan Chu wasn’t still injured from the lightning, it would have seemed that nothing had ever happened.

Ye Chenyuan tenderly held her as if she was a delicate treasure.

Venerable Li checked on her through Ye Chenyuan. He let out a sigh of relief. “I don’t know how this little doll cultivated, but her foundation is still stable. Such a frightening lightning tribulation hadn’t hurt her soul at all. Only her flesh body is injured. She’ll be fine after several days’ rest.”

Ye Chenyuan said nothing. The expression on his handsome face was dark. After he changed his clothes and met up with Ji Hongyan, he stopped in his steps.

It was Venerable Li who reminded him. “Wait a moment. That little girl helped you just now and wasted many magical weapons. You can’t just leave like that.”

Ye Chenyuan was a bit helpless. He only wanted to find a secluded place where he could put his master into the spiritual spring to cultivate. However, he had received someone’s kindness, so he had to repay her. Thus, he paused and placed a couple of bottles of spiritual pills in front of Ji Hongyan.

Currently, Ye Chenyuan was already a third rank pill refiner; he could refine rank three pills now. Although, to repay her, he would not use the pills he refined. Instead, he would use those rank five spiritual pills he found inside the cave. 

These pills would not only offset the debt from those magic items; it would also heal the wounds she gained and increase her cultivation. It was entirely counted as returning her kindness.

Ye Chenyuan looked at her. His voice lowered, he said, “Many thanks for dao friend’s assistance just now.”

Ji Hongyan sat up while clutching her chest. She gazed steadily at him. As a saintess, naturally she knew these pills were not ordinary. However, this was not her focus. She was more interested in the astonishingly beautiful youth in front of her.

It was a pity that she temporarily couldn’t speak because of her internal injuries. The youth then turned to leave without a trace of hesitation.

“May we meet again.”

His voice was indifferent as he said these four words. It was clear that he got no intention of ever seeing her again. Instead, Venerable Li was the one who put up a fuss.

“You little brat, don’t you know how to be tender to the fairer sex? At least feed her a pill before leaving!”

Ye Chenyuan frowned. He glanced at Yuan Chu who was unconscious in his hands. He replied without an ounce of politeness. “No hands.”

Venerable Li was momentarily speechless.

From Ye Chenyuan’s point of view, that girl was too strange. He really didn’t wish to be involved with her in the future. He had returned her kindness. The earlier he could leave the better.

But how could he have known that his departing figure would be deeply branded into Ji Hongyan’s mind?

Her chest still hurts a lot, but she smiled evilly at the sight of Ye Chenyuan leaving without turning back. It was the first time someone preferred to return her kindness completely instead of wanting to stay entangled with her.

This person, she would remember him.

At that time, she would have never believed that her love rival was a little girl who was still wet behind the ears. After all, who would have such deep feelings for a tiny little girl? Did she have any chest?

Naturally, Ye Chenyuan didn’t know about this. While some family’s beauty thought tenderly of him, he brought Yuan Chu into the Sky Pearl. He gathered many pills and then picked the most suitable, feeding them to her.

¹ “Whether in heaven or hell” — the raw (上穷碧落下黄泉) originates from a poem about the sorrowful love between an emperor and his concubine titled Chang Hen Ge (Song of Everlasting Regret). In short (as possible), the emperor sent his subjects to search through heaven and earth to bitterly search for his lover after she died. Now, the phrase is commonly used in web novels to imply “wherever you are, I’ll be”.