Let's shake hands and talk.
If he still has a little strength, he will not sit still, but now… Ye Chen Yuan accepted his fate. He opens his eyes and looks straight into the clouds, and then he let out a smile.
"If you want to kill me, then so be it."
Yuan Chu's innermost feeling trembled by his smile, how much grieve and pain did he suffer to let out such a mournful smile like this?
She hesitated for a moment but finally made up her mind!
[I can't be soft hearted! That would be letting myself down!]
After sorting her thoughts, a dagger that was made out of ice flew down from one of the dark clouds, aiming straight at Ye Chen Yuan's neck! Ye Chen Yuan without fear looked calmly at the approaching dagger filled with murderous intent.
The rain continues to pour on his face, Ye Chen Yuan stood out from the pile of corpses around him, like a god-level artifact even if trampled into the mud, it will not wreck in the slightest.
At the beginning, Yuan Chu was very clear that Ye Chen Yuan drained his Qi to the point where his meridians already broke. Naturally, if she kills him now no one in this world would know, this will only be reported as a massacre that happened on a torrential storm.
The dagger with a power to break an army rushed towards Ye Chen Yuan's direction. When the tip of the dagger was only half a centimeter away from Ye Chen Yuan's neck, it stopped.
The dagger punctured his skin, a trace of blood spilled from the little boy's neck. Ye Chen Yuan who did not pay attention earlier were surprised. He looked up at the clouds and can't understand why that person suddenly stopped.
Yuan Chu was fully aware how precious the Sky Pearl was, let alone Ye Chen Yuan. As a matter of fact, even a revered monk would be enticed by it. If other people knew the existence of the Sky Pearl, there's no way they would let him go.
Yuan Chu is currently having a war in her feelings!
She didn't know the reason why she'd stopped either. Yuan Chu caught the little boy with his pair of black eyes staring at her direction then she closed her eyes and chewed her teeth again!
Kill him and seize the pearl, isn't that all she wanted to do?
With another killing intent, Yuan Chu released the ice dagger and once again pierced the little boy's neck, blood stream down from his neck and the dagger had stopped one more time!
Ye Chen Yuan tightly shut his mouth to prevent more blood running down his neck. One more stab and he'll die!
His heartbeats is racing involuntarily, as death approaches him, holding his breath and staying still is the only things left that he can do.
Ye Chen Yuan can feel the hesitation of the revered cultivator! What is going on? Ye Chen Yuan is clear that person is a powerful being that no simple man could resist and he can easily take the treasure on his body after killing him, so why is he hesitating?
Maybe because of the heavy air brought by the corpses, for a long time, Yuan Chu tried to stab Ye Chen Yuan a few more times. However, as if there's a barrier blocking her, the dagger would stop itself at the very last second!
In the moment, the dagger was suddenly pulled back to fly a dozen meters somewhere in the east resulting in piercing a stoned-wall! Just listening by its sounds, the walls are falling down one by one as if someone were giving vent to their depression!
Ye Chen Yuan who's clutching his neck at this time can barely stand any longer. With his bleeding neck, it proved that everything he had just experienced was not an illusion! He didn't even have the chance to see the other person's face first!
Yuan Chu on the other hand, felt that what she did was the right thing! She is definitely not a softhearted person!
She just remembered something important that's all. Even though she knew where all of Ye Chen Yuan's fortuitous meeting would be. Yuan Chu still needs his help in order to open up the path of some events.
Yuan Chu felt that if she killed the protagonist now, many events from the novel along with its treasures would be lost! Her heart aches with just the thought of it!
Also, if she ends his life now, then next time, Li Chen Yuan, Zhang Chen Yuan will join the fray to fight her for it! What would she do by then?
Rather than that, how about changing this … Into a win-win situation for the both of us?
After a tense and complex mood swings, Yuan Chu finally said in a weak, frustrated tone.
"…Hey! Let's shake hands and forget everything that has happened between us from now on!"
Ye Chen Yuan frowns, he does not understand what the revered cultivator wants to do. Does this means he no longer intend to kill him to take the Sky Pearl in his body?
Yuan Chu saw him not speaking; she raised her cheeks and unwillingly said.
"This magnanimous one has decided to spare you! Let's let bygones be bygones! Now… I ask you, do you…? Want to become my disciple? "
Disciple?!
Ye Chen Yuan did not think that there is a person who would be willing to accept him as a disciple even though he is now just a waste.
[What's his reason? Didn't he try to kill me before?]
Ye Chen Yuan was on his guard, with a weak voice due to his neck, can only utter a word. "Why?"
Yuan Chu took back her dagger and indignantly said.
"I'm convinced by your plot armour. Hurry up and say if you're willing to be my disciple or not! If you're willing, then kneel down and pay your respects already! Until you can cover for yourself, I'll protect you. When you have enough strength, then you'll protect me. When discovering treasures, I take seventy percent and you take thirty! If you don't dare to promise me these, I'll kill you! I'm serious!"
Ye Chen Yuan suddenly felt relaxed and somehow wanted to laugh. His Dantian has been destroyed and even his future looks bleak while the person asking him is already at the early Nascent Soul stage. How could this Senior be so sure that a day where he can cover for him would arrive? And even if there is, Ye Chen Yuan believed that Senior won't need him.
(TN: 尊 (Senior) Ye Chen calls Yuan Chu senior here out of respect that he's stronger than him rather than age.)
As a result, Ye Chen Yuan met another old child? He doesn't know the reason but despite the other person trying to kill him earlier, he was not afraid of him now… Also, Ye Chen Yuan keeps having this strange feeling of wanting to get close to this Senior.
(TN: 老顽童 (old child) the equivalent word in English would be "Peter Pan".)
But he refused.
"…I feel so honored by Senior's words."
Clutching his throat, he grimly said. "But I am already a waste, I'm afraid… That I can't become your disciple."
Yuan Chu recalled that the protagonist's Dantian completely broke and cannot continue his cultivation from now on. With this condition, he can't even enter the Ling Shan Sect now, let alone be her apprentice.
Yuan Chu frowns for a minute and quickly made up her decision.
What's there to be afraid? Ye Chen Yuan is the protagonist! Even if his Dantian gets destroyed a hundred times, there will always be a way to remedy it, right?
"Just a minor matter of Dantian? What do you need? I'll help you search for it!"
She's sure that this little guy holds a lot of useful information on his head, so it's better to ask him directly.
Ye Chen Yuan shook his head and let out a smile. "The medicines required to repair a Dantian are hard to obtain and they are of Heaven Grade and Earth Grade."
“Heaven Grade, Earth Grade. That's simple!” Yuan Chu interrupted him and patted her chest. “I know a place that are full them! Speak. Do you want to acknowledge me as your Master?”
Ye Chen Yuan were shocked! He is not an ordinary child, he learned from reading countless of books how valuable a Heaven Grade and Earth Grade medicine is. It is extremely difficult to find them even if the person is at early Nascent Soul stage, so Senior may not have that many! But the cultivator in front of him spoke so confidently… Could it be a trap?
Ye Chen Yuan who contemplated for a while, smiled in the end.
Even though he's a waste right now, that person didn't kill him to possess the Sky Pearl even though he knows it's in his body.
With such a thought, Ye Chen Yuan was so mad that he could no longer remain standing, he knelt down and kowtow to the ground.
Translator's Note:
Hey guys! Sorry if the updates are so slow for this novel.
I've been busy with work for these past months that even the first novel I'm translating that was supposedly a 1 chapter/day was made into a 3 chapters/week now (Evil Wang Pampers His Ghost Doctor Fei).
PS: this was translated using MTL and I'm not a Native English Speaker, so feel free to correct me!