Translator: DragonRider
When Mu Chen was revising the prescription for Black Egg, he suddenly felt on edge without any reason. Then he stood up and walked over to the window to see the scenery outside yet didn't know what to do next, feeling somehow insecure like floating on the water with nothing to depend on.
Gu Yunjue, who was meditating on the bed, perceived the subtle mood swing of his master. He opened his eyes, looking at his master worriedly from behind. Under the moonlight, Mu Chen's figure should be enveloped in a faint layer of mist that made him hard to be noticed if not with close attention. Gu Yunjue kept his worry deep down to his heart with a frown and walked over, asking softly behind Mu Chen, "What's the matter?"
Turning around, Mu Chen saw Gu Yunjue reach out a finger with the fingertip falling between his eyebrows gently. The voice of this youngster unknowingly brought him solace that calmed him down gradually, hence the doubt and emptiness troubling him just now seemed to have disappeared the moment he saw Gu Yunjue. Feeling at ease, Mu Chen said slowly with a smile flickering across his lips, "I might have thought too much. Everything is fine."
"If Master is tired, you may have a rest on the bed. I am here as your guard." Gu's voice sounded even gentler, which at once induced a sense of fatigue in Mu Chen, making him believe a sleep was not bad.
As Mu Chen lay down slowly on the bed, Gu Yunjue put on him a thin quilt and sat on the bedside looking at his sleeping master greedily as if his master was a precious treasure. Gu Yunjue's eyes went darker as he thought of the mist enveloping Mu Chen just now. He had sent people to look for Mu Chen's father in the three Realms but not a single trace had been found. The origin of his beloved seemed to be so complicated that Gu Yunjue was worried Mu Chen's parental relation could bring misfortune to him.
Right at this moment, Gu Yunjue sensed a slight quake of the palace which seemed to be caused by someone landing on the roof. But he didn't perceive any hostility. All he noticed was that Mu Chen frowned again, so he tapped his fingertip between master's brows until Mu Chen fell back into a deep sleep. Then he arranged a boundary to protect Mu Chen and left the room.
Outside the attic was a man in green floating in the air, cross-legged. His clothes looked clean but was not that neat and his hair coiled back casually, which served him to be slovenly. Though, he looked quite pretty with a pair of slanted shinning eyes whose color resembled that of amber. Seeing Gu Yunjue come out, the man raised his chin, asking as if he were Gu's friend, "Boy, do you have any wine?"
Squinting his eyes, Gu Yunjue smiled back, "Sure. Why don't you come down for a talk?"
The man flew down after waving his sleeves and exclaimed in amazement, "So young as you are, you should have such a profound cultivation! Admirable!"
"This owes to my Master's teaching." Gu Yunjue showed great hospitality by serving a fine pot of wine and inviting him to sit down for a share.
"Aren't you afraid that I am some sort of villain?" The man was shocked by the calmness of this young boy.
Gu Yunjue smiled, showing a natural and unrestrained bearing, like an innocent boy of the purest and truest disposition. He explained: "Apparently, you are a good man, and at least you have no intention to harm me. I am sure of this."
"Intriguing." As the man was satisfied with the answer, he wiped the bench with his sleeve and sat down casually, holding the pot to swig a drink directly, exclaiming, "Good liquor! Better if it were stronger." Saying that, he drank in one sitting half a pot of wine and paused for a breath, "Finally, I'm alive again!"
Gu Yunjue squinted his eyes in order to hide his deep thought, asking with a smile, "Where are you going, senior?"
"Alas, never mention that." The man patted on his thigh and said bluntly, "I had planned to go to the Lofty Cloudy Sect but got lost on the way."
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