Chapter 113

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In which all secrets are revealed.

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After Pavilion Master Ding died, the Abbot and the others arranged for someone to collect the corpse.

Wei Jin watched from the side, a thought flashing through his mind for an instant of, “Going over in the middle of the night to cut that corpse into pieces,” but this impulse persisted for only a short moment before it disappeared.

Forget it, he thought.

The person was already dead, so no matter how he’d cut, the other party wouldn’t even feel it, and wouldn’t even give him a furious expression that’d bring him joy. It would be truly pointless.

Ye You didn’t care about any of this.

After he finished saying those words to Wei Jiangyue, he had been received by the Sheng family head into a room. Hearing the “Sir Yang”s bubbling forth from every which way, he faintly lowered his eyes.

For twenty years, the name he hadn’t dared to speak aloud had once again returned to him.

He had once wondered if the Yang family had still been around, what his circumstances would be like right now. Perhaps, everyone in Jianghu would know that he was Sir Yang and, when they met him, would also politely greet him. He had also once wondered about when everything came to light and everyone knew his true identity, what would his circumstances be like then. And now that this day had truly arrived, he discovered that he wasn’t actually as excited or happy as he thought he would be; instead, his entire mind was empty and quiet.

His family was already gone, while this was only a form of address, that’s all, so what was the point.

Even after they called out Sir Yang, he was still himself, and the Yang family still wouldn’t return. He thought that probably the only upside was that, in the future, he’d be able to go pay his respects at the Yang family grave out in the open.

Wenren Heng gave the other a look and guessed that since this person had just caused the death of a hated enemy, his Junior Brother most likely wanted some peace and quiet. He then used the excuse of his Junior Brother’s health not being good to take their leave, pulling the other to the back courtyard. He said, “Ah-You.”

Ye You made a sound in acknowledgment, internally thinking that the other upside was that whenever he heard his Senior Brother calling him “Ah-You,” he always really liked hearing it.

Of course, on this point, he had already heard this form of address many times before already.

Wenren Heng said, “What are you thinking about?”

Ye You wasn’t the sort of person who remained depressed for long, and the small mood he was in quickly passed.

He unconsciously wanted to tell his Senior Brother that it was nothing, but when the words reached his mouth, he suddenly remembered something and changed tracks to say, “Thinking about how that jug of ‘Fengzui’ from Xie Junming still hasn’t been finished.”

Wenren Heng said, “Keep dreaming.”

Ye You let out a light sigh, sounding quite like he was bearing some hidden bitterness, almost as if he had been betrayed by love.

Wenren Heng was speechless. “When Miracle Doctor Ji cures your poison, I’ll go with you to drink your fill.”

Ye You said, “What if Miracle Doctor Ji doesn’t make it here in time?”

In truth, Miracle Doctor Ji and the others definitely wouldn’t make it in time. Because he feared that the situation would turn unfavorable with the passing of time, he had given Wei Haide only ten days. There was some risk to this, but since the righteous faction had so many people, it still came out in their favor.

Wenren Heng said, “If he doesn’t make it in time, then you just obediently stand aside, don’t just move however you please.”

Ye You said, “I also want to do that, but the monster most likely won’t let me…”

Wenren Heng interrupted him, “There’s still me.”

Ye You looked at his Senior Brother and, upon seeing the other also looking back at him, closed his mouth, having a clear view of things. He then obediently went with the other back to the room to rest. But, right when they arrived, Xie Junming and Elder Baili had also come right at their heels.

Xie Junming looked at Ye You, smiling especially handsomely.

Ye You raised a brow.

Xie Junming said, “So it turned out that Wei Jin was one of yours.”

He had previously been baffled over why Ah-You had made the decision to oppose Ding Yicheng right when he learned that Ding Xilai had been sent away. But it turned out that Ah-You had calculated that Ding Yicheng would very likely hand the person over to Wei Jin. The two of them had definitely already discussed all the proper preparations previously, which was how Wei Jin was able to hurry back in time for Ye You’s face-off against Ding Yicheng in order to twist in the knife.

Ye You said, all smiles, “You never asked me.”

Xie Junming then continued smiling, looking even more handsome.

Back at Shaolin, he had been able to guess that Ah-You had accomplices. And later, when Ghost Gentleman brought people to surround the mountain, since Qin Yuemian and Lady Tao had both helped out, he had inevitably believed that Ah-You’s accomplices were them and so didn’t ask any further. Who knew that he had simply been “too certain of his own cleverness”.

He asked, “Is there still anything that I don’t know? You better say all of it now, or else I might be hurt in the future.”

“There’s nothing much.” As he spoke, Ye You paused before adding, “Oh, Young Miracle Doctor Fang is also mine.”

Xie Junming and Elder Baili simultaneously startled.

Xie Junming was astonished. “That little fool?”

Ye You continued with, “I saved him once before. Since he said he wanted to learn medicine, I then let him come to the Central Plains to find Miracle Doctor Ji to try it out, and in the end, he actually succeeded. It was also because he and Miaomiao were around that Wei Jin was able to be saved when he was injured that year. But he’s too foolish, so he doesn’t know too much. He simply came over during the period of time I had lost my memories to stand guard for a few days.”

Xie Junming once again repeated, “Stand guard for a few days?”

Ye You said, deadly earnest, “Because I was too weak.”

This was actually a true statement.

He had truly been at his weakest when he had lost his memories; he simply had to vomit blood three times for everything to end in failure.

But he knew that his Senior Brother would definitely take him to see Miracle Doctor Ji. Thus, he told the matter of Pursued Until Scattered to the Young Miracle Doctor in advance, so the Young Miracle Doctor was able to speak of his situation after hurrying over and smoothly stand guard at his side. In this way, if there truly was a need, and the elders didn’t have time to hit his death acupoint, the Young Miracle Doctor would then take their place. If the Young Miracle Doctor also didn’t have time, then there was still Wei Jin.

Xie Junming could hear that he didn’t want to discuss this any further and gave him a look before then actually not asking any further.

Ye You saw that he was reluctantly satisfied and personally poured him a cup of tea.

Xie Junming asked, “The next step is to go to Huayang City?”

Ye You said, “Naturally, I need to keep my word after all. From here to Huayang City, it’ll take about ten days.”

Xie Junming said, “Wei Haide should be in Huayang City, right?”

“Very likely.” Ye You narrowed his eyes, smiling. “This is great. If he stays there and doesn’t move, I’ll go directly to Huayang City to kill him. If he brings people and rushes over, meeting us on the road, I can even save a bit of effort.”

Xie Junming said, “That monster…”

Before he could finish speaking, he heard footsteps approaching from far away and then, immediately following, two knocks sounded from the room door.

Chen Hong pushed open the door and entered, his entire face full of astonishment. “Big bro, right as I came back, I heard that Ding Yicheng died, Wei Jin is a child of the Jiang family, and you’re part of the Yang family. Are these all true?”

Ye You said, “They are.”

Chen Hong looked at him and then looked at Xie Junming before saying angrily, “I can’t be the last one to know about this, right? Are we still brothers?”

Ye You laughed and said, “Of course you aren’t the last one.”

Chen Hong said, “Really?”

Ye You said, “Xiao-Bai, Xiao-Mei, and the others along with my big brother all still don’t know.”

Chen Hong silently took a moment to react, feeling as if he had received a sliver of comfort. He then ran over to sit extremely close to the other, blinking his limpid eyes, looking especially heart-rending.

Ye You pushed aside his face and asked, “Why is it only you? Where’s Sect Master Shui[1]?”

Chen Hong’s expression turned somewhat stiff.

Every time he pretended to be pitiful in order to be saved by someone, he always wanted to leave behind a good impression, so when Sect Master Shui wanted to send him home, he had agreed. He had thought that he’d find a good place to send the person away before returning, but as a result, after chatting for a while on the road, he had learned that the other party wanted to come to the Sheng family residence. Only then did he resign himself to fate and once again retrace his steps to return.

But he didn’t give that idiot a chance to yell at him, since he ran away the moment he entered the Sheng family residence.

He said, “He’s probably talking with those adventurers or something. Who actually knows, I didn’t bother to pay attention.”

The group collectively looked at him.

Chen Hong said, “What?”

Ye You said, “He’s Suiyun Sect’s Sect Master.”

Chen Hong said, “I know. He said as much.”

Ye You said, “Then you should know that, last time, it was precisely at Suiyun Sect that I set a trap for Wei Haide, right?”

“Mhm. Wait, don’t tell me that he came here to find you two…” Chen Hong had spoken only halfway when he heard knocks once again sound from the room door. He immediately looked pitifully at Wenren Heng.

Wenren Heng ignored him and said gently, “Come in.”

The door creaked open.

Sure enough, the one who had come was Suiyun Sect’s Sect Master Shui. What’s more, Wei Jin was even following by his side.

With one look, Sect Master Shui saw those pink clothes sitting in the middle of this crowd of men and almost forgot to greet Wenren Heng. He walked close and then looked the other up and down.

Chen Hong, “…”

Sect Master Shui, “…”

The two stared at one another for a while.

Sect Master Shui asked, “You really are a man?”

Chen Hong shyly lowered his head. “…Yes.”

Sect Master Shui deeply felt as if he had taken on the role of an idiot and was immediately indignant. “Why are all of you demonic faction people like this…”

Ye You and Xie Junming simultaneously looked at him. “Hm?”

“…” Sect Master Shui’s words instantly became stuck in his throat.

Although he had never met Xie Junming before, he had heard from the adventurers that Temple Master Xie and Sect Master Ye were both in Wenren Heng’s room before he came over. And upon thinking of the imperious attitude that Sect Master Ye had last time, along with the miserable appearance of the righteous faction members’ who had been bullied by these two people over the years, he then switched out his “demented” appearance and said, “How cough… great not to confine yourself to strict categories.”

Chen Hong felt his spirits rise. “The Sect Master flatters me.”

Sect Master Shui internally thought this elder will definitely find a time to give you a beating before walking over to sit next to Wenren Heng, changing the topic to proper business, “I heard that Ding Yicheng was also rotten?”

Wenren Heng said, “Yes.”

Sect Master Shui was speechless. “Doing all these things, what exactly is it that they want?”

“It was for the sake of their positions and reputations.” Upon seeing the other wanting to refute, Ye You then explained to him how the two Wei and Ding weren’t as incredible as they were now twenty years ago, so they had used Cong Yun’s drugs to create incidents that they could come out and resolve, slowly growing their power. In the end, Ye You also told him that, when those two had obtained what they wanted, they then started pulling back.

Ye You said, “You’ve seen that in these last two, three years, Jianghu has been relatively peaceful, hasn’t it?”

Sect Master Shui said, “Then what were they doing with the whole fuss about the Lantern-Extinguishing Poison?”

“Because they were too afraid of that monster, probably,” Ye You guessed.

Ding Yicheng had said as much before dying, and he felt that this was most likely true.

Over these years, the monster had essentially been living a life of seclusion, and the two Wei and Ding were perhaps afraid that he’d become bored of living such days. That’s why they had hurried to obtain confirmation when they heard the news about Pursued Until Scattered so as to give the monster something to do.

Of course, his thoughts at the beginning of this were that, regardless of how high the two Wei and Ding’s positions had gotten, regardless of whether or not the monster was still in this world, towards this greatest of secret books, the two Wei and Ding would still want to obtain it, if not for themselves, then for the next generation.

But regardless of what the truth was, this chess game had fortunately opened smoothly.

Sect Master Shui said, “I even heard them say that Ding Yicheng said that he’d destroy this power before he died. He wasn’t lying?”

“Yes, in order to leave all the benefits to the later generation,” Ye You said, “For instance, say that Wei Haide and the others have all retired, while those three young ones have taken their positions. Then, an incident suddenly occurs in Jianghu. Someone then notifies those on the three young ones’ sides, and the advisors by their sides all follow along to put forth plans and ideas, leading them to slowly discover a terrible demonic sect who had been taking advantage of Bodhi Prison to make drugged men. And when that demonic sect is thereby annihilated by them, what do you think the effect would be?”

Sect Master Shui gasped.

If that really happened, then it wouldn’t just be enough to establish Wei Jiangyue and the others’ positions, it’d also leave them with more praise and honor than Wei Haide and them had ever received. After all, while Wei Haide and the others were around, no demonic sect such as this had ever appeared.

What planning!

He was even more speechless. After drinking a sip of tea in order to suppress his shock, he then asked doubtfully, “Wait, that’s not right. Would they stop trying to oppose the monster then?”

Ye You said, “When the time comes, it’d also be about time for that monster to die of old age. Why would they still take the time to kill him?”

Oh, that’s right.

Sect Master Shui once again took a drink, feeling as if his mind wasn’t quite up to par.

Ye You gave the other time to process as he looked towards the Wei Jin who hadn’t spoken from start to finish and asked, “How are you?”

Wei Jin said, smiling, “Extremely delighted.”

Ye You said, “I’m talking about the drugs in your body. How do you feel?”

Wei Jin said, “It still hasn’t spread yet. Who knows what will happen. How about you?”

Ye You said, “I’m all right.”

Wei Jin was doubtful. “Nothing happened when you fought that monster?”

Ye You lightly drank a mouthful of tea and said, “Yes, it’s only that he hit me once.”

The room turned deathly still in an instant.

Other than Wenren Heng and Sect Master Shui who had already known, the rest of them all looked towards him.

Ye You took the initiative to say, “It’s not like I didn’t want to talk about it, I just simply didn’t have the opportunity.”

This was also the truth.

Over these years, he and Wei Jin had long already developed a tacit understanding. Last time when Ren Shaotian jumped into the river to save him, Wei Jin had thought of a way to drag out some information from Ren Shaotian and, when Ding Yicheng later sent Wei Jin to follow him and his Senior Brother, had then taken the opportunity to relay that information to him. That was when he began to suspect that Ren Shaotian could perhaps be his big brother and so had impatiently lured the person outside the city the day he returned. And afterwards, since he had faced off against Ding Yicheng in a moment of anger, he had been pulled away by his Senior Brother to stay in an inn and only just now returned.

He said, “I’ve eaten the antidote that Miracle Doctor Ji personally created. Right now, I still feel all right.”

The group gave him another look before moving away their lines of sight.

Ye You knew that they were all probably feeling uneasy in their hearts, including his Senior Brother as well, so he didn’t continue speaking of this. Looking at Wei Jin, he asked, “Where did you put Ding Xilai?”

Wei Jin said, “I found a random place to toss him. Whether he lives or dies will depend on his luck.”

Ye You declined to comment. After chatting with them for a while longer, he then went outside to eat lunch, taking the opportunity to relay his decision.

Everyone had already been dragged around by this chess game for far too long, and all of them wanted to resolve it as quickly as possible, so there was not the least objection to his decision to go to Huayang City. After a night of rest, they then set out the next morning.

The matter of the monster still being alive had already spread, and Jianghu adventurers hurried over one by one to help slaughter the demon, while Elder Bai and Elder Ji also smoothly reunited with them. The procession grew bigger and bigger, and morale also grew better and better.

In this way, after six days, they met Wei Haide’s party on the road.

The two sides both stopped.

The Abbot and the others stepped out of the carriages one by one in order to stand at the very front.

Ye You also pulled aside the carriage curtains to get out of the carriage. However, right as he was about to step onto the ground, a number of adventurers quickly leapt out from nearby, with many experts from “Heaven’s Firmament” and “Moon’s Shadow” among them. They had long been keeping watch on the carriages and, upon seeing him appear, collectively mounted an attack, planning to catch the person by surprise.

Everyone’s expressions instantly changed. “These are the white piece’s men! Quickly dodge, Sir Yang!”

“Sir Yang, be careful!”

“Sir Yang!”

Ye You steadied his footing and raised his head, his entire person already seemingly enclosed by the other party’s sword energy.

As their important hostage, Wei Jiangyue had been sitting in the same carriage as them and immediately wanted to rush outside, but he was stopped by Wenren Heng’s hand pressing against his shoulder. In the next moment, he saw only this person’s figure flash before then immediately hearing a great resounding bang and those people all suddenly being blown away.

Everyone stared and saw those Elders of the Demonic Sect, along with “Sect Master Ye”, flashing over from the side to send all those people flying away, even firmly encircling Sir Yang in their protection.

Everyone immediately felt steadier, suddenly feeling as if even these Elders were quite pleasing to the eyes.

Ye You looked at Wei Haide and said, smiling, “Once, twice, thrice. I’ve seen through every single one of your plans, so how do you still dare to come? Aren’t you quite unhappy right now? That’s all right, for the sake of making it up to you, I’ll give you a nice surprise in a little while.”

Wei Haide ground his teeth, internally thinking about how terrible the Demonic Sect was.

And who knew what exactly this Sect Master Ye was thinking, as he always carried about as if this matter was of no concern to him, but now he had actually taken the initiative to jump out.

In contrast, those elders let out a breath of relief and said, “Many thanks for Sect Master Ye’s help.”

Elder Baili said, “Simply playing the part, that’s all.”

Everyone blinked, not yet understanding the meaning of those words before they saw him taking off his mask.

Startling, they all anxiously looked over without exception. But upon seeing that it was actually Elder Baili’s face under the mask, every one of them fell into stunned shock. Before this moment, they had believed that Elder Baili had remained behind to guard the Demonic Sect, but who could’ve known that that wasn’t true.

No, no, that’s not right. That wasn’t the important thing.

The important thing was, if Elder Baili was here, where was Sect Master Ye?

Under these countless staring eyes, Elder Baili raised his hand and handed over the mask to the person behind him. Ye You accepted it and placed it on his own face, mouth lifting up in a smile, a smile full of a sort of wicked air that was incomparably unique, and immediately familiar to the righteous faction.

Manor Lord Wei, “…”

Wei Jiangyue, “…”

The martial arts circle’s elders, “…”

The Jianghu adventurers, “…”

The Junior Sect Masters, “…”

Ye You let out a faint laugh at the sight of these blankly staring people, his tone very much asking for a beating, “For the sake of revenge, over this period of time, this lord couldn’t help but play a small joke. Apologies.”

Everyone, “…”

The scene was deathly still.

After a number of breaths, the same word flashed through everyone’s mind.

— Fuck!

“Hahahahahaha…”

Upon seeing this situation, Xie Junming fell to laughing uncontrollably as he sat in a nearby carriage.

The left protector wiped his sweat. “Temple Master, stop laughing. If you keep laughing, they might even decide to unite against a common enemy in order to cut you and Sect Master Ye into pieces!”

Xie Junming said, “What are you thinking? Between that monster and Ah-You, who do you think they’d pick?”

“Of course the monster.” As the left protector spoke, he seemed to become aware of something and asked in alarm, “So… so the righteous faction’s resentment will all be diverted onto Wei Haide and them?”

Xie Junming said, “Or else why do you think Ah-You would choose a time like this to reveal his identity?”

The left protector, “…”

Sure enough, Sect Master Ye was terrifying!

Xie Junming said, “Ah, it’s no good, I like him more and more. Let’s steal him out from Wenren Heng’s hands!”

The left protector once again wiped his sweat. “Temple Master, stop messing around!”

He almost forgot, this person was also always causing him endless worries! And the person’s instincts for causing trouble was even comparable to Sect Master Ye’s, how upsetting!

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[1] Apparently this is the Suiyun Sect Master’s surname, which the author has definitely not mentioned at all up till now. I guess Ye You learned this name off-screen? Anyway, the Shui here is the water 水, which explains their sect’s original name (“water cloud sect”), actually.

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Ah, this chapter was so much more fun in comparison to the last one. I like how Young Miracle Doctor Fang’s reveal as an accomplice is just a throwaway line, haha.\n

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