Chapter 27 – Every Day the Protagonist Wants to Capture Me

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Chapter 27 – Every Day the Protagonist Wants to Capture Me

Chapter 27 Getting Started

The small town near Linlan’s Yuhua Sect had always been more prosperous than other places. There were a lot of people at the pubs, and since there was a lot to talk about as of late, many of the less educated and unemployed people chose to express their views of current events there. They would spend their time, incidentally, complaining and embellishing stories about the sinister, deceitful ways of the demonic path cultivators.

News had just arrived from the frontlines — the Demonic Path’s Mei Yin Gu1 had used a dirty trick and a Righteous Path’s sect master’s senior disciple had been seriously injured.

In a corner, a young man who had been listening quietly for a long time raised his eyebrows and asked: “Who is this senior disciple?”

A number of cultivators who had been chatting looked at each other and then looked at the person who had spoken with a twinkling now present in their eyes.2

The man sitting in the corner was wearing a snow-white gown decorated with a cloud pattern. His facial features were delicately beautiful but he looked too cold, especially those dark pair of eyes that were like pools of black water. It was as though with one glance he could make a person’s entire body cold.

His bearing was extraordinary. With just one look it was easy to tell that he wasn’t an ordinary person.

Several of the cultivators immediately replied: “Don’t you know? I was told that it was Song Jingyi, the head disciple of Tian Yuan’s sect master. I heard that almost all of his Yang energy has been sucked dry, tsk tsk”3

That man immediately clicked his tongue in disapproval, saying: “What a pity.”

The other cultivators urged him on, dumbfounded: “What?”

That man let out a dry cough and smiled slightly: “I mean, it’s genuinely pitiful.”

Several cultivators murmured among themselves that they should invite this young man, who looked out-of-place here, to join their discussion group. However, the man just nodded at them and then took off.

Outside, the sky was clear and the air was pure. In the cloudless blue sky, a bird in flight flitted across the sky; the whole world seemed full of vitality.

Chu Yu gazed into the distance around him for a moment then stretched his body: “It’s good to see the sky outside.”

He had stayed alone in the gloomy Mausoleum Ruins for almost ten years. If he hadn’t found a way out a month earlier, Chu Yu felt that he might have gone insane at some point.

Even so, the current cultivation world was truly chaotic.

Listening to the people chatting in the tavern for a long time, Chu Yu learned and understood what had been happening these past few years.

Ten years ago, war had suddenly broken out between the two factions of the Righteous and Demonic Path cultivators. It had lasted for over a year. Everyone’s Qis had suffered an injury and, after six months of truce, the cultivators of the Righteous Path formed an Immortal Alliance headed by the eight great sects. They had vowed to fight the Demonic Path cultivators, to beat them up until their own mothers wouldn’t be able to recognize them before they would allow them to live peacefully in Yun Cuo.

Unfortunately, before the Immortal Alliance cultivators could valiantly attempt to cross the Jinhe River to ambush the enemy, their plans were leaked by the Danyang faction. The Immortal Alliance was the one who were then taken unawares by an ambush, and they suffered heavy casualties. The Danyang faction then defected to Demonic Path side. The Cang Liao guarded the frontlines of the war at Jinhe River, therefore when the Danyan faction of Cang Liao defected, it wasn’t long before the Jinhe River was lost to the enemy.

Over the past few years, the two sides had been watching each other and there have been many small skirmishes. No one knows if the outcome will be the same as it was a hundred years ago when a large-scale war had erupted.

… It seems as if the original novel’s story really has collapsed.

Chu Yu was almost in tears. At first all he wanted was news of Tian Yuan Sect but now he did not dare to ask any more. The Chu family was still in good condition. He had already sent them a message so he didn’t have to go, but now that he had a clearer picture of what was happening at the frontlines, he had no choice except to go.

When this war broke out, Lu Qingan was likely going to participate.

As for that other person … Chu Yu really couldn’t bear to think about it.

It has been 10 years since he had been back to the stud channel.

Linlan and Jiao Xia are far behind the frontlines and Chu Yu dared not delay. While still in the Mausoleum Ruins, Chu Yu had desperately cultivated but had remained stuck in the late phase of the Foundation Building stage for a long time before he was able to successfully form his Core. Right now his speed and spiritual strength were the same as before because the distance between Foundation Building and Core Formation is much too far. Even though he had already formed his Core, it will still take him a while to get any further.

Along the way, Chu Yu had heard a lot of rumors.

For example, he heard that Tian Yuan Sect’s Elder Lu had killed a bunch of Demonic Path Nascent Soul cultivators to the satisfaction of everyone. He also heard that Elder Lu had sat down with his second disciple to kill the enemy, cutting them down like wheat.

Wherever he went, Demonic Path cultivators were annihilated until not even a single blade of grass could grow.

Chu Yu began to feel apprehensive.

Ten years ago, he had been in a hurry and had cheated the protagonist out of the Mausoleum Ruins. But now, he had heard that the protagonist’s life was still on the right track. His strength had not been reduced even though he didn’t stay inside the Mausoleum Ruins like he had done in the novel …

****, if they meet, will Chu Yu be killed …?

Chu Yu, who was about to step into a clear area of the map, hesitated.

Actually …. ten years have already passed. Even if the protagonist had felt any resentment, it should be long gone by now. That kind of affection that he had felt should also have faded away.

As he was comforting himself with these thoughts, he let a tear out of his eye as he pondered. Chu Yu was carelessly traveling on his flying sword, only to realize that he had been going in the wrong direction. When he turned back, he suddenly saw a flash of light in front of him.

A cultivator?

Chu Yu silently took out a dozen talismans to prepare for any unexpected situation. A man quickly ran forward and yelled loudly: “There’s an ambush in front of you!”

Chu Yu saw that it was a man. The expression on his face was extremely dark,4 and his eyes were bloodshot. In addition, his clothes were damaged. All in all, he looked quite pitiful.

Although his clothing was damaged and torn, Chu Yu was still able to see that he wore the robes of a disciple of Tian Yuan Sect.

Hurriedly, Chu Yu put away his talisman and approached the man. That person saw Chu Yu and then stared at him blankly as though he had just seen a ghost.

Chu Yu stopped in front of him, stretched out his hand and shook him: “Oi!”5

That person was in a daze, staring at Chu Yu for a long time before he started to cry: “Da, Da Shixiong! Da Shixiong … Did I summon your spirit? Da Shixiong, have you come back to see us?”

Chu Yu: “…”

The corners of Chu Yu’s mouth twitched for a moment. But then, he quickly pulled out a piece of cloth and wiped that man’s tears away. Seeing this person’s pathetic appearance, he couldn’t help but sigh. “I’m still alive. I’m sorry to inconvenience you, Third Shidi.”

He hadn’t expected that the first person he would encounter when he returned would be this Shidi, a minor cannon fodder character who was always a little unhinged.

Regarding Chu Yu’s return, surely the Chu family’s soul jade should have indicated that he was still alive. Why did Third Shidi think that he was dead?

(TN: A soul jade is a magical item that shines as long as a cultivator is alive. The Chu family had Chu Yu’s soul jade so they could tell if he was alive or not based on it.)

As though he was still not ready to believe it, Third Shidi grabbed Chu Yu and flew back in the direction he had come from. He said: “The soul jade’s imprint disappeared. You must be a ghost … even so, whether you are a ghost or not, Da Shixiong still needs to help Second Shixiong! We were ambushed by a group of Demonic Path cultivators. There was a Nascent Soul cultivator with them. Shixiong was desperately fighting the Nascent Soul cultivator when I escaped …”

The volume of information he was forced to process was a bit much.

Chu Yu took a deep breath and, ignoring the sudden vexation he felt, he tried to think calmly over the matter.

This was unexpected… the Mausoleum must have cut off his connection to the outside world so that even his soul jade had turned black.

He had thought that since they had the soul jade, that there wouldn’t be any problems. Ten years ago … his soul jade had been extinguished. How did the princesses of the Chu family react? What did that brocon Chu Sheng do? And Xie Xi, who had been deceived by him …

Chu Yu couldn’t imagine how they must have felt.

Listening to what Third Shidi said, Xie Xi seemed to be in big trouble. While the difference between Core Formation and Nascent Soul stages was only one realm, it made a world of difference in terms of strength. Many talented geniuses were able to enter the Core Formation stage but it was difficult for them to raise to the Nascent Soul level. Can it be that those who have been able to reach the Nascent Soul are those cultivators who have been granted heavenly insight, those who are of rare extraordinary talents and genius abilities?.

But those rare talents are generally hundreds of years old …

That child Xie Xi wasn’t even one-tenth of that. In the original novel, Xie Xi could stand toe to toe with Nascent Soul cultivators but,here, he hadn’t stayed in the Mausoleum Ruins. Things may have changed. If he accidentally gets killed …

Chu Yu rubbed his forehead; he had a headache.This was his fault so he had to fix it.

Having a kind of “the protagonist absolutely cannot be allowed to die. But, if he dies, then I die and at least then I won’t have to play this role anymore” attitude, Chu Yu was resolute and prepared himself. He simply ignored those little worries floating around in his heart.

Third Shidi led the way and they soon arrived at the place where they had been ambushed by the Demonic Path cultivators.

There were obvious signs of a fight. The surrounding trees were cut and the ground was cluttered with blood and corpses.

Was I too late?

Seeing those shocking bloodstains, Chu Yu’s heart missed a beat and his hands and feet turned cold. He collapsed onto the ground and his hands shook as he turned the bodies over.

About Xie Xi, the System did not give him any unusual hints.
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Chu Yu breathed a sigh of relief then heard Third Shidi shout from the other side of the clearing: “Da Shixiong! Second Shixiong is here!”

Chu Yu turned to look.

Third Shidi dragged a man out from under a small mound of corpses. Chu Yu had missed him since he was on the other side.

With just one frightened glance, he saw that Xie Xi was covered in blood.

Chu Yu stopped and tried to resist the surge of strange feelings that came more and more from his heart. He examined the protagonist carefully.

He looked just like he had done in the illusion but his whole body was bathed from head to foot in blood at the moment. Chu Yu didn’t know if it was his blood or other people’s. His face was wet with blood and his cheeks were frighteningly pale. His eyes and mouth were closed as though he was in a deep sleep.

Chu Yu lacked the courage to check: “Is he still alive?”

Third Shidi was even more scared than before. Trembling and with shaking hands, he checked Xie Xi: “Yes, he is still alive …”

That’s incredible! To think that the protagonist killed all of these Demonic Path cultivators who ambushed him and even fought a Nascent Soul stage cultivator. For them to have fled the scene, the Nascent Soul must have been badly injured…

Third Shidi’s voice quavered: “Da Shixiong, Second Shixiong is so badly hurt, what should I do?”

It seems that the moment the words “Da Shixiong” were heard. Xie Xi’s eyelids twitched and the hands inside his sleeves clenched. Chu Yu had been watching Xie Xi. When he saw this reaction, he immediately pulled out Xun Sheng and looked at the sword’s hilt.

This sword tassel had been a gift from Xie Xi.

It was during the Double Seventh Festival. Xie Xi had behaved like a spoiled kid. He asked Chu Yu to give him an embroidered sachet. He was then so happy that he secretly made two sword tassels.

Chu Yu involuntarily turned his gaze to Duan Xue that was on Xie Xi’s waist. He saw that his sword had exactly the same tassel. Even though Xie Xi’s body was covered in blood, the sword’s tassel was pristine.

With a gloomy heart, Chu Yu stepped back and said dryly: “What can you do? Bring him back to the camp.”

Third Shidi’s IQ went back online. He said in a worried tone of voice: “What about Da Shixiong? Shizun is in the camp. The Chu family head, his wife, and son are at Jiao Xia. Do you not want to go and see them? Second Shixiong hasn’t woken up yet. You don’t understand how Second Shixiong had collapsed in despair when you were trapped inside the Mausoleum Ruins that day …”

Chu Yu felt extremely guilty when he heard this. He swallowed and looked back at Xie Xi’s miserable face. He remembered how Xie Xi’s smile had looked on his round dumpling face that was as snow-white as jade when he was young. Chu Yu inexplicably felt a little anxious. He hesitated for a long time but then shook his head: “I won’t return. You should quickly bring Xie Xi to the camp. Don’t tell other people … especially Xie Xi, that I’m back.”

When he said that last sentence, Xie Xi suddenly opened his eyes. The pupils of his eyes were blood-red and unwavering as he fixed his gaze on Chu Yu.

When he saw Yu-er, it seemed as if his heart that had been frozen under a thick layer of ice finally melted. Spring had arrived in the instant that he saw his greatest desire.

However, in the eyes of Chu Yu, that expression on Xie Xi’s face was indescribably terrifying.

Chu Yu’s face turned white and his knees felt weak. Scolding himself for not being able to live up to other people’s expectations, without the least bit of hesitation, he took Xun Sheng and ran away.

A hoarse cry came from behind: “Chu Yu! Stop!”

 

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Translator’s Notes:

  • OMG, he ran away? Was it because his “Chrysanthemum Shield” activated?! I nearly died laughing!
  • Please leave a comment. What do you think is going to happen now???

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  1. 魅音谷 – Demonic Sound Valley or Charming Sound Valley.
  2. 霎时眼前一亮 – in a split second, before their eyes was a brightness
  3. 啧啧 – the sound of a tongue click. I wrote it as “tsk tsk” but it’s also translated as “tut tut” sometimes. The pinyin is actually “ze ze.” Sucked dry? This sounds a bit suggestive. Was it a “honey trap”?
  4. 满脸漆黑 – lit. entire face pitch black
  5. 傻了 – lit. silly/foolish

75 thoughts on “Chapter 27 – Every Day the Protagonist Wants to Capture Me”

  1. Um I’m honestly kinda concerned for our main CP lmaoo the Chu Yu is absolutely reluctant and he hates it so much and everytime he thinks about Xie Xi there is not an ounce of affection in that way except for fear and avoidance😭 How will the situation turn around I wonder… it seems impossible in this chapter alone😭

  2. Now I’m getting anger at Chu Yu, just what the heck is he thinking, he is clearly in his own delusion, failing to see the straight facts.

  3. Isn’t it typical for protagonists in these types of stories to have plot armor? So why is Chu Yu even worried that Xie Xi will die? XD

    1. The system from the start warned ChuYu that if protag dies, he also dies… meaning protag CAN die then…

  4. LOL The third shixiong is obsessed with ghosts, he always thinks CY is one after a long disappearance.

    I’ve been enjoying this novel a lot so far. Thank you so much for your hard work!!! 💕💕💕

    1. Now that you mention it, he always kills off Chu Yu in his head hahahaha Third shixiong, how weak do you think you Da Shixiong is?? 😂😂😂

  5. And NOW, Let the capturing him everyday event begin , he really misunderstood Xie Xi’s expression BIG TIME , LoL

  6. I like that Chu Yu had such a hard time forming the Core even though, outside of the super special Mausoleum, Xie Xi is rapidly leapfrogging on the levels.

    It really does show how a normal person with decent amount of talent would do in trying to go up the ladder without the protagonist’s God Mode Sue talent.

    That being said, I’m interested in what cool BAMF trinkets and loot he got out of 10 years stuck in the Ruins.

  7. Really that was dissapointing, had to run away and it seems his strength didn’t improve much or is it that difficult

  8. patience is virtue xie xi… one day you’ll burst chu yu’s Chrysanthemum Shield

    see what i did there?

    kekekekeke

  9. Many thanks for the chapter! I’m quite glad that the time skip matter was dealt this way. There is still space for some possible flashbacks but these 10 years wasn’t unnecessary prolonged. But we still can imagine how Chu Yu almost went crazy… On the other note I don’t think that Xie Xi got out of it any more sane. It must’ve been really heartbreaking for him! I too, like many others, hope that Xie Xi won’t try (and for sure that he won’t succeed if trying!!) to force Chu Yu into anything : <

    "For example, he heard that Tian Yuan Sect’s Elder Lu had killed a bunch of Demonic Path Nascent Soul cultivators to the satisfaction of everyone. He also heard that Elder Lu had sat down with his second disciple to kill the enemy, cutting them down like wheat." – it was… Oh, wow. Brutal, yes, but the way that they must have felt about Chu Yu's "death", this scene decipher it pretty well.

    "Even though Xie Xi’s body was covered in blood, the sword’s tassel was pristine." … Awww. It was sweet and really sad at the same time.

    A small correction:
    "Scolding himself fornot being" – "for not"?

  10. Did anyone noticed that Xie called Chu Yu by his name and not as what he usually did. Haha, I guess all this time, Xie Xi always call him by his name in his head and not Da Shixiong.

  11. And here I was hopping for MC to be like ML unreachable powerful hahaha but they are still powerful.,…just hope to this being side by side…

    And I wanted to see some kind of development with that demonic cultivator who stayed with him in the thomb…

    ahaha when I read about Xie Xi and their master being like that…I was like “hahahah damishh and he didn´t realized that they went bersek mode because of him” just imagine the hatred and mourning of their master and Xie Xi, I wonder if Xie Xi felt guilty because he wasn´t near his dear Xixiong just because his Xixiong didn´t wanted to be near him in order to avoid his feelings that caused him to harmed himself…I hope he went this route so he would not forciibly take him or rape him or something..

    When I read those last paragraph I couldn´t stop laughing he actually took his third shidi as shoild and flee? hahahahah myyy goshhh that “Chu Yu, stop there!” was like “hell! Just you dare to run again and I will chaned you to myself” just like Xue literally did with Du Ze…xD

  12. Run, Chu Yu. Run. It’s more interesting that way.

    I like it because the author didn’t go and use the “I’ve been thinking about you all this time and now I love you too” route.

    That, or Chu Yu is in great denial and it will take him a long time to give in.

    Or self-preservation which is what I see from here. So run, Chu Yu. The chase is always interesting…

    1. True. I always love the chase better than the moment of capture. Mahahaha

  13. ML is going to lock MC away or be so traumatized he´s not letting chu fish out of his sight ever again (just bc that´s how things usually roll) (hopefully not) lol i swear every chapter is a cliffhanger
    many thanks for the chapter!

  14. He’s running!!
    Now the Protagonist is going to live the tittle of the novel hahaha
    The brocon had a child? The nephew is going to be like the family too? I wanna see that!

  15. Chu Yu! Don’t Run Away! If you continue to run away, your shidi will continue to blacken and your onky action to do is reget~

    Thank you very much for the chapter~!!!

  16. Thanks, loving this fast development,id hate the torture of waiting for their reunion!! Go xie xi, catch your shixiong!!😄

  17. Hahahaha he escaped! I think, the instinct worked – to escape from the predator! but he broke the promise again!

  18. Run Yu_er run 😂😂😂
    I really was hoping to see what had happened in those 10 years how the protagonist became what did he do to avenge him and so on!!!

  19. Hahaha the misunderstandings are hilarious xD.. Thank you very very much for the update!~ Fightoooo!

  20. Thank you so much for this chapter. AHHH I love this novel so much. Good luck CY…and….seriously. Listen to your shidi for a bit.

  21. Thank you so much for the chapter!

    Hm, I wonder, maybe he will successfully escape and ML have to chase him down after he has healed or… nah.. I will just wait and see..

  22. Im crying tho just imagining the pain and torment xie xi mustve gone thru in the time after chu yu got trapped i mean, we got glimpses into his despair but the extent of it mustve been unbearable mannn

    But on the other hand, chu yu’s reaction isnt completely unfounded either – and his reasoning is pretty legit. The translation was awesome it really conveyed everything great haha

    Man im super excited for the next chapter. Xie xi’s reaction upon finally meeting chu yu again after so long, ah i cant wait. Just rlly hope chu yu isnt too harsh haha

    Thank you for the chapter! Also i cant deal with the chrysanthemum shield activation comment it killed me lmaoooo

    1. Yes I felt so much for him, such pure love… fuck Im not looking forward to future chapters… scared he will descend into raping the MC because hes now an adult and all that kind of loving innocence is gone.. boo hoo

      I really want them to be inlove together not just onesided, but I dont want it forced… dont force… dont imprison the MC because you cant live without them… you have time to love and sigh… be romantic… loving not rape… NO RAPE…

  23. I’m glad the author didn’t dawdle and immediately utilized a ten year time skip.
    It seems like Chu Yu already has an inkling of good feelings towards Xie Xi, he’s just in deep denial at the moment. >.<
    What's going to happen next? My guess is that Xie Xi will experience a burst of adrenaline and catch our Chu Fish, or Chu Yu will succeed in running away and thus fan that yandere fire of Xie Xi's even more… fu fu fu

  24. That he cares to look like a coward, the only thing that matters to him is to preserve his chrysanthemum virgin.
    Thanks for the chapter! 💕💕💕

    1. There was that one little girl at the auction, she’s supposed to be a harem member.

  25. *facepalm* CHU YU. Don’t you know the most dangerous thing to do in front of a large predator is to turn your back and run!! Also, our MC is in deep, deep, deeeeep denial; he got jealous because Xie Xi gave the sword tassel to someone else how can he still not realize. Thanks for the chapter!

    1. Um. Where did you get that notion? The sword tassels are still on Xun Sheng and Duan Xue if it was not clear for you.

  26. You cant run far Chu Yu. Xie Xi already knows you’re alive. 😂😂😂

    Thanks for translating guys!

  27. Thanks for the chapter! Correction: “Chu Yu’s turned white and his knees felt weak” should be “Chu Yu’s face”?

  28. *Screams Indescribly*

    AAAAAAAAHFSGAHAHAHSHAGAGAHGAGSHDJSJJH!!! HOLY MOTHER OF GOOSE!!

    I WONDER IF CHU YU IS SCARED THAT HE’LL BE DONE IN OR DONE IN? (✧≖‿ゝ≖) 

    THANK YOU VERY MUCH FOR THE CHAPTER

  29. Alba blasco bernal

    PD: gracias por el Capítulo!! Estaba ansiosa por saber que pasara a partir de allí!

  30. Alba blasco bernal

    Oh dios, Chu Yu cobarde!!!
    Xie Xi.. Pobre.. Soy yo y encantada me ofrecería para que me comiera…

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