The Daily Task of Preventing My Disciple from Turning to the Dark Side

Chapter 68

Gu Yunjue pushed the chair to move Mu Chen into tree shade and poured water into a crystal cup. Seeing Mu didn't look up to take the water, Gu raised the cup to the master's lips.

Mu Chen took several sips. Suddenly he smiled and showed the disciple a ball in his palm, "Black Egg".

Watching his smiles, Gu Yunjue acclaimed, "Yes, very alike", yet even without glimpsing the thing in Mu's hand.

Perching on the tree, the real Black Egg looked down at the thing and narrowly missed falling off. "What the heck? Not alike at all! Not even a bit! I'm a bird with wings, though heavy. Look at that! It's a ball, and not very round! Beauty in minds, manners off mind, what an owner! Humph!"

Aware of Gu Yunjue's gaze, Mu Chen froze a bit and then lowered his head. Wiping the smile from his face, he continued playing the interlock, but with his ears going red.

'This licentious disciple dares to give me such an impertinent look! He's asking for a good beating!'

"Master, you stay right here. I'll hunt a spirit beast and then broil it for you." Gu Yunjue, perceiving the expression on Mu Chen's face, gave a chuckle of delight.

"Em." Mu Chen answered coldly, then continued to fiddle with the Glazed Ring Puzzle.

Gu Yunjue gave a look at Black Egg. Immediately the later patted its chest with its wings, meaning to assure him, 'Don't worry. If anyone dares to move closely, I'll eat him alive!'

Generally, according to Gu Yunjue's cultivation, hunting a spirit beast should be as easy as picking vegetables in backyard for him. But, after about a quarter, he had not returned. Mu Chen began to feel anxious. "Where have this treacherous disciple been? Was he dealing with some sordid business like homicide behind me again, or hooking up with girls somewhere?"

"Palace Master, let me give you a shoulder massage." Seeing the change of his expression, Black Egg jumped down from the tree and said eagerly.

Gu Yunjue stared at its feet.

"Relax. I haven't landed since I washed my feet. They're still clean." Black Egg lifted up the soles of its feet and showed them to Mu Chen.

Mu Chen nodded indifferently, permitting Black Egg to step on his shoulders. 'Well, indeed it's so comfortable.' Mu Chen's cold face was lightened up slightly.

After another quarter, Mu Chen felt agitated again and deeply concerned in his heart, 'This unreliable disciple hasn't come back yet!'

Just as he was thinking to give him a black eye, Mu Chen felt the familiar soul power coming closer. Mu Chen lifted his head and looked ahead. He sensed at the same time other five strange soul powers of different intensity mixing together.

He frowned with impatience. "This treacherous disciple! How can he bring outsiders here?"

Just as expected, he saw Gu Yunjue carry a Fire Antelope, followed by five young people—four men and one woman. Given the look of their dresses, they should be descendants of noble families. All were more or less wounded except the woman cultivator, and one of them was severely injured.

When they noticed the man sitting under the tree, they were struck by the beauty they saw.

Gu Yunjue's appearance was stunning enough. However, there was a cold and fierce disposition on his face, which deterred others from approaching him.

Mu Chen was different. As long as he was not irritated by others, he would just remain expressionless and indifferent, unwilling to waste his expression to others. At this moment, he was in white finery and sitting on a gorgeous chair with a snow-white bobble standing on his shoulder. His refined features were shining, which gave people an illusion as if the world around him was still, like a banished immortal or a cool fairy suddenly descending in the mountain.