Chapter 74: Drama Spirit Possession

In the end.

Lin Yunheng went with Lin Yuchu and Gu Chun to the Immortal Guest Inn for dinner. Lin Yuchu, who was usually frugal, calculating every expense down to the last detail and casually making do with whatever for dinner, this time ordered an entire table of dishes without so much as blinking.

Gu Chun, who sat beside him, heard dish name after dish name roll out of his mouth, and the corner of his lips immediately twitched. He asked him in a low voice, “You’re ordering this much? Can we finish it?”

Hearing this, Lin Yuchu said, “You don’t understand.”

“What don’t I understand?” Gu Chun asked in confusion. That your appetite suddenly got this huge?

Lin Yuchu turned to look at him, then gestured with his eyes for him to look toward Lin Yunheng, who sat upright across from the two of them, gorgeous in luxurious robes, exuding noble extravagance, with every inch of him practically declaring, I am expensive, I am rich, I am beautiful. Lin Yuchu said, “This is my father.”

“So?” Gu Chun said.

“Do you think that with my father here tonight, we still need to pay?” Lin Yuchu said.

“...” Gu Chun.

So it wasn’t your stomach that had expanded. It was you.

You sound like you make a lot of sense.

“Waiter, bring me a dragon-gall and phoenix-wing soup,” Gu Chun raised his head and said to the waiter standing by their table with a face full of smiles, waiting for them to order.

“Right away!”

The waiter noted down the dish and answered.

Sitting across from the two of them, Lin Yunheng had naturally taken every word of these two brats’ conversation into his ears. He snorted coldly in his heart, but his expression remained unmoved, maintaining a nouveau riche aura that said, I am very rich and very expensive.

Lin Yunheng thought, It’s time to let these two brats know that the charm of a mature adult is not something those random greenhorns outside can compare to.

So the charm of a mature adult is the charm of money?

Aren’t you completely being treated as a sucker and a fat little lamb by the two of them? —A complaint from an anonymous waiter who had witnessed the entire scene.

“All right, bring these first,” Lin Yuchu said.

“Right away. I’ll have the kitchen prepare them for you at once,” the waiter said with a full smile, then turned and left.

His gaze swept over this table of one adult and two children, and he muttered inwardly, This couldn’t be...

Tsk, tsk. Morals are declining, and people aren’t what they used to be!

Shameless rich people!

After ordering.

Gu Chun sat beside Lin Yuchu and whispered to him, “I saw Uncle sitting in the chief judge’s seat at the Sword Path Grand Competition. So Uncle is a sword cultivator?”

He thought to himself, I really couldn’t tell at all. Uncle is so elegant, handsome, unrestrained, and free-spirited. He seems a little too young, and also a little too frivolous. Because sword cultivators deal with sharp swords all year round, no matter what their personality is like, they always carry a few more traces of sharp edge and keen intent than ordinary people.

Maybe Uncle’s Sword Path has reached great attainment, so my eyes were too poor to see it? Gu Chun guessed inwardly.

Hearing this, Lin Yuchu said bluntly, “No.”

“My father has nothing to do with sword cultivators even by eight pole-lengths. He just sells medicine and draws talismans sometimes,” Lin Yuchu said calmly.

Across from them, Lin Yunheng, who sold medicine and drew talismans, also wore a brilliant, radiant smile and said, “That’s right. I’m actually just a medicine seller.”

Under the table.

Lin Yunheng’s foot, however, stomped hard onto Lin Yuchu’s foot. In secret, he shot him a look that said, Just you wait!

Lin Yuchu remained unmoved.

He looked as if he were pretending he knew nothing at all.

Lin Yunheng gnashed his teeth inwardly. Keep pretending!

In the whole room, Gu Chun was probably the only one not in the same state of mind, bewildered and clueless about the situation. He even said very innocently, “Eh, so medicine sellers and talisman drawers can also serve as chief judges for the Sword Path Grand Competition?”

“...” Lin Yuchu.

“...” Lin Yunheng.

There were so many points worth roasting in that sentence that both father and son were left speechless.

In the end.

It was still Lin Yunheng who relied on the face of a mature adult. He smiled at Gu Chun with a deeply meaningful expression and said, “Kid, have you ever heard a saying?”

“What?” Gu Chun said in an innocent and simple tone.

Sitting beside him, Lin Yuchu cast him a sympathetic look. There’s still time to run.

“Money can make even ghosts turn the millstone!” Lin Yunheng fully displayed the shamelessness and cunning of mature adults. “As it happens, I’m the rich one.”

“...” Gu Chun.

You’re so shameless that I have nothing to say.

This meal was expensive. Very expensive.

Gu Chun directly experienced how rich Lin Yunheng was. At the same time, he also realized... how stingy Lin Yuchu was.

The way he looked at Lin Yuchu became a little wrong. Your family is this loaded, so why are you still this stingy?

Thinking of Lin Yuchu’s three meals a day of greens and radishes, Gu Chun was amazed.

“Don’t look at me. I’m poor,” Lin Yuchu received his gaze and said calmly. “My family’s money was earned by my father selling medicine. It was very hard-earned. How could I casually waste his money?”

“...” Gu Chun.

You didn’t waste his money. You directly extorted his money.

It was hard to describe in a word.

Gu Chun felt that Lin Yuchu and his father were strange. He always felt something about them was off. They didn’t seem like ordinary father and son. They seemed more like... a fake father-son pair!

Maybe this was probably the trouble of rich people. We don’t understand.

As a poor bastard, Gu Chun sighed with a heart full of melancholy.

After accompanying Lin Yuchu through this dinner, Lin Yunheng also had to go back. That evening, he had arranged to drink with Sword Lord Nanming and Sword Master Longquan.

There was no helping it. Social interactions between mature adults were very complicated and also very helpless.

Sigh!

Lin Yunheng sighed deeply in his heart. This pretentious air made it seem as though he had been forced into degradation.

Even though when it came to drinking, the one who drank the most happily was clearly him!

Calculating the time, he ought to leave.

Lin Yunheng then reached out and stroked Lin Yuchu’s head. With a gentle smile on his face, he said to him, “You did very well today. Father saw it all.”

“You worked hard.”

Lin Yunheng looked at him with a gaze gentle and filled with pride. “You are the pride I am most proud of in this life. You are my greatest achievement.”

This father, immersed in his own pride and emotion and unable to extricate himself, had little glimmers of light gathering in his deep black eyes. It looked as though he was about to cry from being moved.

Lin Yuchu suddenly said, “Isn’t your greatest achievement being a dual grandmaster of the alchemy Dao and talisman Dao? Last time, when you were drinking with Grandfather, that’s what you said in front of him. You said, Father isn’t boasting, as expected of me, the greatest achievement of my life is me. Think of me, Lin Yunheng...”

He imitated Lin Yunheng’s tone as he spoke, frightening Lin Yunheng into hurriedly reaching out and covering his mouth. With his face twitching, Lin Yunheng said to him, “Little ancestor, please say a few words less!”

He had never seen someone this good at tearing down another person’s stage, and the stage he was tearing down was his own father’s!

This son was probably picked up from somewhere.

Whether he was picked up or not, don’t you know in your own heart? By Lin Yuchu with an indifferent face.

“Fine. Rest properly.”

After Lin Yuchu made such a fuss, Lin Yunheng lost the mood for sentimentality too. He rolled his eyes inwardly and said to him, “Tomorrow, I’ll be watching you from the platform.”

“Father is leaving.”

Lin Yunheng rubbed his head and looked at him. “I’m really leaving.”

Hearing this, Lin Yuchu also stared at him with his clear, dark eyes.

After a while, he opened his mouth and said, “Drink less. If you get drunk and someone picks you up, it’ll be troublesome.”

The corner of Lin Yunheng’s mouth twitched when he heard that. “Fine, fine, fine. Father knows what he’s doing. You don’t need to worry.”

After Lin Yunheng left.

Gu Chun leaned over to Lin Yuchu and whispered, “Does your father have some kind of problem with me?”

Hearing this, Lin Yuchu turned his head and looked at him.

With a worried expression, Gu Chun continued, “Could your father dislike me for being a nobody with no name, no authority, and no power, unworthy of being friends with you?”

“...” Lin Yuchu.

Young man, you have quite the imagination. Lin Yuchu had not known that Gu Chun was actually such an imaginative and promising youth. For a moment, even the way he looked at him became a little strange.

And at this moment, Gu Chun, completely unaware of what Lin Yuchu was thinking, was a whole play all by himself, already immersed in the drama and unable to extricate himself. He continued, “Do you think your father might say nothing on the surface, but secretly obstruct us and tear us apart?”

“For example?” Lin Yuchu asked smoothly.

“For example, your father takes out ten million spiritual stones and smashes them in my face, saying to me, stay away from my son and never see him again. These are all yours!” Gu Chun spoke these words with a face full of worry, but for some reason, his voice sounded faintly excited.

“...” Lin Yuchu.

Lin Yuchu looked deeply at Gu Chun before him, who was clearly immersed in his own fantasy and getting excited, as though ten million spiritual stones really were about to be given to him. Lin Yuchu said, “If there’s such a good thing, remember to split half with me.”

“Cough, cough, cough...”

Gu Chun coughed several times, then raised his head and cast him a reproachful look. With a serious and solemn face, he said, “What are you saying? How could something like that happen?”

“But if, and I mean if, it really happened, then I...” A dreamlike, excited expression appeared on Gu Chun’s face. He rubbed his hands together, looking so thrilled and immersed in it that he couldn’t pull himself out.

After a while.

He turned his head and looked at Lin Yuchu before him. With a solemn face, he said, “You must believe that even if that day came, I wouldn’t truly be betraying you or abandoning the friendship between us. That would only be a strategic move to confuse the enemy!”

Lin Yuchu wore an expression that said he was too lazy to listen to this nonsense. Concisely and decisively, he said, “That’s not important. Just remember to split half with me.”

“As long as you don’t privately swallow my half, I won’t fall out with you,” Lin Yuchu said in an extremely sincere tone.

Hearing this, Gu Chun immediately looked at him with a face full of emotion. “As expected of you. You really are my good brother!”

“...” Lin Yuchu.

His expression hesitated for a moment, then he said to him, “You’re welcome?”

“That’s too much!”

Suddenly, a voice cut in sideways, interrupting the two drama kings. “That’s too much, ahhhhh!”

When Lin Yuchu and Gu Chun heard the voice, they immediately turned their heads to look.

At a table beside them sat a youth in ornate brocade robes. He was glaring angrily at the two of them with a face full of fury, and he accused them, “How can you do this!”

“To betray your feelings so easily!”

“That’s too much! Scum!”

“Despicable, shameless, no sense of shame!”

The youth pointed at the two of their noses and cursed them.

“...” Lin Yuchu.

“...” Gu Chun.

Inside the Immortal Alliance.

“Hahahaha!”

“Hahahaha!”

“Hahahahahaha!”

The booming laughter was like thunder.

The many Immortal Lords of the Immortal Alliance laughed so hard they couldn’t straighten their backs and kept pounding the table.

“So you have a day like this too.”

“So you have a day like this too, Rain Emperor!”

“We really should let your believers see this. Let them see how our noble and divine Rain Emperor was pointed at and cursed as scum.”

“...”

“...”

The supreme Rain Emperor, who was destined in the future to unite the Divine Continent, and the Taichu Sword Master, whose name would resound through the entire cultivation world and spread throughout the four directions of heaven and earth.

They had been pointed at and cursed as frauds who betrayed feelings, and as despicable, shameless scum.

This could be laughed about for a thousand years.

Meanwhile, inside the Immortal Guest Inn.

Lin Yuchu and Gu Chun first fell silent and froze there for a while. Then they turned their heads and looked at each other.

With one look, they confirmed it was time to play dead.

Let’s just pretend we heard nothing!

As if nothing had happened, Lin Yuchu asked, “Why would you say that?”

Also as if nothing had happened, Gu Chun answered, “Because when we were eating earlier, Uncle kept stepping on my foot. I was too embarrassed to make a sound. Now that I think about it, did Uncle have some kind of problem with me, so he deliberately stepped on me?”

“...Oh. You’re overthinking it. I think he might have stepped on the wrong person,” Lin Yuchu said, the corner of his mouth twitching.

“Oh... is that so.”

Gu Chun’s tone was a little awkward.

“Hey, that’s going too far!”

“Don’t ignore me!”

The youth who was being ignored by Lin Yuchu and Gu Chun, treated as though he did not exist, slapped the table and shot to his feet, angrily shouting at the two of them.

“So that’s how it is.”

“So that’s how it is.”

Case closed.

Lin Yuchu and Gu Chun kept talking to themselves, chatting as they rose and left.

“...That’s really too much!”

The youth roared loudly behind them, “If you’ve got the nerve to play dead, then have the nerve to answer me!”

However.

Right until the end.

No one paid attention to him.

They carried ignoring him through to the end.

“...” For the first time in his life, the youth had been ignored so thoroughly.

Exploded with rage!

Puffed up like a pufferfish!

—

The next day.

The finals on the arena.

Lin Yuchu drew the lot for the first preliminary match, and his opponent was...

“Hehehehehe!”

“Letting you ignore me, letting you ignore me, letting you ignore me!”

Lin Yuchu looked coldly at the familiar-looking youth standing before him, constantly muttering under his breath. His heart was filled with grief and coldness as he thought, Is this what they call the malice of the world?

His opponent in this finals match was, astonishingly, none other than the extremely justice-filled youth from yesterday at the inn, the one who had been so angry he nearly jumped after being jointly ignored by him and Gu Chun.

The world was truly small.

Lin Yuchu had no choice but to sigh over that.

“I, Song Jifei!”

The youth standing before Lin Yuchu revealed a smug smile at him. Even his snow-white front teeth showed, reflecting a bright gleam under the sunlight. “Today, I’m definitely going to make you realize your mistake!”

“What mistake?”

Lin Yuchu stood before him, looking at him with a calm tone.

The expression on his face was still that same habitual cold aloofness, without the slightest shame or embarrassment!

“Of course it’s that betraying a friend and selling out friendship is wrong!”

Song Jifei wore an expression full of disapproval and said righteously, “How can feelings be measured with money? How can you betray a friend for spiritual stones?”

“Most importantly, how could you ignore me and pretend you couldn’t see me!” He got so mad just talking about it!

Song Jifei had been so angry last night that he tossed and turned all night, unable to sleep.

That was clearly because you were too nervous and excited about the finals, so you got insomnia.

Quite good at shifting the blame.

“So what does this have to do with me?”

Lin Yuchu looked at him, his expression peaceful and his tone calm as he asked back.

“Eh!?”

This reaction was different from what Song Jifei had imagined. “How does it have nothing to do with you?”

Hearing this, Song Jifei immediately questioned him.

“The person who sold out friendship and betrayed a friend is down there. Every grievance has its debtor. If you want to find someone, you should go find him,” Lin Yuchu kindly reminded him, shifting the blame.

“...” Gu Chun, who was standing below the arena and watching the match.

How did I get hit while lying down too?

I’m wronged!

No, you’re not wronged. I’m the most wronged one! By Lin Yuchu, who felt he had taken the blame for Gu Chun.

Looking at the hesitation appearing on Song Jifei’s face, Lin Yuchu continued, “Speaking of which, I am precisely the friend whose feelings were sold out and who was betrayed, so I am actually the victim.”

“So what are you planning to do to an innocent and pitiful victim like me?” Lin Yuchu looked at him with an accusatory expression and said, “Doesn’t your conscience hurt?”

Doesn’t your conscience hurt?

This was also something Gu Chun wanted to say to him.

“What you’re saying seems like it kind of makes sense...”

After hearing Lin Yuchu’s tearful accusation, the expression on Song Jifei’s face softened, as though he had been persuaded. “No!”

Then he immediately reacted. He raised his head, stared at Lin Yuchu before him, and said, “I almost let you muddle your way through!”

“Although what you said isn’t wrong, you also asked to split the money, right? You took half of the spiritual stones, so you’re an accomplice!”

Song Jifei was righteous and stern as he analyzed calmly, “From the moment you asked for that half, five million spiritual stones, you were no longer a simple victim. You changed from victim to accomplice!”

A miscalculation.

Lin Yuchu looked at the youth before him, who had transformed into a detective of justice, and thought, I almost managed to fool him.

“Since you discovered it, there’s nothing I can do.”

An icy, cunning smile appeared on Lin Yuchu’s face. Immediately after, his expression turned cold in an instant, and he said coldly, “As the victim, what’s wrong with me demanding compensation?”

“...” Song Jifei.

Hearing this, he immediately froze for a moment.

Then he held fast to the justice in his heart. With a pitying and sympathetic gaze, he looked at Lin Yuchu before him, sighed, and said, “Although you were hurt, you cannot collude with a criminal!”

“On this point, forgive me for being unable to agree!” Song Jifei said.

The many cultivators beneath the arena.

“...”

“...”

“...”

Their faces were full of bewilderment, confusion, and incomprehension.

What the hell?

What happened!

Everyone had expressions that seemed to say, Damn, did I walk into the wrong channel? They stared dumbfounded at the two people on the arena, who had refined into drama spirits and were frantically acting opposite each other.

They did not understand what had happened.

And as the other drama king, Gu Chun, who had participated in the first act at the inn yesterday, stood in the viewing area below the arena. He could not help reaching up to cover his eyes, unable to keep watching.

His face was full of shame.

So this was the shameful, wanting-to-die feeling other people had when they watched our awkward acting at the inn yesterday?

Inside the Immortal Alliance...

“Hahahaha!”

“Hahahahahaha!”

“Hahahahahahaha!”

“This drama actually, actually comes with updates? I’m dying of laughter. The Rain Emperor is really going all out. He really knows how to play! Hahahaha.”

And there was one more thing that had to be mentioned.

These Immortal Lords of the Immortal Alliance, who loved watching the excitement and didn’t mind making things worse, had yesterday deliberately used rune stones to record the scene at the inn. They also recorded today’s scene, preparing to send them to the Rain Emperor’s believers and followers, as well as the friends, enemies, and admirers who knew him.

We can’t laugh ourselves to death alone!

We must drag others down with us!

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