Transmigrated into a Heartthrob Novel and Went OOC

Fang Chaozhou estimated the time and felt that it was time to return to the inn. Hence, he immediately cast a Body Fixation Skill on Li Zhu, who was still talking non-stop. After that, he took off the long iron whip that had re-wrapped around his waist at an unknown time and then hung it back on Li Zhu’s body, “Okay, I should go now.”

Li Zhu’s kitten eyes widened even more, “Where are you going?”

“Don’t worry. I’m not going to be your stepmother.” Fang Chaozhou looked at the space formation he was in and broke Li Zhu’s space formation with almost no effort.

Although he couldn’t beat Li Yiye, it was more than enough to crush Li Zhu.

“You’re not allowed to leave. I’m finished talking yet…” Before Li Zhu completed these words, he realized that the person in front of him had disappeared. He gnashed his teeth in anger, wishing he could bite Fang Chaozhou.

He truly infuriated him.

On the other hand, Fang Chaozhou returned to the inn, not rushed nor slowed. But as soon as he entered, someone caught grabbed him.

“Second Shidi, you’re finally back!”

It was Eldest Shixiong.

Eldest Shixiong grabbed Fang Chaozhou’s shoulders and looked him up and down. He even rotated Fang Chaozhou around and looked him up and down again. Only after he had seen no injury did he ask, “Where have you been these past few days?”

Fang Chaozhou sounded an “ah” before saying very slowly, “Some accidents happened, so it’s a long story. By the way, Eldest Shixiong, when will we return to Heavenly Water Sect?”

“We can go back today. Youngest Shidi also returned, but he returned earlier than you,” Eldest Shixiong said.

Fang Chaozhou didn’t know if Xue Danrong said he was with him when he returned, so he asked one sentence, probing, “Where is the little Youngest Shidi?”

The Eldest Shixiong sighed, “As soon as Youngest Shidi came back, he went back to his room. He also wasn’t here for the past few days. I asked him where he went and what happened, and he didn’t reply to anything, only saying that it was nothing.”

Hearing this sentence, Fang Chaozhou heaved a sigh of relief and began to change the subject, “Eldest Shixiong, let’s go back shortly. I’ll return to my room to pack my things now.”

“Wait,” Eldest Shixiong called to stop Fang Chaozhou, who was about to slip away, “You haven’t said where you have been these past few days.”

Fang Chaozhou’s footsteps paused. He turned back around to look at Eldest Shixiong, blinked, then finally made up a lie, “I went for treatment.”

When Eldest Shixiong heard those words, he immediately asked, “What was the result?”

Fang Chaozhou didn’t speak and just lowered his head slightly.

As he expected, Eldest Shixiong really didn’t interrogate him more and let him return to his room to rest first, saying he would call for him when they were about to leave.

Therefore, Fang Chaozhou succeeded in muddling through, but when he went up to the second floor, he saw Xue Danrong standing in the corner. The corner was dim, and Xue Danrong, who had changed into wide-sleeved embroidered lilac clothes, stood there as if he had brought his own layer of light. He had heavenly looks and was a beautiful man.

The youth with splendid future prospects saw Fang Chaozhou and didn’t speak, just staring at him.

Fang Chaozhou was stared at by Xue Danrong and inexplicably felt a little guilty, although he didn’t understand why.

“Youngest Shidi.” He took the initiative to call the other party.

The youth in the dark frowned slightly, “Where did you go just now?”

“I just took a casual walk and bought some things. Weren’t we returning to the sect immediately? So I wanted to buy something and then go back,” Fang Chaozhou said.

After hearing those words, the young man took a few steps forward, but before he could reach in front of Fang Chaozhou, Fang Chaozhou took a big step back, “Youngest Shidi, I still have to go back to my room to pack my things. I won’t chat for now.”

After saying this, he immediately turned around and left, not caring what look Xue Danrong, who he had left behind him, had on.

Fang Chaozhou felt that Xue Danrong was getting stranger and stranger and reckoned the poison’s effect was too strong. He should tell their master about it as soon as possible, so he communicated it to Eldest Shixiong when he got on the airship.

Xue Danrong was their master’s favorite, the kind that was loved dearly to the deepest level. The entire First Peak knew. Eldest Shixiong was worried when he heard the Could Crimson Snake’s toxin was possibly not eliminated entirely in Xue Danrong’s body. He immediately reported the matter to their master with the most expensive sound transmission talisman.

The telling of this matter led to their master already waiting at the Heavenly Water Sect’s gate when they freshly arrived. When he saw them, he immediately took Xue Danrong away without saying anything further.

When Xue Danrong heard their master say his internal poison wasn’t purged and he would take him away to heal and detoxify, he suddenly turned around to look at Fang Chaozhou in the crowd. Those forever-cold phoenix eyes were complicated then, seeming as if they were hiding words that he wished to tell Fang Chaozhou. But when Fang Chaozhou saw the look in Xue Danrong’s eyes, he ducked behind Du Yunxi a little.

Xue Danrong tightly clenched his hand that was under his sleeve quietly, but in the end, he didn’t say anything and left with their master.

With this, he went into seclusion for half a month.

In the past half month, Fang Chaozhou finally returned to living the days of a salted fish. Their master was helping Xue Danrong to treat his illness. Eldest Shixiong knew that Fang Chaozhou had an unmentionable ailment and wouldn’t go to urge Fang Chaozhou to cultivate diligently. Therefore, Fang Chaozhou richly spent half a month of good days where he would sleep when he was tired of playing, then play when he woke up.

But then the good days were finally over.

Half a month later, Fang Chaozhou was nesting in his mountain dwelling when he saw the jade tablet hanging on the wall brighten.

His master was calling him.

Fang Chaozhou had no choice but to promptly get up, tidy himself up, tie up his long hair that had not been tied up for half a month, and go to his master.

Fang Chaozhou discovered he wasn’t his master’s only summon when he arrived; Du Yunxi and a few others were also present. Du Yunxi sent Fang Chaozhou a look when he spotted him.

After Fang Chaozhou received it, he nodded slightly knowingly. When he walked in front of his master, he was very loveable.

“Disciple has come to visit Master.”

“Chaozhou.” His master was seemingly not in a not very good mood; his brows were knitted tightly, looking at Fang Chaozhou as if he were a worthless child of his. He was indeed a bit worthless. If you only look at the ranking of Fang Chaozhou here, he only got 40th+ place, although the reason for his defeat was because he met his Youngest Shidi in the ring.

“What did you gain from this trip?” His master asked.

Fang Chaozhou thought before saying, “This trip was quite fruitful. Outstanding disciples, such as from Misty Village and Lingshan Island, and I learned a lot from each other.”

When his master heard those words, he unexpectedly snorted coldly at once, “Are you still acting like Master doesn’t know what you were doing, buying so many magic treasures in Xianglian City? You haven’t been diligently cultivating in the past year, and now, you have even learned how to be full of tricks. Fang Chaozhou, do you still remember the oath you made when you officially became a disciple of mine?”

Fang Chaozhou: …

He didn’t remember. No, it was that he didn’t know; it wasn’t written in the original work.

Upon seeing Fang Chaozhou’s muddled face, his master’s wrath rose gradually. He raised his hand and slapped the table beside him heavily. With this, the table broke immediately.

Fang Chaozhou promptly stood up straight and lowered his head after seeing this.

“I don’t care what you are thinking now, but from today onwards, you are not allowed to be lazy anymore. I feel that you haven’t realized anything after secluding yourself. Let’s do it like this: your Eldest Shixiong and Youngest Shidi have gotten pretty good ranking at the convention; choose who to cultivate with.”

Fang Chaozhou hardly hesitated, “Eldest Shixiong.”

But he didn’t expect that after he answered, his master would snort coldly, “Then you can cultivate with your Youngest Shidi. You choose your Eldest Shixiong so quickly that I can assume he usually indulges you a lot.”

Only later did Fang Chaozhou learn that his master had lectured all the disciples who were called over. They were all ordered to cultivate with Eldest Shixiong or Youngest Shidi, and his master let them choose. Except for Fang Chaozhou, the rest all chose Xue Danrong. Who knew that when their master saw who they chose, he would set the opposite for them?

Even though Fang Chaozhou was struggling at death’s door, he told his master that in any case, he was the Second Shixiong; how could he let his Youngest Shidi supervise and urge him to cultivate? Nevertheless, his master immediately called him out in response.

“Your Youngest Shidi was fifth place in the convention, and you were more than fortieth. Is there a problem if he supervises and urges you to cultivate? If we didn’t rank you guys according to the time of entering the sect, do you think you can be his Shixiong? If it was based on cultivation, I’m afraid he will call you Shidi.”  

Salted Fish Fang, scolded for having no redeemable qualities, turned around hopelessly. He could only follow his instructions and report to Xue Danrong’s place early the next morning.

Xue Danrong’s cave dwelling was located in the northernmost part of the First Peak, which was also the coldest place on the First Peak. When Xue Danrong formally became his master’s disciple, he picked it at a glance and gave it a new name——

Joyful Knowledge Islet.

The word “islet” was in Joyful Knowledge Islet because there was a cold pond there. The original book described that Xue Danrong liked to meditate in the cold pond very much.

Fang Chaozhou had never been to Joyful Knowledge Islet. It was frigid in the mountains in the early morning. The closer one got to Joyful Knowledge Islet, the more freezing it would get. This kind of cold was utterly different from the common, ordinary chill. If an ordinary mortal would come here, perhaps they wouldn’t last a quarter of an hour. As for cultivators, they need to use their cultivation to resist the cold air while wearing thick clothes. After all, they were not real Daoist Immortals. 

Fang Chaozhou knew it was frigid there, so he deliberately dressed very thickly, but he didn’t expect it to be that cold. Cold air wet his clothes, and along the way, his clothes, shoes, and socks were moistened then dried and dried then moistened.

The Heavenly Water Sect had a rule that one couldn’t use sword flight and only walk on foot if it weren’t for a supremely important matter or a summon from one’s master or older generation. Fang Chaozhou had a challenging journey walking, and when he finally arrived in front of Xue Danrong’s cave dwelling, he felt like his eyelashes were about to freeze over.

“Youngest Shidi,” he raised his voice and yelled in the cave dwelling.

No one answered him, and it was incredibly silent all around.

He shouted a few more times, and it was also the same.

Fang Chaozhou looked left and right and saw a large stone beside him, so he padded quite a few cushions on it and sat down. He was so cold that he didn’t want to read his huabens, so he blankly stared into the distance.

It was unknown how long he had waited until he finally heard footsteps. He looked toward the sound and spotted a young man wearing only one layer coming from a distance, holding the Cutting Water Sword.

Fang Chaozhou looked at Youngest Shidi solely wearing one layer, then looked at himself, who was wrapped thickly. He was silent for a moment and then wrapped his clothes even tighter.

He was old and couldn’t stand the cold.