There is Such a Setting? From Where?

Su Yang wasn’t sleeping too deeply or soundly. Reason one, he had too many things going on his mind. Reason two, the sun was too blinding in the stone forest. It was not that he wasn’t tired and sleepy, just that he couldn’t sleep under these circumstances.

Therefore, as soon as Gu Feidi walked closer, Su Yang opened his eyes.

He sat up straight, completely unsurprised that the first to reach the exit was Gu Feidi. 

In the script, Gu Feidi, the protagonist, was undoubtedly the most transparent character, and the most focused on his martial arts. It took him less than an hourAn hour: Translator ranting about how the translator needs to pay close attention to all the time mentioned in this novel because it uses the two-hours time period, so half of that is not half an hour, but a full hour. to walk out of the Stone Forest Array, breaking all the past fastest records since the House of Jade was built. For this reason, when he entered the House, he was selected by the highest seniority master who taught him wholeheartedly.

Later, he made the mistake of trespassing in the Hidden Pearl Pavilion in the mountain behind the House of Jade and gained the guidance of a mysterious, powerful master who helped him mature into an outstanding martial artist.

It could be said that Gu Feidi’s path to becoming the Great God began when he stepped out of this Bewildering Stone Forest Array.

Su Yang leaned on the boulder and raised his head to look at Gu Feidi, who was standing in front of him with sunlight hitting his back. He was surprised. Why isn’t he exiting out of the array?

“Why didn’t you exit?” Gu Feidi asked with a calm expression.

Su Yang: “…”

Alright, so this is another blameBlame: 鍋 or pot, is an internet slang for blame or fault. Originally, it was 背黑過, or be innocently burdened with a crime. Later, 過 was typoed to 鍋 (you can tell how closely resemble the words are by their characters), creating the internet slang of 背黑鍋 or burdened/ carried this black pot (blame). for him to carry.

But he really didn’t come here voluntarily!

Su Yang put great effort on bearing his facade by showing a sinister smile to Gu Feidi. He dragged out his words, “Me? I haven’t decided whether I want to enter the House of Jade or not.”

Gu Feidi’s expression changed slightly as he asked, “Why do you hesitate?”

After pondering over it, using the rumours about the Evil Sect’s Young Master in the Jianghu as reference, he improvised, “I hate rules. I was respected, raised…pampered since I was young. I can’t stand not having beauties to serve and dress me. I can’t bear living like that. The House of Jade has a long list of rules. I need time to consider if I am willing to tie myself here…”

Gu Feidi countered, “The House of Jade became a legend in the Jianghu because it's the greatest martial art school. Other schools are incomparable to it. If you waste your talent and a once in a lifetime opportunity over your greed for the luxuries of life, you’ll have a difficult time maintaining your foothold in the future, even with your extraordinary talent.”

Raising his eyebrows, Su Yang smiled. “Isn’t that great? You should be happy about it!”

Gu Feidi finally displayed anger on his face.

He bit down, and said in a deep voice after a long pause, “I don’t need to interact with you this way. You and I should have an equal rivalry! Since you arrived here first, yet you won’t leave, that’s fine! Then I won’t leave either. You and I will always have an order difference!”

Saying that, he turned around and walked to the side of the boulder opposite of Su Yang. He sat cross-legged and stopped replying to Su Yang.

Su Yang was stupefied. 

He did not realise that Gu Feidi’s self-esteem would be hurt by his ‘you should be happy’ offhand remark. He complained internally: when did Gu Feidi have this middle-school second-year syndrome Typically used to describe early teens who have delusions of grandeur, who so desperately want to stand out that they have convinced themselves they have hidden knowledge or secret powers. Also known as chuunibyou. setting? Isn’t this too out of the blue?!

The protagonist refused to walk out of the stone forest. If this persisted, it would definitely affect the direction of the whole story.

Su Yang pinched between his eyebrows to calm his headache, trying to solve this kind of embarrassment that others could not comprehensively understand. 

He sighed, “Hey! Gu Feidi.”

“What you are doing is not worth it.” He whispered. “I really don’t want to enter the House of Jade, not because of you. Understand that this quarrel you created will be your own loss.”

Gu Feidi closed his eyes like an old monk, entering into a meditative state.

Su Yang continued to urge, “You said it yourself. The House of Jade is a legend in the Jianghu because it’s um…a sacred place of martial arts schooling. So you must not miss this opportunity!”

Gu Feidi questioned, “Then why don’t you want to enter yourself?”

“I really don’t like the rules. Even entering the House of Jade demands such a large requirement, I can’t stand it…” Su Yang squeezed out.

Gu Feidi stopped talking again.

“How could you be so stubborn?” He feigned anger. “If you don’t exit and enter the House of Jade, how will you obtain the last volume of Path to Home? You still—”

“What did you say?”

Gu Feidi’s gaze was like arrows, striking straight at Su Yang as he questioned in a deep voice, “You know where the location of the last volume is? It is in the House of Jade?”

Su Yang wished he could slap his own face. 

However, under Gu Feidi’s watchful eyes, he had to sustain his persona. He displayed a profound expression and replied, “I will not tell you the source of my Sect’s information. But what you needed the most could be in there.”

Did he leave adequate leeway? Because he didn’t know whether the plot was still on track or not. What if there was no last volume of Path to Home because of his arrival?

Gu Feidi’s eyes were downcast, hiding the long struggle in them, before he uttered, “So logically speaking, I really should go into the House of Jade, but I still can’t accept this lead that you yielded to me.”

Close to his breaking point, Su Yang rebuked, “You insolent child, you can’t be this stubborn just because your surname is GuGù (顧) in Gu Feidi’s (顧非敵) name is homophone to gù zhí (固執) in stubborn.!”

Gu Feidi argued, “I’m sixteen years old, not a child.” 

“Now that you are sixteen years old, and not a child, you should be able to distinguish what your priorities are.” Su Yang said solemnly, putting on a serious face. “You are the ‘young rising martial star’, the ‘young righteous hero’. Everyone’s expectation is on you. Why must you insist on clashing against someone like me, the Evil Sect’s demon spawn?”

This time, Gu Feidi stayed silent for a longer time.

He slowly raised his line of sight, staring at Su Yang’s face and asked earnestly, “I don’t think you are some demon spawn. In addition…don’t you call your own sect the ‘Yantan Divine Sect’? Why did you call it the same way as other righteous Wulin, using the ‘Evil Sect’ term?”

Su Yang was gaping and speechless, not sure how to retort.

At the beginning of filming, he also used ‘Evil Sect’. Who knew that there would be a ‘Yantan Divine Sect’ setting?

Gu Feidi continued, “This stone forest array is actually called ‘Bewildering Stone Forest Array’. If you are as rumors said, someone with devious thoughts and over-scrutinizing, you would never arrive here before me. Su Yang, people in the Jianghu misjudged you, I was wrong about you.”

Su Yang was shocked hearing this.

He suddenly understood the crux of the whole thing.

The Bewildering Stone Forest Array’s assessment was whether a person had a clear heart, whether they were unperturbed and had firm goals…

The Young Master who was born from the aiding and abetting of wicked deeds of the Evil Sect. Under this influence, it was inevitable that the Young Master would have profound thoughts, a morally wrong three views 三觀 translated as Three Views. They are the three principal opinions/ views: world affairs (世界觀), life’s perspectives (人生觀), and personal values (價值觀). , and unstable temperament. He would have never passed the stone forest array.

However, he, Chen Suyang, came from a small and simple family in modern society. He was loved by his grandmother since he was child, and was tolerated everywhere because of his good looks. Even when he entered the entertainment circle by mistake, he did not witness any corruption before he transmigrated here.

In fact, he was even simpler than Gu Feidi, who grew up in the Tengyun Pavilion.

What was more, he had a very clear goal in mind—finish the plot and return to his world. There were no twists and turns, he paid no attention to anyone here, and wasn't affected by the earth-shattering slander.

What the stone forest array saw was not ‘Su Yang, the Young Master of Evil Sect’ but his soul, which came from outside the script.

Su Yang slowly tightened his grasp on his garment sleeves, confused and at a loss for a moment.

Even if he knew that he had made a mistake by breaking through the stone forest array, he was unable to solve the current dilemma.

It was said that it was easier to follow bad examples, while harder to follow good examples, but in fact, it was impossible for him to be over-scrutinizing and have a complex temperament in a split second. Therefore, he had no way to trap himself in the stone forest array.

Gu Feidi stared at Su Yang. Suddenly, he raised his eyebrows and was a little surprised.

“What are you so afraid of?” He couldn’t help probing, “You looked very nervous. Was it…something that I shouldn’t have said?”

Su Yang closed his eyes and answered dispiritedly, “...I am fine.”

He uttered in an extremely slow manner, “Gu Feidi, you should leave quickly. Don’t miss your opportunity to enter the House of Jade, it would be a pity. As for me…I can’t enter with you.”

“Why not?” Gu Feidi asked,

Su Yang raised his chin and insisted,“No means no, there is no ‘why’. I-I must return to the Evil Sect.”

Gu Feidi frowned and said gravely, “Is the Evil Sect’s Sect Leader forcing you back? Your back…What I mean is I heard that your Sect’s Leader has no children. And you are actually an orphan he adopted from among the commoners...”

Su Yang: “…”

Where did this setting come from?

Wasn’t the Evil Sect’s Lord always in seclusion?

That guy who wouldn’t show up until Gu Feidi was on his path to wipe out the Evil Sect, and was immediately rushed down秒 or 秒殺 a Chinese gaming slang term, to ‘seckill’, kill an enemy within seconds. like a video game boss!

Seeing the complicated stare thrown his way, Gu Feidi revealed a clear expression. “I understand.”

Su Yang was close to being driven mad. Well, I don’t understand!

Gu Feidi concluded, “If the Sect Leader is forcing you, this is more reason for you to enter the House of Jade. Only by becoming stronger can we break free from others' control, and stop suffering the…humiliation.”

What Su Yang said went in one ear and went out of the other, he wiped his face in despair and huffed grimly, “You should hurry up, as for myself, I won’t be joining.” 

Gu Feidi was silent for a moment and stated, “If you are not leaving, then I will wait here as well.”

Su Yang was so angry that no words could escape from his throat. He could only stare daggers at Gu Feidi.

Under the glare, Gu Feidi did not flinch and did not back down.

Ages laterBlame your Translator and Editor...couldn't help ourselves!.

“What…what are you two doing?”

Getting out of the stone forest array was not easy for Xu Yunzhan. When he walked out of the maze and looked ahead, he saw two people sitting opposite each other, glaring daggers at each other. 

He immediately stepped before Gu Feidi,facing Su Yang to block his gaze and cautioned, “You demon spawn, what are you planning to do with Feidi?!”

Su Yang finally moved his line of sight, blinking his sore eyes and rebuked in a muffled voice, “You should ask him what he wants to do with me…”

Xu Yunzhan snorted and turned back to pull Gu Feidi up from the ground, insisting, “Pay no heed to him, Feidi, let’s go.”

He tried to drag Gu Feidi toward the stone forest array exit.

Gu Feidi stood at the same spot, rooting his foot to the ground and forcefully wrenched himself free of Xu Yunzhan’s grasp.

He declared solemnly, “Su Yang was the first one to arrive here. But he refused to complete the assessment. I will not accept this lead given by him. If he is not the first to walk out of here, then I won’t step out of this stone forest.”

Su Yang thought Xu Yunzhan would blame Gu Feidi’s stubbornness when he heard this.

But what he didn’t expect was that Xu Yunzhan’s first reaction was to turn around in shock and look in his direction.

“...The first one who walked out of the stone forest array, was actually you?!”

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Su Yang: I also don’t want this! You guys go away!!

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