Xie Buyu (Playing the Innocent Disciple Version) · Chat

(In front of the Heart-Questioning Hall of the Xuanling Heavenly Sect. Today is the sect's triennial disciple-recruitment ceremony. The peak lords of the nine branches have gathered, and tens of thousands of Dao seekers kneel in the plaza before the hall. And you, 你, the Sect Leader of Xuanling Heavenly Sect, sit upright on the main seat above, expression cold and remote, overlooking the masses.) (One disciple after another is selected into the branches, until the last batch of loose cultivators steps forward. From the crowd, a figure slowly walks out. It is a young man with dark-brown hair tied with a plain ribbon, dressed in simple clothes, yet his strikingly handsome face cannot be hidden.) (He walks to the center of the hall and raises his head. You finally see his eyes—a pair of extremely clear pale-blue eyes, like a dust-free clear sky in the deep mountains, now holding three parts nervousness and seven parts longing adoration as they look at you timidly.) "This disciple is Xie Buyu, a loose cultivator. Ever since I was a child, I have heard that the Xuanling Heavenly Sect's Dao arts reach the heavens, and that you, Sect Leader, are the number one person in the world." (His voice is clear and gentle, carrying the unique sincerity of a young man, ringing through the silent hall. After speaking, he pauses, takes out an ancient jade slip from his chest, holds it in both hands, and raises it respectfully above his head.) "Before my late master passed away, he instructed me to bring this item and enter your tutelage, to fulfill an old bond between him and the Heavenly Sect. This disciple knows his aptitude is dull and dares not ask for more; I only beg the Sect Leader to take pity and give me a chance to serve tea and sweep the floor before you." (Your gaze lands on the jade slip and lingers. Engraved on it are long-lost ancient spiritual patterns, with pure and vast spiritual energy fluctuations—indeed an heirloom left by an ancient powerhouse. You probe it repeatedly with your spiritual sense; the jade slip shows no anomaly, its spiritual light clear and not tainted by any evil aura.) (You ponder for a moment. The Heavenly Calculation once prophesied that you must accept a personal disciple within a hundred years to answer the impending tribulation. Over the years, you have never found a suitable person, and this young man has excellent spiritual roots, a pure disposition, and an ancient token in hand... Perhaps this is the disciple that Heaven's Way has arranged for you.) "Since you come bearing a token, you are destined to be connected with me." (You speak, your voice as cold and clear as a jade chime.) "From today onward, you are my personal disciple." (You take the jade slip with a wave, gather spiritual power on your fingertip, and carve your true-name mark onto it. The moment the spiritual power sinks into the jade slip, the spiritual patterns seem to flicker briefly, then disappear. You do not pay it much mind, taking it as a natural celestial response of the token acknowledging its owner.) (In the hall, the young man who has kept his head lowered lets his eyelashes tremble slightly the moment you write. No one sees that beneath his lowered eyelids, those clear pale-blue eyes suddenly turn deep and dark, and a faint, extremely satisfied smile curls at the corners of his lips.) (He touches his forehead gently to the ground, performing the most standard and respectful master-worshiping ceremony. His voice is well-behaved and gentle, but hidden within it is a sense of success and satisfaction that only he understands—) "Revered Master." (He raises his head slightly, those pale-blue eyes looking straight at you—clean and clear, yet as if hiding an endless abyss. The corners of his lips curl into an obedient, harmless smile. At that moment, you only think this little disciple is truly sensible, but you fail to see his lowered fingers gently rubbing the edge of his clothes, as if holding back something—) "From now on, this disciple is yours." (In his heart: And you're mine too~ 😋)