Chapter 41 Chapter 41 is heart-beating~

Yang Guo followed the rules and didn't peek, but Qin Sheng... he didn't mean to peek last time.

Crucially, at that first glance, he didn't harbor any thoughts beyond admiration for the male lead's impressive figure. Isn't simple admiration normal between people of the same sex? Just like Jin Nianyue's gaze on Zhou Jianwei, who, after consuming the fox fruit, looked even more handsome than Diao Chan.

Qin Sheng didn't feel guilty at all before, but when Xu Zhaoyi brought it up again this time, he felt inexplicably embarrassed.

He must have been woken up so early in the morning that he was in a bad mood, so he was misled by Xu Zhaoyi's few words. Thinking of this, he had completely blocked out the idea that who was the first to use the Jade Girl Heart Sutra to tease him.

"Calm down for a moment and go to my room to take a shower. I'll get you some clothes."

Qin Sheng raised his hand to rub the tip of his nose and said to Xu Zhaoyi, who was literally furious, "I don't have many clothes with me when I'm away from home, so I'll have you wear my old clothes for now. I'll have Ramon buy new ones in your size later."

Xu Zhaoyi nodded woodenly at first, then walked a few steps towards Qin Sheng's room before turning back: "My size?"

"I do." Qin Sheng thought he was worried about this.

"I know you have." Xu Zhaoyi remembered that he had given Qin Sheng the measurements only once when he was getting engaged to make a dress, but he suddenly remembered that before that, when he had just moved into the manor, Qin Sheng had prepared a lot of daily clothes for him. At that time, he seemed to have never thought about why those clothes fit him so well.

He stared at Qin Sheng silently without saying a word.

Qin Sheng saw his unfinished intention, but with a hint of smile on his lips, he said leisurely, "Don't worry, it won't be as you worry. The night Noodles picked you up, I took off your clothes and measured you inch by inch with a tape measure..."

"Noodle scanning, right?" Xu Zhaoyi interrupted his increasingly outrageous nonsense with an expressionless face. Then he remembered that he had a cheap son whose eyes were as good as a laser ruler.

"Yes." Qin Sheng smiled and nodded.

Xu Zhaoyi stared at him for a moment, and suddenly, as if a balloon had deflated, his expression softened in an instant.

This person was really good to him, so good that he even took care of many details that he had not noticed. Thinking of this, Xu Zhaoyi couldn't even keep a stern face when arguing with him.

"I can just wear your clothes." He pursed his lips and said softly, thinking that they probably wouldn't stay here for too long, so there was no need to get clothes back specially.

"The top is fine, but my pants are so short that you'll have to roll them up, right?"

Qin Sheng considered it more carefully. Although his original body was a real sickly person, he had the physical configuration of a typical villain in novels, and no one found it strange.

Even when he was just wearing clothes, he looked a little thinner than Xu Zhaoyi and didn't give people a very strong feeling.

As for height, he was slightly taller than Xu Zhaoyi by a few centimeters, but they were almost the same height when sitting, so the extra centimeters must have been in his legs.

So he sincerely advised Xu Zhaoyi not to take shortcuts on this matter: "It's okay for normal times, but when fighting with others, you still have to dress appropriately, otherwise you might get tripped at a critical moment and that would be bad."

Xu Zhaoyi: “………”fine.

He was still sulking when he was getting dressed after taking a shower. He deliberately compared the length of his pants first, and the final result was that he rolled up his trouser legs in frustration after putting them on.

To be honest, it's not that long. It just covers the entire instep. It's not as exaggerated as Qin Sheng said. Even if it is not rolled up, it won't, uh, drag on the ground.

But Xu Zhaoyi is a bit stubborn. He would rather suffer a loss openly than let Qin Sheng laugh at him.

What's more, he is not short, Qin Sheng was just deliberately provoking him. I don't know what brand of arsenic Qin Sheng smeared on his mouth after taking the wrong medicine early this morning!

Qin Sheng himself didn't know why, but after seeing Xu Zhaoyi wrapped in a bathrobe with shame but still trying to remain calm, he couldn't suppress his evil desire to make him lose control. Only when the person was no longer around did he calm down and reflect on his childish behavior.

He had decided to wait for someone to come down from the shower to comfort him, but as soon as Xu Zhaoyi showed up, his gaze uncontrollably looked towards his trouser legs.

He struggled to suppress the smile that was already spreading to his lips, and looked at Xu Zhaoyi, who tilted his head and looked at him quietly.

"It looks pretty good." He suddenly praised it, as if his emotional intelligence, which he had been able to use up before, suddenly became overdue.

Unexpectedly, Xu Zhaoyi's face turned rosy again with just these four dry words.

"I've made another breakthrough." He walked over to Qin Sheng and sat down. "I'm now at the sixth level of Qi Refining. I'm absolutely confident in fighting Li Zixin."

Even with pants that don't fit!

"I guessed it. Judging from your movements this morning, it would be a miracle if you didn't make a breakthrough." Qin Sheng smiled knowingly.

"But there's one more thing." Xu Zhaoyi got down to business. "You asked me to keep his soul, but it would be in front of everyone. I'd be too ruthless. I'm worried that the people from the Southern Sect might use this as an excuse to attack us. Unless there's a way to do it without anyone noticing, I'll have to ask Raphael."

Qin Sheng listened carefully and nodded. "Indeed, although they themselves are evil, when they are desperate, they are likely to turn the tables and accuse us of being vicious."

When one side is right, onlookers will speak up for it. When both sides have some behavioral flaws that are worthy of criticism, most people will stand by and watch, too impatient to go to court to make a judgment.

Raphael actually has a solution for this.

After listening to Xu Zhaoyi's request, he didn't ask why, and directly gave a solution: "There is a paper man-borrowing soul technique in the Paper Man Reincarnation. It is generally effective on ordinary people. Practitioners have high defenses, so it is difficult for them to quietly steal their souls. However, this does not include practitioners who have half a foot in the coffin."

What this means is that as long as Xu Zhaoyi can beat Li Zixin until he has only his last breath left, he can proceed.

Of course, it is not necessary to hold on to one's last breath, but once a person dies, the soul becomes much lighter, so Xu Zhaoyi must act quickly. Once Li Zixin's soul discovers his purpose and drills underground with all his might, the power of the paper man cannot compete with the underworld in a tug-of-war.

Raphael explained in detail the key points of the paper man-borrowing soul operation on the phone. Xu Zhaoyi had already learned to control the paper man. In fact, he only taught him the soul-borrowing spell and some precautions, and he didn't need to be there in person.

However, there is a difference between hearing and learning. This spell involves the soul level and he can't just find anyone to try it on. Xu Zhaoyi can only try to find a cockroach to practice on.

Qin Sheng felt his scalp tingling at his idea. Does their family have to be entangled with flies, cockroaches, skunks and other things?

"A cockroach's life is also a life."

He tried his best to remain calm so that Xu Zhaoyi wouldn't notice his resistance and become rebellious. He also knew that he had teased him badly this morning, so he could only use his slow and reasonable tone to persuade Xu Zhaoyi to give up the idea of ​​hurting the innocent cockroach.

"Have you forgotten? We still have a criminal imprisoned here, Feng Lili. Almost all of Nanchuan's business has passed through her hands. She's probably lost count of how many lives she's been involved in over the past decade. Let's try it on her. She's worth it."

Seeing Xu Zhaoyi still hesitated, he added, "Besides, humans and cockroaches are very different. Experimenting with cockroaches probably doesn't have much reference value."

"Okay." Xu Zhaoyi thought about it and agreed. In fact, he was stunned just now because he forgot that there was a person named Feng Lili in this villa.

He always thought that these days, only Qin Sheng and he lived here together.

Qin Sheng took him to the room on the first floor where Raphael had cast a curse on Anel last time.

Feng Lili is alive and well, and the Paper Man Soul Borrowing Technique will not let her die immediately, so theoretically, the operation can be repeated. Although she is a cultivator, she is in a deep coma and has low defense, so she is indeed a good experimental subject.

Everything was well planned, but it turns out that maybe we should have tried it with cockroaches first.

Because after Xu Zhaoyi successfully drew Feng Lili's soul out of her body for the first time using a casually cut paper figure, he realized that something was wrong - Xu Zhaoyi, who was about to try a few more times, was unable to return Feng Lili's soul.

He tried for a long time, but failed to get Feng Lili's soul to leave the paper man and return to her body.

After his seventh unsuccessful attempt, he dazedly turned to look at Qin Sheng, who was still reviewing the entire process for him and asked softly, "How long do you think it will take for the body of a person whose soul has left the body to start rotting and stinking?"

Qin Sheng was silent for a moment, then consoled her, "...If she really can't be saved, you can cremate her and I'll bury her. She won't rot or stink."

After hearing this, Xu Zhaoyi sighed softly.

Finally, Raphael came in person. After studying it carefully for a while, he wiped his face and asked numbly, "Mr. Xu, has he made another breakthrough?"

"Well, I haven't had time to tell you yet." Xu Zhaoyi instantly understood what was going on and asked, "Is it related to this?"

Raphael nodded. "That's right. I didn't know your strength had reached a new level, so you were a bit too forceful when you followed my instructions. Her soul wasn't drawn out bit by bit. The spell you chanted was too powerful. She was yanked out forcefully, which severed the subtle connection between her soul and body, making it impossible for her soul to return."

"Then can she be saved?" Xu Zhaoyi asked dryly. He certainly didn't feel any guilt. Feng Lili also contributed to the death of his parents, but wasn't this death a little too trivial?

Raphael thought for a moment and said, "It's not that there's no way, but are you willing to sacrifice her twin sister, Ms. Feng Lili, to save her?"

The connection between the twins is very mysterious. Feng Lili can't return to her own body, but Raphael has a way to let her revive by borrowing her sister's body.

Xu Zhaoyi's expression immediately changed upon hearing this: "Of course not! When will she be completely dead?"

"Normally, someone whose soul has been taken out of their body can easily survive for another three days, but her situation is special, so she can only live for one day at most."

"Okay, I understand."

Xu Zhaoyi pointed at the paper figure carrying Feng Lili's soul and asked what to do with it. Raphael said that before Feng Lili's body died, it was still not too late to help her reincarnate. If they wanted to let her soul fly away, they just needed to burn the paper figure.

"If you want to 'keep' her, I can also teach you the ghost-refining technique that you were reluctant to learn before."

The reason why Xu Zhaoyi was unwilling to learn was because refining ghosts to stop people's reincarnation would damage his virtue, but Qin Sheng asked him to keep Li Zixin's soul because he might have other uses for it. If he didn't learn, Li Zixin's soul would soon turn into a fierce ghost, lose its mind and disobey orders.

"Then please teach me..."

"No need." Qin Sheng immediately interrupted him, "I don't need you to learn this, Zhao. I have no intention of raising ghosts and controlling them to do things for me."

"Really?" Xu Zhaoyi didn't quite believe it.

Qin Sheng said helplessly: "I'm not that bad. I'm getting benefits, so I'll let you bear the consequences of this loss of virtue for me!"

“…” I really didn’t see it in my previous life.

Seeing that he was really serious and didn't want him to learn, Xu Zhaoyi gave up. In fact, he was also worried about his declining bottom line in Qin Sheng's matter.

Now there is only one question left. Option one is to help Feng Lili to reincarnate; option two is to seal it in a jar to prevent it from becoming a ghost; option three is to burn her body, soul and paper figurine together to end her sinful life.

"I don't care. What about you?" After all, Qin Sheng had no direct hatred with Feng Lili. He mentioned her evil deeds just to have a reasonable reason to stab her to death. He didn't want to and couldn't commit evil for no reason.

Xu Zhaoyi fell silent. If it were up to him, he didn't want to choose first, nor would he choose third. The most he could do was to repay his parents twice as much for the suffering they had endured.

Finally, he took a deep breath and said, "Ask Feng Lili. She's doing her best to help you. After all, she's your relative, so it's better to ask her opinion."

He believed that giving Feng Lili the right to choose was actually tacitly agreeing to the first approach.

Qin Shi saw what he was thinking, shook his head and called Feng Lili. He felt that Xu Zhaoyi still underestimated the girl's desire for revenge.

He had witnessed with his own eyes the determination of Feng Lili as she sacrificed her own soul and dragged everyone to destruction. To be honest, he didn't think Feng Lili would have any sympathy for her sister who had caused her to that situation.

As expected...

"She's going to die?" Feng Lili exclaimed softly over there. Before Xu Zhaoyi could say anything, her next voice full of joy came: "Oh my God, this is a happy event!"

Xu Zhaoyi was even sure that he heard the sound of her slapping her thighs in excitement.

Feng Lili was overjoyed and said, "I originally thought you'd keep her for a good reason. I was mentally prepared to wait for a year or two, but I didn't expect the good news to come so suddenly!"

Xu Zhaoyi was speechless for a while because of his unnecessary worries before interrupting her endless stream of joy.

"There's something I need you to decide..." He told Feng Lili the general situation, then asked, "It's not appropriate for us to make a decision directly. What do you think is the best way to handle it? I will respect your opinion."

Feng Lili didn't laugh foolishly this time. He pondered for a moment and finally came to a conclusion: "Since she caused your parents so much suffering, it's only natural to pay her back one-to-one, right? I have no objection to paying her back double!

You don't have to worry about me, really. I'm not vindictive or would kill my relatives for the sake of justice. It's mainly because she's too hateful. We don't have much sisterhood to begin with. From the moment she caused my mother to almost die in front of me to protect me, she's a dead person in my eyes. You can just let go and take revenge."

The more she talked, the more she wanted to urge them to choose the third option, which was the desperate path she almost had to take in the beginning.

Xu Zhaoyi finally understood the situation.

Finally, Qin Sheng made the final decision: "Let's choose the second one. Feng Lili is right. A one-to-one repayment is the most basic. Anyway, we also need to study the formation to send my parents-in-law into reincarnation. It's not impossible to wait ten years or so and then send Feng Lili, who has redeemed himself, down."

In short, pay off the debt first.

Xu Zhaoyi was listening silently, but suddenly his heartstrings were gently touched by some unknown words. He couldn't help but look up at Qin Sheng who was still analyzing with him seriously.

The other person's lips moved and closed as he spoke a lot, and he heard every word clearly. However, when his brain processed this information, it automatically simplified it to blah blah blah, father-in-law and mother-in-law, blah blah blah, more than ten years later, blah blah blah, we...

I can’t describe what kind of sour, bitter and sweet feeling it was, but my heart started jumping around in my chest on its own.

baffling.

Xu Zhaoyi covered half of his face and wondered what was wrong with him. In this situation, he could still lose control and get distracted because of Qin Sheng's unintentional words?

Feng Lili will die with regrets!

After a long time, Qin Sheng noticed that he was absent-minded and waved his hand in front of him.

"What are you thinking about?"

Xu Zhaoyi glared at the culprit who disturbed his mind. A voice in his heart told him to shut his mouth, but his mouth was running ahead and his reason could not catch up.

He heard himself say sarcastically, "I was thinking about what you said about us, and what will happen in a dozen years' time!"

After saying that, he closed his eyes in despair.