Chapter 105: What did you do?
Jingwu listened to her request and nodded: "I will collect your body and give you a proper burial."
Upon hearing this, Gu Suyue immediately nodded and smiled.
Jingwu glanced at the bright sun outside, took out some yellow paper, cut out a small figure, and had her possess it.
He then quickly chanted an incantation and cast a spell on the little figure.
Jingwu let her sit on his shoulder without hesitation, immediately calculated the location of Qili Mountain, and teleported there.
She landed in the main mountain range of Qili Mountain. She looked around and the little paper figure on her shoulder spoke.
"Master, my body is in the direction to the right."
Hearing her words, Jingwu withdrew his gaze and walked in the direction she indicated.
After crossing a mountain, we arrived at the place she had mentioned.
“Right here, Master, right down here.”
Jingwu lowered his eyes to look at the area below the cliff, as if he had thought of something, and asked, "You've been tortured for so many days, yet you were still able to climb over a mountain. It seems you really want to live."
Upon hearing this, Gu Suyue paused for a moment, then said, "Who wouldn't want to live? If they hadn't been chasing me, why would I have jumped off the cliff?"
She sighed softly, seemingly relieved: "Master, let's not talk about this anymore. Please come down the mountain and help me collect the body."
Jing Wu's eyes held a half-smile as he sat down on a rock under a tree. "No rush. We're already here. Let's wait until it gets dark and then send you to your death."
She keenly sensed the emotions of the paper figure beside her and chuckled softly, "What? Don't want to enter the gates of hell?"
"No, of course I want to be reincarnated, but this is a mountain stronghold after all. Master, you are a girl. If they target you, it will be very difficult for you to escape."
If Gu Suyue had a physical form at this moment, one could see the panic on her face. She suppressed her emotions and forced herself not to give herself away.
Jingwu sat on the rock, looking up at the sunset on the horizon, his eyes gradually turning cold.
"It's true that it's difficult for me to escape, but it has nothing to do with the bandits. There's a formation set up at the bottom of this cliff. If I go down, I'll be strangled and never leave this mountain again, right?"
Upon hearing this, Gu Suyue's heart skipped a beat, and she couldn't help but stammer, "Master, what are you saying? I don't understand what you're saying."
"Why play dumb? The person behind the scenes promised to revive you in exchange for having you bring me into the formation. Do I need to make it clearer?"
Hearing this nonchalant tone, Gu Suyue was rendered speechless by all the excuses she had prepared. She racked her brains for a long time but still couldn't come up with anything to defend herself.
Indeed, on the 7th day after her death, she should have been waiting for the Black and White Impermanence to come and take her away, but an old man with a sage-like appearance arrived even earlier than the Black and White Impermanence.
He said that as long as you do as he says and bring the person into the formation, he will be able to bring her back to life.
Upon hearing that all it took was a little girl to come to the mountain, she immediately agreed.
The old man arranged everything perfectly, including possessing the wedding dress and selling it to the embroidery shop.
Everything went according to plan, but unexpectedly, when they reached the mountain, the person in front of them noticed.
Jingwu glanced sideways at the paper figure on his shoulder, and his calm voice rang out again: "What you told me wasn't entirely true, was it? For example, the third young lady of the Gu family died mysteriously on the eve of her wedding, and for a while, no suitable substitute could be found, and you stepped forward at that moment. Was the third young lady's death your doing?"
If the paper figure had an expression at this moment, it would definitely be one of panic.
Gu Suyue suddenly remembered that the person in front of her was also a master, so she must know all about her past.
She was very flustered, but suddenly a gust of wind blew by, and she gradually calmed down.
Since the person in front of me already knows about this, I might as well just tear off the mask of civility and have a fight first.
At worst, we'll just have to embarrass ourselves and crawl to that old man; he'll definitely have a solution.
Thinking this, Gu Suyue attempted to break free of the paper figure. Her soul moved forward, but bumped into a barrier.
She paused for a moment, then reached out to touch it, and sure enough, she encountered a solid, transparent barrier.
She seemed to be locked inside a paper doll, unable to get out no matter what she did.
It was as if there was a barrier in front of her, separating her from the outside world.
Gu Suyue was already panicked, and now she was even more panicked. She tried everything she could to break through the barrier, but she couldn't get out no matter what she did.
"What...what did you do?"
Jingwu glanced at her with a half-smile, but did not answer her question.
The moment she saw her, she had a premonition that this ghost was definitely not simple.
So he kept a close eye on her, and when he heard her talk about the past and it was different from what he had seen in her, he became wary.
After Jingwu cut out the paper doll for her, he placed a protective barrier around her, just so that she couldn't escape now.
Her hunch was right. When she arrived at the mountain, she looked down at the cliff she had pointed to and saw a thick black fog, as if it were shrouding something beneath the mountain.
Jingwu immediately guessed that there was definitely something down there, either a vengeful ghost or someone had deliberately set up this layer of black mist to conceal the trap below.
She leaned towards the latter, since if it were a vengeful ghost, Gu Suyue's aura would never be so clean; it would definitely be tainted by some of it.
However, if it was a formation set up by a sorcerer that erased her aura, then it would make sense.
It's easy to guess who's behind this, since the only one who has a conflict with Jing Wu is Jiang Chu, with whom he had a fight at the inn a few days ago.
When Jingwu guessed the identity of the person behind the scenes, he couldn't help but curse inwardly. Why didn't that heavenly lightning strike harder? It's only been a few days, and it's already causing trouble again.
As darkness fell, she spoke up, "He told you he could bring you back to life, but he didn't protect your body properly, letting it rot at the foot of the cliff. If you really were brought back to life, would you just drag that half-rotten body around everywhere?"
Gu Suyue was stunned when she heard this. It took her a long time to realize that she had been deceived.
Her body was indeed still at the bottom of the cliff. When the old man found her, she was lingering beside her body. He could clearly see that the wounds that had been gnawed by insects had grown maggots.
Now that I think about it, she's been dead for almost a month, and her body must have started to decompose long ago.
Thinking of this, Gu Suyue was so angry that she wanted to rush out to find someone to settle the score, but unexpectedly, her soul bumped into the barrier and was bounced back.
Jing Wu had obviously heard the commotion. He glanced sideways and scoffed, "Didn't you ever think that if I were easy to deal with, why would he go to such lengths to set up a formation and harm me from behind?"
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