Chapter 46: First Clear Day (Part 3) Imperial Jade Wine
Another chance?
Is she... Xuan Hui's chance?
Mingyao's eyelashes trembled slightly. Xuanhui wanted to kill her, but what would he gain by killing her? Would someone from another world hinder his ascension to immortality? Mingyao's mind was in a turmoil.
Stunned for a moment.
The pill in Xuan Hui's hand slowly sank into the valley. The medicinal power turned into a trace of dark light at a speed visible to the naked eye and merged into Chu Ji's soul.
The pain on her face subsided.
"If you lie to me, you should know the consequences." Xuan Hui stepped on the sword, his eyes fixed on Chu Ji's face with a sharp look.
Hearing his warning, Chu Ji's sarcasm deepened: "I have fallen into this situation now, how dare I lie to you."
"Where is she?" Xuan Hui didn't speak any more official language and asked directly.
Shuangli Town is neither big nor small, with a population of nearly 10,000. If Xuanhui wants to find someone, it is not a difficult task.
But there is nothing special about the people from the other world; their appearance, speech, behavior, and aura are all the same as those of ordinary mortals.
How could one find an "invisible" person? Furthermore, this matter could not be known to the Immortal Mountain or its master. For Xuan Hui, if she wanted to find this otherworldly person without anyone noticing, the best way was to rely on her.
A genuine smile appeared on Chu Ji's lips. The power of the elixir had been completely absorbed into her body. Her spirit and soul had become much more solid, and now the initiative was back in her hands.
After hearing Xuan Hui's question, she pondered for a moment, then looked up, her baby face revealing a rather well-behaved smile.
"Immortal Lord, I don't know."
"I've been hiding here and there for these years, and I haven't had the time to carefully look for her whereabouts. But I can confirm that she is still in Frost Pear Town at this moment."
"I have already told you this news. It is a sign of great sincerity. There are so many cultivators in the Immortal Mountain. I believe it will be easy for the Immortal Lord to find someone."
Hypocritical and pretentious.
A flash of disgust passed through Xuanxiu's eyes.
She was well aware of his discomfort, yet her words and expressions were full of provocation.
Really unruly.
A hundred years ago, when this woman had crawled to his feet and begged for mercy, he knew she was no pushover. Perhaps he should have killed her then and chosen someone more obedient.
Now, I just gave her the pill, and she turned her back on me.
There was a look of gloom between Xuanhui's brows.
"This is your last chance. Will you tell me or not?"
"Immortal Lord, I truly don't know." Down in the valley, a woman, only her spirit left, was bound within the formation. She deliberately forced a look of helplessness, her voice filled with indignation, "Immortal Lord, you can't ask me to reveal something I don't know."
Now she knew how to leave the formation without suffering the scorching heat. After a hundred years of recuperation, she could just find a scapegoat with a compatible horoscope to take over the formation for her. Why would she need to instruct him again?
It doesn't benefit her at all.
A gleam of light flashed in Chu Ji's eyes. Of course, if Immortal Lord Xuan Hui was smarter and gave her some bargaining chips, this matter could be discussed.
At this moment, Ming Yao, who was outside the situation, naturally saw the confrontation between the two clearly.
She could guess some of Chu Ji's thoughts.
But she was afraid that she would not get what she wanted.
Whether considering her first meeting with Xuan Hui or Xuan Hui's personality, Mingyao could probably guess the outcome of this exchange.
Her gaze fell on the empty cliffs. At this moment, the dark iron chains had not yet been transported from the fairy mountain.
Xuan Hui still had a trick up his sleeve.
While Mingyao was thinking——
"Sister, you know, every formation must leave a way out. When the formation is set up, the solution is also integrated into it. If it is an unsolvable formation... the formation has no solution, but the person trapped must have a way out. Xuan Hui's initial answer to me was to find a scapegoat with a compatible horoscope."
Although he didn't know why Chu Ji brought up this at this time, Ming Yao still followed her words and recalled what the restaurant owner had said.
"Lin Yue" often performs rituals in a nearby restaurant, tempting people to offer incense from time to time. Is this Chu Ji's way of choosing a scapegoat?
As soon as this thought came to mind, Ming Yao rejected it.
No, in the restaurant, Chu Ji only recognized them by sight, how could he know their horoscopes.
Unless, the answer Xuan Hui gave her was wrong. Just because Chu Ji didn't know it at that time doesn't mean she didn't know it for two hundred years.
"Xuan Hui lied to you?"
Hearing this, Chu Ji's breath beside his ear paused: "...Yes, she lied to me. Sister guessed it, how amazing."
There was a hint of sarcasm in her words.
"Sister, the culprit who put you in this situation is, after all, him. If the conditions he offered to free me from this predicament weren't so harsh, why would I have come to you?"
"What conditions?"
"Hush, sister, keep reading, everything will work out."
Over there, in memory.
Xuan Hui was silent for a moment, his eyes becoming colder and colder: "Chu Ji, I hate it when others push their limits."
"There are so many things that Immortal Lord hates, why are you talking to me here?" Chu Ji was eloquent two hundred years ago, much sharper than he is now, and he was not giving in at all.
"Okay." Xuan Hui's anger was provoked by her and reached its peak, with his eyebrows and eyes like ice and snow.
He squeezed out the word "good" from between his lips and disappeared on his sword.
Chu Ji had long been fed up with him, so it was naturally a good thing that he couldn't see him anymore.
She sneered and glanced with disdain at the demon's body that was still breathing. Her soul flew upwards lightly, but just after taking a few steps, her soul was burned and then pressed back.
"Damn it."
Chu Ji kept cursing. She was now trapped in this demon body and her soul could not leave. How could she find that person whose horoscope matched hers?
But Chu Ji has never been one to accept her fate. She has fought her way out of the muddy past and survived to the present, step by step and by any means necessary. She will never give up the chance to continue living.
Even if she couldn't devour the demon soul of Ji Meng's bloodline, she would still try to control this body. If Xuan Hui came again, she would not let him off easily.
This is a gift for her, so of course she can't let him down.
There was a fierce look in Chu Ji's eyes, exactly the same as the look he had when he was fighting with Tian Xiao for the body.
However, it is much more difficult to gain control of the demon's body.
The soul was crushed again and again, and then condensed again and again because of the formation.
Mingyao felt a little reluctant and even felt a little inappropriate admiration.
"Tsk tsk, sister can't stand it anymore? You are so soft-hearted."
"Where are we now?"
"As for me, I still need to endure tens of thousands of tortures before I can control the power of Ji Meng's demon body to summon the wind and rain."
Just as Chu Ji said, after countless cycles of being shattered, destroyed, and reborn, her soul was finally tainted with a trace of Ji Meng's bloodline.
At the same time, Xuanxiu's black chain also arrived with the arrival of the Lin family.
"Chu Ji, I'll ask you again, will you tell me or not?"
Three years passed in a flash, and Xuan Hui still couldn't find the person from the other world.
Chu Ji manipulated the demon body to open his eyes, intending to intimidate the person in front of him: "What do you want?"
His huge eyes reflected Xuan Hui's disgusted expression.
"Monster--" Xuan Hui said nothing more and activated the formation. Ji Meng's monster body was pressed to the bottom of the valley and could not move.
The people from the Lin family who came with them were tied to an iron chain for ten people. With Xuan Hui's spiritual power, one end of the chain pierced into the monster's body, and the other end was restrained on the cliff.
Chu Ji is now trapped in the body of a demon and shares the same feelings with it.
The pain caused by the iron chain piercing her flesh caused her to subconsciously twist and struggle, but this only caused the spiritual power contained in one end of the chain to penetrate deeper, tightly hooking onto the flesh and bones of this body.
"Xuan Hui, you will not die a good death!" The shrill cry of pain made people shudder.
"Speak or not?" Xuan Hui Immortal Lord's sleeves fluttered, and compared with the terrifying demonic body of Ji Meng, he could be described as an immortal.
“Go to hell!”
"Xuan Hui, you..."
The series of insults that were too painful to hear made the Lin family members who came with them feel uncomfortable.
"I'll ask you once a year." At this moment, Xuan Hui seemed much calmer. "You'd better pray that person stays in Shuangli Town."
Dozens of chains pinned the demon's body to the spot.
If it were before, Chu Ji could still turn around and occasionally move his muscles in this valley filled with demon bodies.
Now, in addition to enduring the pain of the spiritual power in the iron chains stirring in her flesh and bones, what made it even more unbearable for her was the shame of having dozens of chains on her body, making her look like a defeated dog.
Xuan Hui was humiliating her.
Chu Ji's eyes were bloodshot, but he could do nothing.
After the chain was completed, most of the Lin family members who came with him evacuated from here with Xuan Hui, leaving only one person to guard it.
Chu Ji hated this man very much.
Being seen in such a miserable state, she wished she could kill him immediately.
Unfortunately, the demon body imprisoned her, and the formation trapped Ji Meng's demon body. Now with the iron chains, she couldn't kill him.
However, fate always throws unexpected opportunities.
The Lin family member spoke up: "Are you Miss Ran?"
Tortured to death by the iron chains, Chu Ji's soul temporarily left her body and stuck to the demon's body. The tinnitus in her ears kept mixing up the man's words, and she could only hear the word "Ran".
Just this one word made her expression tighten a little bit.
Chu Ji raised his eyes and looked at the Lin family member who stayed behind. But after looking for a long time, he still didn't recognize him.
"Do you recognize me?" Her voice was dry.
The man scratched his head and said with a little more force, "Miss Ran, you don't remember me. Almost three hundred and forty years ago, you came to Shuangli Town to select immortals. My sister was chosen by you and returned to the Immortal Mountain to practice together. Although my sister hasn't returned home in these years, she sends immortal mountain elixirs home every year. Otherwise, how could I, a weapon cultivator, survive for more than three hundred years? It's all thanks to you."
"I know you are not a demon."
"But, did you... offend the immortal of the Immortal Mountain? I think that immortal is very fierce."
The endless chatter exploded in Chu Ji's ears.
Ah, it turned out to be him.
What was it called? Chu Ji closed his eyes and thought about it for a long time but couldn’t remember. However, it didn’t matter anymore.
What mattered was that he could help her.
Chu Ji softened his expression, endured the pain, and showed a bit of misery on his face: "Brother Lin, please help me."
Chu Ji was born very young, and he is a great actor. Even without tears to embellish his performance, he still makes people feel pity for him.
After this experience, Mingyao didn't know her very well, but he had a general idea of her character.
The moment Chu Ji opened her mouth, he knew what she was planning.
Combining with later generations, Mingyao guessed that after Chu Ji's soul was crushed and reconstructed nearly ten thousand times, it was able to differentiate its own consciousness.
When the spirit resides in a living being, it can "survive" in that person's body for three or four days.
It is her soul that is trapped in the demon body, but her consciousness may not be restricted.
Mingyao looked up at the man who looked quite honest and simple, waiting for his answer.
But Chu Ji suddenly cut off this memory and did not share it with her again. Everything in front of his eyes was dark.
After a few breaths, Chu Ji's shadow appeared in the darkness.
"He promised you." Mingyao asked her.
"That's right." In the darkness, Chu Ji sat on a wall, swinging his legs. "Brother Lin is a fool. He believes in repaying a favor."
"Then what?"
"Then..." Chu Ji knew Mingyao wanted to ask about the whereabouts of the Lin family, but he changed the subject, "Then... I discovered a secret."
"The secret of a fairy mountain."
"That rain." Mingyao didn't care about her avoidance.
"That's right, sister is right." Chu Ji's eyes lit up slightly, "They are all sinners, the immortals of the immortal mountain are all sinners."
Mingyao looked at Chuji blankly as his mouth opened and closed. His mouth was moving, but no sound came out.
After a few words, Chu Ji stopped.
"As expected, you can't hear because of the ban. But it doesn't matter, it's not important. All you need to know is that on the 15th of every month, the rain in Frost Pear Town can wash away their sins."
Chu Ji narrowed his eyes, and just as he was speaking happily, his expression suddenly changed. He then glanced at Ming Yao with a half-smile: "Tsk tsk, that Immortal Lord Miao Miao is really bewitched by you."
"Sister, we need to speed up our progress."
After saying these ambiguous words, Chu Ji, who was sitting on the wall, suddenly fell back.
The boundless darkness disappeared with the disappearance of Chu Ji.
The setting sun is blood-red.
There was blood all around.
Mingyao crossed a ridge and stopped.
She saw herself in Chu Ji's memory, herself from two hundred years ago.
"Xuan Hui, wake up." At that time, compared to now, she still had a lot of childishness and innocence of the world.
Tears welled up in her eyes as she knelt beside Xuan Hui, helplessly watching his breath gradually weaken. Her vision darkened as blood continued to flow from his wounds.
Mingyao stood in the distance and watched this scene. She still remembered that this was after the "war".
In order to protect her, Xuan Hui fought with the monster with Ji Meng's bloodline and was seriously injured.
She was terrified. She was afraid that Xuan Hui would really die because of saving her, and she was also afraid that after Xuan Hui's death, the so-called world line would collapse and she would be left here.
So this time, she cried very sadly: "Xuan Hui, please don't die. I'm scared."
But Xuanhui closed his eyes and did not respond to her.
Until a boy hurriedly came holding Xuan Hui's sword, and the sword spirit appeared in it to heal him.
Only then did she feel relieved and followed the sword spirit's instructions to go back and get Xuan Hui's treasure bag.
What happened next was that Xuanhui was rescued, she accepted his marriage proposal, and they went to the fairy mountain together.
But this time... Mingyao looked at his former self as he stumbled away.
His eyes fell on Xuan Hui, who was lying on the ground, barely breathing.
Seeing this, Mingyao was naturally prepared, but it was still beyond her expectations.
I thought Xuan Hui would open his eyes after she left, but as spiritual power continued to flow in, he turned into powder.
The boy who had just come with a sword, gradually straightened his figure, and finally revealed Xuan Hui's true appearance.
Oh my god! Mingyao's head was buzzing with pain. She had run halfway before, but she thought that the boy must be hungry after running all the way to get the sword, so she turned back and stuffed a piece of cake into his hand. It turned out that she was being stupid without realizing it.
What was even more unexpected to Mingyao was that Xuan Hui simply waved his sleeves, and the demon soul that had been shattered in front of her condensed and transformed again.
"What are you doing here?"
Chu Ji's consciousness was grasped in his hand.
"Of course, I'm going to reveal your true identity to that poor woman." Chu Ji was as tough as ever. "Since this woman might be the one destined by heaven, Immortal Lord, I naturally don't want you to succeed."
A man of destiny.
Ming Yao was stunned when she heard this word for the first time. She was a person of destiny. The name sounded quite intimidating, like the child of luck in novels, but she had no spiritual veins and was a pure mortal.
Destined person?
Mingyao was very confused.
Hearing Chu Ji's provocation, Xuan Hui did not get angry this time.
His eyes swept over Chu Ji. His consciousness had left his host body and could not stay there for too long. His heart-piercing words naturally had to come straight to the point.
"I heard that you used the Lin family to lure many people whose horoscopes matched yours, but none of them succeeded."
"Haven't you ever thought about the reason?"
"The scapegoat is real, but the compatibility of the eight characters is fake."
"It's a mixture of truth and falsehood, which makes it ineffective, Chu Ji."
Xuan Hui's eyes revealed a hint of condescending pity and pleasure.
"In this world, the one who can rescue you from that cage must be someone from the same background as you. In other words, the woman you were just one step away from speaking to, the one you called your destiny, is your only hope."
"Unfortunately, you no longer have this opportunity."
After Xuan Hui finished speaking, she let go of her hand. Before Chu Ji could speak, her consciousness dissipated in the wind.
The memory ends here.
Mingyao looked at Chuji who appeared before her. Xuanhui's words had a greater impact on her: "...someone from the same place."
"What does this... mean?"
Chu Ji raised the corners of his lips, walked towards her, and held her face in his hands: "My silly sister, don't you understand? We... are both time travelers. Do you want me to exchange secret codes with you?"
She tilted her head: "Palace Jade Wine?"
Mingyao thought it was ridiculous.
Chu Ji stood on tiptoe and put his forehead against hers: "Sister, it doesn't matter who I am. You should think about what the destiny person is."
After a flash of white light, Mingyao returned to reality.
The formation was already half full with her blood.
She looked at Chu Ji, her mind full of the words she had just said, "Palace Jade Wine."
Chu Ji seemed to be really unconcerned, his mind and soul stuck to the side of the demon's body, he bent over and stuck his butt out, looking at something.
While watching, he waved towards Mingyao: "Sister, come here quickly, I found the best person who can explain to you what the destiny person is."
Mingyao passed by in a trance.
When she saw the face under the formation clearly, her head hurt again.
Eyelashes as long as feathers, red dots between eyebrows, and blood stains on the heart...
It is the Immortal Lord Miaomiao who has been possessed by a demon.
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