Li Shu's eyes moved slightly, "It's okay, if you don't want to talk about it, forget it."
Wenxuan touched the back of his head and replied obediently without thinking too much, "Master Jingchen is a very good person. He has loved me since I was a child, even more than Master. Whenever Master wants to punish me, Master Jingchen will protect me first if he is here."
"Like this." Li Shu said.
"Sister Li, are you asking me what kind of person Uncle Jingchen is because he stood you up?" Wenxuan slowly expressed his guess.
Li Shu raised her eyebrows slightly, "No, how could I do that? Don't think too much about it, I was just asking casually."
"Okay." Wenxuan said.
The two of them walked to the door after a while while talking.
Li Shu stopped and turned to look at Wenxuan beside her, "Then I'll go first."
Wenxuan nodded and said reluctantly, "Sister Li, see you next time."
Li Shu responded, said hello to him, then walked out of the Taoist temple and headed down the mountain.
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At night, when Jingchen came back, he found that the light in his room was on.
Seeing this, he frowned, a hint of alertness appeared in his eyes. He raised his foot and slowly approached, pushed the door open with caution and walked in.
When he saw who was sitting in the room, he was slightly stunned for a moment, then reacted and said, "Brother, why are you looking for me so late?"
Xukong picked up the still steaming teacup and took a sip of tea. "Where have you been? I haven't seen you all afternoon, and you've only just come back."
Jingchen's eyes flickered slightly, feeling that Xukong was a little strange. You know, he never asked what he was doing. "Brother, why did you suddenly ask about me today? Did something happen?"
Xukong put down the teacup in his hand and looked up at him, "Miss Li came to see you today. You were out for something, and she came to see me again and told me something."
"What's the matter?" Jingchen asked.
Xukong took out the sound transmission note from his Taoist robe and placed it on the table. "This is what Miss Li gave me."
Jingchen walked to the table and stopped, reaching out to pick up the sound transmission talisman. When he saw what was on it clearly, his pupils suddenly contracted and he instantly understood what was going on.
He was originally still investigating who had destroyed his statue in City G. Now he saw that this sound transmission talisman was given to Xu Kong by Li Shu, so she must be the culprit who destroyed his statue.
I was still doubting whether it was her, but now I can be 100% sure that it was her.
Jing Chen collected his thoughts, his expression unchanged, looking quite calm. He said with some surprise, "Isn't this my sound transmission talisman? How did Miss Li get it?"
"Jingchen, tell me the truth, are you practicing evil magic in secret?" Xukong didn't beat around the bush and asked directly.
"Brother, where did you hear this?" Jingchen frowned, "How could I possibly practice evil magic?"
"Li Shu told me everything and showed me the statue that looked like you. Even this sound transmission talisman fell out of the statue. Do you dare to say that these have nothing to do with you?" Xukong said in a deep voice.
Jing Chen looked straight at him without a trace of guilt, "Brother, you would rather believe the words of an outsider than me, the one you grew up with. Don't you know what kind of person I am?"
Xukong hesitated when he heard this. "But there's no need for Ms. Li to frame you. There's no conflict of interest between you two."
"Conflict of interest...isn't there a conflict of interest between our Taoist temple and hers?" Jingchen chuckled and placed the sound transmission talisman back on the table. "She's doing this simply to sow discord between us and defeat us one by one. By then, wouldn't the number one Taoist temple in Beijing be her Qingfeng Temple?"
Xukong was persuaded by him. After all, he had grown up with Jingchen since childhood and thought he knew him very well. He really didn't seem like the kind of person who would do such a thing.
But after interacting with Li Shu, I also don’t think she is the kind of person who spreads rumors, so what went wrong?
But between a stranger whom he had only known for a month or two and a junior fellow student who grew up with him, he would naturally choose to stand on the side of the latter.
Xukong collected his thoughts and glanced at the sound transmission talisman on the table. After a few seconds of silence, he stood up from his chair, walked to him and stopped, and said slowly: "Forget it, let's just pretend this never happened. I'm leaving now."
Jingchen hummed, "Brother, I'll take you out."
"No need, you should go to bed early." Xukong waved his hand and walked towards the door.
Jingchen's eyes flickered and he followed, but stopped at the door.
He looked at the back of the void until it disappeared from his sight, then he slowly withdrew his gaze, closed the door and went back inside.
Jingchen walked to the seat where Xukong had just sat and sat down, reaching out to pick up the sound transmission talisman on the table again.
He rubbed the talisman in his hand with his fingers, his eyes fixed, so Li Shu came to him first today to attack him?
Jingchen couldn't understand why Li Shu always ruined his good things. Was she trying to pick a fight with him?
"It's because you're too useless to be her match." A sarcastic voice suddenly sounded in his mind.
Jingchen came back to his senses, "Are you her match?"
The voice in my head snorted coldly, "Just let me try and you'll know. At least I'm definitely better than you. There's no doubt about it."
"It's easy for you to say that. That woman is not as simple as you think. Her strength is more than what she has shown." Jingchen said, "We'll talk about it when you can control the time and duration of your awakening."
"Now that the statue is destroyed, my progress has been disrupted. This woman is a ticking time bomb. I need to get rid of her as soon as possible."
Jing Chen's eyes flickered slightly. It wasn't like he hadn't thought about this before. "So you're willing to merge with me?"
"Heh, why don't you merge with me?"
Jingchen burned the sound transmission talisman in his hand to ashes and scattered them on the ground. "Alright, then there's nothing to talk about."
"If you want to die, don't take me with you. It's already this time, and you're still arguing about this kind of thing. I think you're hopeless."
Jingchen patted the remaining ashes on his hands. "You also know the seriousness of the situation. Since Li Shu has discovered what we did, she will not let us go easily. She came here today, but I was not there. If you were sensible, you should merge with me now. After all, I have been the master personality for so many years."
"Yeah, then you should take a good rest and let me be the main personality."
Jingchen didn't say anything, as if he didn't want to pay any more attention to him.
"Or you can let me try to deal with Li Shu. If I win, you will be willing to merge with me." The secondary personality said again.
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