Chapter 156 Can you treat me like him?
After Helan Wei left, the room became quiet.
Xie Yanyu held the Zheling ruler and asked Li Xun for the jade token.
Previously, in the century-old secret realm of Shangqing Immortal Palace, Li Xun found the method to activate the jade token.
But the instructions were recorded on bamboo slips from a century ago, written in illegible, ancient characters that neither she nor Li Xun could decipher. Therefore, after emerging from the secret realm, Xie Yanyu retrieved some ancient books and waited for Li Xun to translate them.
At the beginning, Li Xun translated word by word very slowly.
Xie Yanyu thought that it would take him ten days or half a month to translate all the contents on the bamboo slips.
But that afternoon, Li Xun suddenly knew what was written on the bamboo slips.
It's very unreasonable.
In fact, when I think about it now, Li Xun should have started to recover his memories of his previous life from that time.
Then he told her all the steps to activate the jade token.
at the moment,
She took the jade token and poured all the spiritual power in the Zheling Ruler into the jade token.
Li Xun assisted her and together they made the jade token work.
The jade token looks like a piece of jade. It doesn't even have a name because it is a treasure of the Li family. It had no name when it came into the hands of the Tianjian Sect. If it is randomly named, it would be disrespectful, but without a name, no one knows what to call such a treasure.
In the end, people just called it what it is. It was a piece of jade plaque, so everyone called it a jade plaque.
But now, after it comes into effect,
It gradually changed from a jade plate into a cloud of mist, without any entity.
Xie Yanyu stretched out his hand, but couldn't touch anything. He could only see with his eyes that he had put his hand into the fog. If he closed his eyes, he would probably think he was just touching a ball of air.
Seeing her like this, the system couldn't help but ask: [Do you want to reshape your spiritual roots?]
Xie Yanyu remained noncommittal: Hmm?
The system said: [You originally asked for the Jade Plate and the Soul-Breaking Ruler, wasn't it to rebuild your spiritual roots? Before, you didn't believe me and wanted to find a backup plan. But now, I've confessed everything to you. Are you sure you still want to rebuild your spiritual roots?]
Xie Yanyu did not deny what the system said.
She had a feeling that this was her last conversation with the system, and there was actually nothing more to say to it.
But it was the last time.
Xie Yanyu thought about it and asked an irrelevant question: Why do you want this world to keep running?
The system said as a matter of course: [Why else? If this world is destroyed and the Lord God doesn't give me energy, I will disappear with it.]
It seemed to be confused: [You don’t want to die, you don’t want to disappear. Do you need a reason not to disappear? ]
Xie Yanyu responded: Well, there is no need for a reason to live.
System: [That's it, you know it yourself, why are you asking me? ]
Xie Yanyu didn't ask any more questions.
She calmed down, touched the cloud of smoke with her hand, and began to try to lead the system out.
It's too quiet.
The system sensed something unusual.
Then it continued its nagging: "So what's the point of you still doing all this? You've rebuilt your spiritual roots and continued to cultivate. Do you know how long it will take to become an immortal? Don't you still believe me?"
Xie Yanyu: Believe.
System: [Aren't you just forcing yourself to endure hardship? If you trust me, you'll know I'm not trying to trick you. There's no harm in asking you to follow the plot. You're going to follow the plot anyway, so if you insist on wasting time on these unnecessary things, you'll still find that following the plot is faster. Why bother?]
Xie Yanyu was quiet for a moment.
The system wanted to say something again. The quieter she was, the more uneasy it felt.
However, before I could think of what to say next, I suddenly felt a strong pulling force -
There was a force pulling it out of her body!
It suddenly sensed something was wrong and cut away, then saw Xie Yanyu casting a spell. The next second, it heard her say: But now, I want freedom more.
so.
She is not rebuilding her bones.
She was using her newly learned magic to try to separate it from her soul and use it as a raft to find the hub connecting this world to the Lord God.
These words were not spoken.
But the system had already understood, and it was greatly surprised. For a moment, all the codes began to jump around -
This guy is crazy! Why? — Would he rather die than resist?!
However, before he could finish his curse.
Next second.
Everything went dark before its eyes, as if it had crashed.
*
The soul-calling spell was learned from Chen Lang.
That afternoon, she went to Shen Lang's private residence and read a book in the study for a long time.
In addition to learning how to draw the system out of her soul, she also learned how to control it after drawing it out.
The process of drawing it out was not painful, she didn't even feel much. After drawing it out, the system entered the fog in front. Gradually, the fog began to take shape, turning into a shape similar to a doll. There seemed to be spiritual power bumping around inside. It should be the system inside, trying to break free.
Xie Yanyu quickly drew a few spells on it.
Then try to control it according to the methods you read in the book.
I failed a few times at first, but after a few more tries, I succeeded.
She controlled it to find the source of its power and placed a tracking spell on it so that when it found the hub, she would know its location.
This may take some time.
Xie Yanyu released the human-shaped smoke out of the house, and the next thing to do was to wait.
When returning home, Xie Yanyu called the servants and asked about the situation of the Xie family.
Sometimes she feels that cause and effect is a very magical thing.
She never thought that Xie Chengjin was the man who saved her life. When she had a high fever in the temple, she survived by drinking his blood. Later, neither of them recognized each other. She thought it was an equal exchange. She gave her blood to him in exchange for the identity of a young lady of the Xie family, but in fact she was repaying the favor she owed him many, many years ago.
She didn't feel that she owed him anything, but if he owed her anything, she didn't feel that either.
But if she said that they didn't owe each other anything, she felt it was wrong.
It was as if there was a thread that had been entangled with him from the very beginning when she met him, becoming more and more tangled and impossible to untangle. Even though neither of them owed the other anything, the thread had never been broken.
It's a very complicated feeling.
Xie Yanyu used to be jealous of him and annoyed with him, but now everything was tangled up in a mess. At the last moment, he made her happy. She didn't regret anything she had done, but she hoped he would be fine. But how could the Xie family let it go?
She asked about the servant Xie's family.
When I asked for the first time, the servant said there was no news;
A few days later, when he asked again, the servant said that the Xie family had asked all the noble families to help find her whereabouts and help them find the Zheling Ruler. Helan Wei directly tore up the letter of help sent by the Xie family.
A few days later, when he asked for the third time, the servant said that there was internal strife in the Xie family, and it also involved several aristocratic families around Tiandu.
Xie Yanyu then asked, "Is it Xie Chengjin who wants to seize power?"
Helan Wei sat next to him.
He tilted his head and "looked" at the servant. The servant originally wanted to answer in more detail, but at this time he didn't dare to say a word.
Then Helan Wei asked her slowly, "Do you care about him?"
Xie Yanyu: "..."
Xie Yanyu didn't say anything.
Beside him, Li Xun said sourly, "Why don't you care? Of course I care. I've asked him three times in half a month. Tsk tsk, Qingqing, why don't you tell me what he did that makes you so reluctant to let go~"
A very sarcastic tone.
These days,
Wherever she is, Helan Wei is there, and Li Xun follows.
At the beginning, when she was not around, the two would fight and beat each other violently, either hitting each other in the face or hitting each other on the arms and legs. As long as they beat the other to the point where the other was unable to take care of themselves, or was beaten with a bruised face and somewhat disfigured, the other would not appear by her side the next day.
But the monk's body recovered too quickly.
You can't kill him by beating him, nor can you really cripple him, nor can you really disfigure him.
Many times, both sides were hurt, and no one could go to her the next day. No one could benefit from such a self-defeating thing, so in the end, the two people simply stopped fighting.
The advantage is that it is quiet.
The downside is that when two people get together, it can be a bit noisy.
Normally it was fine, but when Xie Yanyu was reading, these two people started to quarrel with each other. Li Xun called Helan Wei a blind cripple, Helan Wei called Li Xun a cripple with a missing finger, Li Xun called Helan Wei a cheap seller, Helan Wei called Li Xun a gigolo in Helan's house, Li Xun said, "My wife asked me to be a gigolo, so what?"
Helan Wei didn't dare to ask him to leave.
He didn't want to see Li Xun take Xie Yanyu away and never come back.
But when she mentioned Xie Chengjin, the two of them stopped arguing with each other and started to sing in unison. Xie Chengjin was not there, but these two people still wanted to step on him, saying that Xie Chengjin was a sickly person, a short-lived ghost, and had a stern face every day like a mute.
Xie Yanyu agreed that Xie Chengjin was indeed like that.
But they were too noisy and never stopped talking. Even after Xie Yanyu initially agreed with them, he still felt like his head was about to explode.
She put down the book in her hand.
Li Xun came over and pestered her: "Tell me, what's good about him, huh? Does he understand you as well as I do? Tell me, tell me, how is he better than me? You've been asking me this many times, why are you silent now that I'm asking you? He has a dead face and acts like a mute every day. Can he speak as well as I do?"
No.
Xie Yanyu answered in her heart that when Li Xun chattered in her ear, it was like a hundred parrots talking at once. It was always like this, and it gave her a headache.
Moreover, she was simply concerned about Xie Chengjin and hoped that he could live a better life. It was not like what Li Xun thought. What on earth was he thinking...
Her temples throbbed.
Hearing Li Xun asking all these questions, she was about to tell him to shut up, but Li Xun kept talking, and before she could open her mouth, he continued, "How could he, a sickly man, be stronger than me? And have a prettier body than me?"
He has no shame, he has never had any shame.
Having said that, he took Xie Yanyu's hand and began to touch his body: "Touch it, huh? Tell me, who's pretty?"
Xie Yanyu's fingertips were burning.
After being forced to touch his lean waist and his well-defined chest, she said with a stiff upper lip, "...you. You're prettier than him."
That's already a pretty good evaluation.
Helan Wei was standing nearby, listening with a gloomy expression. Li Xun spoke so fast, he could say several sentences in one breath, chattering non-stop for hours. He couldn't even get a word in. Xie Yanyu's attention was all on Li Xun.
But Li Xun was still unhappy: "What do you mean I'm prettier than him? Did you really touch him?"
Xie Yanyu couldn't stand it anymore.
He pushed the person away, threw the book on the table, and turned away.
At night.
Xie Yanyu lit a lamp and read a book.
She did not waste the time while waiting for the system to find the hub. The Soul-Breaking Ruler and the Jade Token had been used, and she could no longer create new spiritual roots for herself, so she had been reading books recently, trying to find out if there was any way to continue practicing like this.
When she saw Zishi, she felt sleepy.
So she put the book down, blew out the lights, and prepared to go to bed; but when she blew out the last light, there was a knock on the door outside.
I wonder who would come to see her at this late hour.
The lights in the room were dim. She walked over and opened the door. The next second, she was stunned for a moment——
The man outside the door was wearing black clothes and a black robe, his waist belt was neatly tied, and his hair was meticulously combed.
It was so dull that it almost blended into the night.
It's Xie Chengjin's outfit.
Xie Yanyu was stunned at first glance: "Brother..."
However, before he could utter a word, he took a closer look and saw the other person's face clearly.
Very beautiful face, flawless white jade, every facial feature is just right, softer than Xie Chengjin's face, and more restrained than Li Xun's gorgeous face, except for a small mole on the tip of the nose -
Wait a moment.
He covered the small mole on the tip of his nose with powder.
Without such an obvious feature, at first glance, based only on his appearance and temperament, she would mistake him for Xie Chengjin.
But this person is Helan Wei.
Xie Yanyu was stunned: "What are you doing?"
Helan Wei closed the door.
He leaned over, put his arm around her waist, and whispered in her ear, "Don't you care about Xie Chengjin?"
Xie Yanyu:?
Xie Yanyu felt that the word "care" was not very appropriate.
But everything was so strange that she didn't refute him.
Then, Helan Wei said, "I'm different from Li Xun. He was angry that you touched Xie Chengjin, and he insisted on comparing himself to Xie Chengjin. But Brother Xie and I are old friends, and while our relationship isn't that close, we still see each other often. I know his habits, his tone of voice, and his body shape is very similar."
People's bottom line seems to be regressing step by step.
He found that it was not so difficult to humble himself in front of her, and it was not so difficult to seduce her like a prostitute.
He wanted to know what she was thinking when she was treated coldly in her previous life, so he served her tea and water and imitated everything Chen Lang did; these things gradually became less difficult, and even if she ignored him, he could accept it well now.
He thought he would hate pretending to be someone else.
At least, he can't have no bottom line at all.
But when he really changed into a black robe and dressed so rigidly and meticulously, and looked at the person in the mirror who looked a bit like Xie Chengjin, he felt repulsed, delighted, and expectant at the same time. He was not as good at attracting her attention as Li Xun, but wasn't the chance here now?
He didn't even turn off the lights.
His arms tightened, and he carried her to the bed, kissing her earlobe flatteringly: "Do you want to practice dual cultivation? You can just take essence from me. Since you care about him, you can also treat me as him. Is that right?"
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