Chapter 40 Chapter 40 Who taught you?
Ji Chu had already guessed it, so Jiang Chengxu no longer concealed it.
His mission is indeed not to catch monsters.
From the first night the Jade Book Card appeared in the mission, he was assigned the identity of "Xuan".
"Countless evil spirits dwell beneath the Zhao Mansion's Huai Garden, originally locked within the Earthly Evil Soul-Locking Formation. But at some point, the treasure holding the formation together was lost, allowing the yin energy to leak out, gradually enveloping the entire city. This is also the source of the demons you see."
"With the treasure that held it back lost, the Earthly Evil Soul-Locking Formation has become a most sinister entity, using its evil energy to stir up evil in people while simultaneously hunting down Xu at random."
"As for us monks who were divided into groups..."
Jiang Chengxu looked annoyed:
"Perhaps he unintentionally harbored evil thoughts, which is why the Jade Book Card classified him as... a monster, and he is also within the hunting range of the formation."
Xu Ying and Ji Chu were at a loss for words and didn't know what to say to comfort him.
Xu Ying patted his shoulder.
Jiang Chengxu smiled bitterly:
"If that were all, it wouldn't be so heartbreaking. Although I'm a ghost, I'm not possessed by a demon. Even if I'm hunted, I can just escape. But there's another line of words on this jade tablet."
He had no intention of hiding it and took the initiative to show the jade book card to the two of them.
Ji Chu read out the words one by one:
"Use cultivators who have reached the level of a demon to fill the center of the formation, replacing the treasure that holds it in place. At sunrise, the accounts are settled, merits and demerits are offset, and one is reborn as a human being."
"this--"
Xu Ying immediately understood everything, stood up and said angrily:
"Isn't this just letting everyone kill each other?!"
Kong Huiduan's "ambush", Jiang Chengxu's "dilemma", and the unknown "sacrifice" now all have reasons!
Ji Chu's eyes fell on the word "魆" on the jade bookplate:
"You are still Xu, didn't you do anything?"
Jiang Chengxu also looked angry:
"If I were to use my fellow disciples to clear my own identity, wouldn't that be considered evil? Even if I temporarily gained human identity, how can I guarantee I'd still be human the next day? It's nothing more than drinking poison to quench thirst!"
"In fact, on the first night, many people, like me, did not take action. But at dawn, the jade book cards of some people suddenly exploded, and they were eliminated on the spot."
"So on the second day, some people started to take action. By pushing the ghost into the ghost claw, they could escape from the formation and leave."
Jiang Chengxu looked at Ji Chu:
"Chen Wu was also here at the time."
Ji Chu was stunned: "Then he..."
"He was eliminated."
Jiang Chengxu nodded:
"The yin energy here is too strong. He kept sneezing, and he was too big a target, so he was surrounded by several people. But after he was eliminated, things suddenly changed..."
He frowned, "Someone with extremely high cultivation level just appeared out of nowhere and crushed the Jade Book Plate of the person who attacked him without a word!"
"Several monks were killed by that man. I didn't take any action, so he was lucky enough to let me go."
"What's going on?"
The more Xu Ying listened, the more confused she felt:
"Didn't you say that in order to escape the formation's attack and the Jade Book's self-destruction, we have to push other cultivators into the formation? What's his purpose in just crushing the Jade Book?"
Jiang Chengxu: "So I guess this person's purpose is not to escape the formation attack, he just wants to eliminate us."
Xu Ying began to feel dizzy:
"Is this some new tactic? It's like eliminating others means you win... But we're randomly assigned to a small world by the Universal Compass. If we all score and rank together, then eliminating others without increasing our own score is a waste of time, isn't it?"
"Maybe he doesn't care about the ranking..."
Jiang Chengxu obviously didn't quite understand why, and just said:
"In short, you are still human now, so you are safe."
He said this to appease the two, but Xu Ying's voice became dry:
"Um... I just took a look at my Jade Book Card. Maybe... I'm not human anymore."
Jiang Chengxu: “!”
He hurriedly looked at the jade book card in Xu Ying's hand, and sure enough, he saw the same description as his own on it.
Xu Ying was a little annoyed and a little unsure:
"Maybe when I was killing the ghost, I saw something bad and lost control..."
The two of them then began to look sad.
Ji Chu, who had been silent for a long time, suddenly spoke:
"If we can find the treasure that holds the Earthly Evil Soul-Locking Formation together, can we prevent all this?"
Jiang Chengxu and Xu Ying looked at her together, and Ji Chu continued:
"You think the heirloom that the Zhao family lost is the treasure that holds the fortress together?"
*
The three of them finally sat on the tree all night. At dawn, Xu Ying and Jiang Chengxu huddled together to wait for the judgment of fate.
Fortunately, neither of their jade book cards exploded.
They got another full day of buffer time.
After discovering that the mission might still be "finding the Zhao family heirloom," Xu Ying became excited:
"I knew Ji Chu and I couldn't be idiots! It turns out we took the main quest from the beginning!"
They left Huaiyuan and turned Zhao Yulin's house upside down, but still found no trace of the heirloom.
When he was feeling depressed, Jiang Chengxu suddenly thought of something:
"After the heirloom was lost, Master Zhao also investigated Zhao Yulin, although he didn't find anything... But I heard from the maid that Zhao Yulin has always believed that the haunting in the mansion is related to the heirloom, and this is also the reason why she has been vegetarian and chanting Buddhist scriptures."
"If Zhao Yulin couldn't help but take action, Qi Wenxuan, who frequently visited the Zhao residence's study, would definitely be her first choice as an accomplice!"
Xu Ying held her chin and analyzed carefully, then helplessly spread her hands:
“But I really don’t have anything here!”
Ji Chu was also a little worried.
Xu Ying and Jiang Chengxu both turned into ghosts and were at risk of being eliminated at any time, and she didn't know how long she could maintain her identity as a "human".
The Earthly Evil Soul-Locking Formation is liquidated every night, and they simply don’t have that much time to waste.
Suddenly, she remembered the half-sentence of "Yang Nianzhi".
Somehow, she always had a premonition that "Yang Nianzhi" must know more than them, and if she asked, he would not hide it from her.
This trust came out of nowhere and was indeed rejected by Jiang Chengxu.
"no."
Jiang Chengxu firmly disagreed:
"His identity is unknown, his attitude is strange, and he suddenly disappeared last night. What if he harms you?"
His worries were not without reason. Ji Chu also knew that his inexplicable trust was untenable, so he said:
"Then I'll try him first."
*
After Meng Yuci eliminated several disciples who had started the fight, he found that Ji Chu was no longer in Zhao's mansion, so he returned alone.
As soon as he pushed open the gate, he saw Ji Chu sitting in front of the stone table, as if he had been waiting for him for a long time.
"Brother, why did you just come back?"
She greeted him with a natural and intimate tone, yet with a hint of ill intent:
"Are you going to catch monsters?"
Meng Yuci glanced at her and replied calmly, "Yeah."
Ji Chu came up to him with a smile and took his arm like a good sister:
"So, how many points did you get, brother? Can I see your jade book card?"
A warm and soft body came closer. Meng Yuci's expression froze for a moment. He subconsciously wanted to shake her hand off, but for some reason he didn't move and let her cling to his forearm like a vine.
"Yang Nianzhi" was tall and had long legs, so Ji Chu got too close and could only look up at him. Yang Sisi's face revealed Ji Chu's unique cunning and cuteness, making it difficult to refuse her request.
But Meng Yuci didn't have the Jade Book Card, so he couldn't promise. He just said:
“Scores are personal privacy.”
After saying that, he raised his hand and pushed Ji Chu's arm down, then walked towards the house.
Ji Chu frowned, and quickly followed, squeezing into the room before "Yang Nianzhi" closed the door:
"Brother, are you on guard against me? If you can't see the score, how about just looking at the jade book card?"
She walked around to him, took out her Jade Book Card and held it upside down in her palm, pretending to turn it over to show him, while "forcing a sale" she said:
"It's daytime now. I'll show you mine, and you have to show me yours."
There is no word on the jade book in broad daylight, so no matter whether the identity of the cultivator in front of him is a "human" or a "Xian", it cannot be seen from the jade book.
But "Yang Nianzhi" subconsciously avoided looking at him and said, "No."
Ji Chu suddenly wondered:
How come he doesn't seem to know that there is no words on the Jade Book Plate during the day?
Could it be that he, like Xu Ying and himself, had never thought of checking the Jade Book Card?
Meng Yuci had now realized that she was testing him, and didn't want to get entangled with her anymore, so he raised his hand to push her out.
Unexpectedly, Ji Chu was a ruthless person who had no idea about "stopping when necessary" and "being careful not to alert the enemy". When he refused to take out the Jade Book Card, she actually planned to snatch it away directly.
Meng Yuci's hand had just landed on her shoulder, but before he could exert any force, he saw Ji Chu slip out of his arms like a slippery loach, turned around, and wanted to reach out to feel if there was a jade book card on him.
How could Meng Yuci let her succeed? He easily grabbed her wrist and said coldly:
"go out."
The more he tried to hide it, the more Ji Chu felt something was wrong.
If she had originally just wanted to test him, now she was seven points suspicious and had to see his identity.
So she put her free hand together to form a sword, and with the spiritual power wrapped in it, she slashed at the wrist of "Yang Nianzhi" who was holding her.
Meng Yuci didn't want to hurt her, and he didn't want to reveal his identity when he took action, so he just slightly relaxed his strength to avoid the sword energy and pushed open the door.
However, the door was only opened an inch when Ji Chu kicked it shut with a "bang".
She was worried that "Yang Nianzhi" would open the door and try to escape, so she decisively blocked the retreat.
The light outside the house only flashed for a moment through the crack of the door before being blocked out again.
Because "Yang Nianzhi" was weak and afraid of the cold, this room was also covered with a layer of warm insulation with window paper.
At this moment, the doors and windows are closed, the light in the house is dim, and the warm-colored window paper reflects a soft dark light.
In the dim light, Ji Chu pressed the sword against Meng Yuci's neck with one hand, pushing him down on the bed with his back, and with the other hand he rummaged through his collar without any hesitation.
Her five slender fingers touched and pressed randomly on his body, with no awareness of the strict rules between men and women...
Seeing that she couldn't find the jade book card anywhere, she wanted to explore deeper and deeper.
Meng Yuci's brows jumped, and he suddenly raised his hand and grabbed her wrist hard.
He used a lot of strength, and Ji Chu couldn't break free. He felt that his bones were being strangled.
Looking up, he met a pair of cold, dark eyes that contained a warning that was chilling.
She instinctively sensed danger and subconsciously pressed the sword downwards, but the person lying on the bed easily grasped it with just two fingers, and she could not move forward even a little bit.
Ji Chu secretly exerted force, but the sword did not move at all and he could not pull it out!
Cold sweat broke out on her forehead.
This person's cultivation was clearly much higher than hers. He had probably retreated before, causing her to let down her guard. Now that they had truly broken off relations, he was probably going to attack her...
At this moment, Ji Chu's left hand was grabbed, and his right hand along with the sword was restrained by someone. He knelt above Meng Yuci, and seemed to have the upper hand, but in fact he had lost all the advantages and was in danger of being killed by the people below at any time.
The success rate of pulling the sword was too low, and she wasn't sure she could outsmart the man with the sword...
Thinking of this, Ji Chuxin made up his mind, lowered his head and bit Meng Yuci's finger hard -
The sharp teeth pierced the flesh, and the taste of rust immediately rushed into the mouth.
The man she pinned down on the bed had not expected her to use such a move. He was completely caught off guard when he felt something warm and soft wrapping around the base of his thumb. The delicate tips of teeth, like shells, scratched his skin, bringing an unfamiliar dampness and itchiness, as if a young animal was choosing the position and strength of its lower teeth.
Meng Yuci looked stunned, and then felt a dull pain coming from the warm and moist place.
The instigator had none of the cold and arrogant demeanor of a swordsman, and actually used the rogue tactic of "biting if you can't beat him", biting seriously and viciously.
——And it actually worked!
I don’t know if this man was hurt by her bite, but he actually loosened his grip on her.
The long sword trembled and regained its freedom.
Ji Chu was overjoyed and was about to counterattack—
Suddenly, someone grabbed the lower half of her face. Her jaw was pinched, and with a gentle pressure from her index, middle, and thumb, her teeth were forced apart, making it difficult for her to bite. She could only hold the other person's wrist loosely and look up at him.
A familiar voice came from above her head, low and cold like the sound of cold jade colliding, questioning her coldly:
"The sword in your hand only bites?"
"Who taught you that?"
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The author has something to say: Senior Brother: How come the sword-fighting junior sister whom I personally taught has started to bite people like a dog?
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