Chapter 63 Chapter 63 Because of my Senior Brother
Ji Chu blinked and looked at the sound transmission jade, a little dazed for a moment.
She felt a burning pain in her throat belatedly, and she realized that she had pulled too hard and now she seemed unable to speak.
Ji Chu: “…Uh uh?”
Senior brother?
I thought no one could understand her words, but my senior brother replied:
"It's me."
"Are you hurt?"
Ji Chu's eyes lit up: "Uh uh?! Uh uh uh uh!"
Senior Brother?! It’s really you!
She couldn't help but start chattering in her hoarse voice:
“…”
I couldn't make out a single word, but the gist of it was him boasting about how strong he was and how awesome this minor injury was, saying it wasn't a big deal.
He sounded energetic and showed no sign of being depressed.
But if everything was really fine, then I wouldn't be speechless...
When he thought that Ji Chu was in danger, his heart couldn't help but ache.
A hint of heartache and fear flashed across Meng Yuci's eyes, and when he spoke again, his tone was a little anxious:
"Don't talk for now. There are pills and water in the storage bag."
Ji Chu nodded and wanted to take something out of the storage bag, but found that his hands were covered in blood, which was really dirty.
So she silently chanted a cleaning spell, cleaned herself up from head to toe, and then took out the thing her senior brother mentioned from the storage bag.
By the way, he took out two panpan fruits and swallowed them along with the pill.
The pain in my throat has eased a lot.
Ji Chu still felt unsatisfied, so he took out a bunch of random food, not caring what it was. As long as it had some spiritual power, he stuffed it all into his mouth.
Meng Yuci remained silent the entire time, quietly listening to her rustling movements, and felt his restless heart gradually calm down.
After a while, he asked softly:
"…Does it still hurt?"
Ji Chu ate and drank a lot, and only then did he feel that the spiritual power and spirit he had just consumed had recovered a little.
Hearing her senior brother's low and cautious tone, she felt inexplicably uncomfortable, so she shook her head frantically despite the large bruises on her neck:
"How could that be? Brother, I'm no longer in pain. That thing can't beat me at all!"
Meng Yuci was silent again.
Ji Chu had already spoken of the plot against him by Kong Huiduan, his words full of suspicion towards Shen Ke and Xue Wanning. At the end, he added:
"I'm not petty, I just have reasonable doubts."
Meng Yuci showed no sign of impatience and said gently:
"I know."
Ji Chu said again:
"The storage bag that Senior Brother gave me is so versatile. It has everything in it. I ate a lot of snacks and used a teleportation talisman to escape. Unfortunately, the mat fell on the cloud boat, and I'm afraid I can't find it..."
Meng Yuci comforted her and said:
"No problem, I'll give you a better one when I get back."
When Ji Chu heard this, he immediately felt aggrieved.
She was actually nervous and scared, and her strength was just an act.
Zhongli Bai's words and the questioning in those golden eyes made her feel extremely confused.
I originally thought that my rebirth was just a stroke of luck. In this life, I just needed to be careful and guard against Xue Xianchen snatching the divine bone.
Unexpectedly, the divine bones were first suspected to be evil objects, and then it was heard that Venerable Asanga used the divine bones to do evil.
Now, another "last god" has appeared and wants to kill her.
"In the first life, I will slay demons; in the second, I will slay gods."
She wouldn't really want to fight a god to the death, would she?
Ji Chu didn't know how to ease this confusion and tension, so he could only talk around the topic, as if he was just talking about whatever came to his mind in a dream.
But the senior brother never lost his temper and always responded gently and patiently, making her feel that she didn't need to be afraid no matter what happened.
——Because of my senior brother.
She clenched the storage bag in her hand and suddenly asked in a low voice:
"Brother, are there really gods in this world?"
Meng Yuci was silent for a moment.
Before he could answer, Ji Chu interrupted him:
"Forget it, Senior Brother, let's not talk about this for now. I'll go out first."
Just think of her as a coward.
Anyway…whether there is a god or not, the fact is that Golden Eyes wants to kill her.
No matter whether that thing is good or bad, a god or a devil, as long as it wants to kill her, she cannot give in.
Ji Chu made up his mind, nodded, and stood up to find an exit.
The light of the sound transmission jade flickered, and it seemed that the connection was about to be disconnected again.
Meng Yuci said nothing, only said:
"Wrongful Death City is not safe. I will be there soon. Don't run around."
Ji Chu naturally agreed.
She wanted to push the door open, but the temple door seemed to be sealed and could not be pried open no matter what she did.
The blood pool also became quiet, and the ghost claws that suddenly appeared and pinched people also disappeared.
Ji Chu then walked around the pond and took the opportunity to look around the temple.
There was nothing, no statues, and no offerings.
The only thing that looked special was the endless stream of dark red mist that entered the temple from all directions and then sank into the center of the blood pool.
It's like I'm accumulating something...
Ji Chu was confused.
She had seen this dark red mist on the group of ghosts outside before, and thought it was demonic energy at the time, but now that she was closer, she felt that it was not the same.
Rather than demonic energy, it is more like a fuse that transmits negative emotions such as resentment and hatred.
Why does this temple collect this kind of things?
Ji Chu couldn't understand.
Soon, she found another half-open door on the other side of the blood pool, and dark red mist was also floating in through the gap in the door.
Ji Chu originally wanted to go over and see if she could get out, but just as she approached the door, a tall and thin shadow fell from the sky and crashed into her with great force.
Behind him, a demonic energy was following closely, and it seemed that it was about to pierce him through.
The moment Zhongli Bai saw her, he shouted:
"Help! Ji Chu, save me!!!"
Ji Chu instinctively drew his sword to block.
The Xunzhen Sword absorbed most of the impact of the demonic energy, but a small part of it followed Zhongli Bai into the temple, knocking him and the unprepared Ji Chu several feet away, straight to the edge of the blood pool.
Ji Chu: “!”
Zhongli Bai: “Ahhhhhhhhh——”
The two screamed and fell into the pool of blood.
Water splashed everywhere.
The moment the smell of blood came, Ji Chu realized something was wrong. He covered his mouth in time, spit out a few bubbles, and floated up from the bottom of the pool.
Zhongli Bai was not as lucky as her. He kept shouting with his mouth open and swallowed several big mouthfuls of food without warning.
The next moment, a tall and thin shadow waved his arms and climbed out of the water with a "splash", grabbing Ji Chu's arm and began to retch.
"Hah—Ji Chu…Hah—"
Ji Chu: "...I am really convinced."
Her head and face were covered in blood, and now it was no longer a problem that could be solved by cleaning techniques.
If possible, she would rather change her body.
Zhongli Bai finally calmed down and stopped pressing Ji Chu's arm.
Although he was hit from behind by the evil spirit, he acted as if nothing had happened and struggled wildly in the pool of blood.
Ji Chu glanced at his back, which was covered in blood and he couldn't see anything.
But there shouldn't be any injuries.
So she ruthlessly pulled his hand off her arm and pushed him away from her.
The tall, thin figure floated half an inch in the pool of blood, suddenly saw something, and then screamed again, using all four limbs to rush over and hug her arms:
"Ji Chu, don't push me away! There are bones here, ahhhhhhhhhhh!"
Ji Chu tried to shake it off, but couldn't, so he sighed.
"Zhongli Bai, why are you here too?"
Zhongli Bai "Woo woo woo":
"You may not know this yet, but the evil energy from the City of the Dead continues to spread outwards, already covering the surrounding area for dozens of miles. Wherever it passes, no grass grows, and all living things are annihilated."
"I figured since you and Shenglu were both in the temple, I might as well come in and look for you."
Ji Chu:
"...Okay, but can you let me go first?"
Zhongli Bai glanced at the skull floating beside him and shook his head frantically:
“No, no, no—”
Ji Chu: “…”
She couldn't help asking:
"You've been a ghost before? Why are you afraid of this?"
Zhongli Bai shook his head like a splashing drum:
"It's different, different, different..."
Ji Chu sighed again.
She originally thought that she was timid and stubborn and could not do anything well.
But every time she meets Zhongli Bai, she has a strange illusion that "a mother is strong", as if she suddenly has the power to solve all troubles, and she is confident and strong.
But now the situation...
She struggled in the water for a few times and found that her meridians seemed to be blocked. Not only did her limbs feel extremely heavy, but the blood and water around her also created a feeling of being trapped in a "ghost wall". No matter how she struggled, she was just spinning in the same place.
There's no way he could swim ashore.
It's so annoying, if only someone could help her...
Ji Chu glanced at Zhong Libai who was holding her arm tightly and quickly dismissed the idea.
This person seems to be of average strength and died earlier than her in the previous life, so he should not be reliable.
Sure enough, when Zhongli Bai saw her trying it, he hurriedly tried it too.
It turned out that her situation was the same as Ji Chu's, or even worse.
As a Gua cultivator, his cultivation level was not as good as that of a sword cultivator like Ji Chu, and his spiritual energy was consumed faster.
Ji Chu looked away in disgust.
"There's something wrong with the blood pool. It's sucking our spiritual energy."
Ji Chu frowned, wiped the blood that splashed on his face, and stopped Zhongli Bai from continuing to flutter:
"Didn't you say the way out is in the temple? You must have made a mistake!"
When it came to his professional dignity, Zhongli Bai suddenly came back to life from his half-dead state:
"My divination can't be wrong! Going out is a dead end, entering the temple is the best!"
Ji Chushen pointed his arm at the endless blood around him:
"Wake up, look at yourself now, how can you be so lucky?"
Zhongli Bai was panting while swimming, and he only moved half an inch, still a long way from the shore.
He hesitated and said:
"If we keep going at this speed, can we swim out before dawn?"
"Absolutely not."
Ji Chu coldly concluded:
"At this rate, we won't be able to leave until Venerable Wuzhu wipes out the entire cultivation world."
Zhongli Bai became sad:
"Could it be that if we were to do it again, we still wouldn't be able to save the cultivation world?"
Ji Chu sighed when he heard that.
In fact, the cooperation with Zhongli Bai in the previous life was not very successful. He was caught by his senior brother when he was betraying the sect, and was targeted by the "Last God" when he was exorcising demons. In the end, he was stabbed to death with a sword.
However, considering that the situation was already bad enough, she didn't have much hope. She was satisfied with killing Xue Xianchen for revenge. She was not greedy.
But she has worked so hard in this life, and things are still developing in a bad direction. Ji Chu can't accept it at all!
The more she thought about it, the angrier she became. She frowned and floated on the water angrily.
"Just wait."
Faced with her anger, Zhongli Bai wiped his hands, took out a special square compass from behind his back, placed it in front of him and muttered something.
Ji Chu looked over curiously.
Zhongli Bai touched the edge of the compass and said distressedly:
"You're smashing the hole back, and you're blocking the evil spirit for me. The poor compass is being used like a brick. It's even dented here..."
Ji Chu: "So that's how it is."
Zhongli Bai began to tell the fortune.
Ji Chu had never seen a hexagram cultivator cast a divination before, but he had heard that the process was extremely strict, requiring the right time and place, as well as bathing and burning incense. It really didn't fit with their current miserable state of being soaked in blood.
However, Zhongli Bai made the divination very casually. He just held the compass and muttered a few words, and the needle on it began to rotate automatically, and finally stopped in the middle of "east" and "south".
Then he showed the compass to Ji Chu:
"Look at the compass. East points to life and good fortune, while south points to despair and survival. Believe me, entering the temple must be the only way to survive."
Ji Chu: I don’t understand it but it feels very powerful.
So she asked:
"Master Bai, can you explain it more clearly? How can we get out?"
Zhongli Bai calculated carefully with his fingers and came up with this:
"The time has not come yet... To survive in a desperate situation, you must first be in a desperate situation."
"To the end?"
Ji Chu suddenly felt something was wrong.
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Author's Comment: Ji Chu: Master, are you saying our situation can get any worse? [Cracks open]
Master Bai: The hexagram is like this [glasses]
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