Chapter 48 Chapter 48 Ji Chu, get stronger quickly
The air seemed to stagnate for a moment.
As soon as he stopped moving, Ji Chu thought he was cured. He decisively raised his hand to pull his arm down, and then pressed the swelling on his head.
When she found that the lump could no longer be felt, she was delighted:
"Brother, you are so amazing!"
The condensed air began to flow again.
Meng Yuci calmly withdrew his hand and slowly stood up, his face expressionless.
While saying "Thank you, senior brother", Ji Chu heartlessly stretched out her hand to him, motioning him to pull her up.
Meng Yuci lowered his eyes and looked at her for a few breaths, then extended his hand.
Ji Chu put his claws on him, and with a light pull, he jumped up from the ground.
She saw her senior brother looking down at her, as if waiting for her to speak.
Ji Chu thought about it for a moment, then suddenly realized something. He raised the ball in his hand and asked him:
"Brother, please tell me quickly, is this the treasure that holds the power of the Earthly Evil Soul-Locking Formation?"
Meng Yuci couldn't describe his feelings, but he just said:
"……yes."
"Very good!"
Ji Chu cheered upon hearing this. The excitement of victory made her forget all her worries. She couldn't wait to share with her senior brother how easy it was to find this treasure:
"...Brother, you don't even know! The ultimate treasure has been hanging on me the whole time! If that bastard named Xue hadn't stolen it, I would never have guessed that the answer was in my hands from the beginning!"
Ji Chu was so excited that he couldn't release the excitement in his heart, so he held the ball in both hands and shook it up and down, causing the light ball in the middle to cast an afterimage.
Meng Yuci's brows jumped when he saw this.
But seeing that the ball of light was useless in Ji Chu's hand, like a cat toy being played with by a cat, he breathed a sigh of relief imperceptibly.
The most powerful treasure in the Earthly Evil Soul-Locking Formation is indeed the black ball that Ji Chu put together.
Ever since Master Zhao dug up the treasure that suppressed the evil, the evil spirits underground have been out of control and are harming people everywhere.
The largest evil creature among them devoured the "core" of the treasure that held the formation, and its power expanded, gradually devouring all other evil spirits and merging them into its own body. Gradually, it even did not let go of the residual souls that happened to pass by.
And the "core" of the treasure that holds the fortress back...
Meng Yuci looked at the ball in Ji Chu's hand.
The black color is the "shell" created by Ji Chu, and the white ball of light is the fundamental core that allows the Earthly Evil Soul Locking Formation to operate. It is also the root cause of the evil hearts of the people here and the "魆" ghosts everywhere.
——Fragments of divine bones.
Seeing that Ji Chu had had enough fun, Meng Yuci spoke:
"What are you going to do with it?"
Ji Chu said: "Of course, it is to return to the center of the formation, suppress the evil spirits, and restore peace to this small world."
"But then, you and your friends will be eliminated as evil spirits."
Seeing Ji Chu didn't say anything, Meng Yuci said again:
"Besides, this thing is special and not suitable to stay here."
"What about the evil spirit? What about the Earthly Evil Soul-Locking Formation?"
Ji Chu was puzzled:
"This was originally the mainstay of the Earthly Evil Soul-Locking Formation. Why not put it back where it belonged?"
"It doesn't matter whether we are eliminated together or not. What matters is you."
She took two steps back with the black ball, her face alert.
"Brother, you jumped into the evil thing without saying a word just to find this thing, right?"
Meng Yuci: "Yes, so can you let me handle it?"
"cannot."
Ji Chu flatly rejected it:
"Brother first hid his identity and eliminated us, and then came to grab the treasure. He is not here to help us or supervise the competition..."
She looked serious:
"What on earth are you doing here?"
Meng Yuci looked at her.
Ji Chu must have suspected his purpose a long time ago, but he waited until this moment to ask him, which showed that he was ready to turn against him.
He didn't want to attack Ji Chu, so he said:
"I never intended to stop you from winning the competition, and what I said before didn't mean I looked down on you. This small world has been tampered with, and it's no longer a simple competition at the Immortal Questioning Conference."
Ji Chu frowned.
Meng Yuci continued:
"Don't you want to know what I'm doing here? I was ordered to come here to take this thing away."
Ji Chu heard him say:
"This is a fragment of divine bone."
"So what about the divine bones?"
She subconsciously objected at first, then reacted, suddenly opened her eyes wide, and looked at the ball in her hand:
“Is this a divine bone?!”
The divine bones, revered as a treasure in the world of cultivation, the honor originally bestowed upon the top three of the Immortal Questioning Conference, the divine bones that had caused the deaths of Xu Ying, Jiang Chengxu, and Chen Wu in her past life, and had also led to her ultimate tragic death due to suspicion, had actually appeared in her hands?!
Taking in Ji Chu's astonishment, Meng Yuci nodded and said:
"Although it's just a fragment, it still has the power of divine bone. If it's left here and used by evil spirits, it will only cause endless trouble. These ghosts and evil creatures are evidence of this."
Ji Chu felt vaguely strange.
The divine bone is a divine object. Why can't it completely eradicate evil things? Instead, it is used by evil spirits, causing evil to run rampant in this small world?
Are the remains of the gods so easy to be used?
But this thought only flashed through her mind. She looked at the ball in her hand, thought for a moment, and still insisted:
"I can't give it to you. Daybreak is almost here. If we can't put the treasure back, Xu Ying and Jiang Chengxu might be eliminated at any time. All our efforts over the past few days will be in vain. And I..."
She thought of the jade book card she had stuffed in her purse, bit her lip, and did not continue speaking, only saying:
"I have to find Xu Ying and Jiang Chengxu."
She drew her sword without hesitation and prepared to fight, even though she knew she could never beat her senior brother.
But her past life experience taught her a lesson:
No matter how much you trust someone close to you, you may kill them at any time when faced with the question of good and evil.
If the senior brother can do it, she can do it too.
She can too.
Meng Yuci's eyes swept over the sword in her hand.
One moment they were close friends, but the next moment she could draw her sword and fight...
How come he hadn't realized before that Ji Chu was such a cruel person...
He saw her hostile and vigilant eyes, and felt that they were as sharp as needles.
At this moment, Meng Yuci realized very clearly that he could not tolerate Ji Chu's treatment.
He enjoyed Ji Chu's closeness and trust, he enjoyed her dependence, and hoped that she would always rely on and trust him.
Once such a moment of conflicting positions occurred, he would even have the thought that "even if I have to give up all principles and compromise, I must not let Ji Chu be sad." He was shocked by his own thought.
——But Ji Chu refused to believe him at all.
Meng Yuci slowly lowered his eyes, suppressed the suffocating feeling in his heart, and moved aside to make way.
"If you want to go, go ahead. I won't stop you until daybreak."
"Just one thing, no one except you is allowed to touch the divine bone."
Ji Chu didn't expect that he would just let her go like that, and looked at him in disbelief.
Meng Yuci avoided her gaze.
——The suspicion in her eyes also irritated him.
Seeing that he really had no intention of taking action, Ji Chu decisively ran out from where he had made way with the ball.
I didn't even look back, for fear that he would change his mind.
Meng Yuci stood quietly for a moment, then suddenly laughed at himself, thinking that he might be crazy.
Since when did he care so much about what Ji Chu thought of him?
Could it be because of his senior brother's identity, the master's entrustment, or because his own Kongyu Fuhua is with her, and he has not found the reason yet, but is still unconsciously entangled by it, so he is troubled by such a small matter?
In this world, who is born to trust whom, and who is born to rely on whom?
Why did he have such a greed for Ji Chu?
He closed his eyes tiredly. After Ji Chu left, his world became quiet again.
In fact, his world had always been so quiet and deserted. It was only because of Ji Chu's sudden smash on Xuanhe Peak that the barrier was broken, and the darkness and silence before his eyes were broken. He had tasted the sweetness and now he began to feel uncomfortable.
Perhaps it was time for him to sort out his messy emotions.
The sound of "thump thump thump" footsteps came and went.
Meng Yuci's long eyelashes trembled slightly. Even though he knew he shouldn't let himself sink, he couldn't help but open his eyes and found that Ji Chu, who had run away, had come back.
Ji Chu originally wanted to find Xu Ying and Jiang Chengxu as soon as possible.
But she had just run a short distance when she couldn't help but think back to the expression on her brother's face when he spoke.
He didn't seem to be planning to attack her.
Even though he was determined to be as decisive as his senior brother in his previous life, the interactions he had had these days were not fake.
The senior brother was cold on the outside but warm on the inside. He never responded to her requests and had never done anything to hurt her.
If the divine bone fragments really cannot be left here, then... is there a way to have the best of both worlds?
"Why are you back again?"
Meng Yuci was still standing there. The light was dim and Ji Chu couldn't see his expression clearly.
Ji Chu stood at a distance from him, so that he could escape if the talks failed.
"I want to ask you, Brother, since you are here to take the divine bone fragments, why did you crush our jade book card?"
Meng Yuci looked in her direction but did not answer immediately.
She then took out her jade book card from her purse:
"Why don't you let me guess."
She took out the jade book card without any intention of lowering her head to read the words on it, as if she had no curiosity about the final result.
"Is it because there is something wrong with our Jade Book Plate?"
As soon as Ji Chu finished speaking, she saw her senior brother looking at her suddenly.
From a distance, the look in those eyes was definitely not gentle and peaceful, but rather sharp and fierce.
His eyes were like a sharp blade, slowly sweeping over her body.
He spoke with a somewhat unfathomable voice:
"The Jade Book Card was issued by the sect. Why do you say that?"
Ji Chu was nervous and wondered why he should do such a thing. If he went too far, everything would be lost.
Then he thought about whether he should just slide down on his knees and say that he was talking nonsense.
But the senior brother's tone was so calm and tolerant that it seemed as if he was encouraging her to continue speaking.
So she finally took courage and continued:
"I'm not questioning the sect. But since we arrived in this small world, all missions have been issued by the Jade Book Card, and the judgments between people and Xu are also made by the Jade Book Card."
"But……"
It's fine if you don't say it, but she gets angry when she says it:
"But this identity is completely useless. It only makes us tremble in fear and kill each other."
"I don't believe the sect would test our character in this way, nor do I believe a jade book card can determine whether my character has changed. This is simply a trap set by Zhang Ji to trick us!"
“…”
There was a silence.
After Ji Chu finished speaking, he realized that he was indeed a bit impulsive.
Somehow, when facing her senior brother, she always had a feeling of "someone supporting her" and couldn't help but reveal her true thoughts.
It was the same in her previous life. She tried hard to disguise herself in front of others, but she couldn't help but reveal her worst side in front of her senior brother.
Although Senior Brother rarely stops her...
Anyway, no matter what, she has said it and she doesn't regret it. After all, that's what she really thinks.
Even if her senior brother gets angry with her for telling the truth, she will only think that he is "blindly believing" and she will never think that she is wrong!
Meng Yuci looked at her indignant expression, his eyes bright as burning flames, and the suffocating feeling he had felt when she distrusted and treated him with hostility disappeared.
She must have kept these words in her heart for a long time.
From the moment she saw Jiang Chengxu and Xu Ying turning into "魆" without doing anything, to herself being trapped in the illusion and the Jade Book Card starting to change, she must have always been unwilling to accept it.
But she was too weak. Even though she was unwilling, she was powerless to resist. She could only hold back her anger and endure it.
While following the rules angrily, he never gave up looking for a way out.
Now, why did you say it all in front of him?
He looked at Ji Chu, his eyes sweeping across her face inch by inch, finally falling on her eyes, which had become particularly bright and flamboyant due to anger and tension.
He couldn't help but think of the day at Xuanhe Peak when she did the same thing, suddenly appearing with a halo of sunshine all over her body, breaking the barrier of the evil thoughts of the divine bone that surrounded him.
It was a ray of light that he would never forget.
Looking at the pair of rare treasures that shone like obsidian, Meng Yuci couldn't help but smile and prayed softly:
"Ji Chu, get stronger quickly."
If you are really special.
Then get stronger quickly.
——Strong enough to break the conspiracy of the divine bone.
Ji Chu had already prepared himself to be scolded by him, but he didn't expect to hear such words.
She suspected that she had heard it wrongly and said "Huh" in surprise, and then she saw her senior brother's smile again.
How to describe her feelings at this moment?
It was like rain in the desert, flowers blooming from the ice, like ripples on a pool of spring water, as clear and shallow as clouds and mist, elusive and hard to find.
Senior brother, he seems very happy.
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