Chapter 91 Chapter 91 Brother, I'll Return Your Sword
The senior brother's gaze seemed to have substance, and it made Ji Chu more nervous.
She couldn't help biting her lip and turned her head to the other side, an obvious gesture of avoidance.
"I have no idea."
She didn't know why she suddenly changed her mind at the last moment.
While she was clearly trying to break free from the illusion, she was still obsessed with killing her senior brother for revenge.
But the moment she really raised the sword, a voice in her head said:
"Are you really sure?"
Confirm what?
What else was she unsure of?
It was her senior brother who killed her in her previous life, so she wanted his life in exchange for hers. Isn't that perfectly normal?
…
But why couldn't she do it? What was wrong?
"In the illusion, there's only a black mist behind you, and no one appears."
The voice of the senior brother sounded:
"It seems that in your memory, you didn't see the face of the person who did it."
"So what?"
His words made Ji Chu clench his palms:
"I saw the Shaowei Sword! Besides you, Senior Brother, who else can wield the Shaowei Sword?"
She looked at Meng Yuci
"Besides, you told me yourself, Senior Brother, that if I became your enemy, you would kill me."
Meng Yuci studied her expression.
He didn't say it, and in the memory he saw, there was no sentence "will kill her".
But she swore that she believed it so firmly that she even had to rely on her memory to piece together the scene in which he said this in the illusion. It can be seen that her memory is still fresh.
He sighed and said:
"I can't kill you."
This statement is earth-shattering.
Ji Chu stood up suddenly:
"What are you talking about?"
Meng Yuci also stood up slowly.
He was too tall and looked particularly cramped standing in the narrow and crowded ice crack.
Even the fire on the ground seemed to dim because he stood up.
He looked at Ji Chu with a calm expression:
"Don't you know the meaning of the Empty Feather Floating Flower? I gave you the flower with my soul, and I protected you with my life. Back then, I had already given you half my life, so how could I possibly kill you?"
"If you died, I would also bear the pain of your death. Half of my soul would dissipate. Not to mention the thunder tribulation that struck me at the time, even if there wasn't, my meridians would probably be reversed, and I would go into a state of demonic possession."
"How could I possibly kill you?"
Ji Chu subconsciously felt that something was wrong, but what concerned her more was the meaning of her senior brother's words:
"You mean, after killing me, Brother went astray?"
"impossible!"
Ji Chu shook her head and took a step back, with her back pressed against the frozen wall. The coldness and hardness penetrated her bones, but it gave her a sense of security as if she was supported.
"You finally survived the thunder tribulation and became a Golden Immortal. How could you possibly be possessed by a demon?!"
Meng Yuci lowered his eyes, his long eyelashes covering the expression in his eyes, making those exceptionally beautiful dark eyes hidden in the dim light, making them unclear.
After a moment, he raised his eyes and looked at Ji Chu, his expression somewhat unpredictable:
"Have you never considered that I said such decisive words not because I suspected you were possessed by a demon, but because I was possessed by a demon myself and couldn't protect you, and had to watch you go to your doom?"
“…”
Ji Chu pressed one hand on the ice behind him.
The cold air immediately spread throughout her body through her fingers and palms.
"impossible……"
She felt her teeth chattering:
"Brother, you are the sect's first disciple. You entered the Dao with the sword, slaying countless demons and monsters. You are a sword cultivator who is only one step away from becoming a Golden Immortal. Back then, so many people in the Wusha Clan went mad, but you are still fine. You have persisted until now. Anyone in this world can be possessed by a demon, but you can't..."
"Why not?"
Meng Yuci was so moved by her string of words that he wanted to touch her head, but he finally held back and said:
"Ji Chu, you think too highly of me."
"I didn't enter the Dao with the sword. You saw me that day in the Yunchuan Ancient Territory. I slaughtered countless fellow witches and shamans, and I was in immense pain. To have come this far, it's really—"
"Enter the Tao through killing."
Ji Chu shuddered and looked up at him.
The fire between the two men ran out of fuel and dimmed little by little, leaving only a weak flame that illuminated their faces in a mottled and dim manner.
Meng Yuci's voice remained cold and calm:
"Without your help, I might have been possessed by the devil on Xuanhe Peak, in the Fengshen Temple, and even in this Tianxuan Secret Realm."
"Ji Chu, from the beginning to the end, it was you who saved me."
"And the reason I've persisted until now is because of you."
"If we had very little contact in our previous life, and you were even tortured to death by them, then it would be perfectly normal for me to become possessed by a demon."
"If I were to become a demon, I would kill everyone under its control to eliminate the Last God. I would threaten death just to stop you."
"I am truly scared and truly desperate. I only beg you to please not go to the Last God, even if you choose to become a demon."
Ji Chu didn't know what to say and could only shake his head.
Meng Yuci took a step forward, and the wind from his clothes swept across the fire, extinguishing the last bit of embers.
The crack in the ice was dark, and the expressions of both men were hidden in the shadows.
He held Ji Chu's hand, and a dagger appeared in his hand without him noticing.
Then he pointed the dagger at himself, held Ji Chu's hand, and pressed it against his heart.
“!”
Ji Chu was shocked: "What are you doing!"
She hurriedly tried to retract her hand, but her senior brother was too strong. She was unable to completely remove the dagger, nor could she get her hand back from her senior brother. In the end, she could only maintain the dagger-holding posture and stalemate with him.
Darkness obscured everything, with only the sound of breathing rising and falling between the two people.
"After all, it was me in my previous life who hurt you."
Meng Yuci's voice sounded deep and powerful in the darkness, with a hint of unprecedented madness:
"I told you to kill me, and I wasn't kidding."
"Why should I kill you!"
Ji Chu felt it was ridiculous:
"I didn't mean to kill you!"
"lie."
He slightly increased the strength with which he wrapped her hand, and the dagger stabbed uncontrollably into his wound.
The wound opened and blood oozed out. Perhaps it was too cold here, his blood was boiling hot, almost burning Ji Chu's hand.
Meng Yuci seemed to feel no pain, and pressed her hand and stabbed the dagger into his body inch by inch.
"Ji Chu, this is not the way you should avenge a murder. My senior brother taught you that you should take my life without mercy."
His voice was cold and brainwashing, and Ji Chu gradually collapsed after hearing it.
"No...it shouldn't be like this..."
"Shouldn't it be what?"
The voice of her senior brother came, like a sharp blade breaking through her memory:
"Don't you remember clearly that I killed you, but you still don't want to kill me?"
Every word he said gave Ji Chu a headache and breathing became increasingly difficult.
She was almost unable to control herself, and even took the initiative to grasp the hilt of the knife and stabbed her senior brother.
The moment her flesh was pierced, she felt that the hatred that had been haunting her was barely eased a little.
But then, her senior brother's blood flowed onto her hand, and the extremely hot touch made her tremble uncontrollably.
As the hatred dissipated, she was instead enveloped by greater despair and pain, her head aching so much that it felt like it was about to break, as if something was constantly hitting her brain, desperately trying to get out.
It seemed as if there were two forces in her body at the same time, one made her want to stab her senior brother to death, while the other always stopped her from moving.
The dagger could not advance an inch.
As the two forces competed, a scene suddenly emerged from the depths of his mind.
It was she who lowered her head and saw a scale from the sword that had pierced her heart.
The size of a fingernail, like snake scales...
What's this?
Is this her memory before she died?
How did it turn out like this?
Ji Chu's eyes suddenly became confused.
She felt as if she had suddenly returned to the past, but she had become a bystander, observing her own memories... or rather, the other half of her memories.
The Shaowei sword pierced through not her body but a snake.
A snake with scales identical to the ones on the sword that killed her.
But when she turned around, she seemed to have turned into the snake. Looking down, the Shaowei sword seemed to be stuck in her heart.
…
How could I get it mixed up?
How could these two scenes be mixed together and become what she had always remembered?!
…
The memory goes back to the time when I was still in Fu Yu Xian Zong.
She fell in the cell due to serious injuries, the wound on her face kept bleeding, and the bright red blood blurred her eyes.
A snake crawled along the wall from behind her, its pupils covered in gold, and its cold vertical pupils looked at her.
Then the snake suddenly dissipated, its obsession merging into her soul. She led them down the mountain, slaying demons, dying, and finally being reborn together...
"ah!"
She suddenly screamed, let go of her hands, squatted on the ground, and trembled with her hands covering her head.
As soon as she let go, the dagger fell.
The blade hit the ice with a dull sound.
Blood splattered everywhere and quickly froze into a series of red blood beads.
Meng Yuci squatted down with her and reached out to touch her:
"Ji Chu?"
"It's my memory..."
Ji Chu murmured:
"It's my memory that hates Brother... What should I do... These memories..."
She couldn't continue speaking, her eyes seemed to be covered with a layer of fog, hatred and despair pulled at each other, making her expression look extremely painful.
She had thought that her senior brother's attitude towards her in the two lives was completely different, and whether there might be some hidden secrets in the previous life.
But she never questioned her memory, nor did she ever imagine that the Last God would tamper with her memory.
She had actually been struggling for so long with this misplaced memory and the hatred that belonged to someone else!
All her hesitation and cowardice turned out to be tools used by the Last God to exploit her!
What on earth is she doing?!
Meng Yuci suddenly hugged her tightly.
He closed his eyes and said resignedly:
"Never mind... let's just leave it at that..."
"Don't think about it, Ji Chu, I won't force you..."
Let her continue to hate him. It is better than her being in great pain and being tortured by her confused memories after realizing the truth.
He couldn't bear to see her suffer even a little bit.
Ji Chu finally couldn't help it and curled up in his arms and cried.
At first there was no sound, but later she couldn't hold it back anymore and began to sob softly while lying on him.
Meng Yuci felt even more heartbroken after hearing this.
He originally thought that since the truth was not what Ji Chu thought, he should let her know instead of keeping her in the dark.
He, or rather his previous life, did not kill her.
She shouldn't hate herself so much.
But until this moment, after seeing Ji Chu's collapse and crying, he suddenly realized:
The truth doesn't matter at all.
He would rather be hated and misunderstood by her than bear to see her so sad and desperate.
After a long time, Ji Chu finally calmed down.
"I remember now."
She raised her head from his arms and said:
"It's Cen Ping. The disciple who killed Yuan Fu. I saved him in my previous life when I was in the outer sect."
"He is a snake demon, hiding in the sect just to seek revenge on you, brother."
"I also saw him in Cangzhou. He was disguised as an ordinary cultivator and discussed the affairs of the Fu Yu Xian Sect with others. At that time, Zhong Libai also reminded me that there was a black aura around him, like an evil cultivator."
"It's not a snake demon."
Meng Yu said:
"The snake, a mount of the gods in ancient times. Using obsession as a blade, it parasitizes the host's soul, grafts memories, and bewitches people."
"It was it and the Last God who plotted against you."
"I see."
Ji Chu figured everything out, leaned against the wall weakly, looking unhappy.
The dark environment was like a natural shield, covering up the embarrassment and helplessness on her face, so that she could still speak calmly to her senior brother:
"Brother, you don't know yet, do you? I am the prophesied godslayer. In my first life, I slew demons, and in my second, I slew gods. Now is my second life. Even the Last God knows this."
Meng Yuci's tone was not particularly shocked, he just said:
"No wonder the divine bone can't affect you. The last god has always wanted to take action against you."
Ji Chu laughed at himself:
"Looking at it this way, my death in my previous life was not unjust."
"The Last God is worthy of being the Last God. With one move, he can not only kill me, but also make you possessed by the devil. He can also interfere with my memory, causing me to become alienated from you in my second life, and he might even kill you."
She sighed, reached out her hand in the darkness and groped on the ground, and touched the dagger she had thrown away.
He picked it up, turned it towards himself, and whispered:
"I really hate myself..."
Suddenly, someone grabbed my wrist tightly.
Meng Yuci didn't expect that she would want to hurt him right away, and his voice was filled with anger:
"What are you doing?"
Ji Chu spoke, his tone a little vague, as if he was extremely tired:
"I'm so stupid, Brother. I was so easily fooled by them. I still hate you... If I kill you, will it be considered as killing a god? The witches and shamans are also gods. Have we failed in this life again?"
In the darkness, she tried to maintain a calm tone, but a slight cry still came out from her breathing.
"I'm sorry to you, to Zhongli Bai, and to everyone who believed in me..."
"I clearly liked you, but because of my tampered memories, I hated you and even attacked you, nearly ruining something important."
"Brother, I'll return your sword—hmm..."
Before she could finish her words, something cold and soft suddenly covered her lips, blocking all her words.
The aura of the senior brother came over like an overwhelming force.
He pressed his lips against hers, his clear and cold voice being squeezed into a muffled whisper:
"Ji Chu, you really are..."
The rest of the words were swallowed up by his breathing and could not be heard clearly.
He bit her lips lightly, and while she was stunned, he quickly and decisively pried open her teeth and gnawed at her sanity.
She was completely unable to say anything else.
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