Chapter 43 Chapter 43 Junior Sister, You Are So Brave
Taoshu danced in front of Ji Chu for a while, but found that she had no reaction at all, and gradually he could not dance anymore.
For the first time, the evil creature hiding in the dark doubted its ability to spy on people's hearts.
Seeing that Ji Chu never took the bait, and even the way she looked at the peach tree had gradually turned into dead fish eyes, it was obvious that her mind had long been wandering in space, and no matter how it performed, it was useless.
The evil creature couldn't help but feel angry, evil energy surged up, and its breathing became heavier, causing the negative energy in the formation to flow.
At this moment, Ji Chu, who had been distracted, suddenly turned his head, his eyes as bright as stars, staring straight at the direction where the evil spirit came from the depths of the darkness.
"I found you."
She whispered, summoned her long sword, and suddenly slashed a sword light forward, splitting the peach tree in half.
She did not slash her sword to vent her anger, nor did she do so out of fear or panic. Her spiritual power was pure and clean. After splitting the illusion, she did not stop, but went straight to a deeper level, splitting a hole in the fog that had been covering the formation.
The spiritual power broke through the fog, and a small path sloping downward appeared in front of him.
The road surface was damp and vaporous, with irregular shapes, as if something soft and wet was sliding across the ground.
Ji Chu suppressed his disgusted expression, stepped forward, and stepped on a sticky liquid substance on the ground.
The further down I went, the more I felt the heavy breathing coming from all directions, like a heavy wind rising and falling, and even the walls on both sides seemed to be shaking.
There was more and more sticky stuff on the ground. Stepping on it felt like stepping into a swamp. You could feel obvious resistance when you lifted your legs.
Although it was disgusting, it also showed that she was indeed getting closer and closer to that evil creature.
Ji Chu gripped the sword tightly in his hand and took more cautious steps.
However, after taking a few steps, she felt an extremely strong evil aura surging towards her, as if trying to stop her steps.
Her vision was once again obscured by fog, and the hoarse and mocking howls of ghosts and wolves were repeated one after another, mixed with countless whispers that drifted from far to near, almost as if speaking into her ears.
The ghostly cry could hardly form coherent sentences, but it contained resentment and evil thoughts that could not be ignored. It easily aroused people's emotions, and Ji Chu felt very irritated when he heard it.
The urge to cut something to vent my anger resurfaced.
So annoying...
So noisy...
She stopped, her hand holding the sword trembling slightly, trying her best to fight the irritation in her heart.
The sticky liquid on the ground gradually became more and deeper, almost submerging her calves, as if it wanted to take the opportunity to pull her completely into the bottomless abyss.
Ji Chu frowned, feeling a bit angry.
After a moment's hesitation, the illusion she had split apart seized the opportunity to reappear. The peach tree in front of her swayed a few times and then twisted into a human shape.
First, he transformed into Chen Ke. When he learned that her meridians were damaged and she couldn't practice cultivation, he coldly said, "I already knew about her injury. This is very good. It can completely grind away her ambition."
He then transformed into Xue Xianchen, killed Xu Ying and Jiang Chengxu in front of her, and gave her a wicked smile: "A substitute, and you still want to protect others? How ridiculous."
Then the scene changed again, and it turned out to be her childhood, holding her parents' hands, and a monster suddenly attacked, separating life and death...
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Ji Chu's expression was no longer as calm as it was at the beginning. Uncontrollable anger spread from her heart, and the sword trembled with her wrist.
These old things that had always been buried deep in her heart were turned out one by one, intensively attacking her reason and trying to provoke her anger.
The spiritual energy around her began to stir.
"Kill them."
A voice echoed in her mind, her own.
"Kill them and destroy the world of cultivation! Even if they become demons, so what? They are the ones who have wronged you! It's the world of cultivation that failed to judge people and allowed them to toy with and deceive you!"
But it didn't sound like her tone.
Ji Chu felt vaguely confused.
She believed that she was not a decisive person, nor did she have the domineering attitude of "I would rather let the world down than let the world let me down". Even if she hated Chen Ke and Xue Xianchen, could this hatred support her to destroy the world of cultivation?
Is this really her emotion?
As if sensing her hesitation, the jade book card slowly lit up.
The place where the character "人" was engraved gradually became hazy and chaotic, and a faint character "魆" sank under the hazy words like a bright red curse, and it seemed that it could float up at any time and be completely completed.
Ji Chu's eyes were illuminated by the light, and he lowered his head to look at the jade book card in his hand.
When she saw the changing handwriting, her first reaction was panic, and then she felt a bit helpless as she waited for the trial.
Did she have evil thoughts?
Is she... no longer a human being?
The voice in her ears that kept shouting "murderous devil" made it impossible for her to think quietly.
She was so annoyed that she even noticed the jade book card in her hand was starting to bother her.
Why?
He deliberately used illusions to anger her, but then came to judge her mistakes!
She hasn't done anything yet, why should she wait for trial!
Why does the sect use this kind of thing to determine victory or defeat!
She gritted her teeth and raised her hand to smash the jade book card directly.
However, as soon as this thought came to her mind, the ghostly voices buzzing in her ears turned into sharp mockery:
"Hehehe... It's really funny to deceive yourself. You have evil thoughts and even made a judgment on the sect's magic weapon. Are you still afraid to face it?"
Ji Chu's five fingers holding the jade book card gradually tightened, but he was unable to smash it out directly. The edge of the jade book card hurt his fingertips.
She then thought about putting the jade book card away. If the result could not be changed, then she was not allowed to escape and out of sight, out of mind.
Even though she thought so, the messy words seemed to have some kind of magic that always attracted her attention.
Therefore, she still held the jade book card, her eyes uncontrollably fixed on the vaguely visible character "人", which almost made her dizzy.
But the more she feared that she would turn into a "魆", the more the bright red "魆" seemed to go against her, speeding up its rise from the bottom, ready to completely erase the "人" character at any time.
Ji Chu's breathing began to become unstable.
At this moment, a bony hand suddenly stretched out from the side and firmly grasped her wrist.
Only then did Ji Chu realize that his hands were shaking like a sieve.
Before she could come to her senses, the palm holding the jade book card suddenly felt empty - the jade book card was taken away.
The bright red word flashed before her, but was blocked by the arm of the person who came. In the end, she didn't know whether it completely covered the word "人".
Ji Chu's gaze followed the direction in which the jade book card was taken away and moved towards the person in front of him:
"Senior Brother?"
Meng Yuci was still pretending to be "Yang Nianzhi". He glanced at her and saw that although she looked tired, fortunately she was not injured. Then he said "hmm" and ordered:
"You leave here first."
"Why?"
Ji Chu subconsciously retorted:
"There's an evil hidden in here, and I haven't even seen where the treasure that holds the formation is lost. Why should I leave?"
Meng Yuci looked at her expressionlessly and asked calmly:
"Why do you say that?"
"I……"
Ji Chu felt short of breath as soon as he opened his mouth.
She knew that she had been careless for a moment and had almost fallen into the trap of the evil creature.
But she didn't want to leave like this.
Then she said:
"I'm on guard now. I'll be careful. The situation just now will never happen again!"
"Besides, Xu Ying and Jiang Chengxu are both here, and there are traces of demonic energy on it. How can I leave alone? I must get rid of this evil thing!"
Meng Yuci frowned when he heard this:
"Two more?"
He no longer listened to Ji Chu's nonsense, and took her arm with one hand, and easily carried her towards the exit, saying:
"Don't worry about them, I'll take care of it."
Originally, when his senior brother appeared, Ji Chu felt relieved. But after hearing what he said, Ji Chu suddenly realized: Senior brother is not in the same group with them here!
Therefore, what Meng Yuci said to Ji Chu meant:
After he finds Xu Ying and Jiang Chengxu, he will eliminate all three of them at once.
Ji Chu cried out in his heart that something was wrong.
She shut up and let her senior brother half-push, half-carry her back. Her eyes fell on his other hand holding her jade book card...
Just when Meng Yuci was wondering why she suddenly behaved well, the person in his hand started to make trouble.
She knew she couldn't beat her senior brother, so she attacked with all her strength, directly climbing up his arm and crawling on him like a monkey. No one could stop her, she was like a demon.
Perhaps his obsession with not wanting to be eliminated was too strong, Ji Chu actually performed a miracle with his great strength and slammed his senior brother into the wall behind him.
In order to prevent her senior brother from fighting back and pushing her away, Ji Chu simply hung on him with all four limbs.
With one hand tightly grasping his shoulder, almost pulling his collar open, he used the other hand to pry open his fingers, trying to snatch the jade book card away.
Because of the action of hanging in the air on him, her whole body was pressed very close to him, and the soft touch was like an impenetrable cloud, locking him between the cloud and the wall.
Meng Yuci's breathing paused for a moment as she moved.
As if by magic, he changed back to his original appearance.
Yang Nianzhi was already tall enough, but Meng Yuci was a few inches taller than him, with a thin but powerful layer of muscle covering his waist.
Ji Chu only felt that he was being carried up a few inches like a bag hanging on a tree trunk, and the place where he had originally been climbing for balance suddenly became hard and strong - he could no longer hold on.
She nearly fell.
Meng Yuci subconsciously reached out to hold her waist, and the feeling of the slender, boneless skin against the inside of his palm startled him.
This moment of distraction gave Ji Chu the opportunity to pull out his jade book card.
Her plan succeeded, and she did not want to fight any longer. She decisively jumped off her senior brother and turned around to escape.
Unexpectedly, Meng Yuci reacted and quickly grabbed her wrist holding the jade book card.
With a push and a squeeze, she was pinned against the wall.
The tip of Ji Chu's nose touched the wall, and his right hand was held behind his back by his senior brother. The jade book card he had just obtained turned around and returned to his senior brother's hand.
She closed her eyes in frustration, realizing that the situation was not looking good.
"Junior sister...you are so brave."
Meng Yuci grabbed her shoulders and turned her over. Her thin eyelids were half-closed, and her narrow and sharp double eyelids were half-covered and half-exposed, with slender and sharp ends. She looked particularly fierce when looking down at people from above.
His voice was a little low, and he spoke these words word by word, obviously angry.
The two words "Junior Sister" seemed to have been twisted around on the tip of her teeth before being squeezed out, giving off a strong sense of oppression.
Ji Chu also knew that what he was doing was simply courting death.
...but it's better than being eliminated directly.
So she stiffened her neck:
"Brother, you were the one who threatened me first! I had no choice but to do this!"
Meng Yuci snorted coldly.
Thinking of her skillful and flexible movements just now, climbing on him like a monkey, it was simply...
But he was just a child, with a simple mind and casual words and deeds, so he didn't even know how to get angry.
But in the end, I can't let her off so easily.
Ji Chu, this naughty child, is always getting more than she deserves. She looks well-behaved and cute, but in fact, she is stubborn and bold. If he lets her off easily today, she will take advantage of him tomorrow.
It would be fine if it was just directed at him, but if we meet someone with ulterior motives, we might get into trouble.
So he said with a cold face and expressionless face:
"It seems that I was too easy to talk to in the past, which made you more lawless."
Ji Chu: Brother, your expression is so scary!
Before she could think of a way to escape, Meng Yuci took a step forward. His tall figure squeezed her completely into the narrow gap between himself and the wall. He stared down at her with a sullen face.
In the past, when he was with Ji Chu, he would always deliberately restrain his aura, like a piece of cool but not cold ice, and he would advance and retreat appropriately.
At this moment, the coldness around him was completely radiating outward, like a half-unsheathed sharp blade. Ji Chu obviously felt uncomfortable.
Only now did she realize that she was really risking her life. How could she become so ruthless and forget about feelings after becoming familiar with her senior brother, and completely forget the principle of "being polite and keeping a distance".
What if he gets so angry that he snaps her jade book card? Then she’s doomed!
I was impulsive!
The expression on Ji Chu's face changed from righteous and unyielding to guilty and fearful.
Then she slid down to her knees:
"I was wrong, Senior Brother. I really don't want to be eliminated. Please be merciful and return the Jade Book Card to me..."
It's the same trick again.
Does he look like someone who would fall for this trick?
Facing her pitiful display of weakness, Meng Yuci lowered his eyes and spoke softly:
"You stretch out your hand, and I'll give it to you."
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The author has something to say: My senior brother at the beginning said: I can’t let Ji Chu, this naughty kid, get ahead of me.
Later senior brother: I am willing to marry junior sister, even if she rides on my head every day [glasses]
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