Chapter 61 Chapter 61 Is this your second life?
There was no need to hesitate now, Ji Chu acted decisively.
As he turned around, he drew his sword and stabbed the witch with his backhand.
The witch couldn't dodge in time and had half of her shoulder cut off by her.
Ji Chu took the opportunity to escape from her control, and the sword energy swept across. The many unjustly dead souls around him screamed, and the ghostly voices were shrill. They dodged in all directions, revealing a way to escape.
A dull roar came from the temple gate, like the helpless rage after losing the prey that was about to be caught.
Many little ghosts were frightened by this sound.
The witch looked grim.
The limbs that Ji Chu had chopped off turned into ghostly energy in mid-air, and then returned to her body in a flickering manner, fitting perfectly, as if they had never been injured.
It turned out to be a great ghost with extremely high cultivation level.
Then she took a few steps forward, pushed away the troublesome kid, and stared at Ji Chu's fleeing back, wishing she could tear a piece of her flesh off.
Ji Chu didn't dare to carry anything with him and ran out with his sword in hand.
The witch smiled grimly behind her, revealing a mouthful of gaping teeth:
"Hahahaha...it turns out I'm so blind that I let a monk sneak in."
"The City of the Dead is not a place where you can come and go as you please!"
In her hand emerged a staff as tall as a man, with a skull hanging on the top.
The stick hit the ground hard, kicking up a cloud of dust.
"You rude boy! I, an old woman, have practiced for many years, and today I will teach you, such a daring youngster, how to respect your elders!"
Then she turned the stick, making the skeleton's eyes stare at the direction where Ji Chu fled, and said in a hoarse voice:
"Kill her for me."
A dark red mist spewed out of the skeleton's mouth and rushed straight towards Ji Chu's back.
Ji Chu dodged several wisps of mist, turned around and blocked with his sword, but was knocked back half a step.
Such a strong demonic energy.
After just one fight, she knew that her strength was probably inferior to that of the other party.
No one knew what this ghost had eaten, but it had been hiding in the territory of the City of the Dead, and had actually transformed itself into a half-demon.
The witch missed her attack, laughed, and stomped her stick again. The skull hanging on it instantly turned into a large number of identical skulls.
Many skulls opened their mouths at the same time, and more dark red mist spewed out from their eyes and mouths, surrounding Ji Chu from all directions.
The mist condensed into a sharp tip in mid-air, flashing a black, red, and bloodthirsty light, and came like an arrow through the air.
Ji Chu turned around and ran.
She specialized in running among the many ghosts, trying to hide herself by using objects on the street.
But the evil spirits of the witch were not as rigid as an arrow shot from a bow, but moved flexibly left and right, not even letting go of ghosts wherever it passed. It absorbed the ghost energy and condensed it into even more terrifying evil spirits, which always fell firmly behind her.
Ji Chu soon realized that this was not a solution.
Because she couldn't escape from the City of the Dead due to the help of Du Mingfen, she would run out of energy sooner or later.
The sound transmission jade sounded again.
Zhongli Bai's voice came out, intermittently and no one knew what he was saying.
Ji Chu simply interrupted him:
"I'm being hunted now, what should I do?"
The other party must have heard what she said. The voice transmission jade continued to light up, and there was a whisper from the other side, which sounded like he was telling fortunes.
Ji Chu was almost running around the City of the Dead.
The dark red demonic energy behind her was like countless ribbons with long tails, always following her.
Ji Chu tried to chop it with the Xunzhen Sword, but it didn't work at all.
After a piece is cut off, it will automatically continue again, like a cloud that cannot be crushed.
Zhongli Bai finally responded.
He must have realized that there was something wrong with Ji Chu's sound transmission jade, and his answer was very concise:
"Run to the temple!"
Ji Chu turned around decisively without saying a word.
The demonic energy behind her also drew a semicircle in the air and followed closely behind.
Several ghosts that were entangled by the evil spirit screamed "Ah" and turned into ashes along with a junk truck next to them.
While the sound transmission jade was stable, Ji Chu asked as he ran:
"I haven't asked you yet, why are you holding Xu Ying's sound transmission jade? Where are they?"
“That’s what happened.”
Zhongli Bai imitated Xu Ying's tone:
"Fuck! Of course we have to go! Why not? Are we going to wait for him to destroy the Soul Lamp and then frame us?"
"That's right. It's said that Kong Huiduan wants to pin the blame for the lost Soul Gathering Lamp on you. So Chen Wu went back to report to the sect, and I'm responsible for rescuing you."
"You're coming to save me?"
Ji Chu nimbly dodged an attack and said:
"Okay...are they okay? Nothing happened?"
Zhongli Bai heard this and said:
"Don't worry. I've already helped them stop Kong Huiduan. You don't know how chaotic the situation was back then. Luckily I arrived in time and knocked him out with my compass, preventing him from escaping with the Soul-Gathering Lantern."
He couldn't help asking:
"The gossip in your great sect is truly fascinating. This disciple doesn't want to save Master's Wife. Could it be that he has a possessive desire for Master? This is truly fascinating..."
Ji Chu didn't say anything, the temple was already right in front of him.
The witch was still standing at the door of the temple, mocking her behavior of coming here on her own initiative. She turned the wooden stick and the skull locked onto Ji Chu again.
Ji Chu thought to himself, "Kong Huiduan seems to really care about which disciple Chen Ke treats better. Is she thinking too much, or not enough?" He took out a few talismans from his storage bag, stepped on a cart, and flew into the air, then smashed forward from mid-air.
"A trifle."
The witch smiled sinisterly, stomped on the wooden stick, and a ghost fire spurted out of the skull's mouth and rushed straight towards the talisman in the air.
The edges of several talismans were burned by ghost fire and began to turn black and curl, seeming to have lost their effectiveness.
Instead, Ji Chu walked forward towards the flames, as if he was not worried at all about being burned by the ghost fire.
Seeing this, the witch thought she was crazy and laughed, "Hmph," and said:
"You ignorant youngster, how dare you come here and die?"
The skull's eyes were wide open, and the dark red evil spirit and ghost fire surrounded Ji Chu from the front and back, leaving her with nowhere to escape.
Ji Chu held the hilt of the sword with both hands. Instead of dodging the two attacks, he swung the sword down, splitting the burning talisman in the air into two halves.
The yellow talisman paper split diagonally in the middle, and the red words painted with cinnabar on it were also cut in half.
Just when the witch was feeling proud, Ji Chu suddenly disappeared from mid-air.
At the same time, the two attacks, one in front and one behind, lost their target and went straight through the cracks in the talisman paper. The ghost fire and the dark red ghost energy collided head-on, bursting out with a huge impact force.
The talisman paper that was split in half by Ji Chu's sword flew up and down, and some were even blown by the wind and stuck to the face of the skull.
The witch was knocked to the ground by the huge impact, and her bloated body hit the temple door with a loud bang.
She was furious:
"Search! This monk must be captured and torn into pieces!"
At the witch's command, the City of the Dead instantly became like a half-exploded frying pan, with ghosts whizzing past, ghost energy overflowing, and demonic energy lingering in every corner of the City of the Dead like a tumor attached to the bones.
Only the temple was still pitch black and very quiet.
Ji Chu stood in the darkness, looked down at the corner of the "teleportation talisman" in his hand, and breathed slightly.
It was such a limit, she almost couldn't teleport away and was crushed into pieces by the ghost energy.
The sound transmission jade emitted a faint light, and Zhongli Bai's voice was particularly clear in the empty temple. It was still an exaggerated flattery:
"Use the opponent's force to counterattack, Ji Chu, you are so smart!"
"Thank you for the compliment."
Ji Chu asked:
"Didn't you say the demon wanted to eat me? Why did you let me into the temple again?"
Zhongli Baidao:
"You should have run, but I just read your fortune. Running away is a dead end. Entering the temple is the best way to escape death!"
He said "Oh" and added:
"In my previous life, I died too quickly, and I wasn't able to show you my divination skills. But you're right to trust me! The divination skills passed down by our sect are of the highest quality. I calculated your identity as the savior..."
Ji Chu leaned against the wall, listening to him bragging while bending over and gasping for breath.
I ran too fast just now and my spiritual power is almost exhausted. This place is full of demonic energy and ghost energy, and I can't replenish it at all.
Extreme escape is really not something a human can do...
Ever since she entered the temple, the extremely strong smell of blood in the air made her a little breathless, and even the place in her heart where she had been stabbed began to hurt.
The temple was pitch black, and one could vaguely see a huge pool in the center.
She stood near the gate, patting her chest to slow her breathing, while rummaging through the storage bag given to her by her senior brother, trying to find a pill to replenish her spiritual power.
Zhongli Bai hesitated for a while and asked her hesitantly:
"Ji Chu, I wanted to ask you just now, why do you trust me so much? I asked you to enter the temple, and you went in immediately..."
He was a little embarrassed:
"Seriously, we haven't even met in this life..."
This is a bit sticky.
Ji Chu frowned and said seriously:
"If you want me to believe you, then tell me honestly: What exactly is going on with the demons in the City of the Dead? Why did you say before that I couldn't come in?"
Zhongli Bai didn't dare to fool her anymore, and spilled the beans:
"Do you remember what happened before you died in your previous life? The Demon King's golden eye... Yes, I suspect it was actually the eye of the Last God... The Protoss are certainly extinct, but the Last God is a little different... Well, just think of it as the embodiment of the Protoss' obsession..."
"...The divination skills inherited from our sect are actually somewhat related to the Last God. The specific explanation is unclear, but the meaning is that anything I can calculate, the Last God can also calculate..."
"Ji Chu, it knows you are a special person, and it also knows you will kill it..."
As he spoke, Zhongli Bai felt a little guilty and couldn't help but mutter:
"Oh, I didn't say it before, mainly because I didn't know how to start."
"The Last God is a demon, and you are destined to kill God. I really don't know how to tell you!"
Ji Chu didn't reply.
Zhongli Xiaobai also felt that this was not a proper thing to do. He scratched his head for a while and asked the sound transmission jade:
"Ji Chu, are you angry?"
Still no answer.
He was so anxious that he was spinning around in circles:
"I really didn't mean to harm you. You know, we fortune tellers have to bear the risk of prying into destiny. The secrets of heaven cannot be revealed. It's not that easy to explain clearly. I could only make a rough guess before. It wasn't until you merged with the power of the divine bone at the Immortal Questioning Conference that I was completely certain..."
The other end of the sound transmission jade was still quiet.
Zhongli Bai's master's sect has always been extremely poor, so naturally they cannot afford high-level magical tools like the Sound Transmission Jade.
He had no idea whether Ji Chu was angry and turned off the sound transmission jade, or whether there was something wrong with her sound transmission jade, or whether he had accidentally broken the magic weapon. He was extremely anxious for a moment.
At the same time, in the temple of the City of the Dead.
Ji Chu was lifted up by a bloody ghost hand, strangled by the neck.
The sound transmission jade fell to the ground.
Zhongli Bai's voice came out intermittently.
"That's weird, is it broken? It's still on, so it shouldn't be broken, right?"
"The magical instruments of a large sect must be very expensive. Oh my god, how am I supposed to compensate for them?"
"Ji Chu, can you hear me?"
"Ji Chu, don't be angry, I'll kneel down for you, okay?"
"Ji Chu?"
“…”
Ji Chu was strangled so hard that he couldn't make any sound. He stretched out his hand in vain, trying to touch the sound transmission jade on the ground.
The ghost claws that were pinching her neck slowly tightened their fingers, not giving her any chance to breathe.
A deep voice sounded from the void, like a huge bell ringing in her ears. For a moment, she couldn't even tell whether this voice was real or an illusion before her soul was torn apart.
"In the first life, I will slay demons; in the second, I will slay gods."
"Tell me, is this your second life?"
-----------------------
Author's words: Zhongli Bai (shaking phone): It's over, I'm poor and I broke the phone I borrowed, how can I compensate for this? [bursts into tears]
Ji Chu (rolling his eyes after being pinched): [Cracked]
Continue read on readnovelmtl.com