Chapter 42 Chapter 42 The weather is getting cold, it’s time to get Xue Xianchen out…
Nonsense! If you don't run, are you waiting to be eliminated by you, my senior brother?
Ji Chu thought.
But she didn't dare to say it directly, and only said it in a tactful way:
"Brother, this is the Immortal Questioning Conference, I still want to win."
Meng Yuci said calmly:
"You can't win."
Ji Chu's head was filled with blood: "..."
here we go again!
here we go again!
He did the same thing last time when he burned the witch to worship the gods!
Why does he say she can't win!
The more Ji Chu thought about it, the angrier he became. He said angrily:
"You have no vision! You are my senior brother, how can you boost others' ambitions and destroy my prestige!"
It was clear that before the competition started, he and his master were still encouraging her, but now they changed their tune.
Did he think her cultivation was too low to defeat others?
"I don't want to talk to you anymore!"
Ji Chu snorted, pulled out his sword from the bedside, kicked the door open angrily and rushed out.
Meng Yuci was left with a silent sigh.
As soon as he arrived in the yard, the exaggerated anger on Ji Chu's face disappeared instantly.
She looked back like a thief, and when she saw no one was chasing her, she breathed a sigh of relief.
He carefully took out his jade book card and took a look. It still showed his identity as a "human", so he was completely relieved.
Fortunately, she was smart and ran away under the pretext of being angry.
Otherwise, it would be too dangerous to stay with my senior brother, an "executioner" who could crush the Jade Book Plate at any time.
Ji Chu complained in his heart and touched his waist unconsciously.
Then she suddenly realized that the purse containing the chess pieces that she had been hanging around her waist was missing!
She tilted her head, carefully recalling her itinerary, making sure she hadn't left her purse anywhere.
Could it be that someone took it away?
Ji Chu hit her head with a hammer, and the scene of Xue Xianchen hugging her emerged in her mind.
It can't be...
She frowned, and as she was guessing, she couldn't help but think of her senior brother.
Her senior brother's words reminded her.
In his previous life, Xue Xianchen ranked among the top three and successfully saw the divine bones, which led to a series of events afterwards.
Although the winner this time cannot pay homage to the divine bones, if the paths of past and present lives were the same, perhaps Xue Xianchen would win.
To avoid any more trouble, it is better to eliminate this demon directly.
Ji Chu nodded, thinking that his idea was perfect.
It was already pitch black outside, another night.
After knowing the truth about Xu, every night became a gladiatorial arena where monks killed each other. She could no longer walk peacefully under the cover of night and only wanted to speed up and resolve the Disha Soul-Locking Formation as soon as possible.
Xu Ying was waiting for her at Zhao's house.
"How's it going? Did you find out anything about the heirloom?"
Xu Ying was very concerned.
"No."
Ji Chu shook his head.
Xu Ying worries:
"Why? Did he attack you? Or is he also a shrew and refuses to tell you?"
“Neither.”
Ji Chu still shook his head and said confidently:
"I forgot to ask."
Xu Ying: “…”
Ji Chu continued:
"He's not Xu, but he's much scarier than Xu! He's the executioner, we must stay away from him!"
Xu Ying was confused: "Executioner?"
She didn't know what she thought of, and suddenly realized:
"Is he a sword cultivator?"
Ji Chu: “…”
She interrupted Xu Ying's wild thoughts:
"It doesn't matter. I have a new idea now."
"Then I thought, if you want to find something, you have to know what it looks like first, right?"
Xu Ying: "You mean..."
Ji Chu nodded:
"We've been searching everywhere like headless flies, but no one knows what the treasure looks like. If this thing is really related to the treasure that supports the Earthly Evil Soul Locking Formation, why not go down and take a look?"
"That's a coincidence!"
After hearing this, Xu Ying clasped her hands together and made a crisp sound of clapping:
"Jiang Chengxu had the same idea as you. He went to Huaiyuan to check out the area before it got dark."
"Is he alone?"
Ji Chu couldn't help but worry:
"But he is Xu, what if he is targeted by others?"
Xu Ying: "What could possibly happen to him? We should just go over there now."
In fact, she knew what Jiang Chengxu was worried about.
Both of them have turned into ghosts and may be eliminated at any time.
Every night lived is one less night. Time is running out. It will be dangerous for Ji Chu to act alone. They must make more contributions before being eliminated.
Perhaps in the eyes of others, if you lose the Asking Immortals Conference, you lose. At most, it will be embarrassing and you won’t get any rewards. In fact, it’s nothing.
But as friends, they could naturally see that Ji Chu cared about the Questioning Immortal Conference.
Ji Chu doesn't want to lose.
Then what reason do she and Jiang Chengxu have to hold back?
The more Xu Ying thought about it, the more excited she became. After a surge of passion in her head, she couldn't help but pat Ji Chu's shoulder and said in a shocking voice:
"The hope of the whole village!"
Ji Chu: “?”
She looked at Xu Ying's extremely excited expression and was confused for a moment, so she could only say:
"Then shall we...go over now?"
Xu Ying seemed to be injected with chicken blood, and said excitedly: "Yeah!"
He looked excited as if he was ready to go to the battlefield.
Ji Chu looked at Xu Ying worriedly, afraid that she had gone crazy because of the pressure of being eliminated.
So she walked along and said:
"Actually, I've thought of a way to save my life. If you don't want to gamble tonight, we can just try it..."
"Really?"
Hearing her say this, Xu Ying was excited at first, but before she could ask in detail "what trump card", she suddenly realized something was wrong.
The two had already reached Huaiyuan, but there was no sign of Jiang Chengxu in sight.
The locust tree garden was quiet, with only a flickering light near the locust tree, which was the afterglow of the formation.
The ghost claws were crawling on the ground in a ferocious manner, with the knuckles bent, bloodstains spurting out, and the tips firmly clasped on the ground, as if they were strangling themselves after an unsuccessful chase, and they were already dead.
This scene is really a bit scary.
Ji Chu and Xu Ying felt a sinking feeling in their hearts and ran forward quickly.
Above the most hideous ghost claw, a thick black fog was particularly glaring, like a sharp blade, nailing the ghost claw to the ground.
Demonic energy!
"There's a demon here?!"
Xu Ying suddenly became anxious: "Then Jiang Chengxu——"
"Don't worry, there's no blood here, he should be fine."
Ji Chu comforted.
After saying that, she squatted beside the ghost claw and looked at the traces of demonic energy on it while suppressing her nausea.
The demonic energy was very strong, and it could kill the ghost claw that the three of them could not get rid of in one blow. The person who did it must not be an ordinary monster.
Coincidentally, she actually knew a demon.
Xu Ying also knew that it was useless to be anxious, so she circled around the light spot of the formation for a few times, then suddenly bent down and picked up a half-broken pendant.
"This is the sword mark of Lingjun Sword!"
Lingjun is Jiang Chengxu's sword.
Without waiting for Ji Chu to ask, Xu Ying said angrily:
"I won't mistake his sword! Look here, Lingjun is much wider and heavier than ordinary swords. The weight of the sword has not yet arrived, so the remaining half of the pendant is full of cracks and gaps from being crushed!"
Ji Chu took the pendant and it was exactly as Xu Ying said.
She turned the pendant over and saw the character "Xue" broken into half.
"Xu Ying, do you still remember the life-saving method I told you about?"
She looked at Xu Ying and said softly:
"The weather is getting cold. It's time to get Xue Xianchen out."
*
Jiang Chengxu didn't expect that he would run into a demon directly.
This monster was obviously coming for the Earthly Evil Soul-Locking Formation. If there really was something down there, it must not fall into the monster's hands.
Fortunately, there was another cultivator present, so he cooperated with him and took advantage of the time when the formation was activated to jump in behind the demon.
But he underestimated the danger here. As soon as he came in, he felt the evil energy coming over, which almost sucked him in.
The jade book card hidden in his arms seemed to be attracted by something, desperately pulling him towards a deeper place.
There must be something extremely terrifying locked in this Earthly Evil Soul-Locking Formation.
Jiang Chengxu knew that he was being reckless, so he quickly held the Jade Book in his hand with his spiritual power, put away his sword and sat in meditation on the spot, while silently chanting the Heart Purification Mantra to calm his mind.
Suddenly, a voice appeared in his mind:
"Since I have become a ghost, how can this heart-clearing mantra clear my mind?"
He stared at the jade book in his hand: "I am not Xu."
"You're not?"
The voice asked back, sneering:
"You harbor evil thoughts, and you can't even deceive yourself. You've fallen into a demonic state."
Jiang Chengxu wanted to argue.
However, just as he was about to speak, he looked up and saw a figure covered in blood.
It was Xu Ying!
"Why are you trying to kill me?"
The "Xu Ying" in front of him was wearing a bright red wedding dress, and was as stunning as he had imagined.
However, at this moment, the other party's exceptionally beautiful eyes were filled with vicious hatred, and a long sword pierced his chest, and blood was dripping:
"I trusted you so much! But you fell from grace and became a demon, and you killed me!"
"I don't……"
Even though he knew that Xu Yinglai in front of him was strange, when Jiang Chengxu saw the bloody Lingjun Sword, his heart still skipped a beat and he subconsciously felt panic.
No……
How could he kill Xu Ying?
As if knowing what he was thinking, the "Xu Ying" in front of him suppressed her hatred and walked towards him step by step. The fragrance of the other person mixed with blood entered his seven orifices.
"I know you don't want me to marry someone else. I'm wearing this wedding dress for you..."
Xu Ying smiled charmingly, her voice like a solitary orchid in a valley, and she raised her hand to touch his cheek, her fingertips cold and bloody, as if she was close yet distant:
"Do I look good?"
Jiang Chengxu's forehead was covered in cold sweat, his hand holding the jade book card was shaking constantly, and he clenched his teeth and dared not make a sound.
*
Ji Chu jumped off the formation and stood there looking around. There was not even a sound of breathing around him, let alone any trace of Xu Ying.
Then she realized that although she and Xu Ying came from the same place, they were assigned to different positions.
This kind of random teleportation formation is not uncommon. Ji Chu was not too panicked, but began to look around.
It was dark, eerie, and filled with an extremely strong evil aura.
It seemed as if some huge monster was lurking in the darkness, and one could glimpse the dark side of her heart.
When Ji Chu realized that he was being spied on by the evil creature, he knew that he should calm down and defend himself, but he couldn't help but think:
What would be her most vicious and shameful thought at this moment?
Should he chop down the devil Xue Xianchen with a sword, or rush back to the sect, slap Chen Ke in the face and curse "you xx"? He wouldn't use despicable means to eliminate other disciples and then laugh out loud while holding the first place prize, right?
The more Ji Chu thought about it, the harder it was to guess the answer.
So she stopped daydreaming and waited for the evil creature to reveal the answer to her.
But who would have thought that none of those extremely dark thoughts that she thought should have appeared.
The thing in front of me was sprouting branches and fragrant. It turned out to be the peach tree in my senior brother’s yard!
“…”
Ji Chu felt that he might have a serious illness.
Is she really such a petty, calculative, and incompetent person?
Facing a powerful enemy, she was reborn, but her mind was filled with hatred for being beaten by Taozhi.
Or maybe... the truth is that she holds a grudge against her senior brother, but is so cowardly that she doesn't even dare to dream big, and only dares to chop down a tree for a small revenge?
This is too cowardly!
The peach tree in front of her was in full bloom, and every bud seemed to be shouting at her:
"Don't you hate me? Come and chop me!"
Ji Chu just held his chin, fell into deep doubt about himself, and had no intention of drawing his sword.
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The author has something to say: Villain: (Gunara, the Dark God) Look, I am arousing your evil thoughts!
Ji Chu: (Not taking the bait at all and questioning life) My evil thoughts are too bad (disgusted)! Am I actually a coward?
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