Chapter 52 Chapter 52 After all, I was taught by you, my senior brother...
Meng Yuci sent Ji Chu back to the gate of the yard.
Ji Chu overworked his brain and was frightened by nightmares. As soon as he returned to a familiar place, he couldn't help but want to lie down and rest.
Unexpectedly, just as she said goodbye to her senior brother and was about to push the door open, she was suddenly grabbed by the arm and pulled back by her senior brother.
As Meng Yuci turned sideways and protected Ji Chu in his arms, invisible sword energy swept across in an instant.
The gate of the courtyard was shaken back and forth by the sword energy, making a slight "creaking" sound.
The spiritual power hidden in the yard was also forced to appear by his sword energy, and turned into a spiritual crane, spreading its wings and trying to retreat.
Ji Chu: “?”
She vaguely heard the cry of a crane and suspected that she was hallucinating.
But when she wanted to look back, her senior brother quickly pressed her head against him, not allowing her to look back.
So Ji Chu could only rest his chin on his senior brother's chest and look up to ask him:
"Brother, what's wrong?"
Meng Yuci shifted his gaze away from Ling He, knowing that this was his master's spy. All the murderous intent in his body disappeared, but he still stared at Ling He.
Seeing that he would no longer attack, the crane lowered its wings, opened its long beak and called silently twice, then took a step with its slender legs and hid itself between the courtyard walls again.
Meng Yuci then lowered his eyes and looked at the furry head resting against his chest. He ran his long fingers through her hair and pushed down a few standing strands.
Then he suddenly said:
"Ji Chu, do you want to...get a sword?"
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Ji Chu followed Meng Yuci and walked down the steps of the Secret Treasure Pavilion until he reached the bottom floor.
Logically speaking, as the number of floors increases, the stored treasures should become rarer and more precious.
However, when she stood in the middle of the sixth floor, she found that the surroundings were empty and there was no trace of any treasure at all.
She couldn't help but look at Meng Yuci:
"Brother, didn't you say you would take me to find my natal sword? But there's no sword here?"
Senior brother doesn’t look like the kind of person who would play tricks on her, right?
But why didn't he let her go back to sleep in the middle of the night, but brought her to stand in this open space? What did that mean?
Ji Chu thought.
"Don't be impatient."
Meng Yuci glanced at her, raised his hand and drew a talisman in the air.
Light spots of light emerged from the ground, floating and moving, extending outward from where the two people were standing, the spots forming lines, and the lines circling, gradually covering the entire sixth floor.
Ji Chu and his senior brother stood in the middle, as if they were sealed in a huge, glowing box.
Countless points of light floated and moved in front of her, like stars and fireflies.
Ji Chu had never seen the world, and the only thing she could think of in a similar situation was the "Universal Compass" at the Immortal Questioning Conference.
"Are you going to teleport us to a small world?"
"no."
Meng Yuci shook his head slightly:
"The treasures here are not ordinary things. If you want to obtain one of them, you must first pass its test."
"test?"
Ji Chu was curious and couldn't help but stretch out a finger to poke one of the floating light spots.
But before she touched the light spot, another light spot swam over quickly, knocked the light spot that her fingertips were about to touch away, and then actively and slowly approached her.
Ji Chu was surprised:
"It moves!"
"Um."
Meng Yuci approached her, his eyes fixed on the light that was moving towards her, his expression gentle:
"It likes you very much."
Then he said, "Don't be afraid, I am with you."
"What's so scary about that?"
Ji Chu was puzzled and turned to look at his senior brother. He wanted to tease him again, "Senior brother, how do you know it likes me?"
Unexpectedly, the next moment, the light spot that had been moving slowly suddenly accelerated and hit her fingertips, then exploded into an even more scattered light, covering her head.
Ji Chu only felt his body shaking, and his whole body was sucked into somewhere.
When she steadied herself, she found herself standing in the middle of a grassy field.
The grass was green, and before her lay an endless sea of blue.
A breeze in the air brings the fragrance of grass and trees.
Ji Chu looked at the spring and warm scene in front of him, a little puzzled:
"Is this the test?"
A point of light floated in front of her—the same one that had bumped into her earlier—and circled around her before running forward.
Ji Chu subconsciously followed and took two steps, but the grass got caught on her skirt, making it difficult for her to move.
The light then stopped not far in front of her, as if waiting for her.
Ji Chu looked down at the grass stem that was hooking her, and reached out to tug at her skirt, but the grass leaves beside the hem of her skirt were like octopuses and could not be pulled open no matter what she did.
Ji Chu frowned, took a horse stance, and exerted force——
A green shadow flashed before her eyes, and the grass stem that was hooked on her was not thrown away. Instead, it grew rapidly with her movements, and in the blink of an eye it was half a person's height.
With a "puff" sound, the originally tender grass leaves turned into large and sharp knives, and the fabric of the skirt was cut off in a long piece by the "leaf knife".
If Ji Chu had not dodged in time, it would not be her skirt that was cut, but her legs.
Ji Chu was still frightened and realized that this place only looked beautiful but was actually full of dangers, so he didn't dare to act rashly again.
But she didn't move, and the floating ball of light refused to move.
The ball of light turned around, carrying a long tail composed of a string of halos, and circled around her after coming to her.
In an instant, the plant, which was already half a person's height, suddenly grew taller again and stood around Ji Chu like a towering tree.
Ji Chu was unable to dodge and was trapped in the center by the dense plants.
The tree trunks that formed a circle continued to expand, and the branches and leaves covered the sky, blocking all her escape routes, even the sky above her head.
Ji Chu: “…”
asphyxia.
She tried to push it out, but the growing plant was obviously not an ordinary grass. It was as hard as iron, and the spiritual power did not move it at all, not even leaving a mark.
The ball of light above his head was still spinning, catalyzing the growth of circles of plants, wrapping up layer by layer the person trapped in the center.
This time, there really wasn't even a sliver of space left for her.
Ji Chu pressed her hands against the tree trunk, trying to slow down the speed at which the trunk was pressing towards her.
But this obviously didn't work.
Unable to resist the power of "Spring Revival", she was forced to retract her arms, and could almost hear the creaking sound of her arm bones.
Seeing that the tree trunk was about to crush her to death, Ji Chu gritted her teeth and suddenly relaxed her strength, allowing the trunk and branches to approach and hit her face.
From a distance, it looked like Ji Chu had been completely swallowed up by the layers of plants.
Just when even the floating light spots thought she was going to give up, Ji Chu suddenly said lightly:
"I'm a professional at cutting down trees."
The next moment, the crown of the tree in the middle trembled violently, causing the surrounding trees to shake continuously.
Soon the tremor spread outward like ripples on water, and the treetops that blocked out the sun began to crack outward, as if someone had thrown a stone into the middle of a lake.
Ji Chu's sword energy suddenly rushed out from the point in the middle.
The branches are broken and the leaves are flying everywhere.
She actually broke the branches into swords and released sword energy with one hand. Although there was no blade, it had the shape of a sword, and she cut the middle circle of trees into a whole circle along the branches.
Then he stepped up the branches, put one foot on the highest tree trunk, and made a "lululu" gesture towards the light floating in the air.
Although his cultivation was not as strong as his senior brother's, he had learned 80% of his momentum of bending branches into swords and transforming thoughts into form.
Meng Yuci witnessed this scene and praised with a smile:
"good."
"Senior Brother?"
When Ji Chu heard this praise that seemed to be right next to him, he immediately put away his grimace, looked up into the void, and was filled with surprise:
"Are you praising me, brother?"
"It's me."
The senior brother's voice came from beside her, and should be very close to her, but Ji Chu looked around and didn't see anyone else except her.
I guess I can only watch this test and not participate. My senior brother must be watching her somewhere.
So Ji Chu said proudly:
"After all, I was taught by you, my senior brother, and I definitely won't let you down!"
She raised her head, patted her chest towards the void, her eyes sparkling:
"Brother, just watch me. I will definitely pass the test!"
Meng Yuci looked at her proud little cat-like face and replied with a smile:
"Well, I believe you."
*
It’s a bit early for Ji Chu to brag.
"Spring Birth" was just the beginning. Then, various monsters from "Summer Growth" beat her up, and the mutated plants from "Autumn Harvest" almost swallowed her and her "branch sword" in one bite.
During this period, the light spot that was said to "like her very much" had been floating above her head. Whenever he saw her "at ease", he would take the initiative to fly over and "add fuel to the fire", which made Ji Chu very angry.
She really didn't understand how her senior brother could tell that "it liked her".
It's obvious that he's hoping she fails!
Ji Chu angrily broke the "peanut" that was biting her waist and looked up into the distance.
The last level is "winter storage".
The heavy snow fell down and soon accumulated into a thick layer on the ground.
All I could see was a vast expanse of white. There were no plants, no crazy monsters, and no sign of that light that had been causing trouble.
Nothing.
Ji Chu could only hear the sound of his own breathing accompanied by the sound of the wind, which rolled through the gaps in the snow and finally became a strange tone echoing in his ears.
It's too quiet.
She started forward.
The fluffy snow was stepped on by her, making a "crunching" sound, and was soon covered by the new snow.
Looking back, the ground was still flat, without even a footprint.
After walking for a while, Ji Chu began to feel cold and wanted to eat hot pot.
She rubbed her hands.
Logically speaking, a monk shouldn't be so afraid of the cold, but she didn't know if it was her psychological effect or there was something wrong with the snow here, but she felt like she was about to be frozen into an ice cube.
After a while, she couldn't walk anymore, so she hugged her arms and slowly squatted down.
The heavy snow fell on her as if it were free, and soon she was covered with a thick layer of snow.
At first she thought that she should move, otherwise the snow would probably accumulate higher than her head and she would not be able to push it away.
But when it is so cold that even blinking feels difficult, you may even think of sleeping here, "using snow as a bed and snow as a blanket" which is quite romantic.
She struggled for a while, but finally succumbed to the cold. Like a curled-up snowman, she curled up in the snow and became completely quiet.
Outside the screen, Meng Yuci frowned and looked at the raised arc in the middle of the snow, and called her:
"Ji Chu, get up quickly."
Ji Chu hummed twice to indicate that he was still alive.
Meng Yuci's tone was a bit harsh:
"stand up."
These two words were just like when he taught Ji Chu to practice sword, completely cold and ruthless.
Ji Chu jumped up from the ground as if by reflex.
This action was very strenuous for her, after all, the snow pressing on her body was thick enough to bury three of her alive.
After sitting up, Ji Chu finally became a little more sober. She knew that if she lay down again she would definitely become the unlucky person who was "hibernated in winter", so she pinched her face and forced herself to stand up.
But what happens after you stand up?
All she could see was white snow. Not to mention any spots of light, there wasn't even any other color besides white. She had no idea where to go.
Ji Chu stood there motionless again, and the heavy snow quickly pressed down on her shoulders and head.
Meng Yuci suddenly asked her:
"Ji Chu, what are you going to do now?"
Ji Chu felt like his brain was frozen. When he suddenly heard this question, he thought about it for a long time but couldn't think of the answer.
Yes, I am freezing like a dog here, what should I do?
She rolled her eyes and suddenly thought of something. She raised her hand and placed her index finger next to her head. The snow accumulated on her body was shaken off to the ground by her movement.
Ji Chu's eyes were shining and he looked conscious.
Meng Yuci nodded slightly, thinking to himself, "This child is teachable."
Then he heard Ji Chu say in an excited tone:
"I'm going to eat hot pot!"
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The author has something to say: Senior Brother: Do I look like hot pot? [Question mark]
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