Chapter 101 Chapter 101 He couldn't stop her
When faced with her senior brother's questioning, the first thing that came to Ji Chu's mind was a sentence she had seen in the introductory mental method a long time ago when she first started practicing.
"The inner demons are the love, hatred, greed, and delusion within our hearts... all those obsessions that cannot be forgotten, cannot be attained, and cannot be let go. They beset us day and night and become the inner demons."
In the past, she could never remember these things, but later, her senior brother asked her questions every day, which made her recite them with difficulty several times.
Now this sentence suddenly popped up from her memory, and instead made her feel a sense of melancholy, "So that's how it is."
No matter how slow-witted she was, she would no longer mistakenly believe that her senior brother in her previous life hated her out of "destroying his innocence and his heart of Taoism."
Although the past is still vivid in my mind, it is still covered with another shadow because of rebirth.
She originally felt that she was very sorry for her senior brother.
Her senior brother had never hurt her in his previous life, but because of that last sword strike, she had always held a grudge against him.
Now that she knew the truth about that sword, she could gradually understand the disappointment and despair her senior brother felt when they last met.
So she always felt that she owed her senior brother an apology.
She even thought, if she had known that her senior brother had a knot in his heart, if she had known that he would be possessed by a demon, would she have left so easily in her previous life?
Probably not.
If people knew that there were people in this world who cared about them, they would never be so heartless as to die without saying a word.
Ji Chu raised his eyes and looked carefully at his senior brother who was standing nearby.
He carried a demonic aura, yet he was still cold and detached, like an unbreakable bamboo or a sword tempered by ice, adding a touch of coldness to his original indifference.
She then easily recalled her previous life.
"actually……"
Ji Chu suddenly spoke:
"I have some regrets too."
Meng Yuci's expression paused slightly.
"Brother, do you still remember?"
Ji Chu said:
"When you first discovered I could use Thousand Threads Puppetry, you questioned me about why I was practicing this evil technique."
"At that time I said that it was because I was a vicious, despicable person with evil intentions."
Meng Yuci lowered his eyes, loosened his hand around her neck, and put some distance between them.
He had recalled every contact with Ji Chu thousands of times in his mind.
How could he not remember this?
He was very worried about Ji Chu at that time, afraid that she would never recover from her loss, and even more afraid that she would be mentally damaged and go astray.
Perhaps the more you fear something, the more likely it is to happen, and he actually saw Ji Chu using the Thousand Silk Puppet to injure someone.
The other party was an evil cultivator. Ji Chu's cultivation was insufficient, and she was unaware of the many despicable tactics used outside the sect. Although she gained the upper hand with the Thousand Silk Puppet Shadow, she didn't know that the other party was waiting for her to expose her soul so that he could destroy it all together.
He took action to finish off the evil cultivator and angrily scolded Ji Chu for practicing such evil magic, but was retorted:
"My meridians are already damaged. Why can't I find another way to protect myself? Are you just waiting for me to die in vain?"
This matter was caused by him, and he had no right to blame him, he could only dissuade him:
"Then you shouldn't use this evil magic to protect yourself. You can..."
However, before he could finish his words, Ji Chu interrupted him:
"Besides, everyone in the sect knows that I am a vicious and despicable person with evil intentions. It is normal for me to practice evil magic."
She usually didn't want to talk much with him. Whenever they met, she would remain silent and avoid him, allowing rumors to attack her under Shen Ke's deliberate instigation.
He just didn't expect that she would describe herself like that.
In a trance, he recalled that many years ago, when his tribe members died tragically and were questioned by gods and demons, he had doubted: although he held the sword to kill evil, he was actually the root of all evil and had no reason to persist.
But Ji Chu shouldn't be like this!
The first time he saw her, she broke through the barrier and revealed her brilliance in the ray of sunlight. She was so dazzling and brilliant. How could he have such self-destructive thoughts?
I was so angry that I lost my composure and couldn't help but question her:
"Don't you know who you are? Do you need to find out from others?"
At that time, Ji Chu looked surprised, and heard him say in a cold voice:
"You must tell me with your own mouth who you are and show me with your own eyes who you are."
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After that, Ji Chu seldom used her evil magic again, and even avoided him everywhere and refused to meet him. This conversation was buried at the bottom of her memories and would not be easily found.
Like a leaf picked up by chance, holding it in your hand many years later, you realize that it had already seen each other's thoughts at that day.
She had been trapped and imprisoned, torturing herself, and so had he.
Now, after an insurmountable gap between two lifetimes, Ji Chu brought up the past again, once again raising the question that he could not answer back then, and formally responded:
"Brother, I lied."
It took her a long time to finally realize that her answer at that time was more angry than serious, more depressed than firm, and it was all irresponsible nonsense.
She would answer again:
"I am not a vicious, despicable, or evil-minded person."
"I will not harm others in the name of self-protection, and I will not stand by and watch someone die or shirk responsibility."
Meng Yuci wanted to stand up and step back, but she suddenly reached out and grabbed his collar.
He was stunned, not knowing when she broke free from the evil spirit.
Ji Chu had already stood up and looked up at him, as if he was looking down at him from a high position. His eyes were as bright as his youth, and the bright and hot flames in them almost burned him.
"I don't want anyone to die for me, and I certainly don't want my brother to become a demon for me."
"Since I can stand here alive, I dare to face my fate. I don't need my senior brother to arrange it for me!"
As soon as she finished speaking, the evil energy that had been trapped around her suddenly disappeared.
The senior brother was soft-hearted and didn't use much force. She swallowed up that little bit of evil energy in minutes.
She was not afraid that the demonic energy would affect her meridians or cultivation, because she was going to do something even crazier than consuming the demonic energy.
——She wanted to swallow all the remnants of the gods above.
Before this, the senior brother in front of her was the person she had to deal with.
The Xunzhen Sword collides with the evil spirit.
"Brother, why don't you use the Shaowei Sword? You're clearly not used to using demonic energy."
Meng Yuci said nothing, as if he was meeting her for the first time. He looked at her with his dark eyes, but did not answer. His gaze wandered over her face.
This wasn't the first time she had hit him.
He suddenly realized.
In fact, Ji Chu has always been the one who dared to use the piano to smash the forbidden area's barrier.
She is just occasionally lost and dormant, but she will eventually return to her original state, unstoppable and unyielding.
He couldn't stop her.
From the beginning to the end, he was just unwilling to give up.
Ji Chu used his sword energy to strangle the evil spirit.
Although the senior brother was possessed by a demon, his demonic energy was not as aggressive as Xue Xianchen's. Instead, it was more like a decoration.
At least in Ji Chu's opinion, apart from his somewhat gloomy appearance, his senior brother has nothing to do with the devil in other ways.
He is still the senior brother who is better at swordsmanship.
The sword energy and the demonic energy collided with each other, one person wanted to leave and the other wanted to stop him. This scene was a bit like a replay of the previous life.
However, the demonic energy used by Chu in the previous century and the sword energy used by his senior brother are now reversed.
When Ji Chu thought of this, he suddenly felt like laughing.
She did not avoid the evil spirit, but swung her sword towards the sky. The long sword shone silvery as it slashed at the ice above her head.
The ice cracked like a collapsing rock, a long, curving crack snaked down from the blade as thunder rumbled in from the outside of the crack, offering a glimpse of the dangers outside.
The Golden Immortal Thunder Tribulation, or the Demon Thunder Tribulation?
Ji Chu should have rushed out directly, but for some unknown reason, she turned around and looked at her senior brother.
There was a long black mist under his clothes, extending into the depths of the darkness, making him look like a shadow reflected on ice.
The other end of the black energy is connected to himself.
From the very beginning, he intended to give up his own.
Meng Yuci suddenly stopped right before Ji Chu was hit by the evil spirit.
Whether in the past life or this life, he would never hurt her.
So God punished him again and again, making him look at her back every time and be unable to do anything.
This moment is just like that moment.
Exactly the same.
He was tall and slender, his facial features obscured by the half-bright and half-dark demonic energy, and his expression could not be seen clearly in the shadows.
Thunder roared, coming from the gap above his head, and it seemed to be coming towards him.
"Are those people more important than your life?"
"Of course not."
Ji Chu turned around and looked at him.
She was certainly not sure that she could defeat her senior brother, let alone his brother who had become even more unpredictable after being possessed by a demon.
The reason why he drew the sword was just to show his attitude and let his senior brother stop on his own initiative.
But now that her senior brother had stopped, she did not leave immediately like she did in her previous life.
"I just felt that I should do it, instead of weighing the value of human life."
Ji Chu smiled as he spoke, and there was a sparkle in his eyes, like stars:
"What's more, my senior brother is there too."
For a moment, Meng Yuci was afraid to look at her smiling eyes.
But he couldn't bear to look away, so he could only look at her, letting the light in her eyes sting his pupils.
There was no shadow of him in that bright and beautiful light.
He looked at her with pain in his eyes:
"He volunteered... I volunteered, why don't you want to?"
His voice was low and suppressed, like a helpless question, like a breathless struggle:
"Why do you choose to abandon me every time?"
Ji Chu frowned as he watched his figure gradually disappear.
The next moment, she put away her sword, suddenly rushed over and hugged him.
She ran so fast that she created a gust of wind that dispersed the evil spirit surrounding Meng Yuci.
Then she leaned over to his ear and spoke, her breath carrying warmth, and every word hit his heart.
"Brother, I didn't abandon you. I'm going to find you."
"This time, let's go together."
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In the water, Zhongli Bai held the compass and said nothing.
Xu Ying had no choice but to look at Jiang Chengxu.
Jiang Chengxu shook his head:
"It's still unknown whether Senior Brother Meng can survive the combined Demonic Thunder Tribulation and Golden Immortal Thunder Tribulation, but we definitely can't hold on."
"Are you saying we're dead?"
Jiang Chengxu nodded, then shook his head:
"Brother Meng is doing this because he wants to destroy the secret realm and the remnant of the gods together. We are now trapped in the remnant of the gods and cannot get out. The magic weapon on you can hold out for a while, but it may not keep you safe forever. Zhongli Bai just said that there is an exit behind the last god, so I think..."
"You want to say that you are dead and ask me to leave quickly?"
Xu Ying glared at him fiercely:
"Stop farting! I'm not leaving!"
She looked up at the thunderclouds above her head:
"It's not like I haven't been struck by lightning before, so why would I be afraid of this?"
As soon as she finished speaking, a flash of lightning suddenly streaked across the sky, illuminating the already extremely dark sky.
Xu Ying subconsciously closed her eyes.
Everything happened in an instant. Thunder exploded, like a huge burden suddenly falling, pressing straight towards the figure in the center of the calamity cloud, full of murderous intent.
In the center of the thunder and lightning, Meng Yuci sat quietly and indifferently, his face as handsome as jade and his demeanor as calm as snow.
The evil spirit lingered between his eyebrows and eyes, and even continued to expand, circling towards the thunderclouds, as if in provocation.
The sword energy of Shaowei Sword took shape, forming a sword formation around him to block the first fierce heavenly thunder.
Thunder roared, smoke rose, and the entire Tianxuan Secret Realm trembled violently as if it had been hit hard.
The Last God's huge eyeballs were staring at Meng Yuci's direction - this was something it had snatched from Cen Ping.
The gods are not tolerated by the laws of heaven and can only survive in this secret realm formed by fragments of the divine realm.
If you want to leave the secret realm, you must have a body.
Originally, it wanted to possess Meng Yuci, but to no avail, and its divine bones were swallowed by Ji Chu. It could only settle for the second best and chose this so-called "snake bloodline" that did not even have divine power.
But Cen Ping is still a waste after all. His snake body and human body were destroyed, and only this eyeball is still usable.
Under the thunder from heaven, not a blade of grass is left and all things are overturned.
The Golden Immortal Thunder Tribulation is already the most serious, and when coupled with the Demon Thunder Tribulation, no living creature can escape from it.
Although the Last God was angry, he was more mocking:
"Although the thunder tribulation is fierce, it is difficult to sever my divine veins. It is in vain!"
The regrets of the gods continue to this day, how can they be destroyed by a few thunders from heaven?
Ignorant people think that they can prevent possession by killing all the creatures in the secret realm.
So naive!
It's just a shell!
A hole opened behind the golden eyeball in mid-air, trying to send out the monk who had successfully taken over the body.
Meng Yuci stared blankly at the Last God in mid-air, as if he were looking at a dead object. Shaowei Sword closed the formation, its blade pointed coldly in the direction of the Last God.
In this way, he was directly exposed to the thunder from the sky.
The ice beneath him suddenly trembled and cracked into a tiny hole.
A dark shadow spread upwards from the bottom, but it was not cold. Instead, it was wrapped in a peaceful and tranquil atmosphere.
The two auras overlapped on his body and eventually merged into one.
The second thunderbolt was already hanging high in the sky. Amidst the lightning and thunder, he felt Ji Chu holding his neck, breathing shallowly, whispering in his ear:
"Brother, let's go together."
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