Chapter 65 Chapter 65 Senior, Brother?
Ji Chu floated on the water with his back facing up.
She had used up all her spiritual energy, and now her dantian was aching terribly, and she felt tired every time she moved.
Zhongli Bai floated in front of her and was protected by her spiritual power and was not injured. However, it was not known whether he was frightened or knocked unconscious by the impact of the water, which dragged him for ten miles without waking up.
Ji Chu didn't even have the energy to complain.
After a long time, Zhongli Bai finally spat out a mouthful of water and opened his eyes.
He was stunned for a few seconds and asked a series of questions:
"Are we still alive? Where is this? Where is Venerable Asanga? How on earth did he lead people to be possessed by demons?!"
"Alive, probably in the Yunchuan Ancient Territory."
Ji Chu answered his question weakly.
Zhongli Bai looked at her and couldn't help but wave his hand in front of her eyes:
"What's wrong with you? You look so tired?"
Ji Chu didn't say anything, raised his hand and showed him a stone that was glowing white.
Zhongli Bai was puzzled:
"What's this?"
He leaned in for a closer look:
"This has such a strange aura. Staring at it makes me feel a little dizzy... What is this?"
Ji Chu: "This is divine bone."
Zhongli Bai: "Oh, it's the divine bone..."
Next second:
"What?! What is this?! What do you say this is?! Divine bone?! Why is the divine bone in your hand?!!"
Ji Chu frowned because of his noise:
"It was right across from the teleportation circle, where the golden eye is. We happened to be passing by it when we fell, and I snatched it away instantly."
"smoothly?!"
Zhongli Bai felt like his brain couldn't keep up:
"Are you saying that the resentment and evil spirits in the City of the Dead were transported to the Divine Bone? No, you just dragged them away like that?"
Ji Chu: "Yes, didn't you say you wanted to stop Asanga?"
Zhongli Bai's brain crashed:
"What about Venerable Asanga? Didn't he stop you? How come I don't know anything? Did I just fall asleep like this?"
"Of course I stopped him."
Ji Chu looked at him with disdain:
"What do you know? What on earth can you do? I can't even wake him up. That person's evil spirit is about to poke us into a sieve, and you're still sleeping!"
The more she scolded, the more excited she became. She had a hard time even breathing just now, but now she even sat up and started scolding Zhongli Bai:
"You said you were here to stop it, and you said you were here to save the world of cultivation! And you said you were here to teleport to the other side of the magic circle! And what happened?! You just closed your eyes and became a complete hands-off boss!"
"I was fighting and running for my life. If my senior brother hadn't given me a lot of talismans to save my life, we would both be dead now!"
With every word she spoke, Zhongli Bai's neck became an inch shorter, and finally it completely shrank into the water, with only a pair of eyes exposed.
Ji Chu was out of breath. He was tired after cursing and fell into the water with a "splash".
"Just be thankful that we are blessed with good fortune.
"Just now, thunder and lightning suddenly started outside Yunchuan. I don't know which immortal came. Venerable Wuzhu turned around and left when he was halfway chasing him."
Zhongli Bai blew a few bubbles underwater to show his admiration.
Seeing that Ji Chu didn't continue to chase him and scold him, he surfaced from the water again:
"So, where are we going now?"
Ji Chu pointed forward.
"The temple is dedicated."
As the saying goes, strike while the sick are weak; if you don't uproot the grass, it will grow again in the spring breeze. Instead of defeating them one by one, it is better to go straight to the nest.
When Ji Chu saw the divine bone, he suddenly realized:
There are too many divine bones in this world of cultivation!
I originally thought that the divine bone was a gift from the gods, but I didn't expect it to be a tool used by Venerable Wuzhu to lure people into demonic possession.
Since they are here, we might as well kill them all at once, so that we don’t have to worry about a piece of divine bone popping up from time to time and causing trouble for people.
Ji Chu thought so.
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The Fengshen Temple is the place where Venerable Asanga practiced meditation.
I heard that three hundred years ago, this place was the holy land of the witches and shamans.
But now, after experiencing the vicissitudes of life, even the most sacred places will be washed away by time and become extremely dilapidated.
Ji Chu looked at the moss-covered pillar and heard Zhongli Bai calling her:
"Ji Chu, this way."
Zhongli Bai's compass played its greatest role at this moment, easily leading them to avoid restrictions and reach the center of the Fengshen Temple unimpeded.
What you see is a tall standing statue of a god.
Although the statue has a human body, it has no face and is indistinguishable whether it is male or female. It is the newest thing in the entire temple.
Zhongli Bai muttered to himself: "How strange..."
Ji Chu: "What's so strange about it? Isn't this just an ordinary statue?"
It's normal that she doesn't know this. Zhongli Bai explained:
"The idea that God is in human form is simply human speculation. What is God? He is the gathering of thought power, a creation of heaven and earth, and has no fixed form."
Ji Chu said "Oh":
"I've read your master, the Unruly Taoist's book. The gods in it often transform into cows!"
Zhongli Bai laughed, showing no respect for his teacher.
"My master is a frivolous old man who likes to talk nonsense when he has nothing to do. You shouldn't trust him too much."
As he spoke, he placed one hand on the statue's leg, assumed a nonchalant attitude, and said:
"But he's lived so long, and whether it's true or false, what he says always makes some sense."
"Why would Venerable Asanga, who is already old, create such a statue? Is he trying to catch up with the younger generation?"
"etc."
Ji Chu suddenly pushed his hand away: "Move aside... look here."
Where Zhongli Bai's palm rested, there was a clear mark of joints. Clearly, the upper portion of the statue was newly built, while the lower portion looked weathered. There were also traces of moss along the joints, as if it had been submerged in water for a long time.
Moreover, since the shapes of the new and old statues are obviously different, the splicing is not perfect, and the broken edge of the old base is still exposed.
Ji Chu stared at the broken part for a while.
As if possessed by a ghost, she drew out the Xunzhen Sword and measured it on the base.
Zhongli Bai's eyelids jumped, and he quickly grabbed her sleeve:
"What are you doing? Even if you hate Asanga and the Last God, there's no need to chop down the statues to vent your anger, right?"
"no."
Ji Chu shook his head:
"Look at this gap. Doesn't it perfectly match the blade of the Xunzhen Sword?"
"How is it possible..."
Zhongli Bai leaned forward to observe carefully. After a while, he hissed and repeated:
"How is that possible?!"
The second time was a shock.
Although the broken part of the base is quite old, there are still some signs of wear and tear.
But as soon as the Xunzhen Sword is placed on it, it can be seen that this is definitely the sword mark of the Xunzhen Sword.
"This is the sword that my senior brother helped me find."
Before Zhongli Bai could ask, Ji Chu said:
"I got it from the Fuyu Immortal Sect's Secret Treasure Pavilion. I went through many tests."
Zhongli Bai withdrew his hand awkwardly:
"Perhaps the owner of this sword came here before you and chopped down the statue?"
Ji Chu didn't respond.
She stepped back, sword in hand, and looked at the statue.
Zhongli Bai held the compass aside, following the needle in circles, muttering:
"Where exactly is this? Why does it keep moving?"
Ji Chu looked at the divine bone in his hand, then looked at the Xunzhen Sword.
Then she looked up at the statue in front of her.
The statue has no facial features and always faces the world with a blank face.
Perhaps no one has ever known whether this god created by humans has a kind face and is concerned about all things, or has ulterior motives and is indifferent to all living things.
Zhongli Bai recited a few more incantations, and the compass needle swung left and right, gradually approaching the center point.
His expression gradually became more serious.
At this moment, Ji Chu suddenly raised his sword and chopped it down heavily along the position of the sword mark.
The statue was actually cracked by her sword, and the upper half seemed unstable. A slight "clicking" sound came from the broken end, as if some rigid machine was slowly turning.
The crack gradually spread towards the ground along the direction of the sword mark, as if the earth was cracking, and the Temple of the God was divided into two halves by this crack.
Ji Chu's gaze was still on the face of the statue.
She inexplicably felt that a pair of golden eyes seemed to have appeared on that blank face, staring at her intently.
But in the blink of an eye, it was blank again.
A faint buzzing sound came from underground, followed by a slight tremor. Soon, the disturbing tremor began to increase in amplitude, and finally the entire temple and the statue began to shake together.
Zhongli Bai was stunned by this change.
He was standing unsteadily and looked down, only to find that the needle on the compass had stopped moving and was pointing directly towards the direction of the statue.
"not good!"
Zhongli Bai suddenly felt something was wrong and found that Ji Chu was still staring at the statue in a daze, so he hurried towards her.
But the crack invisibly separated him and Ji Chu. Before he could run to Ji Chu, the crack between them suddenly widened.
An overwhelming stream of water gushed out from the crack, as if a river in the sky was leaking, and poured towards the entire temple.
Ji Chu lost his balance and was pushed to the bottom of the statue by the impact of the water, and hit his head on the sword mark.
Her eyes went dark and her consciousness blurred instantly.
Fortunately, the shaking disappeared quickly. Ji Chu let go of the hands that were holding onto the statue and unexpectedly found that his surroundings were clean, without even a drop of water.
There was clearly a huge burst of water just now?
She looked back in confusion and found that the cracks on the ground had disappeared.
Zhongli Bai is missing too!
The temple was empty, and she was the only one standing here!
Ji Chu subconsciously looked up at the statue.
“!”
The moment she saw the statue, her eyes widened, she instinctively took two steps back, and tightened her grip on the hilt of the sword.
But nothing happened.
The statue in front of her was no longer the one she had seen before.
A strangely shaped object stood on the base. It was difficult for her to describe what it was. Only a pair of golden eyes stood out, looking straight ahead.
He didn't seem to notice her.
Ji Chu's palms broke out in cold sweat. She waited for a long time, but the other party did not show any intention of attacking her.
But she didn't dare put down the sword.
At this moment, she realized that something was wrong here.
So clean.
This temple was so clean that there was no moss on the walls or pillars. Even the statues were not in human form, as Zhongli Bai had said.
Compared to the dilapidated and ancient temple, this place is more like the most important holy place of the witches and shamans in the legend.
Just as she was shocked by her own guess, a sound of breaking air suddenly came from behind her.
Ji Chu turned around and Xun Zhen's sword collided with a scimitar.
The attacker had a very beautiful appearance, but his eyes were gloomy and cruel. He was surrounded by evil spirits, and every move he made was aimed at Ji Chu's vital points.
Ji Chu dodged twice, but seeing that the other party still wanted to kill her, she stopped dodging and turned from defense to offense.
The Xunzhen sword was sharp, like a flying dragon, and quickly suppressed the scimitar.
"Who are you? Why are you trying to kill me?"
Just as she opened her mouth, she suddenly saw a sword energy coming through the air, taking the attacker's life with one move.
Ji Chu: “!”
She looked up and saw someone she had never expected.
"Senior Brother?"
She was instinctively surprised at first, but soon became alert again.
He glanced at the dead man on the ground, then looked at his senior brother:
"Brother? Why are you here?"
"Brother?"
The other person had a cold expression, tilted his head slightly, and repeated her name word by word, as if he was confused.
Ji Chu frowned.
This person clearly looks and sounds the same as my senior brother, but his clothes are completely different. He is somewhat similar to the corpse on the ground.
Meng Yuci was already slowly walking towards her.
His body was covered in blood, clearly from someone he had just killed. Even a few drops of blood were splashed on his face, making his complexion look even colder and more pale, and his appearance even more beautiful.
The sword in his hand was clearly Shaowei. At this moment, the sword was covered in blood, and blood beads were dripping from the tip of the sword.
The feeling he gave Ji Chu was completely different from that of his usual senior brother. It seemed like he had killed many people and didn't mind killing more.
Ji Chu immediately raised his sword to block in front of him:
"Don't come over here!"
Meng Yuci paid no attention to her threat and walked at a steady pace. Drops of blood dripped a long way behind him, like an evil ghost just emerged from hell.
He walked step by step to Ji Chu.
Although his face was expressionless, the aura around him was extremely cold and murderous, which forced Ji Chu to take a step back and almost lean against the statue.
I don’t know why my senior brother has become like this. It’s as if he has gone crazy and doesn’t recognize her.
Ji Chu became more and more flustered.
Meng Yuci finally stopped, his eyes passing over the Xunzhen Sword in her hand. He spoke in a calm tone, as if asking casually, but Ji Chu could hear a hint of murderous intent in his voice:
"The Sword of Truth-Seeking—how did it get into your hands?"
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Author's Comment: Ji Chu: I traveled through time? My senior brother isn't human? My senior brother is over 300 years old?
Senior Brother: It's not a time travel... It's a human... Doesn't that mean the Wusha clan is not human? [Cracks open] Is over 300 years old? For a descendant of the gods, it shouldn't be old, right? [Cracks open]
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