Chapter 58 Chapter 58 Not like a senior brother, but like Ji Chu's mother...
After his senior brother went into seclusion, Ji Chu worked overtime in the library to search for information about the Yin-Yang Transformation, but he found nothing.
I dreamed of Zhongli Bai again.
After finally contacting Ji Chu, he was extremely excited and kept recalling in his dreams how they had joined forces to kill the devil in their previous life.
"You and I act decisively, fighting our way out of the sect and directly attacking the Demon King's lair! Isn't that cool?!"
Ji Chu: "...not very cool, I was simply infamous, fled, and finally died."
“The pattern is too small!”
Zhongli Bai disagreed:
"Those who achieve great things don't dwell on trivial matters. You are a savior. Your failure in your previous life is only the beginning of your success in this one. Stand up! Have confidence in our partnership in this lifetime!"
Ji Chu: “…Okay.”
She really doubted the idea of "saving the world", but Zhongli Bai insisted, so she had to accept it temporarily.
Recalling something, she asked again:
"In your previous life, which monster killed you?"
Zhongli Bai looked puzzled:
"Didn't I tell you? It's the Venerable Asanga."
"Venerable Asanga?!"
Ji Chu took a breath and said, "Is he also possessed by the devil?"
“That’s him!”
Zhongli Bai said angrily:
"He calls himself a god-worshiper, but in reality he's nothing but an evil demon! The Wuji Sect is possessed by demons, and the other cultivators are all bewitched by him!"
"My master, the Unruly Taoist, knew there was something wrong with him. I never thought I would fall into his hands despite all my precautions."
Then he asked:
"I've appeared in your dreams several times before to remind you to be careful of him. Didn't you hear me?"
Ji Chu: "...I'm sorry, I thought you were a monkey at that time."
Zhongli Bai: “…”
He had to emphasize it again:
"In my previous life, he shattered my sternum with one blow, killing me instantly!"
He touched his shrunken chest, pressed his intact ribs, and revealed a frightened expression:
"Luckily, before you arrived, a hero wielding a longsword chopped him to pieces with one blow! How satisfying! Unfortunately, a bit of the evil spirit still remained, and it nearly killed you too..."
This connects with her memory.
As expected, someone killed Venerable Asanga.
Ji Chu nodded and asked again:
"Which hero chopped him off? Can I find that person in advance and have him join us in stopping Asanga?"
"You think I don't want to?"
Zhongli Bai squatted on the ground and sighed:
"Unfortunately, my soul was severely injured at the time, and I was unconscious. I have no idea what happened. I have been asking around for a while now, but I have no clues. I'm afraid we have to take action together..."
Ji Chu sighed with him in his dream.
"Anyway, let's meet first."
*
The new mission of the Mingwutang faction is to escort the sect's treasure, the "Soul Gathering Lamp", to the Xue family to help Xue Wan condense his soul.
Xu Ying exploded when she heard this.
Asking Ji Chu to help Xue Wan gather her soul? It was amazing that Mingwutang could come up with that idea! Why didn't he just go to xx?
But when she went to Mingwutang to question it, she only got the answer that "task assignment is based on comprehensive considerations, and refusing a task will result in a negative score."
Xu Ying gritted her teeth and called a meeting with Jiang Chengxu and Chen Wu, and worked out a hundred revenge plans overnight.
They were all stopped by Ji Chu.
Until just before departure, Xu Ying kept testing Ji Chu. After learning that Ji Chu really had no intention of smashing the Soul Gathering Lamp on the way, she was extremely disappointed.
Ji Chu had no intention of sabotaging the mission at all.
After all, there was no direct conflict between Xue Wan Ning and her, and whether the soul could be gathered successfully had nothing to do with her.
Besides, this mission was easy and simple, and didn't require much thought. She only needed to sit in the cloud boat and stare blankly along the way. She could discuss the next plan with Xiaobai.
Of course, the most important thing is that Xiaobai told her that the first family to be possessed by the devil in the previous life was not the Wuji Sect, but the Xue Family.
If Venerable Asanga really started his attack from the Xue family, they could just rush over to stop him.
The itinerary was finalized.
But on the day of departure, an unexpected person was standing at the sect gate.
Kong Huiduan stood at the sect gate with an impatient look on his face. When he saw Ji Chu and the others, he taunted them:
"Hey, aren't these the top three from our Ask the Immortal Conference? They're neither male nor female, and one almost destroyed the small world before being struck by lightning."
Ji Chu: “…”
Jiang Chengxu took a step forward:
"We've accepted the mission to escort the 'Soul Gathering Lantern'. Where's the lantern?"
Kong Huiduan took out the soul-gathering lamp and flashed it in front of the few people.
Jiang Chengxu went forward to take it, but he turned around and put the lamp away.
Xu Ying said angrily, "What do you mean? Do you want to delay the sect's mission?"
Kong Huiduan said arrogantly:
"The Soul Gathering Lamp is related to Fairy Yaoyue. How could Master trust you with it? Naturally, I will personally escort it."
"You're here to escort?"
Xu Ying glanced at him up and down:
"You're asking what your ranking is in the Immortal Conference? Do you think you're qualified?"
"Oh, I almost forgot."
Without waiting for the other party to answer, she covered her mouth and pretended to be shocked:
"Because you harmed your fellow disciples, you were directly eliminated by Senior Brother Meng! You didn't even get a place!!!"
Chen Wu couldn't help but let out a "puff".
Kong Huiduan was furious and pointed at him:
"You were the first one to be eliminated, why are you here?"
Chen Wu: "I... I was specially approved by the Sect Leader to go and warn everyone."
This journey passes through the City of the Dead in the underworld. With someone like Chen Wu who is sensitive to ghosts, many dangers can be avoided.
Kong Huiduan snorted coldly and glanced at Ji Chu, hinting at something:
"Not to mention that the sect doesn't trust you, even the Xue family won't believe you."
After saying that, he waved his hand and conjured up a cloud boat that was floating in the air. He threw down a sentence "I hope you can be so proud along the way" and was the first to board the cloud boat.
Ji Chu was stunned after hearing this.
Kong Huiduan's tone was very strange, as if something unexpected was bound to happen during this mission.
Xu Ying couldn't help but curse:
"Bah! If you don't trust us, why assign us this mission? It seems to me that the people from Guangxuan Peak are hiding something!"
Then he boarded the cloud boat first with indignation.
Ji Chu suppressed his doubts and followed him.
Perhaps because he was wary of their soul-gathering lanterns, Kong Huiduan stayed alone at the front of the cloud boat throughout the rest of the journey.
The soul-gathering lamp was always in his hand. Ji Chu and his companions only took a quick look at it before they set off and never saw it again.
After Ji Chu sat down, he lowered his head and rummaged through the storage bag he was carrying, taking out some snacks to share with everyone.
Xu Ying held a handful of nuts and candies, looking surprised:
"How do you have so many delicious foods?!"
Ji Chu took out a cushion from the storage bag and laid it out for the people, saying:
"My senior brother gave it to me."
"Senior Brother Meng?"
Xu Ying was greatly shocked. She poured the things in her hand to Jiang Chengxu and Chen Wu, and leaned over to look at her storage bag with Ji Chu.
"Clothes, hairpins, combs, mirrors, spirit stones, spirit talismans, elixirs, panpan fruit, roast duck, dipping sauce... No, how come there's even orange juice?!"
"This is like building a mobile house for you!"
She looked at Ji Chu with a look of doubt:
"Is the Senior Brother Meng you're talking about the one we know?"
Ji Chu took out a glass of packaged orange juice and handed it to her:
"Of course, I only have one senior brother."
Xu Ying quickly waved her hand and refused:
“No, no, no…”
She didn't know what was going on in her mind, and she couldn't sit still anymore. She grabbed Jiang Chengxu who was eating snacks and ran to the corner.
The two walked to a secluded corner of the Cloud Boat, and Xu Ying said:
"Senior Brother Meng, this is so thoughtful, isn't it? I felt his attitude towards Ji Chu was strange last time. Junior Sister is just going out for training, is it necessary to prepare so many things?"
"A little bit..."
Jiang Chengxu stuffed his mouth with nuts, nodded in agreement, and handed her the one in his hand:
"But it's really delicious, would you like to try it too?"
"What are you trying to taste?"
Xu Ying slapped his hand away in disdain, made a "tsk" sound, glanced at Ji Chu who was looking at her with doubt, nodded and shook his head, and finally said:
"Anyway, I see that Senior Brother Meng treats Ji Chu... not like a senior brother, but like Ji Chu's mother!"
Ji Chu didn't hear what they were saying, so he withdrew his gaze and began to try to feed Chen Wu.
But perhaps the last experience of eating hot pot brought him some difficult-to-heal psychological trauma. Looking back now, Brother Meng's gaze at that time was like a cold knife stabbing at his head.
At this moment, Chen Wu really didn't dare to touch too much on "Senior Brother Meng's care for Ji Chu".
So he hurriedly said that he was full and wanted to practice, and found a corner to sit down and meditate.
"Everyone is so weird..."
Ji Chu looked left and right, but couldn't figure it out, so he simply gave up thinking about it. He sat alone in the middle of the cloud boat and took a nap with the mentality of trying his luck.
I was lucky today and successfully met Zhongli Bai in my dream.
"Are you about to pass through the City of the Dead?"
Zhongli Bai looked a little nervous and asked Ji Chu as soon as he saw her.
After hearing the affirmative reply, he immediately said anxiously:
"It's getting dark, you need to get there quickly! Don't stay there when it's dark!"
Ji Chu was puzzled.
Although the City of the Dead becomes a ghost world at night and the yin energy is too heavy, which inevitably squeezes spiritual power, it is indeed not recommended for ordinary people to go there.
But it wasn't that tense, it was like facing a great enemy.
Ji Chu thought about this and calculated the distance carefully in his dream:
"It's still some time before dark. If the cloud boat can fly normally, we should be able to get there in time."
Zhongli Bai was still in a trance, muttering to himself and counting on his fingers as if possessed:
"I still feel like there's something wrong... the fortune teller's intuition... it's extremely ominous, extremely ominous... No, no, I have to go check it out."
"noob!"
Ji Chu stretched out his hand and waved it in front of him, interrupting his trance:
"So what exactly happened? What's wrong with the City of the Dead? Tell me!"
Zhongli Bai finally regained consciousness:
"There's something amiss about the City of the Dead. I can see the black air rising from a long way off... It seems like something ominous is going on... In short, you must be very careful."
He said with more emphasis:
"Especially you! You—"
Before he could finish his words, Ji Chu suddenly felt a huge impact coming from outside his dream.
She was shaken so much that she couldn't sit still and fell to the ground.
The dream suddenly shattered.
Chen Wu's voice suddenly came from another direction, with obvious panic:
"Be careful! There's a monster!"
The next moment, a strong demonic energy attacked from above his head. Before Ji Chu could figure out the current situation, he instinctively drew his sword to block in front of him.
The sword blade rubbed against the sharp claws, making a harsh and unpleasant sound and bringing out a spark.
The sky above was dark, and a huge monster was crossing the sky like a fish. Its huge tail brushed the edge of the cloud boat, and the entire cloud boat was carried to the other side.
Ji Chu suddenly hit the edge.
With this collision, she saw the direction of the City of the Dead not far away. Just as Xiaobai said, the sky was covered with dark clouds and black air rose into the sky.
It was as if something was brewing underground.
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The author has something to say: Xiaobai: (pulling the collar) Can you ask me to say a complete sentence?! Can you! [Angry]
Author: (being grabbed by the collar and lifted up but refusing to repent) [shy] You know, dreams are always interrupted at the critical moment [shy]
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