Chapter 98 Chapter 98 Trying to hit a rock with an egg is like overestimating one's own strength...
Ji Chu recalled that in her previous life, her meridians were blocked and she was unable to practice. She accidentally passed by the outer gate and saved Cen Ping. It was not because she felt that she was as pitiful as him, but because she could not bear to see someone bullying others.
Why, in Cen Ping's eyes, should I become like him, unable to distinguish right from wrong, harboring malice and hating the whole world, and even starting to hate those who have helped him?
He was so filled with righteous indignation, why didn't he resist the outer disciples who bullied him, but instead wanted to kill Yuan Fu who had done him a favor, and also held a grudge against her for helping him when she passed by?
These seemingly righteous expressions of anger are nothing more than excuses for one's own distorted mentality and behavior.
And his hatred for himself...
Ji Chu looked at Cen Ping.
He was staring at her without blinking with his huge, golden eye, trying to see anger and despair on her face so that he could get pleasure from doing evil.
Ji Chu was not what he wanted.
She looked back expressionlessly, and the sword that was about to be drawn stopped, and she thrust it inward with force.
The sword brought out thick golden and red blood and pierced through the back of the snake's head.
The giant snake suddenly felt pain, its body twisted wildly, and its tail swept across the surrounding ruined buildings, smashing them into even more pieces.
Meng Yuci appeared beside Ji Chu. He wanted to take action to deal with Cen Ping, but when he saw Ji Chu's expression, he held back and waited for her decision.
Ji Chu actually didn't have the habit of torturing the defeated. Perhaps it was because of her personality, or perhaps it was because she inherited the sword skills from her senior brother. She was often too lazy to talk nonsense and just wanted to finish off the opponent with one sword.
But at this moment, she did not take Cen Ping's life immediately. Instead, she used her sword as a guide to pour her spiritual power into the giant snake's body, refining the evil energy and shattering the snake's body.
There was an unspeakable resentment in her heart, forcing her to see the truth, otherwise she would be dragged into the dark world.
The giant snake let out a shrill roar, and starting from the place where the sword was pierced, the snake's body began to crack and explode, revealing a pool of filthy blood underneath.
Meng Yuci used sword energy to freeze it in time to prevent the filth from splashing onto Ji Chu.
There was a trace of a paralyzed snake on the ground. Cen Ping could no longer maintain his snake body and turned back into a human form.
Ji Chu's sword pierced straight into his brain.
But he is not dead yet, and his other golden eye with divine power is still intact. The Last God will protect his soul. Even if one body is gone, he can still take over another body and be reborn, just like those gods.
But his soul could not leave this body, because the blade that was stuck in his brain unraveled like silk threads and pierced into his soul, binding him to this broken body.
Ji Chu's voice was calm, cruel, and full of mockery:
"Cen Ping, it's fine if you can deceive others, but how could you deceive yourself?"
"What do you mean?"
Cen Ping said angrily.
"You always say that it was my senior brother who killed your family, and you escaped by chance, so you came here to seek revenge. But look at yourself—"
Ji Chu used his sword energy to cut open the front of his clothes, revealing the old wound on his chest:
"The wound on your chest is wide and has rough edges. It's obviously a knife wound."
Cen Ping's expression became flustered.
He wanted to escape, but thousands of puppet shadows spread throughout his soul, exposing his past that he dared not show to others or recall.
Ji Chu continued:
"You really don't remember? That day, your mother's identity was exposed and she was killed by my senior brother. Your father was afraid that you were also a snake demon who would eat people without leaving any bones, so he raised his knife and chopped you off."
"No……"
Cen Ping wanted to shake his head and retreat, but he was unable to escape the control of the Thousand Silk Puppet Shadow and could only continue to listen.
"You dodged it, and that blow didn't kill you because my senior brother said when he killed the snake demon that his son wasn't a demon, but a mortal. Your father, thinking of you as his only son, softened his heart..."
"But you're ungrateful. As soon as the Fu Yu Xian Zong people left, you killed your father with a knife, swallowed the demon pill your mother had hidden, fled the village, and begged all the way to the foot of the Fu Yu Xian Zong mountain. There, you happened to meet Yuan Fu, a disciple of the Weapon Refining Hall, who was coming down the mountain to buy some goods."
"He took pity on you and offered you a helping hand, but you still took his life—"
As he spoke the last word, Ji Chu retracted the Thousand Silk Puppet Shadow and drew out his sword.
Cen Ping screamed and fell down, covering his right eye.
But his red-gold left eye was still wide open, and the gold color became thicker and thicker, diluting the vertical line in the middle. Finally, the eyeball broke out of his body in front of Ji Chu and Meng Yuci, and shot straight into the sky.
Ji Chu reacted extremely quickly, picked up his sword and followed up, slashing at it.
At the same time, an extremely strong demonic energy suddenly burst out from Cen Ping's body and rushed straight towards Ji Chu's back.
Ji Chu swung his sword towards the eyeball in the air, without paying attention to his back.
Fortunately, Meng Yuci shattered the evil spirit attacking Ji Chu with one sword, and then continued to chase after him with the sword, and directly chopped into pieces the soul of Cen Ping who was trying to escape.
Cen Ping's body was completely lifeless, and he fell on his back on the ground, leaving only his two empty eye sockets that were always looking towards Ji Chu in mid-air.
Ji Chu sensed the sword energy and demonic energy behind her, but she had no intention of looking back. Her eyes were only fixed on the red-gold eyeball in front of her.
The Xunzhen sword slashed through the air, and a crack appeared in the eyeball. Red-gold blood slowly seeped out, but the eyeball enlarged and expanded in front of Ji Chu, with the evil clouds in the sky as its socket, becoming a bloody golden eye.
When the bloodstain fell to the ground, the earth cracked instantly. In a split second, it was like a river flowing back into the sky. The rushing water turned into a mighty river in the blink of an eye, washing Ji Chu to the ground.
She climbed up with water all over her head and face, and saw Zhongli Bai's figure wrapped in a ball of golden light in the rolling water in front of her.
"Ji Chu!"
Zhongli Bai was lying in the light ball and yelled at her:
"The exit is behind your eyes! Go!"
Unexpectedly, Ji Chu ignored what he said, and jumped into the river without even looking at the exit behind the golden eyes.
Without saying a word, he slashed at the ball of light with his sword, trying to cut open the so-called "egg".
But to no avail, Zhongli Bai grimaced in pain instead:
"Don't cut it, don't cut it. This thing has grown into my soul. You can't cut it open. If you cut it, you'll be cutting me."
Ji Chu had no choice but to stop.
Zhongli Bai used the Four-Direction Compass to barely block some of the remnant spirits of the gods that were entangled with him.
Those things were like blood vessels in eggs, golden and translucent, wrapped around Zhongli Bai like tentacles, some of them pierced into his flesh and connected to his meridians.
Above his head, there was a ball of colorful mist that looked like a heart, surrounded by many translucent "blood vessels". The "blood vessels" became the medium for transporting the mist, which was drawn out from the "heart" and poured into Zhongli Bai's body, thereby invading and taking over his body.
Zhongli Bai and that "heart" are almost symbiotic.
Seeing this, Ji Chu put away his sword and placed one hand on the egg-shaped ball of light, feeling the thin but difficult-to-break membrane under his hand.
Zhongli Bai was worried:
"What are you doing? Don't get close to this thing. Leave quickly. As long as there is life, there will be no shortage of firewood..."
As soon as he finished speaking, he saw puppet shadow threads emerge from Ji Chu's fingertips, passing through the light ball along the "blood vessels" and climbing straight up to the golden "heart" above his head wrapped in colorful mist.
Those "blood vessels" formed by the remnants of the gods couldn't stop her!
Zhongli Bai's eyes suddenly widened, and the next moment, he suddenly felt the air around him stagnate, as if two extremely strong thoughts were contacting, arguing, and finally devouring each other.
Ji Chu's expression was unclear through the light ball, and he seemed to be in a daze.
He felt something was wrong.
At the same time, in the air above the water, the golden eyes felt Ji Chu's "egg against stone" action, and a bit of contempt and ridicule appeared in his eyes. A demonic energy was shot down, but was blocked by Meng Yuci's sword.
"Weak humans, relying on a piece of divine bone, think they can devour divine consciousness. They are overestimating their own capabilities."
Its bloodshot eyes turned to Meng Yuci:
"This is the man you're using against me?"
"As fellow gods, I wanted to help you ascend, but you are so ungrateful. If that's the case, then die!"
Under the divine pressure, the entire Tianxuan Secret Realm trembled.
Looking from outside the secret realm, it seemed as if two suns rose in the sky.
One of them became brighter and bigger, and even gradually seemed to be swallowing the sun, until it completely covered the real sun.
The sky and the earth suddenly darkened, and thunderclouds rose up, surrounding the group in the sky.
Wherever the edge of the secret realm reaches, all cultivators with spiritual power are sucked in.
In the secret realm, a river carrying spots of light flowed out from the pupils of the golden eyes and extended to the edge of the secret realm, but it continued to extend, swallowing more monks into the water.
One by one, balls of light wrapped in divine thoughts quickly surrounded the person, trapping them in the water, checking their memories, and fusing their souls in an attempt to completely take over their bodies.
"As for you, Meng Yuci."
"You have a demigod body, the best vessel in the universe. I cannot bear to waste it, so I will help you overcome the tribulations and ascend to immortality, and become my body."
The Last God was high above, like a real god ruling over all living beings. He said this to Meng Yuci, only to receive a sneer from the latter.
"I cannot become an immortal, and you are no longer a god."
"You are already evil demons."
Thunder roared.
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Ji Chu and the ball of light that bound Zhongli Bai were swept away by the sudden surge of water, and were thrashing around uncontrollably underwater.
"Ji Chu! Ji Chu! Wake up! Ji Chu!!!"
Zhongli Bai couldn't help but scream, but Ji Chu was completely unaware.
Seeing that her back was about to hit a sharp reef, Zhongli Bai wanted to die.
The next moment, the two were suddenly knocked away by a ball of light.
Zhongli Bai breathed a sigh of relief and turned around to meet Jiang Chengxu's cold gaze.
Zhongli Bai: “?”
He followed Jiang Chengxu's gaze and saw that Chen Wu was also nearby.
However, his mouth was blocked by the sticky, translucent substance in the light ball. The tentacle-like remnants of the gods clung to his limbs and struggled to drill into his soul. Only his eyes could move, and he was looking at Ji Chu next to Zhongli Bai with a worried look on his face.
He didn't have any protective magic weapon and only relied on a little spiritual power. He was unable to escape the control of the gods' residual thoughts. Naturally, he was more dangerous than Jiang Chengxu and the others.
But he couldn't take care of himself at this moment.
Ji Chu hasn't moved yet.
She was just trying.
The remnant of the gods has its own consciousness. Since it has consciousness, it is also controlled by the Thousand Silk Puppet Shadows.
Since it connected itself to Zhongli Bai and could not be cut with a sword, Ji Chu wanted to try to use the Thousand Silk Puppet Shadow to control the remnant of the God Clan and make it release Zhongli Bai.
No normal person would have such an idea.
Everyone is afraid of being controlled by divine thoughts, so who dares to think about controlling divine thoughts?
Ji Chu not only thought about it, she also did it immediately.
With the help of the divine bone to disguise its own breath, the thousand-thread puppet shadow plunged directly into the "heart" composed of clouds and mist without any hindrance.
But God's regret is much stronger than hers.
As soon as it touched her, she felt as if her soul was being strangled by it, just like looking directly at the sun and the moon hanging high in the sky, which made her dizzy and she almost wanted to kneel down and bow her head.
She told herself not to be afraid of fighting.
The gods are gone, and these remnants are just the gods' obsession to be resurrected. They are not gods, they are evil demons that want to take over the bodies of innocent people.
——She shouldn't be afraid of evil, let alone sympathize with it.
but……
But it conveyed to her its unwillingness. Unwilling to perish, unwilling to be annihilated by the laws of nature.
You monks, practice cultivation and seek immortality. How can this not be going against heaven?
And you, Ji Chu, unwilling to die a tragic death, were reborn to change your fate. In this life, how many lives of those who were originally alive have you taken?!
We just want to live, what's wrong with that?!
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