“You said…” Lu Wei yawned, feeling more relaxed than ever before.
After all, it's not unusual to see a fanatical follower dedicate his life to his religious leader.
But what if the cult leader runs away halfway, leaving his followers to face unprecedented storms alone?
Lu Wei slept next to Wen Jinge's corpse all day long. He was a soul and didn't need to eat.
These things, although not human, still need to eat.
At first, Wen Xueshan was worried that he would run away, but later she found that he had no such intention at all, so she stopped caring about him.
"How many days?" Before even opening her eyes, she could tell from the sound of footsteps that Wen Xueshan had arrived.
The leaves on this ancient ginkgo tree are still bright red, and new leaves are sprouting, but the leaves that grow are not green but red.
"It's been half a month."
"Where exactly is this place?" Lu Wei remembered that when he was alive, he had never heard of any other place besides the Dianshan Mountains. Could it be a place name that appeared in later generations?
In short, it does not exist in the human world.
"So your ancestors' surname was Wen?" Every day I leave Wen Jingge, I discover something good about her.
At least, when Wen Jinge was around, he wouldn't have become such a chatterbox, to the point that everyone dislikes him.
No one paid him any attention, except for Wen Xueshan who would occasionally say a few words to him.
“It’s been so long, I’ve forgotten.” Wen Xueshan looked at the tree and sighed for a long time. He stroked the trunk with great reverence: “I’ve been waiting here since this tree was a sapling. Now, it’s too big for five people to hug.”
“That’s quite a long time.” He nodded in agreement and then straightened the blanket around Wen Jinge.
He also found it strange that the person had been dead for so long and had bled out completely.
But she still seemed to find it refreshing, as if she were simply asleep.
"Won't something happen if I just leave her like this?"
Wen Xueshan opened her mouth, as if she had been asked a question that had left her bewildered, "What happened?"
"Snakes, insects, rats, and ants."
“No.” He shook his head. “Grandmaster is a lord of the land, a god. She carries the blessings of countless believers. Her physical body will not decay, and snakes, insects, rats and ants cannot harm her body.”
Is that so?
"yes."
When will that ladder be able to come down?
Wen Xueshan looked up at the ginkgo tree. Its trunk had never been pruned, and it had been climbing ever since, its height far exceeding that of ordinary trees, as if it had already reached the sky.
“I…don’t know…” he said, bewildered.
He suddenly remembered that the first time he performed this ceremony on behalf of his master, he was terrified and died. At that time, Mang said that the Heavenly Ladder had come down...
Then, for some unknown reason, he woke up the day before the ceremony, and in the days that followed, he kept repeating the same fate of being killed, falling asleep, being killed, falling asleep...
He had never seen a real ladder to heaven.
Wen Xueshan felt a momentary daze. He reached out and grabbed the nearest black-robed figure, pointing at the ancient ginkgo tree and asking, "Did you see the Heavenly Ladder? Did you see the Heavenly Ladder? The Heavenly Ladder? Has it appeared?"
The man in black robes nodded, then shook his head, and finally broke free and ran away out of fear.
Wen Xueshan ran away, grabbing the man in black robes as he went and asking, "Did you see that? The Heavenly Ladder! Has the Heavenly Ladder appeared?"
"I think..." Lu Wei rubbed her face, looking very troubled, "I've become just as annoying as you. For no reason at all, I've driven people crazy with my words."
He poked Wen Jingge's face; it was still soft, as if it were warm.
So he also stretched out the hand that was tucked in his sleeve.
With both hands, on both sides of the face, as if they had discovered something fun, they kept poking and prodding.
"Sigh! You know what, you're really easygoing. I wish you were always this approachable, what a pity..."
With a jolt, Lu Wei withdrew his hand, as if only then realizing she was dead. He looked at his empty hand and said dejectedly, "I'm sorry! I didn't mean to."
He picked up her head and gently wiped the dust off her face with his sleeve, but the more he wiped, the dirt became more and more smudged. He said angrily, "Look at you, you can't even rest in peace after you're dead, you still need me to take care of you."
"I didn't see it, I didn't see anything, I didn't see anything..."
Wen Xueshan returned at some point, looking completely lost and out of sorts, as if he had been crying.
No, he's crying right now.
"Liars! Liars! They're all liars!" He stood under the ancient ginkgo tree, kicking it repeatedly, but the tree was too big, and the harder he kicked, the more it hurt. "They're all liars..."
"Hey!" Lu Wei didn't look up, and was seriously wiping Wen Jinge's face with water. "I saw that your arms were cut off, and they were just snapped back together like that. Tell me, if she had cut off your heads, could you have put them back together?"
Wen Xueshan just stared at him quietly. Just as Lu Wei felt uneasy under her gaze and had to look up, he saw Wen Xueshan draw her knife.
"Hey! No, no, you can kill me if you want, I know I've been causing too much trouble lately." Lu Wei waved the handkerchief in his hand. "Your ancestor's face is dirty, can I wipe it clean before you kill me?"
Lu Wei's eyes widened, and Wen Xueshan, without saying a word, slit her own throat.
The handkerchief in his hand was startled and fell to the ground with a thud. The black-robed figures in the distance suddenly looked over, as if they had all been summoned.
"You, you don't come any closer! Don't come any closer!" Lu Wei hugged Wen Jinge's head and backed away. After thinking for a moment, he picked her up again.
Wen Jingge's blood had already been absorbed by the tree. Apart from the bloodstains on her clothes that couldn't be absorbed, her body was relatively clean. Wen Xueshan was bleeding again, and he didn't want her to get dirty any more.
“I’m telling you! If you come any closer, I’ll throw your ancestors away.”
Wen Xueshan on the ground blinked, as if he wanted to say something, but in the end he couldn't. He was dead.
Like Wen Jinge, his death was also sudden.
Lu Wei looked at the person and head in his arms, then at the person and head on the ground. Before the group of inhuman creatures could get close, he picked up the Demon Harp Sword from the ground. "Wait a minute! Is it that easy to cut off a head? Or is this sword really that fast?"
He leaned Wen Jingge against a tree, raised his sword, and held it to her neck.
"Mani Mani Hum! Overwhelming force!"
Lu Wei felt a jolt, wood chips flew everywhere, and he was almost knocked over by the shockwave.
Wen Jingge's body flew out, and he flew after her, trying to catch her, only to find that her body had turned into dust.
Lu Wei: ...
"You love me that much?" An annoying voice sounded from behind him, and he turned around.
Wen Jingge cautiously approached him and snatched the Demon Harp Sword when he wasn't looking. "Well? After we've made up for the lack of proper etiquette, it's not too late for you to die for me!"
"Wen Jingge!"
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