The men in black robes seemed to freeze in time. They stared in astonishment at Wen Jingge, who had come back from the dead. After hesitating for a moment, as if confirming something, they knelt down again: "Welcome back, Ancestor!"
"If anyone says that to me again!" Wen Jingge clicked her tongue uncomfortably, "I'll beat them so badly their own mother wouldn't recognize them."
"Who is Mom?"
"Your mother!"
“I don’t have a mother,” Lu Wei said.
Wen Jingge took a deep breath, unsure how to explain it to him for the moment, but then she heard him say, "They probably don't have it either. It doesn't seem like something that exists in this world, and..."
Lu Wei gazed at the sky with a worried expression. "The so-called Heavenly Ladder, even after you've been dead for so long, I still haven't seen it."
There was never a ladder to heaven.
"Um?"
"I only learned about the legend of the Heavenly Ladder after coming here."
“Yes,” Lu Wei replied. “This is the birthplace of the legend. If the Heavenly Ladder has never appeared here, how can outsiders believe that it ever did?”
“That god.” Wen Jingge squatted down, looked at Wen Xueshan’s dismembered body on the ground, and nodded to Lu Wei, “Did you kill him?”
"He committed suicide."
"Oh, at least you have a conscience."
Wen Jingge remained as carefree as ever. The fact that she had died once did not seem to have any negative effects on her. On the contrary, Lu Wei seemed uncomfortable around her.
"Do you think I should resurrect him?"
“So…” Lu Wei pointed to the tree behind her, “you died, your soul was absorbed by it, and you learned something from it?”
"I didn't learn anything!" Wen Jingge waved her hand. "They did want me to learn something, but I chased them away in the end."
“I remember…” Lu Wei opened his mouth, but how did he pronounce that sentence that a monk was supposed to say?
Why are Buddhist sayings followed by "overwhelming force"?
"I see!" Wen Jingge quickly twirled her hands, forming a hand seal. "This way, it'll look more imposing when you push it out."
Lu Wei: ...
Lu Wei admitted that he had never been able to keep up with Wen Jingge's train of thought, so he had to find something to do. "Aren't you going to tell them to get up?"
"What does it have to do with me if they have to kneel?" Wen Jingge cradled Wen Xueshan's head and body against the ancient ginkgo tree.
She had previously emerged from the tree trunk, and the wood chips had shaken Lu Wei to her core. But now, the tree had been restored, as if the wood chips on the ground and she herself were fake.
"There's something strange about this tree!"
"Anyone can see that, okay?" Lu Wei's voice gradually lost its confidence as she retorted, "Even a demon could barely tell."
"Pfft!" Wen Jingge couldn't help but laugh. She put her arm around Lu Wei's shoulder. "Why have you become so timid? You weren't like this before!"
Seeing that he wouldn't speak, Wen Jingge teased him even more, tugging at his reddened ear and shaking it, "Hey! Why are your ears red! Look, you're even having thoughts of dying for me, and neither of us is married..."
"I have it!" he said, and walked to the side.
Wen Jingge lost her support and almost fell to the ground, but her face did not show disappointment, but rather understanding: "Oh... so you have someone you like! Tell me about him! Is he handsome? Is he as good-looking as me? Why are you hiding from me! You are a demon who participated in the war between gods and demons!"
Lu Wei was restless and wanted to hide, but no matter where he hid, Wen Jingge could still see his embarrassment thanks to her agility.
"Oh, brother, tell me!"
"Ancestor!" Lu Wei rolled her eyes at her, "You're definitely many generations older than me!"
He was jealous of Wen Jingge's talent when he first woke up, but now, with Wen Jingge's strength being revealed...
He suddenly realized that what he knew, what Xuan Yun Sect knew, including what the fortune teller knew about Wen Jinge, might never have been the real Wen Jinge.
This person, if he were an enemy, would be terrifying.
Everyone has inner demons, but she lived carefree.
His occasional seriousness only makes him more unserious. While it may fool people, it will eventually ruin his persona.
The tree didn't take her life; it was clearly trying to give her something, but she escaped, and escaped so freely, showing no concern for those past memories.
If it were him, Lu Wei thought, if he had even one chance to know what happened back then, he would definitely not give it up.
“Then…” Wen Jingge bit her lower lip, suddenly becoming serious.
The men in black robes naturally dared not make a sound. Wen Jingge did not tell them to get up, so they knelt quietly on the ground and did nothing.
The rustling of leaves overhead made the scene much quieter without their bickering. What should have been a peaceful and serene scene became somber because of Wen Jinge's unusually solemn demeanor.
Before he could finish uttering the syllable, he saw Wen Jingge's gaping maw and her smile, like an old witch.
"Am I old enough to be your mother?"
Lu Wei's head went numb, and she wished she could faint.
This is Wen Jingge!
How could he possibly expect to hear human speech from her?
"If you do this, I'm leaving!"
“Your soul cannot leave; you can only stay inside me and be taken out by me.”
Wen Jingge blinked at him, her dark eyes darting around in their sockets, making her seem more innocent, like a naive girl who would still help count the money even if she were sold out.
Forced by the pressure to survive, Lu Wei had no choice but to follow her closely, asking, "What did you learn in the tree?"
"A bunch of overconfident..." She thought for a moment, then carefully chose her words, "Just ants! They can't change anything."
"Change……"
“That god,” Wen Jingge placed her hand on Wen Xueshan’s forehead, “you can come up now.”
"Um?"
"Take advantage of my weakness to enchant me; if you miss this opportunity, you'll never get out."
"You're not kidding?"
“No.” Wen Jingge thought for a moment and then said, “Originally, I was thinking of not saving him and giving you his body, but then I suddenly remembered where your body is.”
Lu Wei's heart skipped a beat. She looked at the tree again and asked uncertainly, "It... told you?"
"Asking the gods, asking the gods, hahaha..." Her eyes were full of sarcasm. "Luckily, I used to be an atheist. If I had actually believed in this stuff, I would have ended up finding that the god was myself. I would have had to kill myself!"
Lu Wei: ...
"We've robbed them."
Her gaze swept across the main square, where the wind chimes on the altar swayed as if someone had come with the wind.
The wind swirled the leaves and lifted her sleeves as she called out, "Come on up!"
Lu Wei took the opportunity to enter her body. Her meridians were full, making her more suitable for parasitism than Qiao Yu's body. Her broad meridians were like the rings of a tree.
He even had an immoral thought: if the war between humans and demons were to reignite in the future, and Wen Jingge were to also become a demon, this body might be able to bear many demons who were now just souls.
"That madman blocking the way is the god who is coming to be killed."
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