"Master, is this... is this how it's arranged?"
"Otherwise what?" Wen Jingge said with a headache, "Ask your Grandmaster."
"Oh, okay..."
So, Qiao Yu began to ask and answer her own questions.
"What are you going to do?" Shan Hongxing asked warily, his ears perked up. He thought it was Wen Jinge who had come, but he didn't expect that the sword-wielding disciple with a demon inside him would also come.
He couldn't see clearly, but Wen Jingge was always shameless; she had stripped him naked before, and now...
"Don't rush, senior brother." He leaned against Wen Jinge, feeling a sharp pain in his heart, as if he had been electrocuted.
"I'm nothing but a useless person now, what do you think..."
"If my senior brother is a cripple, then am I even more useless? I'm just a mortal who hasn't even reached the ninth rank yet..."
"Cough cough cough." He coughed up blood again from anger. At this moment, Wen Jingge kindly wiped the corner of his mouth for him. "Senior brother, do you know what it feels like to watch the self-respecting fall, the self-pitying destroy themselves, and the proud be defiled?"
Shan Hongxing shuddered.
"Senior brother, your own Wind and Thunder techniques have been gathering dust for a hundred years and you haven't used them. Do you know that I have a habit of closing the mountain to practice my skills, and you think I won't come to take a look on a whim?"
Shan Hongxing had nothing to say.
"Senior brother, although I have lost my memory, I can still see your hostility."
Shan Hongxing continued to feign death.
“The hostility isn’t directed at me. It’s as if you think I’m a good-for-nothing, and you’re disappointed in me. You’re even happy to expose my true colors in front of others so that people can either belittle me or praise me.”
Shan Hongxing snorted coldly.
Wen Jingge found it somewhat amusing. "You are different from Senior Brother. I can't quite put my finger on how you are different. All of the Seven Peaks are Master's personal disciples. They all treat me well, but that kind of kindness makes me feel extremely cautious and uneasy, as if I'm walking on thin ice."
I've always felt that you guys are hiding something from me. The only one who doesn't know is probably Junior Brother Song. He's really dull-witted and spends most of his time on the mountain researching his own formations.
You should have known, but being a person of high moral character, you should have kept quiet, or perhaps you did report it only to find yourself a laughingstock.
Shan Hongxing tried to move, but Wen Jingge held him tightly in her arms. "Don't move. I won't ask you. Tell me yourself."
After calming down for a while, Shan Hongxing asked, "Then, what do you want me to do now?"
"I'll help you gather your energy. Just keep what happened today to yourself." Wen Jingge saw that his expression was stiff and hesitant, and knew that he didn't believe her. She said helplessly, "Once we leave here, we'll still be mortal enemies."
“You didn’t come here to practice martial arts,” Shan Hongxing said slowly.
If it's for practicing martial arts, there's no need to bring Qiao Yu along.
If the person they brought wasn't Qiao Yu, but that demon, then it makes even less sense.
Because Qiao Yu was called over by Wen Jingge later, and when she came in, she was reciting Buddhist verses, as if she were memorizing them.
It makes no sense that they came here for themselves.
Wen Jingge was seriously injured half a year ago. When she woke up, not only was her cultivation gone, but she also lost a lot of things in her mind.
When she and he met, it was as if they were enemies. Why would she specifically come to Red Maple Valley to find him in the dead of night? Who would believe that she didn't have the intention to harm him from the beginning?
"How much of Master's divination skills have you learned?"
"I haven't studied it." Wen Jingge really hadn't studied it. She did find a book in the library, but apart from the illustrations, she could barely understand it. However, after verification, there were many errors, and it wasn't as accurate as the book she had just asked herself.
"You didn't learn it?" Lu Wei didn't believe it.
"Am I exceptionally gifted? Can't I suddenly gain enlightenment? Do you understand what self-taught talent is?" Wen Jingge glared at him resentfully.
In the past, Qiao Yu found Lu Wei's demeanor pleasing to the eye, while Qiao Yu found him annoying. Now, however, the situation has completely reversed because Lu Wei has become more talkative.
"Was that the great demon from the illusion just now?"
"It is the real me."
Wen Jingge picked up a stone and threw it, "Now know your place, get back to your original self! Original self my ass!"
"..." Lu Wei's dignity was once again crushed by Wen Jingge, "If you keep going like this, no one will marry you. You're lazy, picky, smelly, and your cultivation isn't high. You can barely fight..."
"I'm almost 300 years old!"
"Wow!" Lu Wei clapped her hands, teasingly saying, "Great job!"
Wen Jingge: ...
Shan Hongxing: ...
"Master, Master..." Qiao Yu's eyes were brimming with tears. He was really about to cry. His original intention was to have his grandmaster come up and check if there were any mistakes in the formation he had set up, but now, his master seemed to be angry.
"None of your business."
"But the words... came from my mouth."
"Have you memorized the formation?"
Qiao Yu secretly glanced at Shan Hongxing. His complexion was getting worse and worse. Thinking that the formation was not yet completed, she couldn't help but get angry with herself again: "There's still one thing I haven't remembered. I need Grandmaster's help, help me."
"Yeah, just keep him under your thumb and vent your anger for me."
Wen Jingge had only said it casually, but Qiao Yu's eyes lit up unexpectedly. "Hmm, okay, okay, I can do that."
"What kind of formation?" Shan Hongxing gave up resisting. Wen Jinge's hand was on his pulse, and somehow, she made him feel much better.
“Seven Star Suppressing Nails,” Wen Jingge casually made up, “a corpse-nurturing formation, a formation that uses living people or the spiritual energy of heaven and earth to nourish the dead.”
"A living person?" Shan Hongxing bit his lip, clearly having misunderstood. "You mean a living person?"
"I've only ever used magic, never living people." Wen Jingge looked outside. The mist in Maple Red Valley was the thickest outside of the Illusionary Realm. Why was she tinkering with formations at Ten Thousand Zhang Peak instead of Maple Red Valley for those fifty years?
"A demon?" His empty eyes looked at Qiao Yu again. "You sealed him away for this? To keep him around and help you..."
"Help me kill you?" Wen Jingge scoffed, flicking the man's forehead without warning. But she had already gone even further than that, so she didn't take it to heart. "I do not need his help. I will kill you, but not now. You are not strong enough."
After she finished speaking, she paused for a moment, her gaze unconsciously turning to Qiao Yu.
That last sentence wasn't said by her.
"Don't look at me!" Lu Wei suddenly switched to another person. "If I were you, I'd go and kill myself right now. It's so annoying how you're always interfering with everything."
Wen Jingge: ...
"Even if you kill the small ones, there will always be bigger ones. You're just asking for trouble!"
"..." If she weren't still holding Shan Hongxing, she would have really wanted to go up and smear him to death right now.
Those two in her head, do they think she wants to?
If it weren't for the need for a balancing method, she wouldn't have fed Qiao Yu that bowl of medicine. Qiao Yu is now balanced. She drank it herself, so why isn't it working?
Shan Hongxing originally intended to make a sarcastic remark to her, but the two of them confused him. "What do you mean by small and big?"
"Don't speak, concentrate, gather your energy, quick, the formation is ready." Wen Jingge interrupted him and helped him up.
Shan Hongxing wasn't one to procrastinate. Being held like this by Wen Jingge was extremely embarrassing, but there was no one more suitable than her here, and he couldn't be happier to have a chance to end the show early.
"Remember, you owe me a favor. If you catch a demon in the future, you have to secretly give it to me."
"do what?"
“Research, research.”
Shan Hongxing: ...
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