"Yes, I recognize it. It was dug out of Pingchuan Valley." The Palace Master of Baihua Palace pulled her clothes tighter. "My master died because of this."
"Looks like my bluff was right all along?" Wen Jinge smiled with satisfaction.
The people in the room all looked unwell. Wen Jingge decided to stop while she was ahead, saying, "Things haven't been peaceful in the heavens lately. Those messengers can't resist coming down. Some secrets can only be kept by the dead. You'd better be careful."
“Messenger…” The young Lord of Senli Palace turned even paler. “I know, I know.”
"Alright, everyone disperse!" Wen Jingge had good hearing and knew without getting up that Bai Ru was waiting outside the courtyard gate, and that she had probably been waiting for a while.
"The demonic aura was very strong earlier; it must have been an ancient demon god lurking inside!"
Bai Ru barged in with his men; he was there to play the good cop, but...
Can anyone tell him what happened inside the house?
Wen Jingge sat languidly, slumped on the table like she had no bones, drinking tea. The others also each had a cup of tea in their hands.
They didn't seem as panicked as he had imagined!
What Wen Jingge wants to know is whether it was done or not?
Bai Ru was stunned. What should he do now?
It's impossible to capture a demon god. I'll never do it in my life. I can't beat it, and if I did capture it, I'd have nowhere to hide it. I might as well be friends with the demon god.
The compass in his hand stopped moving; judging from his state, the demon god was asleep.
The demon was finally knocked unconscious, and now he's trying to wake him up. What if he loses control?
Besides, Wen Jingge's eldest disciple is blocking the door; it would seem impolite for him to rush in!
"you……"
The situation became awkward.
Bai Ru stood at the door, holding a plate, unable to move forward or backward. "Master Wen, did you sense a strong demonic aura coming from the east earlier?"
"And then I saw you."
With his hands behind his back, the Lord of Senli Palace spoke insincerely with a blank expression. Wen Jingge noticed that the boy's hands were red from being pinched by her.
"We...we're playing dice." Wei Qian shook the dice that seemed to have appeared out of nowhere. "Guessing high or low, we're taking this too seriously, don't you all think so!"
"Yes, yes, yes." The leader of the Sun and Moon Alliance echoed, pulling out a bag of spirit stones with resentment, "I lost so much, I'm going to get scolded again when I get back."
Only the leader of the Tu Luo Sect was squatting in the corner, drawing circles on the ground with a twig. Anyone who didn't know better would think he was doing some profound study.
Bai Ru cleared her throat awkwardly and took a step back. "It's snowing and the roads are slippery. We...we also accidentally slipped into the yard, right?"
"Ahem, yes," the person in the courtyard replied awkwardly.
In no time, Bai Ru and his men disappeared from the courtyard.
Wen Jingge glanced at the four people in the room with a half-smile, "You sang quite well. Which troupe did you graduate from?"
"Hehehe..." The crowd chuckled awkwardly, "I am of limited talent and knowledge, and I am self-taught."
"I don't believe you guys." It's always the same. Every investigation only confirms some superficial facts that she already knows. Wen Jingge is fed up with this kind of life.
"Liang Si, see the guest out."
“Okay.” Liang Si came out from the inner room and whispered in Wen Jinge’s ear, his eyes warily scrutinizing the black iron coffin. “Master, I’ve remembered something else.”
"Will it thunder?" Wen Jingge asked first.
"……meeting."
"I'll tell you later."
Liang Si nodded. When he returned, he saw Wen Jingge squatting on the futon by the bed, while Lu Wei lay on the bed, his dream still restless.
Beside Wen Jingge was a small booklet, which she was reading aloud haltingly, as the wooden fish was gently struck.
“Master…” Liang Si called out to her, “You’re going to ruin things by doing this.”
"Bad news?" Wen Jingge ignored it. She was very anxious and really wanted to see what was inside Lu Wei's body. "That's perfect!"
She was initially tapping slowly, but gradually she found her rhythm and tapped faster and faster. Lu Wei suddenly opened her eyes and pounced on Wen Jinge like a puppet driven by the sound!
"Master!" Liang Si rushed forward. "Master, are you alright?"
The sound of the wooden fish stopped abruptly. Lu Wei rolled over and released his grip on Wen Jinge's neck. When he saw that it was Wen Jinge lying on the ground, he retreated in fear.
What did you do to me?
"Would you like to be more awake?"
Wen Jingge looked at the wooden fish in her hand. She had stolen it from the little monk on the hearse a few days ago. She made a replica and sent it back. It seemed that the monk hadn't noticed that it had been replaced.
"Hmm." Lu Wei turned his head away as if he didn't dare to look at her. "Don't do such risky things again next time, no matter what, no matter what you want to verify."
"How long will you be awake?"
“My opinion doesn’t count.” His head was still spinning, and he pressed his throbbing temples. “His opinion doesn’t count either.”
"The same as when you first met me?"
"Um."
"I think I understand some things now. Would you like to hear about them?"
"..." Lu Wei hesitated for a moment, looking very conflicted. Wen Jingge knew that he was probably struggling with the version of himself in his mind, just like she had back then. "Okay."
"Liang Si! Say what you want to say." Wen Jingge glanced at the beam above her head, moved it to another pillar, and placed the black coffin in the middle. "Alright, now we won't be struck by lightning."
Lu Wei was mentally prepared, but she was still annoyed by her wary attitude and wanted to complain. She was so different from the person he remembered. Why did he feel that she was Xiao Ge?
"I won't ask you about things you remember." Wen Jinge saw that he was still in a daze, so she casually threw a blanket over him. "It's snowing heavily down at Qinghe Mountain. If there's a hole in your roof later, you'd better wrap yourself up."
Lu Wei: "...Okay."
"your."
"Thank you, Master."
Liang Si also wrapped herself in the quilt. The three of them sat around the black coffin, all wrapped in small quilts, and all of them had the constitution to attract lightning. If one did not know, they would probably think that something was happening here.
"In my past life..."
Boom!
Liang Si gritted her teeth and continued, "My master committed suicide and asked me to bury you in this black coffin. At that time..."
A clap of thunder sounded, and the room erupted in a cacophony of noise as a storm raged with snow. Once the room quieted down a bit, Liang Si lifted her head from under the covers.
"Master, Grandmaster, are you two alright?"
"It's nothing..." Lu Wei said expressionlessly as he pulled his leg out of the roof tiles. "How did she die?"
"I killed her, didn't I?" He exhaled a breath of stale air and said in a muffled voice, "In my past life, I was ignorant and thought Master was targeting me. Later, I realized that Master was just deliberately ignoring me. It seems she was..."
Lightning and sparks began to gather overhead again, this time with even greater force than before.
"Go on!"
Lu Wei looked at the inky sky without fear. He had never been afraid of Qi Yun when he was alive, and now that he had died once, he was even less likely to be afraid.
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