Chapter 56
The farce ended just as quickly as it began. By night, the inn had returned to its former state. I don't know if this kind of thing happened so often in the inn that the innkeeper was able to handle it with ease.
After dinner, Jitang went back to his room to weave a string and string the jade pendant, then gave it to Su Jinzhou.
Su Jinzhou took the jade pendant and put it around his neck.
Jitang leaned in closer to take a look: "Let me see how long it is."
The strands of hair on her forehead brushed against Su Jinzhou's chin, and he took a step back suddenly.
Ji Tang was puzzled: "What's wrong?"
She saw Su Jinzhou scratching his chin without looking at her, "It's quite suitable."
"As long as it's suitable, I'll go back to practice."
"Jitang!"
"ah?"
"...Don't practice too late, rest early."
Ji Tang narrowed his eyes and said, "I understand."
Although Jitang agreed, he had no concept of time when practicing. When he finished practicing, it was almost the hour of Yin.
She performed the body-cleansing technique and was about to go to sleep when she heard a slight prying sound outside the window.
Ji Tang leaned forward and looked out the window. The moonlight sprinkled on the window paper. A black shadow occupied most of the window paper, forming a semicircular arc. Ji Tang guessed that it was a person's arched back.
Dengtian City is full of cultivators, so prying through the window like this seemed clumsy. Even the fear of a dark shadow suddenly appearing outside the window in the middle of the night was offset a lot - although Jitang was not afraid either.
She took out the communication stone and injected a little nightmare energy into Su Jinzhou's spiritual power line.
The other person's image soon appeared in front of Jitang.
Su Jinzhou looked like he'd been asleep for a while, probably with his clothes on. His long hair was slightly disheveled, a few strands falling on his shoulders and collarbone. His collar was slightly open, and his eyes still shone with the moonlight, though they were slightly narrowed with sleep.
Ji Tang made a gesture to keep quiet, moved her body slightly, and let Su Jinzhou look at her window.
After the night was over, the boat immediately set off.
She gestured for peace of mind and said in a low voice, "I want to see who the fool is."
Su Jinzhou lowered his voice in agreement, "Be careful, there's a trap."
"If you have to pry open a window, what kind of trick can it be?" Ji Tang placed the communication stone on the wooden frame of the bed, and the image of Su Jinzhou also became smaller and appeared on the top of the bed.
Ji Tang lay down again, pretending to be asleep, "Catch him in the act, I'll catch him when he gets close to me."
Su Jinzhou's sleepiness was shattered by the black shadow. He sat up from the bed and asked, "You're not going to cover yourself with the quilt?"
Jitang then remembered and mouthed, "Oh, I forgot."
The room returned to silence.
After the man's efforts for a while, the window was finally pried open. Accompanied by a gust of cold wind, Jitang heard the sound of feet landing in the house.
She breathed shallowly, listening to the footsteps getting closer.
When he got closer, Jitang suddenly opened his eyes.
She thought she would scare the man, but he smiled as if he had expected it.
At the same time, Su Jinzhou's picture suddenly went dark.
Ji Tang suddenly became alert: "You set up a trap!"
The person who came was none other than the Roma disciple who had been pinned to the ground by the weight of the earth during the day. "How could someone break into Dengtian City through the window? You're just too stupid!"
Jitang had previously secretly cursed the person who pried the window for being stupid, but now he became the stupid one.
Without a word, she began to perform a spell, but the opponent was already prepared. Once the protective magic weapon was activated, Ji Tang's spell was blocked outside. Then, an unusual fragrance appeared in the room. Ji Tang hurriedly held his breath, but still inhaled a little.
She could discern the scent of several familiar herbs in the mixed aroma, all of which were used to make sleeping pills.
Ji Tang inhaled very little, and this amount was not enough to knock her down.
"Your target is my senior brother." Ji Tang looked at the tightly closed door. If he wanted to find his senior brother, he had to get past the person in front of him first.
"He's not that stupid. He must have been taken away by our people by now." The male cultivator shrugged and showed a malicious smile. "We don't take you, a little nightmare, seriously at all. He almost killed me with his earth-condensing pressure. I will let him taste the same pain!"
After the male cultivator finished speaking, he jumped out of the window and left, with Ji Tang following closely behind him.
As she chased, she took out the prepared antidote from her storage bag. Although it was not completely effective, it could reduce the effect of the drug.
Just as Jitang jumped out of the window to chase the male cultivator, her door was suddenly slammed open.
"Jitang!" Su Jinzhou saw the empty room and thought to himself that something was wrong. He turned around and was about to chase out the window, but the window was knocked down by a spiritual force.
The window closed again and Su Jinzhou turned around suddenly.
There was actually another person in the dark room, and neither he nor Jitang noticed it!
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Ji Tang chased after the male cultivator, but the more he chased, the more he felt something was wrong.
The male cultivator's cultivation level was not much different from hers. If his target was his senior brother, then after dragging her in the room for a while, he would have many ways to get rid of Ji Tang, instead of going around in circles like he was doing now, seemingly trying to delay time.
Jitang stopped immediately.
She turned back decisively and ran straight to the inn.
A sound of breaking wind suddenly sounded behind him, and Ji Tang dodged it by turning sideways. Then the male cultivator's voice came, "What a trouble." This sentence sounded more like a soliloquy, with a hint of irritable complaint.
When Ji Tang saw him slowly walking out from the shadows, she became alert and her hands were covered with nightmare energy.
The male cultivator suddenly bowed to Jitang.
Jitang didn't know what tricks he was playing and didn't react.
The male cultivator then said, "Disciple greets Master."
Another trick?
Without giving it much thought, Ji Tang used his nightmare energy to form a dark purple barrier to protect his front and back. However, just as the barrier behind him was formed, it was shattered by a powerful spiritual force.
There is someone behind me!
Before Ji Tang turned around, he felt a terrifying pressure pounce on him like a ferocious beast pouncing on its prey. Ji Tang suddenly felt a sharp pain in his back, and then he lost consciousness.
She was woken up by the cold.
The moment she woke up, her mind felt a little dull, and the chill from her body penetrated her flesh and blood, making her shiver uncontrollably.
For some reason, the nightmare energy couldn't be used, and Ji Tang curled up into a ball, her whole body almost frozen. She forced herself to put her hands together, but found that no matter how she rubbed them, she couldn't warm them up. So she forced herself to move, rolling on the ground. After a long time, she was finally able to stretch her limbs slightly and sit up.
This is a cave. The space inside the cave is not big, but it is filled with huge ice blocks all around, which directly turns the stone cave into an ice cave.
Jitang had very limited space to move around, so she ran around the ice trembling, trying to find an exit.
The ice was piled high and tightly together, and she couldn't move it by pushing or pulling with her strength alone.
The storage bag was taken away, and the biting cold was eroding the body every moment.
Ben Romon's men want to freeze her to death here.
Jitang tries to awaken the shark in his sea of consciousness.
Its current beast spirit form is very weak. It has been sleeping since leaving Haijinyunjian Island. Jitang is unsure whether he can wake it up.
She used the power of her soul to gently place it on the outer membrane of the beast spirit Sharkchi and called out softly several times. She didn't hear Sharkchi's response, and she became a little worried.
Just as she gave up, a voice appeared in her sea of consciousness. Shaqi said lazily, "You spoke so softly, it's a miracle I woke up."
Ji Tang placed very little spiritual power on the film, "I'm not worried that you will be affected by my spiritual power."
Shark: "The power of the soul at the initial stage of Lingji?"
Ji Tang: "Yes, yes, it's me who lacks self-awareness."
Sharky: "What if you don't wake me up? Will I freeze to death here? If you die, how can a little beast spirit like me survive?"
"You've turned into a little beast spirit again," Ji Tang said, shivering from the cold. She crossed her arms and rubbed her stiff arms vigorously. "Master Beast Spirit, I wanted to wake you up just in case. You're a tenant living in my sea of consciousness. If anything happens to me, won't you suffer too? I just want you to make plans early. I'm also thinking about what to do. There's nothing you can do in your current beast spirit state, right?"
Shark was choked by her and snorted, "Two people working together is always better than one person... Even though we are not human. Wrap me with your soul power and then take me out of the sea of consciousness for a short time. Let me take a look here."
Jitang agreed immediately.
She carefully wrapped Shaqi with her soul power, fearing that Shaqi's spirit would be corroded by the cold, and she did not stop until she had wrapped him in a thick layer.
She mobilized the power of her soul to bring out Shaqi. After Shaqi came out, he used Jitang's power to observe around in the cave.
"Who have you offended? I'm going to kill you!"
Ji Tang felt a chill in his heart when he heard this, "What about up there?"
Sharky: "It's airtight up there too. I don't see any way to get out."
"Is there nothing above?" Ji Tang looked up. It was pitch black above. She couldn't see clearly at all, but she believed what Sha Qi said.
"Those disciples of Ben Luomen look down on my Nightmare Clan, their words filled with contempt. I don't think they'll bother trapping me here. These ice blocks are so tightly packed, they must have been used as an ice cellar. If there's no exit here or above, then the only way out is down there."
They left Jitang here, so they must leave too.
Ji Tang squatted down and brushed off the dirt. "Since they can lock me up here, it means this is an ice cellar that is not often used. But it is relatively convenient to pass by or enter and exit. This way, we can leave someone here without delaying for too long." Ji Tang's hands were red from the cold, but she didn't care much. She started looking from the corner.
Sharky flew to her shoulder, "You want to dig three feet into the ground?"
"Is my hand a shovel?" Ji Tang raised her swollen hand and clenched it. She was extremely clumsy in performing a simple movement. She had no time to chat with Shaqi, so she bent down and continued.
Shark said, "How long will it take you to find it? They sealed your nightmare aura, but they didn't imprison your soul power. Use your soul power to find it!"
Ji Tang said speechlessly: "The power of the soul in the early stage of Lingji cannot be materialized yet." The reason why she could use the power of the soul to protect Shaqi was because Shaqi was in the state of beast spirit.
Shark suddenly paused, "I reached the peak of the Out-of-Body Stage in the blink of an eye. For a moment, I forgot that I needed to reach the Golden Core Stage to materialize my spirit."
You really deserve a beating!
Is this something a human can say?
Jitang: "Oh, you are not human."
Shark: “???”
Hard work pays off, and Jitang finally found a clue from an inconspicuous place.
She pushed the dirt aside, revealing a square stone with a rusty ring handle.
Ji Tang: "You go back to my sea of consciousness first, I'll go out and take a look."
Shaqi followed the spirit power that Jitang had taken back and went back with him. "Be careful."
Jitang pulled the ring with both hands and gritted his teeth to pull up the stone.
This weight would not be a problem normally, but now she was frozen all over and it was extremely difficult to pull it up.
The stones made a heavy, dull sound.
Jitang pulled the stone away in one go and stood aside.
Without taking a breath, she lay down on the rocks and listened. It was very quiet inside, no human voices could be heard. Ji Tang felt relieved and slowly walked in.
Under the stone was a long and narrow corridor with candles burning at regular intervals on the walls on both sides. When the candles were half burned, the dripping wax accumulated in a thick layer at the base.
This long path was quiet and silent, and the temperature was slightly higher than that of the cave. Jitang's movements gradually became smoother, but the itchy feeling all over his body would not disappear for a while.
She walked forward with a heavy heart. After walking about a dozen candlelights, the long and narrow corridor suddenly widened.
This was probably a temporary resting place, square and furnished with a simple wooden table and long chairs. A kettle on the wooden table was covered in dust, and there were some melon seeds and fruit peels that had been left there for who knows how long.
The temperature here is very low and there are no mosquitoes. The fruit peels just turn black and dry, but they haven't rotted or smelled bad yet.
Jitang came in from the corridor at the back, and there was another corridor opposite her.
Ji Tang finished reading quickly and finally stopped at the wooden shelf by the wall. Her eyes suddenly lit up and she saw her storage bag on the tattered wooden shelf.
Ji Tang got the storage bag and was about to open it when he heard two footsteps of different rhythms coming from the opposite corridor.
She dodged back to the corridor and reached into the storage bag.
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