Chapter 211 Life and Death Without Blame (Part 8)
Caught off guard, he was pulled into someone's arms, and warm breath sprayed on the back of his neck. Wei Feng subconsciously tensed his back, but soon the familiar scent enveloped him.
"Master?" He lowered his voice, trying his best to suppress the urge to merge the primordial spirit into the back of his body.
The pale golden spiritual energy covered the pitch-black primordial spirit. Jiang Gu loosened his grip slightly, but did not release the person. He calmly said, "There are arrays everywhere outside. You only have this piece of primordial spirit now. If you go out, you will be discovered."
Wei Feng was easily persuaded, but he still sniffed it again, the unfamiliar scent of perfume from overseas setting off alarm bells. "Master, is there someone else in your spirit pet pouch again?"
Jiang Gu ignored his question and said coldly, "Answer my question first."
Wei Feng touched his neck guiltily, "I pulled a string."
"What?" Jiang Gu asked, puzzled.
Wei Feng steeled his heart, turned around, and boldly touched behind his ear. "I stole the divine artifact from the teleportation array in Yong'an City before, which is the Marriage Chart. Then I... studied it a bit."
His fingertips were icy cold, but Jiang Gu didn't flinch. "And then?"
"Then I discovered that although the Marriage Chart can only form a Daoist Couple Contract, with a slight modification and the addition of the Ghost Pattern to replace the red thread using the Shadow-Changing Array, it can silently connect the seas of consciousness of two people, allowing their primordial spirits to freely enter and exit." Wei Feng became increasingly uneasy as he spoke, "So I secretly tried it."
Jiang Gu recalled how the man had always turned into mist and clung to him a while ago, leaving behind a few wisps of ghostly patterns and mist each time. He hadn't paid any attention to it, but he never expected to fall for this guy's trick.
“…I only dared to put in a tiny bit each time.” Wei Feng said with a docile expression, “It took a lot of effort, and I never thought I could succeed.”
He had long realized that President Jiang wanted to abandon him, so he had to prepare for the worst.
Jiang Gu was amused by his smug look. "So happy?"
Wei Feng immediately shook his head and said seriously, "Master, this is the fastest and safest way to contact you. Otherwise, we will be constantly monitored by Xiao Dan and restricted in every way."
Jiang Gu looked at him with some surprise, "What do you mean?"
Wei Feng chuckled and said, "You and Jiang Xiangyun had already planned this, right? He took Xiao Qingyan and those people from the Burning Platform Hall to the Tower of Life and Death, saying he wanted to get the Eighteen Cages and use the three divine artifacts to open the Boundary Realm. But it was just a pretext for you to mislead Xiao Qingyan. In reality, you only wanted to get the Golden Spirit Pagoda... or you had other methods."
Jiang Gu's eyebrows twitched slightly. "Anything else?"
Wei Feng didn't think too much about it. What was more tempting to him was to find Jiang Gu, but being looked at like that by him made him inexplicably nervous. "Xiao Qingyan himself may not know, but if you think about it carefully, you can understand. How could Xiao Dan really let such an important person get out of his control? Moreover, he took away one of the artifact keys, the Mirror Flower Scroll. I think he is more likely to use Xiao Qingyan to do something detrimental to you. When he took the initiative to give me his memories on the flying boat, I felt something was wrong."
"Hmm." Jiang Gu nodded, signaling him to continue.
Wei Feng asked with some surprise, "You know he gave me my memories?"
"Why do you think I sent you a telepathic message?" Jiang Gu glanced down at the hand that was resting on his arm, but didn't move.
Wei Feng suddenly realized and said, "I was wondering why you suddenly sent a telepathic message. I almost forgot you had the Fire Rope monitoring me."
He retorted, "You can freely enter my sea of consciousness, but I only sneak into yours once and you're unwilling to accept it. That's not fair."
He practically threw himself into Jiang Gu's arms, but Jiang Gu didn't budge. "You've finished reading?"
"No." Wei Feng changed the subject guiltily. "That's not important. Anyway, it's strange that Xiao Qingyan was able to be taken away by us. I'm not targeting him, it's just an objective fact."
“Mm,” Jiang Gu agreed.
"And Jiang Xiangyun, he actually revealed every detail of your plan in front of everyone. On the surface, it was a warning to me, but with so many people present, I almost thought he was going to betray us." Wei Feng looked disgusted. "You must have planned this all along, putting on this show just to distract Xiao Dan."
Jiang Gu looked at him with a hint of appreciation, "Not bad."
Wei Feng looked at him expectantly, "So I guessed everything correctly?"
"You guessed half right," Jiang Gu said. "It would be best if we could get the eighteen cages. We could then use this as a pretext to actually open up the border town, but that's unlikely."
"So what exactly do you want to do?" Wei Feng asked.
"You didn't expect that?" Jiang Gu looked at his face as it drew closer and rubbed his fingertips.
Wei Feng frowned and said, "I felt something was wrong when I saw Xie Chichun in the Tower of Life and Death. He was clearly already dead."
“Xie Chichun?” Jiang Gu said, “He survived the entire trial and did not perish.”
“Yao Li said the same thing, but he died at Chu Guanshan's hands two years ago. My avatar was right next to him at the time, and I even consumed more than half of his primordial spirit,” Wei Feng said. “That’s why I suspect that Wang Yue and the others have a way to resurrect. And then you came directly to Shun Ni Lou, and even asked me to come over after I got the Eighteen Cages…”
He still couldn't figure out Jiang Gu's purpose, "Anyway, there's a problem."
Seeing this, Jiang Gu stopped keeping him in suspense. "Back then, when you were looking for Qu Fengyu, news of Jiang Xiangyun came back that she had been taken away by Song Chongshi. But when the second level ended, his name on the list had turned gray. He was indeed dead. So we suspect that Wang Yue and the others all had a split soul left behind. It wasn't like us, where we were divided into primary and secondary, but rather directly split in two, which is equivalent to them having an extra life."
“But some people did die in the Trial Realm back then,” Wei Feng said.
“We suspect that this privilege is only available to a small number of people, and there is only one chance. Yan Huairan is very likely to have died once before, just like Xie Chichun, so he will not appear again.” Jiang Gu said in a deep voice, “There must be an extremely rare artifact supporting this matter.”
Wei Feng vaguely understood his meaning, "Golden Spirit Pagoda?"
“We cannot rule out this possibility,” Jiang Gu said. “Almost everyone in Wangyue Realm has a very filthy and dirty primordial spirit, and the degree varies. The Golden Spirit Pagoda has a very close relationship with everyone. The dirtier the primordial spirit, the greater the relationship with the Golden Spirit Pagoda.”
Upon hearing this, Wei Feng looked down at his dark primordial spirit and quietly moved away from Jiang Gu.
Seeing his reaction, Jiang Gu suddenly didn't want to continue. "Your primordial spirit is special."
Wei Feng tugged at the layer of pale golden spiritual energy covering his primordial spirit and muttered, "Hmm."
"...This is to—" Jiang Gu wanted to say that it was to prevent spiritual communication, but Wei Feng interrupted him.
"Before I came, I had already brought Jiang Xiangyun and the others to the sixteenth floor. Originally, I wanted to kidnap Xie Chichun to threaten Xie Chenglian, but after thinking about it carefully, Xie Chenglian might not care about his younger brother, so I was thinking of other ways." Wei Feng said as if he were reporting to him, "I just... missed you, and also wanted to try out the marriage compendium to see if it works."
After he finished speaking, he took a step back uncomfortably. "Master, I will put this fairy away. I will come to find you as soon as I get the eighteen cages."
Seeing him turn around, Jiang Gu said coldly, "Can your primordial spirit withstand it?"
"It's alright." Wei Feng forced a smile, then added, still unwilling to give up, "Master, the mist is much cleaner than the primordial spirit, and once I get my body back, it can turn into white mist."
As long as he transforms into mist, even black mist, his master won't mind. He can also barely get close to him in human form, but not in his primordial spirit. It's ugly and dirty, so it's understandable that his master doesn't like it.
Jiang Gu frowned, his expression turning cold.
Wei Feng seemed to finally understand why his master had always refused to communicate with him spiritually. He felt a pang of sadness and turned to leave his sea of consciousness, but someone grabbed his wrist.
He turned his head and looked at Jiang Gu in astonishment, "Master?"
"Rest for two hours before you leave." Jiang Gu stared at him unhappily. "Your vital energy can't withstand such a drain. Don't use this method again next time."
Wei Feng's bitterness and sadness vanished instantly, and he asked, flattered, "Rest here?"
This is Jiang Gu's sea of consciousness; normally, he can't even stay here a moment longer no matter how shameless he tries.
"Okay." Jiang Gu didn't let go of his hand and led him to a place with abundant spiritual energy. "Don't wander off."
Wei Feng nodded vigorously, "Don't worry, Master, I won't pollute your sea of consciousness."
"..." Jiang Gu looked at him and said, "Your primordial spirit is naturally like this, it is not dirty."
Wei Feng was stunned.
Jiang Gu raised his hand to remove the spiritual power covering his primordial spirit, and a magic array appeared in his hand. However, Wei Feng was even faster than him in forming the array and suddenly pounced on him.
The dark primordial spirit and the golden primordial spirit merged for a fleeting moment, only to be immediately enveloped and separated again by the magic array. The pleasure brought by that instant spiritual communion was like drinking poison to quench thirst. Wei Feng pressed him down, looking at him with a mixture of grievance and eagerness, "Master?"
Jiang Gu was pinned down in his sea of consciousness by him, and calmly completed what he had just said, "If you don't like spiritual power, you can use an array instead."
Wei Feng looked at him with disappointment, realizing that he didn't actually want to communicate with him on a spiritual level.
His eyes were red, as if he was about to cry. Jiang Gu sighed almost imperceptibly, raised his hand to hold the back of his neck, and kissed him.
Wei Feng's pupils trembled, yet the touch on his lips was so real that he responded eagerly. Despite the array blocking his way, he still tried to use the Marriage Chart to merge with Jiang Gu's primordial spirit. The pleasure was like scratching an itch through a boot. He knew he couldn't touch it, but he still desperately absorbed the aura of Jiang Gu's primordial spirit, his sharp canines biting into Jiang Gu's collarbone.
The clothes formed from spiritual energy were torn to shreds by Wei Feng. Jiang Gu raised his hand to push Wei Feng's head away and said in a calm voice, "That's enough."
Wei Feng swallowed hard, then sniffed Jiang Gu's neck again. The ghost patterns covering his body weren't enough. He lowered his head to bite the array separating their souls, but then heard a soft laugh.
He blushed and raised his head, leaning in to lick Jiang Gu's lips, as if wanting to taste that smile as well.
Jiang Gu raised his hand and touched his face, and Wei Feng obediently rubbed against his palm.
"Have you seen all the memories Xiao Qingyan gave you?" Jiang Gu asked in a deep voice.
Wei Feng turned to kiss his wrist, boldly biting his lip and mumbling, "No, I only saw a little bit."
"Who did you see?" Jiang Gu asked again.
Wei Feng stiffened and said in a muffled voice, "Nobody, just some insignificant people I don't know."
Jiang Gu stroked his soft earlobe. "Don't take it to heart."
Wei Feng immediately felt relieved and wanted to lean in and kiss him, but the primordial spirit that he had been pressing down on him suddenly dissipated, leaving him empty-handed.
He was immediately pulled up. Jiang Gu was dressed neatly and looked indifferent. He reached out and helped him tie the slightly messy belt on his primordial spirit. "That's enough. Let's go back."
Wei Feng was reluctant, "Two hours is still early."
Jiang Gu glanced at him indifferently, his eyes cold as if he hadn't just kissed him. Wei Feng, still caught up in his excitement, rushed forward and kissed him hard before finally emerging from his daze, not daring to look back at Jiang Gu's expression.
Jiang Gu remained expressionless.
He stood in his sea of consciousness, the spiritual energy ball he had just taken from Wei Feng appearing in his palm. Inside were Wei Feng's sealed memories, but unfortunately, he couldn't see them using his ghostly body like Xiao Qingyan did.
A cold glint flashed in Jiang Gu's eyes as a fierce, pale golden spiritual energy surged into his palm.
The small ball that sealed the memories instantly turned into dust and was swept away by the gale.
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