Chapter 128: Heaven
Amidst the agonizing sounds of chewing and roaring, Xiao Wu cautiously insinuated, "Um...are we just going to just watch?"
Although it is satisfying to see evil punished, based on the rumored style of Lord Jiunian, is it really necessary to send people to the underworld for trial according to the law?
"What if they finish eating those two..."
Jiu Nian was quite calm: "Isn't it good?"
Qing Bai was also very calm: "Okay."
Xiao Wu: “…”
Good, good, why not? Just eat it all up and don’t even bother with the humanitarian act of collecting the bodies.
"Hello? Can anyone give me a hand? Hello!" Fat Qi, who had been quiet for a long time, started splashing in the pool again.
"Is it the real person this time?" Xiao Wu was also afraid of him. This guy's physique was really weird. It would have been fine if she couldn't tell his lifespan, and she could also say that it was because she was not skilled enough, but after soaking in the Nai River for so long, even a weight should have melted, but this guy was fine, it looked like he just caught a cold.
"I have always been myself." Qi Xiaopang's voice was vague.
Despite his complaints, Xiao Wu still reached out to pull the person back. However, this pull almost made Xiao Wu scream: "Ahhh you you you! Why are your hands so soft?"
Fat Qi didn't understand Xiao Wu's reaction and muttered, "Maybe it's because I'm fat? Of course fat is soft."
Qing Bai was attracted by their movements and leaned over to see what was happening. He saw Xiao Wu gesticulating excitedly, "No, no, no! This softness of yours isn't the softness of fat! It's that kind, that kind... soft as if it has no bones! Like clay with too much water in it! I just put some pressure and my fingers sank in!"
"Huh?" Qi Xiaopang lowered his head and checked his thick hands over and over again.
Before I could figure out what was going on, I heard Qing Bai ask, "What did you mean by saying I've always been myself?"
Qi Xiaopang paused, revealing a somewhat guilty smile: "Haha, that's exactly what it means..."
Facing Qing Bai's piercing gaze, Fat Qi held out for only a few seconds before surrendering and confessing everything: "When I fell into the pool, I was faced with a pile of corpses at the bottom. The female corpses were so densely packed, stacked up, and twisted beyond recognition. I'd never seen such a scene before. I nearly choked to death!"
"Then Liu Yixin came out. She told me that someone was hiding among the corpses and asked me to help them. She also told me the origin of those female corpses!"
At this point, Fat Qi beamed with pride. "Did you know? Those clay figurines in the ancestral hall are a form of oppression in themselves! Thanks to our sudden inspiration and the idea of using the figurines as footrests, we were able to accidentally untie their restraints!"
"I see," Qing Bai said calmly, "So how did you help them? Lend your body to Liu Yixin to possess?"
Brother Qing seemed angry... Qi Xiaopang thought to himself that it was not good, and his words became more cautious: "Well, it's not entirely true... I even helped her scatter her ashes on those female corpses..."
Scattering ashes? Why did Liu Yixin scatter her ashes on the corpse? Was it a way to express her resolve? Or was it a way for her to connect with them?
Qing Bai and Xiao Wu suddenly had a thought at this moment, and some images of sprinkling cumin and chili powder on various skeleton meats during barbecue flashed through their minds.
As for Jiunian, he was still looking at Qi Xiaopang with a thoughtful look in his eyes.
Qi Xiaopang's brows knitted together as he muttered indignantly, "Those sisters' experiences are so heartbreaking and heartbreaking! They're truly tragic! Liu Yixin said they wanted revenge, but can it be just revenge? This is clearly a fight for justice! A rebellion against a tragic fate! Then I must give my full support and do my bit to help them!"
"Besides, isn't Liu Yixin your old classmate, Brother Qing? She's not a bad person. If her ashes are scattered, her soul will be unstable, so I'll let her—"
Before Qi Xiaopang could finish his words, the black fog in the air that had been making shrill roars suddenly fell silent. Everyone looked up and saw that the black fog suddenly dispersed, and a bloated black shadow with bony limbs and a round belly shot out from it and went to the back of the ancestral hall.
"Hiss... is that, is that Xuanhe?" Xiao Wu blinked violently, suspecting he was seeing things. "Where's his fur?!"
Cranes are such elegant and ethereal creatures. Even in black, they are still mysterious and beautiful... The color cannot detract from their elegance, but hair removal can.
In the secular sense, a plucked crane is not even as good as an old hen. After all, an old hen can still be praised for being plump, but once a crane loses its feathers, its limbs, long legs and long neck are just weird.
A female ghost's revenge, a skeleton gnawing at something, it was normal for such a situation to have any kind of horrific scene. Qing Bai had been mentally prepared and turned a blind eye to Xuan He's miserable condition: "I want to know where the Suijing went more than the hair."
It can't be that it was really eaten clean, right?
Although these girls had amazing fighting power, and forced Xuan He to physically shed a layer of skin before he was able to escape, as they were both spiritual beasts, it didn't make sense that Xuan He could escape while Sui Jing couldn't.
Jiu Nian looked in the direction where Xuan He disappeared and whispered, "In his stomach."
No one present questioned Jiu Nian's judgment. Xiao Wu sighed, "I never thought that Sui Jing, after all his efforts and schemes, would end up getting himself into the belly of his former partner."
Thinking of the appearance of Xuanhe rushing out of the black fog, Qing Bai said slowly: "Just came out and went back in again... Is this the style of fighting between spirit beasts?"
Jiu Nian wanted to clarify for the vast majority of spirit beasts in the world. Except for a very small number of spirit beasts with individual fetishes, most spirit beasts still respect the most primitive tooth for tooth and eye for eye when conflicts arise, and use blood to wash away hatred and shame.
But as the words reached his lips, Jiu Nian fell silent again… This was so bloody, and it seemed no better than drilling into someone's stomach. It wasn't suitable to be told to Little Lingxi.
Just after nine years of silence, Liu Yixin and the others finally reacted. The black fog and white bones chased in the direction where Xuan He disappeared like a meteor chasing the moon, leaving not even a piece of bone behind.
Qing Bai patted Jiu Nian's arm, signaling him to hurry up and follow.
For nine years, I have obeyed you in everything. With just a wave of my foot, I will take you to the roof.
Xiao Wu, who had lost his 'ghostly' skills, could only sigh in despair, debating whether he should run to watch the fun... No, he should run to support.
Fat Qi, still soaking in the pool, wasn't at all hesitant. He had clearly already found his place, clapping enthusiastically and shouting, "Brave sisters! Go! Capture Xuan He! Get revenge!"
However, the good times did not last long. After a few shots, Qi Xiaopang discovered to his horror that his hands had gone limp.
Not only was it soft, it also became thinner and bigger, as if he was not clapping, but making a pancake.
Qi Xiaopang panicked: "I didn't soak in the water for long! How come it's softer than a dead body that's been soaked in water for half a month?!"
What made him even more panic was that it seemed that it wasn't just his hands that were weak...
"Maybe this is because this water isn't just ordinary water, it's water from the Nai River?" Xiao Wu said deliberately, with a look on his face that suggested he'd finally figured it out. "Pinch it, squeeze it, and maybe you can restore it to its original shape."
Of course, Fat Qi didn't foolishly listen to Xiao Wu's words to "shape himself". Instead, he was stunned for two seconds, then suddenly lay down on the edge of the pool, recreating the turtle shell-like style of getting ashore - the water level of the Naibunai River was secondary. The main thing was that he suddenly realized that this pool was the burial place of those poor women, and it was so... so rude for him to keep soaking in it!
Qi Xiaopang tried hard to climb up, but his hands and feet were as soft as noodles that were overcooked and left for too long and clumped into a ball. Not only could he not exert any strength, he also fell limply down.
Xiao Wu couldn't bear to see this and wanted to help, but when he recalled the feeling of being stuck in mud, he felt he had no idea where to start. He was afraid that if he used too much force, he would not be able to pull the man up but would tear his arm off first.
At this moment, Jiu Nian's voice came from afar: "Stay in the water, don't come out."
It was obvious that Jiu Nian was aware of Qi Xiaopang's condition.
Qi Xiaopang immediately stopped his futile struggle and allowed himself to float on the water like a corpse that had been dead for more than half a month and no one had retrieved it, motionless.
…
Just as Qing Bai thought, Xuanhe really escaped back to his "Jianmu".
Under the giant tree's cover, even the invisible black mist couldn't pinpoint Black Crane's location for a moment, forcing it to constantly shuttle back and forth among the tree's branches. The battered skulls seemed wary of the tree, daring not to enter. Their skulls were connected, forming a white jade belt around the tree's perimeter from afar, with the remaining broken bones shrouding it like stars.
As Qing Bai watched, he felt that these bones added a touch of strangeness and beauty to the giant tree, as if it should be adorned with things that had lost their vitality...
Just looking at this formation that is linked together from heaven to earth, they will not give up until they find Xuan He.
"Why don't you do it?" Qing Bai expressed his admiration for the nine years of patience.
Jiu Nian's gaze remained fixed on a certain part of the giant tree for a long time, as if observing every move of the black crane hiding inside.
He whispered, "Sui Jing is not dead yet."
As expected, you're planning to kill someone by borrowing a knife... As long as you didn't do it yourself, it doesn't count as your murder, right? Not only can you kill Sui Jing in a desperate situation, but you can also give an explanation to those old ghosts in the underworld... That's brilliant.
Qing Bai was delighted. While Sui Jing was half dead, he told Jiu Nian the information he had received from Xuan He: "Xuan He calls this tree Jian Mu. It is said that it was made from the corpses of the Ling Xi clan who participated in the rebellion. However, the 'Jian Mu' made from the corpses of the Ling Xi clan did not seem to fulfill Xuan He's wish. That's why he deliberately wanted to obtain a living Ling Xi clan to try to perfect his 'Jian Mu'."
As for how to perfect it, even though Xuan He didn't say, Qing Bai could guess a thing or two. It was nothing more than some means of killing oneself and sacrificing oneself to a tree. In the end, the only one who would be perfected would be Xuan He, while it would be harmful to the tool man Ling Xi... Perhaps Sui Jing also saw through this, which was why he broke off with Xuan He even when he was being hunted by Jiu Nian.
After hearing Qing Bai's words, Jiu Nian's face turned gloomy, and his skin, which was already cold, became even colder. Qing Bai shivered with cold even through the fluffy and thick Lingxi fur, but instead of keeping his distance, he turned around and got closer to Jiu Nian.
Looking up, I saw that the scales at the corners of Jiunian's eyes, which were originally only a few scattered, had grown to his jaw.
The scales, more translucent than crystal, were like a cold and gorgeous mask, slowly covering Jiunian's cheeks.
As he watched, Qing Bai seemed to be bewitched and suddenly lifted his melon and pressed it against Jiu Nian's cheek. For the first time, his sharp claws popped out from his pads uncontrollably and he instinctively grabbed at the scales... but failed to move.
Jiu Nian lowered his eyes, and looked at Qing Bai steadily with his golden eyes. Although they were a pair of majestic golden eyes, there was no sense of oppression when he looked at Qing Bai.
Qing Bai suddenly realized something and unconsciously said what he had been thinking about for a long time: "Xuan He went to such great lengths to use Jian Mu for what?"
Jiu Nian thought about it and hesitated: "Go to heaven?"
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