“Actually, I didn’t know where he went at first either.” Sheng Xi shrugged. “I went to the Demon Realm because I was traumatized and went mad. Everyone in Chaoming Palace agreed that it would be safer for me to go to the Demon Realm at that time.”
"I had no choice at the time. I couldn't stay in the cultivation world with my demonic aura, and my body was damaged by the reverse flow of power in my meridians. I could only recuperate in the demon realm."
"Chaoming Palace helped me enter the Demon Realm. After staying there for a while, I suddenly saw a vendor selling all sorts of strange and unusual things."
"He had everything. There were several puppets missing arms and legs on his stall at the time. I just asked casually, but when he heard my description, he immediately said that he had handled puppets that looked similar."
“But your puppet should have stayed with you in the Chaoming Palace all along,” Ji Mofan asked, puzzled. “How could it have gone to the Demon Realm even earlier than you?”
“I asked him the same question after I fixed him.” Sheng Xi casually tapped the little puppet’s head beside her. “But we weren’t very lucky. After the parts were replaced, many of his memories became blurry.”
"It seems the storage element is damaged, which is irreparable, so I can't get any more information from it."
Shengxi's little puppet seemed much more dull. It hadn't uttered a single word since Jimo Fan entered, and its only responses were simple ones like "oh," "um," and "ah," completely unlike Shuanghuang's lively and agile nature.
It was similar to other puppets he had seen before; it seemed that few people could make a puppet look as lifelike as Master Lu Tong.
“But when I fought the alchemist, I saw that the cross-section of your puppet’s severed limbs resembled that of a human body.” Ji Mofan pointed to the skin on the puppet’s arm, where the seams were still clearly visible even after repair.
“This seems to be an extra modification my parents made to him when he was a child.” Sheng Xi scratched his head. “Because when I was a child, I felt that he didn’t look like a real person and I didn’t want him to stay by my side, so they found a weapon refiner to modify the puppet’s limbs into a shape similar to a human, with warmth and softness.”
"Your parents found a highly skilled weapon refiner," Shuanghuang chimed in. "It's easy to make something look like a human, but it's very difficult to make flesh and blood grow inside."
"Can you still find the weapon refiner from back then?" Ji Mofan pressed him.
Sheng Xi shook her head. "Since my hometown suffered disaster, all my previous relationships have been severed."
Although Ji Mofan still found it strange, he really couldn't delve any deeper into it at this point, so he changed the subject, "You said before that while I was in the Demon Palace, someone commissioned the Mercenary Guild in the Demon Realm's main city to kill my junior brother?"
"You still call him junior brother even now?" Sheng Xi couldn't help but sigh.
“Is that not okay? Even now, your fellow disciples still call you ‘Senior Brother’ when they talk about you,” Ji Mofan said.
"Could that be the same situation?" Sheng Xi was quite disgusted to be compared to Li Geyue, and angrily changed the subject, "You're asking about that case? We can't find the client."
"The mercenaries in the Mercenary Guild use a double-blind communication system with their employers. As long as one party is unwilling to reveal their identity, neither party will know who the other is from the start to the end of the mission. All communication during this period is handled by the guild."
Ji Mo Fan frowned.
Sheng Xi slowly sipped her tea. "There are only two possibilities for someone who needs to hide their identity."
First, his identity is known to every household;
"Secondly, he is someone you know."
"Which of you, or Li Geyue, would offend someone like this?"
"What conditions are required for such a commission from the Mercenary Guild?" Ji Mo Fan pondered for a moment, then looked up and asked.
"With money in hand, everything is negotiable," Sheng Xi replied. "The Demon Realm doesn't have many rules, and the relationships between everyone are very simple."
"In your understanding, what kind of person can afford the bounty for a murder?" Ji Mo Fan asked.
Sheng Xi laughed, "You know too little about the Demon Realm. In the Demon Realm, killing someone is not a rare thing."
“For someone like Li Geyue, who has neither much status nor much strength, the bounty is so low that many people are too lazy to accept it.”
"Then you...?" Ji Mofan looked him up and down.
“I didn’t intend to kill anyone.” Sheng Xi quickly waved her hand. “I thought that since you two were able to come to the Demon Realm together, your relationship shouldn’t be that bad.”
"Who knew that in the end you would not only abandon this junior brother, but also the entire Yuncang Sword Sect?" he said.
Ji Mo Fan frowned slightly. "Was my action so... misleading?"
Sheng Xi blinked at him for a long time, "I thought you did it on purpose?"
Ji Mo Fan didn't understand his logic.
Intentionally what? Intentionally leading Li Geyue down the path of evil?
He did give Li Geyue a push at the last minute, but the appearance of Li Geyue's inner demons had nothing to do with him.
In his previous life, he never managed to repair his relationship with Li Geyue until his death.
In this life, he had only taken the initiative to distance himself from this junior brother who was destined to never walk the same path as him. He couldn't understand how things had developed to this point.
Sheng Xi looked at Ji Mo Fan's increasingly bewildered expression and suddenly lowered her head and laughed.
The latter didn't understand the joke at all, but Sheng Xi just laughed so hard that she couldn't make a sound and couldn't lift her head. She clutched her stomach and almost fell off the table.
"I...I retract my previous statement..." After calming down for a long time, Sheng Xi finally caught her breath, raised her head with her face flushed red, and slumped onto the table, gulping down several mouthfuls of tea.
Ji Mofan always felt that what followed these kinds of words would always be something he didn't want to hear.
Both times he heard it from Xihe, and both times the story was told in a way that Xihe didn't want to hear.
Unexpectedly, Sheng Xi laughed several times after seeing Ji Mo Fan's wary look, which made Ji Mo Fan not want to listen to him anymore and decided to get up and leave.
“Wait a minute, I wanted to say something…” Sheng Xi tugged at his sleeve, “I misjudged you before. You might actually be quite suitable for Chaoming Palace.”
Why is it suitable?
Even as he stood by the lake shrouded in night, Ji Mofan still couldn't understand why Sheng Xi had made such a judgment.
What special qualities do the disciples of Chaoming Hall possess?
After pondering his reaction to mentioning that his fellow disciple was Sheng Xi, Ji Mo Fan couldn't quite put his finger on it.
Or was he subtly criticizing himself for being sick?
When did Sheng Xi start cursing people in such a roundabout way?
Before he could figure anything out, Ji Mofan first sensed an unusual noise coming from the bushes not far away.
His gaze shifted, and he spotted a small, furry creature hidden among the dry, yellow grass stalks.
Continue read on readnovelmtl.com
