Xiao Wangyan was stunned by his slap. "Why are you hitting people?"
"I haven't even told you why you're so close to me yet." Ji Mofan was also taken aback by his own reaction.
However, when he came to his senses, he didn't think he had done anything wrong.
He and Xiao Wangyan were not very close in any respect, so it was extremely impolite for him to approach them without permission.
Moreover, Xiao Wangyan was well aware that Ji Mofan was extremely averse to his demonic energy, yet he ignored his wishes and brought his face close to him; he deserved to be beaten.
...Besides, he didn't use much force.
Ji Mofan rubbed his fingertips, feeling somewhat guilty.
Xiao Wangyan had probably not been treated like this in a long time. He stood there glaring at Ji Mofan for a while, his cheeks puffed out, and then deflated.
"You bad uncle, you're not allowed to bully my brother!" A slightly childish voice suddenly rang out between the two people facing off.
Little Ji Mo Fan appeared out of nowhere, spreading out her thin little hands and protecting Ji Mo Fan behind her like a mother hen.
Ji Mofan blinked blankly, while Xiao Wangyan was amused by the situation.
"Fine, I've just created an unpleasant situation for myself." He said sarcastically, sounding annoyed.
Coming to his senses, Ji Mofan smiled and bent down to pat the child's head. "I'm helping myself, is there a problem?"
"...No problem." Xiao Wangyan was speechless for a moment, but still waved his hand to change the subject, "So what were you looking for just now?"
Ji Mofan was silent for a moment, then said, "...I'm looking for a way to leave this place."
Xiao Wangyan chuckled, "Have you found them? If you have, hurry up and leave. I can't stand two children who look exactly alike causing me trouble."
"Brother, are you leaving?" Little Ji Mofan tugged at his sleeve, clearly reluctant to let him go. "Will you come back?"
For a moment, Ji Mofan was in a daze; he almost forgot that this was just an illusion.
His hand, tucked into his sleeve, unconsciously touched the small square box that served as the array's core. He took a deep breath and composed himself.
“No,” he said. “From now on, you have to walk your own path.”
Little Jimo Fan loosened his little paws somewhat sadly, "Oh."
Watching their interaction, Xiao Wangyan snorted with considerable displeasure, "You two seem to hit it off immediately."
Ji Mo Fan felt that his use of the idiom here was a bit strange.
But thinking about it, I realized that I had indeed seen my "former self," and I couldn't seem to correct what was wrong, so I suppressed my emotions.
"Are you feeling lonely because nobody's paying attention to you?" he asked.
Xiao Wangyan remained silent.
It neither confirmed nor denied.
Ji Mofan took half a step closer to him, "Father?"
He clearly saw that Xiao Wangyan's hair was standing on end. "I told you not to yell like that!"
What a wretched child! He's a puppet that only came to life because of the power he poured into him, so why doesn't he listen to him at all?
I'll take it apart in a bit!
Then Xiao Wangyan saw Ji Mofan nod in front of him, his expression hidden in the dim moonlight, and he only uttered a short "Oh".
She sounded sullen and looked extremely aggrieved.
Xiao Wangyan even wondered if he had gone too far.
The Demon Lord, who had lived a carefree and unrestrained life for over a thousand years, rarely felt the emotion of "being defeated" in his long life.
"Fine, call me whatever you want." He finally waved his hand and gave in.
What to do? After all, it was created by myself, and it has become a living, breathing person with flesh and blood. I can't just disassemble it into parts.
When Ji Mofan looked up, there was not a trace of frustration on his face.
Those slightly curved eyebrows held only a faint smile of triumph.
Ji Mo Fan used this move against Xi He, who had Xiao Wangyan's face, back in the Demon Palace.
It worked for Xihe, and it was indeed effective for Xiao Wangyan as well.
Xiao Wangyan is just lucky he doesn't have a beard, otherwise he would definitely be making a scene of blowing his beard and glaring.
Although the old father had no beard, he could still glare.
"Pfft..." The child next to him couldn't help but let out a soft, amused sound from his palm.
Xiao Wangyan was so angry at the sight of the two people, one big and one small, that he didn't know what to say.
You can't hit them, and you can't win an argument with them.
"You need to find a way to get out of here quickly." Xiao Wangyan's speech speed increased.
“I can’t find it.” Ji Mofan honestly spread his hands. “Before I came in, I could tell that this should be an illusion array, but after I came in, I couldn’t find any trace of an array being set up.”
Xiao Wangyan pondered for a while, resting his chin on his hand.
Then he suddenly looked up at the dark sky above.
"Have you looked in the heavens?" he asked.
Ji Mofan was taken aback by his question and looked up at the sky as well.
“The stars’ trajectory is wrong.” Xiao Wangyan pointed to a star and gestured to Ji Mofan. “The planet Mercury shouldn’t be this close to the moon at this time of year.”
He then pointed out several more stars that were not in the correct positions. Ji Mofan followed his fingertips with his gaze for a while, and his tightly furrowed brows slowly relaxed.
"...We've found the core of the formation."
*
Ji Mofan never expected that he would waste so much time in an illusionary formation.
Although he found the medium on which the formation relied based on Xiao Wangyan's knowledge of celestial phenomena on the first night, there were only a few hours left before dawn. It was simply a pipe dream to break such a complex illusion formation in such a short time.
He could only wait a whole day until night fell again and the stars climbed into the sky before he could successfully break the formation.
It was as if his consciousness had just been pulled back from the bottom of an endless abyss. Ji Mo Fan was in a daze for a moment before he realized where he was.
The small square box in my hand unlocked itself with a "bang," the lid popped open, revealing the precious array manuscript sealed inside.
The corpse lying on the bed began to gradually dissipate as the illusion array was broken.
Ji Mofan vaguely saw a phantom detach from the remains, circle around in the swirling dust, and he felt as if the other party had glanced at him before completely disappearing into the air.
Ji Mo Fan regained his senses.
Damn it, he seems to still be immersed in the illusion he just experienced and can't pull himself out of it.
Moreover... on the day he was taken away by Shen Yun, the Demon Lord actually came from the Demon Realm to the Immortal Cultivation Realm just to catch him and take him back.
So what happened next? The Demon Lord didn't find the little puppet he had created, and why didn't he return to the Demon Realm?
Since they've already managed to break into the cultivation world, why didn't they directly confront the Yun Cang Sword Sect?
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