When Li Geyue returned to Yuncang Sword Sect alone from the Misty Secret Realm with that small pottery jar, she lied to Qi Fengyu for the first time in her life, facing his expectant gaze.
He said he was attacked and injured by something else before he could find the place indicated by the treasure map.
Whom does Qi Fengyu intend to use the Love Poison on? The answer is almost obvious: it will only be Ji Mofan.
Who in the entire Yuncang Sword Sect is not under Qi Fengyu's control? The only variable is Ji Mofan, whose temperament has recently changed drastically.
For Li Geyue, the mere thought of this outcome made her heart feel like a crumpled sheet of rice paper. No matter how hard she tried to smooth it out, the wrinkles were already deeply ingrained on the paper.
So if Qi Fengyu can have such thoughts, why can't Li Geyue?
He only managed to find the Gu worm after sustaining numerous injuries.
He tried to play the victim and feign pitifulness to lower Ji Mofan's guard, but his senior brother was already on guard and didn't give him the slightest chance.
"...Senior Brother, I know I was wrong." Li Geyue's shoulders slumped, as if he had lost all his strength. He was only kept from sinking to the bottom of the spiritual spring by the little bit of strength in Ji Mofan's hand.
"Just throw me onto the Cliff of Memories."
Throwing him to the Cliff of Remembrance would allow him to keep company with Ning Weisheng, who was also reflecting on a mistake.
Jimo Fanxin's thoughts.
Releasing his grip on Li Geyue, Ji Mofan watched as the child stumbled and fell in front of him before regaining his balance.
The young master, who prided himself on having the blood of the Li family, had never shown such a disheveled appearance in front of others.
His whole body was soaked by the spiritual spring water, and even his phoenix eyes, which always looked up at the sky, were lowered. All his emotions were sinking, as if his life would lose all color after today.
"The Love Gu is divided into mother Gu and child Gu. Only by mastering the mother Gu can one control the person who has been implanted with the child Gu." Ji Mo Fan's voice rang out above his head.
He saw a hand with distinct knuckles spread out in front of him.
"What about the other one?" Ji Mofan asked him.
Li Geyue unconsciously clenched her hands at her sides.
There was a few seconds of silence before he finally raised his hand.
He placed a small black worm that looked similar to the other worm, but was a size larger, into Ji Mofan's palm.
Li Geyue secretly looked up at Ji Mofan's expression.
The young man's expression revealed no obvious emotion; he remained as gentle as ever. He held the two small insects, examining them from all angles, and remained silent for a long while.
Li Geyue felt like a death row inmate waiting to be beheaded.
The blade hung overhead, ready to strike at any moment. Yet, he was uncertain when he would die; his heart pounded wildly like a drum.
"Junior brother, do you want your senior brother to forgive you?"
He finally heard Ji Mofan's voice in front of him.
The hand was also outstretched in front of him, with a small worm slowly wriggling in its palm.
"If you keep this on you, your senior brother will forgive you."
...That's a offspring of the Love Poison Gu.
Li Geyue's eyes widened as he looked up at Ji Mofan. But the latter remained calm, as if he had been given a candied fruit rather than a poisonous insect.
Unconsciously, Li Geyue revealed a bitter smile, and the feeling of her heart being squeezed seemed to intensify.
The senior brother made him plant the Love Gu, not because he genuinely forgave his actions.
The effect of this Gu is one-way. Even if the offspring Gu is planted on him, if Ji Mofan regrets picking up such a clingy follower one day, as long as the mother Gu is crushed, everything can be restored to what it never happened.
"...Senior Brother, even if we don't use this..." Li Geyue tried one last time to persuade them.
He wanted to say that even without the Love Poison, he now understood just how wrong he had been and would never make the same mistake again.
He would listen to Ji Mofan's words without question.
But Ji Mofan clearly didn't have the patience to listen to his repentance and interrupted him directly.
“You have no choice,” he said.
There was no other choice. If he didn't plant this Gu worm today, he could never repair even the slightest bit of his relationship with Ji Mofan.
"Can Senior Brother guarantee that he won't kill the Mother Gu or give it to someone else in the future...?" Li Geyue asked again.
Ji Mofan simply looked at him quietly this time, without giving any answer.
Receiving no response, Li Geyue finally reached out her hand.
The worm felt cold and sticky in his hand. He gritted his teeth for a long time before finally mustering the courage to open his mouth and swallow it.
A nauseating sensation crawled down my throat and into my body, finally stopping at my heart. Something seemed to be resonating with my heart, thumping loudly.
As Li Geyue became more and more uncomfortable, her gaze towards Ji Mofan became somewhat infatuated.
"Senior Brother..."
The sixteen or seventeen-year-old boy's figure had not yet fully developed, and Li Geyue was hunched over, making him more than half a head shorter than Ji Mofan.
He reached out somewhat absentmindedly, trying to grasp the ethereal figure before him, who seemed as if he might disappear at any moment.
Then his hand was knocked off course.
"Your senior brother didn't allow you to touch it," Ji Mofan said. "Be good."
The child hugged his arms and mumbled something, looking aggrieved.
The Gu worm wreaks havoc in the heart; the moment it shows the slightest thought of resistance, a painful yet itchy sensation immediately spreads throughout the body's blood vessels.
So Li Ge obediently retreated to a secluded corner of the spiritual spring, where he sat cross-legged to regulate his breathing.
But he wasn't very serious about adjusting his breathing. He would often look up and secretly glance at Ji Mofan's profile in the distance.
Through the mist, the person's figure was not clearly visible. But Li Geyue felt genuinely happy; the Gu worm controlled her heart, making it beat joyfully.
Now that he no longer needed to be on guard against Li Geyue having any suspicious thoughts about him, Ji Mofan was in a pretty good mood and allowed him to spy on him cautiously for the time being.
Anyway, taking a look won't hurt you.
Having made good use of the few hours of cultivation time that Ning Weisheng had obtained for him, Ji Mofan returned to his courtyard feeling refreshed.
Time had moved from the evening of the previous day to the morning of the next day. Although he hadn't slept all night, he didn't feel sleepy at all.
Cultivators don't need to rely on mortal methods to rest, and with the nourishing effect of the spiritual spring on the body, the fatigue from the past few days of training in the secret realm has completely disappeared.
Ge Gen did not slack off in his cultivation during the days he was away. Especially today, when he returned to Yun Cang Sword Sect, the child ran to the gate of Ji Mo Fan Xiao Yuan early in the morning with his sword in his arms.
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