Human and Immortal
Xu Qinglin, Xu Xianlin, Jiang Weiji, and Zhao Ningyu all looked exhausted, almost too angry to be angry. They all said, "Go away. We'll come find you after we've sorted things out here."
Jiang Jingyuan said "Oh", glanced at Jiang Weiji, then turned to look at Xu Qinglin, his face showing a serious look for the first time in a long time, and carefully instructed: "Xu Qinglin, you should practice your skills with other small magic tools first. Be careful with the 'Mountain Tower', but give it to me as soon as possible, I need it."
Jiang Weiji was stunned.
Xu Qinglin just nodded seriously and agreed, "Okay."
Jiang Jingyuan hesitated for a moment before giving another warning: "Don't be too anxious. I'm not in a rush either. Be careful with the Mountain Tower and other high-level magical instruments."
Xu Qinglin nodded repeatedly, closed his eyes and agreed with "OK, OK".
Jiang Jingyuan was troubled for a moment, then realized that this wasn't something she could change by worrying or nagging, so why was she still worried? Suddenly, Jiang Jingyuan's mind became clear, and she smiled again, immersed in joy and happiness.
"I'm so perfect..." she couldn't help but sigh.
Jiang Jingyuan uttered a soft "Hey" and said to Zhao Ningyu, who had sat back on the rock without him noticing, "Don't treat the rock like this. The rock has suffered a lot too."
Zhao Ningyu: “……?”
Without waiting for his reaction, Jiang Jingyuan turned to look at Jiang Weiji and said, "You too, you stepped on the flowers and plants. Don't the lives of flowers and plants have lives?!"
Jiang Weiji: “???”
Jiang Jingyuan looked at Xu Qinglin and Xu Xianlin again.
Xu Qinglin suddenly felt an ominous premonition and shouted, "If not on the ground, where else can we go? How can flying into the sky not be bad for the wind?! You can't be partial!"
A pensive look appeared on Jiang Jingyuan's face. After thinking for a moment, he said to her solemnly, "Then I'll think about it again."
Xu Qinglin breathed a sigh of relief.
Xu Xianlin had a cold expression on her face, and only upon closer inspection could one see the despair and helplessness in her dark eyes.
Xu Xianlin: “…” He is really crazy.
Jiang Jingyuan spread out her right hand, and a red umbrella with gold patterns appeared out of thin air. She raised the umbrella to cover the sky above her, turned around and walked away happily.
Walk slowly and briskly, without any urgency or resistance.
She looked at the surrounding scene, full of curiosity, and even walked to the rocks or plants from time to time with leisure and chat with them:
"Why is the color of this stone different? How can it be this color? Is this a stone?"
"Did it fall from up there?"
"Ah, this flower... Does this flower never see the sun when it grows here? It doesn't look good outside, and it's tired from the wind and rain. Here! The flower here is outside, why are its leaves like this? Is it dying?"
Jiang Jingyuan paused with an umbrella, his brows etched with deep thought as he murmured, "Should I leave an umbrella for it?" He caught a glimpse of something out of the corner of his eye and immediately turned around to chase it, "There's a sparrow! Is it a sparrow?"
When I got closer, she immediately said in a disappointed tone, "Oh no." But the next moment she had a smile on her face.
Suddenly, a black spot flashed in his peripheral vision, "Oh my god, there's a bug!!" Jiang Jingyuan's face suddenly changed, and he got goose bumps all over his body. He grabbed the umbrella and stepped back repeatedly.
There was a "thump" sound under her feet, and she subconsciously looked down, and immediately said, "There's a rock here, and it almost tripped me. Fortunately, it didn't trip me. Is it a rock from the cliff or a stone from the altar? Why is it broken so badly..."
Without anyone's response, she just looked at something else, smiled and muttered to herself.
Holding a red umbrella with gold patterns, a girl in white walked along, shielding flowers, plants, and trees from the wind and rain, caring for the rocks and soil, and slowly walked into the distance...
Xu Qinglin, Xu Xianlin, Jiang Weiji, and Zhao Ning slowly withdrew their gazes in confusion and looked at each other.
After a long while, Zhao Ningyu swallowed hard in his throat and said with a distorted expression:
"She...she might be the first person to go crazy with joy when she becomes an immortal."
Xu Qinglin, Xu Xianlin, and Jiang Weiji all looked in agreement and nodded slowly and heavily.
"Do you think she can really become an immortal like this?" Xu Xianlin paused and asked aloud in a rare voice.
Everyone was silent.
They naturally didn't worry about Jiang Jingyuan, who used to be a thoughtful person, but now this... crazy and foolish Jiang Jingyuan...
How can they be so confident?!
"Never mind!" Xu Qinglin said, "You have to survive first anyway!"
Xu Xianlin, Jiang Weiji and Zhao Ningyu thought about it and nodded calmly.
Then, they saw a familiar smug smile gradually appear on Xu Qinglin's face, and they all had an ominous premonition in their hearts.
Xu Qinglin waved his hand and said with a big laugh:
"I'm the person Jiang Jingyuan trusts the most. From now on, you all have to listen to me! Hahaha!"
Xu Xianlin, Jiang Weiji, and Zhao Ningyu: "?"
Without waiting for them to speak, Xu Qinglin stared at them and said:
"You better think about it carefully. I'm the one who's been with Jiang Jingyuan the longest, and I'm the one Jiang Jingyuan trusts the most. If we have any unpleasantness and bring it to Jiang Jingyuan's face, who do you think Jiang Jingyuan will side with?"
Xu Qinglin laughed heartily:
"You don't want me to complain to Jiang Jingyuan, do you? You don't want to be disliked and abandoned by Jiang Jingyuan, do you? I advise you to be respectful to me and listen to me in the future! Hahahaha——"
Jiang Weiji and Zhao Ningyu's pupils suddenly shrank: "!!!"
They are familiar with this sentence, so familiar!
They had heard it over and over again in the past, but they never thought that the same words would be directed at them one day!
Jiang Weiji and Zhao Ningyu's eyes went dark.
Xu Xianlin: “…” She knew it would be like this.
Xu Xianlin said expressionlessly, "Jiang Jingyuan must have learned bad things from you."
Xu Qinglin: “?”
…………
“Ahem…”
Jiang Jingyuan walked out of Dongling, paused, raised her hands and rubbed the corners of her mouth and cheeks. When she put her hands down again, her face had regained its usual calmness and indifference.
She held her umbrella and walked out calmly, looking at the world ahead with indifferent eyes, but she was still muttering to herself curiously in her heart -
Although she was about to become an immortal and could have acted as if no one else was around, she was used to being an insignificant person drifting with the crowd. No matter how much joy she felt at the moment, it was difficult for her to walk all the way back to Diqu City with a silly smile on her face.
"You are clearly a quasi-immortal with enough energy. Why don't you laugh if you want to?"
"No one can hurt you."
Jiang Jingyuan listened carefully and pondered, and it seemed to be true.
After a while, she opened her eyes wide and suddenly realized that she seemed to hear a voice that did not belong to her.
It seemed like a soft and soothing voice that did not belong to me was ringing from the upper right.
At some point, the voice connected with her thoughts, so much so that she didn't even notice it immediately...
Jiang Jingyuan suddenly clenched the umbrella handle in his hand, and his steps became hesitant and slow, but he still walked forward without stopping.
"Is this my thought?" Jiang Jingyuan's eyes unconsciously showed deep thought, and he thought, "What is it doing? Is it answering me?"
Jiang Jingyuan was stunned. She herself felt very strange. She had never been a careless person, but now when a sound suddenly sounded above her right, she did not feel too much vigilance or panic in her heart.
——It was as if that voice was really my own thought, which made me familiar with it but unconsciously ignore it.
But...that voice is not my own!
Jiang Jingyuan sensed carefully. When he talked to himself, he was used to hearing his own voice floating on the surface of the center, but that familiar yet unfamiliar voice... seemed to be slightly behind and to the upper right of his head.
Jiang Jingyuan pursed his lips and asked tentatively in his heart: "Who are you?"
No answer.
Jiang Jingyuan paused, thinking, "Could it really just be my imagination?" Then a slight panic rose in his heart, "Could it be that I have provoked something? In that case, should I find someone to take a look..."
"fine."
"It's okay, yeah, it should be okay." Jiang Jingyuan thought, "The power of a quasi-immortal is enormous. As long as I don't make any mistakes, it's basically impossible for anything to take advantage of the opportunity and get in."
After a pause, she hesitated and thought, "Could it be Shu Ru and 'God'? They wouldn't be so petty as to bother with a mortal like me, right?"
"As long as you don't waver, you'll be fine."
Jiang Jingyuan nodded secretly in agreement.
Although she did not become an immortal, she stood on the stairs and some things were passed on to her like some kind of inheritance. She never thought about it on a daily basis, but when she encountered a similar situation, she could remember it instantly or instinctively know what to do.
After figuring it out, Jiang Jingyuan felt relieved and strode forward.
After walking twenty or thirty steps, Jiang Jingyuan unconsciously slowed down his pace stiffly, and trembled in his heart: "Just now, was it..."
"yes."
Jiang Jingyuan almost fainted.
But the next moment she struggled to keep her eyes clear, stopped, and her whole body was shrouded in the gray shadow of the red umbrella with gold patterns.
She exhaled, took a deep breath, held it, and exhaled slowly, clearing her mind and steadying her mind. She felt as if she was sinking into an empty darkness, no longer able to perceive the outside world. She calmly asked in her heart:
"Who are you? Who are you? Who are you?"
Very slowly, without even a trace of emotion in his heart, he asked calmly, almost as if he was about to fall asleep.
"You, your guide, your guiding spirit, your essence."
When Jiang Jingyuan heard it, he suddenly jumped out of the darkness. When he came to his senses and opened his eyes, he saw the bright sunlight outside the umbrella.
She stared at the sky, earth, and mountains outside the umbrella with a slightly absent-minded look in her eyes, thinking: "I heard it..."
That voice seemed to be there and not there, clear and unreal.
This reminded her of the sound she heard in front of the white jade door at the end of the long steps.
"Is it 'God'?" Jiang Jingyuan paused, then denied, "It doesn't feel like it. And even then, I only heard the voice claiming to be God. I can't be sure that voice is the same as the actual voice 'God' made later."
"It's so weird..." She couldn't help but repeat it again.
Even until this moment, she did not feel too much panic and fear in her heart. Instead, she felt a kind of calmness as if she was looking down at the gurgling stream from above.
This kind of dullness is the dullness of having nothing.
Quietly overlooking the flowing stream, I don't want to stir the water to make it flow faster, nor do I want to move boulders to block the flow.
Jiang Jingyuan suddenly recalled the voice's answer and was stunned for a long time. He felt as if he understood it and at the same time he didn't understand it.
You, your guide, your guiding spirit, your essence.
——What does this mean?
Was that voice her own?
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