Chapter 122 Flowers Bloom Sometimes
"You want Zhuxing and Mujin?"
Isn’t this nonsense? If it weren’t for them, why would she still stay here?
"Then what do you want?" Jiaoran subconsciously felt that he wanted to exchange something with her. The price of resurrecting that woman must be high. According to Zhu Su's doctrine of following nature, being able to go against the will of heaven and take back her life would probably have to be redeemed at a price no less than this life.
When people make a deal with God, they are often the losing party.
"Wait a moment," he said.
"What are you waiting for?" Jiaoran always felt that he had become more weird than when he was outside the underground palace. She faced him and got goosebumps.
"Nothing, you can go back. Zhuxing has been released."
Something is wrong. How could he let go of the chess piece that could balance her power so easily? It was obvious that he could force her to do many things by holding Zhuxing hostage.
Jiaoran thought about it and realized that it was because he and Mu Jin were connected by Jin Chong. No matter what, one more chip or one less chip was not that important to him. As long as Mu Jin was connected to him, she would not dare to do anything to him.
"You don't believe me? I'll let her go. But, you can't try to kill me."
Was this a request? A plea for her not to kill him? It was strange. With his current level of cultivation and having mastered the art of Gao Shan Shou, there was no need for him to be so humble.
Didn't he always like playing tricks? This time, Jiaoran had no idea what tricks he was planning.
"Of course not. I know that Mu Jin's Jin Chong is connected to you. If he kills you, he will also die. I'm not that stupid." Jiaoran felt that the water was surprisingly blue. She really wanted to touch it with her hand to see if it was blue dye.
He frowned slightly, with a hint of smile in his eyes, as if what Jiaoran said was completely unrelated to what he said.
"Can you please stop looking at me and smiling? It's scary." Jiaoran thought to himself.
Glancing down at the clean flowing water, I saw schools of fish gathering in groups, several in number.
"Give me some fish food," she suddenly said to him.
"What do you want fish food for?"
Jiaoran pointed at the fish in the water and said, "Didn't you feed the fish? Look how deliciously they are eating."
He shook his head helplessly and threw down a stone. The blue water immediately became turbid. It turned out that there was so much mud and sand at the bottom of the water, which had just settled at the bottom.
The movement dispersed the school of fish, and a slender tree trunk appeared in the murky water. A gemstone, emitting a faint dark green light, was set on one end of the trunk. "What's that? You buried gold, silver and jewelry under the water? You've lived for so many years, so you must be rich enough to rival a country, right?"
"It looks like a ring." He said to Jiaoran.
"A ring? It doesn't look like one to me."
She was so close that he seemed to be able to smell the breath of her soul with every word she spoke.
"Then take a closer look."
Jiaoran was holding onto the hole with both hands, about to look down, when she suddenly realized that he was going to push her down when she lowered her head. He was going to plot against her, but how could she believe what he said so easily? She was staring at a tree trunk in fascination.
"There's nothing to see." Jiaoran said, but at this moment, she saw another school of fish nibbling on food.
It was a rotten face with a gnawed nose and a bloody hole.
When she saw the face clearly, Jiaoran screamed in fear.
"you--"
The phoenix chick whistled, and the fish gathered together again to share the food, peaceful and comfortable.
"Did you see it?"
"It's the Holy Witch. What...what did you do to her?"
"Feed the fish, didn't you see it? Why are you asking me?" Phoenix Chick said this with a bit of impatience, but there was still a bit of showing off smile on his face.
The last time he saw her was when she was helping him perform the blood exchange technique in the secret passage of the Governor's Mansion. In the blink of an eye, she was found dead there, her head and body separated.
When their eyes met, Jiaoran's were full of fear and wariness.
"He is really so cruel." Jiaoran could only describe him as cruel.
Because he is not a mortal, there is no need to say that he is worse than beasts.
"What did she do to me? Why don't you ask me?"
Jiao Ran sneered, "Whatever I do to you is what I should do. She is still yours, right? You are so cruel to your own people. It's unheard of."
"Shh..." He seemed to dislike Jiaoran's harsh words to him.
"She deserved this fate. Anything she did would have been enough for me to cut her into pieces, but I didn't. Do you know why?"
Jiaoran was already annoyed, "I don't want to know why."
"Even though you don't want to know, I still want to tell you. Because I am a kind person."
At this moment, she couldn't help laughing. It really wasn't the right time to laugh, but after hearing him say such ridiculous things, she still laughed, "Kindness is a million miles away from you."
He held out his palm to Jiaoran, "My hands are clean, not stained with blood."
Seeing Jiaoran's disbelief, he explained, "It was her favorite disciple who killed her. I simply had her body cut up and fed it to my fish. It's like someone brought me a slaughtered pig and I shared it with my children. What's wrong with that?"
Jiaoran felt powerless. He always had his own set of rules, completely different from this worldly world. "How did you bewitch her? Just like you bewitched Zhou Zhi to kill my mother?"
"Mortals are so insignificant that they are invisible, so why should we care so much?"
"You are truly heartless. No wonder you are from the Wonderland of Fish and Dragons. In fact, you treat mortals like flowers, trees, ants, and flies."
Her words angered him. His previous casualness was all fake. "Don't compare me with them. I feel sick when I hear that."
"Wasn't that wrong? Weren't you ruthless when you instigated Zhou Zhi to kill my mother?" Jiao Ran pointed at the corpse underwater. "And weren't you ruthless when you let Xu Mengchou kill her own master?"
Jiao Ran took a deep breath and said, "Don't say your hands are clean. In fact, you are the most shameless and despicable."
He chuckled, and the entire stone chamber seemed to become cold and dark, even colder than the blood-collecting secret room in the Governor's Mansion. The blue water under his feet solidified into ice.
Jiaoran had already summoned the thin dragon. He looked at her, as if he was looking through her flesh and blood to a deeper place.
A stone door opened, and the icy spring began to flow slowly again. He sat alone by the water again, watching the flowing water without even looking at Jiaoran.
Jiaoran looked at the door and said, "Do you want me to go first?"
"He's still waiting for you at the same place."
Sure enough, after walking out of that door and walking straight for a while, I saw Mu Jin.
When he saw her, he immediately went up to her, hugged her and checked if she was injured.
"I'm fine, nothing's wrong. Fortunately, you haven't left yet." But she was suspicious of how Fenghuang Chi knew that Mu Jin would still be waiting for her there after such a long time. This underground palace has many secret passages.
Hurry to share the good news with him.
"Zhuxing is back? He released Zhuxing? How is that possible!" Mu Jin couldn't think of any reason why he did this.
"I don't know either, but he doesn't look like he's kidding me. Let's go back first."
As Mu Jin walked away, he asked her, "Did Fenghuangchu say anything else to you?"
"It was inexplicable. He was such an inexplicable person. He took me to a mirror room filled with mirrors. As soon as I walked in, all I could see was my face."
"The faces in every mirror are the same?" Mu Jin asked her.
Jiao Ran said no, "They look very similar to me, both men and women, young and old. Isn't that strange? And you asked me about reincarnation or not."
"Reincarnation? What exactly did he say?"
Jiaoran said, "Do you believe this nonsense?" Although Mu Jin had seen the black dragon under the Governor's Mansion and knew the mystery of "Gao Shan Shou", he might be even more surprised if he knew that the people in the Fish and Dragon Wonderland were not ordinary people. However, she had promised Zhu Su not to tell the secret of the wonderland to outsiders.
"First, what did he say about reincarnation?"
"He said that humans, unlike ghosts, demons, immortals, and gods, have immortal souls and can be reincarnated forever. Then he asked me, if a person is reincarnated, is he still the same person?"
"How did you answer?"
I said, "I think it doesn't count. Because think about it, in this life, he's someone's father, and in the next life, he suddenly becomes a woman and becomes someone's wife. Then, do you think they can be the same person?"
Mu Jin nodded, "That's quite right."
Suddenly he pulled her wrist, "Jiao Ran."
"Um?"
"If... I mean if... next time he asks you about me, how will you answer?"
"What do you mean? I don't understand what you want to say."
Mu Jin said, "If he asked you, 'If Mu Jin died and you could live a long time, would you think that the person who reincarnated Mu Jin would still be Mu Jin? Would you go find this new Mu Jin?' If he asked you such a question, how would you answer?"
Jiaoran had never thought about this question before. Suddenly, he felt a little uncomfortable. "I won't live that long. I'm just an ordinary person. I'm born, grow old, get sick, and die. We'll grow old and die together. Wouldn't that be wonderful?"
Mu Jin pressed her, "I'm just assuming a situation. Think about it, if it were you and me, what would you do?"
Jiaoran was upset and refused to face the problem.
She walked faster.
Mu Jin kept pestering her, "You haven't answered me yet."
Jiao Ran looked around, then lowered her voice and leaned close to him, saying, "Then I will definitely not let go. I will find you after many long years."
Mu Jin was startled, his heart filled with heat, but he said, "If Phoenix Chick asks you this question, remember to tell him your answer at the beginning. Saying you can't, you will no longer be the same person after reincarnation."
"Why?"
"No reason, because I want you to do the same." Mu Jin stroked her face, "Jiao Ran, everyone will look forward and move forward. After the old friends leave and the old place is abandoned, don't look back."
She said no, "You can't order me to forget you."
"This is not an order, but a request. I pray that you will stop worrying about me and continue on your way."
The two of them could not argue any more about this topic and were speechless for a while.
Jiao Ran said, "I saw a dead body inside."
"who?"
"Holy Witch."
Mu Jin thought for a moment, "Did Xu Meng kill her out of revenge?"
"You know, you know?" Jiaoran was surprised.
"Phoenix Chick deliberately let you see her corpse. He always likes to play games like this."
Jiaoran didn't expect that he knew the character of the phoenix chick so well.
"Letting the Holy Witch die at the hands of the person she cares about most is the most painful way he can think of to make her suffer." Mu Jin said.
"But didn't the Holy Witch help him plot against us last time? Why did he suddenly want her life again?"
"He used the Xu Alliance's revenge to threaten the Holy Witch. The Holy Witch must have been holding a grudge and preparing for revenge. However, the Phoenix Chick was more cunning and shrewd, so he was defeated."
Jiao Ran was curious, "I wonder what he said to Xu Mengchou that made her kill her master. Earlier in the Governor's Mansion, I saw that the Holy Witch especially loved this disciple, as if, as if he treated her like a daughter."
"There are many poisonous insects in the underground palace. It must be related to Xu Mengchou. We have plenty of opportunities to see her again, but you'd better not ask about it. Xu Mengchou is vicious, so be careful of her."
"Okay, I understand."
Not long after, the two came back and saw Zhuxing lying in Jiaoran's room.
She was about to go forward and call for her senior sister, but Chai Che stopped her and pulled her aside. "She's asleep. Let's talk to her when she wakes up."
Jiaoran didn't expect that Fenghuangchu really didn't use any tricks this time and let her go.
Cha Che asked, "What did you do? Did he obediently send Star Chaser back?"
Jiao Ran was about to say that she had done nothing, but Mu Jin spoke before her, "No matter what she did, Zhuxing is back now. You have to take care of your own safety from now on. You also have to take good care of Zhuxing. She can't spare that much attention for you."
Chai Che glanced at Jiao Ran and said, "Okay."
Jiao Ran didn't know why Mu Jin's words suddenly became distant. "We are now one in the underground palace. Don't be too divided against each other."
Chai Che said sternly, "It was because I failed to protect her that she went through this turmoil after giving birth. I should have strengthened the defenses of the mansion, especially Qianlin Garden."
Seeing that her senior sister was fast asleep, Jiao Ran said, "I'm glad she's alright. It was a close call at least."
"I have deployed a lot of people outside. As long as I go out and give a signal, they will be able to invade here. But the underground palace is too complicated. I'm afraid we can't catch them and they will all escape." Chai Che told Jiaoran and Mu Jin.
Mu Jin thought for a while and said, "Don't do anything yet, lest you make things worse. Now we have to find out what Phoenix Young is going to do."
Jiao Ran said, "He wants to resurrect the woman deep in the underground palace."
"Did he tell you what you needed to do?" Chaicher asked her.
Jiaoran said no, "He just said he needed my help because we were the only two who knew Gao Shan Shou."
Chai Che asked, "So what he needs is someone who has learned the secret technique like him? Do you think that learning the 'Gao Shan Shou' can really reverse yin and yang?"
Mu Jin didn't think it was possible. "Birth, aging, sickness and death are all natural laws. No matter what force there is, they cannot change them. A long time ago, a young phoenix gave me a pot of flowers. In front of me, it took my blood to bring the withered flowers back to life. But after only two or three days, I found that the flower was still withered. Even if I dripped more blood, it couldn't save it."
Jiao Ran understood what he meant. "So the Qilin blood in our bodies is only effective temporarily and won't last long?"
Mu Jin said yes.
Jiaoran thought back to the people in the wonderful world, and it seemed to be true. Although their lifespans were longer, they were not immortal.
Every life has a beginning, flowers bloom and fall at the same time.
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