Chapter 51 Listening to the Oracle (VII) Sugar, He Wants to Have It All
Zhu Ci smiled with curved lips.
"Brother, have some candy."
"What kind of candy?" Xie Rangchen had never seen it before.
"Strawberry gummy candy," Zhu Ciying introduced. "Senior Sister Xu also taught me how to make it. It's soft and fluffy, with a sweet and sour taste. You'll definitely like it."
"Xie Tiantian, open your mouth." She leaned forward, and the candy in her hand was about to reach his mouth. Xie Rangchen's Adam's apple rolled slightly, and his heart seemed to be burning with fire.
He moved closer, lowered his head, bit the candy and put it in his mouth.
Because the piece of candy was too small, his tongue and teeth inevitably touched her fingers when he bit it. He didn't know how Zhu Ciying felt, but he shuddered all over.
Before she could withdraw her hand, Xie Rangchen grabbed her fingers.
Zhu Ciying: "Senior Brother?"
"Sorry for getting your hands dirty." He immediately cast a cleansing spell to remove his scent from her fingers.
"It's okay. I don't mean to dislike you." She pulled her fingers out and held his hand instead.
Two palms, one big and one small, were pressed together, and the temperature gradually rose and became scorching hot.
The fire in Xie Rangchen's heart burned again.
His red fingertips trembled, and his palm separated from hers by a small gap. He tilted his head and withdrew his hand awkwardly.
Zhu Ciying curled her five fingers into a fist to support her chin, her dark eyes staring at an exposed part of his body without blinking.
She spoke to him in a calm tone, with a hint of playfulness: "Brother, your ears are red."
He replied in a calm voice: "Yeah."
He couldn't tell whether it was red or white, so he just accepted whatever the junior sister said.
Xie Rangchen swallowed the candy and changed the subject: "Do you have any more strawberry candy?"
Zhu Ciying pretended to think seriously and replied, "Zhu Manman said, let's see how Xie Tiantian performs."
Xie Rangchen smiled.
Junior sister is hooking him again.
But he just fell for her tricks.
At the same time, in Qu Wanqing's yard next door.
"hiss--"
"Be gentle, be gentle!" Shi Xiangwen kicked his legs and shouted with bared teeth.
"Does it hurt? I'm sorry, I'm sorry..." Qu Wanqing retracted her hand, "I should have been gentler."
Shi Xiangwen covered his right eye, which was coated with herbs, with a face full of resentment. He opened his mouth and said a bunch of words casually: "I agreed to help you play the trick of self-torture, but you actually took it seriously! And you only hit me! There are so many people in the Shi Xiang clan, you can't finish them even if you fight for three days and three nights, why did you target me!"
He even carefully wrote lines for each person and patiently rehearsed the play with them for a whole day!
"Because my junior sister said your acting is too exaggerated." Xu Feihuai explained seriously, "If you were injured, your acting would be more realistic."
Shi Xiangwen: "Is this the reason I was beaten?!" Young man, listen carefully, is your junior sister speaking human language? Forget it, you probably don't understand.
Qu Wanqing quickly apologized: "I'm sorry!"
"Forget it, just continue applying the medicine." He just thought of himself as unlucky and had to swallow his anger.
Qu Wanqing dipped the cotton in the herbs.
Xu Feihuai stared at her movements with a faint expression, glanced at Shi Xiangwen who had his eyes closed, narrowed his black eyes slightly, and put down the sword in his arms.
"Senior Sister, let me do it." He stretched out his long arm, and for the first time, without waiting for Qu Wanqing to answer, he directly snatched the tweezers from her hand and pressed them on Shi Xiangwen's right eye.
The latter screamed in pain like a pig being slaughtered.
As a result, Zhu Ciying and Xie Rangchen heard Master Xiangwen's increasingly shrill cries as soon as they arrived:
"I'm not playing with you guys anymore!!"
"There isn't a single good person in your Shaoyang Sect!"
"You all bully me! And you only bully me!"
"Junior sister, senior brother." Qu Wanqing pulled the two people together, afraid that he would disturb their ears.
After a moment, Xu Feihuai dropped the tweezers, greeted them, and went outside to wash his hands.
"Is he in a bad mood?" Zhu Ciying noticed that his expression was even colder than usual, and asked thoughtfully.
"I don't know." Qu Wanqing shook his head. "I was just helping Shi Xiangwen apply medicine when he suddenly snatched my tweezers with a cold face. He's been like this ever since."
"Maybe you think his screams are too unpleasant?"
Yeah?
Zhu Ciying didn't delve into it further.
Shi Xiangwen, who was violently treated with medicine, now just wants to go home.
You, Xu Feihuai, who kept silent, turned out to be the most ruthless among the four people!
"Brother, the conversation was very successful." Zhu Ciying brought up the serious matter, "The clan leader, Master Xiang, has agreed to listen to the divine oracle."
"Really?!!" Qu Wanqing exclaimed.
Zhu Ciying nodded and walked closer to Shi Xiangwen: "You have made an invaluable contribution, thank you very much."
"It's good that you know it!" Although Shi Xiangwen was so angry that he wanted to vomit blood, he did not lose his temper. Instead, he hugged his arms and snorted coldly.
"This is compensation. A little gift from me."
He lowered his head and saw her stuffing a paper bag into his arms. When he opened it, he saw a bag of strange-shaped red...candies?
Shi Xiangwen's expression became even stranger.
The people of Shaoyang Sect called candy compensation? They treated him like a three-year-old child?
The white feather at his waist suddenly lit up. Shi Xiangwen took it down and looked at it, then said, "The clan leader sent a message asking me to take you there."
"Wait, how did she know we were together?"
Zhu Ciying glanced at the bruises on his eyes, recalled his exaggerated lines and acting, and said sadly, "I saw through it from the beginning."
Shi Xiangwen: "Impossible..."
His superb acting skills have won him the Best Actor Award in the Shixiang Clan!
Shi Xiangwen was doubting himself all the way until he was stopped outside the yard by the person on duty.
The guard only let Xie Rangchen and Zhu Ciying in: "The clan leader is inside, please come in."
"Don't worry. Even if the demons want to attack the cultivation world, they will need to rest and recuperate with their current strength." Xie Rangchen said, "Let's go in and hear what the clan leader Shixiang has to say."
Zhu Ciying: "Okay."
Master Xiangyue had prepared tea and had been waiting for a long time.
Listening to the oracle almost drained away her last bit of life force.
She leaned lazily against the back of the chair, supporting her head with one hand, her face looking unusually rosy and radiant.
"Are you here? Sit down."
"Thank you, Chief."
Zhu Ciying and Xie Rangchen both sat down opposite her.
"To make a long story short," Shi Xiangyue briefly summarized what the oracle had passed on to her and highlighted the key points. "Demon Lord Shuo Heng is different from ordinary demons. His bloodline is uniquely structured, endowed with extremely strong vitality and recovery abilities. Even if ordinary spells and weapons manage to severely injure him, they may not be able to damage his very foundation."
Zhu Ciying asked: "But he was indeed killed back then. How did that person do it?" How did her senior brother do it?
"He has the Jade Phoenix Sword," Shi Xiangyue replied. "The Jade Phoenix Sword was once the Lingxiao Sect's most precious treasure, a divine artifact left behind by the Heavenly Dao in the world of cultivation. Naturally, it can injure Shuo Heng."
"But just one Jade Phoenix is not enough. If we want to completely destroy him, we need three more divine artifacts."
"Bodhicitta, Huoyang Ding, and a sword."
Shi Xiangyue paused, blinking wearily. "It's said that people with Bodhicitta are pure and kind, with immeasurable merits. If one cultivates Bodhicitta, they will surely ascend to become immortals."
"The Huoyang Ding is said to be able to liberate the souls of the dead, condense their spirits, and help them reincarnate into another life sooner."
"As for that sword, I don't know what it looks like, nor do I know its name or who it belongs to. The oracle only told me that it is in Xiangzhou."
She took a sip of tea to moisten her dry lips: "That's all the oracle said."
Zhu Ciying had every word of hers engraved in her soul.
"And your sword. I've seen it." Shi Xiangyue pushed Yansheng to her hand, "You can take it."
Zhu Ciying rested her palm on the Yansheng Sword, her eyes scanning its hilt and blade from head to toe. Suddenly, a trickle of blood flowed from the corner of her lips without warning.
Almost at the same time, Xie Rangchen turned sideways, put the handkerchief in his hand to her lips, and gently wiped away the blood for her.
Shi Xiangyue's pupils suddenly constricted, and he asked in astonishment, "What are you doing?"
"Terminate the contract." Zhu Ciying said.
She took the initiative to break the contract with the Yansheng Sword and suffered internal injuries, so her mouth was bleeding.
She endured the pain, half-lowered her eyes and looked at Xie Rangchen who was channeling spiritual energy to relieve his internal injuries. Her eyes moved slightly: "Brother, do you blame me for being willful and reckless?"
"How could that be?" Xie Rangchen rubbed her head. "It's your sword, you make the decision yourself."
Shi Xiangyue covered his eyes with his hands.
Are all couples with a soul bond like this?
So disgusting.
However, I couldn't help but smile when I saw how sweet they were.
It’s great to be young!
Because I can't hide my love, I am particularly bold.
"Clan leader, I know the sword of exorcism is very important." Zhu Ciying continued after feeling it physically, "Let it accompany you."
"I originally practiced the Way of Sound, not the Way of the Sword. I can handle many things without a sword."
On the contrary, she was very grateful to her master for using the sword of Yansheng to accompany her through the Four Symbols City.
The fate between her and her master, spanning three hundred years, still makes her feel it is indescribable.
Zhu Ciying said no and she really didn't want it, even releasing the contract. Shi Xiangyue no longer had any reason to refuse.
She looked out the window, feeling even more exhausted. "It's getting late. You should rest in Changning Mountain tonight and return to Shaoyang Sect tomorrow."
Zhu Ciying needed to recuperate from her internal injuries, so she had no choice but to agree.
*
Late at night, Shi Xiangyue was lying on the bed with two porcelain dolls and a sword beside his pillow.
She had a good sleep.
The nights in early summer are too long.
Therefore, her dreams were also very long.
She saw Jiang Zunyue in her dream.
He was seventeen years old.
The young man stood under the moonlight, tall and slender, dressed in white.
He held out a hand to her.
Shi Xiangyue burst into tears of joy: "Are you here to take me away?"
Jiang Zunyue nodded softly.
"I don't have any gold leaves on me." Shi Xiangyue wiped the tears from her cheeks. "You won't gain anything by following you."
"Gold leaf?" Jiang Zunyue raised her lips and chuckled. Without waiting for Shi Xiangyue to reach out, she took her hand and wrapped it in her palm, "It's not flowing over there."
The silvery-white light shone on the ground, like a layer of silver frost.
Shi Xiangyue and Jiang Zunyue have come a long way.
"Jiang Zunyue, what are those two transparent silk threads in the glass bracelet you gave me?"
"My love."
"What? I didn't hear clearly."
"One is that I like Shi Xiangyue."
"The other one is my beloved teacher Xiangyue."
"Okay, okay, stop talking. I heard it clearly. I got goosebumps."
…
The next day, the sky was bright.
People from the Shi Xiang clan entered Shi Xiangyue's house.
The maid who had served her for many years called her several times, but Shi Xiangyue did not give any response.
The maid realized that something was wrong, her eyes immediately turned red, and she burst into tears.
Another maid, who was better at controlling her emotions than Shi Xiangyue, tidied up the hair that fell on her cheeks and said to her companion, "Look, the clan leader slept really well. She was smiling. She must have seen the person she wanted to see the most in her dream."
"Go and inform the entire clan of the clan leader's death."
Zhu Ciying and the other three attended Shi Xiangyue's funeral before leaving in a car.
When they returned to Shaoyang Sect, Yun Bujin and his companions had not returned yet. They were still outside fighting demons and gathering information.
After receiving her message, True Man Yu Yin summoned the sect leader and elders to the meeting hall early in the morning.
Zhu Ciying explained the oracle's instructions in detail.
Sect Master Qu Yantao said, "You have done a good job. From now on, the search for the artifact will be left to us old bones. We will notify you as soon as we have any news."
"yes."
Zhu Ciying came out of the meeting hall, went to the station and took the flying car back to Feijue Peak.
She pushed open the door of Xie Rangchen's yard and looked over. The young man was lying lazily on the couch, sleeping with one hand on his eyes.
The dim sunlight shone down, casting a layer of golden light on him.
He was holding a paper bag in his arms, and the more Zhu Ciying looked at it, the more familiar it looked.
She tiptoed over and bent down to take a closer look.
"Thank you, Tiantian!"
"How can you take back something I gave to someone else?"
What he was holding was the strawberry candy she gave to Shi Xiangwen!
Xie Rangchen, who was woken up, rubbed his eyes, sat up and looked her in the eye, and explained: "Junior sister, you misunderstood. We are exchanging equals."
Zhu Ciying: "Exchange? What do you want to exchange?"
"Use spirit stones." Xie Rangchen took out a spirit stone the size of a goose egg out of thin air and showed it to her.
Zhu Ciying: “!”
"Brother, where did you get the spirit stones..."
Xie Rangchen said, "It was a prize I won in a competition in the past."
At the age of sixteen, he entered the Dharma Image Stage and participated in the Immortal Ascension Ranking to obtain the reward for being the top scorer.
He still has ten boxes of spirit stones like this.
Of course, that was just a fraction of his wealth.
"With such a big spirit stone, you can buy a lot of candy. Besides, I also put spirit stones at the bottom of the bag."
"Candies made by Junior Sister herself are a rare find, worth a fortune."
Xie Rangchen took a piece of candy and put it in his mouth.
In fact, the reason is not entirely like this.
The night before leaving Changning Mountain, he found Shi Xiangwen and asked to return the candy that his junior sister had given him.
Shi Xiangwen frowned and said, "How can you take back something you've given away? How can you act like a senior brother like that?"
"If your junior sister knew that you were secretly..."
When he saw the pigeon egg-sized spirit stone that Xie Rangchen gave him, he wisely shut up.
Then he changed the subject and said, "If your junior sister knew that you cared about her so much in private..."
Shi Xiangwen paused mid-sentence, his mind working at its fastest pace ever: "Are you jealous because you saw her giving gifts to other men?"
Yes, Xie Rangchen admitted that he was jealous.
He didn't want to see other men touching his junior sister's things, no matter what the reason was.
He wants to have the sugar all to himself.
Xie Rangchen's eyes were dim, and the mark of the soul contract between his eyebrows emerged, exposed in broad daylight to the eyes of outsiders, which scared Shi Xiangwen.
"I don't have to be her senior brother," he said.
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