Jie Beiying smiled indifferently, then fell silent again.
Geng Qi: "..."
Every time a cultivator breaks through a realm, they will be struck by heavenly tribulation lightning. The higher the realm, the stronger the tribulation lightning. With Jie Beiying's strength, withstanding a tribulation lightning strike from a Nascent Soul stage cultivator wouldn't be considered a major tribulation. However, cultivators cannot withstand tribulations head-on. Qing Han suffered a qi deviation at the time, and when attacked by lightning, he would instinctively resist. He fought against the Heavenly Dao, but the Heavenly Dao's counterattack fell on Jie Beiying. He had to withstand the tribulation lightning, prevent Qing Han from being exploded by spiritual energy, and protect Qing Han from being injured by the tribulation lightning. With all three tasks combined, it was already a miracle that he didn't die!
Geng Qi opened his palm, and the mermaid candle spontaneously combusted in his hand. He reached out and handed it to the scorpion.
Jie Beiying raised her eyes: "What do you mean?"
"I'll light a candle for you."
"..."
"He knows nothing about all that you've done for him. Don't you feel resentful?"
"meeting."
Geng Qi: "..."
Jie Beiying laughed and said, "But compared to the pain he will feel after he finds out, this resentment is nothing. Shouldn't Your Excellency deeply understand this feeling?"
Geng Qi honestly replied, "I didn't."
"..."
He wasn't some saint; he couldn't give unconditionally without expecting anything in return. Like when he saved someone in the cave, he wanted Rong Yu to know everything he did and what suffering he endured. But he also knew that his experiences were completely different from Qing Han's.
He couldn't make judgments about certain things before experiencing them, nor was he willing to think about those choices. Therefore, he didn't understand why Beijing Film Academy kept Qinghan in the dark, nor could he judge whether it was right or wrong.
The merman candle in his hand was burning with purple flames and was already half melted. Xie Beiying smiled and reached out, but just as he was about to touch it, a flash of golden light appeared before his eyes, and something was missing from his face.
Geng Qi said, "What you do is your business, I don't care, but I can't stand you pretending. Do you really think Qing Han is stupid enough not to recognize you? If he didn't recognize you, would you still let him hug, cuddle, and lean on you? If that's the case, you'd be jealous to death!"
He was waving a mask as thin as a cicada's wing in his hand. After taking two steps, he turned back and said, "Don't wear it anymore. If you wear it again, I'll tear it off. I'll tear it off right in front of Qinghan!"
Jie Beiying: "..."
The river splits into two banks, covered with huge white boulders. Geng Qi emerged from behind the boulder where he had been meditating, and Qing Han was waiting outside.
"Young master, he..."
"He's fine, here's a little something for you!"
Before he could ask, Geng Qi threw down what he was holding. Qing Han caught it, but before he could even see what it was, another person came out. It was a familiar person with a familiar smile on his face.
Suddenly, his hand tightened, and a corner of the mask broke in his grasp.
"Your Majesty is still the same as before, hitting me without any restraint, it really hurts." The complaint was light and casual, without a single word of explanation.
Qinghan said blankly, "Then... I'll help you."
“Okay.” Xie Beiying smiled and stood there waiting for him to come over.
I didn't ask him why he was pretending, nor did I ask him why he came here.
It took Qinghan a long time to walk just a few steps before she finally touched his outstretched hand.
Geng Qi glanced back at the two of them, covered his mouth and yawned. Seeing the pale figure standing by the river, he quickly walked over and draped himself over to him. Now that they were about the same height, he didn't need to stand on tiptoe like before. "I'm sleepy... Hmm, what's that smell?"
Before he could even finish a yawn, he abruptly covered his mouth.
As soon as I approached the river, the moon rose in the sky, and a stench hit me. The once calm river began to flow, and the water turned from clear to blood red.
Rong Yu's eyes darkened as he said, "It's the stench of a corpse."
"Young Master!"
A gasp came from behind him. Geng Qi clung to Rong Yu and looked down, so shocked that his hand slipped down.
The boulder they had just been on, under the moonlight, turned into a stark white skeleton, then wriggled and took shape, rising from the ground like a plant, but without branches or leaves. What grew from the trunk were things that looked like human organs, rotting and emitting a foul stench that made people want to vomit!
Qinghan's face turned pale with fright. He had always been afraid of such disgusting and nauseating things. Just now, when the others came out, he had leaned against that boulder of white bones. Now, thinking about it, the hairs on his body stood on end!
"What the hell is that?" Geng Qi pulled the golden whip from his sleeve and watched as the trees near the river grew continuously, and the spirits floating above the river moved their limbs and even had human faces!
"It only appears after the moon rises."
Geng Qi: "..."
He glanced up at the moon hanging in the sky, then at the resurrected corpse tree under the moonlight, and suddenly remembered something. He frowned immediately, "Get out of here quickly."
Chen Jin was still wondering about the changes here when he heard this and asked, "What happened here?"
He remained calm, probably thinking that this sudden appearance was only disgusting and posed no danger.
And that is indeed the case.
Geng Qi said, "This is a mountain of corpses."
As she spoke, she pulled Rong Yu toward the place where the full moon was rising. "There was a rumor that the Corpse Mountain was a mountain of corpses piled up and rivers of blood flowing. The corpses rotted and turned into corpse water, giving birth to corpse spirits. These spirits irrigated the soil and trees along the riverbank, thus growing into corpse trees. The corpse trees absorbed the essence of the sun and moon to grow. When the sun and moon were no longer visible, they would turn into white bones, like rocks."
Just as they saw when they first arrived.
Those white boulders are actually the skeletons of the Corpse Tree!
Chen Jin nodded solemnly, as if he had finally found an opportunity to prove his fearlessness, and said with his head held high: "They're just a pile of corpses, what threat are they?"
"The corpses themselves are no threat, but these growing corpses are food!"
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