Chapter 53 Joyful Reunion (Part Two)
As soon as Ji Zhuang woke up, he swallowed twice out of habit, then choked on the grass in his mouth.
He opened his eyes and looked around blankly. There was a simple and lifeless cave, a pile of earthenware jars, and beside him, his sister and the fox were sleeping soundly with tears streaming down her face.
Ji Zhuang disgustedly moved Gu Qingqing's feet aside. For a moment, he thought they must have been abducted and kept as pets.
He even thought to himself, "They have money to buy us, but not enough to support us. The living conditions here are terrible. I must rebel!"
It was at this moment that Adu carried in the breakfast. She and Ji Zhuang looked at each other and inexplicably felt that the strong bird in front of them was carrying a fierce aura.
However, Adu had seen many scenes of Gu Qingqing whipping Er Niao when she went crazy.
After Gu Qingqing finished drawing her blood, she would often stick close to Adu and ask her to tell stories about the witch clan. Therefore, Adu naturally had no respect for Ji Zhuang, who was often drawn blood.
Ignoring Ji Zhuang's anger, she put down her breakfast, raised her neck, and shouted loudly with her fists clenched: "Sister Fox, get up and eat breakfast!"
Then she thought of the sleeping bird next to her, which had also woken up yesterday. She glanced at Ji Zhuang standing there and thought to herself, "Great!"
Finally, this one woke up too, and today she finally didn't have to feed them soup anymore!
Hearing Adu's call to start the meal, Gu Qingqing immediately woke up. She wasn't grumpy when she woke up; instead, she flicked her tail across Ji Rong's face and said, "Get up, dinner's ready!"
Then, Gu Qingqing saw Ji Zhuang's eyes blazing with anger. Gu Qingqing thought to herself, "This is bad." She used her two tails to quickly wrap around him, binding Ji Zhuang like a dumpling, and then threw him out of the window.
Ji Zhuang rolled around several times before adjusting to his now obese body. He flapped his wings and stood up again, looking up at Gu Qingqing, who had four tails forked and a fierce expression on her face. He angrily pointed his claws at Gu Qingqing and said, "You...you! Why did you hit me?"
Hearing Ji Zhuang speak, Gu Qingqing thought she was hallucinating again. She grabbed Ji Rong, who was leaning closer, and slapped her again, saying, "Was your brother speaking normally just now?"
Touching her slapped face, Ji Rong grinned as she picked up Gu Qingqing and tossed her out the window. She thought to herself, "This fox has such a bad temper; she's already gotten sick after only five years of being cooped up."
Back then, the three of them took care of her for ten years and nothing happened to her; in fact, she got better and better off.
Unlike her, humph! She gets poorer and poorer as she gets older.
Turning away, ignoring Gu Qingqing's one-sided verbal suppression of her brother Ji Zhuang, Ji Rong grinned at A Du, forcing what she thought was a radiant smile, and said, "A Du, let's eat."
With trembling legs, Adu distributed food to Ji Rong, then divided the rest into two portions, waiting for the two cultivators outside to come in and eat.
Just as Ji Rong was finishing her meal, Gu Qingqing and Ji Zhuang entered.
Seeing his younger sister enjoying her food so much, even wanting to lick the earthenware bowl, Ji Zhuang picked up his own bowl and took a bite.
After taking a bite, Ji Zhuang couldn't stop, and eventually licked the bowl clean.
Then, Ji Zhuang peered into the large earthenware jar that Adu had brought.
Ji Rong walked over and thoughtfully lifted the jar with her paw, squinting her eyes to signal her brother to take it. Ji Zhuang tasted the deliciousness again, and although it was only a few drops, he was very satisfied, as if he had eaten another bowl.
Gu Qingqing finished eating as well. She sat there watching Ji Rong and Ji Zhuang while slapping her own face, saying, "Ha, it really hurts."
The practitioner is often misled by the spell itself.
After repeatedly seeing the illusions of Ji Rong and Ji Zhuang, Gu Qingqing realized that the forced use of illusion magic back then had caused harm and planted an obsession in her mind.
But she was also thankful: "Luckily it was just the two of them at the time. If there had been other cultivators, I would have gone crazy."
After breakfast, the three of them had finished their commotion.
Adu then told Gu Qingqing that her grandfather had heard about Ji Rong waking up and would come over in the next few days, and then left with the large pottery jar.
Ji Rong asked Gu Qingqing, "Is her grandfather the great shaman you mentioned who obtained his position through sacrifice?"
Gu Qingqing nodded and said, "Yes."
Ji Rong then asked questions and drew pictures, gesturing with her wings and claws, and said, "Was Adu's grandfather as tall as her?"
Gu Qingqing shook her head, stood up, and gestured with her paws, saying, "Her grandfather is even bigger and taller. His head is this big. I was terrified when I first saw it."
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Ji Zhuang looked at Gu Qingqing, then at Ji Rong. He had been awake since then and didn't even know where he was. He was completely confused and hoped that Gu Qingqing or his sister could help him find the answers. But it was clear that Gu Qingqing and Ji Rong had no such intention at the moment.
After they finished their discussion, Ji Rong pulled her brother to sit down with her: "Sister Qingqing, why don't you tell your brother too?"
Gu Qingqing suppressed the urge to slap Ji Zhuang and recounted the events of that day from beginning to end.
She had shared her experience once, so she quickly summarized the key points. Ji Zhuang didn't say much, and in no time, the explanation was clear.
After Gu Qingqing finished speaking, Ji Zhuang waited a few breaths to make sure she wouldn't say anything more before asking, "So, we can't get out of here?"
Gu Qingqing replied, "It's not that we can't get out, but it might cause some trouble if we do. Let's wait for the old man to come over and then we can discuss it."
Ji Zhuang nodded. He still needed to process the information he had just received. He knew that Gu Qingqing had said he was sucking his sister's blood.
But he didn't remember anything after that.
If that's the case, then there's a big problem with the "Phoenix Refining Scripture." Thinking of this, he summoned Ji Rong to discuss the matter of this cultivation technique.
Ji Rong was speechless for a long while before finally asking, "Brother, why did you decide to refine this 'Phoenix Refining Scripture' to save me?"
Ji Zhuang said with a serious expression, "You were about to explode back then, and you didn't have any good ideas, so you just gave it a try."
"What if you explode too?"
"Huh?" Ji Zhuang recalled the shattered scene in his mind and said, "I didn't think that much at the time."
As he spoke, he wrapped his wings around Ji Rong, his fur trembling. Ji Rong wrapped her arms around Ji Zhuang in return, stretched out one wing and beckoned to Gu Qingqing, saying, "Fox, come here."
Upon hearing this, Gu Qingqing leaped inside.
It's good to be alive; it's good to be alive.
The three of them hugged each other and laughed heartily, as if they were telepathically connected.
After laughing, Ji Rong picked up a blade of grass and put it in his mouth, asking, "Fox, how many more days can we eat our spiritual materials?"
Gu Qingqing spat out her storage ring, glanced at it, took out a blade of grass and put it in her mouth, then stuffed another blade into Ji Zhuang's mouth, saying, "At most a month."
Upon hearing this, Ji Rong rolled over in pain.
Ji Zhuang took out an old storage bag from under his wing, opened it like a treasure, revealing the aged grain inside, and said uncertainly, "What if we add these?"
Ji Rong and Gu Qingqing leaned over and took a bite. The old, low-grade spiritual grain was really hard to eat!
Ji Rong picked it up with her paw and felt its weight; it was quite substantial.
However, such low-grade spiritual materials are no longer suitable for cultivators in the mortal-demon realm to consume for a long time. The spiritual energy contained in them is too low. Even if they eat several large baskets of them, it would not be as effective as swallowing a single high-grade spiritual herb.
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