Chapter 96 Unity
Before long, Jiao Jue saw Ji Rong nestled in the grass like a silly bird, while Ji Zhuang was digging at the ground not far away.
After digging up a few tender white grass roots, it would grab them with its claws and fly back to feed Ji Rong, and then go dig more.
This sight made Jiao Jue's face darken.
He leaped down and blocked Ji Zhuang's path, saying, "She has become a silly bird, but when she wants to eat, why don't you let her go by herself?"
Why are you raising her like a cub?
Before Ji Zhuang could answer, his eyes filled with terror, and he hurriedly flew towards Ji Rong.
But it was too late. Ji Rong squatted in the grassy hollow and started wailing again. Her cries were so loud that they sounded like demonic noises.
Unable to bear it any longer, Jiaojue kicked the ground with its claws and quickly walked to Ji Rong's side.
He swept away Ji Zhuang who was rushing towards him with his tail, grabbed Ji Rong and flew into the sky. When he was high up, he threw Ji Rong down.
Ji Rong spread her wings in the air and laughed happily.
Once she landed on the ground, she flapped her wings and looked at Jiao Jue with longing, saying, "Brother Golden Dragon, this is so much fun! I want to play again!"
Jiaojue was both angry and amused.
Ji Rong is really not normal; we need to help her get back to normal.
Otherwise, given her current state, let alone repairing the spirit crystal mine, she would destroy the entire island.
Jiao Jue leaped down, grabbed Ji Rong, and quickly flew towards the mine.
He tossed Ji Rong to the side of a tree, squinted, and commanded, "Go back inside."
Ji Rong pouted and flapped her wings to leave, but Jiao Jue let her take three steps before quickly curling her up with her tail, slamming her to the ground, and commanding again, "Go back."
Ji Rong... burst into tears.
Jiao Jue wasn't buying it. Without even looking at her, he grabbed her tail and started whipping her, his eyes narrowing as he coldly said, "If you don't go in, I'll whip you to death!"
Ji Rong immediately began to sob softly. She took two steps toward the tree trunk, then immediately turned around, flapped her wings, and fled toward the cave entrance.
"Hmph." Jiao Jue immediately raised his tail and pulled Ji Rong down. He swept his tail inward as if sweeping up trash, gathering Ji Rong to the side of the tree.
Seeing that the dragon's tail was already in the air and about to swing down again, Ji Rong hurriedly cried out, "Stop fighting! I'll go!"
Upon hearing this, Jiao Jue moved his tail even closer. He squinted and said fiercely to Ji Rong, "Don't try anything funny, or you'll be prepared to have four more breastbones broken. I promise I'll only break four."
Upon hearing this, Ji Rong, who had originally intended to escape, immediately cowered in fear.
She kept turning back to look at him, which provoked Jiao Jue to raise its tail again and lash out at the tip of a row of Ji Rong's wings.
Ji Rong dared not cry out in pain. She flew to the top of the tree and reluctantly closed her eyes to urge her mind to work.
Then Ji Rong gradually shrank and became ethereal, and then, like a wisp of smoke, she burrowed into the top of the tree trunk. The tree trunk, which had been like a wooden stake, soon began to emit a heartbeat.
Bird feathers emerge from the gaps in the roots, but the roots are too dense to be noticeable.
Gu Qingqing, who had been squatting by the cave, said enviously, "It's good to have high cultivation. We've tried this method before, but we can't beat her."
After saying that, she realized something was wrong. She and Ji Zhuang could easily defeat Ji Rong together, but Ji Rong was always crying and wasn't as well-behaved as she was now.
Ji Rong opened her eyes and spat out a mouthful of blood. When she looked closely, she saw Jiao Jue in front of her and immediately pouted, "Brother Jinlong, don't you believe me? How come you came in with me as soon as I came in?"
Jiao Jue narrowed his eyes and sneered, "Who came in with you? You came in last month, I only arrived today."
Ji Rong's eyes widened immediately. She tried to get up, but found that she was in pain all over her body. The pain made her unconsciously make a "squeaking" sound and she closed her eyes.
Jiao Jue, impatient with her low howls, went out and called Ji Zhuang in. Together with Gu Qingqing, they guarded Ji Rong, and he left.
Ji Rong was in excruciating pain all over her body. She felt incredibly heavy, had difficulty breathing, and her mind was in turmoil. The pain made her think of the "Qi Sensing Technique," which she hadn't practiced in a long time.
So she calmed herself down little by little, silently reciting the "Qi Sensing Technique," allowing the spiritual energy to slowly circulate through the eight meridians.
Ji Rong's meridians, which were originally as wide as rivers, now seemed to be blocked and dried up.
Fortunately, after Ji Rong's three bodies merged into one, the meridians in her body received nourishment from spiritual energy once again, and slowly opened up little by little.
Ji Rong then began cultivating day and night, and when she regained consciousness, it was fifteen days later.
After regaining consciousness, she gradually remembered everything that had happened in the past month.
"How embarrassing! I just want to find a hole to hide in," Ji Rong thought to herself.
Before she even opened her eyes, she could hear Jiao Jue, her brother Ji Zhuang, and Gu Qingqing talking beside her.
So she secretly shook her roots, only to find that she still couldn't pull them out, and her body was still in pain, so she simply continued to close her eyes and pretend to be unconscious.
Pretending to faint was too boring, so Ji Rong went back to her old ways.
She focused her attention on the roots, carefully searching for this vein of spirit crystals.
Her original, rope-like little spiritual vein seemed to hear her master's call and emerged from within.
The little bird imprints in the spiritual vein recorded Ji Rong's thoughts and joyfully swam downstream.
Ji Rong felt as if she had boarded a boat and was drifting on a great river.
As Ji Rong's mind entered, the roots on Ji Rong's tree also arrived at the core area of this spirit crystal vein mine: the place where the spirit flowed.
Ji Rong followed the small spiritual vein that served as her boat, slowly drifting downstream along the spiritual current, which flowed very slowly, as if it had been cut off.
As you walk to the end of the spiritual stream, you'll see it turn around and flow back.
Ji Rong stopped at the end. Her mind was drawn to the roots, which burrowed towards the broken end. When she was exhausted, she activated the small spiritual vein to send herself back to cultivate the "Qi Sensing Technique".
Day and night, without rest, in an endless cycle, Ji Rong seemed to have returned to her previous life on the reef island.
Jiaojue stayed for a month and then left. Ji Zhuang asked Xuanwu to bring him some spiritual plant seeds.
During their seclusion, Ji Zhuang and Gu Qingqing grew accustomed to Ji Rong's return to silence.
They spent most of their time cultivating around Ji Rong, and occasionally went out to sow seeds of spiritual plants, water them, and fertilize them.
A year later, Wuqi came to measure the content of the spirit crystal vein on Tuifeng Island. It was not less than expected, so he left behind a lot of spirit materials and left.
After spending a full year on the spiritually rich Tuifeng Island, Ji Zhuang felt that his cultivation had reached perfection and he could break through to the Xuanling Realm at any time. However, he was worried about Ji Rong and always suppressed her breakthrough.
However, Gu Qingqing felt that Ji Zhuang's behavior was simply insane, and she informed Jiao Jue, who had arrived on time, about the matter the following month.
Ji Zhuang was immediately taken away by Jiao Jue and was not returned until forty days later.
Ji Zhuang, who was sent back, had reached the Profound Spirit Realm. His Celestial Body was quite pleasing to the eye. He was eight feet tall with brown hair. If you ignored his unusually hunched shoulders and prominent facial features, he would be a handsome man.
Unfortunately, the handsome man's face is too sculpted; it's not noticeable if you only look at his profile.
If viewed from directly in front, Ji Zhuang's head looked no different from before. His cheeks grew symmetrically along his nasal bones, and his eyes, nostrils, and ears were evenly distributed on his three-dimensional face, which resembled a triangular pyramid. His mouth protruded forward, making him look exactly like a bird with a spirit.
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