Chapter 125: My Guardian Spirit is Dead (11)
Xie Yunzhi’s mother still felt awkward, but since she had no other choice but to accept it, she stopped dwelling on it and urged Xie Yunzhi to write down the cultivation methods. She also made an agreement with Jiang Zhiyan that, even when floating, Jiang Zhiyan had to stay on the ground and walk with her feet.
Although she had seen Jiang Zhiyan many times, seeing her float in the air was still a bit frightening.
That very afternoon, after the agreement was made, Jiang Zhiyan and Xie Liaoyi returned, claiming it was out of consideration for her mother, not wanting to scare her.
Her mother was speechless, watching as the person and ghost left. She noticed that when following Xie Yunzhi, Jiang Zhiyan didn’t float around randomly, staying obediently under Xie Yunzhi’s umbrella.
She shook her head, clasped her hands together, took a deep breath, and prayed: “Heavens, please bless my daughter and keep her safe.”
…
Xie Yunzhi suddenly awakened during a regular class. She glanced at Jiang Zhiyan, who was floating beside her.
Jiang Zhiyan froze for a second, sensing something from her gaze, she looked at Xie Yunzhi questioningly, and Xie Yunzhi smiled faintly, looking away.
Jiang Zhiyan: !!!
“She’s awake!” Jiang Zhiyan shouted excitedly to the System.
“Huh? How can you tell?” The System didn’t understand, there was no outward indication.
“Intuition.” Jiang Zhiyan moved closer to Xie Yunzhi and touched her neck with her icy hand.
Xie Yunzhi shivered slightly, suppressing a stronger reaction: “Don’t.”
“You remember everything?” Jiang Zhiyan asked.
“Mm,” Xie Yunzhi confirmed.
“Not paying attention in class,” Jiang Zhiyan said pointedly.
Xie Yunzhi rested her chin on her hand and wrote on a piece of paper: “I told you, remembering you is my top priority, this isn’t considered not paying attention in class, it’s called seizing every second.”
“Tsk,” Jiang Zhiyan snorted. “You always told me to be quiet during class, I wouldn’t dare talk to you if I wasn’t sure you were awake.”
“As I said, that was when I wasn’t awake,” Xie Yunzhi continued writing. “Study hard, get a scholarship, don’t miss any opportunity to make money.”
“But I’m a ghost now,” Jiang Zhiyan said. “I don’t have many expenses.”
“I’ll offer you incense and build a statue for you,” Xie Yunzhi wrote.
“Forget it, that’s like keeping a vengeful spirit as a pet, it’s not good for you,” Jiang Zhiyan looked at Xie Yunzhi. “Just having you by my side is enough.”
“Whatever,” Xie Yunzhi said, resting her chin on her hand.
“Then what about after we leave?” Jiang Zhiyan asked.
Xie Yunzhi chuckled: “You’re actually worried about this now?”
“It’s all because of you,” Jiang Zhiyan said, putting her arm around Xie Yunzhi and closing her eyes. “I’m afraid you’ll overthink things, I don’t mind.”
After class, Xie Yunzhi contacted someone to have a solid gold statue made for Jiang Zhiyan, and the jade house was also on the agenda. The money she had saved over the years was almost all spent, and her mother also contributed some.
Because both Xie Yunzhi’s mother and Xie Yunzhi refused to return to the Xie family, many people came to try and persuade them, and after hearing that she was planning to build a solid gold statue, the mystical world exploded.
Jiang Zhiyan was already a headache for the Xie family, a Jiang Zhiyan receiving incense offerings might become a headache for the entire mystical world.
Xie Yunzhi blocked all the people trying to persuade her and continued her daily routine of going to school and working.
Seeing that they were so idle, Jiang Zhiyan thought of her limited entertainment options in this world, she wrote another article and sent it down, the article was titled On the Inappropriate Influence of Half-baked Mystics on the Underworld, hoping the underworld would implement some screening and restrictions on the practitioners in the mortal realm.
The underworld civil servants strongly agreed, they had been tormented before, and now it was time to torment those above them. They worked overnight to create an assessment plan and convinced the hesitant higher-ups.
The various families, who had never been able to contact the underworld before, were overjoyed to be contacted, and after seeing the assessment criteria, started thinking about which field to switch to.
Jiang Zhiyan did some research, her current character only harmed the Xie family and hadn’t really hurt any innocent people, so if she followed the normal procedures in the underworld, her punishment would definitely be lighter than the ending in the book, after all, the Xie family was the one who started it.
Her current actions might even help reduce the original owner’s sentence, but she didn’t know what the original owner wanted.
A reduced sentence, or mutual destruction with the Xie family.
“After following you for so long, I feel like she wants mutual destruction,” Xie Yunzhi said, holding Jiang Zhiyan’s little finger, a chill creeping up her arm, she curiously kissed Jiang Zhiyan’s lips and shivered.
Jiang Zhiyan reluctantly moved away from Yu Qici’s lips: “Stop kissing me, even hospitals can’t cure that.”
“I’m not that weak,” Xie Yunzhi continued to hold onto Jiang Zhiyan. “It’s a pity this world doesn’t have androids, otherwise, I could rebuild your physical body, I’ve seen many synthetic dolls, but they don’t seem suitable for you, and the manufacturing process takes too long.”
“Just float like this,” Jiang Zhiyan said. “Being able to occasionally touch you is enough for me, how’s the progress on your end?”
“Almost there,” Xie Yunzhi said, holding Jiang Zhiyan’s wrist and writing the word “escape” on her palm.
Jiang Zhiyan instantly understood what Xie Yunzhi meant, Xie Liaoyi was now confident she could escape the Main God’s control, so she didn’t want to go back.
“But I still have fragments there,” Jiang Zhiyan frowned.
“We’ll bring them out in the next world, I’m not the priority now,” Xie Yunzhi looked into Jiang Zhiyan’s eyes. “You are.”
“The next world? That shouldn’t be a problem for me, I’ll talk to the Main God,” Jiang Zhiyan said. “They find me annoying, we don’t have to become enemies.”
“What if they don’t let you go?” Xie Yunzhi asked worriedly. “What if you’re in danger? Don’t you still owe a lot of points?”
“Why would they keep me? To cause trouble for themselves? And I haven’t been using any points recently, I don’t owe anything! I even earned some!” Jiang Zhiyan said, twitching the corner of her mouth with dissatisfaction. “Although I haven’t really been working, I’ve always been like this, they don’t receive any energy feedback from the small worlds, to them, I’m just an unkillable and unmanageable existence.”
The System, listening to their conversation, initially didn’t sense anything amiss, but the more it listened, the more it felt something was wrong.
“Host, what are you planning to do? You’re not planning to leave, are you? What about me if you leave?” the System cried out.
“Just find another host, it’s not a big deal, didn’t you always want a more obedient host?” Jiang Zhiyan said nonchalantly. “I wish you luck with your next host.”
“That’s easy for you to say, but…” the System whimpered. “Although I don’t have a heart of flesh, I also have feelings, okay? Although I can erase my memories, I’m reluctant, even though, Host, you’re not a good person at all.”
Jiang Zhiyan felt a headache coming on from the System’s crying. She sighed softly, looked at Xie Yunzhi, and pointed at her head.
Xie Yunzhi couldn’t help but laugh: “Is your System very talkative?”
“Yes, it even secretly goes online to chat with netizens when it’s bored,” Jiang Zhiyan said helplessly. “It doesn’t follow the System manual at all, it’s very troublesome.”
System: ???
“You, a tasker who constantly violates the rules and flirts with the female lead, how dare you accuse me of not following the rules and being troublesome!” The System paused. “Wait, how did you know I secretly go online? I was very careful.”
Jiang Zhiyan didn’t answer the System’s question, just released Xie Yunzhi’s hand: “Don’t hold it any longer, or your arm will be crippled.”
Xie Yunzhi rolled over and lay on the sofa, rubbing her arm, took the hot water bottle beside her, tucked her hand under the blanket, then took a talisman and stuck it on her arm, looking at Jiang Zhiyan: “Where do you want to go after we leave?”
“To the small worlds we’ve been to before,” Jiang Zhiyan said, her lips curving into a smile. “We’ll take pictures as souvenirs, after all, many of those places only have your image recorded, then we’ll go to new worlds, hopefully leaving our footprints in every world.”
“Soon,” Xie Yunzhi said. “It’ll definitely be very soon.”
The System didn’t quite understand: “What do you mean? The two-person missions you did before? Did you have another System before me?”
It always felt that these two were very strange.
“No,” Jiang Zhiyan said lazily. “Because I used to be a System, otherwise how could I follow the Host? You’re so stupid, after being with me for so long, you haven’t learned anything.”
“Huh?” the System cried out, thinking about all the inconsistencies. “No wonder… but why are you a tasker now? I’ve never heard of a System becoming a tasker.”
“I’m special, I’m the first System in the system to be classified as ‘living,’ and my authority and level are very high, the rules restrict me, but they can’t completely restrict me, I became a tasker because I didn’t want to be a System anymore, I kept messing around in the Main God space, and they found me annoying,” Jiang Zhiyan said casually, with a hint of pride. “Mm, the most important thing is, Xie Liaoyi gave me my name, it was her first gift to me.”
The System gagged.
Jiang Zhiyan glanced at Xie Yunzhi.
“No wonder she always wants to destroy worlds…” the System couldn’t help but complain, it felt that if it weren’t for Xie Liaoyi’s restraint, Jiang Zhiyan would have already destroyed many worlds.
“Go to sleep early, I’ll enter your dreams tonight,” Jiang Zhiyan whispered.
Xie Yunzhi raised an eyebrow, looking at Jiang Zhiyan, and smiled: “Even if you come to my dreams, I might not be there.”
“What, do you have a date in your dreams?”
“Other fragments,” Xie Yunzhi said. “Fragment Number One is trying to take us away through dreams.”
“Your description sounds a bit terrifying,” Jiang Zhiyan said, biting her lip. “I won’t wake up tomorrow and find that you’re not you anymore, will I?”
Xie Yunzhi laughed: “That probably won’t happen, they told me to appease you before taking me away, so have I appeased you?”
She reached out her other hand, caressed Jiang Zhiyan’s face, and quickly pecked her.
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