Chapter 91: You Can Only Like Me (17)
“Just a reminder, I’m still angry, you haven’t coaxed me,” Jiang Zhiyan reminded her.
Song Jin’yue looked at Jiang Zhiyan dumbfounded, a little confused, she really couldn’t understand how this person could say such absurd things in such a cold tone.
Su Huo moved to the side, keeping her distance from the two. She wanted to gouge out her eyes and plug her ears.
“You two go to the Western Territory on your own.”
“Huh?” Su Huo moved back and looked at Song Jin’yue. “Hurry up and coax her!”
Song Jin’yue shook her head: “I don’t think this is a matter of coaxing or not.”
“Indeed it’s not, it’s your training, you lack practical combat experience, you’re too weak, a storm is brewing between the two realms, how are you going to survive if you’re this weak?” Jiang Zhiyan looked at Su Huo. “You can come back with me first.”
A smile appeared on Su Huo’s face, then she suddenly disappeared: “Does this mean it’s fine even if I die?”
“You have a wide network of connections, you can hide anywhere,” Jiang Zhiyan said.
Su Huo, looking at Jiang Zhiyan’s expression, felt like she was being mocked.
“You’re right, I’ll go with you.”
Song Jin’yue: ???
Song Jin’yue looked at Su Huo in shock: “You’re just abandoning me like that? Didn’t you say your cultivation improved after going mining with her?”
“Oh, why are you putting it like that?” Su Huo glanced at Jiang Zhiyan a couple more times. “This is all for your own good, Senior Sister Song, you’re much older than me, you can definitely handle this kind of thing.”
Su Huo took out a storage pouch and handed it to Song Jin’yue: “Here, take this, good luck.”
Just as Song Jin’yue was about to take it, Jiang Zhiyan reached out and snatched it, after picking through the contents, she gave Song Jin’yue two bottles of Replenishing Spirit Pills: “This is enough.”
Song Jin’yue looked at Jiang Zhiyan, it was the same familiar routine, making her feel both exasperated and reassured.
And she also knew the answer to a previous question.
Even if they were having a disagreement, Jiang Zhiyan would still make her cultivate.
This was the most reassuring thing for Song Jin’yue, more reassuring than being at the Myriad Swords Sect, where she always felt like Jiang Zhiyan didn’t want her anymore, she didn’t want to experience that feeling again.
“Then can you send me back to where we came from?” Song Jin’yue frowned. “What was your purpose in bringing me here?”
“Can’t you tell? She wanted to meet you sooner!” Su Huo said. “Judging by her attire, she was originally planning to follow you, but she couldn’t resist.”
Jiang Zhiyan raised her hand, casually tore a rift in the air, and pushed Su Huo into it. Su Huo screamed, the rift closed, and her scream abruptly stopped.
Jiang Zhiyan’s mood instantly improved, she had wanted to do that for a long time.
The passing demon cultivators were all on edge, softening their footsteps, afraid of being targeted by Jiang Zhiyan.
Nascent Soul cultivators were rare for them, too distant, and this emotionally unstable Nascent Soul cultivator felt like she could kill them at any moment, and no one would avenge them.
The Demon Realm was free, but the pressure to survive was also immense.
“I’ll send you out,” Jiang Zhiyan said, grabbing Song Jin’yue’s arm and placing her on her sword.
Song Jin’yue looked down; it was Nameless, and it was still using spiritual energy, untainted by demonic aura, she was a little surprised.
Jiang Zhiyan didn’t speak. Song Jin’yue looked at her profile: “Can’t you just teleport? Why fly on a sword?”
Jiang Zhiyan still didn’t speak, and Song Jin’yue continued: “Oh, do you want to spend more time with me?”
“Just keep flying west to reach the Western Territory, do you know your directions?” Jiang Zhiyan asked.
Song Jin’yue moved closer to Jiang Zhiyan, then boldly hugged her waist. After hugging her, she realized Jiang Zhiyan’s clothes were cropped, revealing her waist. Song Jin’yue, who grew up in the cultivation world, felt a bit flustered, but since she was already hugging her, it wasn’t possible to let go: “I don’t.”
Jiang Zhiyan didn’t react, she took out a book from her storage pouch and handed it to her: “There are thirteen ways to determine direction inside… Wait, how can you set up formations if you don’t know your directions?”
Song Jin’yue was still dazed, not knowing where to put her hands, she froze for three seconds: “I…”
“Give me half a bottle of Replenishing Spirit Pills, formations don’t require much spiritual energy, I can borrow demonic aura.”
Song Jin’yue came back to her senses, frowned, stared at Jiang Zhiyan, then abruptly withdrew her hand, reluctantly poured three Replenishing Spirit Pills from the bottle, and under Jiang Zhiyan’s death stare, added two more: “You only have ten! You promised me half.”
Jiang Zhiyan withdrew her hand.
“Why don’t you just give me a map?” Song Jin’yue looked at Jiang Zhiyan. “What if I accidentally wander into somewhere I shouldn’t go?”
After saying that, Song Jin’yue kissed Jiang Zhiyan’s cheek and blinked at her. Jiang Zhiyan glanced at her: “No, not all places have maps.”
“Fine, wasted kiss.”
“Heh,” Jiang Zhiyan snorted coldly and looked away.
Song Jin’yue’s face flushed. She turned her back to Jiang Zhiyan and sighed softly, she probably only dared to do these two things today, nothing more.
She took out her communication jade and glanced at it. Since leaving the Myriad Swords Sect, the number of people messaging her had suddenly increased.
[Wei Jingqian: Did you find her?]
[Song Jin’yue: We met.]
[Wei Jingqian: Mm.]
He didn’t say anything more. Song Jin’yue twitched the corner of her mouth, the Path of Emotionlessness was truly emotionless, he didn’t even care about his younger sister who grew up with him.
[Song Family Head: Are you crazy? Get back here! If you don’t come back, the family will expel you!]
[Song Family Head: I told you to maintain a good relationship with Wei Jingqian, what are you doing now? Giving up your engagement with him and getting together with Jiang Zhiyan? Jiang Zhiyan is a woman, and so are you! She’s even fallen into demonic cultivation! Have you lost your mind?]
[Song Family Head: Yes, you’ve lost your mind, come back now, and I can tell others you were being controlled by her.]
[Song Jin’yue: Expel me then, I’m not going back.]
After saying that, Song Jin’yue deleted the Song Family Head’s contact, along with the other Song family members.
Her relationship with the Song family was very superficial, they wanted to use her to solidify their status, but they looked down on her, trying to control her actions.
The other people who messaged her weren’t close acquaintances. Song Jin’yue realized she had very few close relationships, almost none.
“Did many people contact you when you came to the Demon Realm?”
“I don’t know, I crushed my communication jade,” Jiang Zhiyan said.
Song Jin’yue turned her head slightly: “Why?”
“Annoying.”
“No one contacted me,” Song Jin’yue sighed. “I’m so unpopular.”
“Because you’re too weak, once you become stronger, everyone will come looking for you. The ancestor of the Myriad Swords Sect was also very unpopular before, and so was the ancestor of the Wanfa Sect.”
Song Jin’yue hesitated: “Don’t I have any redeeming qualities? Then what do you like about me? I’m so weak?”
“You’re supposed to be coaxing me, not the other way around,” Jiang Zhiyan looked down. “Get down.”
“Huh?”
Jiang Zhiyan pushed Song Jin’yue off the sword.
It seemed that the previous battle had improved her mental fortitude, she quickly took out her sword after falling, Song Jin’yue steadied herself and looked up, Jiang Zhiyan had already disappeared, but she knew the other party was definitely watching her.
“So heartless.”
Song Jin’yue looked at the book that fell with her, opened it, looked up at the sun, determined her directions, and her expression became serious.
Since leaving, she had constantly been reminded of her own incompetence, few cultivators didn’t know their directions, thankfully, she was lucky, the direction she had been walking in was west.
Otherwise…
She put away the book and landed.
“You have seven days,” Jiang Zhiyan’s voice rang in her ear.
“Is the connection between us still there?” Song Jin’yue realized this time Jiang Zhiyan was using voice transmission.
“Yes, there’s a slight problem.”
Song Jin’yue paused: “It’s so unstable, then we can form a Dao Companion contract.”
“I’m still angry.”
Song Jin’yue sighed softly.
“I have to go out for a bit, I’ll ask the Western Demon King to keep an eye on you, he’ll save you if you’re about to die,” Jiang Zhiyan said.
Song Jin’yue frowned: “Where are you going again?”
“The mortal realm.”
“Huh?” Song Jin’yue didn’t understand, but Jiang Zhiyan didn’t explain. “But if you go to the mortal realm, what if you bring the war there?”
“No one besides you will know, I’ll be back soon.” Jiang Zhiyan still wanted to check out the underworld – using cheat methods, if she went there personally, she felt like she might not be able to come back, it would be too big of a commotion.
The mortal realm was closer to the underworld; Jiang Zhiyan wanted to take the easy way out.
There were several layers of barriers between the mortal realm and the cultivation world in this world. It was very difficult for mortals to pass through them, but it was easy for cultivators. The “immortal descending to the mortal realm” that mortals often saw referred to cultivators. Mortals thought that they could become immortals after passing through the barrier, but in reality, they still had to cultivate diligently after crossing over, and it was very likely that after all that effort, they would discover they didn’t have the potential for cultivation at all.
“Just like high school teachers tricking high school students into thinking everything will be fine once they get into university,” the System commented.
Jiang Zhiyan very discreetly passed through the barrier, using the method of out-of-body experience, her spirit arrived, but not her body.
She found a suitable location and started working.
The System, looking at the red alerts filling its vision, sighed. Jiang Zhiyan was becoming increasingly reckless for Xie Liaoyi, it felt like something bad was going to happen.
But whatever, they would cross that bridge when they came to it, it was Jiang Zhiyan’s System, it was already on this boat, there was no getting off.
“Are the two realms actually overlapping?” Jiang Zhiyan was a little surprised.
After all, most of the time, the underworld was “the netherworld,” below, but in an overlapping situation, it clearly couldn’t be considered below.
Humans and spirits were mixed together. Jiang Zhiyan was so focused on working that she only now realized something was wrong with the mortal realm.
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