Chapter 56 The truth of the matter is that

Yu Yao is born a bad breed/Text

Zhuyoushu is a kind of magic that can protect the souls of the dead. Because he created magic like soul-binding and soul-searching, Xi Che also created magic that can counter soul-binding and soul-searching, and that is Zhuyoushu. The Zhuyou technique casts a barrier to lock the soul of the deceased inside, forming a small space. The microcrystal can be kept in the corpse until someone who can break the spell appears and release the soul. Xi Che gave this microcrystal a name, "Zhuyouchong".

However, the conditions for activating the Zhuyou technique are very harsh, and once it is activated, the soul will be extremely compressed, which is no different from sacrificing the soul, so this technique can only be used in life-and-death situations. Xi Che originally taught this technique to Jin Lingzi, not hoping that he would be able to use it one day, but he did not expect that he would eventually use this technique on himself. So why is it so? Is he afraid that someone will capture his soul?

Meng Xinghe is his apprentice, and even he can't use the soul-binding technique. Who else could be worthy of his vigilance?

The more Xi Che thought about it, the more he felt that there were many suspicious points in this matter. If he wanted to know the truth, he could only release the Zhuyou insect and touch Jin Lingzi's soul himself. This Zhuyou insect was obviously not built to defend against Xi Che, but rather it seemed to be waiting for him. In other words, wait for someone who can unlock the Zhuyou worm to discover the truth.

But besides him, who else in this world can use the art of incantation? Xi Che sighed and put his finger on Jin Lingzi's forehead: "It seems that our relationship as master and disciple is not over yet. Let me fulfill your last wish."

Xi Che believed that what was locked in the Zhuyou insect must be the most important memory of Jin Lingzi.

However, when Xi Che was releasing the Zhuyou worm, there was one thing he did not expect, and that was that his magic power was not as strong as before. Originally, he could directly read the memory of the deceased by releasing the Zhuyou worm, but this time, the moment he released his memory, he felt a flash before his eyes, and his brain seemed to be pulled out, and his whole body was sucked into Jin Lingzi's body.

——To be more precise, this is not Jin Lingzi's body, but the space of Zhuyou Chong. Xi Che's power was not enough to unlock that space, but the Zhu You insect sensed the spell and reacted again, and finally sucked Xi Che in.

Xi Che stood speechless in the darkness, with the jumping White Tiger standing beside him. The dead cat jumped and called him a pighead: "Who do you think you are, a god of war? You overestimate yourself! With your current body, you dare to use magic like Zhuyou!"

White Tiger had been trapped in Xiche's sea of ​​consciousness and could not materialize. Now Xiche's consciousness was forcibly pulled into this space. Without the constraints of the flesh, he met White Tiger again.

"Stop arguing, stop arguing. I've already done it. What's the point of you scolding me? Have I forgotten it?"

"You've been too arrogant recently! You're an assassin and you're practicing Zhuyou magic. Do you want to live or not? Your body is in a state of suspended animation. If someone wants to harm you, you won't even have the room to resist!"

Xi Che frowned: "Then let's solve this matter quickly. After all, Jin Lingzi and I have a master-disciple relationship. I can't just sit back and watch him."

After he said that, he walked towards a black door in front of him. After opening the door, he could directly access Jin Lingzi's memory. It was different from the previous way of reading memories, but it shouldn't be much different. The only difference was that this time he had to experience it personally.

As soon as Xi Che entered the door, his perspective changed from a simple third-person perspective to a first-person perspective. When he opened his eyes, he found a ragged and thin boy kneeling at his feet, with a sword in his hand. A group of strange-looking people in white clothes were rushing towards him.

Xi Che had seen them before. The men in white who were chasing after him were none other than those guys from the Gou Tu clan. How could they appear here?

So his first reaction was to raise his hand and swing his sword, trying to block those people away, but he didn't expect that the sword wind would directly chop those people to the ground. Xi Che was stunned for a moment and thought, was his attack just now so heavy?

However, he soon realized that these movements were not made by himself. Xi Che could not control the movements of this body. He only existed as a wisp of consciousness in the space of Zhuyou Chong, and everything he saw before his eyes was just Jin Lingzi's memory.

Realizing this, Xi Che concentrated on putting himself in the perspective of a bystander.

After Jin Lingzi repelled the intruder with a sword, he picked up the unconscious boy at his feet, as if he was holding a bony skeleton - although Xi Che could not control Jin Lingzi's actions, he could feel all of his feelings synchronously, and this feeling was very subtle. The moment the young man who was helped up looked up at Jin Lingzi, Xi Che recognized him. This guy was Meng Xinghe. I didn't expect Meng Xinghe would have such a moment. The boy's body had just developed, he was pitifully thin, and his face was pale, just like a malnourished kitten. But I have to admit that Meng Xinghe's face is still very attractive. Even though he looks so embarrassed, you can still see that his eyebrows are handsome, and there is a sharp and ruthless look in his eyes, which makes his temperament very unique.

After Jin Lingzi rescued Meng Xinghe from the men in white, she brought him back to Xiaoyao Mountain. Jin Lingzi had an unfortunate childhood and was saved by Xi Che. After he became strong, he also became a protector for other children. Xiaoyao Mountain will send people to search for homeless children, raise them, teach them martial arts and magic, and enable them to protect themselves. The fact that Jin Lingzi changed from being protected to being a protector did not disappoint Xi Che.

But Jin Lingzi is really not good at speaking, and is very stiff when talking to people. He bandaged Meng Xinghe's wound and asked, "Why are they chasing you?"

Meng Xinghe said pitifully, "They want to capture me and make me into a medicine man."

"Medicine man?"

Meng Xinghe nodded: "I escaped from the old medicine thief. The old thief specialized in capturing people and bringing them back to be his medicine men. He experimented on us with all kinds of poisons to test the efficacy of the medicines. Many people were tortured by him and became neither human nor ghost. I risked my life to escape from him."

After he said that, he looked at Jin Lingzi and said hesitantly: "Don't send me back. I will definitely die if you send me back."

Jin Lingzi frowned when he heard this and said: "Stretch out your hand."

He put three fingers on Meng Xinghe's wrist and touched it. His expression relaxed a little: "It's not damaged at all. You have been a medicine man for a long time. Soon."

Meng Xinghe looked unhappy: "What do you mean soon? It feels like a year."

Jin Lingzi ignored this and said: "Since you haven't been a medicine man for long, why send so many people to hunt you down? You are just an experimental subject, and we can find a new one. Those who are hunting you are trying their best to snatch you back. Did you steal something from them?"

Meng Xinghe subconsciously touched his chest. Jin Lingzi saw his little action and smiled: "What are you looking for?"

Meng Xinghe no longer made that pitiful expression, but changed to a fierce look: "Give me back my things!"

"Is this your thing?"

Jin Lingzi took out a book with yellowed paper from his sleeve. He found it when he was changing Meng Xinghe's clothes. There were four words written on the cover of the book: "The Holy Poison Sutra". Jin Lingzi held the book and shook it towards Meng Xinghe: "I only have a basic understanding of pharmacology, but I can see that this book of poisons incorporates magic and medicine. Each entry is very rare. It doesn't look like a book that can be written at your age."

Meng Xinghe said nothing, but just gritted his teeth and looked at Jin Lingzi resentfully. Jin Lingzi chuckled: "It's wrong for him to use you as an experiment, but you shouldn't steal other people's things."

Meng Xinghe stopped pretending and stared at Jin Lingzi fiercely and said, "Steal his things? Humph, you don't know, I not only stole his books, but also burned down his medicine shop! This is just the interest! He has tortured me for so long, when I meet him in the future, I will cut him into a thousand pieces! Only then can I get rid of the hatred in my heart!"

Jin Lingzi frowned tightly, "You are so young, but you are so violent. You will definitely cause disaster in the future."

Xi Che suddenly realized when he heard this. He must have thought that the white-bearded old man he met in the Goutu dungeon was the "old medicine thief" mentioned by Meng Xinghe. No wonder he pretended to be Meng Xinghe's grandson and asked Xi Che to help him catch him back. He must have wanted to grind him to ashes.

Meng Xinghe stopped talking, suddenly jumped from the bed to the ground, and pounced on the book to get it back. Jin Lingzi raised her hand to avoid his attack, and gently tapped Meng Xinghe's neck, making him unable to move. After all, Meng Xinghe was still young and had no magic, so how could he be a match for Jin Lingzi? Seeing that he was at a disadvantage, he did not beg for mercy, but glared at him fiercely: "You'd better kill me! Otherwise, I will kill you!"

Jin Lingzi hit him hard on the head with the book in his hand: "Wait until you have the ability to kill me before you talk big!"

But he had no intention of doing anything to Meng Xinghe. The child in front of him was a victim after all, and he would not really watch him die. Jin Lingzi stuffed the book into Meng Xinghe's shirt and then laid him flat on the bed.

"Although your body is not seriously injured, it is still very weak. You should rest here."

Jin Lingzi didn't intend to do anything to him, so she turned around and left the room. Only Meng Xinghe was left lying on the bed, yelling at him: "You bastard! Come back! I'm going to kill you!"

Xi Che shook his head in his heart. With such an atmosphere between these two, how could they become master and disciple in the end.

Jin Lingzi is a very stubborn person. He wants to save Meng Xinghe, but he doesn't know how to educate him properly. He actually uses the technique of immobilizing him alive and won't let him stay immobilized until he can speak properly. In fact, Meng Xinghe was the one who gave in in the end. This young man was very smart. He was hostile to Jin Lingzi at first and thought that Jin Lingzi was going to do something bad to him. But later he found that although Jin Lingzi didn't speak well, he never starved him or froze him. He gradually realized that the other party really didn't intend to harm him.

After Meng Xinghe stopped opposing Jin Lingzi, Jin Lingzi discovered one thing: Meng Xinghe was very smart and could learn things very quickly, especially magic, for which he had a great talent. One day he saw Meng Xinghe burning the "Holy Poison Scripture" which he had always regarded as a treasure, and asked, "Why are you burning it?"

Meng Xinghe looked at him with a smile until the book turned into ashes. He then said, "I am still very weak now. In order to prevent it from being snatched away by others, I have memorized all of it. If you burn this book, no one else in the world will be able to learn the spells in it."

Jin Lingzi was moved. He did not expect Meng Xinghe to be so shrewd at such a young age. However, his actions were a bit too extreme.

Xi Che thought, could it be because of this that Jin Lingzi gradually taught him her magic? From a teacher's perspective, when you meet such a smart and insightful disciple, you can't help but teach him everything you know.

However, he has not seen this memory yet. So far, the spells taught by Jin Lingzi are all very ordinary.

Meng Xinghe grew up gradually and became Jin Lingzi's right-hand man. Jin Lingzi was called the Golden Ling Saint King, and Meng Xinghe became his left protector. Over the years, Meng Xinghe's growth has been obvious. Not only has he gotten rid of his childhood hostility, but he has also become more and more capable. Jin Lingzi is also willing to believe that he has become a righteous and good person under her education.

Xi Che knew that Jin Lingzi might have seen the shadow of his childhood in Meng Xinghe, which was why she thought so highly of him, but in Xi Che's opinion, they were completely different. Although Jin Lingzi killed her father, she was very filial to her mother and had a kind nature. But Meng Xinghe...

Xi Che's guess was soon confirmed.

Meng Xinghe went out on a business trip with another disciple from Xiaoyao Mountain. Before leaving, Jin Lingzi instructed them to rescue any children in distress they met on the road. He also lamented that with the continuous wars in recent years, very few displaced children were rescued.

Indeed, since Meng Xinghe came to Xiaoyao Mountain, he has never brought back any children.

However, this mission made Xi Che fully understand the reason.

On their way back that day, they met a child halfway. The child was ragged and had a pale face and thin body. The disciples from Xiaoyao Mountain who were traveling with them wanted to go up and ask him, and if he was a homeless child, they would take him back. Meng Xinghe stopped him: "Well, let me go and ask. There is an inn ahead. You can buy some dry food to eat on the way."

After the disciple left, Meng Xinghe walked to the child alone, handed him a piece of cake with a smile: "You must be hungry, eat it."

The child was also very hungry and ate the cake in two or three bites. Meng Xinghe looked at him with a smile on his face, but his words were ice-cold: "How can a fool like you be worthy of being next to him."

The child looked at him puzzled, but the next second large mouthfuls of black blood gushed out of his mouth, and then he fell to the ground with his hands covering his throat and his eyes wide open.

Meng Xinghe waved his hand, and a black flame fell from his sleeve. The child's body was instantly devoured by the flames, without even a pinch of ash left. Then he acted as if nothing had happened, smiled and said to the disciples who had bought dry food: "It turns out that the child has parents. I have sent him home."

Xi Che watched all this happen and was shaking with anger - this Meng Xinghe, how could he... how could he kill an innocent child so casually? ! What did he say that he was not worthy of being by his side? Who is he...could it be Jin Lingzi? !

"This bastard! What a born bad seed! If you don't want him to go to Xiaoyao Mountain, you can just not take him back! Why kill him?!"

The white tiger, who had been silent all the time, suddenly said, "If that's the case, won't Jin Lingzi find out?"

Xi Che looked back at the white tiger. It was licking its fur on his shoulder like a cat. It met Xi Che's gaze, stopped and said, "What's the use of getting angry now? These things have already happened and cannot be changed."

Xi Che had to suppress his anger. The bad premonition became stronger and stronger - Jin Lingzi might really have been murdered, but it was more likely that she was killed by Meng Xinghe.