Recap
It’s very possible that Zhe-ge was tricked.
Xunzhe was silent, and his expression was very indifferent. But Chu Shici knew that he is very sad.
He touched the snow-white scales under his body, “Ge, I don’t think you did anything wrong. You have been wronged for more than five hundred years.”
Xunzhe didn’t say a word, but his breathing stopped slightly.
He turned his head and glanced at the little monk, his vitality value secretly increased a little bit.
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Chu Shici did not expect Xunzhe to be so easily satisfied.
After chatting with Xunzhe for a while, he always has a strange feeling.
He thought for a while, “Ge, aren’t you a thousand-year-old snake yao? What did you do during those past thousands of years?”
It was probably the first time someone took his side, and Xunzhe’s attitude towards him was not as cold as before.
After he was questioned, he briefly talked about his life before being locked up.
There is a lot of details but Chu Shici summarize it all.
Basked in the sun during the day, basked in the moon at night, took baths in the river on cloudy days. During festivals, he will transform into his human form and go out to join in the fun.
The reason why he can speak human language and understand human relations is that he often hangs on a tree near the temple to observe the pilgrims and monks in the temple.
When he first obtained spiritual wisdom, he was no different from a child and he was able to learn things quickly.
He didn’t find a master, and no one taught him. It was all by imitating others and comprehending by himself did he finally succeed in cultivating into a thousand-year-old snake yao who understands the affairs of humans.
Chu Shici was shocked.
He asked Xunzhe, “Do you rarely interact with people?”
“I am a snake, and people are afraid of snakes.”
“Then do you have any friends who know more about human society?”
“Snakes live alone. I am a yao and will not be affected by estrus. There is no need to gather with other snakes.”
Chu Shici stamped his feet.
So disappointed. He had originally wanted to enjoy the exciting estrus period, but it seems he has no chance.
“I understand that you don’t want to play with ordinary snakes, but are there no other supernatural beings in the mountains?”
Xunzhe hummed, his tone as cold as ever, “Only I have intelligence, they are all wild beasts. This mountain is my territory, and yaos from the outside need my permission to enter or leave at will.”
Only his Zhe-ge’s appearance changed, even though his personality did have some slight changes, he is still essentially the same person.
After being together for hundreds of years, no one knew his man better than Chu Shici.
He poked at the white snake’s scales with hatred: “You’ve been thoroughly tricked. What else do you have to be proud of?”
“Others have at least experienced the world, but you have not even stepped foot into the mortal world at all. You have lived in the mountains and forests for more than a thousand years, you don’t even have a friend you can talk to. With this life experience, you still dare to go down the mountain to help them eliminate evil.”
Xunzhe wanted to refute, but was interrupted by Chu Shici, “Did you personally go to the foot of the mountain to check out the situation before helping those women?”
Xunzhe looked at him expressionlessly, “En. I checked. Why do you ask that?”
Chu Shici felt that Zhe-ge in this world seems too easy to deceive, but he did not dare to tell the other party the truth.
Facts have proved that Xunzhe just had no contact with society but has no problems with his brain. His IQ was online a thousand years ago.
After learning from the woman that there was a den of thieves at the foot of the mountain, Xunzhe did not immediately act. He first settled the woman in his lair, then turned into a miniature snake and went down the mountain to observe the situation.
He was very cautious and careful, observing the village for three consecutive days.
Women were tied up in the yard like animals. Either beaten or violated.
Regardless of the adults or children in this village, they were not treated as human beings.
Although Xunzhe is a snake, he has learned human emotions after staying near the temple for a long time. He looked at the women who had dull eyes, on the verge of collapse and crying desperately, and couldn’t help feeling pity.
When Xunzhe saw a group of men ganging up to rape a little girl, Xunzhe acted.
He turned into a giant snake and destroyed the entire village, eating all the villagers involved and saving all the victims.
When there were only women left in the village, he consciously felt that he had completed the task to drive out the cuckoo in the nest, and wanted to continue to coil in the tree and bask in the sun.
A few days later, the woman he rescued took the eminent monk up the mountain and pointed out that he ate the whole village.
Originally, Xunzhe was able to fight to a draw with the eminent monks, but out of nowhere, Lady Dayangtian appeared and played tricks behind his back.
He had to deal with the monk and be aware of Lady Dayangtian. He fought for three days and three nights, but he couldn’t break through and was eventually sealed in the cave.
After Chu Shici heard this, he patted the white snake lovingly.
Although Xunzhe looks like Zhe-ge from the previous three worlds. He was obsessed with cultivation and stayed in the mountains without going anywhere.
Even though he is more than a thousand years old, his vigilance is lower than that of Little Mingzhe.
Chu Shici asked him softly, “Ge, do you know where you went wrong?”
As soon as he said this, Xunzhe’s face turned cold. He didn’t speak and just snorted coldly.
“You haven’t been down the mountain often. There are no legends about snake immortals at the foot of the mountain. Since that woman can run out, why didn’t she go to the monks or the government, but head deep into the mountains to ask for help from a snake?”
Chu Shici became more and more emotional as he spoke. He sighed, “And you should have reported to the officials directly at that time. Let humans handle human affairs by themselves. You are a snake yao, not a human being. You cannot meddle in mortal affairs casually.”
“They forced women so Jianghu swordsmen will kill them to punish and eliminate evil. If you kill them, they will call you a monster who eats humans.”
The corner of Xunzhe’s mouth showed a mocking smile again, but this time there was some helplessness and unwillingness.
Chu Shici hugged the pale and slender fingers in front of him, “The relationship between humans and yaoguais has always been like water and fire. If it doesn’t involve supernatural affairs in the future, we will not get involved. Rescuing people and reporting criminals to the officials is the most benevolent thing. Otherwise, we will be killed. If monks and priests know about us, we will be chased and beaten.”
Xunzhe pursed his lips tightly, casually playing with a wild fruit, without even looking at him.
But Chu Shici knows that he is listening.
Lady Dayangtian’s role in this looked weird no matter which angle Chu Shici looked at it from, she might have been the one who set a trap for Xunzhe.
The old hag played tricks and bullied an honest and kind thousand-year-old homebody snake. Zhe-ge has really suffered in the past 500 years.
The more Chu Shici thought about it, the angrier he became, and he muttered, “Ge, I’m going to find some filthy things tomorrow, and break the seal early. Then, we’ll go find Lady Dayangtian to take revenge.”
Xunzhe, who was originally as quiet as a statue, suddenly said: “There is no need to look for it. The strength of the seal is dissipating rapidly. I will be able to break through the seal myself after a while.”
Chu Shici is determined, and he knows that Xunzhe is also making small plans of his own.
He asked curiously, “Then why did you ask me to do it before?”
Xunzhe turned his head and took a deep look at him, “Doing what I say will indeed release me, but it won’t lift the seal.”
He didn’t continue talking, his body quickly turned into his snake form and coiled himself up, no matter how much Chu Shici asked, he didn’t reply.
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Chu Shici was very tired after being busy for half the night yesterday, and slept until the next afternoon before barely replenishing his energy.
He pushed the white snake, “Ge, don’t sleep, ge, I have something to tell you.”
Xunzhe’s body gradually morphed, the upper half of his body turning into the upper torso of a man little by little. He glanced at the little monk and hummed coldly.
Chu Shici told him what he saw and heard in the kitchen last night, and finally asked expectantly, “Ge, do you know why chickens can talk?”
Xunzhe covered his mouth and yawned, “I don’t know.”
“Then do you know what happened to those monks?”
“I have no idea.”
Chu Shici observed his expression and found that he is not pretending to be stupid, but really doesn’t know.
“But you are a thousand-year-old snake yao, do you not have a single inkling?”
Xunzhe rested for a while before regaining his spirit. He doesn’t understand much about humans, but he still has some knowledge on yaos.
When he was a child, he lived on the stone slab, in the stone sculpture carved with natural scenery, there were other intelligent animals, and he often listened to their chats.
After he grew up, he occupied the mountain and became the king. Occasionally, when some supernatural beings would pass by the mountains or stay overnight in his territory, they would take the initiative to meet him. Give him some small gifts as toll fees, and then talk to him about the outside world.
Xunzhe learned a lot from them.
He pondered for a while and said, “According to your description, the monks in the temple may have been controlled. Among the supernatural beings, the fox clan is the best at manipulating people. Spirit foxes are auspicious creatures and they practice the righteous way. Only the demon fox clans use their crafts to harm people.”
“So Lady Dayangtian is a fox yao?”
Xunzhe nodded halfway and suddenly stopped.
Chu Shici hurriedly asked, “What’s wrong, ge?”
There was a trace of confusion in Xunzhe’s usually calm voice.
“It stands to reason that when you become a yao, some aura will remain on your body. Humans can’t detect it, but yaos can easily detect it. But when I fought with her, I didn’t smell any animal scent.”
He pondered for a long time, with a little puzzlement in his voice, “On the contrary, I felt… the warmth of the sun.”
Chu Shici: ?
Xunzhe thought he didn’t understand, and explained again, “She is like a quilt, a stone or a grain pile that has been basked in the sun. When you get close to her, you will feel very warm.”
Chu Shici: ???
Xunzhe supplemented his statement with more analogies seeing that he was more confused. He had always thought that Dayangtian was just a random name, but he did not expect that it was actually related to the sun*.
*(da is big, yang is sunny/sun, tian is day so technically, her name is like big sunny day)
Could it be that someone’s drying quilt has gained spiritual wisdom?
According to Xunzhe, Lady Dayangtian would come to see him every once in a while.
In the beginning, the intervals were decades, but in recent years, it has become once every few months, and now every two or three weeks.
It may be that she sensed that the power of the seal was weakening, and was afraid that Xunzhe would break the seal, so she ran over to keep an eye on him.
There is no leads on the matter of Lady Dayangtian and the monks in the temple.
Chu Shici began to ask him under what circumstances the rooster could speak human language and would even clamor to call the police.
Xunzhe fell into deep thought.
After a long time, he said hesitantly: “I have never heard of this kind of dark arts, it may be some kind of unique secret art.”
“Is it possible that it was done by those people who do body snatches? Do you think they put the human soul into the animal? In that way, the soul inside the chicken does belong to a human’s.”
Xunzhe looked down at the little monk, with the corners of his mouth slightly raised, showing a mocking smile again.
Chu Shici turned gloomy, and looked up at him with his arms folded.
After a two-second stalemate, Xunzhe turned his head and suppressed his smile: “You don’t understand the meaning of body snatching.”
Supernatural things are things that Xunzhe knows best, and when he talks about them, he becomes very talkative.
Chu Shici listened to him for a while, and roughly understood it.
The fetus refers to the body that is still in the mother’s body and has not yet been born.
Body snatching generally occurs around the time of childbirth.
The pregnant woman is about to give birth, when the souls who have been reincarnated through the official channels of the underworld will go to the earth to prepare for reincarnation. The souls coming from the wild road will need to compete with them for their bodies.
One pigeon, one hole, one body can only contain one soul. Before the child is born, whoever wins the fight will own the body.
No wonder that when the monk was looking for a family for the large wavy haired woman, he specifically told her that the family will give birth at 9:30 in the evening. Told her to die before 9 o’clock, otherwise she can only become a lonely ghost.
Maybe the souls from the underworld will arrive early, hence, they have to guard beside the pregnant women in advance, ready to occupy the body at any time.
The monk vowed firmly that Dayangtian Ming Temple’s plan should be to master the method that can help those people snatch other’s reincarnation places.
Yet, the chicken that Chu Shici saw was an adult rooster.
The rooster mentioned calling the police, and also used a human crawling posture when escaping. It didn’t realize it was a chicken, it thought it was a human.
The soul in its body did not grow up in a chicken body, so that has nothing to do with body snatching.
After sorting out the connections, Chu Shici let out a long sigh.
This temple hides many secrets.
The yao Lady Dayangtian whose prototype is unknown, the monks who are suspected of being bewitched and manipulated, the big rooster who can suddenly speak human words, and childbirths that violate the natural order.
Judging from Chu Shici’s past world experiences, there should be some kind of connection between these things. It’s just that his head hurts, and he can’t come up with any ideas.
Xunzhe leaned halfway on the stone with his cheek propped up and looking at him quietly.
The little monk frowned, he was thinking so hard with his brows furrowed that his eyes became a slit.
Xunzhe raised his eyebrows, endured it for a while, and couldn’t help but ask, “What are you thinking about?”
“Thinking about Dayangtian Ming Temple.”
“Those things have nothing to do with you.”
Chu Shici suddenly realized.
That’s right, one of them is a snake yao who is imprisoned while the other is a wood spirit who doesn’t know anything.
It’s not like this world is without other capable people who can subdue demons and eliminate evil, it’s not up to them to save the common people.
Xunzhe saw that the little monk was stunned, and reached out his hand to pat his head. There was an unconcealable arrogance in those golden snake pupils.
“What happens here has nothing to do with you and me. It’s not like I can’t beat her. After breaking the seal, whether to leave directly or kill her depends on my mood. So many people were required to seal me five hundred years ago. Now, no one in this Dayangtian Ming Temple can prevent me from leaving.”
In the past, Chu Shici would be so enamored with his arrogance which has been engraved in his bones that his legs would go weak.
Now that they have walked through three worlds together, he is already unaffected by his arrogance.
Chu Shici touched the tail of the white snake and said, “Awesome!”
As soon as he looked up after speaking, he found Xunzhe looking at him expressionlessly.
The two looked at each other for a while, and Chu Shici threw himself on the snake’s tail and rubbed it vigorously, his eyes widening in admiration.
“Ge, you are really powerful. You are indeed a thousand-year-old snake yao. I am so envious. If only I could be half as powerful as you.”
Xunzhe’s handsome and pale face still showed no expression at all, just as cold as described in the original text.
At the same time, a notification popped up in the background of the system.
[Add 1 point to the vitality value, and the current vitality value is 10.]
The increase in vitality is completely expected by Chu Shici.
Because of the special environment in which he grew up in, Xunzhe didn’t have much life experiences and he was locked up in a small dark room before he had time to see the dangers of the world.
The fact that he can cultivate to this level by himself, already shows that his awareness is extremely high, and his IQ is not low. But in terms of cunningness, he is not as good as Little Mingzhe in the second world.
Especially now that he has a very honest tail, the tip of the tail will swish around every time he is irritated or nervous.
Chu Shici held Xunzhe’s fingers.
He has this Zhe-ge held tightly in his hands.
After eating the last bit of vegetarian buns, Chu Shici went out for a walk, trying to get some chocolates back.
Before he went out, he felt that the white snake had been staring at him from behind.
Chu Shici understood Xunzhe very well. He lived for more than 1,500 years in total, cultivating alone for the first thousand years, and was imprisoned for the next five hundred years.
Occasionally some yaoguais would chat with him, and he would also see the pilgrims coming and going every day.
But he has an arrogant temperament and is taciturn. Others can say ten sentences but he will only reply with one. He has a stubborn temper and doesn’t always like to voice out his opinions and when he does, he is always sarcastic.
No one was willing to approach him, and he didn’t know how to get along with people. The word loneliness can almost perfectly describe his life.
Chu Shici sat on the little lotus and looked back. Through the tiny gap between the door, and White Snake was lying there looking at him.
He suddenly realized that he might be Xunzhe’s only friend.
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