Earlier, when Yun Jianyue went up the mountain, he had been pretending and actually managed to fool him. After that, in order not to expose himself, he couldn’t bring it up at all. During Yun Jianyue’s stay at the sword sect, Yu Xiyi didn’t dare to reveal the truth, because he had finally succeeded in fooling him, and from then on no one could say that Yu Xiyi lacked scheming.
But who would have thought that at that moment, something with happen to the sword qi on Chen Chao. Yu Xiyi wanted to rush down the mountain immediately, but he also didn’t want to reveal the situation in front of Yun Jianyue, so he delayed for a while. In the end, it was Yun Jianyue who saw through it, and only then did Yu Xiyi leave the sword sect with Zhu Xia.
Although he was late, fortunately nothing went wrong.
After hearing all this, Chen Chao felt the urge to pry open Yu Xiyi’s head to see what exactly was inside it.
“Heh heh, anyway nothing happened, so it’s fine. No big deal, no big deal.”
The only person who could constantly make this great sword immortal suffer setbacks was Chen Chao.
Chen Chao turned his head to look at Zhu Xia.
She walked up beside Chen Chao, stared at him, and asked seriously, “Are you really not planning to eat me?”
Chen Chao did not speak, his face slightly red.
It was obvious that what this young Lord Warden Commander was thinking of was not that kind of “eat.”
In the end, Chen Chao still shook his head and smiled. “You staying alive is more useful than me eating you. Besides, I already thought of a way to deal with my injuries.”
Zhu Xia asked in surprise, “What method?”
Although she did not know how severe Chen Chao’s injuries were, from the information she understood, she could not think of any method other than him eating her.
Chen Chao smiled and said, “What if there is a second immortal medicine in this world?”
Zhu Xia frowned, then seemed to recall something and said, “Right, there really is another immortal medicine!”
Chen Chao looked at Zhu Xia and thought for a moment before saying, “You were actually born in the medicinal garden of the Rongshan Sect, weren’t you?”
Earlier, Yun Jianyue had unlocked Zhu Xia’s memories, and at this moment Zhu Xia already clearly understood her past. She remembered growing for a long time in that medicinal garden, and beside her was another immortal medicine. Later, she ran outside, but that immortal medicine had remained.
“How do you know that?”
Zhu Xia was somewhat puzzled, she had never told Chen Chao about this.
Chen Chao looked at her and smiled. “If I’m not mistaken, then that immortal medicine is already gone. Because years ago when I went there, I saw it myself. It was later eaten by a white-robed girl.”
Back then, in the ruins of the Rongshan Sect, Chen Chao had discovered that immortal medicine and obtained it. But afterwards, when the Daoist Yinli appeared and the white-robed girl awakened, she consumed that immortal medicine, borrowing part of its power to lend to Chen Chao, allowing him to force Yinli back at that time.
Thus, that immortal medicine no longer existed from that moment on.
But it was quite a coincidence that ever since he learned Zhu Xia was an immortal medicine, he had been wondering whether she was the missing second plant from that medicinal garden. And it turned out she really was.
Now that Zhu Xia had recovered her memories of the medicinal garden, it was essentially equivalent to saying she was another being who had experienced two eras besides the white-robed girl.
Of course, the Divine Daughter of the Divine Mountain was as well.
However, both the Divine Daughter and the white-robed girl remained silent about certain matters.
But Zhu Xia was clearly not like that.
He might be able to obtain from Zhu Xia some answers that those people had never told him.
“Zhu Xia, I have something I want to ask you.”
After bringing Zhu Xia to the warden's office and clearing out all other people, Chen Chao asked this question.
Hearing Chen Chao’s tone, Yu Xiyi also became serious.
He was not stupid; he knew that if Chen Chao was being this serious, it must be because he wanted to know something important.
Something others were not allowed to know
Zhu Xia looked at Chen Chao, a hint of amusement in her eyes. “Is it about the Rongshan Sect?”
Chen Chao went straight to the point. “Why was the Rongshan Sect destroyed?”
Zhu Xia froze for a moment, then said rather helplessly, “When you saw that immortal medicine back then, why didn’t you ask it? I had already ran away before the Rongshan Sect was destroyed.”
Chen Chao looked at Zhu Xia, remained silent for a long time, then slowly said, “You are lying.”
Zhu Xia subconsciously retorted, “I am not.”
Chen Chao did not speak.
He had once learned a Qi Observing Technique, a secret art of the qi refiners’ lineage that not just anyone could cultivate. Coincidentally, Chen Chao was able to cultivate it. After that, it became very difficult for anyone in front of him to lie without being discovered.
Because in his eyes, everyone had a strand of qi above their head.
At a single glance, everything could be seen through.
Especially now that he had reached his current realm, it had become even harder for others to deceive him.
Although Zhu Xia was not exactly human, after cultivating daoist methods for so many years and being tainted by the mortal world, she had long acquired human characteristics, so she also had that strand of qi above her head.
When Zhu Xia spoke earlier, that qi was in disorder.
Seeing Chen Chao’s expression, Zhu Xia knew she could not deceive him anymore, so she frowned. “It’s something very terrifying.”
Some things are so terrifying that even recalling them is unbearable. The first time Zhu Xia recovered her memories, she had been lost in thought for a long time precisely because she had seen that extremely terrifying thing.
“But if you really want to know, then look yourself.”
Zhu Xia reached out and grabbed Chen Chao’s wrist, then glanced at Yu Xiyi. “If you want to know, grab his hand.”
Yu Xiyi naturally would not miss this opportunity and immediately grabbed Chen Chao’s hand.
No calluses, not rough, quite smooth!
Yu Xiyi silently evaluated.
All three of them closed their eyes.
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Once again returning to the ruins of the Rongshan Sect, Yu Xiyi and Chen Chao were actually not unfamiliar with it. They had both been to the Sublime Bright before, and the ruins of the Rongshan Sect were located within the Sublime Bright.
However, Yu Xiyi had only passed through in haste back then and had never truly entered this place.
Seeing this scene again, Chen Chao felt both familiarity and strangeness.
What felt familiar was that it resembled the Rongshan Sect he had once seen; what felt unfamiliar was that the Rongshan Sect he had seen before did not possess such vitality.
In a medicinal garden, countless spiritual herbs were growing. Just from their radiance alone, they were existences second only to immortal medicine. In today’s major sects, these were all absolutely precious treasures. Yet within this medicinal garden, all of their spiritual energy was converging toward two peculiar plants at the center.
It was clear that all these rare spiritual herbs existed solely to nourish those two special plants.
The two plants were different. One was the immortal medicine Chen Chao had already seen before. The other was blood-red throughout, with crimson liquid flowing through its veins like molten lava.
Chen Chao looked at that plant, then turned to look at Zhu Xia.
This plant was Zhu Xia’s true form. Being looked at like that, Zhu Xia felt as if she were completely naked.
She was a little shy as she said softly, “Don’t look.”
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