The fairy world collapsed, and the down-and-out gods were laid off and re-employed.

The room was in a mess, filled with the sound of two people breathing heavily. Xie Zezhi coaxed her softly, "Then let's stop standing. Hold me."

Then he lifted her up by the waist and placed her on the table in the bedroom.

It was cold beneath me. Jiang Zhixia screamed in shock, and just when she was about to protest, she was kissed by Xie Zezhi. Her voice was swallowed up by him.

Xie Zezhi picked up his clothes and put them under her body. At the same time, he secretly cursed himself for being careless and not casting a spell outside to set up a barrier. He didn't expect anyone to come in at night.

He waved his hand and cast a spell to knock Ji Chen out of the courtyard, and then raised a barrier to cover the entire place.

Ji Chen spit out the blood in his mouth, stood up slowly, and stared at the closed courtyard door. The autumn rain was falling at this time, but he couldn't feel the cold.

He should leave. He should leave immediately, but he doesn't know why he can't take a step forward.

He understood that Jiang Zhixia would not wait for him where she was. She and Xie Zezhi were in love, and everything they did was logical.

He will no longer be as jealous as before, but he still has unrealistic illusions. What if she gets tired of Xie Zezhi, what if she falls in love with him again...

Even if the chance is very small, he is always willing to wait and wait by her side.

But he was still sad. His heart felt like it was being pinched so hard that he couldn't breathe.

Regardless of his injuries, he stood in the rain, letting the rain make him wet. Bits and pieces of his past with her appeared in his mind. The more he thought about it, the more painful it became, until his bones ached at the thought.

At dawn the rain stopped and red clouds appeared on the horizon. Slowly the sun rose and illuminated the entire Dongyao Mountain, but this light could not dispel the coldness on his body.

He stood all night, with no blood left on his face, as if he might faint at any time.

Xie Zezhi opened the courtyard door and saw that Ji Chen was still there. Thinking of what happened yesterday, he became very angry and said in a cold voice: "Ji Xianjun, if you don't go back to recuperate, what do you want to do standing outside my wife's residence? Who taught you this so late at night?" Breaking into the girl's boudoir?"

"You can't..." Ji Chen felt that his throat was dry and painful as if it had been burned by fire. He cleared his throat and said in a slightly hoarse voice: "You can't...can't do this to her."

"Heh." Xie Zezhi sneered, "What do I have to do with her? Who are you to her?"

When Ji Chen heard this, he pursed his lips and took a few steps back.

This is what he once asked Xie Zezhi.

At that time, Jiang Zhixia was suffering because of Ji Chen's sudden nearness and distance. Xie Zezhi felt extremely distressed when he saw the girl he cared about being treated like this. He couldn't help but find Ji Chen and told him not to treat her like this. If he didn't like her, he should tell her earlier.

Ji Chen thought that every time Jiang Zhixia ignored him it was because of him, and an unknown fire arose in his heart, and asked him who Jiang Zhixia was, and what qualifications did he have to care about how he treated his junior sister.

"You also know that she is your junior sister, have you ever thought about her feelings when you treat her like this?!" Xie Zezhi said angrily: "She is not your enemy, what good does it do you to torture her like this?"

"I tortured her because she wanted to." Ji Chen realized that what he did was wrong, but he didn't want to admit his mistake in front of Xie Zezhi, so he just said stiffly: "She came to tell me she liked me, and I couldn't even drive her away. .”

"You should make it clear to her. She is not a stubborn person..."

"How clear should I say it? She knows that I like Ning Shu, but she still wants to pester me. What can I do?" He kept saying things that were against his will, "I chose Ning Shu between Ning Shu and her twice. Shu, if she can’t understand it herself, who is to blame?”

"I thought you were just friends..."

Jiang Zhixia's voice sounded behind him. It was as if a basin of cold water had been poured on him, and the blood all over his body was cold. He didn't dare to look back, let alone look at her expression.

Jiang Zhixia walked up to him slowly, her eyes a little red, which made him feel nervous.

"Miss Ning told me the same thing." She looked at him, her voice was very lonely, "I think I misunderstood. You... gave me a hairpin before, I thought..."

"That's for Ning Shu." Ji Chen was very irritated when he saw her sad, but he didn't understand why he felt this way. Then the annoyance turned into anger, all poured out on her.

He lied. He deliberately made her sad. In fact, the hairpin was a birthday gift he carefully prepared for her. She didn't know when she was born, so Master Kaiyang regarded the day she entered the profession as her birthday.

Since she came to Lingqing, he has given her gifts every year, but he mixes the things he gave with those given by Lin Yi and others and sends them together.

But that hairpin was given to her in person this year. As for why? It should be that he wanted to distinguish himself from Lin Yi and the others, and wanted to be thanked by her alone.

However, he regretted it as soon as he said it. He saw Jiang Zhixia taking off the hairpin from her head and handing it to him, saying that she didn't want it anymore.

He was furious, took the hairpin and threw it aside, saying: "Do you think she would want something that others have worn..."

Xie Zezhi was so angry that he wanted to attack him, but was stopped by Jiang Zhixia. She shook her head and said only two words, "Forget it."

Then she and Xie Zezhi left in the clouds.

Ji Chen returned to Lingqing and wanted to apologize to her, but he couldn't lose his face. He stayed in his room and never left, waiting for her to climb over the wall to find him as usual after her anger subsided.

He prepared an apology gift, replaced the cushions on the soft couch with new ones, and bought many books and put them aside. He read the contents of the book completely and memorized them. Thinking that when she read it to him again, he would be able to catch the words.

But he waited day after day, and Jiang Zhixia never appeared again.

In the end, he couldn't wait any longer and walked out of the courtyard and saw her arguing with Mo Jixu in the main hall. When she saw him, she greeted him as usual, but never came forward again.

He thought it was because she was still angry. Later he realized that Xie Zezhi was right. Once he made it clear, she would not pester him anymore.

Now the identities were reversed, and he became the one whose qualifications were being questioned. But Xie Zezhi was completely different from what he was back then. He loves Jiang Zhixia and never hides his love. He responded to Jiang Zhixia's affection a hundred times more.

Suddenly, He Susu ran over in a panic and accidentally knocked Ji Chen aside.

"I'm sorry, Third Master." She apologized without sincerity, turned to Xie Zezhi and said, "Master, Master Mu came to my master and said he had something for her."

The Sky Sect is now under the care of Pleiades. When Pleiades disciples were cleaning the collapsed Immortal Suppression Tower, they picked up something and handed it to Mu Shenglan.

Mu Shenglan saw Ji Chen's name written on it and thought about returning it to Lingqing. It just so happened that she hadn't seen Jiang Zhixia for a while, so she took the opportunity to stop by and chat with her.

She waited in the main hall for almost an hour. Jiang Zhixia yawned and walked in sleepily. Behind her were Xie Zezhi, He Susu and the thin Ji Chen.

Mu Shenglan pointed at the heavy dark circles on her face in surprise, "Did you... have your yang energy sucked away by a ghost?"

"Pretty much." She finished and glared at the culprit.

Xie Zezhi ran into her room last night and said that his internal injuries had recurred, and he hoped that she would use the method of dual cultivation to help him heal. She said she didn't know how, and he said he could teach.

It took Jiang Zhixia a long time to learn that she had been fooled, but it was too late to run away. Xie Zezhi held her waist and asked her to fulfill her promise of "compensation".

She was not idle for a moment that night, and drove Xie Zezhi out at dawn to rest for a while.

Xie Zezhi knew that he was in the wrong and carefully helped her sit on the chair. The immortals saw something was wrong and cast contemptuous glances at him.

But he doesn't care...

Mu Shenglan looked confused, then pointed at Ji Chen and asked Jiang Zhixia openly: "You will bring him back... then my senior brother..."

"Your senior brother brought me back." She answered more openly, and neither of them shied away from it.

Ji Chen lowered his head, feeling that he was a little redundant here.

"It's very complicated anyway. I'll explain it to you later. I heard Susu said you had something to give me." Jiang Zhixia brought back the topic.

"Well, yes." Mu Shenglan took something out of his arms and handed it to her.

After she took it, her eyes widened.

She couldn't believe what she was holding in her hands and looked at it several times. When she saw the lyrics of "Handan Ji" engraved on it, she finally couldn't convince herself that they just looked similar.

This thing is exactly the piece of jade with holes that Ji Chen held in the fantasy world.

How did it escape from the illusion?

Now not only her, but also Mo Yansu and the others were confused.

"Can you let me take a look?" Ji Chen asked her.

After taking the jade, he looked at it for a long time and murmured: "I thought I was wrong."

"Do you know this thing?"

"Yes. Master gave it to me. I was not his disciple at that time, and my senior brother was not here. It followed me for a long time, and later Ning Shu said..."

He paused and found nothing unusual about Jiang Zhixia and then continued: "Ning Shu said she liked it, so I gave it to her."

"Master gave it to you?!"

Jiang Zhixia suddenly remembered the question she had not understood after coming out of the illusion. Ji Chen in the fantasy once said that an old man gave him jade and said that jade could save Shi Qi's life. But the old man never appeared again.

Who was the old man who gave him the jade? Could it be Master Kaiyang? So what was his purpose in giving jade? Jiang Zhixia in the fantasy world didn't survive because of that piece of jade.

"Did Master say anything when he gave it to you?" She asked, "Did he tell you that this thing would save someone's life?"

"No." He said, "But he told me some other things and made me promise not to go back on my word."

"What did he say?"

"Do you still remember that we met before you became an immortal? In fact, I wanted to take you away at that time. But Master forced me not to save any mortal in the lower world. So I left..."