Chapter 67 [067] Pillow Moon

If Luo Zhenyue died nearly two years ago, then who is she now?
At least in the past two days, in the eyes of the five people, she behaved like a normal human being.

"Zhongli Jin... Zhongli Jin..." Luo Zhenyue had a dazed expression and kept repeating Zhongli Jin's name. After discovering that her final method to get the young man had failed, she seemed to have fallen into some kind of madness and insanity.

The fishy smell on his body became stronger and stronger, as if he was back to yesterday afternoon when Shi Qing had just pulled him out of the Sanzu River.

Cangying lowered her eyes and saw that the wooden floor of the fairy ship suddenly began to seep water. The dry wood took on a darker color and looked wet. Then, following the source of the water ripples, she saw that the water seemed to be flowing down from Luo Zhenyue's body.

The sound transmission note burned out, but fortunately Zhongli Jin reported the location at the last moment.

This place is too far away from Xiaoyun Sect, and the teleportation talisman cannot reach it. If Sect Master Luo wants to come here, he will probably need to use the sect's teleportation array.

Cangying looked at Shiqing and asked, "Are we just going to wait here now?"

Shi Qing looked at the crazy Luo Zhenyue. The demonic energy lingering around her was getting heavier and heavier. It must be the accumulation in her body. In the end, the body could no longer contain such a large amount of demonic energy. In addition, her emotions fluctuated too much, and the demonic energy overflowed, so it began to surround the host.

Chen Xiang stared coldly at the girl on the ground, "It turns out she was already dead."

[What is Luo Zhenyue in the original novel? ]

[I don’t know either.] The system said.

In the original text, Luo Zhenyue's method was successful, but the male protagonist would rather endure the pain of being tortured by the love Gu than touch her at all. Luo Zhenyue became paranoid and became a demon, with demonic energy overflowing, and was killed by the vicious female supporting role Shi Qing with a single sword.

The author briefly mentioned this paragraph in order to write more about the love and ambiguity between the hero and the heroine Shi Xiang later on.

Luo Zhenyue is the point of conflict in the original text. Apart from promoting the emotional story, she has no other use and her characterization is very flat.

I didn't expect that after traveling through time, I would unexpectedly discover some settings that were not mentioned in the original book.

Chen Xiang has always doubted what the so-called "original work" is. If this world is really formed by a novel, why do many things that happen not match the original text?

So far, apart from the same general plot framework, the rest of the character details seem too thin in the original work compared to the world that has been formed.

The only plump person is the male protagonist Zhongli Jin.

It seems that when the original author wrote this book, only Zhongli Jin was alive.

Even Shi Xiang seems to be a character deliberately added by the author in order to satisfy himself and win the love of the male protagonist.

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The moisture and fishy smell on Luo Zhenyue's body became more and more unpleasant.

At this moment, she was like a creature that had lived under the Sanzu River all year round, with a damp and sticky smell.

"Zhongli Jin... Zhongli Jin..." Luo Zhenyue suddenly burst into tears, "I would even give up my life for you! Why don't you love me!!"

The demonic energy suddenly surged and turned into a sharp blade rushing towards the five people!

The bandage strips on Shi Qing's body immediately shot out to both sides, and with the girl's spiritual power, they formed a white light shield that protected the five people.

"Bang!" The evil energy hit the shield and instantly disappeared like a dark thing encountering the scorching light of the sun!
At this time, the Sanzu River near the fairy ship also began to shake violently, and the river water was flooding and surging, as if something below was about to burst out of the water.

Gray fish scales suddenly grew on Luo Zhenyue's body, and her body began to change. The originally slender waist of a girl turned into a bloated and huge body like a fish. Her legs began to become slender, and scales grew on her hands, becoming wet and slippery.

The eyeballs bulged out, and it seemed that even the eye sockets could no longer cover them. They protruded out hideously, looking very scary.

Cangying was frightened by the scene before her and turned pale. She unconsciously grabbed Shiqing's wrist and trembled, "She, she...what happened to her?!"

Shi Qing's expression remained calm. He looked at the girl who had undergone a strange transformation and said only three words: "Bury the fish."

"!"

Buried fish?!

Cangying was shocked and said, "Luo Zhenyue is a burial fish?!"

“No,” Zhongli Jin seemed to understand. The young man looked at the girl who was in pain and determination, and said with a pair of black pupils with some complicated emotions: “She should... have been eaten by the fish.”

"The Three Paths of Huangquan" records: "The three paths of Huangquan, buried in the belly of fish, eat their obsessive souls and become demons, transforming into the people they were in life, wandering here."

In search of figs, Luo Zhenyue came here with his brother two years ago, but encountered the Three-Path Flood Dragon and died in the river.

When a soul enters the three evil paths, it is like being imprisoned. Once a person dies in water, the soul cannot be reincarnated. Therefore, Sect Master Luo could not recall Luo Zhenyue's soul. She was imprisoned here until Zhongli Jin arrived.

The burial fish that ate Luo Zhenyue's soul and obsession saw the young man she had always been obsessed with in her memory, so she transformed herself into a person she had been in life, retaining her memories and belongings before her death, and believed that she was Luo Zhenyue.

But when it finds out that it is impossible to get the person it wants, its spirit collapses, its obsession shatters, and its mind and heart break apart, returning to its original form.

"But doesn't the burial fish eat those strange aquatic plants on the river?!" Cangying was shocked. She only knew that the Sanzuchuan in Huangquan Valley ate aquatic plants on the river surface, but she didn't know that this thing also eats souls? !

Shi Qing pointed to the Sanzu River not far away and said, "Water grass, soul."

Cangying looked over, and at this moment, with someone's guidance, she seemed to finally see clearly what those unknown aquatic plants floating on the river were.

--soul.

The human soul shattered and intertwined with the water of the Three Paths River, forming clumps of unknown water plants floating on the surface, which were scrambled for by the fish buried in the water.

"So that's how it is..." Cangying murmured.

Since yesterday, the person who had been staying with them was not the real Luo Zhenyue, but the burial fish that transformed into Luo Zhenyue after seeing Zhongli Jin.

She only had obsession, and her body was filled with desire for Zhongli Jin and disgust for others.

When the obsession reaches a certain level, it will attract evil spirits. When the evil spirits reside in the body, they may not be noticed, but every time they become possessed, the evil spirits absorb the host's negative emotions and become stronger.

The effect of Shen Xiang's halo mobilized Luo Zhenyue's evil thoughts again, and the demonic energy devoured the malice, and it increased dozens of times in a short period of time.

Luo Zhenyue's spirit was shocked, and the evil energy was running rampant in her body, completely controlling her mind and causing it to rage everywhere.

The attacks continued.

She was unable to control the evil spirit, and after her body transformed into a fish, her appearance became even more hideous and terrifying.

"Zhongli Jin... Zhongli Jin..."

She called out the boy's name, which sounded very eerie and scary to the ears, yet also inexplicably sad.

Shi Qing drew his sword and rushed out of the shield. The snow-white sword blocked the violent evil spirits one by one.

Zhongli Jin looked at the fish-body Luo Zhenyue with complicated eyes.

The young man took a deep breath. He never thought that without his knowledge, someone would be willing to go to the Yellow Spring Valley for him, and even die there.

Luo Zhenyue has a spoiled and arrogant personality, but when she likes someone, she is really willing to hold a sincere heart in her hands.

Zhongli Jin had only met her a few times, and although they didn't spend much time together, they still owed each other a debt of gratitude.

It's funny to say that.

The more you don't want to be entangled by cause and effect, the more you will be entangled.

Chen Xiang rushed out of the shield with a sword in hand. She narrowed her eyes slightly and said, "If we kill this fish now, the evil spirit will not be able to parasitize it, right?!"

Cangying shook her head and shouted, "Little Junior Sister, it's useless! Demonic energy can only be devoured by spiritual energy. Even if you kill it, the demonic energy here will not disappear. They are already very strong. I'm afraid they will directly look for the next host in the Sanzu River!"

Shen Xiang sighed and said impatiently: “What a hassle!”

In this situation, they are in a passive defensive state.

In order to stop the evil spirits from attacking, their hosts had to successfully control them. But Luo Zhenyue was already in a state of madness and loss of control. She couldn't even control herself, let alone the violent evil spirits.

[Young man! What do you think? ] The old man suddenly asked.

Zhongli Jin stood there, his eyes silent and sad.

Hearing the old man's voice, the young man slowly tightened his grip on the hand hanging by his side, and then said: […The person who tied the bell must be the one to untie it, senior.]

He knew that this matter was caused by him, and he should end this cause and effect by himself.

The young man in front suddenly stepped out of the spiritual power shield and walked towards the fish monster that was slumped on the ground and kept muttering his name.

Cangying saw Zhongli Jin moving, and in a moment of anxiety, she reached out and grabbed the boy’s wrist and said, “Junior Brother Zhongli, what are you going to do?!”

Zhong Lijin looked back and gave Cangying a gentle, soothing smile, "Senior Sister Cang, don't worry. This is the karma of my junior brother, and I should pay it back."

Even if he didn't know about it before, once he knew it, how could he turn a blind eye and stay out of it?

No matter what, he owed Luo Zhenyue a favor, and let the girl die here in vain.

When Shi Qing saw Zhongli Jin coming out, he immediately rushed to the young man and used his sword to help him block the evil spirit.

The brown eyes glanced at him and said lightly: "Go back."

"No." Zhong Lijin shook his head, "At least, I hope she can calm down."

Shi Qing: “…”

Fine.

She turned her wrist and twisted her fingertips, and the snow-white bandage strips passed through both ends of the boy's side, forming a channel to block all attacks from the demonic energy!

"Hurry up." Shi Qing said.

She did not continue to stop the boy from moving forward.

She seemed to be able to see and understand all of Zhongli Jin's actions.

Even though there wasn't much verbal communication, she understood.

She knows everything.

He sees through everything and is so sensible and clear-headed. He is not good at speaking, but he will protect in his own way.

Zhongli Jin thought back to the time in the monster secret realm.

In a secret cave.

Shi Qing rushed over and blocked the huge rocks that were falling from the sky to protect him.

He clearly didn't say anything, just sat on the ground concentrating on carving the formation almost like a madman, but she could always understand everything just by some simple body movements or by watching what he was doing.

This time too.

She used the snow-white bandages to create a path for him to reach Luo Zhenyue. There was no extra emotion in her indifferent eyes as she continued to use her sword to block the violent evil spirit.

However, Zhongli Jin could sense a meaning of "go do it" from her eyes.

Such a clear time.

If you really want to kick that emotion out of your heart and practice the ruthless way, how can it be easy?
"...Thank you."

Zhongli Jin's voice was slightly hoarse.

But I know it’s not easy, so I still have to continue.

The young man finally walked up to Luo Zhenyue.

He gathered his spiritual power at his fingertips and injected it into her brow, just like he was examining the bodies of the monks.

Even though the face was extremely horrible, the boy remained calm.

A strong fishy smell was floating around. Zhongli Jin never liked these smells, but at this moment, at the critical juncture, he would never be indifferent because of his personal likes and dislikes.

The snow-white clothes were stained by the pungent water of the Sanzu River.

The young man ignored it.

The spiritual power rushed into Luo Zhenyue's brows, and from head to toe, it continuously expelled the violent evil spirits, driving them out of the fish's body all at once.

It's just a buried fish.

But it ate Luo Zhenyue's soul.

Spiritual power entered the body and the young man slowly closed his eyes. When most of the evil spirit was driven away, he unexpectedly found the residual soul of Luo Zhenyue in his body!

"!"

[Senior! Can you use the soul-stripping method to separate Luo Zhenyue's remaining soul from this fish body? !] Zhong Lijin asked anxiously.

When the old man heard what the young man said, his eyes lit up: [Yes! This is also possible! ]

The soul-stripping method is used to separate the body and the soul. In the past, it was done directly on living people. This is the first time that the remaining soul of a human is separated from the body of a monster.

Zhongli Jin opened his eyes. This was a pleasant surprise. Although he was not sure, he could always give it a try!
Luo Zhenyue's soul obsession is too strong and it has not been fully digested even in two years. If those remaining souls can be separated out, she can be sent to the afterlife and reincarnate!

In this way, the coming ashore of the Zangsheng Fish this time can be regarded as taking Luo Zhenyue's soul out of the confinement of the Sanzu River.

There really is God's will in all things.

Zhongli Jin withdrew his spiritual power. Luo Zhenyue, who had just felt the breath of the young man, seemed to have recovered some of her spirit.

She mechanically turned her head and looked at the boy beside her with her bulging eyes, and called out woodenly: "Zhongli Jin...?"

"It's me." The young man smiled at her. His handsome and fair face looked like someone who walked out of a painting. His clothes fluttered, his complexion was as gentle as jade, and his temperament was extraordinary.

Zhongli Jin blinked his eyes. His eyelashes were thick and long, slightly curled up, and his eyebrows and eyes were extremely beautiful. He smiled at the girl and asked, "Zhenyue, when did you start to like me?"

Luo Zhenyue was stunned as she hadn't heard this name for a long time.

That scary face showed an expression as if it was shocked by something, incredible and unbelievable.

"What...did you call me?"

Zhongli Jin smiled and said, "Pillow Moon."

He used blood as a talisman and placed it on his palm.

He stretched out his hand, placed the drawn yellow talisman on the girl's wet fish head, and concentrated his spiritual power.

"It might be a little painful later, just bear with it, okay?" Zhong Li Jin comforted her.

"Brother Zhongli..."

The demonic energy around them seemed to weaken a bit. They sensed something was wrong. After being driven out of the body, they found it difficult to absorb the obsession, and began to drill into Luo Zhenyue's body again. Unfortunately, all the ways to return were blocked by Shi Qing.

The girl stood in front of the two men, her eyes indifferent and calm.