Chapter 77: Spiritual Contract
Ji Zhu stared blankly at the place where Xiao Ge had disappeared, unable to believe that the plot had deviated to such an extent.
Xiao Ge had fallen into the demonic path?
Wasn’t he the male lead?
Jiang Bai’s face was ugly. She felt that this Xiao Ge was like a fly that could be seen everywhere, which was extremely annoying!
Seeing them appear, Yue Zhi quickly let out a long howl to stop the other yin souls from trying to attack the two of them, and let them leave.
“Why are you here?” Yue Zhi said curiously. At the same time, her gaze kept sizing up Ji Zhu. Seeing that she was still standing there in one piece, a trace of pity couldn’t help but appear in her eyes.
She hadn’t been dealt with.
Was this Jiang Bai’s heart so soft?
“We heard your commotion and rushed over,” Ji Zhu came to Yue Zhi’s side and sized her up. After seeing that she was fine, she breathed a sigh of relief. “What happened to that person just now?”
Hearing Ji Zhu’s words, Yue Zhi resentfully spat out a ball of yin qi and said angrily, “You all knew to rush over to check when you heard the commotion. Is that Song Huisheng dead? She still hasn’t appeared!”
Jiang Bai said silently, “Perhaps Senior Zhu Ge’s condition is still not very good, and she has to stay by her side.”
“If her condition is not good, then am I fine!” Yue Zhi said resentfully, “A person who values love over friendship!”
Ji Zhu and Jiang Bai were both silent, and they even wondered if Yue Zhi could be considered a friend to them.
“The person just now was a former Demon Venerable of the demon clan,” after her anger had subsided, Yue Zhi began to talk about what had happened before. She had wanted to catch Ka Yin, but since that Ka Yin had dared to get so close to her, he actually had the ability to run away even if he couldn’t win. So many yin souls couldn’t keep him.
Hearing her words, Ji Zhu’s small face wrinkled tightly. What the hell? Xiao Ge actually had a soul in his body, and that soul was a Demon Venerable of the demon clan?
She remembered that Xiao Ge had once been taught by an alchemist, but she didn’t remember that he had a soul!
However, after Jiang Bai had listened to the whole process, the strange feeling she had always had about Xiao Ge in her heart was finally explained.
So the power that she had once felt did not belong to Xiao Ge was actually someone else.
She had discovered this strangeness at the Centennial Grand Competition, which showed that the soul had long been attached to Xiao Ge. In this situation, the Immortal Sword Sect had not even discovered the problem, which showed how deep its concealment was.
In that case… the demonic cultivators in the Immortal Sword Sect, did they have anything to do with Xiao Ge?
After the three of them had talked for a long time, Song Huisheng finally arrived late. Seeing that they were all fine, she just roughly understood the situation and then hurried back.
Yue Zhi: “…”
Jiang Bai glanced at Ji Zhu beside her, thinking that she still had many things to settle with Ji Zhu. She grabbed Ji Zhu’s wrist and said to Yue Zhi, “Senior, we still have something to do, so we’ll be leaving first.”
After saying that, she pulled Ji Zhu and teleported, disappearing in front of Yue Zhi.
Yue Zhi looked up at the gray sky with a desolate look, with a sense of loneliness of being the only one in the world.
None of them cared about her!
Ji Zhu, who had been pulled back into the tree cave again, opened her big, innocent eyes, a little unable to understand why Jiang Bai had pulled her back so anxiously.
Jiang Bai looked at her flashing eyes and showed a cold smile.
“You said you wouldn’t run again in the future?”
Hearing this, Ji Zhu immediately nodded, indicating that she would definitely not do such a thing again!
Jiang Bai reached out, and the pad of her thumb gently stroked her eyes and brows. As her tone softened, it even had a faint hint of a charming meaning.
“But I don’t dare to believe it. What should I do?”
Don’t dare to believe it? How dare she not believe me?
Ji Zhu’s eyes widened, and she only felt that it was incredible.
Jiang Bai looked at her like this and curled her lips into a light smile, but her eyes were full of coldness.
When she hadn’t found Ji Zhu, she had once thought that when she found her, she must find a way to tie her to her side, at least to let herself know her location after she had left.
“Shall we sign a spiritual contract? Little liar,” Jiang Bai said softly, and the fingertip that was gently stroking her brow used a little more force.
“Huh?”
Ji Zhu’s eyes instantly widened, and she looked at Jiang Bai in disbelief. “Did I hear you wrong? You said a spiritual contract?”
What was a spiritual contract? In this cultivation world, it was generally used on Daoist couples, and usually, it was signed at the wedding of becoming Daoist couples, to prove their relationship to the heavens.
Even if she had said that she wanted to sign a master-servant contract with her, Ji Zhu would not have been so surprised. After all, she had lived as her spirit pet before, but she had not mentioned this matter at all!
“Naturally,” Jiang Bai touched Ji Zhu’s face, and when she came to her cheek, she pinched it gently, her eyes and brows slightly relaxed. “Could it be that you want to sign a master-servant contract with me?”
Ji Zhu’s face instantly flushed red. “Who wants to sign a master-servant contract with you? I’m a person now!”
Even when she was not a person, she could not allow herself to sign a master-servant contract with someone!
Unless she was the master!
Hearing her angry and frustrated voice, the smile in Jiang Bai’s eyes deepened. “So, a spiritual contract is our best choice.”
The two of them were in an equal relationship. Not only could she know her location, but even Ji Zhu could also know hers.
She was the most particular about fairness.
Although she said so, Ji Zhu’s face was inevitably still red and had not faded. She lowered her head slightly and would occasionally glance at her with the corner of her eye, and said in a small voice, “Then, then if we sign a spiritual contract, you, you won’t be able to sign this contract with your Daoist couple in the future.”
Once a spiritual contract was formed, it could not be easily broken. So there were also many Daoist couples who, although they were together, had not signed this contract.
Looking at Ji Zhu’s flushed face, Jiang Bai’s eyes suddenly narrowed, and she said faintly, “Oh? Then do you hope that I can sign a contract with someone else?”
“Of course not!” Ji Zhu immediately looked up and retorted loudly, and glared at her. “When did I say that I hope you can sign a contract with someone else?”
“Sign it, sign it now! Whoever doesn’t sign it is a little dog!”
Ji Zhu stretched out her hand in front of Jiang Bai and said resentfully, “You still say I’m a little liar. You are a big liar yourself!”
The two of them were half a pound, and neither of them said anything!
Hearing her resentful tone, Jiang Bai was unmoved. She slowly pricked Ji Zhu’s index fingertip, and a blood bead instantly appeared.
However, to form a spiritual contract, this ordinary blood bead was of no use.
“Bring out your heart’s blood,” Jiang Bai said in a deep voice.
At the same time, she then pricked her own fingertip, forcing her own heart’s blood out from her fingertip. Her face was slightly pale. Seeing Ji Zhu’s also pale face, she felt an unprecedented sense of peace.
As long as the contract was formed, she could firmly tie Ji Zhu from now on.
The two of them’s heart’s blood soaked into each other’s brow. As a complicated pattern faintly appeared on their brows, a wonderful sense of connection connected the two of them. They could feel that trace of connection with each other, and even had a clearer understanding of the other party’s emotional fluctuations.
The pattern was hidden, and Ji Zhu opened her eyes. Seeing that Jiang Bai’s eyes were still closed, she was a little secretly happy, and a little apprehensive.
From her little thoughts about Jiang Bai, since the enchantress could sign such an important spiritual contract with her without any care, how could she not be secretly happy, and how could she not think that she also had a chance!
But after the secret joy, Ji Zhu would inevitably have a bit of self-loathing.
The enchantress didn’t know anything, but she was using her ignorance to think of things. How could it not be a kind of blasphemy?
Jiang Bai opened her eyes and looked at Ji Zhu’s obviously not-so-happy appearance, her gaze slightly dark.
“What, you’re actually not willing to sign a spiritual contract with me? But it’s too late even if you’re not willing.”
Suddenly hearing these cold words, Ji Zhu looked up at her in confusion. “When did I say I was unwilling? If I were unwilling, I wouldn’t have so honestly forced out my heart’s blood!”
It hurt so much!
Hearing her words, Jiang Bai’s eyes and brows relaxed a little, and finally, she said, “Then what were you thinking just now?”
Ji Zhu: “…” She knew she couldn’t escape these questions!
“I was thinking… we… what is our relationship…” Ji Zhu said slowly, looking up at her with a glance for every sentence she said, both expectant and with a bit of a lack of confidence and guilt.
Since the enchantress was willing to sign such an important spiritual contract with her, did that mean that she was really extraordinary in her heart?
Jiang Bai’s gaze condensed. She looked at Ji Zhu quietly and curled her lips. “Then what do you think our relationship is?”
Ji Zhu held the pillow in her arms, lowered her head, and stammered, “I, I…”
In the end, Ji Zhu buried her head in the pillow and could not say a single word.
How was she supposed to say it! The uncertainty was too great!
Thinking of the enchantress’s attitude towards her, Ji Zhu’s heart trembled, and at the same time, she couldn’t help but feel a little scared.
What if she had misunderstood? What if she had misunderstood and had still made it clear? How awkward would the days be in the future!
“Let’s skip this topic,” Ji Zhu finally said dejectedly. She didn’t dare to face the possibly awkward situation of her and the enchantress getting along.
Hearing this, Jiang Bai looked at her deeply twice, sat down, took out a set of tea utensils, poured a cup of tea for herself, and said slowly, “Alright. In that case, can you tell me all the things you’ve been hiding from me?”
“Huh?” Ji Zhu was bewildered again. She had not expected that Jiang Bai would turn the topic in this direction.
“Then let’s take it one step at a time. Why are you called Ji Zhu? Did you name yourself, or did someone name you?” Jiang Bai’s gaze was slightly cold.
She had always known that her little cat had many things hidden from her. Now, she wanted to know what those things that were hidden from her were.
“Ugh…” Ji Zhu’s small face was wrinkled, and her heart was beating so fast that it was almost unbearable.
Seeing her so conflicted, Jiang Bai’s fingertips that were holding the teacup tightened, and she said distantly, “I hope you can tell me the truth and not lie to me anymore.”
As soon as the word “lie” came out, Ji Zhu’s heart trembled for a moment, and even her nose felt a little sore.
“My, my mother named me…” Ji Zhu said in a small voice, sneaking a peek at Jiang Bai from time to time, feeling that she was really so oppressive now.
That posture, it was as if if she didn’t tell the truth, she would use very extreme means.
Jiang Bai looked at her distantly. “Do I still have to ask one by one, or will you just honestly say it yourself?”
Ji Zhu: “…I, I’ll be honest myself.”
The pillow in her arms had already been deformed. Ji Zhu felt that she should be a little more lenient with her confession. Perhaps the enchantress would make a few less notes of her on account of her good attitude.
Hearing her say this, only then did Jiang Bai take out another teacup and pour a cup of tea, and placed it opposite her. The meaning was already obvious.
Seeing this situation, Ji Zhu quickly threw the pillow in her arms out, trotted to the enchantress’s opposite, picked up the teacup, and took a careful sip.
“You might find what I’m about to say very incredible, but I promise that what I say is all true. There is absolutely no intention of deceiving or teasing you!” Ji Zhu still gave her a heads-up in advance. After all, the matter of transmigrating into a book, just listening to it would make people think that she had a mental problem.
This patch made Jiang Bai even more aware of how bizarre the words she was about to say were.
“Speak,” Jiang Bai’s tone sank.
She carefully glanced at Jiang Bai’s face, and Ji Zhu said in a small voice, “Actually, I’m not from this world.”
“Hmm?” Jiang Bai’s expression suddenly sank, and her gaze was fixed on Ji Zhu.
Ji Zhu swallowed a mouthful of tea. “When I was in another world, my name was Ji Zhu. In that world, there was no such thing as cultivation. Of course, there might be, but I’ve never come into contact with it.”
“So, you mean you are not a cat?” Jiang Bai suddenly said.
Being interrupted by her question, Ji Zhu blinked at her and said cautiously, “You… can say that?”
Jiang Bai looked at her silently, signaling for her to continue.
“This world, in our place, is actually a novel, which means a storybook here. It’s all written by a writer, and the protagonist of this world is Xiao Ge.”
Speaking of which, Ji Zhu stopped and observed Jiang Bai’s expression, for fear that she would not be able to withstand the shock of what she had said.
Jiang Bai’s face was calm, and she slightly raised her chin to signal for her to continue.
“Xiao Ge is the absolute protagonist of this world, but you also know the common problem of men. They always want to show off their charm through all kinds of beauties. So in the novel, you are actually a member of his harem. Besides you, there are also Changsun Qiyu or Xia Ye. These are all related to him.”
The more Ji Zhu spoke, the more disgusted she became. To put them and Xiao Ge together was an insult to them.
Jiang Bai’s lips twitched, her gaze slightly cold. No wonder she always felt that Xiao Ge was everywhere. So he was the protagonist of this world.
“I don’t know why I came to this world and even entered a cat’s body,” Ji Zhu pouted, reached out, and tugged at Jiang Bai’s sleeve, shaking it gently. “I didn’t mean to lie to you, but I didn’t dare to tell you the truth back then.”
Jiang Bai let her pull at her sleeve and said faintly, “Then what about you? In the novel you mentioned, what is your position?”
“Me?” Ji Zhu bit her lip and said with apprehension, “Don’t be angry when I tell you later.”
Jiang Bai looked at her with a bit of disgust, feeling that she was really hesitant and dawdling. Could it be that she still thought that she would beat her to death?
“According to the development of the novel, I am your spirit pet. In the future, after a conflict between you and Xiao Ge, I will anger you and be slapped to death by you,” Ji Zhu said with a wronged and pleading look at Jiang Bai.
When she had just transmigrated, she had really been on tenterhooks and cautious! For fear that the enchantress would really kill her as in the novel’s plot!
Jiang Bai: “…”
Her expression was stiff. Now that she thought about it, many of Ji Zhu’s previous actions were explained. No wonder she would always think that she would beat her to death.
“Then what about now?”
“What now?” Ji Zhu was bewildered, not understanding her words for a moment.
“Then what about now? Do you still think that I will beat you to death?” Jiang Bai emphasized, her gaze fixed on Ji Zhu, wanting to know what she was thinking now.
With this question, Ji Zhu instantly understood. She stood up and came to Jiang Bai’s side, sat down directly, and held one of her arms, resting her head on her shoulder and saying happily, “Now you wouldn’t be willing!”
Now, she was extremely sure that the enchantress would not attack her!
Of course, this did not include the act of spanking.
Hearing these joyful words without any gloom, Jiang Bai’s tightly furrowed brows finally relaxed.
Fortunately, this person still had this awareness. If she still thought that she would slap her to death, Jiang Bai would really start to doubt if what she had done all these years was too much of a failure.
But this person said that she was not originally a cat, but her temperament was no different from a cat’s.
She didn’t drive her away, so Ji Zhu just leaned against her shoulder and continued to talk to her, talking about the formation of this world, about the original direction of the novel, and about the differences between this world and the original novel. She chattered on for a long time, and during this period, Jiang Bai just listened quietly and never interrupted.
It was not until Ji Zhu said that she was done that Jiang Bai slightly turned her head to look at her. And at this moment, Ji Zhu was already sitting upright, her blue eyes looking over, with a look of waiting for her sentence.
Jiang Bai looked at her for a long time, and her red lips parted slightly.
“As expected of a little liar.”
She had hidden so much from her. To think she could pretend that nothing had happened in the past.
She was clearly a talkative person, yet she hadn’t let a single word slip.
Hearing this, Ji Zhu’s eyes and brows drooped, and she pursed her lips and said in a small voice, “I, I won’t lie again in the future.”
Jiang Bai snorted, and her tone was hard to read, but the only thing that could be heard was that she did not have any signs of anger.
Ji Zhu was bewildered. She looked up at her. “Is this your reaction?”
Hearing her say so much, she was so calm?
“What other reaction do you want me to have?” Jiang Bai glanced at her sideways and said with a smile that was not a smile, “Hysterical? Starting to doubt the meaning of my own existence?”
Ji Zhu quickly shook her head. “Of course not. I just… I just… oh, I don’t know how to say it!”
Ji Zhu’s face was bitter. Of course she didn’t want Jiang Bai to become like that, but her excessive calmness still made people feel surprised, and at the same time, she couldn’t help but admire her strong core.
Hearing her say this, Jiang Bai snorted with a laugh, and then she raised her hand and gently pinched Ji Zhu’s cheek. “So what if it’s a novel world? Do I not have my own thoughts at this moment? Is my body not a living being of flesh and blood?”
“I can clearly understand that I am not the person in the novel you mentioned. I am me. So what if I am a virtual world character that you think? How can you be sure that the world you live in is not another world written by someone else?”
“Instead of getting tangled up in such ethereal things, it’s better to guard your own heart and live as you should.”
Jiang Bai released the hand that was pinching her cheek. She had just pinched it for a while, and two faint red marks had appeared on her cheek.
Her skin was so thin.
Ji Zhu looked at her in a daze, only feeling that the enchantress’s image in her heart was becoming taller and taller.
Such a stable mood.
I want to talk!
Jiang Bai ignored her sparkling gaze and just turned her tone slightly dark. “If you are not from this world, then will you still return to your original world?”
This matter was extremely important to Jiang Bai.
This question was indeed beyond the scope for Ji Zhu.
“I, I’m not very clear either,” Ji Zhu’s face was slightly bitter. “I don’t even know why I came to this world. How would I know if I will go back?”
“But…” Ji Zhu looked at Jiang Bai’s eyes and said very seriously, “I don’t want to leave here. I don’t want to leave you.”
She didn’t want to leave the enchantress and return to a world without any attachments.
Jiang Bai’s gaze met hers. After looking at her for a long time, only then did she curl her lips. “You’re not lying to me this time?”
Ji Zhu almost learned to be like Yue Zhi and let out a puff of yin qi to express her anger!
“I’ve already said I won’t lie to you. Of course what I said is the truth!”
This bad woman was so infuriating! She had lied to her once, and she had always doubted her!
Jiang Bai gently rubbed her head. “I’ll believe you this time.”
Ji Zhu: “…” Still reluctantly believing?
Ji Zhu turned her back to her with some unhappiness. She had almost said the feelings in her heart!
Jiang Bai continued to rub her head and did not have any intention of coaxing her for the time being. Instead, she lowered her eyebrows in contemplation. “You said that that Xiao Ge will grow into an unshakable existence in the future. Then what do you think will happen if he is nipped in the bud before he has grown up?”
“What will be the ending of this world?”
Hearing her say these words, Ji Zhu immediately and excitedly turned back, grabbed her sleeve, and said, “I was also thinking about this point before! I was thinking about what would happen to this world after he was killed!”
It had to be said that the dream she had had before was really heartbreaking.
It couldn’t be that she really couldn’t kill Xiao Ge, right?
Jiang Bai’s brows were tightly furrowed, and she said coldly, “Such a person cannot be left.”
Since he was born as the protagonist of this world, even if his spiritual root was completely destroyed and his movements were restricted, it was hard to say that he would not encounter some opportunity to get back up again.
The best result was to completely eliminate him!
Hearing her say this, Ji Zhu’s face couldn’t help but show a bit of bitterness.
“But he’s really so cunning. He can always slip away. It seems that the difficulty of killing him is quite high.”
After all, it wasn’t that Jiang Bai hadn’t had a murderous intent before. But what was the result? He had been escaped by him again and again.
Ji Zhu was about to start to suspect if there was a so-called heavenly dao helping.
“There will always be a chance,” Jiang Bai comforted her.
Compared to the past, when he was a pivotal and talented disciple of the Immortal Sword Sect, now that Xiao Ge had fallen into the demonic path, it was much smoother to deal with him.
Although she couldn’t understand why he had taken a completely different path from the novel, it had to be said that this was a good thing for them. They had a more sufficient reason to deal with him, and at the same time, they would not fall out with the Immortal Sword Sect.
“Mm-hmm,” Ji Zhu naturally believed her unconditionally. But after they had completely talked it out, there was one thing that she couldn’t help but be a little worried about.
“You, you, now facing me like this, will you have any discomfort?” Ji Zhu tugged at her clothes and said with some lack of confidence.
She didn’t know if the bad woman preferred her cat form or her human form.
If she preferred her cat body, did that mean that she still treated her as a spirit pet more?
Hearing this, Jiang Bai looked at her, her gaze sizing her up particularly carefully, but she did not say a single word, which made Ji Zhu’s heart itch. Finally, she stomped her foot resentfully. “You’ve been looking for so long. Haven’t you come to a conclusion yet!”
Was this person deliberately teasing her!
“What if… I say there’s no discomfort, and I like both?” Jiang Bai suddenly said slowly.
Huh?
She liked both?
Ji Zhu looked at her in a daze.
How was she supposed to tell what the enchantress was really thinking!
After thinking for a moment, two small ears appeared on Ji Zhu’s head, and they would even twitch from time to time.
“How about this?”
Jiang Bai’s gaze condensed, and her gaze was fixed on the two small ears.
