I live in Beihai Jun Nanhai [Rebirth]

Chi Ruogu shook his head: "At that time, the housekeeper in my garden was serving him tea, he didn't notice the jade pendant flickering, and the aura on his body was even invisible to him, whether it was brightening or dimming, he Impossible to notice."

Huo Jue nodded slowly and thoughtfully, he is obviously also a person who can know the whole leopard at a glance, without Chi Ruogu's further explanation, he already speculated on his own: "So, you thought of using a dying person The method of 'returning to the light' to replenish the aura of the jade pendant?"

"That's right," Chi Ruogu said, "Later, I ordered the branches of Jiyuantang to pay attention to the seriously ill or dying people, and bring them back to the valley every month when they return to the valley to report on their duties, so that they can borrow their 'return light' Add aura to the jade pendant."

Huo Jue had never heard of such a strange event, but he was not dazzled by it. After thinking about it for a while, he still noticed a little strangeness, and asked: "But what do you bring back to the valley every month?" Except for being thinner and weaker, people are no different from ordinary people, since they are dying, how can they look like this?"

These words were clearly questioning, but Chi Ruogu responded with ease. He opened his eyes slightly, as if to say that Huo Jue was "asking knowingly", and reminded: "You forgot that everyone I brought with me has a strong scent on them." ? You don't wonder why that is?"

After he mentioned it, Huo Jue was really taken aback, and then followed his words and asked: "Why?"

Chi Ruogu continued to ask without answering: "Do you still remember when I was the eldest son of Emperor Qi, why did they imprison me in the medicine jar?"

Huo Jue didn't seem to expect that he would suddenly bring up this past event. You must know that those years in Qi Country must have been a dark time for Chi Ruogu. But now that he took the initiative to mention it, there is naturally a reason why he has to mention it, so Huo Jue didn't dare to be careless, and after a serious memory, he replied: "In order...to take blood and drink it, in order to obtain divine power ?”

"Exactly," Chi Ruogu didn't show any resistance or taboo to this memory, but smiled nonchalantly, "It's just nonsense to say that the god-given power is purely nonsense, but it's made with that prescription. Soaked in decoction and fumigated, it is true that it can temporarily extend the life of a dying person."

"So, the strong fragrance on those people is actually the fragrance of medicine?" Huo Jue hesitated.

"Yes," Chi Ruogu said, "Although the prescription can prolong life, it can only last for a few days. Once the effect of the medicine wears off, there is still no way to recover."

Huo Absolute was not proficient in pharmacology, so naturally he couldn't find anything wrong with it, so he nodded with a vague understanding.

The two were relatively silent for a long time before Huo Jue raised his head as if he had come to his senses and said, "Then you didn't tell anyone about this matter? Xian Zun didn't even know about it?"

Chi Ruogu sighed, nodded and said: "To be honest, I still haven't figured out why this 'return to the light' can add spiritual energy to the jade pendant. It would definitely prevent me from doing this before. But how can I find a way to understand this kind of thing? I am afraid that the only one who can explain the reason is Shenzun, but he has already... Sigh, so I thought that one thing more is worse than one thing less, so I simply Hid it up."

After finishing speaking, seeing Huo Jueding staring at him, Chi Ruogu said helplessly: "Don't look at me like that, just treat it as selfish, but dare you say that you don't want Cun Yi to continue? You, General Huo Dayi, disdain this, at least think about it for them. Of course, if you insist on telling the ancestors, then you will do as you please."

Huo Jueben didn't say anything, but he was speechless after being ridiculed by him like a cannonball, and turned his head away after glaring at him.

Seeing this, Chi Ruogu slowed down his tone and reassured him: "Actually, think about it, this is not a matter of seeking wealth and murder. Those dying people are already dying, why not use them if they can be used? What's more, if I extend their lives with medicinal baths, isn't that also buying them a few more days? What loss is there for them?"

Huo Jue listened quietly, but his eyes kept unconsciously falling on the surrounding tombstones and mounds, as if he was also struggling to make choices in his heart.

After a long time, he finally stood up without saying a word, stepped on the shovel to pick it up, walked around Chi Ruogu and returned to the cart, and threw the shovel onto the cart with a "bang". Turn around and go in the direction of Yuzhou City.

Seeing this, Ji Qinglin, who was watching the memories, already understood that Huo Jue was still convinced.

It's no wonder he was there, if it wasn't for Ji Qinglin's inability to use Huo Jue's body, he almost couldn't help but want to applaud Chi Ruogu.

What a thoughtful and eloquent person, not only weaves the story in an orderly manner, but even the way of convincing Huo Jue to get on the pirate ship in the end is so impeccable.

If Ji Qinglin hadn't known about the existence of the Soul Sealing Technique, he and Huo Jue would have been convinced by him now.

The most difficult lie in the world is half-truth and half-false, and the story made by Chi Ruogu is just like this.

He never mentioned the art of sealing the soul from the beginning to the end, but interpreted the consequences of the art of sealing the soul, "short life extension" and "splitting of the soul element" as "caused by soup" and "reflection", and even took The painful experience he had when he was the eldest son of Emperor Qi Guo was used as evidence to prove it, which made Huo Jue unknowingly partial to him emotionally.

Originally, Ji Qinglin didn't understand why Chi Ruogu was in a hurry to cover the corpse, but now he understands it, because there are traces left by the soul sealing technique on the corpse, in case Huo Jue suddenly remembered it while listening to his explanation Examining the corpse carefully, he found an abnormality at the death point, and he might have to spend a lot of talking to dispel Huo Jue's doubts.

Thinking of this, Ji Qinglin felt helpless. Although he had vaguely guessed that it was unlikely that Chi Ruogu would give a complete explanation, he did not expect that under the circumstances of so many doubts, he would be able to justify himself so impeccably. .

However, although Chi Ruogu lied a lot about the art of sealing the soul, not everything he said was worthless. At least apart from the art of sealing the soul, the other causes and consequences in this story are actually very reasonable.

When they were in Qidi, Ji Qinglin and Ulanda had already guessed that the reason why the jade pendant flickered when there were soul sealers around was because it "perceived" the aura split by the soul seal technique.

Now, according to Chi Ruogu's narrative, the flickering of the jade pendant is not a kind of "perception", but a kind of "absorption". It absorbs the aura split from the soul sealing technique into the jade pendant.

In this way, Chi Ruogu's explanation for the reason why he brought people back to the valley seems very reasonable-he can see the change of the aura on Xie Wuyi's body, so when he found that the aura suddenly weakened due to the memory, in order to let the memory Continue to find a way to add aura to the jade pendant.

It's just that this method of replenishing aura is not a return to light, but a soul-sealing technique.

He asked the branches of Jiyuantang to pay attention to the dying people, and then sealed up the soul of one person every month and brought them back to the Four Seasons Valley, using the aura split from the soul yuan to be absorbed by the jade pendant.

At this point in the analysis, the mystery of the monthly flickering of the jade pendant was finally solved, but another question arose--Chi Ruogu had already mastered the art of sealing the soul at that time?Where did his understanding of the art of sealing souls come from?

Obviously, there is no way to verify this question, and Ji Qinglin can only make some guesses based on the known facts - the technique of sealing the soul requires dragon blood pine needles to perform the technique, and the dragon blood tree grows in the territory of the country of Qi, will it be possible to seal the soul? Is it also part of the ancient legend of the Qi Kingdom?

In addition, Chi Ruogu's narration about the "change of spiritual light" also made Ji Qinglin suspicious, because when he tried to recall the spiritual light on Xie Wuyi's body, he had nothing but the vague impression of the night when he first met.

When the jade pendant flickered, did the aura on Xie Wuyi's body change?

Ji Qinglin realized that he had never noticed it.

Recently, the jade pendant is hung on his waist, so whenever the jade pendant flickers, his first reaction is to look down, and all his attention is focused on the jade pendant, so he has no time to care about other things.

However, it would not be too late to verify this point after the memory came out. Ji Qinglin knew that what he should do now was to continue to look for clues in Huo Jue's memory.

Thinking of this, he once again concentrated his energy back to the outside of the "scroll".

This time, he didn't try to pick the time to remember it by himself, because after the first two memories, he suddenly discovered that the timing of the inexplicable suction was actually very ingenious, and the memory fragments that dragged him into it twice were for him. provided important clues.

Ji Qinglin can't be sure if this is a coincidence, but if he is asked to guess, he will think that these memories have left a deep impression on Huo Jue, so their weight in the entire "scroll" is also different from ordinary fragments, and that strange Suction is produced because of this difference.

Just like the previous two times, the "scroll" slowly started to slide after Ji Qinglin quit, and then got faster and faster.

Ji Qinglin was waiting patiently at first, but after a long time, the suction did not appear again, but the "scroll" kept flying before his eyes, and he finally couldn't help but waver.

Could it be that I made a mistake in my judgment?Are those two really just a coincidence?

Just as he was thinking, he saw that the "scroll" seemed to be nearing the end, the front was still sliding rapidly, but the rear turned into darkness.

Ji Qinglin was taken aback, and just as he wanted to seize the last opportunity to remember, the familiar suction struck again as if he felt his call.

This time, when the severe dizziness gradually subsided and Ji Qinglin saw the outline of the foreground object a little bit, he couldn't help but be stunned for a moment.

At this moment, he suddenly felt a little confused, because the scene in front of him was extremely familiar to him. Just before he remembered it, he watched Xie Wuyi set off the firework of communication here.

This is the open space in Lingfang Garden, the surrounding plants and trees are exactly the same as what Ji Qinglin saw before he remembered, even Uncle Feng, who tends the herbs, stands in the same position.

Huo Jue seemed to have just come back from outside, and there were many footsteps behind him, probably from people in the door.

Seeing Uncle Feng in the garden, Huo Jue asked directly: "Where is Mr. Chi?"

Uncle Feng turned his head, looked at Huo Jue through a large piece of medicinal herbs, and replied: "Young master just went out."

"Going out?" Huo Jue frowned, looked up at the dark sky, "It's getting dark, why is he going out?"

Uncle Feng saw that he seemed to have doubts, so he didn't dare to be negligent, put aside what he was busy with, walked around the side of the gravel path out of the medicine bushes, and came to Huo Jue, and then explained: "Just now, the young grandson in the hall sent a letter. Come on, I don't know if there is something urgent, the young master went back to his room with the letter and went out after a while."

Uncle Feng's words seemed to have aroused Huo Jue's vigilance. He stood there for a while, then turned his head and gave the Jingjue people a wink to tell them to wait here, then turned around and strode towards Chi Ruogu's house.

Uncle Feng didn't stop him either, allowing Huo Jue to walk to the front of the house and open the door to enter.

It was getting dark outside, and the room was also pitch black, but Huo Jue seemed to be very familiar with the furnishings in the room. In the dark, he went to the small shelf by the window and took a torch, and turned back to the desk to light a candle.

When the candlelight came on, Huo Jue immediately saw clearly that there was a piece of letter paper spread out on the desk in front of him. He squatted down to look carefully, and saw a few words written on the paper:

The transaction has been changed to today, the time and place remain the same, and the date will not wait.

Ji Qinglin had seen this letter before, and it was the last of the two letters that Chi Ruogu brought back to his room that night. According to him, he discussed with Huo Jue after receiving the letter, but now it seems that That doesn't seem to be the case.

"The transaction has been changed to today...the time and place remain the same..."

Huo Jue murmured the words on the letter, and after reading, he squatted down and thought for a while, then got up and left the house, and called everyone from Jingjuemen out of the garden together.

Ji Qinglin thought that he was going out of the city to Xiao Yulin, but he didn't expect that he didn't go in the direction of the city gate at all, but went to Jiyuan Hall.

It was already late at this time, and the hall was not as crowded as in the daytime, but there were still a few sporadic people who were getting medicine or seeking medical treatment.

After stepping into the hall, Huo Jue asked directly, "Who is Xiao Sun?"