The sage was determined to die.

Ji Bai subtly distanced himself from the girl.

The girl didn't seem to have realized what was happening. She casually scratched her head, but stopped eating fruit and innocently asked, "Did you see me change like this before?"

Seeing Ji Bai's shamelessness, he nodded without hesitation and said, "Yes, you were quite frightening when you changed your expression before."

Haha, you're a scammer.

The girl's smile froze for a moment. She nodded slightly and simply said, "Oh, I see. I'm sorry to have troubled you."

The man in front of her remained shameless; he even nodded and said to her, "It's good that you know how hard I've worked."

girl:"……"

"Sigh, I really don't know what would happen if she took my body." The girl glanced at Ji Bai, a hint of pity in her expression, "Would you just kill me then?"

The shameless man in front of him nodded again.

He then began rambling incoherently, but said to her with a serious expression, "Consciousness exists dependent on the body. You are no longer yourself, so of course I can attack you."

The girl's gentle smile gradually turned cold, and she heard herself say, "How heartless! Aren't we friends?"

Ji Bai's expression was so relaxed that he didn't even bother to act anymore. He reverted to the lazy, nonchalant look he had when they first met, as if he didn't care about anything.

He said, "Why do you think physical appearance is so important?"

As he spoke, his hand was covered by armor, and a barely perceptible struggle flashed in his eyes, yet he still spoke: "I'm neither a materialist nor an idealist now; I'm just an actor with limited patience. So how long are you going to keep up this act with me?"

The girl's face was now completely filled with surprise. Her expression darkened, and an incongruous gloom instantly distorted her delicate features.

She said coldly, "I'm really curious, why did you notice me the moment I appeared?"

"Why?" she kept repeating, her words growing faster and faster. "Why, exactly?"

Ji Bai picked at his ear with his little finger and said to her, "It's probably just intuition."

"Perfunctory."

As she spoke, the girl instantly reached for his throat. When she touched the thin armor, her right hand trembled violently as if burned, and she jumped back two steps to create distance between them.

Ji Bai didn't attack her, even though he could have. Instead, he simply said to her, "You know what? I've always wondered why someone can't tell when their family and friends have changed?"

He raised his hand and pressed down his fingers one by one, as if counting the differences.

"Everyone is different, aren't they?"

He took two steps toward her; in the cramped pit, the two of them couldn't really be too far apart.

"Different people have different subconscious habits, language, thought processes, and even food preferences..."

He thought about it seriously for a moment, then said to the person in front of him, "Why do you want to desperately replace her? You two are clearly not the same at all."

"Completely different?" The girl in front of her seemed struck by those words. She sneered, "We are the same person, so why would we be completely different?"