The sage was determined to die.

"ah."

Chu Xi never expected that this story, which took so many twists and turns, would end like this.

There wasn't much surprise on his face; murder and arson were things that were more or less commonplace for him.

He thought for a moment, then muttered, "How come I've never heard you mention this before, bro?"

"It's nothing too important." Chu Ze reached out and patted his head, chuckling. "Besides, how old were you back then?"

Chu Ze paused, lowered his eyelashes, and continued, "After that, those people did many similar things in the same way, but the Wenxin did not appear as expected."

He turned his head to look into the distance, a hint of hesitation in his eyes that was hard to detect, as if he wanted to verify something, but did nothing at all.

This kind of problem was extremely troublesome for Chu Xi, who didn't like to think.

"Is this Wenxin really that magical?" He looked at Chu Ze and couldn't help but ask, "It sounds pretty bewitching."

Chu Ze couldn't help but laugh.

"Well, it is indeed quite alluring."

……

"Hey, can you stop treating me like a monster?"

The girl wiped away a trace of blood from the corner of her mouth, her eyes filled with rage as she looked at Ji Bai.

Ji Bai was clearly innocent as well. He raised one hand, made a peace sign, and stood there saying to her, "You bumped into it yourself."

The girl seemed not to hear him, and said to him with a hint of malice, "You should understand, if I die, she will die too."

"I understand." Ji Bai made a peace sign with his other hand and said to her, "I don't want to kill you. After all, killing someone is... well, it's not illegal in this world."

Clearly, the girl couldn't resonate with his frequent ramblings and nonsensical pronouncements.

She paused, then said to the person in front of her, "If I had a choice, I wouldn't want to take over her body... No, this body originally belonged to me."

"I don't have much time left."

The bloodstains at the corner of the girl's mouth seemed endless. She mechanically reached out to wipe them away. The blood was very strange; it began to dry and congeal almost the instant it touched her fingers, the dark red congealing like a scab forming on her fingers.

"Don't you want to keep her? How about we make a deal?" she suddenly said.

Ji Bai didn't approach her again, a hint of hesitation flashing in his clear black and white eyes.

He blinked and said to her, "Why do you have absolutely no confidence in your proposal?"

"I am not you." Her tone was low, sounding both sarcastic and self-deprecating. "Of course, you'll speak without confidence about things you're not sure about."

"What do you want?" he asked.

A fleeting look of confusion crossed the girl's eyes. She sighed deeply before saying to him, "Perhaps it's a literary heart that can lie and deceive. That literary heart should be here. I want that literary heart to become my new...body?"

When she said the last two words, her tone carried a very subtle uncertainty.

Before Ji Bai could answer, the ground suddenly began to tremble slightly. The subtle vibrations made the soil undulate like breathing skin, giving one the illusion of being trapped in soft mud.

Without a second thought, Ji Bai grabbed the girl's hand to make sure she wouldn't slip away right under his nose.

In fact, she did not run away, but her bright eyes quickly dimmed.