The sage was determined to die.

Damn it.

The girl bit her fingernails, her eyes growing colder with each passing moment. Her fingers trembled uncontrollably, and she kept muttering to herself, "Why, why is this happening?"

As she was speaking, her gaze suddenly shifted to a figure not far away. As the shadow gradually covered the entire figure, she could only look away before the person realized it.

……

Ji Bai felt a chill on the back of his neck. Following his instinct, he looked up, but saw nothing.

"Wow, you run pretty fast."

Yan Ming, who was standing to the side, thought they were calling him and replied, "Ah, I didn't run away."

Ji Bai, slightly speechless, said, "I didn't call you."

After saying that, he looked at Gongsun Yang, who had recovered. He had to admit that the boy's physical condition was far beyond that of ordinary people. He had just undergone surgery under painless anesthesia, but he had already recovered.

Gongsun Yang's face was slightly pale. He nodded to Ji Bai and said thank you.

Ji Bai rested his chin on his hand, looking completely unaware: "You're really unlucky, kid."

Gongsun Yang shook his head stiffly and slowly, and said to Ji Bai, "Yes, but I suspect there might be other reasons as well."

"Although I don't know the reason," Gongsun Yang said, "since I'm not dead, there shouldn't be any major problems."

Ji Bai never expected that this kid would be so open-minded.

"That's what I think too."

Ji Bai looked at the two of them. The faint gaze that had been there just moments before had disappeared, but it had reappeared. As perceptive as he was, he knew without a doubt who was watching him.

"You all stay here and keep watch," Ji Baitong knew. "I'll go out and check."

The two didn't say anything more. Although they knew perfectly well that Ji Bai was trying to hog the food, they still nodded.

……

It's not that I'd go for the food alone.

But taking the two of them along wouldn't make much sense.

Those who knew Ji Bai would naturally avoid him, while those who didn't know him, upon seeing his superior literary talent and then looking at themselves, would more or less shatter their thoughts of robbing him.

Moreover, this person looks like someone you don't want to mess with.

Seeing that he could move freely, Ji Bai followed his intuition and turned left and right until he finally found an old acquaintance in a corner.

He even opened his hand and waved at the other person, saying, "What a coincidence, we meet again."

The fleeting surprise on the girl's face was quickly replaced by mockery. She said, "Aren't you afraid I'll kill you for showing up here?"

Ji Bai spread his hands, looking completely unconcerned: "Give it a try."

The girl's fingers were clenching so tightly they were cracking, but she didn't move.

Ji Bai smiled faintly: "I really didn't expect that after going to so much trouble, your methods would be so legal."

The girl frowned at him: "What do you mean?"

Ji Bai shrugged, looking confident, and said, "The Wenxin you were protecting is very special. Although I don't know what methods you used to shatter it into countless pieces..."

As he spoke, he took out a fragment of Wenxin from his pocket. The fragment was clearly somewhat repulsive to him, and its sharp edges were about to pierce his hand. But he didn't think much of it. He just squeezed it with one hand and broke the fragment into several pieces.

Ji Bai slowly said, "If I'm not mistaken, you should have absorbed one of them, right?"

"It must be painful," he said to himself before the girl could reply. "This kind of pain is like having stones driven into your body. No wonder you grind stones every day."