The sage was determined to die.

Although he thought his brother was joking.

Chu Xi tried hard to hide her shock and opened her mouth, "Why?"

Chu Ze turned his head to look at an open space where Ji Bai had been standing not long ago with Granny Tanxin.

He blurted out a sentence out of the blue: "Because you're a little too kind?"

Chu Xi reached out and touched her forehead; her temperature was normal, and she didn't have a fever.

He gripped the knife tighter, looking at Chu Ze with a suspicious and wary gaze, a hint of threat in his voice: "My brother wouldn't use such words. Are you really my brother?"

Chu Ze: "...In the midst of a mountain of books, if someone you don't know suddenly wants to help you, what would you do?"

"Of course we should kill him. Even if he's an idiot, he's definitely a wicked idiot with ulterior motives."

Without the slightest hesitation, Chu Xi sneered, "But I'll definitely pry something out of him before I die."

Chu Ze nodded slightly and said, "That's right, you're the normal one, that person is really abnormal."

Chu Ze shook his head, his expression indifferent, and said, "There are too many abnormal things. Let's go, something's not right here."

Chu Xi breathed a sigh of relief.

That's right, that's his brother.

Chu Ze strode forward, but stopped a few steps later. He turned back to look at Chu Xi, his expression unchanged, but what he said left the latter completely bewildered.

"A-Xi".

Chu Ze scoffed, "Whenever I encounter something I'm not sure about, I decide to give up. Don't you think your brother is pathetic?"

Chu Xi shook her head and said, "Brother, do you want to hear the truth?"

Without waiting for Chu Ze's reply, he continued, "This wasn't your choice, so why blame yourself so much?"

Chu Ze looked towards the direction of Chen State. A large area had been left unmarked where Chen Ji was supposed to be, as Chen Ji had not yet returned.

"Sometimes I really envy him."

Chu Ze smiled enigmatically, "It's a pity that this brute will get himself killed sooner or later."

……

Ji Bai was startled by Chen Ji's current appearance.

Chen Ji stood there blankly, like a half-dead sweet potato, his burly body cracked with fissures, like parched land that had been dried up for many years, from which blood was slowly draining away.

In short, he's dying.

Ji Bai jumped down from the tree, stepped into the almost evaporated pool of water, waved in front of Chen Ji, and asked in a friendly manner, "You're not dead, are you?"

Chen Ji grabbed his arm, managing to squeeze out a sentence: "Did I win?"

Ji Bai glanced to the side, where there was actually no control group, only a fictitious imaginary enemy.

Chen Ji, through sheer willpower, truly defeated that imaginary enemy that did not exist.

Ji Bai sighed and said, "Your progress has indeed surpassed his. I must say, your dedication to Wenxin has truly exceeded my expectations."

Although Chen Ji was the last hope of the entire village, Ji Bai still possessed a strong sense of humanitarianism.

He looked at the mutant in front of him, who resembled a purple sweet potato come to life, and said hesitantly, "Are you sure your body can really handle two Wenxins? You're very likely to die a terrible death."

"No," Ji Bai added in his mind.

Given Chen Ji's current physical condition, forcibly taking on two Wen Xin would likely result in him exploding like a Krusty Krab patty, and he would probably end up like SpongeBob SquarePants next to the frying pan, covered in blood and gore.

Ji Bai: "..."

Ugh, what a disgusting scene.

"I'm different from them."

Chen Ji can only speak by panting. He needs to breathe carefully to squeeze out a decent syllable.

"They are mortals, I am a genius."

The next second, Ji Bai controlled Wen Xin, who was located in his heart, and easily separated her from his body. Wen Xin reluctantly floated out of his body and moved in front of the two of them.

Chen Ji suddenly opened his eyes wide, his heart pounding like thunder.