Fairy, please don't do this!

Aunt Ruo is a nun and is also skilled in medicine, so she is rarely bothered by common illnesses.

The only possible explanation is that it's the work of inner demons.

While he was pondering, he had already stepped into Si Ruoyu's room.

Lin Qingci was sitting on the edge of the couch, her three fingers lightly resting on Aunt Ruo's wrist.

A moment later, she opened her eyes, her brows slightly furrowed.

Mu Yiren, who was standing by, quickly asked in a low voice, "How is it?"

Lin Qingci shook her head, her tone puzzled: "Her pulse is steady, and her blood and qi are abundant as usual, but for some reason, there is a violent aura emanating from her soul."

Mu Yiren asked in confusion, "How could this be?"

Lin Qingci shook her head again: "I can't explain it either."

"There must have been some mishap during your cultivation; there's no need to worry too much."

A calm voice rang out at just the right moment, breaking the solemnity in the room.

The two women then realized that Gu Jinzhao had been standing inside the door at some point.

Mu Yiren frowned slightly and asked in a low voice, "What kind of cultivation technique does Aunt Ruo practice?"

She lived in Baicaotang for more than ten years. Although she was as close as family to Si Ruoyu, she only knew that Si Ruoyu was a master of medicine. As for what path she practiced or what methods she used, she never heard Si Ruoyu mention it.

Even in my memories of my past life, there is a blank.

Gu Jinzhao did not answer directly, but said gently, "You all go out first, I will take care of Aunt Ruo."

Lin Qingci was still somewhat uneasy: "Senior brother, do you have a way to resolve this?"

"Don't worry, Aunt Ruo is fine."

Gu Jinzhao nodded slightly, giving her a reassuring look.

"Call us anytime if you need us."

Lin Qingci and Mu Yiren exchanged a glance before turning and leaving, gently closing the door behind them.

Gu Jinzhao moved to the bedside and looked at the person on the bed.

Si Ruoyu lay quietly under the brocade quilt, her face as usual and her breathing steady. Only her two dark eyebrows were tightly furrowed, and her long eyelashes trembled from time to time, as if she were trapped in a terrible nightmare.

Gu Jinchao sat down on the edge of the couch and gently took that soft, boneless hand in his.

Strangely, the moment he touched her, her tightly furrowed brows relaxed slightly, as if she had been comforted in some way.

The ghost wife's figure appeared silently and landed gracefully on the sandalwood chair beside her: "The malevolent energy contained in her soul is no different from the demonic energy in my body."

A look of surprise flashed in Gu Jinzhao's eyes: "That malevolent energy is demonic energy?"

He already knew that if Aunt Ruo's soul overflowed with malevolent energy, it would be due to the inner demon Xuan Yi causing trouble.

At such times, he would stay by her side, using the imperial dynasty's fortune to help her suppress it.

But now the ghost wife says that the malevolent energy is essentially demonic energy.

In other words, what truly suppressed Xuan Yi was not the dynasty's fortune, but the mysterious power of unknown origin within his body.

An Wanxi looked at Si Ruoyu on the bed, a look of doubt appearing in her eyes: "That's right, I would never be wrong."

"But the person in black is clearly human, not a demon."

"She hasn't cultivated any demonic arts, such as the [Soul-Stealing Demonic Art], so why would your Aunt Ruo's soul be tainted by demonic energy?"

Upon hearing this, Gu Jinzhao fell into deep thought.

He suddenly remembered the Zen master in the Zen realm.

After taking a half-step to transcendence, the Zen Master wanted to construct a realm where all beings would be forever trapped in the cycle of reincarnation, so that they could attain liberation from the boundless sea of ​​suffering and fulfill his twisted grand vow that "all beings are Buddhas".

In the game, Gu Jinzhao once fought against this BOSS. After defeating him, the second form will be triggered.

At that time, the Zen Master will shed his compassionate and solemn appearance, devour the entire Zen realm, and transform into a ferocious demon Buddha.

Furthermore, in the Cangyue Dynasty storyline, he once chose to support Emperor Yongxing and help him fight against Empress Dowager Xiao Qingyi.

With his help and Zen Realm joining forces, Xiao Qingyi had nowhere to retreat and ultimately forced her way into the Super Grade.

Although he failed to succeed despite his best efforts to obstruct it, he still managed to touch the threshold of the half-step super grade.

The Valkyrie in this realm possesses astonishing combat power; even someone as strong as the Zen Master is no match for her and was nearly killed on the spot.

Of course, these are not the key points at this moment.

The key point is that after Xiao Qingyi stepped into the half-step super grade, her temperament changed drastically, as if she had fallen into some kind of madness, and she almost killed anyone she saw, regardless of whether they were friend or foe.

Zen Realm experts, Cangyue Dynasty masters, and even numerous other cultivators were almost all slaughtered by her, their blood staining the blue sky...

Chapter 96, I need Aunt Ruo, and I can't live without Aunt Ruo (3K)

As his thoughts raced, Gu Jinzhao looked at An Wanxi and asked, "When did you discover that the demonic nature within you was beyond your control, my wife?"

"Before reaching the third rank, after I used the Six Elements True Demon Technique to refine the demon race, I would occasionally have bloodthirsty thoughts of killing, but with my cultivation level at that time, I could easily suppress them."

"Until the Demon Sealing War a thousand years ago, I slaughtered countless demons, and my cultivation level rose from the first grade perfection to the half-step super grade."

“From that time on, I found that I could no longer control that mad desire to kill.”

An Wanxi pondered for a moment: "After the Demon Sealing War ended, I was seriously injured and my cultivation level dropped, but the demonic nature in my body returned to a controllable level."

Gu Jinchao narrowed his eyes slightly: "I suspect that the reason you were corrupted by demonic nature may not be the root cause of the Gu Clan's forbidden technique, the Six Elements True Demon Technique."

He discovered that the fact that An Wanxi, Chan Zun, Xuan Yi, and Xiao Qingyi had all fallen into a state of madness seemed to be related to their own cultivation levels.

This crucial threshold is precisely the process of moving from Grade One to Grade Super.

An Wanxi asked, puzzled, "Then where exactly is the problem?"

Gu Jinzhao took a deep breath: "I have no clue either."

From this perspective, the secrets hidden behind "Above the Sky" are probably far deeper than he imagined.

Even though he's a seasoned player who's completed all five pure love routes, there are still many truths he hasn't yet uncovered.

……

The candlelight was dim, and the night was so dark it was almost impenetrable.

Gu Jinchao sat on a round stool in front of the bed, quietly watching over Si Ruoyu.

However, due to the depletion of his mental energy by the True Yang Fire, coupled with the fatigue from not sleeping all night, he eventually could not hold on any longer and unconsciously leaned forward, lying on the edge of the bed.

His breathing quickly became long and even, but he never loosened his grip on her soft hand.

When Si Ruoyu woke up, the first thing she felt was the warm touch of her palm.

She opened her beautiful eyes somewhat blankly, and after a moment of recognition, she confirmed that she was in her own room.

Turning my head slightly, a gentle, jade-like sleeping face came into view.

At this moment, Gu Jinzhao had shed the sharp edge he had displayed in his battle with Zen Jing yesterday. His brows and eyes were relaxed, revealing a childlike innocence and tranquility.

Si Ruoyu looked dazed, as if she had returned to that cold winter more than ten years ago.

At that time, her master Xuan Ye told her that to resolve her inner demons, she needed to go to Qingzhou.

As for how to resolve the issue, her martial uncle did not elaborate, only telling her to wait patiently.

Therefore, she left Zhongzhou and came to Qingyun City, where she opened this Baicaotang (Hundred Herbs Hall) to practice medicine and help the world. She not only saves lives and heals the wounded, but also hopes to use this opportunity to resolve the sins committed by her master, Xuanyi, in the past.

And so, a year has passed.

On that day, heavy snow fell in Qingyun City, turning the world white.

When Si Ruoyu returned from treating patients, she discovered a small figure in the snow.

Upon closer inspection, a boy of about five or six years old was found unconscious inside, his body stiff with cold.

She knew that if she ignored it, the child would surely die in the snowstorm.

So they took him back to Baicaotang.

After several rounds of treatment, he was finally pulled back from the brink of death.

Later, she learned his name: Gu Jinzhao.

He said that he should have been surnamed Ning, but he didn't like the surname, so he changed it to Gu.

He used to have a home, but now he doesn't.

Si Ruoyu felt pity for him after hearing this, so she left him at Baicaotang.

At first, she did not notice that Gu Jinzhao was any different from ordinary children.

Until that day, her master, Xuan Yi, broke through the seal, attempting to devour her soul and seize her body.

Si Ruoyu used a secret technique of her sect to try to suppress him, but they were deadlocked and neither could do anything to the other.

Just as the situation was at a stalemate, Gu Jinchao saw her sitting alone in the courtyard, motionless, and unresponsive no matter how he called her, so he took the initiative to go forward and take her pulse.

The moment his hand grasped her wrist, a strange power surged forth, directly suppressing Xuan Yi.

It was from that moment that Si Ruoyu learned of Gu Jinzhao's extraordinary nature and understood that the solution her martial uncle had mentioned was this child.

Because she had saved him, and he had saved her.

Their relationship grew increasingly intimate from then on.

Day after day, year after year, living together day and night has made them each other’s closest family.

Memories of the past flooded her mind, and Si Ruoyu's gaze softened little by little.

She didn't pull her hand away; instead, she subconsciously tightened her grip on Gu Jinzhao's hand.

This subtle movement woke Gu Jinzhao from his light sleep, and he quickly raised his head: "Aunt Ruo is awake?"

Si Ruoyu gave a soft "Mmm": "Was it Jin Zhao who took me back to my room?"

Gu Jinzhao shook his head and explained, "It was Xiaoli who first found Aunt Ruo unconscious by the hot spring, and then called Sister Yiren, who carried you back to your room."

Si Ruoyu said softly, "I'm sorry to have troubled you."

"How could it be troublesome?"

Gu Jinzhao shook his head, then asked with concern, "Did Aunt Ruo suddenly faint because of another episode of hysteria?"

Hysteria was what Aunt Ruo always told him, saying it was a lingering illness caused by a mistake she made in her early spiritual practice.

The reason she didn't speak frankly about her inner demons was clearly because she was afraid of implicating him.

After all, Xuan Yi was a first-grade cultivator and a sorcerer who cultivated the Dao of Destiny.

Without the help of the Destiny Saint's [Heavenly Destiny Plate], it would be extremely difficult to separate it from the soul and completely destroy it.

Si Ruoyu's expression was somewhat complicated: "It is indeed a relapse of hysteria."

Gu Jinchao asked with concern, "Xiao Li said that Aunt Ruo seemed a bit absent-minded while she was seeing patients today. Is something on her mind?"

As far as he knew, Xuan Yi, who had transformed into a demon in his heart, usually did not actively attempt to break the seal.

Unless, Aunt Ruo's state of mind has undergone a drastic fluctuation.

Although Si Ruoyu's cultivation level appears to be eighth rank, she is actually a true third rank cultivator.

Entering the realm of seeking the Dao means that one's state of mind has reached the state of "gentle ripples on a mirror-like surface." In addition, since she has already cultivated the Dao of Destiny, there should be few things in the world that can disturb her mind so much.

Mentioning this matter, Si Ruoyu involuntarily recalled the scene of Gu Jinzhao and Lin Qingci's intimate moment last night, her cheeks flushed slightly, and her gaze became slightly evasive:

"Just thinking about how you'll be leaving Qingyun City soon to go to the Demon Suppression Division makes me feel a little empty inside."

Gu Jinzhao was taken aback, not expecting that the reason was himself: "I just went to the Demon Suppression Division to cultivate, it's not like I'm not coming back."

Si Ruoyu lowered her eyes, the disappointment in her heart had not dissipated: "Perhaps it's because you've been by my side since I was a child, and it's become a habit."

Just as Master Xuanyi said, Gu Jinzhao could not stay by her side forever.

His companions should be Mu Yiren and Lin Qingci.

She shouldn't have forced him to stay in that small space because of her own selfish desires.

Noticing Aunt Ruo's unusual mood, Gu Jinzhao held her soft, boneless hand tightly: "I will come back to visit Aunt Ruo once a month."

"If that's not enough, then do it twice."