Chapter 184: Qi Ye's self-esteem

Ge Wuchen once told Jiang Luo two ways to deal with the predestined one, either to make the predestined one unable to receive offerings or to take away his followers.

"It is like catching water, comparing the devotee to a faucet and the devotee's offerings to a stream of water," Ge Wuchen said, "Now there is a stream of water flowing in the direction of the predestined person, and in order for the predestined person not to be able to absorb this stream of water, one either has to divert the water in the other direction, or one has to block the faucet. "

Blocking the faucet, that is, making the followers of the Fated One believe in something else or killing them. There's nothing to wonder about that, it's the former that Jiang Luo is curious about, "So how do I divert the water in the other direction?"

Ge Wuchen smiles a little, and then speaks eloquently.

He blathered for twenty minutes, made a big circle, like a political lesson, and complicated the original simple words. Jiang Luo endured a headache and listened for a while, felt a little wrong, raised his hand to stop him, "Wait a minute, wait a minute."

Ge Wuchen stops in his tracks.

Jiang Luo pondered for a moment, "Why do I get the feeling you've been talking crap?"

Ge Wuchen was furious, and immediately argued with a look of "I'm not, I don't have", "Jiang Shi Zhu, why do you say that? I have already told you everything I know, don't deny it."

Jiang Luo puts his spoon in his lunchbox and smiles peevishly, "Ge Wuchen , you don't actually know how to direct the flow of offerings in any other direction, do you."

Ge Wuchen mouth stopped, implicitly smiled, "Jiang Shi Zhu need not be so direct."

Jiang Luo spoke twice, "You turned out to be playing me."

Ge Wuchen shook his head disapprovingly, "There is not a single lie in what I said, the Predestined Man is indeed a pseudo-god who eats offerings of incense into existence, and these two methods are indeed the most effective way to deal with the Predestined Man after my checking, so how can it be a trick on you?"

Oh.

Jiang Luo was certain that Ge Wuchen had set him up once.

Ge Wuchen did know that the predestined man became a god because of the offerings, but he did not know how the predestined man absorbed the offerings. The scriptures in the Tibetan scripture hall didn't say how to absorb the offerings, which is why the predestined man left the White Heron Temple and went off on his own to find a way to absorb the offerings. And that's why Ge Wuchen couldn't make himself a False God as well.

When Ge Wuchen went to look for Jiang Luo, the first thing he said was, "Jiang Shi Zhu, please be sure to stay with my master".

After Jiang Luo disagrees with his request, Ge Wuchen cleverly introduces the topic of the Fated Man's secret, and in order to convince Jiang Luo, he dissects his own past as if it were real.

When Jiang Luo suspected his purpose, he changed his purpose to let Jiang Luo stop Chi You from destroying the metaphysical world. Not only did this purpose coincide with Jiang Luo's own purpose, but it also vaguely aroused Jiang Luo's desire to conquer Chi You, and at the end, he even boldly told Jiang Luo all the secrets he knew about the Fated Man, making Jiang Luo think that he had more secrets he would tell himself after it was accomplished. At the end, he even boldly tells Jiang Luo all the secrets he knows about the Fated One, making Jiang Luo think that he has more secrets to tell himself after the deed is done.

Jiang Luo fell for it, and he was so excited to discuss his plans that he personally made Chi You see his feelings for him and personally advanced his own relationship with Chi You.

The result is that by now, the relationship between him and Chi You has become even more confusing and entangled. Just now, they were even tearing each other apart in bed, and Chi You is definitely not going to let Jiang Luo off the hook now.

Doesn't that fulfill Ge Wuchen's original purpose of getting him and Chi You together?

Jiang Luo's face changed from green to black. He laughed in an oozing voice, "Ge Zhu is right, Ge Wuchen, you really are too good at deceiving people, I underestimated you before."

Ge Wuchen personally got up and made a cup of tea for Jiang Luo, offering it with both hands as a gesture of reparation, "Jiang Shi Zhu is a wise man, I don't need to say any more unnecessary words, but what I can say has indeed been known to be true. In these five years, I have studied a lot, and also had my statue molded, using the method of worshipping the Buddha to offer me incense, wanting to go the old way of the predestined person. But unfortunately all the methods don't work, Jiang Shi Zhu, I also want to change the flow of the predestined man's water, but I can't even figure out why the water flows to him."

He sighed and resumed his seat, "Rather, it's the whole blocking the faucet thing that we've been doing."

"Over the years, the master's power has infiltrated every aspect, no matter if it is in the metaphysical world or amongst the commoners, the master's followers and puppets controlled by the master are already numerous. As long as the master wants to, he can cut off most of the sources of the predestined people's offerings in an instant, but this method will only be used until the final blow that kills them."

Jiang Luo already didn't believe him and said suspiciously, "Why are you telling me this?"

Ge Wuchen picked up his teacup and laughed, "At this point in time, Jiang Shi Zhu still thinks he can get away from his master? We are a group of people sooner or later, so there's no need to beat around the bush."

Jiang Luo rolled his eyes, "I'm not in the same group as you."

He got up and prepared to leave, and after taking two steps suddenly turned back and said under the table, "Teng Bi, aren't your legs numb?"

With that, he was gone.

It was ten minutes before Teng Bi crawled out from under the table, and he said sullenly, "What did he mean."

Ge Wuchen shrugs.

When Jiang Luo returned to his room, the evil spirit was taking a bath in the bathroom. He sat on the bed and stared at the bathroom door, and soon the evil ghost came out of it wrapped in a bath towel.

Tightly muscled, with smooth lines that were watchable without being exaggerated, the Evil Ghost's flesh was perfect. Jiang Luo whistled, watching the Evil Ghost's hair dripping wetly down his face as he dryly unbuttoned his shirt, leaning back with charming curves. He smiled and said, "Mr. Chi, would you like to do it again?"

......

Early the next morning, Chi You opened his eyes.

Jiang Luo's figure was no longer on the bed, and there were two red bills and a card on the nightstand.

"I'll see you tomorrow night at nine o'clock, I'm sure you'll be able to find my place, and two hundred dollars for your services last night."

"PS: Did you know that your handsome bald monk subordinate once approached me for a private date? He talks a lot funnier than you do."

Chi You lingered on the latter sentence for a few more seconds, eyes narrowing dangerously, "Ge Wuchen."

*

The investigation of the Qi family and the Chi family is in full swing, and Qi Ye is the first to be proven innocent.

Jiang Luo made an appointment to meet with him. When he met Qi Ye, he was surprised by his condition.

Most of Qi Ye's family members were taken in, and only the juniors who didn't know anything yet were spared. Witnessing the imprisonment of her loved ones and the death of her father in front of her, Qi Ye's mental state suffered a heavy blow, and she looked like a different person compared to before.

Jiang Luo met Qi Ye at the park.

Qi Ye sat in silence on a lounge chair, his face white with cold, disheveled and bearded, and little better than a street hobo.

He kept his head down in a daze and didn't realize that Jiang Luo was here until Jiang Luo walked up to him. He looked up and forced a smile, "You're here."

Jiang Luo sat down next to Qi Ye, "Cold?"

"It's okay," Qi Ye replied honestly, "the coldest part is over and it's starting to warm up now."

"No wonder we don't see snow anymore," Jiang Luo asked, "How's your family doing?"

Qi Ye's expression dimmed, "That's it, there's nothing to say. The family's things I make the decision, can sell all sold. Pay back the money where it should be paid back, and take the rest to those who have been ...... victimized by them, but it is still not enough."

Jiang Luo didn't know what to say and quietly acted as a trash can for him.

But Qi Ye didn't say anything for a long time, he stuffed his face into the collar of his shirt and looked at the bricks on the ground, "That's not the hardest thing for me. I came out and went to find the people who had been victimized by my father, I wanted to make amends with them to apologize, but Jiang Luo, you don't know what kind of life they lived ......"

He whispered, "They live too hard."

He, the beneficiary, is carefree as a rich young man, while those who are victimized by his family suffer a lot. Qi Ye's soul is tormented by justice and morality as if it were cooked by fire, his mouth and nose are drowning in water, and he himself is questioning himself: are you really innocent?

Qi Ye had been running around for the past few days, trying to take action to ease the guilt that was weighing on his mind and making him gasp for air. In the dead of night, he tossed and turned, unable to sleep, his mind constantly recalling old memories and images of his father's death, culminating in the eyes of others who hated him.

He breathed heavily, his eyes silent with tears.

He recognized it clearly and unmistakably.

I'm guilty.

I'm a little badass protected by a big badass.

Qi Ye's emotions broke down a bit, and Jiang Luo handed him a tissue. Qi Ye took it and wiped his face, calmed down and said sullenly, "Sorry. Jiang Luo, thank you for helping me see Chi You this time."

Jiang Luo patted him on the shoulder and didn't ask him why he wanted to see Chi You, he guessed that Qi Ye had learned that his father had used Chi You's grandfather's spirit body and had come specifically to apologize, "What are you going to do after that?"

"Pulling what's left of the Qi family with me to pay off the debt," Qi Ye shrugged, feigning relief, "I've been an adult for a long time now, it's time for me to be a man and take some responsibility."

The two chatted idly as the leaves whirled and the lights came on.

At the head of the road, there were footsteps approaching.

Jiang Luo and Qi Ye looked over and saw Chi You walking with a smile on his face.

The evil spirit was suited and unruffled, and the moonlight was shrouded in a cloud of gloom, as if they all feared to strike the light on the evil spirit's body.

Qi Ye's body instantly tightened as he looked closely at Chi You.

Footsteps stopped in front of the seat.

The evil spirit was slender, he looked down at Jiang Luo and then Qi Ye, "A date for three?"

"It's actually two people," Jiang Luo corrects, "and a ghost."

Chi You smiled but not smiled, her eyes sweeping over Jiang Luo's body.

It was obvious that they had just gotten intimate last night, but the evil spirit's desire for Jiang Luo had become even stronger. After just one day of not seeing each other, even to the extent that just seeing Jiang Luo can be aroused. The eyes were uncontrollable, deep and mixed with dark fire.

Unsatiable, the more you possess, the more you feel inadequate, Chi You's sea water, the bottom of the sea has been for Jiang Luo turbulent rolling up a whirlpool.

"You came on a date with me just to bring an extra guy?" Chi You asked.

He completely ignored Qi Ye.

Qi Ye, however, couldn't ignore him as he looked at the man who had killed his father, his eyes in a trance.

"Jiang Luo," Qi Ye's fingers curled in his lap, "I would like to speak to Mr. Chi You alone, is that okay?"

Jiang Luo thoughtfully stood up and gave Chi You a look to rein him in before he left.

Chi You did not withdraw his eyes until he could not see Jiang Luo's back. He slowly walked over to the chair and sat down, leaning comfortably on the back of the chair, the expression on his face was faint, lazy and indifferent, "What do you want to say."

Qi Ye suddenly dropped to his knees in front of Chi You.

He bowed his head, "The spirit in me is your father's."

Chi You looked at him expressionlessly.

Qi Ye took a deep breath, "I want you to pull out my spirit body."

The process of removing the spirit body would be very painful, and one could even die if one was not careful. And after being plucked out of the spiritual body, Qi Ye would not be able to see the ghosts and Yin warriors, not be able to see the yin and yang qi, and lose all perception of ghosts and yin demons, and would not be able to use the formation talismans.

He'll become an ordinary man.

"I want to return the spirit body to you," Qi Ye wanted to pay the debt for his elders, "and by the way say ...... sorry to you, your father, your grandfather, on behalf of our family."

*

It was two hours before Jiang Luo saw Qi Ye, who had a white face and was on his feet.

Jiang Luo glanced behind him, "Where is he."

"He's gone," Qi Ye's voice was low, he was sweating coldly and speaking laboriously, "Jiang Luo, I ......"

Before the words were out of his mouth, he fainted.

Jiang Luo was shocked and took him home in a hurry.

Qi Ye had been in a coma for a whole day but did not wake up, Jiang Luo and the others took him to the hospital again, during Qi Ye's coma, he had a high fever and his vitality was close to none at one time. The hospital couldn't find anything, but it didn't look like he was possessed. Jiang Luo fed him two drops of ginseng essence tears, did not dare to supplement too much, for fear that Qi Ye's body is too weak to be supplemented.

Two days later, Qi Ye finally opened his eyes. After opening his eyes, he froze for a long time before slowly sitting up.

His classmates were chatting in low voices by his bedside. He saw Jiang Luo and Lu Youyi, a couple of them were talking and laughing into a corner.

Qi Ye wondered, "What are you doing?"

He hadn't spoken in two days and his voice was hoarse.

Lu Youyi was surprised and pointed to the corner, "A little girl who died early, don't you see?"

Qi Ye froze, silent, and looked toward the corner where they were looking. But to his eyes, there was nothing there, not even the dusty garbage that had accumulated.

Lu Youyi smiled warmly, "What a cute little girl, she said she's been here for a year and wants to see her mom one last time. But her mom was too sad because she died and refused to step foot in this hospital ever again, we are trying to contact her mom in the past two days."

"Really ......" Qi Ye wrapped herself in the covers, "That's nice. I'm a little sleepy, I'll take a nap first."

In the following days, Jiang Luo did not see anything wrong with Qi Ye at all. It was only when he woke up one night in the middle of the night and saw Qi Ye standing silently by the table writing out a useless talisman that did not contain air that he realized something was wrong.

Jiang Luo contacted Director Xu, who, after checking Qi Ye over, sadly said, "His spirit body is gone, so he'll just be an ordinary person from now on."

Jiang Luo's heart sank.

Qi Ye's spirit body is gone too?

Jiang Luo's anger for Qi Ye was just beginning to rise when he was reminded of the spirit of Qi Ye's father, and his anger came to an abrupt end.

Qi Ye volunteered to meet Chi You and was not surprised to lose his spirit body, the facts of which can be easily deduced.

Qi Ye's spiritual body is also a member of the Chi family.

He had to see Chi You in order to pay back his spiritual body.

Thinking about Chi You's mocking remark about "three generations of geniuses in the Qi family" during the trial, another nameless fire came up.

Shit.

Chi family What else did the first family really go through.

Dean Xu sighed, "Spiritual body is what we often refer to as talent in our mouths, and talent is the cornerstone of learning our profession. If the cornerstone is gone, even the best house will collapse. It's a pity that all the things this child has learned over the years can't be used."

Lu Youyi panicked, "I was in the hospital before and asked him to look at the little girl ...... I don't know, Qi Ye how suddenly there is no spirit body ......"

The door to the bathroom opened and Qi Ye, who had changed her clothes, came out of it.

He heard their words and said with a disinterested look, "I'm fine the way I am now, it's relaxing, and I can sleep soundly without having to be awakened in the middle of the night with a cry of crouch."

The others laughed a couple of matching laughs, just a little stiff between them, mixed with bemusement and sympathy.

Qi Ye remained silent for a few seconds and smiled, "You guys don't have to worry, I'm doing fine now. It's just that it's not suitable to study with you guys in the future, I'll change schools."

Dean Xu's brow furrowed and his heart softened, "There's no need to transfer, you really aren't suited to stay in the natural science major anymore. But Birch University isn't the only major, transferring to another major is fine."

Qi Ye, "Okay, thanks, Dean Xu."

After those words, the atmosphere was silent again. Qi Ye rubbed his fingers together and picked up the bag he had packed yesterday, "I should get home, bye."

Lu Youyi They wanted to say something, but didn't know what to say, and a few people pushed Jiang Luo around.

Zhuo Zhongqiu whispered, "Jiang Luo, people are in need of comfort right now. All seven of us together are not as effective as your words, so please say something."

Jiang Luo looked at Qi Ye with complexity, but remembered Chi You.

How will Chi You feel when he sees Qi Ye? How does the guy who possesses the spirit of his loved ones and lives a carefree life, while he himself was killed and turned into an evil spirit, feel every time he sees the Qi family and hears them being praised for their genius?

Jiang Luo couldn't figure it out.

Jiang Luo paused, "Qi Ye."

Qi Ye, who had reached the door, stopped in his tracks.

Jiang Luo's tone was light, "Are you really willing to leave the metaphysical world?"

Qi Ye prided himself on not wanting to be embarrassed and said, "Or else? Jiang Luo, you don't have to persuade me, I've already made my decision. I'm so smart, what can't I do in the future?"

"Yeah, you're smart," Jiang Luo tugged his lips meaninglessly, "You're a genius."

"I'm not," Qi Ye denied quickly, "I'm not a genius." I'm just a thief.

Jiang Luo looked at Qi Ye's gray back and pursed his lips, "Qi Ye, are you really willing to give up never touching anything in the metaphysical world ever again? Having seen all sorts of things that are difficult for ordinary people to access, are you sure you want to leave?"

Qi Ye was silent.

After a long time, he whispered, "I have no reason to stay here anymore, Jiang Luo."

"I'm not like you," Qi Ye's voice was as low as an airy tone, "I'm like a bereaved dog now. I've lost my parents and my family, my home and my money, and what I thought would be my own from birth to old age. I'm only twenty-one years old, and the past twenty-one years have been as false as stepping on shit. All I have left now is a little bit of self-respect, and I want to leave like a man with a backbone in front of you. So I'm begging you, Jiang Luo, you leave me a little bit, a little bit of what's left at the end."

Jiang Luo is silent.

Qi Ye pushed the door open and left.

Jiang Luo stood still for a few seconds, rationally understanding Qi Ye's innocence, but emotionally unable to control his anger. He was puzzled by this emotion, and Jiang Luo thought that Qi Ye had done the best he could.

He sighed and suddenly headed downstairs to catch up.

Qi Ye was surprisingly fast, and by the time Jiang Luo caught up with him, he was already out of the apartment.

Jiang Luo is not a kind-hearted man, but he remembers that he stole the Primordial Heavenly Pearl under Qi Ye's cover. Qi Ye is an innocent man who deserves to die.

He treats Jiang Luo as a friend, and Jiang Luo doesn't want him to regret it later.

Does Qi Ye really want to leave the metaphysical world?

From the look in his eyes and the way he acted in the middle of the night when he wrote the talisman, he didn't want to leave.

Jiang Luo took three or two steps to catch up, "Hey, Qi Ye."

Qi Ye took a step, and quickened his pace instead.

"Do you know about the state's newly established metaphysics department?" Without waiting for Qi Ye to reply, Jiang Luo continued, "That department is now called the Scientific Research Bureau, and currently there is only one group of team members, and I have been appointed as the head of the group, which is considered to be a small head. The bureau is now short of people, as long as the talents are helpful to the scientific research bureau, we welcome them."

He laughed a little, "Don't reject it just yet, just hear me out. Although you don't have a spiritual body, don't be so demoralized. What about your physical art? This is something that was practiced over and over again from childhood, could it be that you don't know how to do this stuff either?"

Qi Ye was stunned.

Jiang Luo knew that he had listened, "Seriously, even if you don't have some of your talents, it doesn't affect the fact that you're awesome. The spirit body isn't yours, but the memory and understanding is always yours, right? You are able to integrate various formations and techniques and use them after learning them a few times. Qi family among the six big rely on is to learn a variety of things, you have to learn some of everything, even the long lost Qi Men Dun Jia also know some. Have you learned all of these things?"

Qi Ye couldn't help but nod.

"This is your ability," Jiang Luo said, "excellent physical skills and extensive theoretical knowledge. Compared to the Qi family, none of the eight of us have learned anything that compares to you, and that's the most valuable thing. Could it be that with the spirit body gone, so much of the theoretical knowledge you've learned has been thrown into the dog's stomach?"

Qi Ye slowly clenched his fists, "They're all still there."

"That's it."

Jiang Luo pulled out a business card from his pocket and handed it to Qi Ye, "Logistics, theory, guidance, whatever it is, you are well suited to join us. If you think it over you can contact this person and he will come to meet you. Oh yeah, besides me, Lu Youyi and the others have also joined the Research Bureau."

Qi Ye stared tightly at the business card in his hand for a long time before he extended his hand to take it, he lowered his head and whispered, "Thank you."

There are places in the industry where you can use your abilities, and that is certainly something to be happy about.

But Qi Ye felt a lingering sadness alongside the happiness.

Maybe it's because he knows that the distance between him and Jiang Luo is growing.

From the moment he'd taken the card, he'd personally acknowledged the gap between them, a gap in which his ridiculously self-preserving pride would clearly not be half as useful.

He was even a little glad that Jiang Luo had caught up with him.