The Host Has Fallen for the Second Female Lead Again - Chapter 65

Ji Mingxiao raised an eyebrow: “I’m so wronged; I didn’t do anything at all. You’re the one who thought crookedly.”

Xi Ruan said nothing, just glanced at her. When they returned to the inn, she went directly into her room and locked the door.

Ji Mingxiao set up a formation at the door, then returned to her own room, spreading her spiritual sense throughout the entire inn.

The whole night was peaceful. Ji Mingxiao stayed awake all night but didn’t feel anything in particular.

Xi Ruan, on the other hand, fell asleep. To be precise, she didn’t know how she fell asleep.

When she went to find Ji Mingxiao, she saw her sitting on the window frame, looking outside.

“What are you looking at?”

“Feng Yue and the others have already called people. You should go out and catch some ghosts, too,” Ji Mingxiao said, looking at Xi Ruan.

Xi Ruan blinked: “Aren’t you coming with me?”

“It doesn’t look right for a master to follow you around,” Ji Mingxiao tapped on the window frame.

“But I can’t sense any ghostly energy,” Xi Ruan also stood by the window and happened to see Yue Ran. He was holding something that looked like a ghost-detecting device.

He looked up at the window but didn’t seem to see them.

“What’s that thing in his hand?” Xi Ruan asked, a little curious.

Ji Mingxiao glanced at Xi Ruan: “I gave you one, too. It’s in your storage bag. Look for it carefully. And it’s even more advanced.”

Xi Ruan felt a deep sense of challenge from Ji Mingxiao. She huffed softly: “You better not ever fall into my hands.”

“What if I do?” Ji Mingxiao said, placing her own hand into Xi Ruan’s. “Now I’m in your hands. What are you going to do?”

Ji Mingxiao’s hand was clearly cold, but Xi Ruan felt like she had been burned. She immediately let go of Ji Mingxiao’s hand and continued rummaging through her storage bag.

The room fell silent. Ji Mingxiao smiled and jumped down from the window frame: “I’m going somewhere. Be careful.”

“Okay.” Xi Ruan nodded, not asking where Ji Mingxiao was going. Hearing the sound of the door closing, her body trembled slightly. She pursed her lips and stopped rummaging for two seconds.

“Host, your state is not right,” the system said.

Xi Ruan felt a headache coming on whenever she heard the system’s voice: “Oh, don’t bother me.”

System: …

“Host, our system offers free psychological counseling. Are you interested?”

“No, shut up. I’m fine.” Xi Ruan finally found the magic item Ji Mingxiao had prepared for her. It was indeed much more advanced and beautiful than the one Yue Ran was using. It was a silvery-white hoop that automatically shrank to the size of a bracelet when worn on her hand, looking just like an ornament.

She looked at the instructions. If it sensed any ghostly energy, she would hear a bell sound.

Xi Ruan grabbed her sword and walked out. She looked around. Ji Mingxiao was long gone. She sighed.

Ji Mingxiao returned to the forest from the previous day. She stood in mid-air, looking down. The entire forest came into her view. The shape of the forest was a bit strange. The location of the big locust tree from yesterday was at the center. With the locust tree as the central point, the forest was divided into four sections, like a sliced cake. It seemed that different kinds of trees were planted in each of the four sections: mulberry, sweet osmanthus, poplar, chinaberry, and willow.

She hadn’t slept at all last night, thinking about this forest. It was unusual for so many ghosts to gather in Linhai Town. There had to be a problem.

“Immortal Wuyin.”

Ji Mingxiao was startled and looked at the person who spoke: “Immortal Feihe.”

Immortal Feihe also stood next to Ji Mingxiao, looking down with her.

“This is a formation.”

“Yes,” Immortal Feihe nodded.

“Can you break it?”

Immortal Feihe was stunned: “I can try.”

“Then I’ll leave it to you. I’m leaving.”

Immortal Feihe: ???

Ji Mingxiao turned to leave, but Immortal Feihe stopped her: “Immortal Wuyin, why don’t we go take a look together? I have a rough idea of this formation, but I’ve never encountered anything like it before, so I’m not entirely sure.”

She didn’t speak, but from Immortal Feihe’s actions, she knew this must be a plot point she had to follow.

The two of them entered the forest together.

Even though Ji Mingxiao had burned the ghost locust tree yesterday, the place was still thick with ghostly energy, with no change at all.

Generally, even ghosts who died unjustly wouldn’t turn into vengeful spirits so easily. The fact that Fang Yan became a vengeful spirit meant this place must have played a big role.

In fact, Ji Mingxiao already had a rough idea. Wuyin had fallen during the war between Immortals and Demons, and in Wuyin’s memories, there seemed to be recollections of the human world.

When the human world was in chaos, the war between Immortals and Demons generally wouldn’t affect the human world too much, because the Demon race needed to pass through a barrier set up by the Immortal realm to enter the human world.

How did the chaos start? Ji Mingxiao stood at the spot where she had burned the locust tree yesterday.

If evil spirits were causing trouble, it would lead to chaos one way or another.

“I suspect the unruly souls came out of this forest.”

“Evidently so.”

Immortal Feihe looked at Ji Mingxiao. He had heard from two disciples that Immortal Wuyin was a bit strange, but he hadn’t understood what was strange about her. Now he suddenly did.

Ji Mingxiao raised her hand and struck with her palm. The mulberry trees in front of her instantly fell down in a heap.

Immortal Feihe: ???

“This?”

“These five types of trees are clearly the problem. Destroying one of them should cause some change,” Ji Mingxiao looked at Immortal Feihe. “Isn’t this the fastest way?”

Immortal Feihe suddenly didn’t know how to argue. It seemed there was really nothing wrong with her logic. He then started helping Ji Mingxiao destroy the mulberry trees.

System A watched the derailed Immortal Feihe, falling silent.

Do you, little one, have many questions?

System A sighed.

The moment the two of them cleared all the mulberry trees, the ground began to tremble. They both heard some strange sounds, exchanged glances, and returned to the spot where the ghost locust tree had been.

The ground had already caved in.

Whorls of yin energy began to seep out.

Clearly, this formation was transporting things from the underworld to the mortal world.

Immortal Feihe’s expression instantly became ugly.

Ji Mingxiao, however, was fine. The things she was thinking about were completely different from Immortal Feihe’s.

She found that her luck seemed to be much better since coming here.

She wanted to find Xi Ruan, and she did.

She wanted to break the formation, and she just randomly chose a spot to attack, and the key part appeared.

“Immortal Wuyin, this matter needs to be reported to the Heavenly Emperor as soon as possible.”

“Oh, you go ahead. I’ll seal this place first.”

Immortal Feihe turned to leave, and Ji Mingxiao took out her items to set up a formation.

Her movements were quick, and there wasn’t much expression on her face.

But System A could still see the words “task completed” on her face, just like an employee forced to work overtime.

This formation wasn’t hard to fix. After sealing it, Ji Mingxiao simply changed all the trees in this area into peach trees and also dispelled the evil.

Ji Mingxiao felt that her service was absolutely first-rate.

While she was chopping down the trees, she also found other things and sent them directly to Immortal Feihe.

So, while Immortal Feihe was talking to the Heavenly Emperor, items started appearing one by one in front of the two of them, startling them both.

Ji Mingxiao didn’t forget to leave a note.

“Found in the forest. It has demonic energy on it.”

Immortal Feihe: Couldn’t you just come yourself? Why do you have to be so scary?

When Ji Mingxiao left the peach forest, she noticed that some people had already started kneeling and kowtowing toward the forest, clearly frightened.

However, as she walked past them, not a single person saw her.

She looked around and flew toward a certain direction. When she arrived, she saw Xi Ruan clumsily stuffing a ghost into a ghost-catching bag. There were a few other people around her, who were probably the companions she had found later.

Ji Mingxiao stood on a treetop, watching Xi Ruan, curious as to when she would discover her.

Xi Ruan had actually seen Ji Mingxiao long ago. She felt her presence the moment she got close, like a radar.

However, she didn’t want to call out to her, pretending not to see her. She was also curious how long Ji Mingxiao would hold out before talking to her.

However…

After a quarter of an hour, Xi Ruan watched helplessly as Ji Mingxiao walked away.

Xi Ruan: ???

“Is something wrong, Immortal Xi?” A person beside her noticed Xi Ruan’s sudden slumped expression and asked.

“Nothing.” Xi Ruan smiled. “Let’s go.”

Ji Mingxiao returned directly to the inn. Just as she was about to lie down, she received a message from the Heavenly Emperor.

She felt a bit weary. The meaning behind not going herself and only sending the items was that she didn’t want to go. Why was he still calling her?

She sent a message to Xi Ruan and then left the inn.

When she arrived, she found that the other six High Immortals were all there, along with other Immortals.

“Heavenly Emperor.” Ji Mingxiao gave a quick bow as her form of greeting.

The Heavenly Emperor nodded: “Immortal Wuyin has arrived. Take a seat.”

Ji Mingxiao sat down in her assigned seat, which was very close to the Heavenly Emperor.

“The Demon Realm is likely planning a big move,” the Heavenly Emperor said.

After he said that, a bunch of people started chattering and discussing.

Although everyone’s words were very elegant and their voices were calm, Ji Mingxiao still felt that the scene in front of her looked exactly like an argument.

And then they really started to argue.

Ji Mingxiao had thought that since they were immortals, they would be different from ordinary people. Who knew they were still the same.

Some people suggested striking first, while others insisted on a wait-and-see approach.

The argument lasted for an hour.

“What do you think, Immortal Wuyin?”

Ji Mingxiao was startled by the Heavenly Emperor’s question. The great hall suddenly fell silent, and everyone looked at her.

She was silent for a few seconds.

“If the Immortal Realm’s strength surpasses the Demon Realm’s, we can strike first,” Ji Mingxiao said. A few people wanted to interrupt her, but they held back when they saw her expressionless face.

“This matter was likely done by the Demon clan. If we take a wait-and-see approach, by the time they start a war, it will definitely be when they are fully prepared. At that time, we may not be.”

“So, Immortal Wuyin advocates for war?” the Heavenly Emperor said.

“Immortal Wuyin? It’s just a single formation. Isn’t it a bit too hasty to start a war just based on that?” Immortal Canglan, who was sitting across from Ji Mingxiao, said.

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