"Now it looks like there's more tea, but in reality there is no difference." Luo Jinsang looked at the tea cup, then at Qing Ji, then at Ji Yunhe. "That means Yunhe just looks better? The jiaozhu is not of any practical use?"
"The practical use is to make her look better." Qing Ji poured the tea into her mouth along with the dried fruit, swallowed the water, chewed the dried fruit and ate it. "It also lessens her suffering before passing on."
"Huh!?" Luo Jinsang stood up and questioned Ji Yunhe, "You already know this?" Ji Yunhe nodded and sighed, "I told him… This big-tailed fish has grown up and is now so disobedient!"
"That means the fish also knows?" Qing Ji answered for Changyi, "Of course he knows."
"Then is he crazy? What's the point of this? All the demon masters in the world are marching over right now to take us down, and he doesn't have his jiaozhu..."
Qing Ji glanced at her and said, "You just realized this? I think that fish went crazy long ago." Then she looked at Ji Yunhe and added, "But this is still good. I don't have anyone to go crazy over even if I want to."
Upon hearing this, Ji Yunhe abruptly thought of the woman in her dreams, and the truth about what had happened to Ning Ruochu. Ji Yunhe looked at Qing Ji and did not know whether or not to tell her. Then she decided to try an indirect approach.
"So, Qing Ji, I heard that Ning Ruochu and the Grand Master were of the same sect."
Qing Ji sipped her tea and responded with a "mhm."
"I'm curious, how was their relationship?"
Qing Ji asked, "Why are you curious about that?"
"The Grand Master said he wants to mourn for the world, so I think he connived for everything to fall into chaos. I want to know why he's so disgusted by the world. Is it because of Ning Ruochu's death?" Qing Ji laughed.
"Of course not. Although their relationship was good, it was not that good. I don't know about this Grand Master either. I stayed in the seal for a hundred years. When I got out, he had already changed for the worse." Luo Jinsang also grew curious.
"What?" Luo Jinsang asked.
"He was a good person before?"
"At least a normal person." Qing Ji's words confused Ji Yunhe.
According to the woman in her dream, the Grand Master sabotaged Ning Ruochu, resulting in his demise. But according to Qing Ji, he was just an ordinary person. Unless the Grand Master deceived both Ning Ruochu and Qing Ji back then.
But why? Why did he turn bad and why did he have to mourn for the world? Who was the woman he kept in his heart?
"Then how come he changed?" Luo Jinsang also wondered, then her eyes lit up.
"That Ning Ruochu was so powerful, and the Grand Master too. Who the hell was their master? Is he still around? Can I also go learn from him?"
Of course, Ji Yunhe had overlooked it too. Their master trained two such powerful disciples, he must have been quite an extraordinary person.
"It's a she. Ning Ruochu rarely contacted their master so I've never met her. But the Grand Master always traveled the world with her. Then one day he came back alone and we never heard from her again."
Master and disciple…
traveled the world...
Ji Yunhe's brain lit up...
Those books she read in the prison! Could it be?
Ji Yunhe held her breath, "Was she dressed in white?" Qing Ji raised an eyebrow.
"How did you know?" Ji Yunhe took a deep breath. The one the Grand Master loved so much was...
… his own master…