The world in the mirror, on Pingdingshan Mountain.
Jiang Yuebai saw Yun Shang and walked towards her with a smile.
"How is it? Are you injured? If we can hold on until the last hour, we'll win. But we haven't seen the man in black along the way, so we still have to be careful... Hmm!"
Before Jiang Yuebai finished speaking, Yunshang's eyes became fierce, and the dagger in her sleeve swept across his face, slashing Jiang Yuebai's neck.
Jiang Yuebai disappeared like mist, Yunshang's eyes became bright, and the corners of her lips curled up a little.
Bang bang bang!
"You are really amazing!"
Suddenly, applause came from the side. Yunshang was shocked and jumped back three times in a row, throwing out three flying knives before looking up.
The flying knife pierced through Jiang Yuebai's body without seeing any blood.
"I'm here~"
Another Jiang Yuebai walked out of the fog. Yunshang did not make another move. He hunched his body like a frightened animal, ready to escape at any time.
"Don't waste your time. This place has been sealed off by my formation."
Yunshang turned back in horror, and the third Jiang Yuebai appeared behind her.
"Restore your original appearance, don't use my Yunshang's face!"
When the fourth Jiang Yuebai appeared, Ge Yuchan suddenly realized.
"The Shadow-Split Body Talisman, which you used during your battle with Zhuo Qingfeng."
Including the first one who was killed, these five are all phantoms, and Jiang Yuebai's real body is still somewhere else.
Having lost the initiative and being trapped, Ge Yuchan knew that she had lost and immediately relaxed.
Her bones creaked as she took off the outer white robe of an inner sect disciple and rubbed it on her face.
The appearance and stature of the original twelve-year-old girl gradually returned to normal. Ge Yuchan bit the hairband and tied her hair up high, looking very heroic.
"How did you see through me?" Ge Yuchan asked.
Jiang Yuebai, who was standing opposite Ge Yuchan, said, "Eye contact. My Yunshang doesn't like eye contact with people. She always likes to look at people secretly from a low position. You see, my eyes are too direct."
"I see."
"Have I seen you somewhere before?" Jiang Yuebai looked at him carefully.
Ge Yuchan smiled and fiddled with her fringe.
"I have seen it. I was in the errand hall when I first started. At that time, I was still a novice in cultivation. I was clearly an outer sect disciple, but I went to the errand hall to exchange for a token."
In a flash, Jiang Yuebai remembered the day when she endured for a month to go to the errand hall to register and saw a girl from the outer sect with three spiritual roots.
At that time, she was still wondering why it took a man with three spiritual roots, who was behind her in the steps to immortality, a whole month to break through the first level of Qi training.
At that time, she felt that this girl was hiding her abilities, but she didn't expect that she had been hiding for so many years, and now her cultivation level is... still hiding.
“So it’s you.”
Ge Yuchan raised her eyebrows and smiled, generous and cheerful, "Fortunately, you haven't forgotten me. I have paid close attention to you over the years. I have even envied you and taken you as a role model."
Jiang Yuebai was a little surprised that he could become a role model for others.
Ge Yuchan sat down, took out a bright red spiritual fruit from the storage bag, wiped it on her lapel, took a bite, and it was crispy, sweet, and juice splashed everywhere.
"Role model, do you mind if I nag you for a few words? I'll leave after I finish this bite. If we fight head-on, I'm no match for you."
(Picture from book friend [Soy Sauce 0 Fatty])
The four Jiang Yuebai thought for a moment, nodded, and sat down at the four steering wheels. In fact, they were also very curious about Ge Yuchan.
"Go ahead."
The fog and rain are hazy, and the evening breeze is cool.
Ge Yuchan held the spiritual fruit that she had taken a bite of, her eyes gradually deepening.
"I think we are quite similar. Your friend Lu Ying is a big mouth and loves to show off. I learned some of your experiences from her. Like you, I have seen hell and the evil of the world."
Ge Yuchan glanced at Jiang Yuebai, with a smile on her lips but a bitter look in her eyes.
Ge Yuchan took a bite of the fruit, as if savoring the taste, with a smile on the corner of her lips never fading.
Suddenly, Jiang Yuebai felt a pang in her heart, as if she saw her younger self. Because her mother said, don't hit someone who smiles at you, so no matter how hard or difficult the life was, she always greeted people with a smile.
Ge Yuchan chewed and looked at Jiang Yuebai, "We are all optimistic people by nature. We are all people who hide our sorrows in our hearts and turn them into motivation to grow from them."
"After I reached the third level of Qi training, I took great pains and followed my elder sister back there to accept the mission of leaving the sect. I wiped out the killer organization and the acrobatic class that abused children. I was less than eight years old at that time and couldn't believe that I could do it."
"It was that harvest that allowed me to develop my current skills. In the following years, I hardly stayed in the sect. I often took on missions outside the sect, went deep into dangerous mountains and waters, dug spiritual herbs for others, hunted monsters, and honed my martial arts skills."
"Although being in the outer sect is better than doing menial work, there are also open and secret struggles. Without connections, without support, and without anyone to take you seriously, every step is difficult and painful. I want to stand out but have encountered setbacks repeatedly, and I always think of you."
"Thinking about how you, who obviously have the worst five spiritual roots, were able to climb one more level than me, win the favor of Elder Li, and reach the third level of Qi training in just two months, become friends with a genius like Lu Nanzhi, and show up in front of the sect master after the Yinfengjian incident."
"You can do it? I have three spiritual roots. Why can't I do it even if I try my best?"
Ge Yuchan looked sharp as she stared at Jiang Yuebai in front of her.
Jiang Yuebai's heart skipped a beat. Ge Yuchan's gaze gradually dimmed, and the smile at the corners of her lips became more bitter and helpless.
"It wasn't until recently that I realized I really couldn't do it. I'm just too ordinary."
"Why?" Jiang Yuebai couldn't help but ask.
Ge Yuchan slowly took a bite of the fruit and said, "Do you know what is more terrifying than ridicule and contempt?"
Jiang Yuebai was thinking, and Ge Yuchan looked up.
"You can't see it. The best ones are praised by others, the worst ones are scolded by others, and those in the middle, who are neither that great nor that bad, are often lost in the crowd. The real mediocrity is neither high nor low, don't you understand?"
"You are luckier than most people. Your five spiritual roots are like a different kind of halo. It would be fine if they were completely annihilated, but once you emerge, any achievement and progress you make will be extremely dazzling because of your poor aptitude. Just like on the immortal steps, I climbed to the 80th step with three spiritual roots. Is that right? I tried my best, okay?"
"No one saw me because you were there! With five spiritual roots and at the 81st level, you made everyone around you ordinary and ignored. If you had the same qualifications as me, would you still be special and be noticed?"
Jiang Yuebai was shocked. She had never thought that ordinary would be defined in this way. She was so moved that she couldn't refute it for a moment.
Ge Yuchan took the last bite of the fruit and said, "So I envy you. After you came back from the Yinshan Mine and got the Spiritual Farmer Token, I regarded you as a role model. I really want to be as famous as you!"
"During this competition, I have been lurking in the dark and have killed many inner sect geniuses and sword sect heroes. I think everyone in Tianyan Sect knows about me, Ge Yuchan, and they must be gnashing their teeth in hatred for me."
“When I think about this, I just laugh, hahahaha…”
Ge Yuchan held her stomach and laughed so hard that she fell backwards, with tears glistening in the corners of her eyes.
Jiang Yuebai couldn't laugh at all, and only felt a sense of sadness in his heart.
Being ordinary is really powerless!
You can only give up your ambitions, lower your expectations, and convince yourself to be content!
But when I wake up in the middle of the night, won’t I feel unwilling and ask myself why can’t I do it
Jiang Yuebai had also experienced this feeling of powerlessness, so she had the same thoughts in this competition.
Make a big splash and attract everyone's attention!
Let the haze of heaven and earth no longer cover her!
Let no one in this world look down on her again!
When their eyes met, Ge Yuchan had tears in the corners of her eyes and a smile on her lips.
"You will understand my heart. We are the same people, so... I still want to fight for the first place!"
As soon as she finished speaking, Ge Yuchan smashed the fruit core in her hand to the ground.
boom!
Black smoke exploded, and all light disappeared in an instant.
There is only endless darkness and murderous intent.
(End of this chapter)