Bearing the blue sky

Zhu Ge stopped abruptly.

But I just finished practicing martial arts today, and my muscles are sore and still have some lingering effects.

Therefore, his face went straight forward and crashed into that bleeding face.

Then, it actually smashed that bloody face to pieces!

"What's going on...?"

Zhu Ge touched her face but didn't feel anything was wrong, as if she had just bumped into a mosquito.

But at least hitting a mosquito causes pain, while he felt nothing at all.

At this moment, the blood-stained face disappeared, and the singing also stopped.

"etc……"

Zhu Ge frowned, then immediately sat down cross-legged on the spot and closed her eyes.

Transcendence!

Following the astral projection technique he had practiced before, he effortlessly separated his egg-shaped soul from his body once again.

The Kunpeng egg hovered above the body's head, first checking that its soul was fine, and then its body as well.

Then Zhu Ge looked around at the surrounding woods.

"Wait, there's nothing going on..."

Zhu Ge looked around and found not a single soul in the entire forest, proving that there were no living beings nearby.

This is normal.

Two gods emanate their auras on the pointed mountain, and may even have fought each other.

Normal wild animals and insects are very sensitive to danger, so it's normal that they all ran away when they sensed the presence of two gods.

However, everything he had just seen and heard was clearly not an illusion.

Then why is there nothing unusual about what is now presented to his soul?

"This is getting weirder and weirder..."

Zhu Ge, in his soul form, glanced at the crescent moon in the sky.

Under the moonlight, a slight burning sensation came from the surface of my soul.

Clearly, moonlight has a destructive effect on the soul.

If it were sunlight, it would probably set your soul ablaze.

Fortunately, he was in a coffin when he practiced the Great Sun Glass Body, otherwise his soul would probably have suffered considerable damage.

He hadn't properly experienced these feelings before, but now he had the chance to do so.

This also led him to decide that he would not have his soul leave his body unless it was an important situation.

Even moonlight can damage the soul; it would be troublesome if something inexplicable happened that could cause his soul to suffer a devastating blow.

Zhu Ge glanced again in the direction the giant cricket had left.

He could no longer sense the giant cricket's presence, so he chose to let his soul return to his body and then walked back up the mountain.

He was extremely exhausted today.

I'm exhausted, both physically and mentally.

He only has 23 years left to live, and his condition is not good.

Therefore, after confirming that Yu Xiucai was safely asleep at his doorstep, he dragged his tired body back home.

My parents were still standing at the door, greeting me like robots.

He responded with the same mechanical words, and then fell into a deep sleep.

He woke up the next morning with a splitting headache, his eyes bloodshot, and followed his parents to do chores.

However, when he arrived at the field, he pretended to be working, but in reality, he didn't exert any effort. Instead, he casually swung the hoe while thinking about what had happened yesterday.

"That folk song has changed again..."

Under the sunlight, Zhu Ge, wearing a straw hat, recalled the strange events of yesterday.

When Hua Xiaomei reappeared, he only saw a dark figure and Hua Xiaomei's bloodied face.

Unlike before, it did not appear as Hua Xiaomei's intact physical body.

Surprising!

There's an eeriness about it everywhere!

"Hua Xiaomei became the goddess of happiness, and the shrine became her bridal chamber."

"But why is Hua Xiaomei the goddess of happiness? And not some other goddess? And why is she marrying me?"

Could it be... that Hua Xiaomei is really engaged to him?

Which of the two memories is wrong?

After all, his memories actually came from the original owner of the same name, "Zhu Ge".

What if the original owner's memories were also wrong?

What if Hua Xiaomei herself didn't die, or what if she did have a marriage agreement with the original owner before she died?

Zhu Ge pondered deeply, but a persistent throbbing pain remained in her head.

In short, there are too many strange things about the Xi Shen place!

But no matter how strange it is, as long as the wedding room is destroyed when the time comes, that will be fine.

More questions remain about the other god.

After all, Zhu Ge had no clue what the other god's shrine was or where it was located.

Yesterday's folk song was also strange.

The original ballad was filled with bloodshed and horror.

Yesterday's folk song, however, was much more normal; it was about mushrooms.

Jianshan Village is naturally rich in mushrooms, such as dried mushrooms, Boletus edulis, termite mushrooms, milk mushrooms, and so on.

The people in this area also love to eat mushrooms. Previously, the original owner's villagers even went to the border to pick mushrooms.

Of course, mushrooms are indeed delicious.

However, I'm still curious about why yesterday's song had lyrics.

After thinking for a long time, Zhu Ge decided to consider things other than Hua Xiaomei first.

"Yesterday, the giant cricket revealed at least three suspicious points..."

Zhu Ge narrowed her eyes as she thought of the giant cricket from yesterday.

One is its motivation!

The big cricket said so much, it felt like it was to repay a debt of gratitude or something.

However, judging from the reactions of Yu Xiucai and the cricket, their purpose could not possibly be so simple!

Zhu Ge didn't believe a single word of what he meant by being saved by the master back then!

If the gentleman had this next move, how could Yu Xiucai not have known?

Therefore, the giant cricket's motives were impure!

But whatever the motive, the giant cricket revealed a lot of information.

There is a tiger to the east, also known as the mountain king.

The area to the south is the Big Cricket Village, while the area to the north is Jianshan Village by default. This division of the four areas is quite good.

The only one who wasn't mentioned was the giant cricket in the west. It only said that an aura of a certain realm had appeared there, but it was unclear what that aura was.

If that's the case, the being that appeared in the west is very likely another god of Jianshan Village.

But what's to the west?

Zhu Ge frowned in thought, but felt that something crucial was missing.

"And just as I initially thought, is this other being truly a god?"

Zhu Ge had always felt something was amiss, but the facts proved that both beings were gods.

The effect of seizing the spirit is to cause living beings to retain their souls but lose their spirits.

Apart from Yu Xiucai Zhu Ge being unable to see it, everyone in the entire village lost their spirit.

It's obvious that he ate some of it.

Those who were eaten by the God of Happiness were all joyful and happy, and they all believed that Zhu Ge and Hua Liusha were already engaged and married.

Those who were eaten by the other god became mechanically numb, following their instincts, and in their memories believed that Hua Liusha had died long ago.

Both gods' behavior is consistent with the judgment.

But Zhu Ge felt that something was off, and the whole thing felt discordant.

"In that case, let's differentiate them using the event logic analysis method..."

Zhu Ge placed the hoe in her hand on the soil and drew three circles.

Cause, process, and result!

A matter can be summed up in these three core elements: starting from the cause, going through certain events, and showing a certain result.

This is a method that Zhu Ge compiled in his previous life, which he used to analyze many things.

From major political struggles to minor office squabbles, this analytical method can generally provide a clear explanation.

He originally thought his goal was to destroy the two shrines.

Now that he feels something is wrong, he feels he should re-examine the incident.

"Let's analyze the whole incident; I want to see where things went wrong..."