At this moment, Ji Yunxi could already guess that something must have happened outside. But with Jiang Yaoji in front of her, she had no way to leave.
"Ji Yunxi, you don't really think Xingzhi will come to rescue you, do you?"
Ji Yunxi frowned. She really couldn't figure out what else Jiang Yaoji had to say when the facts were right in front of her. She turned her head and didn't want to talk to her anymore.
Yue Chen walked in with a gloomy face. Seeing Jiang Yaoji still there, he looked displeased. "Get out! Deal with all the invading aliens properly."
At this moment, Yue Chen was still in a state that Jiang Yaoji couldn't provoke. She could only ask reluctantly, "Then what about Ji Yunxi?"
Yue Chen gave her a cold look. "You don't need to worry about this. I'll take her away myself."
Jiang Yaoji gritted her teeth and left resentfully, not daring to say anything more.
Ji Yunxi didn't want to leave with Yue Chen. She had a premonition that Azhi and the others had come to rescue her, but they just couldn't find this place for the moment.
Yue Chen didn't give her a chance to refuse. He directly took Ji Yunxi away from the Upper Realm and came to a small town in the Mortal Realm.
This small town was different from the chaos in the sky. It seemed extremely peaceful.
They walked out of the town along a small path. Passing by a wild tea shed on the outskirts, the two walked into the mountains.
"I'm hungry. If you keep walking, I definitely won't be able to go on without something to eat." Ji Yunxi was rarely so willful. But in this deep mountain forest, if Yue Chen really wanted to do something, she wouldn't even have a place to run.
Thinking of this, Ji Yunxi started to act up and refused to go any further.
"Where are we going? If you tell me, I'll go with you."
Yue Chen rarely got angry. "Shut up!"
He didn't allow her to ask and wouldn't say anything. He just looked at her for a moment, then turned around and took her to a wild market.
The common people were shouting their wares everywhere. Their luxurious clothes looked out of place.
"Sir, big and fragrant steamed buns!"
"Over here! Wonton!"
The shouts made Ji Yunxi really hungry now. She had just used it as an excuse before.
Yue Chen happened to see her pursing her lips. It was a necessary action when she wanted to eat something. He raised his hand, indicating that she could choose by herself.
"You make it sound so easy. I don't have a single tael of silver on me. What can I use to buy food?"
Yue Chen shook his head helplessly. "I'm taking you with me. I won't let you starve. Just tell them what you want to eat. I'll pay."
He cooperatively followed behind her to pay. Ji Yunxi felt relieved and ate heartily.
"Master, I want a meat bun!"
"Miss, the meat buns are not cheap." The boss replied with a smile, but his eyes were on Yue Chen behind Ji Yunxi. He only felt that this man had a gloomy and fierce air about him.
Ji Yunxi didn't care at all. "It's okay. Anyway, I have someone to pay the bill. You can just give it to me with confidence!"
The boss clapped his hands. "Okay! Then you two sit down, miss!"
Saying that, he wiped the stool with the sweat towel on his shoulder and motioned for them to sit down.
Ji Yunxi didn't think there was anything wrong, but Yue Chen felt restless. There were a lot of people here, and he couldn't guarantee that no one from Ji Yunxi's forces in the Mortal Realm would discover them.
"Don't eat here. Take it and go."
"Which girl eats steamed buns while walking on the road? Just stay here obediently!" Ji Yunxi said so, but in her heart, she was thinking of giving Feng Xingzhi and the others enough time so that they might be able to find her.
She seemed carefree and nonchalant, but her heart was still pounding. What exactly was Yue Chen up to? Why, at such a critical moment, would he personally take her away and show no sign of nervousness at all?
Turning to look at him, Ji Yunxi suddenly found that Yue Chen, who had looked a bit pale a few days ago, seemed to be in better complexion today. She looked at him in confusion. Suddenly, her heart skipped a beat. She seemed to understand.
The divine power that had been slowly dissipating from her body should have all gone to Yue Chen.
That was why his complexion was gradually recovering.
That was why he had returned a small part of the lost divine power to her.
It was just that he couldn't directly transform her divine power. He had to choose a new way, using her as a container and directly absorbing it from her body.
She stiffened all over. So that was it. Everything made sense now.
Yue Chen saw that she suddenly stopped talking. He seemed to know what was on her mind. "What do you want to ask?"
"Why did you take away my divine power?"
Yue Chen smiled. "As expected of you. You figured it out so quickly."
Ji Yunxi rolled her eyes at him. It wasn't that hard to guess. It was just a matter of thinking things through.
Yue Chen looked at the people coming and going. This wasn't a good place to talk. "Let's go. It's not convenient to talk here. We'll change to another place."
The steamed buns were no longer important. The two quickly left the bustling market and walked towards the deep mountain forest.
Ji Yunxi felt a bit scared in her heart. Even if Yue Chen was the same boy from back then, she still didn't feel relaxed. But out of her desire to know the truth, she hid all her curiosity.
"There's no one here anymore. Speak."
Yue Chen cleared his throat. "After you died back then, Feng Xingzhi condensed your soul for you. I took the opportunity to extract a part of your divine power. In this way, you would surely come back to find me one day."
"You just have to keep me in front of you?" Ji Yunxi had a hard time understanding Yue Chen's feelings.
Yue Chen spread his hands. "Originally, in this life, I wanted to kill you directly."
"Why?"
"You ask me why? Then why don't you ask yourself why you got involved with Feng Xingzhi again?" Yue Chen got really angry when he mentioned this. "Since you want to be with Feng Xingzhi, then I'll repay your kindness in your next life!"
"Kindness? I'm really pitiful then. Your idea of kindness is to destroy everything about me and make me live in pain all the time. If that's really the case, I really shouldn't have saved you back then."
This sentence obviously hurt Yue Chen's heart. A look of sorrow appeared on his face. "I didn't want to, but I couldn't wait anymore. I didn't want you to kill me, so I had to take away all your divine power."
"Absurd!" Ji Yunxi thought this reason was really ridiculous. She scolded angrily, "You're just acting on your own selfish desires! In the life of Feng Yunxi back then, did you want to exterminate the entire Yunqi Palace just because you wanted to repay me?!"
Yue Chen didn't think he had done anything wrong at all. He immediately scoffed without the slightest shame. "I don't care about those people! I just want to have the greatest power and then protect you, Ji Yunxi!"
How could Ji Yunxi be brainwashed by him? She immediately retorted, "I don't need you to protect me!"
Yue Chen seemed very sad. Without a moment's pause, he looked angry as if he had suffered a great deal of grievance. "That's enough. Stop talking. You'll understand in the future."