The fact that the two ancient beings were communicating in Chinese, a language not created for very long, gave Lin Yao a strange feeling. He had originally thought that ancient beings had their own language and writing system, but he didn't expect that Xiao Cao would also speak to "Chen Ai" in Chinese, using modern grammar. He couldn't help but wonder if "Chen Ai" had learned it from Jiang Liu. But Xiao Cao said that with "Chen Ai's" nature, it would definitely eliminate Jiang Liu's intelligence.
"Zhu Dan, after all these years, we're finally going to have our final showdown. You shouldn't have come looking for me. You could have lived a free and easy life, at least more comfortably than I have."
"What?" Little Grass asked curiously.
"Over the years, we've fought fifteen times. The last time, you took advantage of my predicament to deal with the threat of the Dai, and ambushed me, inflicting serious injuries. I was almost devoured and killed by the Dai, forcing me to flee for my life. I almost died there. I'm going to settle this score with you!"
"Ah~~, that many times?" Little Grass exclaimed in surprise. After a long while, she said sheepishly, "I can't remember..."
"Hahahaha! So you didn't come away unscathed either. Your sanity was affected, so you're not much better off than me."
"Morning Mist" laughed heartily. Hearing Little Grass's words, he immediately felt relieved. The hatred that had lasted for thousands of years did not have to be so deep. He had won quite a few battles in the past.
After laughing, "Chen Ai" immediately turned extremely cold: "It's all your fault! If I had known that your mind was damaged, I would not have cooperated with this despicable Jiang family, and I would not have ended up in this situation. I might even have become friends with you, because you can't remember the hatred from before. There was no natural enmity between us. You can't absorb me, and I can't eat you."
"All of this is because of you!"
The extreme resentment was expressed through "Chen Ai's" voice, making Lin Yao feel a chill in his heart.
"What does this have to do with me? If you hadn't gone to Yanji to harm people, I wouldn't have fought you to the death. You brought this all on yourself!"
Little Grass retorted without hesitation, but in her heart she said to Lin Yao, "Yao Yao, it doesn't know that I actually recovered this memory later. Although it's incomplete, I already know that it is my nemesis. Moreover, after fusing 'Timu' and 'Mingjin', I am now able to devour it. I am no longer unable to devour it because of the opposite nature of the two. In a moment, you help me kill it, and then my power will be even stronger."
"Morning Mist" suddenly fell silent for a moment, and only after Little Grass finished communicating with Lin Yao did it roar suddenly: "It's all because of you!"
"If it weren't for your threat, I wouldn't have used that little brat from the Jiang family to escape. I wouldn't have been deceived by him for 200 years, nor would I have been fooled by his descendant, that guy named Jiang Liu, allowing the little brat to parasitize Jiang Liu, completely breaking free from my control and taking away most of his abilities!"
"It's all because of you! Your very existence makes me feel extremely threatened!"
"So I won't let you go today no matter what! Since I can't survive here anyway, let's all die together!"
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Chapter 521 "Morning Mist" and its Hidden Move
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Logic of a rogue!
Lin Yao thought to himself, but didn't say it aloud. Instead, his words were milder, lacking the life-or-death attitude between them.
The information contained in "Morning Mist" is too much and too complex. Now is not a good time to start a fight. Let's hear the inside story before making any plans.
"This... Mr. Chen'ai, is it alright to address you like this?"
"Whatever, we're all going to die anyway, so it doesn't matter what we call each other."
"Morning Mist" became more relaxed, and a bulge appeared two meters in front of Lin Yao. Fluffy mycelium rose from the ground, forming the shape of a person, which looked very strange.
“I know your name is Lin Yao, and you are Zhu Dan’s parasite. You are as weak as Jiang Liu, but not as ruthless as him.”
“Yes, I am Lin Yao,” Lin Yao nodded in agreement, then immediately raised his question, “Mr. Chen Ai, I didn’t quite understand what you just said. You said that there was a little bastard in the Jiang family who deceived you for two hundred years, and then parasitized Jiang Liu. What’s going on?”
"What's so strange about that? That little brat tricked me into splitting him into an avatar, it's that simple."
"Ah!" Little Grass exclaimed, her voice clearly filled with shock. "When did you become able to create clones? Then why are you hiding from me?"
"I started refining it more than a hundred years ago. At that time, that little brat from the Jiang family was about to die of old age. He took the initiative to ask for immortality and was willing to pay any price. I just happened to use him to refine my clone. Although my abilities were quite good at that time, I couldn't have created a clone without his willing cooperation."
"And so, after decades of refining, I finally created an avatar, which I nurtured here until a few years ago when Jiang Liu came here and said that the Jiang family was desperate and willing to sacrifice themselves to gain temporary supernatural abilities. This is what I told them many years ago, and it has become the Jiang family's ancestral precept."
"Chen Ai" chuckled, as if reminiscing about the fun of fooling the Jiang family in the past. "It just so happens that my clone was not fully integrated and lacked some human characteristics, so it could not go out on the ground and live like a human. Therefore, I fulfilled his request. I made him sacrifice himself. It just so happens that such willing parasitic material is too difficult to obtain, so I have a clone in its complete state."
"So that's how it is. In other words, you only formed your complete clone a few years ago, which is why you dare to appear in front of the world without fear of my appearance." Xiaocao's voice rang out in sudden realization. She was only one meter away from the humanoid bulge of "Morning Mist," yet the two coexisted peacefully without immediately making a move.
After a few seconds of pause, Little Grass suddenly retorted, "Impossible! How could you possibly create an clone so easily? Even if someone were willing to cooperate with you, it would be impossible to create a clone. Didn't you say you've been avoiding me? How could you possibly create a clone?"
Chen Ai smiled, looking quite proud. "I don't have the ability to create an avatar, but if I had the Yin-Yang Pill, it wouldn't be a problem. If you get it, you can also create an avatar."
"'Yin-Yang Pill'?" Lin Yao interjected, raising a question. Xiao Cao didn't remember what it was either, so she secretly told him to ask.
“Yes, the Yin-Yang Pill!” Chen Ai said with even more pride. “Now that the world has declined, there are basically no more powerful people. Although some treasures that have been passed down are still regarded as treasures by ordinary people, they are basically not guarded against. They can easily move around freely after being taught a few skills by the Jiang family. They have also obtained the Yin-Yang Pill. Naturally, it will be handed over to the guardian deity of the Jiang family. Searching for treasures everywhere was originally an ancestral precept I set for the Jiang family.”
The little grass didn't speak, but only let out a short snort to express its jealousy, which made the morning mist even more smug.
She genuinely didn't know what the "Yin-Yang Pill" was, so she could only try to get information out of him in this way. What was clear now was that, in addition to this cave deep underground, Chen Ai also had an avatar on land, which was the same Jiang Liu avatar she had encountered before. At this point, the more information she learned, the better. It was obvious that the avatar's abilities were no weaker than, and perhaps even surpassed, the main body of Chen Ai in front of her.
"Really? Everyone knows that elixirs are good things, how could they not be eaten? It's impossible for them to be preserved intact to the modern era. People in ancient times loved to eat elixirs, and they even found ways to consume poisonous cinnabar." Lin Yao continued to express his opinion, trying to elicit more information.
"What do you mortals know? All you do is waste treasures!"
"Emperors in the human world are even more so. Among the burial goods of that Qin Dynasty emperor was the 'Yin-Yang Pill.' That little brat from the Jiang family learned a bit of the rudimentary skill I taught him and dug up the grave himself. Luckily, that little brat had good eyesight; he didn't take anything else but brought me the 'Yin-Yang Pill.'"
Chen Ai spoke with great pride, and continued to say disdainfully, "I heard that the emperor of the Qin Dynasty died from the 'Yin-Yang Pill'. They regarded this elixir as an 'elixir of immortality'. They held it in their mouths but couldn't swallow it, so they didn't really ruin the 'Yin-Yang Pill', but they still died from the insignificant bit of elixir energy released by this elixir."
"A mere mortal without great power trying to take the 'Yin-Yang Pill' is simply courting death!"