Chapter 12. Making a visit
Dawn was breaking, and the world was still a hazy gray.
Chen Ji slowly sat up from his bed, instinctively reaching for his cellphone by the pillow, but there was nothing there.
At that moment, he suddenly realized the world he had once lived in was no longer a place within reach, but rather, his homeland.
"Wait, shouldn't I be in the yard?" Chen Ji's last memory was of practicing the carrying stone while hugging a stake technique by the apricot tree, yet he had woken up back in the west wing room, still dressed in last night's tattered clothes.
Had his master brought him back? Or perhaps it was one of his two senior fellow disciples? Chen Ji couldn't be sure; he didn't remember a thing.
Right now, the Ice Flow was quietly residing within his Dantian, no longer as ferocious as it had been the night before.
Chen Ji pondered, "Whom did the Ice Flow surge for this time? The first occurrence was due to Zhou Chengyi; the second time was..."
Every time the Ice Flow had emerged, several people died, but the ordinary people in Zhou Chengyi's Mansion didn't trigger the Ice Flow, nor did the maidservant who died in Late Star Garden...
Could it be from the fetus that Princess Consort Jing had just miscarried?
At this thought, She Dengke suddenly rose from the end of the communal sleeping quarters, closed his eyes, and said, "Master, just kill me and be done with it, then there will be no one to care for you in your old age!"
Chen Ji turned his head speechlessly to look. After She Dengke finished speaking, with a thud, he lay back down—it had been a sleep-talk...