Daily life of a teacher in the martial arts department

The Red Emperor wasted a lot of time on Ji Chaoge, and finally determined that this guy was no longer a rebellious ghost. There was no other way but to settle for second best and randomly select an unlucky rebellious ghost to revive in his body... This unlucky rebellious ghost was Ji Qiuming.

However, the Red Emperor's resurrection is not complete. Just like the Joker, who tried to force his way onto the scene to show off, thus committing suicide and being summoned by the divine heart, the Red Emperor's situation is similar. In order to seize this once-in-a-lifetime opportunity, he chose to be resurrected prematurely.

But if he doesn't say it, who would know?

"You've said a lot," the Red Emperor said calmly, believing himself to be invincible. "But actually, it's all nonsense. You've completely reversed cause and effect. Your inferences are indeed correct. But you probably came to these conclusions now, didn't you?"

Ji Chaoge smiled and said, "Do you think that I only made those inferences after seeing you resurrected inside Ji Qiuming's body?"

"Is not it?"

"Well, that's a bit hard to say. How can I prove that I thought of this before?"

"You can't prove it, because this is exactly what you just thought of; it's just your dying struggle."

Ji Chaoge finally couldn't hold back any longer and burst into hearty laughter.

To be honest, it wasn't the right time or place to laugh, but he couldn't help himself.

"Hmph...hmph hmph hmph...hmph hmph hmph hmph hmph..."

"Red Emperor, oh Red Emperor, then I'll say it again." Ji Chaoge's smile remained unchanged as he gently tapped his head, repeating what he had said before.

"You have some misunderstandings about me."

"For example?"

"For example, I deduced these time points."

"Not just now?"

"Not just now."

"That requires evidence."

"I'll give you the evidence."

How should I give it to you?

"I'll give you whatever you want."

"it is good!"

The Red Emperor had quite a temper... Many people think that the ancestors were all cunning and shrewd, all incredibly intelligent old monsters, but that's a misunderstanding. When do you need to use your brain? The answer is when you can't beat them with an attack. But the ancestors were apex predators; their brains were mostly idle. If you could just attack, you'd win. Why the hell would I use scheming and trickery? Would I be crazy?

—It's hard to say. It's not uncommon for people to have such serious mental illnesses, after all, they're at the top of the food chain.

Of course, it's not to say that all the ancestors were simple-minded single-celled organisms; there were naturally some who were intelligent... but clearly the Red Emperor is not among them.

He stared intently at Ji Chaoge and said sternly, "If you deduced this beforehand, then you should have been prepared to face me. Prepared? You weren't! I could crush you with a flick of my finger!"

“You’re wrong, ancestor.” Ji Chaoge sighed, rubbing his forehead with his hand.

"I am well prepared."

Chapter Forty-Seven Cain

"What preparations have you made? If so, show them to me."

The Red Emperor stared intently at Ji Chaoge, his voice hoarse, carrying an undisguised murderous intent.

Clearly, if Ji Chaoge can't produce anything, he'll have to take action.

At this moment, there were still more than ten minutes left before the ceremony began. If Ji Chaoge's goal was to delay until the ceremony started, then the plan could now be declared a failure.

"Well... I can't really say for sure." Ji Chaoge sighed and said, "Ancestor, you still misunderstand. This plan is to kill you, not to protect myself and make myself live. So, even if I call him now, he may not come... But anyway, you will die."

What's the meaning?

Ji Chaoge's words were truly incomprehensible. His backup plan was not to protect himself, but to kill the Red Emperor.

Although Ji Chaoge had indeed said before that it was to deal with the Red Emperor, the fact that it was "not to protect himself" sounded very strange coming from his mouth.

Who is he?

—He and she, and even its pronunciation, are different; the other world doesn't speak Chinese.

Before Hisumura Tan's eyes could find the answer, Hime Chaoge spoke again. He clapped his hands and chuckled, "Want to keep watching? Will you wait until I'm killed before you appear, or will you give me some face and show up early?"

As Ji Chaoge's voice faded, at the end of the valley, space twisted and distorted, and the scattered "information" in the air coalesced, eventually forming a phantom human figure.

The newcomer had silver hair, was incredibly handsome, and even somewhat genderless. He floated in mid-air, his expression showing surprise.

【“!!】】

Upon seeing the person who had arrived, Himura Tan Sakura mustered all her strength to suppress her shock and prevent herself from crying out.

The newcomer was none other than Cain!

Himura Tan's ignorance of Cain's past act of stabbing Hime Asaka in the face and nearly killing him. From his perspective, Cain's presence here at this moment could only mean one thing: they'd become acquainted...

"If I had made a move just now, I'm afraid..."

Himura Tan's voice trembled with fear... (As an aside, if it were just him, and not the Red Emperor, Cain wouldn't have intervened. To be precise, he wouldn't have even shown his face, but he still wouldn't have succeeded.)

"But why are these two people together...? And what did the Black Dragon Emperor mean by what he just said...?"

"Why are we all mixed up together? What did I mean by what I just said?" Ji Chaoge's gaze swept over the Red Emperor and Hishimura Tan's voice, without pointing at anyone in particular. "Just now, someone must have been thinking that, right? That's a misunderstanding. We're not mixed up together..."

He seemed eager to explain, but unfortunately, after Cain appeared, he was no longer the main character. Everyone's attention turned to Cain, including even the Red Emperor.

"It's you..."

The Red Emperor spoke in a low voice. He knew Cain, but not the living Cain. The Red Emperor hadn't even caught up with the generation of the God of War, let alone Cain, who was even older than the God of War. He knew Cain behind that door. At that time, there was a four-thousand-year-old stubborn Earth Mother Goddess inside, and... Cain in a state of chaos.

Behind the door, no living being is free, let alone able to communicate. Therefore, the two sides are merely acquaintances; if forced to establish a relationship, they could barely be called fellow inmates.

When the Red Emperor left behind the gate, Cain had not yet left...and he was not the progenitor. Logically, he shouldn't have had the opportunity to leave the chaos behind the gate, but now, Cain has appeared...

Why have you come here...?!

"Why I came here is a long story. I know it myself. It was the clown who told me to come here." Cain turned his gaze to Ji Chaoge. "But I'm curious, why did you do this?"

"You want to know?"

"of course."

Cain looked at Ji Chaoge with great interest, a move that left everyone bewildered. When Cain appeared, everyone assumed he was there to help Ji Chaoge. But now it seemed that wasn't the case; they hadn't planned it together beforehand.

[“Ji Chaoge believed Cain would come, and Cain did indeed come; it was the Clown who tipped him off. But judging from Cain's words, he doesn't seem to intend to help Ji Chaoge…”]

Himura Tansaku quickly grasped the logic of their conversation, but before he could think further, Ji Chaoge's voice rang out. His voice carried a strange magic; every time he spoke, everyone's train of thought was interrupted, their minds went blank, and they could only passively receive his information.

...This is not an illusion. Ji Chaoge exudes several pheromones that are different from those of ordinary people, all of which are the result of biological modification.

"Those of you around seem confused, so let me explain. Mr. Cain and I met once before... just once. At that time, I wanted to lure the nameless swordsman from Southern Qin to him. Because, in theory, only the two of them are qualified to be my human calamity... But now it seems that it is you, Red Emperor, no, in terms of mysticism, you should be 'Ji Qiuming'."

Yes, the situation is now basically clear: the Red Emperor is Ji Chaoge's tribulation. But the progenitor cannot become the progenitor's tribulation, so in mysticism, he is Ji Qiuming at this moment, a different race rather than the progenitor.

—It's not that a human catastrophe must be brought about by humans. For an existence like the Primordial Ancestor, any being that isn't the Primordial Ancestor can be called a human catastrophe. It's just that the human race is currently powerful, so it's called a human catastrophe. If other races become powerful in the future, it will be called an alien catastrophe—it's just a name. Because the Primordial Ancestor's enemies include fate, humanity, and other races—the entire world.

To be more precise, there were far more reasons for the alien races to be hostile to the progenitors than for humans to be hostile to the progenitors.

"At that time, I wanted to lure them into a collision, but unfortunately, I was discovered. This guy came to my door and used some unknown means to look into my memories."

"That's the crux of the matter. I don't know if you've ever heard the saying, 'A loss may turn out to be a blessing in disguise.' Being seen in the past is something that can be manipulated."

Chapter Forty-Eight: He Convinced Me

In most cases, having one's memories spied on is an unbearable and deadly attack. Even Ji Chaoge, who had left several layers of traps in her memories, did not want them to ever be used. Unless it was an extremely rare and extreme situation, having one's memories spied on was never a good thing.

However, even something like this can be exploited.

"You want to resurrect the descendants of the Son of Man, don't you?" Ji Chaoge spoke, uttering what could barely be considered common knowledge—if Cain hadn't said it, no one would have known, but he did, and remained hidden for thousands of years, when he had such a strong urge to speak out.

Cain nodded slightly and said, "Indeed."

"As far as I know, there is only one method throughout history that can reliably revive non-mythical creatures."

Even without Ji Chaoge revealing the method, everyone present already knew what it meant.

That is... to replace the ancestor's destiny and become the ancestor.

Resurrection is a high-level skill that is not available to ordinary creatures. Only progenitors and a small number of mythical creatures possess the ability to resurrect. Mythical creatures are too mysterious to be included in the discussion, so the remaining ones are naturally the incredibly stable progenitor races.

“At that time, you saw my memories,” Ji Chaoge said. “I don’t know how much you saw, but if you even saw the name ‘Ji Chaoge,’ then you should have also seen some of my earlier speculations about how the Red Emperor was resurrected.”

Cain interrupted Ji Chaoge curiously, saying, "What if I happen not to have seen it? Don't you think that's too much of a gamble?"

“That means I overestimated your information gathering ability, which also means that I am destined to die.” Ji Chaoge paused slightly and said quietly, “As for gambling, I lost a battle that I couldn’t possibly lose, and since then I have stopped believing in probability.”

“That makes sense.” Cain nodded in agreement, clearly having heard the story of the nameless swordsman from Southern Qin. “You’re not mistaken, I did see him, but what makes you think I would come?”

“You will definitely come,” Ji Chaoge said. “I explained the reason before: the way to resurrect a person is to replace the ancestor’s destiny. But you can’t possibly have the ancestor’s destiny. You killed me for two reasons. First, to prevent me from disturbing you and drawing the military’s attention to you. Second, after seeing my memories, you became interested in the Earth Mother Goddess’s destiny in my memories.”

“I don’t know where you are in your research right now, but I guess you’re stuck on the step of ‘treating the dead as living people in the mysticism,’ because that person has been dead for thousands of years, which is a huge problem. So, I don’t know when the remnant soul of the progenitor will be used. Therefore, it’s definitely best for you to leave the remnant soul of the Earth Mother behind the door... If you kill me, then naturally no one will know the whole process of the ritual, so you attacked me.”

“I thought you were dead.” Cain said thoughtfully, “It seems you’ve tampered with your own memories quite a bit.”

Ji Chaoge remained expressionless and her breathing steady as she said, "And not long ago, I activated the magic circuits on this..."

As he spoke, he casually raised his pipe.

"It's less magic and more the Joker's power. Through this, I can contact the Joker thousands of miles away. Then, the Joker entered the Black Dragon Ruins and told you that I was still alive and that the ritual was being held..."

Yes, the pipe contains the Joker's power. Its effect is to notify the Joker, who is thousands of miles away, to enter the Black Dragon Ruins and inform Cain of everything that happened there. And so, Cain arrives.

"You came here to stop me from holding the ceremony to inherit the destiny of the Earth Mother Goddess, isn't that right?"

“That’s right…” Cain sighed and said, “Up to this point, I think everything is relatively easy to deduce, whether it’s the ancestral destiny required for resurrection or the reason I came here, but precisely because of this, things have gone a step further.”

“You should understand that I came here not to be your ally... If I hadn’t come, you would have died; if I had come, I wouldn’t have helped you, but would have stopped you instead. So the reason I came here is clear, but the reason you summoned me is still shrouded in mystery. Therefore, I came here to try and unravel this final enigma.”

Cain gazed calmly at Ji Chaoge, and word by word posed the question that had been hidden in his heart.

"Ji Chaoge, why did you summon me here?"

Ji Chaoge said, "Because you will help me overcome the tribulation of Ji Qiuming, and at the same time, the Red Emperor is also something you need."

Cain repeated, "I will help you?"

"Yes."

"Why?"