Their Respective Thoughts
After a moment's thought, Ji Dong said to the boy who called himself Xu Xingyu, "The nearest military camp is on the eighth floor. We're going there too, would you like to come along?"
Ji Dong did not invite Xu Xingyu and others to join his team rashly; he had three reasons for making this choice.
The first reason was to have more time to observe the other party, because even their martial uncle from the Light Five Elements Continent had never seen the other party in the allied forces.
The second reason was to find his senior brother Fu Rui, as soon as possible, so that he and Lan Bao'er could be safe.
Ji Dong's senior brother, Fu Rui, is the leader of the Yin-Yang School coalition of the Light Five Elements Continent. He possesses a rare mutated attribute, the Lightning Attribute. Because his Yin-Yang ratio is predominantly Yang, his attribute is Yang Lightning.
It was precisely because of his powerful Yang attribute that he was given the title of Thunder Emperor by the entire Yin-Yang School, and his cultivation was the same as Xu Xingyu's, also at the Seven Crowns.
Once they reunite with their senior brother, even if Xu Xingyu and the others really intend to harm them, with their senior brother backing them up, they won't be able to cause any trouble.
If they harbor no ill intentions, then it can be considered as finding some formidable allies for their senior brother. After all, the ultimate enemy of the Light Five Elements Continent is still the Dark Five Elements Continent.
The last reason was that he didn't feel comfortable sending these people to their military camp on the third floor. Although it had the best medical equipment of their Light Five Elements Continent Army, the people there were all wounded or in the logistics department. He couldn't trust strangers to take them to the logistics department; if he wasn't careful, the entire logistics team would be wiped out.
Faced with Ji Dong's invitation Xu Xingyu looked at Gu Qiuxi and said, "Then I'll leave it to you. If there's anything we can do to help, we'll do our best."
Hearing Xu Xingyu's words, Ji Dong lowered his guard slightly. Since the other party was willing to risk going to the more dangerous eighth level with him, instead of taking the initiative to return to the third level, it meant that he also cared about the situation of their Light Five Elements Continent.
However, what Ji Dong didn't know was that Xu Xingyu didn't care at all about the war between the Light Five Elements Continent and the Dark Five Elements Continent. In the end, this war had no good or evil; it was simply a war launched by humans to expand their territories.
He was already troubled by the prospect of war breaking out on the Sun Moon Continent a few years later, and he didn't want to get involved in wars in other worlds. It was better for the people of their own world to handle such matters.
The reason Xu Xingyu agreed to Ji Dong's invitation was simply because his decision aligned with her Xu Xingyu.
Don't be fooled by his constant talk about Ya Lin'er needing treatment.
In fact, ever since Xu Xingyu rescued Ya Lin'er from the ice, he has been using the Light Element to heal her body. He believes that Ya Lin'er will recover soon.
He said that only to make Ji Dong less wary of him, so that his group would have a reason to follow Ji Dong.
During this process, he can use his Spiritual Power and Star Soul Pearl to analyze the Hong Lian Mark on Ji Dong's body, thereby obtaining a way to enter the Earth Core World.
This is why Xu Xingyu chose to seal her cultivation and Darkness Attribute when she released the Yin Yang Crown, and even had Gu Qiuxi suppress her attributes to a single Yin Yang Attributes, instead of maintaining a state of Yin-Yang balance.
And this method did indeed work as Xu Xingyu wished, making Ji Dong lower some of his guard against her, and even leading him to take the initiative to invite her.
Therefore, Ji Dong Xu Xingyu Ji Dong's invitation without any hesitation.
For the next period of time, Ji Dong, Xu Xingyu, and the others formed a team and headed towards the eighth level of Sacred and Evil Island.
Ji Dong and Lan Bao'er originally wanted to explore an area on the seventh floor before going there, because they had received information that a meteor had fallen from the sky and landed on a mountain on the seventh floor.
However, Xu Xingyu and Gu Qiuxi immediately recognized that it was because of the commotion they caused when they were transported to this world.
Since Ji Dong noticed their hesitant expressions, the two could only try to deceive each other with half-truths.
In short, the story is about Xu Xingyu, Gu Qiuxi, and Ya Lin'er fighting a powerful ninth-tier Ren Water magical beast in the snowy mountains.
During this process, Ya Lin'er was Ice Seal, and Xu Xingyu had no choice but to take a desperate gamble to win, so she used her treasured Earth-type skill scroll to kill her.
It took some time to free Ya Lin'er from the Ice Seal, which is why she is now so weak that she can't walk on her own and can only be carried by Xu Xingyu.
Lan Bao'er completely believed Xu Xingyu and Gu Qiuxi's words, and Ji Dong also felt that their logic was very sound and there was nothing wrong with it. However, having lived two lives, he always felt that things were not just like that. He just didn't point it out, after all, he hadn't done anything to fight for it.
The only person who knew for certain that Xu Xingyu and Gu Qiuxi were lying was Ya Lin'er.
After Ji Dong extended an invitation to travel with them, Ya Lin'er remained quietly nestled in Xu Xingyu's arms, attentively listening to everyone's conversation.
Although she didn't show much emotion on the surface, she was still curious about why Xu Xingyu was so interested in this excited boy.
Ever since they rescued her from the ice crevasse, she had a vague feeling that they seemed somewhat out of place in this world.
Although they claimed it was to see how much she remembered, they made her recount the basic knowledge of this plane.
But as she recounted the story, she felt it was more like the two people were learning the basics of this plane, as if they knew nothing about it at all.
However, Ji Dong's subsequent appearance made her begin to doubt her previous views. Whether it was the ambush on the Nether Yin Demon Wolf or his choice to join Ji Dong's group, it gave her the impression that he already knew of Ji Dong's existence and wanted to attract his attention so that he could obtain something from him.
However, she ultimately did not offer any advice to Ji Dong and Lan Bao'er. After all, she trusted Xu Xingyu and Gu Qiuxi more than these two strangers who had no connection with her.
Not only because they rescued her from the ice, but also because her bloodline told her that Ya Lin'er should trust them.
Even if she forgot whose blood she was born with, she knew that her bloodline possessed a very strong sense of perception and would not easily develop feelings of closeness to others.