At half past two in the morning, a crow knocked on your window and asked you for help.
If Song Jixing were eight years old, she would have listened to it as a fairy tale.
If Song Jixing were eighteen years old, she would have listened to it as a horror story.
Now she is two hundred and eight years old, and wants to share this story with her fellow disciples, so that everyone can listen together.
Song Jixing made a decisive call to Shen Feixian, and it was a video call.
After Song Jixing explained the reason for her middle of the night call, Shen Feixian said he would wake everyone up in a moment.
The crow beside Song Jixing was still chattering incessantly: "Beauty, I knew you were a good person! You are so beautiful and kind-hearted, and you even found helpers to help me!"
"If I were human, I would definitely ask you to be my girlfrie..."
Before the crow could finish speaking, Song Jixing pinched its beak shut with two fingers.
"Be quiet! It's sleep time now!" Song Jixing said indifferently.
Unwilling to give in, the crow struggled, only to find that its beak was completely powerless against the other person's two fingers. So it gave up resisting.
The focus of everyone's discussion was not this crow, but the spiritual energy of this world.
Spiritual energy, of course it exists, otherwise where would Song Jixing's spiritual energy come from?
But in the few months since Song Jixing returned here, apart from the spiritual energy that was directly transferred to her, she hadn't seen anything else.
And this world was undergoing some silent changes, like the talking crow before them now.
"...Thousands of years ago, many myths and legends were left here. The spiritual energy must have existed, but I feel the spiritual energy in this world is very different from ours, and it is also extremely scarce. It's also possible that we simply can't see it at all."
"Junior sister makes sense! In recent days I've seen some strange news online. Since we have arrived in this place, it must have some connection with the cultivation world." Yu Qing said solemnly.
The cultivation world emphasizes cause and effect. There must first be a cause before there can be an effect. Since they were able to come to this world, they must also be able to leave this world.
Song Jixing lightly narrowed her eyes, unwilling to delve too deeply into this issue of cause and effect.
If there was a cause, she felt that she herself was the cause.
She had left from here, but never expected to bring back a group of fellow disciples when she returned.
"If we can utilize the spiritual energy of this world, we may be able to find a way to return to the Sect." WenRen He commented.
Without spiritual energy, they would accomplish nothing.
Song Jixing: "Then I will go take a look tomorrow, and see if I can find any other animals that can awaken wisdom."
"Troubling you, junior sister."
"No trouble at all! The sooner we can go back the better."
The video conference ended there, and Song Jixing was about to hang up the video.
Seeing this, the crow finally couldn't help but speak up, "Hey hey hey! What about me! I'm a talking crow! Don't you want to see me talk?"
Not only was Song Jixing uninterested in it, even the several people on the video were completely uninterested in it.
A talking animal was nothing special in the cultivation world. There were many animals that could cultivate into human form, let alone a mere talking crow.
Song Jixing very decisively hung up the video call and chased the crow out.
You just ignored me, now I'm out of your league.
The crow shoved out the window refused to give up so easily. Seeing Song Jixing about to close the window, it hurriedly flew to the window sill and pleaded desperately as the window closed.
"Sister, what about me! What should I do? Won't you help me?" The crow pleaded.
Song Jixing knew clearly that this crow had come to ask for her help with something.
But committing misdeeds must be punished, even for a bird!
Song Jixing lightly flicked the crow away, driving it out of the window and directly shut the door.
The crow flapped its wings sadly in the air a few times, then clung to the window sill and started pecking the glass.
"Beauty, can we talk nicely?"
"Can you help me just once, I'm begging you!"
The crow's voice didn't stop, and Song Jixing raised her hand, seeming to want to seal the crow's chatterbox mouth with a technique.
Seeing this, the crow was so frightened that it shielded its head with both wings and hurriedly shut its mouth.
Song Jixing lay back down in bed to continue sleeping.
As for the crow outside the window, she had no intention of helping it too much. After all, it had stolen many people's belongings. Helping the crow get out of trouble would not only go against her conscience, but also implicate her in karmic debt.
The next morning when Song Jixing got up and pulled back the curtains, she discovered a few flowers sitting on the window sill, appearing to be small white daisies picked from a roadside. The ends of the stems were still very fresh, probably picked this morning.
Song Jixing glanced at the flowers and turned to pack up her things.
Just as Song Jixing finished packing up and was about to leave the hotel she'd stayed in for a month, she discovered many people gathered at the entrance of the hotel.
Not only people from their crew, but also many others from different crews, all crowding the entrance and blocking it. If Song Jixing wanted to leave from here it would be rather difficult.
Song Jixing was just thinking of taking another exit when she saw their crew's props master squeeze out from the crowd, holding a pile of things that were all shiny little trinkets, and sitting right on top were three identical tassels.
"Teacher Song!" The props master greeted Song Jixing, his eyes full of excitement.
Song Jixing returned the props master's greeting, and curiously asked, "You found the stuff!"
"That's right! Funny thing is, I was just about to look for people to help make a few more yesterday, and today they just turned up!"
"Oh, that's right, Teacher Song, they also found a bunch of other stuff. Do you want to go take a look, see if you're missing anything?" The props master enthusiastically invited her.
There were simply too many people crowding the hotel entrance, and though Song Jixing really wanted to go pick up her two hundred dollars, if she waited here it would delay the driver coming to pick her up.
Oh well, she'd just say hello to the crew members and ask them to pick it up for her if they saw anything that was hers.
Two hundred dollars was still money!
Just as Song Jixing was about to leave, she suddenly noticed a man in a hotel staff uniform holding up a poster as he walked over.
The poster looked like screenshots from surveillance footage.
