On the Seven Towers

"Li Jia! I seem to have recovered. Look at my feet..."

"That's... great."

"What's wrong with you? Don't fall down."

"Selinda, I, I'm so tired..."

"Li Jia! Wake up! Wake up quickly..."

In the room, Li Jia woke up.

In Xiao Chen's field of vision, the light ball representing Li Jia's spiritual power suddenly became brighter on the edge of extinguishing, even exceeding the original level. It's like a fire that is about to go out and someone else pours a bucket of oil on it.

Li Jia's eyes opened a little, but then closed quickly as if they were afraid of the light. He sat cross-legged, his eyes rolling under his eyelids, as if he was brewing some determination. After about ten seconds, he opened them again. His eyelids trembled slightly and gradually opened, slowly letting the light in the room seep into his pupils. Maybe it was because of the harsh light, but there was a glint in his eye sockets, covering up a strange emotion in his eyes.

What is the emotion? Xiao Chen watched this scene intently, pondering this question in his mind.

Li Jia looked around blankly. His eyes swept over the ground and Selinda lying on the ground. He stared at the "Shadow Scroll of the Sea of ​​Knowledge" for a few seconds, and then stayed on the magic lamp on the table for a long time. Finally, He cast his gaze on Xiao Chen.

Xiao Chen's heart moved, and he felt that this scene was somewhat similar to the first time a baby opened its eyes to see the world. He suddenly realized the meaning of that emotion, which was curiosity.

"The house, the lights... are all real. It seems I'm out." Li Jia spoke to himself softly and slowly, then he glanced at the two people who were staring at him and said, "Look What am I doing?"

"What's wrong with you? Why is it so difficult to speak?" Xiao Chen asked, "Do you still remember what happened inside?"

"I came out of it. This world is real now." Li Jia pointed to his head, "My consciousness is still not used to the body, maybe because I have been in it for too long."

"Really? Do you still remember what you were doing inside?" Xiao Chen asked again.

Li Jia stroked his forehead and was silent for a long time. After a long time, he said: "My mind is very confused. I am a little confused, but I remember you are Xiao Chen, she is Nina, and this is Selinda."

Selinda was still lying on the ground, showing no signs of regaining consciousness. "I seemed to have failed," Li Jia said. "She was seriously injured. I used my strength to save her, but failed. At the last moment, she returned her strength to me. Then, I came out."

"Ah, how is the lady now? Is her condition getting worse?" Nina asked.

"I'm afraid yes, she may have been injured more seriously. Do you know how sad I was when she gave her power back to me?" Li Jia's face began to show sadness, "I wanted to stop her, but I The power is also exhausted, and I can do nothing but watch her fall asleep again. "

"Then, what should we do?" Nina looked panicked.

"I, I can't do anything. Maybe this is fate. We are just little wizards who have just embarked on the path of magic, not masters of controlling the mind. Maybe only the masters and saints in the Tower of Dreams can do it, and we are still far away from it. Much more." Li Jia lowered his head and said.

"Are you about to give up like this? Do you know how much the lady loves you! She is all about you, and she will even whisper your name secretly!"

"I'm more heartbroken than you, but I can't help it." Li Jia shook his head.

"Master Xiao Chen, what should I do? You have to think of a way to save the young lady." Nina begged.

"Perhaps, I can enter Selinda's meditation world again through the "Shadow Scroll of the Sea of ​​Consciousness"," Xiao Chen said.

"It can't be done. Before I came out, Shu Ling said that it had exhausted its energy and no longer had the ability to open the channel between souls. In fact, it would sleep for a long time. You see." Li Jia pointed to "Consciousness" Sea Shadow Scroll".

Sure enough, the "Shadow Scroll of the Sea of ​​​​Consciousness", which originally emitted a magical light, began to dim at some point. Not long after, the light on it was extinguished, turning it into a large, ordinary-looking book.

Xiao Chen put his hand on it, and the touch felt no different from an ordinary thick book, completely losing its spirituality. He tried to use his mental power to communicate with the "Shadow Scroll of the Sea of ​​Consciousness", but just like before, he couldn't feel the existence of the book spirit at all.

"The book spirit also paid a heavy price. Originally, we could get more magicians with its help. But now..., we have tried our best to save Selinda and Nina this time." Li Jia said.

Xiao Chen remained silent. After a while, he took back his hand on the book and said, "When I was treating Nina, I gained a new understanding of the connection between souls. You know, most of what I studied was spiritual. Magic, in the inheritance I received, there is the magic of connecting souls - the existence of the Soul Bridge. Under the current situation, there is no other way, I want to give it a try," Xiao Chen said.

Hearing what Xiao Chen said, Nina looked happy, but Li Jia shook her head with a heavy face and said: "Bridge of Souls? I have never heard of this magic. I can't let you be in danger anymore. Her spiritual world is already in pieces. , I can no longer bear the risk of losing you if I exert even a little force!”

"Master Li Jia!" Nina said anxiously.

"Don't worry." Xiao Chen held Nina, who wanted to push Li Jia, and said, "You and Li Jia go out and rest first. I will try to use the soul bridge to make a preliminary contact with Serinda. I promise not to go deep into her soul. Well, it's like looking across the bridge. What do you think?"

As he said, his hand reached out to Serinda's forehead.

Li Jia showed anxiety, "Xiao Chen! You really can't do this... You, do you know? The soul is the most unpredictable existence. Any slight mistake will lead to unpredictable results. It is very likely that under your prying, her soul will collapse faster. You will also be hurt! I can't let you do this."

He got up from the ground and wanted to pull Xiao Chen, but somehow his legs and feet softened and he fell down. Fortunately, Xiao Chen was quick and supported him.

"I feel a little weak, maybe I have been sitting for too long." Li Jia explained. Xiao Chen supported him and limped to a chair.

"Give up, really. Believe me." Li Jia still persuaded.

Xiao Chen helped him sit down, stepped back two steps, looked Li Jia up and down again, and said: "You are right, we should carefully study such risky issues before making a decision. Don't be reckless."

"Yes, yes. It's great that you think so. As the person who loves Serinda the most, making such a choice is really... really..." Li Jia choked up, "I still remember the way I took her flying a few days ago. We floated over the castle. She was so beautiful and so happy."

However, Xiao Chen interrupted him and said: "Alas, seeing Serinda's current appearance, I remembered your first girlfriend, the one who died of illness. What was her name?"

"What did you say?" Li Jia, who was still reminiscing about the good times, was suddenly stunned.

"The first girlfriend, the one with long hair and glasses, you stayed with her before she died. I suddenly forgot her name. What was it?" Xiao Chen stared at Li Jia and asked.

"The first girlfriend? Long hair..." Li Jia fell into deep thought.

"Wow, you can even forget this?" Xiao Chen said.

Li Jia was interrupted by him again, and suddenly glared at Xiao Chen and said: "Xiao Chen, what are you doing? When you are so nervous, you ask such irrelevant things!"

"When most people are angry, they will look directly into the other person's eyes, instead of looking around like you. It's not easy to look up information in your memory, right? But there is no such person at all, how can you find it? Li Jia didn't have a girlfriend before."

"You..."

"Am I right! Mr. Shu Ling." Xiao Chen put away his smile and stared at Li Jia with his eyes like a knife.

"What nonsense are you talking about!" Li Jia roared.

"I said you are not Li Jia, but Shu Ling." Xiao Chen repeated word by word.

"Are you crazy?" Li Jia stood up from the chair.

"Maybe crazy? You can rush over and hit me?" Xiao Chen said, "But can you do it? A new body is not so easy to control, right?"

"Master Xiao Chen, you mean, this is not Li Jia? But he..." Nina covered her mouth in shock. However, she found that Li Jia was just standing there stiffly, not daring to step forward. "Could it be! That book spirit has taken over Lord Li Jia's body?"

"I'm afraid that's the case. In my opinion, this restless book spirit has had such an idea for a long time. Your action of stealing books this time just gave him this opportunity. He suggested that I save you and let Li Jia save Serinda. I'm afraid it was a trap?"

Li Jia stared at Xiao Chen, as if he was thinking about something. After a while, he said: "Haha, that's right! Who made Li Jia a love-sick seed? I don't see any chance in you. But in him I saw a good opportunity to escape from this cage. You know, people like him will be particularly stupid once they fall in love, and will blindly gamble everything for something illusory. If you are also trapped in the book for tens of millions of years and have tasted enough loneliness, you will also do this at all costs. "

"I am not interested in your reasons. I only care about two questions now. First, where is Li Jia's soul and how to get him back to his body. Or second, if Li Jia can't come back, how to make you disappear from this world you just took a look at." Xiao Chen said.

"This is Li Jia's body! Destroying me means destroying him!" said the book spirit.

"But if he can't come back, I believe that the first thing he wants me to do is to destroy this body. I know him very well. "Xiao Chen did not make any move, but the book spirit deeply felt his murderous intent.