ALL NOVEL
Chapter 151
In fact, when they saw this, the audience in the cinema had already begun to be shocked that Ji Ruochu could have such acting skills at such a young age.
It must be known that for a scene of going to the dark side, having too much emotion would seem slightly impetuous, while having too little would be wooden, but Ji Ruochu grasped it just right.
What surprised everyone even more was that this...was just the beginning. The surprises Ji Ruochu gave them in this movie did not stop there.
On the screen, the scene flashed back to when Qian Siqi fell off the cliff.
At that time, the cliff was thousands of feet deep. Even though the Sect had searched with all their might, they never found the little junior martial sister and could only set up a grave mound with her robes and hat.
What they didn't know was that after Qian Siqi and the Elder fell off the cliff, they were caught by a crooked neck tree by a fluke.
When Qian Siqi woke up, she found herself in a mountain cave with the Elder who had previously abducted her turning his back to her, using a secret art to contact the Sect.
She opened her mouth, and before she could make a sound, she heard a series of words that subverted her cognition.
It turned out that her grandmaster, whom she had respected since she was little, and the various Elders were not as upright and bright as she had seen them to be.
It turned out that the differential treatment from before had a price, and this price...was her prime bone and heart's blood.
She heard the Elder say that he had already fed her the Millennium Rare Mushroom and that it was too strong. Along with her heavy injuries, she would probably be unconscious for a few days.
She also heard her grandmaster say that after three days, when the Elder's inner power had recovered, he would secretly take her to the Sect's forbidden grounds and reconstruct his heart channels using her as the prime tonic.
Reconstruct the heart channels?
Reconstruct the grandmaster's heart channels?
So the grandmaster was...
"But I'm afraid this child can't be kept."
She heard the Elder of the Disciplinary Hall sigh with great regret: "Originally I thought that after you used her heart's blood to reconstruct your heart channels, the Sect would raise her. Now looking at it..."
"...there's no other way. When the time comes I will personally send this child on her way. After all, we were master and disciple for a period of time."
Hearing her master's words filled with compassion, Qian Siqi only felt her whole body go cold.
It was also at that moment that she finally understood why her master had indulged her so much over the years, yet was so harsh on her Senior martial brothers and sisters.
She had thought it was because her talent exceeded that of her Senior martial brothers and sisters, but she never expected that it was only because she was medicine stock!
Of course...
Compared to her Senior martial brothers and sisters who would have to shoulder the Sect's responsibilities in the future, she, with such high talent yet only medicine stock, could naturally continue to be arrogant and willful!
Scene after scene from the past flashed before her eyes, and the eyes of the child could no longer hold back tears.
In a blink of an eye, Ji Ruochu found the qi and blood in her body rushing upwards, her veins reversing, and in just a moment, her clear eyes had turned bloodshot, seemingly having entered into devilish energy.
Time slowly trickled by, seemingly passing for a long time yet seemingly only for a fleeting moment. In a corner where no one had discovered her, the innocent child disappeared without a trace, and the originally bright eyes also became sinister.
When the Elder ended his connection with the Sect and prepared to turn around to check on Qian Siqi's condition—
A fair and tender little hand had already pierced through his chest. "You—"
Before his voice faded away, a suction force instantly drew away his cultivation.
In that moment, the Elder's expression, which had been hypocritically displaying his magnanimous image just seconds ago, instantly turned terrified.
"How could you—"
"How could what?" The girl's bewitching eyes smiled into crescents, her voice soft and filled with innocence, but her words made people's hearts turn cold.
"Is Elder wondering how I entered devilish energy? Or wondering how I knew this secret art? Or perhaps...wondering how I could take your life so stealthily?"
"You—" The Elder of the Disciplinary Hall's eyes widened fiercely.
"Oh, have you figured it out? Yes, yes that's right. It's the Millennium Rare Mushroom you fed me. In the three days after ingesting it, my power will erupt exponentially. Along with the Sect's secret arts, taking your head is as easy as flipping my palm—"
After she finished speaking, the girl showed no more mercy, instantly accelerating her absorption speed. In just a short while, the Elder of the Disciplinary Hall had become a dried corpse.
After three days, with her power greatly increased, Qian Siqi successfully stabilized the surging inner power in her body. By then, looking at the dried corpse in the cave, the originally innocent child was not scared at all, instead she studied it with great interest.
So this is the legendary evil work...
As she thought this, the girl carefully stretched out her foot, as if stepping on soil, and gradually...ground the dried corpse into pieces.
"Elder", facing the pile of black powder on the ground, the tender child coolly laughed, "bon voyage".
From this point on, Qian Siqi embarked on her journey of secretly cultivating this evil art. Actually, she had somehow deviated after entering devilish energy, needing to absorb others' cultivation to maintain herself.
Not knowing where things went wrong, although she entered devilish energy, she had not lost her reason. Even when absorbing cultivation, she only chose the evilest villains.
As for her choices, she just took things as they went, absorbing along the way.
This resulted in whenever she passed through a region, whether they were evil villains or cultivators of demonic arts, they would all turn—into dried corpses just as they were about to commit evil acts.
And because she was always wearing black clothes, she was called the ”Righteous Black Raven" in the Jianghu.
"You're the Black Raven?"
The tense atmosphere instantly changed due to this exclamation from the Acting Sect Leader, and the audience in the cinema couldn't help but laugh out loud.
"That's unimportant," Qian Siqi said with black lines all over her head about her extremely annoying nickname. "What's important is...today is the day I will stake my life to battle against this bunch of hypocritical old fogeys."
In the next second, exciting fighting scenes were staged once again. And this segment became the highlight of Ji Ruochu's acting career.
In the show, the petite Qian Siqi had moves that flowed like clouds and water, and the coordination with the actors portraying the fighting was meticulous and impactful, the sound enough to make one's heart thump wildly in fright.
If anyone made a mistake midway, the consequences...were simply unimaginable.
What surprised the audience even more was that the entire fighting scene was done in one take, without any editing traces whatsoever, keeping everyone’s hearts thumping throughout.
Only when the movie ended did the audience slowly let out a breath.
"Great!"
Some hot-blooded youth couldn't help shouting out, instantly eliciting resonance from everyone.
At that moment, the only word in everyone's mind was "thrilling".
It had been a long time since they saw such slick fighting scenes.
It had been a long time since they saw such a refreshing plot.
If Smooth Sailing was named to tie in its focus on the protagonists’ emotional entanglement, then Smooth Sailing 2 was purely an exciting Jianghu passion film.
From Qian Siqi's initial fake acts of being helpless to catch the villains unprepared, to her later descent into dark energy, and then to the entire Jianghu hypocritically putting on the guise of righteousness to kill Qian Siqi and the three Senior martial siblings who constantly protected her...
It was undoubtedly carefully depicting the difference between "good and evil". Externally this movie seemed to seriously focus on fighting scenes, but implicitly it pointed out the falsity in human nature.
What is good?
What is evil?
Those standing on moral high ground are not necessarily good people, and those trampled into dust are not necessarily evil people either.
When devils put on the cloak of kindness, can you...still distinguish them?
As this topic became a hot debate among the public, Ji Ruochu, possessing top fighting ability and acting, also firmly established her footing in the film industry. All kinds of scripts came one after another.
These also included... a script that had been delayed for twenty years by a director already standing at the pinnacle.