Crossing the Palace Fighting Fox Harem

Chapter 518 Ready to make a move

Yan Niang's jade-white face reflected the bright moonlight, with a layer of faint light floating on her skin. She looked like a demon or a fairy, like a dream or fantasy.

Ji Anni stared at her infatuatedly. When she thought that they would never meet again, she couldn't help feeling lonely and melancholy.

Yan Niang volunteered to die, and Ji Anni should have felt fortunate, but now she couldn't be happy at all, and even felt more depressed and painful.

Yan Niang looked quietly at Ji Anni who had stopped talking. Her sharp eyes seemed to be able to see through Ji Anni and see the disappearing Xue Lan.

"But..." Yan Niang sighed and slowly changed the subject, "It was my fight with Yun Zhen that dragged you into this world. If I die, you can never go back." She was not threatening in this way, but was genuinely worried about where Ji Anni would go.

"I have already decided not to go back." Ji Anni lowered her eyelashes and stared at the ground quietly.

Once, she had a chance to return to the human world, but she gave up.

At that time, Yun Zhen was almost beheaded at the execution ground, and the red fox appeared. The two fought each other, and a strange phenomenon appeared in the sky, and finally the passage back to the world was opened. However, Ji Anni decided to stay for Yun Zhen. From that time on, she had the consciousness to stay in this world forever.

However, now the reason why she chose to stay in this world—Yun Zhen—has disappeared.

Suddenly looking back, I realized that I was the only one left alone. Now when I heard Yanniang say that she couldn't return to the world, I felt much sadder than before.

The next morning, the newly built Demon-Slaying Platform demonstrated its power to the world for the first time.

Although Yan Niang was a prisoner on death row, no one escorted her to the execution platform. She walked up the steps step by step, step by step, as if she were walking normally, and walked towards the open furnace door on the demon-killing platform. The furnace door was about two meters high, and blue flames protruded from it.

Under the Demon-Slaying Platform, Ji Anni, Shui Furong, Ghost King, Long Mohan, Yizhen, Huarong, Liuguang, Kang Xiaorong, and about fifty guards quietly watched Yanniang's every move. In addition, there were many demons and monsters that humans could not see, all lurking in the bushes near the Demon-Slaying Platform.

Yan Niang stood on the top of the demon-killing platform. Without any hesitation or last words, she calmly stepped into the furnace door as if she was walking into an ordinary courtyard gate.

The blue flames quickly enveloped her and the furnace door closed silently.

Everything was very calm. There were no painful screams or roars from Yuan Rong before his death, nor any dying struggle.

There was only a light breeze in the early morning and the heat wave still blowing in from dozens of meters away.

Yan Niang just disappeared like that, walking towards the ending she had chosen for herself without any regrets.

In the eyes of humans, it seemed as if nothing had happened; but in the eyes of the monsters, they witnessed a powerful demonic aura that gradually disappeared in the furnace and turned into nothing. Ji Anni heard the monsters' screams of fear, and they fled everywhere and told each other. At the speed of the monsters, the power of the Demon-Exterminating Platform would spread throughout the world within three days. This was the effect Ji Anni wanted, and she succeeded, but she was not happy at all.

Shui Furong was the same, she finally got her revenge, but she didn't feel happy at all. It felt like something was pressing on her chest, making it hard for her to breathe.

After a very long time, there was no movement from the Demon-killing Platform.

Liuguang stepped forward and said to Long Mohan, "Your Majesty, the monster has been executed. Please return to the palace."

Long Mohan nodded and left with the help of Yizhen. Liuguang, Kang Xiaorong and other guards escorted him all the way.

After they left, the open space in front of the Demon-Slaying Platform seemed even emptier. A strong wind blew by, and sand and rocks flew on the ground, and dead leaves fluttered in the air, making it look extremely desolate.

Shui Furong stared blankly at the towering Demon-Slaying Platform. Her body gradually lost strength and she leaned lightly on Ji Anni.

Ji Anni supported him with one hand, looked at his distraught eyes, and asked softly, "Now that your revenge has been taken, are you satisfied?"

Shui Furong did not answer. Her gaze remained on the furnace that swallowed up Yan Niang's body and soul, and she was speechless for a long time.

Ji Anni silently bid farewell to Yan Niang in her heart. The so-called annihilation of body and soul means that there is no soul, no reincarnation, no rebirth, nothing, and it is completely wiped out from this world, leaving no evidence of its existence. Whether for humans or monsters, it is a cruel punishment.

After standing silently for a long time, Ji Anni, the Ghost King, and Shui Furong returned to Xian Palace.

After taking revenge, Shui Furong was not relieved, but became more depressed and painful. He would not return to the West Palace, but only wanted to stay with Ji Anni for a while.

In addition to Ji Anni, there was also a concubine of the previous emperor, Tang Yu, who lived alone in the Xian Palace because she was insane.

After Yan Niang's death, Tang Yu suddenly returned to normal. Not only was she no longer crazy, but she also remembered the truth that had been forgotten. The reason why she went crazy was because Yan Niang cast a spell on her. When Yan Niang was seriously injured, her memory was partially restored; now that Yan Niang has completely disappeared, she has been able to fully recover.

Through Tang Yu's narration, Ji Anni and Shui Furong finally learned what happened on the night of Shui Congfei's death -

Three years ago, Tang Yu accidentally overheard the conversation between An Yiru and Yan Niang, and learned that An Yiru ordered Yan Niang to attack Concubine Shui. Tang Yu didn't know Yan Niang was a monster. That night, she sneaked into Concubine Dong Cong's courtyard, wanting to catch Yan Niang as a criminal. Unexpectedly, she found out that Yan Niang was a monster, and was immediately scared out of her wits. Yan Niang noticed that Tang Yu was peeking, and immediately used magic to seal Tang Yu's memory, making Tang Yu crazy from then on, and finally expelled to Xian Palace.

In fact, Yan Niang was just a knife. The person who really killed Shui Congfei was An Yiru. Now, both the main culprit and the murder weapon are dead. Shui Congfei's revenge has been avenged, and Shui Furong has achieved her wish. According to the agreement between Shui Furong and his father before entering the palace, he must leave the palace after avenging his sister.

The political situation in the palace is turbulent now, and the governor of Qingzhou has long wanted Shui Furong to leave the palace. The news of the execution of Yan Niang on the Demon-killing Platform soon spread to Qingzhou, and Shui Furong was ordered to leave the palace by her father. Long Mohan had long known the purpose of Shui Furong's entry into the palace, and the two had once become allies. When Yan Niang was executed, he had a premonition that Shui Furong would leave the palace soon. So when Shui Furong made a request, he was not surprised at all. He found a crime that angered the emperor, demoted Shui Furong from a concubine to a commoner, and sent her out of the palace.

When Shui Furong left the palace, Ji Anni saw him off all the way.

The two walked along the Qinglan River and slowly walked towards the palace gate. Passing by the Renhe Hall where they had studied etiquette together, and passing by the Dongcongfei Courtyard where they had lived together, everything in the past came to mind vividly, and they missed it very much. They had been hostile and quarreled before, but later they joined hands and cooperated. They had forgotten when enemies became friends.

Ji Anni and Shui Furong entered the palace on the same day. Outside the palace gate, Ji Anni had seen Shui Furong's sedan chair. But now Shui Furong was leaving the palace, leaving Ji Anni alone in the deep palace. Her friends were decreasing one by one, and the huge palace became even more empty.

When they parted, Shui Furong said, "If you need me in the future, I will definitely come back."

Ji Anni smiled but did not answer. She accompanied Shui Furong to the palace gate, watched him get on the carriage, and silently watched the carriage carry him away.

Where exactly is Qingzhou? Is it far?

When I think of this, I realize that I know nothing about the world outside the palace. I don’t know when I will have the opportunity to go out and explore the world outside the palace.

The palace regained its peace. But beneath the peace, a conspiracy was being carried out in an orderly manner, invisible to human eyes.

Yizhen learned the news earlier than Ji Anni.

One day at noon, Yizhen returned to the room of the Dong Congfei Courtyard. As soon as she opened the door, she found a small folded note on the ground. She picked up the note suspiciously and unfolded it. There was only one line of very small words written on it: "Tonight at midnight in the orchard." Apart from that, there was no other information.

Yizhen was as if she was facing a great enemy. She quickly closed the doors and windows, sat in the room, and carefully checked the note over and over again, but found nothing unusual. Then she searched every corner of the house, but still found nothing else suspicious.

She spent most of her time with Long Mohan and seldom returned to Dong Cong Feiyuan. Maybe the note had been lying on the ground for several days, but she didn't find it until now. The "tonight" on the note must have passed long ago. Was this note really for her? Was the person who asked her to meet still in the orchard?

From the location "orchard", Yizhen could vaguely guess that the person who left the note should be a guard named Lai De.

Yizhen hurriedly opened the cabinet and took out a box from the deep end. When she opened the box, it was filled with all kinds of miscellaneous items. At the deepest part of these miscellaneous items, Yizhen took out a jade pendant. This was the ghost-faced jade she dug out from the orchard, and it was also a token of identity for the mountain ghost tribe spies to identify each other.

In fact, Long Mohan was not of royal blood. His biological mother and father were both spies of the Mountain Ghost Clan. Concubine Hui was greedy for power and killed Long Mohan's biological father and buried him in the orchard. When Yizhen dug out the dry bones, she found the jade pendant buried in the grave at the same time.

It was because of this jade pendant that Lai De mistakenly believed that Yizhen was also a spy of the Mountain Ghost Clan and regarded her as a compatriot.

In order to save her life at that time, Yizhen dared not explain and had to admit it.

Since then, Yizhen never saw Lai De again, nor received any news from the mountain ghost tribe.

However, now this note fell from the sky, bringing her nothing but fear.

She tore up the note and burned it in a candlestick, trying to pretend she knew nothing. But her heart was beating like a fawn. She locked herself in her room, not daring to go out, and felt restless all day.

In this anxiety, the night slowly fell and became darker and darker. As the midnight approached, Yizhen was so nervous that she was shaking all over and sweating.

Finally, she made a bold decision.

He took out a dark coat from the closet and put it on, then walked along the secluded path and hurried towards the orchard...