The weak princess is super fierce

Chapter 899 Attack

"So you've been searching here all this time?" Silver Fox said, glancing behind the burial mound. The mound was perfectly normal; it couldn't see anything wrong with it.

"Hmm." The water snake sighed, "If you were here, you would have noticed the change much sooner."

It's no good; its skills are far inferior to those of its predecessors.

The demons set up their own demon traps, which are divided into two categories: those that move and those that don't.

Setting a demonic circle on a mortal is considered moving; it can be done by taking a hair. However, setting a demonic circle on a broken tombstone or grave mound is considered immovable; to set a demonic circle on an immovable one, you need to draw a circle on it with demonic blood.

Therefore, after the blood circle was drawn on the broken stone tablet of the water snake, the tablet absorbed the demon blood and the blood circle disappeared. When there was an anomaly, the blood circle would reappear, and the water snake that set up the demon circle would sense the change.

There are usually two ways to break a demonic circle: either it is forcibly broken by external forces, or the demon that set up the circle breaks it itself.

After hearing the whole story of how the water snake set up the demon circle, Silver Fox carefully examined the demon circle that had disappeared without a trace on the broken stele: "You set up a demon circle here, and you never removed it, but now there is no demon circle here, and I can't smell a trace of your demonic aura... The situation is indeed strange."

This also confirms that the water snake's judgment about what had happened on this burial mound was correct.

The water snake was annoyed by this very point: "The senior said to protect this burial mound, whether it's the two skeletons inside or this weathered tombstone, but now something has changed that I can't detect..."

It looked at the silver fox, hoping the silver fox could help.

However, Silver Fox kept shaking his head: "I can't find it either."

The water snake set up the demon trap, and it arrived at Qingbei Mountain just in time. It neither set up the demon trap nor came to Qingbei Mountain on Meng Shisan's orders. There was a time gap and a difference in the handling of the situation, which the water snake could not discover. It was even less likely that it could have discovered it.

"Is Senior awake?" The water snake stopped bothering the silver fox and instead asked about Meng Shisan, who was still unconscious when it left the Meng residence.

"He's awake," Silver Fox replied.

"Then let's go back and report to our senior, and see how he intends to handle this." The water snake decided to return to the Meng residence.

Silver Fox agreed.

Huang Jing didn't know where Ma Ji lived. Meng Shisan wanted Ma Ji and Huang Jing to work together to catch the two demons, so he asked Baozhu, who knew where Ma Ji went, to take Huang Jing there.

When Baozhu brought Huang Jing to Ma Ji's house at the very end of Mo Cheng Hutong in Anmofang, south of the city, Ma Ji had just returned home. After hearing Baozhu relay Meng Shisan's message, she left to return to the Meng residence, leaving Huang Jing and Ma Ji to discuss how to capture the butterfly demon and wolf demon outside the city.

“Since Miss Huang was brought here by Baozhu through the eldest young lady, it shows that the eldest young lady trusts Miss Huang, and so I will also trust Miss Huang.” Ma Ji first expressed his true thoughts, and then told Huang Jing what he hoped Huang Jing could do, “Similarly, in the future cooperation, I hope Miss Huang can also give me some trust.”

Instead of focusing all his efforts on capturing the two demons, he also had to watch out for his back.

“Alright.” Huang Jing nodded, his eyes darting over Ma Ji. “How many years of cultivation have you had? How long have you lived among mortals? Have you ever harmed anyone? Have you ever hurt anyone? Can I see your true form?”

Ma Ji did not answer immediately, but instead asked Lan Zhijin, "Before meeting Miss Huang, I had heard some things about Miss Huang and Master Lan. This time, you came to capture those two demons. Why didn't Miss Huang invite Master Lan to come with you?" Huang Jing replied truthfully, "I am a demon slayer, specializing in subduing demons. Lan Zhijin is a hunter, specializing in exterminating demons. Since Yaoyao trusts me and can tell me your secrets, I naturally cannot betray Yaoyao's trust."

"Does Miss Huang think that, given Master Lan's temperament, once he arrives with Miss Huang, he will surely try to kill me?" Ma Ji asked.

"Hmm." Huang Jing made no attempt to hide Lan Zhijin's habit of instinctively killing any demons he encountered. "Anyway, it doesn't matter if he doesn't come. With my magic and your demonic power, we should be able to deal with those two demons."

Especially since Ma Ji is a horse demon, having a fellow horse demon gives him a greater advantage in understanding his own kind. If he joins forces with her, the celestial master, to capture those two demons, it will surely be a piece of cake.

As soon as Baozhu returned to the Meng residence, she brushed past Lan Zhijin. She went back to the courtyard outside Mingxiao Hall in Taichen Courtyard and asked, "Miss, is Master Lan here to see Miss Huang?"

“Yes, I asked Tongyu to go to the gatehouse and tell him that Ajing has gone outside the city,” Meng Shisan replied.

Baozhu asked, puzzled, "What if he goes outside the city and runs into Miss Huang and Old Ma?"

Meng Shisan said lazily, "What can I do?"

What to do is a matter for the three of them to solve themselves.

The fact that Ma Ji is a horse demon can be kept secret for a while, but not forever. She can only tell Huang Jing for the time being, and Huang Jing can choose to avoid Lan Zhijin for the time being, but eventually, Lan Zhijin will find out the truth about Ma Ji being a horse demon.

Since that's the case, there's no time like the present. She's given the route; whether Lan Zhijin goes or not is up to him.

Baozhu and the others were unaware that Ma Ji was a demon. She and Shangchun only knew that Huang Jing did not want Ma Ji and Lan Zhijin to meet for the time being, but they did not know why.

However, since Meng Shisan had said so, Baozhu didn't ask any more questions. After all, if Lan Zhijin really went outside the city, the one who should be worried was Huang Jing, not her.

As soon as Shi Ju died, Li Shou immediately ordered Ji Kuan to send people to the Zhu residence to protect Zhu Xiye's family and prevent a repeat of Shi Ju being killed by an arrow.

The living witness of corruption in Fangshan, Shi Ju, is dead; we cannot allow the living witness of the disaster in Lueyang to be silenced as well.

Li Shou did not expect that Li Heng, seeing that the defeat was irreversible, had gone into a state of madness. He wanted to kill whoever he could catch, and the more people who died with him, the happier he was.

Therefore, when Lan Zhijin left the Meng residence and headed straight for the city gate to chase Huang Jing outside the city, the Zhu residence was also attacked by a group of people who forced their way through the gates under the clear blue sky.

Fortunately, not only did Li Shourang and Ji Kuan have made arrangements in advance, but Zhu Xiye also did not sit idly by after returning to the capital. Instead, he personally fortified the Zhu residence as solid as an iron barrel, making it virtually impossible to force his way in except for the main gate.

Therefore, the attack at the gate of the mansion was blocked by the Eastern Palace guards disguised as servants of the Zhu family, and the Zhu family members were not harmed for the time being.

Zhu Xiye led his elderly mother, wife, and children to the backyard, feeling both worried and anxious, pacing around the hall more than a dozen times.

Zhu Shu felt dizzy and overwhelmed by the sight: "Father, stop turning around and sit down for a drink of water."