The weak princess is super fierce

Chapter 954 Holds a Secret

The water snake turned its head, heading towards both sides of the door outside the hall.

Before Meng Shisan could move, Huang Jing cast a small spell to isolate the inside and outside of the hall, ensuring that what was said inside could not be heard outside: "Speak up, we can't hear you."

Ma Ji and she already knew that the water snake could speak, and now Meng Shisan and others in the hall were also aware of this.

Now you can speak human language to your heart's content.

“Senior, two days ago, I went straight to the burial mound behind the Taoist temple. There was some unusual activity in the demon circle I had buried, but when I went there, I found nothing.” Huang Jing had only used magic to block the sound, not the view, so the water snake was still in the form of a small green snake, coiled on the table, and explained, “Just like the feeling two days ago, I was originally staying in the water tank when I suddenly sensed the unusual activity of the demon circle in the afternoon. So I followed the direction of the feeling to the sky above the house where you went alone, and just then I witnessed that half of the black shadow, like a tail, smashed the house and leveled it to the ground.”

And those mortals, a prince and more than twenty assassins, were all crushed into human pancakes by the shadowy figure.

Regardless of what the shadowy figure actually is, it thinks that, in this matter, the shadowy figure did a good job!
Everyone present had witnessed the arrival of the shadowy figure. Meng Shisan had even experienced the entire process firsthand, while Meng Renkang, who was being held in her arms, was completely terrified with his eyes closed.

The three of them each had their own feelings about what the water snake said.

"In the instant the shadow swept away everything in its path, there is one point I must tell you frankly." The matter of the shadow is not only about the grave mound where Meng Shisi was buried with others, but also about the source of the fragments in Meng Shisan's dream. She felt it was necessary to reveal a fact she had noticed: "The aura of the shadow and the demonic energy in my blood belong to the same origin."

Huang Jing had overheard Ma Ji's murmurs from nearby, and now that Meng Shisan had also mentioned it, she immediately looked at Ma Ji: "Old Ma..."

Ma Ji nodded quickly: "Yes, I noticed it too. The aura of the shadowy figure is exactly the same as the demonic aura carried by the young lady."

"Is that shadowy figure also a demon?" Huang Jing drew this conclusion based on the statements of Meng Shisan, Ma Ji, and the water snake.

“The aura is demonic, but since Xiaoqing can sense it, it means it came from the grave mound, which is why it triggered the demonic circle that Xiaoqing cast. Following this reasoning…” Meng Shisan shook his head, “It’s not entirely demonic aura.”

"There are two skeletons in the burial mound. Neither the skeletons nor the male skeletons show any signs of being demons, but..." Water Snake said, looking at Ma Ji with her beady green eyes, "Old Ma, is your young lady really not a demon?"

Huang Jing followed up with, "That's right. If your young lady is truly not a demon, then according to you, she has been dead for quite some time and should have turned into a pile of bones long ago. How can she still appear so lifelike as if she were alive?"

“You are a Celestial Master, you should know that there are many ways to keep a corpse alive,” Ma Ji replied, pointing out that there are many techniques that can keep a person looking as if they were alive after death.

“That’s right, but I also went to check that burial mound. There was no sign of any magic used inside or outside.” Huang Jing was blocked when he got close. “I was stopped when I was about ten steps away from the burial mound. It took me a lot of effort to get closer and check it carefully. Apart from that, there was no trace of any magic.”

Upon hearing this, Ma Ji fell silent.

Seeing this, Huang Jing wanted to ask more questions, but Meng Shisan stopped him: "A-Jing."

She called out, and Huang Jing's question was instantly stuck in his throat. He hesitated for a moment, then finally gave up.

Meng Shisi is Ma Ji's master, and even though more than a hundred years have passed, he will never do anything that his young lady forbids him to do.

No matter who it is, they cannot be allowed to disobey the young lady's orders.

When the water snake saw Huang Jing's question, Ma Ji did not answer truthfully. Huang Jing wanted to ask further, but Meng Shisan stopped him. The water snake naturally knew that it would not get an answer either.

Seeing Ma Ji's silence, Meng Shisan also fell silent.

She had seen Meng Shisi's body with her own eyes. At the time, she noticed that Meng Shisi's right earlobe, like hers, had a small, crescent-shaped brown mole, about the size of a sesame seed. At the time, she thought it was probably just a coincidence.

Of the myriad beings in the world, there are countless mortals who resemble each other. Even if Meng Shisi shares the same crescent-shaped brown mole as her, who is a demon, it does not prove that Meng Shisi and she have any connection.

But today, the appearance of that half-shadow forced her to overturn her previous idea.

There must be a connection.

And what, then, is the relationship?
She has the exact same mole as her and shares the same aura, which to some extent indicates that she and Meng Shisi have a close connection.

However, Meng Shisi is dead, and she is alive. She can't ask Meng Shisi, and Meng Shisi can't answer her. How can she find out the connection between them?

Meng Shisan let out a soft sigh. She felt that ever since she was struck by lightning and entered Meng Liangchen's body, everything that had happened had not only deviated from her original carefree life of cultivation, but also from the people and things she had known over the past thousand years.

The situation became increasingly complex, the relationships grew more and more tangled, spanning over a hundred years and involving even ordinary members of the royal family...

The more she thought about it, the tighter her brow furrowed.

Ma Ji and Meng Shisan both fell silent, one after the other. Huang Jing and Shui She's beady green eyes met, and Huang Jing blinked unconsciously.

After searching for the item in the vast river for some time, the human and the demon had developed a certain understanding.

Huang Jing blinked: They all have secrets!
The water snake blinked: They've been keeping it from us!

Ma Ji couldn't possibly tell Meng Shisi everything, so he kept some things to himself. He had nothing to say about that, but the black shadow had already confirmed with the water snake that it came from the young lady's grave. He also had to go to Qingbei Mountain to find out what was going on.

The reason everyone gathered here was to explain the origin of the dark figure.

At this point, the issue is stuck on him, and he can't resolve it, so further discussion won't yield any new solutions.

So he stood up and said, "Miss, regarding the shadowy figure, we need to investigate on-site before we can get a real result."

"Are you going to Qingbei Mountain?" Meng Shisan asked.

Ma Ji nodded and said, "First thing tomorrow morning."

"I'm going too!" Huang Jing stood up and raised his hand. "Yaoyao, are you coming too?"

“I’m still under house arrest,” Meng Shisan reminded him.

The water snake nodded its head: "I'll go."

Meng Shisan said, "Then you go ahead, I'll wait for your results at the manor."

The two people and the snake said in unison, "Okay."

Huang Jing returned to his room to prepare the items needed for tomorrow's mountain climb, Ma Ji left the Meng residence to return to his own home, and the water snake returned to the water tank to continue coiling.