The weak princess is super fierce

Chapter 967 Incomplete

Ma Ji could not answer the question: "Back then, Miss sent me away. By the time I returned to the city from Qingbei Mountain, news of Miss's death had already spread throughout the town."

"Your young lady didn't leave a single word?" Meng Shisan asked, then recalled Ma Ji's words about the task Meng Shisi had given him before his death. "You said you were to find the great demon your young lady spoke of. How did you know that? Who relayed it to you?"

“The young lady was determined to die, and knowing that I would not sit idly by and watch her die, she sent me away. After that, she used up the last bit of her demonic energy to leave me a mirror of words.” Ma Ji recounted the events of that year. “In the mirror of words, I saw the young lady’s withered appearance before her death and heard what she wanted me to do. That was the last time I saw the young lady and heard her last words.”

"The Mirror of Words..." Upon hearing that it was the Mirror of Words, Meng Shisan's doubts were dispelled. She had also used the Mirror of Words before. The spell required for the Mirror of Words was a minor spell, requiring very little demonic power. One could use the Mirror of Words with demonic energy, even without demonic power. With her current demonic energy, she could use it.

Ma Ji said that Meng Shisi used all his remaining demonic energy to gather his dying image and words into the Mirror of Words, which shows that Meng Shisi was already exhausted at that time.

She sighed, "Even if you had been there at the time, according to you, you would have been powerless to change the situation."

“Miss left behind her newborn princess. I originally wanted to take the princess out of the palace and raise her myself, but alas…” Whenever Ma Ji recalled the only bloodline left by his mistress, he felt even more useless. “But at that time, I could no longer enter the palace.”

"Why can't we get into the palace?" Meng Shisan asked, puzzled, "As a demon, you can use magic to get through the palace walls."

“They couldn’t even get into the palace walls,” Ma Ji explained. “Later, I learned that when the young lady was dying, the First Emperor invited a celestial master to seal off the entire palace.”

Meng Shisan pondered, "What does the First Emperor intend to do to your young lady using magic?"

"The First Emperor couldn't accept the young lady's passing and wanted to use the Heavenly Master's heaven-defying magic to bring her back to life. Therefore, he sealed off the entire palace so that the young lady's soul could remain within the palace, allowing the Heavenly Master to use magic to bind it back." Ma Ji slowly exhaled. "But the First Emperor didn't know that the young lady was a demon. Although she also had a demon soul, her demon soul was somewhat different from other demons. Ordinary soul-binding techniques simply couldn't retrieve her demon soul."

"The Soul-Binding Technique... Emperor Qin Shihuang has truly gone mad." Meng Shisan couldn't imagine how Li Shize, who was so deeply in love with Meng Shisi, could allow his favorite concubine to poison Meng Shisi. He was dead, fine, but to try and use a heaven-defying technique to bring Meng Shisi back to life? He was truly insane!
Then he thought of what Ma Ji had said later: "You just said that although Miss Meng Ying is a demon, her demon soul is different from other demons. What do you mean by that?"

How abnormal was it that even the demon's soul couldn't be retrieved?

Over the course of more than a hundred years, Ma Ji secretly cursed the First Emperor as heartless and insane. When Meng Shisan said that the First Emperor was truly insane, he nodded three times: "Yes, insane."

After agreeing, Fang replied, "Miss's demon soul is quite different from other demons. This was something Miss told me frankly when she first took me in as her demon servant. At that time, Miss felt that she couldn't take me in, and that I was wasting my potential and being wronged as her demon servant. But Miss saved my life, and I only asked to stay by Miss's side so that I could repay her great kindness. After I talked to Miss about it, Miss no longer drove me away, and then told me the truth, saying that although she was an earthworm, she was different from other earthworm demons, with an incomplete demon body and an incomplete demon soul."

“An incomplete demonic body does not necessarily mean an incomplete demonic soul,” Meng Shisan analyzed rationally. “And earthworms are somewhat different from other demons. Even if an earthworm’s demonic body is damaged, it can slowly grow a new body after being buried in the soil and nourished by the soil. Your young lady’s incomplete demonic body can actually regrow and become a complete demonic body.”

Ma Ji was surprised that Meng Shisan knew so much about eel demons, but after a few breaths, he thought of the plump white eel Meng Shisan raised named Xiao Bai, and he understood. It seemed that the young lady had a comprehensive understanding of eels, which was why she could raise Xiao Bai to be so plump.

"Back then, my understanding of earthworms wasn't as profound as yours, Miss, but I did sense something strange about them. However, Miss didn't answer my questions." Ma Ji had asked Meng Shisi directly back then, but when faced with the same question he raised as Meng Shisan, his young lady simply smiled at him without offering any explanation. "It's manageable to make the incomplete demon body whole, but the incomplete demon soul is uncertain." As a powerful demon, Meng Shisan knew a great deal, from what she encountered and knew, even from what she saw in ancient books or heard in the marketplace and wilderness.

One of these is the incomplete demon soul.

What Ma Ji was saying wasn't new to her, but Meng Shisi's failure to explain things clearly left her somewhat confused.

Hmm... It's really hard to understand people like me who are obsessed with romance and poetry.

“Suspicious?” Ma Ji asked. “In the past hundred years, besides searching for the great demon senior that Miss asked me to find, I have also inquired everywhere about ways to solve the problem of incomplete demon body and demon soul, but unfortunately I have never been able to find out.”

He always felt that the channels through which he learned about the problem were incorrect.

So he eventually settled down in the capital, thinking that there were many talented people under the emperor's nose, and that there would surely be someone who knew the solution, or at least could help him find some answers.

However, to this day, he has not encountered anyone with any real ability.

At this moment, the eldest daughter of the Meng family in front of him seemed to know something, which made his eyes suddenly light up.

Meng Shisan glanced at him: "Don't be too happy yet. Although I know a little about it, I don't know how to solve it. I just know some things from books in the past."

Ma Ji's bright eyes immediately dimmed.

“Even if I knew, with over a hundred years in between, it would be in vain for your young lady,” she said.

Ma Ji knew perfectly well: "Miss, there's no need for you to say more. I understand. It's just that I have regrets in my heart, and I can't help but think about how to make up for them. I also think that if I encounter a similar situation again in the future, I will not be helpless."

Ultimately, all he wanted was psychological comfort.

Meng Shisan didn't pay much attention to Ma Ji's words; she was still shocked that Meng Shisi was actually an earthworm with an incomplete demon body and an incomplete demon soul.

What puzzled her most was that Meng Shisi's demon body was incomplete!
The earthworm's body structure is different from that of ordinary demons. Ordinary demons, once crippled, are rarely able to grow new limbs, but the earthworm is different.

Earthworms can regrow completely new limbs.