Grudge Breaker

Chapter 290 It’s time to reveal the secret
"The sword has no eyes, you'd better tell the truth."

Mo Tingfeng folded his arms coldly and looked at the princess. The huge non-offensive sword behind him was splitting into countless small swords, ready to break through the wind at any time.

"Master Si Chen! My master is the eldest princess, please don't act on impulse!"

Banxia knelt down in front of Mo Tingfeng in a hurry and wanted to say more, but Qin Xueying waved her hand and cast a spell to seal her mouth.

"presumptuous."

"It's not your turn to interrupt when Lord Si Chen is speaking or doing something."

After saying that, she did not hide, but took the initiative to step down from the main seat and slowly walked towards Mo Tingfeng.

……

Shu Xinglong and Li Qingshui, who were standing by, had never expected such a situation to occur at the banquet today and were stunned for a moment.

However, Ruan Mianmian, despite her "busy schedule", did not forget to rush to Shu Xinglong's side, grabbing his sleeve with a frightened look.

"Boss Shu, Mianmian is so scared. This situation...what should we do?"

Shu Tinglong didn't say anything, but Li Qingshui on the other side gave her a look of disgust.
"A stupid girl said something to me before, and I'm passing it on to you now."

"What should I do? What should I do? Use your second uncle to mix with rice!"

……

"you!"

"What do you mean? What's wrong? You don't like it?"

"Li Qingshui put her hands on her hips and tilted her pretty face towards Ruan Mianmian.

"That stinky girl also said something that I'll pass on to you - you have no right to dislike me, but you have the right to blind yourself!"

"You...you...Boss Shu, look at her!"

The two girls were more arrogant than the other, and Shu Xinglong couldn't help but frown. In fact, he was very worried about Song Weichen, but he didn't show it because of his status. At this moment, listening to the two girls chattering in his ears, Shu Xinglong's face turned ashen and his teeth were clenched. He almost couldn't help but explode. Fortunately, the two girls knew the situation and quickly shut up.

At this time, Qin Xueying had already walked slowly to Mo Tingfeng and stood still.

"If Lord Si Chen doesn't believe me, you can take action at any time. Xueying will definitely not avoid it."

"Qiang!"

A clone of a giant Dharma sword as big as a dagger flew past Qin Xueying's ear like an inch of sharp sunlight. The half-tied bun on her temples instantly fell apart, and her whole head of black hair fell to her waist like a waterfall, with a few strands of severed hair falling to the ground.

Seeing this, Banxia almost crawled towards Qin Xueying and tried to stand in front of her to protect her master. The latter raised her hand expressionlessly and waved it lightly, freezing Banxia in place. The girl was unable to speak or move, and her face was covered with tears of anxiety.

Qin Xueying lowered her head and said nothing. Her long hair covered her face, so her expression could not be seen.

After a moment, she took another step closer to Mo Tingfeng and looked up at him again, but her calm expression was gone and her face was filled with sorrow.

"You really don't believe me."

"Brother Feng, we have known each other for a thousand years. Last night, clearly..."

"Stop it, Qin Xueying, you make me extremely sick."

Mo Tingfeng spoke coldly and mercilessly - it seemed that all his love words and soft words could only come out when facing that person.

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"I'll ask you one last time, why did you set up a trap to harm her? Who are you and what is your purpose?"

Dozens of Dharma light blades on Mo Tingfeng's shoulders were pointed at Qin Xueying again, and the sword bodies trembled slightly, almost leaving the strings.

"Why did I deliberately use the Heart-Confusing Harp to test Miss Sang Pu's character? I told you the reason last night, and every word is true."

"Nothing more to say..."

Before Qin Xueying could finish her words, countless light blades flew towards her and pierced her in an instant!

The eldest princess fell to the ground silently like a broken sack.

Everyone present was shocked!

Mo Tingfeng actually took action and killed the eldest princess of the Lord of Meijie!
And after killing someone, he didn't move a muscle.

He just glanced sideways coldly at Shu Xinglong and the other two who were standing awkwardly in a group nearby.
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“… Crazy.”

Ruan Mianmian murmured to herself, and she clearly saw a strong murderous intent in his eyes.

Subconsciously she let go of Shu Xinglong's arm and stepped back. Suddenly she turned around and ran, obviously trying to escape from this forest banquet.

However, he had only run a few steps when he was bounced back by the barrier set up by Mo Tingfeng earlier, and staggered to the ground.

Mo Tingfeng waved his hand, removed the barrier, and walked towards Ruan Mianmian with cold eyes.

Lao Longjing felt her legs go weak and she used her hands and feet to retreat. After all, it was a mountain forest that had just experienced a heavy rain. Even though there was a thick layer of cherry petals, it could not withstand such heavy damage. She was covered in fresh mud and looked really miserable.

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"I, I don't know anything, I didn't see anything! Brother Tingfeng, please don't kill me!"

"Chong-"

With the sound of a dragon's roar and the sword energy, Mo Tingfeng drew out his sword and approached Ruan Mianmian step by step without saying a word. Without any hesitation, he raised his head and slashed with the sword!
"what!!!"

Ruan Mianmian subconsciously raised her hands to cover her face, and her shrill screams echoed throughout the clearing in the forest.

"Snapped!"

The Heart-Confusing Harp broke with a sound and was split into two halves.

It turns out that Mo Tingfeng's target is Qin, and this Qin happens to be next to Ruan Mianmian.

Shu Tinglong frowned. It was strange. Was it an illusion? The zither was not there just now. How did it suddenly appear?
As the zither broke, Qin Xueying, who had already died on the ground, also disappeared.

Instead, the eldest princess sat at the main seat with her eyes closed - it seemed that she had been sitting there in a trance, and what had just happened had never happened.

But it was clear that all the illusions just now were caused by her.
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Ruan Mianmian covered her face for a long time with her dirty hands covered with mud. The pain she imagined did not happen. Then she dared to open her fingers slightly and peek at Mo Tingfeng. She found that he was chopping the zither. When she looked up again, she saw Qin Xueying sitting in the seat of honor intact.

"What...what on earth is this?"

Ruan Mianmian completely confused herself. Her mouth opened unconsciously, and her face was covered with mud, which was really disgusting.

"What's going on……"

She couldn't help but mutter to herself.

Mo Tingfeng ignored Ruan Mianmian at all. He took a step forward with his long legs, leaned over and squatted to carefully observe the cross-section of the piano.

The broken wood of the guitar looked like a living thing, with blood oozing out from the broken ends, which looked extremely strange.

"This is……"

Seeing Mo Tingfeng so focused, Shu Xinglong also came over and looked at the broken end carefully with him.

Seeing this, Ruan Mianmian also wanted to move closer, but Li Qingshui grabbed her and dragged her away with a look of disgust on her face.

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"I remember the princess said that the wood of this zither was taken from the phoenix tree in the Nanyu Sacred Mountain, but now it looks like it's made from an immortal tree?"

Shu Tinglong looked at the broken end of the zither thoughtfully.
"Only the immortal tree will bleed at the cut end. This blood is also called 'Qijie' or 'Xuejie'. It flows out of the wood and is red like blood. It is actually resin. However, this sacred tree now only grows around the Immortal Temple in the upper realm. I have no chance to see its true form."

Mo Tingfeng shook his head, leaned forward, dipped his hand in a little of the "blood lipid", put it to the tip of his nose and sniffed it, his brows furrowed tighter and tighter.

"Not the resin of the immortal tree."

He was very familiar with this smell recently. Sure enough, there was something wrong with this piano! Everything that happened recently was caused by this evil thing. "This is blood."

"This tree is indeed a phoenix-resting sycamore, but it has been cursed with blood by a villain."

Although Mo Tingfeng's tone was normal, his mind was filled with thoughts, it was that blood again!

From the discovery of the corpse mask in the Pingyang woods, to the red-eyed ghost bird that attacked Song Weichen in the Youmei Land, to the bloodstains found in the hollow cave after the fall of the Hidden Mist Village, all pointed to this evil creature.

No wonder the eldest princess would deliberately set up a trap against Song Weichen. It was clearly this blood that was causing all the trouble!
But why does Qin Xueying have this blood-cursed harp?
Is she the victim or the one who set up the scheme? .
After thinking about it in his mind, Mo Tingfeng stood up, put his hands behind his back, and looked solemnly at the person sitting in the main seat - it was time to reveal the secret.

It turns out that the barrier he set up is actually one of the most famous forbidden techniques recorded in the "Secret Record of Forbidden Techniques", the "Blindness Forbidden Technique", which will cause "problematic" people or objects within the barrier to show abnormalities uncontrollably.

After setting up the barrier, Ruan Mianmian, Shu Xinglong, Li Qiu Shui, and even Banxia behaved as they usually do, with the exception of Qin Xueying.

As the eldest princess, she did not dodge or avoid the swords and even stopped her own confidants from protecting her - this was not courage and heroism, but extreme stupidity.

If the eldest princess of the Lord of the Mei Realm met with an accident in the Sichen Mansion and was killed by the head of the Chenmei Realm, the biggest impact would not be on Mo Tingfeng, but on her father, the Lord of the Realm, Qin Huan.

While the upper realm mourns and laments, they will certainly think that Qin Huan made a serious mistake in management, which led to today's tragedy, and his position as the territory master will definitely be lost. Based on Mo Tingfeng's understanding of Qin Xueying over the past thousand years, her ambition and sense of family honor are no less than Qin Huan's. She would never calmly face Mo Tingfeng's death threat for the sake of an almost non-existent love affair.

She didn't dare to gamble.

I will never gamble.

It is precisely because of this abnormality that Mo Tingfeng would kill people. In the "Blind Forbidden" barrier, the fastest way to eliminate strange phenomena is to break the barrier with murderous aura.

In a way, he did try to kill her once.

In addition to Qin Xueying, there was another strange thing, the Heart-Confusing Harp - after the barrier was opened, it disappeared out of thin air.

But at that time, everyone's attention was focused on the life-and-death confrontation between Qin Xueying and Mo Tingfeng, and few people noticed it except him.

Although it is invisible to the naked eye, there is no way Qin can escape the visual barrier.

Mo Tingfeng speculated that the zither was most likely still in its original place, so he swung his sword and broke the zither - it was at the place where Ruan Mianmian fell to the ground after being shaken back by the barrier when she was trying to escape in a hurry. This made her misunderstand that he swung his sword to kill someone.

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As the two strange phenomena of one person and one object in the barrier were broken, Qin Xueying gradually woke up.
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"Princess, Princess!"

Banxia had tears in her eyes as she carefully brought a cup of warm water to her.

After all, she was a personal maid who had been with the eldest princess for many years and had seen the world. After seeing Qin Xueying being stabbed to death and then sitting at the table again, she understood that something was wrong.

Realizing that Mo Tingfeng's horrific behavior just now was most likely to break the devil, she suddenly admired him even more. At the same time, she tried to force herself to calm down and carefully serve the princess.

After a moment, Qin Xueying's half-closed eyes gradually opened, and her pupils became bright.

She looked around with a puzzled look on her face. She vaguely remembered what had happened before, but it seemed to have nothing to do with her.

"……What's wrong with me?"

Qin Xueying gently held her forehead to calm herself down, then let Banxia help her stand up, walked to Mo Tingfeng and bowed slightly.

"Lord Si Chen, I... seem to have done a lot of strange things since I came to your house..."

"I must have caused a lot of trouble to you and me. Xueying is speechless and doesn't know how to remedy the situation. Please give me some advice."

Mo Tingfeng looked at Qin Xueying in front of him, and his eyes finally softened a little - the familiar eldest princess seemed to have returned.

He clasped his fist towards Qin Xueying.

"I have a few questions. Princess, please enlighten me."

"First, where did the princess get this harp?"

Qin Xueying was stunned by the question. She looked at the broken zither for a few seconds, looking embarrassed.

"This is... mine? Xueying vaguely remembered that she brought a zither with her, but where did it come from... I'm a little confused..."

She looked at Banxia for help.

"You know my belongings best. Has this zither always been in my house? Or was it given to me by someone? Do you remember?"

Banxia looked at Qin Xueying with some embarrassment, then glanced at Mo Tingfeng, her lips stammering a few times, as if she didn't know where to start.

"This matter is of great importance. In front of Lord Si Chen, you must tell him as much as you know, and be accurate. You must not exaggerate or make up stories, and you must not conceal the truth."

"Yes."

Banxia bowed.

"Your Excellency Si Chen, Your Excellency the Princess, I now tend to believe that this Heart-Confusing Harp appeared when the Princess was on her way to Si Chen's residence in the flying sedan chair. This is because I checked carefully before the Master entered the sedan chair and did not find this item. However, it was already in the sedan chair when the Master got off."

"I was confused. Seeing the princess holding it so fondly and treating it like a treasure, I thought it was something that the master brought with her. Because the princess always carries a small storage ring. Although it is only eight feet square, it is still more than enough to hold a zither."

"I never thought it would come out of nowhere..."

"But the master has not come into contact with anyone along the way. How could there be an extra zither for no reason? I am deeply terrified!"

Qin Xueying and Banxia spoke sincerely and earnestly, and Mo Tingfeng understood that this time they were definitely not lying or being bewitched into speaking insincerely - it was just a pity that the clues seemed to end here.

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"Never mind. Princess, do you remember where you learned the effect of this mind-confusing harp? Including the use of sine and anti-sine."

Mo Tingfeng groaned for a moment,

"Now it seems that the zither is not a fake, but it has been tampered with. It has no way to resolve doubts and purify the mind, but it can easily stir up the three thousand worries in the heart."

Qin Xueying was obviously stumped by Mo Tingfeng's words again. She frowned and thought about it again and again, and suddenly her eyes lit up.

"I remember now! Although I don't know where this zither came from, I didn't know its name and function until I moved into the Venerable's Mansion. It was... someone in our mansion told me through the veil when I was bathing."

"That's the one...her voice is familiar to me."

Qin Xueying thought and searched at the same time, her eyes fixed on Ruan Mianmian.

The eldest princess's reaction frightened Lao Longjing.

"Sister Xueying, what are you looking at me for? It's not me, it's really not me! I don't know anything!"

……

Qin Xueying stared at Ruan Mianmian very seriously, and the latter felt like sitting on pins and needles, as if she had been exposed to the scorching sun for more than a hundred years.

The eldest princess suddenly clapped her hands.

"I remembered!"

"Master Si Chen, the one who told me how to use the Heart-Confusing Harp was Sister Mian Mian's personal maid, the girl named Du Juan."

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"Cuckoo?"

Mo Tingfeng frowned. That maid who was half-dead and lying in the clinic recovering from her injuries?

suddenly!

He realized something. The question that had puzzled him for days seemed to have an answer!

Just as he was about to speak, he saw Ding Heran and Ye Wujiu rushing over. They didn't even bother to greet the eldest princess and everyone else, but just bowed to Mo Tingfeng.

"Sir! Another murder occurred in the Venerable Mansion!"

"The deceased, Du Juan, was wearing a red dress and hanged from a pillar in a side hall. There was a strange rune branded on her body!"