Crossing the Palace Fighting Fox Harem

Chapter 272: Chasing to the Cave Entrance

"Concubine Zhao Congfei, what's wrong? Why are you silent?" Yan Niang's last tone rose slightly, becoming more charming.

When Ji Anni went to the execution ground to save Yun Zhen, she called out the name "Ji Anni". Yan Niang has always kept this name in mind, and today she finally found an opportunity to ask Ji Anni about the origin of "Ji Anni", but from Ji Anni's reaction, Yan Niang realized that she had asked Ji Anni's forbidden area.

"What Ji Anni, I... I don't know..." Ji Anni simply pretended to be stupid. But her acting skills were too poor to fool Yan Niang.

"Zhao Congfei, what is your relationship with Ji Anni?" Yan Niang stood up and walked towards Ji Anni, asking a more specific question. When she silently grabbed Ji Anni's shoulders from behind, Ji Anni was so scared that she almost screamed.

"What kind of relationship? I know nothing." Ji Anni grinned and continued to tell blunt lies.

"I know it has something to do with Yun Zhen." Yan Niang held Ji Anni's shoulders tighter, and the excessive force seemed to carry a hint of threat. Ji Anni, Zhao Ji, and Yun Zhen, there must be some unspeakable secrets between these three people.

If Ji Anni continued to be questioned by Yan Niang like this, she would really break out in a cold sweat.

Fortunately, just as Yanniang asked this, a strange sound came from the woods in the distance, as if a group of people were approaching rapidly. The most incredible thing was that in the depths of the woods where there was clearly no path, the footsteps of the group of people were actually heading straight towards where Ji Anni and Yanniang were, and the direction was so straight that it seemed like they had a compass.

"Are they pursuers from the palace?" Ji Anni asked, her eyes fixed on the source of the voice.

Judging from the speed at which that group of people moved, they would be able to reach the cave entrance in less than half a quarter of an hour.

If you want to escape, you must do it early. Ji Anni looked at Yan Niang's face and saw that Yan Niang had no intention of escaping, so she couldn't help feeling a little confused.

At this time, Yan Niang saw through Ji Anni's doubts and answered for her: "We can't run away. We can't escape anyway. There must be a powerful Taoist priest among these pursuers. They are chasing our evil spirit, otherwise they wouldn't be able to find us so accurately. Running away will only cause us to consume our physical strength. No matter where we run to, they will catch up with us."

Yan Niang didn't run away not because she was full of confidence, but because she understood the strength of her opponent.

"What should we do now?" Ji Anni was a little anxious. If she didn't run away, would she just surrender?

"Set up a formation to trap them."

Since I can't escape the other party's pursuit no matter how I run, I might as well decide the outcome here.

Yan Niang made a hand seal, and before Ji Anni could see clearly how her ten fingers were intertwined, she saw ten clusters of red light bursting out from Yan Niang's fingertips, just like Duan Yu's Six Meridians Divine Sword in "The Demi-Gods and Semi-Devils".

But Yan Niang is more powerful, not six meridians, but ten meridians, and they can be fired at the same time. After the red light flew out from the fingertips, it did not turn into a sword to attack the enemy directly, but turned into ten foxes bigger than cows.

The ten foxes rushed in different directions and surrounded the pursuers in the woods.

After surrounding the pursuers, the fox did not launch an attack, but instead ran around in all directions without stopping for a moment.

At this time, the footsteps of the pursuers suddenly stopped, as if they were confused and lost their way because of the foxes.

Ji Anni finally understood that Yan Niang had deliberately used those foxes to divert the pursuit. Since the pursuers were after the evil spirit, she would release a few more monsters to fill the woods with evil spirits and see how they could find it.

Yan Niang still underestimated the opponent's strength. After a brief confusion, the pursuers immediately found the right direction.

When she heard the footsteps again, Yan Niang gritted her teeth and cursed in a low voice: "Damn it..."

I thought that using ten foxes would allow them to split up into several groups, so that even if they finally found the cave, Yan Niang would only face one or two pursuers. Unexpectedly, the other party was not fooled by the fox demon at all, and continued to chase in the direction of the cave with the entire team.

As the footsteps got closer, Yan Niang's expression became nervous.

She made the second hand seal, but before she finished it, she heard an eagle cry in the sky. She looked up and saw an eagle swooping down, as fast as lightning. In the blink of an eye, the eagle had already pounced in front of Yan Niang.

Yan Niang lowered her head to avoid the eagle's sharp claws, but a strand of hair on her head was still pulled off.

The eagle circled in the air and swooped down towards Yan Niang again.

At this critical moment, Ji Anni suddenly pointed at the eagle and shouted, "Ah!"

She suddenly recognized the eagle - this eagle was Yun Zhen.

When the soul of Concubine Baogui suddenly appeared at the end of Ten Miles of Peach Blossoms, Yun Zhen also summoned this eagle.

Seeing that the eagle's claws were about to grab Yan Niang's face, Ji Anni suddenly shouted, "Stop!"

Strangely enough, the eagle seemed to understand what Ji Anni said, and really retracted its claws. It did not scratch Yan Niang's face, but instead brushed past her forehead and flew away. After flying away, it just kept circling in the air and never swooped down again.

Yan Niang asked, "How could it listen to you?"

"I, I don't know either..." Ji Anni was not pretending to be stupid this time, but telling the truth.

She didn't understand Taoism, nor did she understand sorcery, let alone controlling Shikigami. The only explanation was that the eagle was very smart, and it also knew Ji Anni, and knew that Ji Anni was an acquaintance of Yun Zhen, so it just obeyed Ji Anni's orders.

Yan Niang wanted to ask more questions, but at this moment, she suddenly heard a man's voice in the air.

"Empress...Empress..." the voice called Ji Anni anxiously.

Ji Anni recognized Yun Zhen's voice as soon as she heard it, and she was so excited that she almost shed tears. As long as she heard this voice, she was not afraid of any danger. As long as she had this voice by her side, she could get through all the difficulties. I don't know when Ji Anni's dependence on Yun Zhen became like the relationship between fish and water. If the fish does not live in water, it will suffer and die.

Yan Niang also recognized that it was Yun Zhen's voice, and looked around for the source of the voice.

Finally, her eyes fell on Ji Anni's hands, which were clasped tightly against her chest.

Yan Niang noticed that there was a strange necklace hanging around Ji Anni's neck, and what Ji Anni was holding was the pendant of the necklace.

The pendant has been held by Ji Anni. Her shape cannot be seen, only a ball of light green light surrounding Ji Anni's hand can be seen.

Yan Niang concluded that Yun Zhen's voice came from the pendant. She listened quietly to the conversation between Yun Zhen and Ji Anni without making any movement.

"Empress...are you okay? Are you hurt?" This is the question that Yun Zhen is most worried about.

"I'm fine, but Princess Tianning..."

Just when he was about to ask Yun Zhen about Princess Tianning's situation, he was interrupted by Yun Zhen hastily. It's not that Yun Zhen doesn't care about Princess Tianning's safety, but time is tight and he has more important things to tell Ji Anni.

"My queen, listen, I'm with Yuan Rong now, and I'll be able to catch up with you guys soon."

This is a Taoist method similar to telepathy. You don’t need to open your mouth, you can convey what you want to say with just your mind power, so there is no need to worry about being heard by Taoist Yuan Rong.

"My queen, are you a human or a monster now?" Yun Zhen asked anxiously.

"Is it a human or a monster?" Ji Anni didn't understand what he meant.

So Yun Zhen immediately changed the question: "Do you still have fox ears now?"

This time Ji Anni finally understood and replied, "No more..."

"That's good." Yun Zhen seemed to be relieved, and his rapid speech speed finally returned to normal. He continued, "My queen, after we catch you, just pretend that you are possessed by a monster. Leave the rest to me. I will rescue you and bring you back to the palace."

Yun Zhen has a way to suppress Ji Anni's evil spirit. As long as he can suppress Ji Anni's evil spirit, he may be able to hide it from Yuan Rong.

Not only demons and ghosts are affected by the fox beads, but even humans with weak constitutions are often harmed by demonic energy. So as long as Yuan Rong can't tell that Ji Anni is a demon, he can lie that Ji Anni is possessed by a demon in her human form and becomes abnormal.

As long as no one knew that Ji Anni was a monster, she could continue to stay in the palace.

"My queen, don't be afraid, I will rescue you..." Yun Zhen comforted Ji Anni.

"Don't even think about it!" Yan Niang suddenly interrupted Yun Zhen and snatched the stone from Ji Anni.

Ji Anni only felt the chain tightening her neck, and then heard a soft "snap" sound, and the necklace was actually broken by Yan Niang.

Yan Niang snatched the gemstone used for transmitting sound and squeezed it tightly in her palm, as if she wanted to crush the gemstone into powder.

When Ji Anni saw Yan Niang wanted to destroy the stone, she immediately pounced on her and started fighting with Yan Niang for it.

“Your Majesty…Your Majesty…”

Yun Zhen's voice was like a cell phone that suddenly ran out of battery in the middle of a conversation, and disappeared after a burst of noise.

Ji Anni grabbed Yan Niang's wrist tightly and screamed, "Give it back to me! Give it back to me!"

Yan Niang angrily threw the necklace on the ground, stomped on it several times, and kicked it deep into the cave.

Ji Anni pushed away Yan Niang's entanglement and rushed towards the place where the stone rolled.

But Yan Niang grabbed her shoulders and pulled her out of the cave.

"Let me go! Let me go!" Ji Anni yelled.

Although she was a good fighter, she was like a kitten in front of Yan Niang, who was really aggressive. She was completely subdued and had no power to fight back. She pushed and kicked, and fought back desperately, but in the end she couldn't escape the fate of being dragged out of the cave by Yan Niang.

After hearing what Yun Zhen had just said, Yan Niang knew that the pursuers were about to arrive, so she wanted to take Ji Anni away. Unexpectedly, as soon as she reached the entrance of the cave, she saw several guards clearly visible in the bushes about fifty steps away.

"Damn it..." Yan Niang cursed in a low voice, knowing that she could not escape from the pursuers, she turned her head and looked at the cave behind her. Since the way forward had been blocked by the guards, she could only choose to retreat.

The cave is very deep and bottomless. I wonder if there are any scary creatures like vampire bats in there...

Ji Annie didn't want to force her way into this horrible place, but she had no choice as she was held tightly by Yan Niang.

"Come with me." Yan Niang didn't even ask Ji Anni's opinion. She grabbed her shoulders and dragged her in.