Crossing the Palace Fighting Fox Harem

Chapter 293 No Way into the Palace

Talking about Prince Ming, Ji Anni couldn't help but feel a little worried. Although Prince Ming drank the lotus seed porridge fed to him by Concubine An, his painful expression while drinking the porridge proved that his anorexia had not been cured. Now we can only hope that the black stone necklace that Yun Zhen gave to Prince Ming has boundless magic power and can cure Prince Ming's anorexia.

In order not to worry Shui Furong, Ji Anni forced a smile and said, "Prince Ming has woken up and has started eating. He should be able to recover soon, so Furong, you don't have to worry."

"Your expression doesn't mean there's no need to worry." Shui Furong turned her head and looked at Ji Anni's bleak face anxiously.

Under the dim light, Ji Anni's expression seemed very solemn, and there was always a faint sigh in her voice.

Shui Furong asked again: "Xiao Zhao, what is the cause of Prince Ming's illness? Is it because he missed you, or is it because of the invasion of evil spirits?"

Shui Furong had witnessed Ji Anni's transformation with her own eyes and knew that Ji Anni was easily affected by evil spirits. Prince Ming was Ji Anni's child, so it was not surprising that he inherited some of his mother's physical characteristics that made her vulnerable to evil spirits.

So Shui Furong naturally guessed that Prince Ming's anorexia was related to evil spirit.

Apart from Yun Zhen, Shui Furong was the person who knew the most secrets of Ji Anni. Ji Anni was much more honest in front of Shui Furong than in front of other people. After listening to Shui Furong's guess, Ji Anni did not quibble at all and nodded gently.

"Sure enough..." Shui Furong sighed when she saw Ji Anni admit it, and said worriedly and helplessly, "Alas... This palace is really uneasy, and I don't know when all the monsters can be driven out. By the way, Yizhen said today that Yanniang has disappeared for two days... Her whereabouts are still unknown..."

Yan Niang was the aunt in charge of the concubines' palace. The concubines would immediately notice her disappearance.

"What should we do now?" Ji Anni asked anxiously.

"What else can we do? The guards have searched everywhere in the palace, but they can't find any clues. I'm afraid Yan Niang is in great danger this time... I never thought that a senior palace maid who looks so powerful would also go missing... Sigh, this will probably become another palace mystery, right?" Shui Furong spoke calmly, as if she was discussing other people's gossip.

The guards only searched inside the palace, so of course it was impossible for them to find Yan Niang who was hiding outside the palace.

The news of Yan Niang's disappearance had not yet reached the Empress Dowager's ears, because she had been so worried about Princess Tianning that she hadn't been able to sleep for the past two days and had become much more haggard in the past few days, so no one dared to disturb her about the disappearance of the palace maid.

"Forget it, forget it. Don't think about it. Sleeping is the most important thing now." Shui Furong turned over and went to sleep facing the wall.

It was only evening, and Ji Anni was not sleepy at all. She took off her shoes, sat on the bed with her back against the wall, and stared at the curled-up figure of Shui Furong opposite her in a daze. A lot of things had happened one after another in the past few days, and there were always crises around her. Now that she finally had a quiet time, she felt more deeply that she had been exhausted both physically and mentally.

Unconsciously, his hand grasped the small gem hanging on his chest.

This is the communicator between her and Yun Zhen. It was originally thrown at the entrance of the cave by Yan Niang, but was picked up by Yun Zhen and returned to her.

As long as this little stone is still hanging on my body, as long as I can still call Yun Zhen when I want to hear his voice...

Any danger or difficulty seemed to be resolved immediately and became insignificant.

Where is Yun Zhen now? What is he doing?

When I met him in the East Palace today, he seemed very hurried, as if he was overwhelmed by something.

Ji Anni didn't want to disturb Yun Zhen, so she just held the small stone quietly without making any calls.

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At the same time, Yun Zhen returned to Xianke Pavilion after a busy day.

Yun Zhen returned to the palace to open the seal of the Demon Temple. Before this mission was completed, he had enough reasons to stay in the palace. Now the palace was full of demonic auras, and no one wanted to drive this profound state master out of the palace, so Yun Zhen naturally returned to the Immortal Guest Pavilion, and everyone treated him with the same courtesy as before.

During the time when Concubine Baogui passed away and Yun Zhen left the palace, Taoist Yuan Rong moved from Taijue Temple to the Xianke Pavilion in the palace and replaced Yun Zhen's position as the Imperial Master. Now that Yun Zhen is back, the two of them live under the same roof, which is like two tigers on a mountain. Sooner or later, a turf war will break out.

Now Yun Zhen and Taoist Yuan Rong are still on good terms with each other and rarely talk to each other. It seems that they are both subconsciously avoiding each other and don't want to have anything to do with each other.

But Yun Zhen's little disciple, the third person living in the Xianke Pavilion, Xuanjizi, couldn't hold it in any longer and complained in Yun Zhen's ear: "Master, when can you officially return to the palace and resume your position? Master, if you don't take action, I'm afraid that Taoist Yuan Rong will take over first. If the Queen Mother suddenly changes Taoist Yuan Rong to the position of Imperial Master, won't you suffer a loss?"

Although Taoist Yuan Rong was treated with courtesy by the Queen Mother, he was not given any official title, so the palace people were used to calling Taoist Yuan Rong "Taoist" and continued to call Yun Zhen "National Master". In fact, Yun Zhen was no longer qualified to be called National Master, but before the official demotion document was issued, the palace people had not changed their words.

Xuanjizi and Yunzhen were quite close, and even when Yunzhen left the palace, he did not flatter Taoist Yuanrong. Even when he and Taoist Yuanrong were the only two living in the Xianke Pavilion, he never took the initiative to talk to Taoist Yuanrong.

In fact, Xuanjizi was very disgusted with Taoist Yuanrong and wanted to drive him out of the palace, but he did not have the qualifications to do so.

I still remember that when the fox demon was running around in the Heavenly Palace, Taoist Yuan Rong summoned a sudden rain to break the paper god fox demon. After that, the first person Taoist Yuan Rong suspected was Yun Zhen. He asked Xuan Jizi about the characteristics of the paper god Yun Zhen used, but Xuan Jizi kept his mouth shut and didn't reveal a word. So far, Taoist Yuan Rong's suspicion of Yun Zhen is just suspicion, and he can't produce any evidence to identify Yun Zhen as the culprit who manipulated the paper god fox demon.

Yun Zhen didn't care who was the Imperial Master, he only cared whether he could continue to stay in the palace to protect Ji Anni. If the Queen Mother finally decided to change the title of Taoist Yuan Rong to the Imperial Master, as long as Yun Zhen could stay in the palace, he would be willing to accept it even if he had to be a small follower of Taoist Yuan Rong.

When Baogui Concubine passed away, Yun Zhen once lost the value of his existence and could not find the meaning of continuing to live. At that time, Ji Anni cried and told him that he still had a promise that had not been fulfilled, a promise to stay with Ji Anni forever. Since the promise he made to Baoer ten years ago could no longer be fulfilled, then... at least he had to fulfill this second promise.

This became the reason why Yun Zhen survived.

Before sending Ji Anni back to her original world, Yun Zhen decided to stay by her side all the time. Only in this way can she find a little meaning in life; only in this way can she not sink into the grief of losing Baoer.

It was like an anesthetic, numbing Yun Zhen's pain.

He subconsciously rubbed the wound on his fingertips, which were the bite marks left when he made the blood oath with Ji Anni.

That minor injury should have healed long ago, but for some reason it left a light white scar on Yun Zhen's fingertips.

It was as if he was constantly reminding Yun Zhen of what he had said and the promise he had made...

"Master?" Xuanjizi saw that Yun Zhen was in a daze and couldn't help but wake him up.

Yun Zhen came back to his senses, lowered his hand that was stroking the wound on his fingertips, and asked Xuan Jizi, "Have all the magic tools been set up?"

"Everything has been installed. The four side gates of Azure Dragon, White Tiger, Vermillion Bird, and Black Tortoise, the three main gates of Heaven, Earth, and Man, the two gardens of Wenhua Courtyard, and the two palaces of the East and West Concubines, and all the places you instructed, have been installed with instruments to exorcise evil spirits."

After listening to Xuanjizi's report, Yun Zhen nodded and said, "That's good. Thank you for your hard work."

Yun Zhen was so busy today because he had to install magic tools in the places where Yan Niang might appear, so that he could temporarily prevent Yan Niang from returning to the palace. When the emperor asked Yun Zhen to see Prince Ming today, Yun Zhen was busy setting up magic tools in those places. After Yun Zhen was asked to leave, the rest of the work was left to Xuan Jizi alone.

Xuanjizi came to Taoyuan Shui Furong's room in Wenhuayuan alone and hung a Bagua on the window to ward off evil spirits.

The reason why the gossip was ineffective against Ji Anni was not because Xuanjizi was not good at the art, but because the gossip was only effective against Yanniang and was specifically used to prevent Yanniang from breaking in. Otherwise, how could Yun Zhen, who knew that Ji Anni was a fox demon, install an exorcist in Ji Anni's room? Wasn't this intended to expose Ji Anni's true form?

Yun Zhen said to himself, "As long as those magic weapons are installed, the fox demon will not be able to return to the palace in the short term. I am afraid that after the fox demon recovers from her injuries, her demonic power will be stronger than the magic weapons, and then those magic weapons will not be able to stop her..."

During the fight in the cave, Yan Niang and Taoist Yuan Rong were both injured.

Now, Yun Zhen is taking advantage of the fact that Yan Niang's injuries have not healed yet to install magical instruments at the three main gates, four side gates, and other places where Yan Niang might appear in the palace. This way, Yan Niang cannot return to the palace and cannot harass Ji Anni and Prince Ming.

The reason for delaying Yanniang's return to the palace is, first, to prevent her from getting close to Ji Anni, and second, to make the palace people believe that the missing Yanniang has already died. Even if Yanniang wants to return to the palace after recovering from her injuries, she can no longer use the identity of Yanniang. Because if a person who is supposed to be dead suddenly appears, it will only arouse everyone's suspicion, and every move will be highly watched, which will make it more disadvantageous to act. Although it is temporarily impossible to eliminate Yanniang, at least we must first eliminate the convenient identity of Yanniang's housekeeper aunt. If she wants to return to the palace in the future, she will have to appear in the form of a fox, or become someone else.

At the same time, in the woods outside the palace, the injured Yan Niang finally climbed out of the cave to the White Tiger Gate.

Before he could even climb to the door, he was dizzy from the shock of an evil-dispelling Bagua on the White Tiger Gate and nearly fainted.

"Damn stinky Taoist priest..." Yan Niang cursed, knowing that this must have been set up by Yun Zhen.

Seriously injured, she did not dare to force her way into the magic weapon, so she had to drag her exhausted body and slowly crawl back into the woods.

"I will take revenge one day... I will come back one day..."

Yan Niang gritted her teeth and swore a poisonous oath, then limped away into the darkness.