kingnovel Chapter 281 Bloody Shura
Chapter 281 Bloody Shura
"May I ask which master is the National Master's disciple?" Taoist Yuan Rong knew very little about Yun Zhen's background.
Yun Zhen said weakly: "I just read some books randomly... I will learn it slowly..."
"You just read some random books?" You should know that there are forbidden techniques in Taoism. If you mistakenly learn forbidden techniques, you will fall into the devil's way. After hearing Yun Zhen's words, Taoist Yuan Rong couldn't help but sneer and said, "Isn't the national teacher afraid of going astray?"
Going astray? When Ji Anni heard these four words, her heart suddenly tightened. She hoped that Yun Zhen would deny it, but Yun Zhen did not answer, but just smiled faintly. It was hard to tell whether that smile was a disdain for Taoist Yuan Rong's speculation, or there was another hidden secret that could not be made public. Ji Anni vaguely felt that Taoist Yuan Rong's words seemed to have touched Yun Zhen's sore spot.
How could Yun Zhen pass through the seal? What else was he hiding? Ji Anni's anxiety and worry doubled.
"Master, can you help me move the stone?" Yun Zhen panted and asked Master Yuan Rong for help.
Since Yanniang could use the spell of moving, Taoist Yuanrong should be able to do it too. However, Taoist Yuanrong had been injured when fighting with Yanniang just now, and any spell would cause him to consume too much energy. He was reluctant to use his mind power again, but if he didn't rescue Yunzhen and Ji Anni, he wouldn't be able to report to the Queen Mother. After a little hesitation, Taoist Yuanrong reluctantly recited the spell.
Ji Anni made a face at Taoist Yuan Rong, and felt that he was more and more hateful and had no sense of solidarity and mutual assistance.
Taoist Yuan Rong was a typical lone warrior, who only believed in himself and the shikigami he controlled, and was very wary of other people. Especially with Yun Zhen, he drew a clear dividing line and deliberately kept a distance.
Since fox demons began to appear frequently in the palace, Taoist Yuan Rong suspected that Yun Zhen, the imperial teacher, had made some moves. Moreover, the seal of the ghost king seemed to be ineffective, and Yun Zhen easily passed through it, which further deepened Taoist Yuan Rong's suspicion of Yun Zhen.
Not to mention Taoist Yuan Rong, even Ji Anni, who has always trusted Yun Zhen, thinks Yun Zhen's identity is very strange. But Ji Anni is unwilling to doubt Yun Zhen. Having witnessed the love between Yun Zhen and Baogui Fei, she is willing to believe that Yun Zhen is decent. No matter what Yun Zhen's past is or what secrets he hides, Ji Anni is willing to believe that his original intention and intention are out of kindness.
After Taoist Yuan Rong helped Yun Zhen move the huge rock on his back, Yun Zhen slowly and hard climbed up from the ground.
"My queen, are you okay?" Yun Zhen signaled Ji Anni to stand up first.
"Don't waste time, come out quickly, I can't hold on for much longer." Taoist Yuan Rong didn't want to waste his magic power. If Ji Anni and Yun Zhen didn't get out of the seal quickly, Taoist Yuan Rong would have to keep holding the stone with his telekinesis.
"Yunzhen, let me help you out." Ji Anni struggled to get out from under Yunzhen, but she did not leave immediately. Instead, she took Yunzhen's arm and slowly dragged Yunzhen out of the pile of rubble under her.
Yun Zhen's waist and below were almost buried in the pile of rocks. Ji Anni had to use a lot of effort to pull Yun Zhen out of the pile of rocks like pulling a carrot. The sharp edges of the rocks left many scratches on Yun Zhen's legs, and Yun Zhen's pants were also stained with a lot of bright red blood. The bright red splashed into Ji Anni's eyes, and her eyes were sore again.
"Yun Zhen, are you in pain?" Ji Anni really wanted to help Yun Zhen sit down by the cave, but Taoist Yuan Rong's scary look made her dare not stop to rest. She supported the wounded Yun Zhen, and the two of them moved step by step with difficulty.
The narrow cave was littered with messy stones. Even a healthy person would fall down when walking, not to mention the two injured people, Yun Zhen and Ji Anni. Ji Anni's ankle had just been bitten by Yan Niang. Although Ji Anni's injury was relatively minor compared to Yun Zhen, she still gritted her teeth in pain every time she took a step forward.
The two of them took great efforts and finally succeeded in getting out of the seal, and Taoist Yuan Rong put down the boulder. Taoist Yuan Rong, who had consumed too much of his true energy, was less sensitive to monsters and did not smell the faint monster aura on Ji Annie at all.
Yun Zhen felt relieved when he saw that Taoist Yuan Rong's expression did not change.
"My queen, let me help you." Taoist Yuan Rong saw that Ji Anni was walking with great difficulty, so he stepped forward to help.
"No need, I'll walk slowly by myself." Ji Anni waved away the hand that Taoist Yuan Rong extended. Her disgust towards Taoist Yuan Rong was rising rapidly, and she didn't want to be touched by Taoist Yuan Rong even more.
Taoist Yuan Rong had a poor psychological quality. After being rejected by Ji Anni, his face turned dark.
Yun Zhen hurriedly tried to smooth things over, "Master, you just vomited some blood, are you okay?"
"Hmph, it's just a fox demon. If I hadn't been sealed, would it have been able to escape?" Taoist Yuan Rong was furious when he talked about vomiting blood. After so many years of subduing demons, this was the first time he was defeated so miserably.
"Master, that fox demon is definitely not an ordinary creature. I'm afraid it has been lurking in the palace for a few days. Today, it suddenly jumped out when we opened the seal of the Demon-Suppressing Temple and kidnapped Princess Tianning and Concubine Zhao Cong." Yun Zhen guided Master Yuan Rong to connect today's fox demon with the fox demon that appeared in the palace a few days ago, so as to clear himself of the suspicion of releasing the paper fox demon to disrupt the palace.
Taoist Yuan Rong pondered for a while, then slowly said, "What is the relationship between this fox demon and the Demon Suppression Temple?"
If they had no connection, it wouldn't have been such a coincidence that they came out to cause trouble on the day when the seal of the Fox Pearl in the Demon-Suppressing Temple was opened.
"And the strangest thing is, why did the fox demon kidnap Princess Tianning and Concubine Zhao from the palace?" Taoist Yuan Rong was puzzled. Because Ji Anni and Princess Tianning were closely together when they left the palace, it was difficult for an outsider to tell whether the fox demon's purpose was to kidnap Ji Anni or Princess Tianning.
The three of them walked around in the cave for a while, and finally limped to the entrance.
It was already dawn, and the cave was full of guards. When everyone gathered together to discuss whether to enter the cave or not, they saw Ji Anni and the other three people, covered in blood, coming out of the cave, and hurriedly came over to help them treat their wounds.
A man who looked like the chief of the imperial guards came up to Yun Zhen and asked, "Master, where is Princess Tianning?"
"Has the princess not been found yet?" Yun Zhen's heart sank. He thought Princess Tianning had returned to the palace safely, but judging from the way the captain of the guards asked her, Princess Tianning's whereabouts were still unknown.
Ji Anni, who was worried about Princess Tianning, quickly interrupted and said, "I separated from the princess by a small river. You can look for her along the river bank. You will definitely find her."
"River bank?" Ji Anni's words gave the captain of the guards a very important hint.
After getting the clue, the captain of the guards hurriedly gathered his subordinates and assigned them to carefully search for Princess Tianning's whereabouts along the river bank.
"Your Majesty, don't worry, the princess will be safe." Yun Zhen comforted Ji Anni.
Ji Anni looked very nervous, as if she couldn't wait to follow the guards to find Princess Tianning.
"If I had known I shouldn't have left her behind..." Ji Anni regretted her decision. Didn't the man in the woods protect the princess? Was her intuition wrong?
"My queen, if you hadn't abandoned the princess, she might have been trapped and died in the cave." Yun Zhen reminded Ji Anni that even if she took the princess with her, she would only suffer more serious injuries in the cave.
Thinking of this, Ji Anni's guilt was slightly alleviated.
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On the other hand, the guards were divided into two teams and searched carefully along the river bank.
The wind in the early morning was still very cool, and the coolness was mixed with a sensitive smell of blood. The experienced guard leader immediately noticed the abnormality of the situation and led his men to speed up their pace and rush in the direction of the smell.
The further we walked, the stronger the smell became. Suddenly, a sharp-eyed guard pointed at the river and shouted, "Look! The water is red!"
Everyone looked down and found that the river water was tinged with a very scary blood red. They raised their heads at the same time and looked upstream, and found that not only the river water, but also the land on the river bank was stained with a shocking layer of bright red.
"Quick! Go and take a look!" The captain of the guards led his men and rushed towards the blood-red land.
This is where Ji Anni and Princess Tianning fell into the river last night.
This river bank was where Kang Xiaorong discovered Princess Tianning - and it was also where they encountered the wolf pack.
When the guards rushed to the scene, they saw a very horrifying scene.
About twenty steps away from the stream, there was a circle of gray wolves lying around a tree trunk.
Without exception, the necks of all the gray wolves were chopped off, and their heads were hanging on their necks at a very terrifying angle.
The blood that dyed the river and the land red came from the bodies of these gray wolves that died in a miserable way.
The bodies of the gray wolves were piled up one on top of another, like a carpet on the ground. Their stiff bodies made the ground invisible. However, in the center of the group of wolf corpses, there was a figure standing against a tree trunk.
In fact, he was not standing, but leaning against the tree trunk, using the sword in his hand to support his shaky body.
"Young General!" The captain of the guards recognized the figure and shouted in surprise, stepping on the wolf's corpse and running towards Kang Xiaorong.
"Major General! Major General!" The others also recognized Kang Xiaorong and ran over behind the captain of the guards.
Kang Xiaorong was covered in blood and wounds. He held the sword in one hand and held Princess Tianning tightly in the other. Princess Tianning's eyes were tightly closed, and it was impossible to tell whether she was alive or dead. Her face and body were covered in blood, and her original appearance was almost unrecognizable.
As soon as the guards approached, Kang Xiaorong suddenly swung his sword and almost injured the captain of the guards who was running in front.
"Young General..." The captain of the guards was startled and stopped where he was, not daring to move forward another step.
Kang Xiaorong was emitting a terrifying murderous aura. This murderous aura was like an invisible sword edge, forming an impenetrable sword wall. As long as one took a step into it, one would be killed by the terrifying murderous aura.
Kang Xiaorong slowly turned his head, and his eyes, which were red with blood, revealed a creepy chill.
Kang Xiaorong, who had gone blood-thirsty, had long since lost his mind, just like a Shura who had just crawled out of hell and was reborn in blood. Apart from the belief that killing all living creatures close to them was the only thing that kept him from falling, he was no different from a beast.