Chapter 435: Evil Ghost
Yun Qi, a noble Nine-tailed Celestial Fox, would never tolerate being treated like a stray dog, locked in a dungeon and subjected to humiliation.
Seeing the real Ji Wan princess return, the last glimmer of hope in his heart was completely extinguished.
Life and death were no longer different to him.
Rather than being manipulated and treated like a toy, he preferred complete liberation.
Only the regret in his heart could never be fulfilled…
As his consciousness gradually faded, Yun Qi heard a call, and then he was embraced tightly. That familiar warmth awakened his senses once more.
Yun Qi struggled to open his heavy eyelids, gazing at the girl who had returned. His dark eyes still held lingering wariness and confusion.
Sang Luo reached out to cup his face, her eyes red-rimmed, tears falling.
They landed on his face.
Damp… warm…
“Your Highness, is it really you?”
The boy's eyes regained clarity.
“It is me.”
Before coming this time, Sang Luo had made many preparations. She used her true form's power to create many talismans, in case of emergencies.
When she arrived at the dungeon, she used a silencing formation to isolate the sounds from inside and outside, and stole the guards' keys, trying them one by one. With a few crisp clicks, she unlocked the linked chains.
Losing the support of the chains, the boy seemed to instantly lose all his bones, collapsing to the ground.
Sang Luo quickly caught Yun Qi, letting him fall into her arms.
Yun Qi said softly, “Your Highness, you shouldn't have come back.”
Sang Luo saw his gaunt face, sunken inwards, his lips devoid of color. Even through several layers of fabric, she could feel his thin, protruding ribs. Her heart ached with both pity and anger. “If I didn't come back, should I have waited for you to be tortured to death, or for you to commit suicide?”
“I'm sorry, Your Highness, for letting you see me in such a wretched state. Am I… very ugly…?”
“Wasn't I more wretched when you first met me?” Sang Luo leaned in and kissed his lips. Yun Qi's eyes trembled, his heart softening into a pool of spring water.
No matter how deep their feelings were, Sang Luo knew that now was not the time for romance. After comforting the little fox, she led him out of the dungeon.
Hundreds of pursuers were all annihilated by the talismans.
To be safe, Sang Luo followed the route she remembered, returning to the small wooden house in the deep mountains and dense forests. Isolated from the world, undisturbed, and free from the prying eyes of external forces, it was a small haven.
She took out a water-attribute cleansing talisman to clean the room.
The boy had already passed out on the way, trying his best to remain unconscious. She let Yun Qi lie on the bed and covered him with a blanket. She went out to find some herbs and brewed them into a medicinal soup, wanting to feed it to him.
But the medicine trickled down his lips and onto the bedding.
Sang Luo took a few sips of the bitter soup, pried open his mouth, and fed it to him.
“Cough…” The boy was choked awake.
Sang Luo's eyes lit up. She quickly put down the soup and asked considerately, “Are you feeling better?”
Yun Qi's face was pale, with a touch of pitiful fragility in his pallor, making people want to protect him with all their heart. “…Thank you, Your Highness. I'm fine, just a little sleepy.”
He was, after all, a God-level cultivator. External injuries were not a problem for him; he just needed to rest for a few days to recover from having too much blood drawn.
Sang Luo brought a basin of hot water, wet a clean towel, and gently wiped the dirt from his face. “Then you rest well first. I'll go find you something to eat.”
This place was in the deep mountains and old forests, and the nearest town was hundreds of miles away. It would be easy to hunt some wild chickens and game. She planned to make him a pot of chicken soup to nourish him.
As Sang Luo got up to leave, she realized that the boy was holding her hand. “Your Highness…”
“Hmm?”
“I have something I want to ask you.”
Sang Luo turned to look at him, understanding. “You want to know about me, the Ji Wan princess that the outside world speaks of. What exactly happened?”
“Yes, please tell me, Your Highness. I want to know the truth.”
Sang Luo sighed softly. She knew that Yun Qi must have accumulated a lot of doubts in his heart. He wanted to know who the person he loved really was.
But Sang Luo really had her own difficulties. She was not a person from this space-time, and was bound by the laws of heaven and earth. She could not tell the people of this space-time her true identity and origin, nor could she. The last time she retrieved Minos's soul bone, she had tried, but she couldn't utter half a word about it. Any sensitive words would be erased by the laws of heaven and earth.
Sang Luo thought for a while and said, “The Ji Wan princess who hurt you was fake, impersonated by an evil ghost.”
Yun Qi was stunned.
He had imagined that the princess he deeply loved might not be the real Ji Wan princess, and even guessed that she was a lonely wild ghost who had accidentally possessed the princess's body. He never expected the truth to be like this…
Sang Luo had been suspicious before. The old patriarch of the Red Fox Clan seemed to be a kind old man, so why would he raise such a vicious Ji Wan princess?
Was she really spoiled from childhood?
Not necessarily.
Later, she searched all of Ji Wan princess's memories and found that the previous memories were covered by a mist. When she came back this time, she used her true form's spiritual power to break through the mist and finally glimpsed the truth.
Sang Luo finally connected everything, and knew why she had crawled out of a mass grave when she first traveled back to 100,000 years ago.
—The vicious and cruel Ji Wan princess that the outside world spoke of was impersonated by an evil ghost, and was of the same ilk as Ye Wushuang, coming from the same place, the legendary Ghost Clan.
The Ghost Clan had taken a fancy to the wealth of the Red Fox Clan and wanted to annex it, taking advantage of the princess's departure for travel and training, ambushing and killing the guards.
The real Ji Wan princess had long died in the pile of corpses.
When Sang Luo transmigrated, she happened to coincide with this point in time, accidentally possessing the princess's body. After she left, she was possessed by the evil ghost again, and it occupied the magpie's nest for hundreds of years. Everyone thought that the evil ghost was the real Ji Wan princess.
After Sang Luo knew all this, she sent the evil ghost to be reduced to ashes.
After Yun Qi understood, he didn't ask any more questions, and looked down at her abdomen. “That child… is it still there?”
Sang Luo stepped forward to hug him, without answering.
Yun Qi knew the answer, his fingers trembling slightly, and he hugged her waist, burying his head in front of her chest.
Sang Luo said.
“…There will be.”
…
A few days passed. Under Sang Luo's careful care, Yun Qi's body recovered quickly. Apart from being slightly thin and pale, he was no different from before.
The two returned to the Nine-tailed Fox Clan and the Red Fox Clan one after another, telling the clan leaders of the two clans, Qingqiu, and even the beast kings of other continents about Ye Quege, Ye Wushuang, and the Ghost Realm. They quickly learned of this news and were all on high alert, investigating the Ghost Clan forces within their clans.
The Ye Quege branch and its related organizations were all destroyed and uprooted!
After everything had settled down, Yun Qi, in the name of the young master of the Nine-tailed Fox Clan, once again proposed marriage to Sang Luo.
