Crossing the Palace Fighting Fox Harem

Chapter 459: The Kitchen Pot

Time stopped at this moment. Xiaoxue's whole body was stiff and she even forgot to crawl out from under Prince Ming who was possessed by Yuan Rong.

"Xiaoxue... Xiaoxue..." Concubine Gan dragged Xiaoxue out from under Prince Ming, her eyes dazed with fear.

Xiaoxue looked at her blood-stained hands, trembling and letting out "Ah, ah..."

"Xiaoxue." Concubine Gan hugged Xiaoxue tightly and used her body to block her gaze.

The Emperor Ming, whose heart was stabbed, did not die. Instead, he covered the wound with his hand and slowly crawled up from the ground.

"Blood... This is the blood of the demon fox..." He stared at the blood on his palm with a crazy smile. He sniffed the blood on his hand intoxicatedly as if he was holding a rare delicacy, and finally stretched out his tongue to lick the blood into his mouth bit by bit to taste it.

Concubine Gan was already frightened silly and dragged Xiaoxue to hide behind the corridor fence.

She didn't dare to hide too far away because subconsciously she couldn't bear to abandon Prince Ming.

"My queen, it's too dangerous here, you should hide first..." Xiaoxue, who had just come to her senses, wiped her face, wiped away the tears that almost came out of her eyes, and firmly pushed Concubine Gan away.

"No, I won't leave. If we die, we die together." Concubine Gan held Xiaoxue's hand tightly and refused to let go no matter what.

"Empress." Xiaoxue was anxious and afraid. It didn't matter if she died, but she was afraid that it would implicate Concubine Gan.

Suddenly, they felt a chill in their bodies. When they looked up, they found that Prince Ming was staring at them. The blood on his mouth was still wet, and his eyes were fierce. The sky suddenly darkened, and a cold wind swept through, as if it was the middle of the night. The darker the light, the brighter Prince Ming's eyes were, like a beast staring at its prey.

Seeing this, Xiaoxue was so nervous that she couldn't utter a word.

"Xiaoxue, the prince... is he dead?" Concubine Gan stared at the hairpin that had pierced deeply into Prince Ming's heart, her voice trembling with tears.

Xiaoxue kept shaking her head and couldn't say anything.

If the prince died, wouldn't she be the murderer?

The prince can still walk now because Yuan Rong is attached to him. If Yuan Rong leaves, will the prince die?

"Demon, as long as the prince can be saved... I will agree to whatever you say..." Xiaoxue knew that she had made a big mistake and just wanted to make amends as much as possible, but in fact she also knew that there was no room for negotiation with Yuan Rong who had fallen into the devil's way.

Sure enough, Yuan Rong let out a wild laugh, and suddenly a strong wind blew, and even the fallen leaves in the yard trembled and flew in his laughter.

Concubine Gan and Xiaoxue hugged each other tightly, knowing that there was no hope of saving themselves and they could only leave everything to fate.

As the sky grew darker, Yuan Rong's smile stopped.

There was a crackling sound of lightning coming from the distance, like thunder and lightning hitting the ground.

Following the direction of the sound, they discovered that it came from the most remote place in the palace - the Demon-Suppressing Temple.

Yuan Rong stopped talking and stared at the place where the lightning struck. He pricked up his ears, as if he could hear the palace maids screaming in fear.

"Fox demon..." Yuan Rong murmured, already having a premonition.

Xiaoxue suddenly hugged her arms and trembled continuously.

Concubine Gan hugged her tightly and asked, "What's wrong, Xiaoxue?"

"Demonic aura... a very strange demonic aura..." He was still trembling as he said this, revealing his despair as if his natural enemy was approaching.

At this time, Concubine Gan, who possessed some psychic abilities, also felt the approaching evil spirit.

It was a demonic aura so powerful that it was almost suffocating, the most powerful demonic aura that he had ever encountered since he was born.

"How could there be such a monster in the palace..." Concubine Gan, who had always lived in peace with monsters and treated them as close friends, was terrified by them for the first time. If there really was such a powerful monster in the palace, she would have noticed it on the first day of entering the palace, but she didn't really discover it until this moment. There was only one reason: it was a monster that had just awakened.

Awakened by the blood of Prince Ming.

"It's her! It's her!" Yuan Rong's face was full of excitement, and he looked up at the sky which was as dark as if it was covered by a black cloth.

With a "crackling" sound, a golden lightning bolt struck right at his feet. The huge shock blasted him several feet away and hit the wall. Only then did his face finally turn into a layer of fear.

"Baby..." A vague and ethereal voice came from the air.

Time and space seem to be distorted, making people lose their place.

"Baby..." Another voice was heard, and a beautiful white figure appeared in the air.

"Are you a fox demon?" Yuan Rong pressed his back against the wall, staring at the illusion in the air in embarrassment, "...Are you the fox demon that Taizu executed a hundred years ago?"

Xue Lan did not answer. Her phantom fell to the ground and slowly walked towards Yuan Rong.

"Don't come over here!" Yuan Rong roared.

"Baby..." Xue Lan could only see Prince Ming. Seeing his heart bleeding, she couldn't stop her tears from flowing. "...Mother didn't protect you well and let you get hurt."

As he spoke, his fingertips gently touched the wound on his heart.

Just a gentle touch and the wound stopped bleeding.

"What kind of monster are you? Why did you take away the baby's body?" Xue Lan questioned Yuan Rong harshly.

"You've clearly been sealed... why are you here..." Yuan Rong's teeth were chattering, and his forced calmness was unable to conceal his fear when facing Xue Lan.

With that powerful demonic power, he wanted to turn around and run away just by standing next to her, let alone subdue her.

"Seal?" Xue Lan tilted her head as if she didn't understand Yuan Rong's words, "...What seal?"

The seal was placed a hundred years ago and was reinforced several times by Yun Zhen. It should have been effective again, but after the Road of Life and Death collapsed, Yun Zhen's magic power became weaker and weaker. In addition, Ji Anni and Ming Huangzi, the two descendants of the fox demon, were both in danger. Xue Lan, who sensed their plight, gradually woke up unconsciously. It was not surprising that the power of the new and old seals had weakened, so it was not surprising that the image suddenly appeared.

Fortunately, she did not know everything that had happened in the past hundred years, and most of her memory still remained at the moment before she was sealed.

Perhaps the pain was too deep, and he seemed to have forgotten even the burning at the stake, and only instinctively protected his descendants who shared the same blood.

Later, Ji Anni broke into the Demon-Suppressing Temple and almost awakened Xue Lan's memory.

After learning that Zhao Ji's body has been possessed by someone else, Xue Lan has a strong resistance reaction and forcibly drives Ji Anni's soul out of Zhao Ji's body. Fortunately, later moved by Yun Zhen, Ji Anni finally returns to Zhao Ji's body.

After that, everything seemed to be back on track.

But Prince Ming's serious injury woke Xue Lan up from her slumber again, and she appeared in front of everyone.

"Baby... don't leave me, stay with me..." Xue Lan stroked Prince Ming's cheek.

Yuan Rong in Prince Ming's body felt cold all over, as if he had a premonition of what was about to happen. He suddenly closed his eyes and concentrated on trying to escape from Prince Ming's body, but unfortunately he was a moment too late.

Xue Lan opened her arms and put her arms around Prince Ming's shoulders.

A mist-like white light surrounded him, becoming thicker and thicker, so thick that even Concubine Gan and Xiaoxue, who were not far away, could not see his figure.

Fear made Concubine Gan and Xiaoxue forget to move, and they dared not walk into the thick fog. After the fog dissipated, they finally came to their senses and looked carefully, only to find that Prince Ming and Xue Lan had disappeared.

"Prince Ming has been taken away..." There was a hint of fear in Xiaoxue's trembling voice.

"What about Yuan Rong?" asked Concubine Gan. Yuan Rong was still in Prince Ming's body. Could he have been taken away by Xue Lan?

Xiaoxue shook her head, not sure, and guessed softly, "Maybe he was taken away, because the incident happened suddenly and he didn't have time to escape from Prince Ming's body." She sighed, "He possessed Prince Ming to force Zhao Ji to show up, but he didn't expect to be taken away by the Fox Demon Queen..."

It is true that man proposes, God disposes. Those who do evil will always receive unexpected punishment from God.

"Thanks to the appearance of the Fox Demon Queen, otherwise we would all have been killed." Xiaoxue clutched Concubine Gan's arm, feeling a little scared.

Concubine Gan looked in the direction where Prince Ming had just stood, and said to herself anxiously: "...But who can save Prince Ming now?"

Prince Ming, abandoned by the emperor, was rescued by Xiaoxue on his way out of the palace and brought to the Nangong Palace. The kind-hearted Concubine Gan wanted to help him, but she was powerless and could only help him a little. She watched him being possessed by Yuan Rong and even disappeared.

Xiaoxue comforted him, "The only people who can save Prince Ming are Zhaoji and the Imperial Master, but now they are both missing... However, since the Demon Fox Lady called Prince Ming baby, she probably won't hurt him. Prince Ming is safer with her than with us. At least Yuan Rong doesn't dare to cause trouble in front of the Demon Fox Lady."

Concubine Gan nodded, hoping that everything would be as Xiaoxue said.

Imperial Room.

It was time to prepare dinner again, and the kitchen was particularly busy. White steam filled every space, and the sizzling sound of cooking could be heard everywhere. Both the assistants and the chef were busy sweating and wished they had two more hands. However, in a small room a little away from the main kitchen, there was always a sense of tranquility that was completely opposite to the busyness.

Yizhen and the chef of the imperial kitchen were from the same hometown of Nanhu County. Before she was favored, she often came here to help. After gaining Long Mohan's trust, the attendant Eunuch Hua specially ordered someone to organize a kitchen for her so that she could cook her specialties for the emperor. She never needed help from others when cooking. She did everything by herself, from washing vegetables to serving them on the plate, leaving only her personal maid Die'er to help.

Just as I was about to wash the pot, I suddenly noticed a small fire on the stove in the corner.

The fire was blocked by several slanted pot lids. The angle and position were very clever. If you didn't pay attention, you couldn't see it at all.

There was a medicine pot on the fire, with something bubbling inside.

Yizhen curiously uncovered the bottle and smelled it, and identified it as a decoction.

It’s really strange. This kitchen is clearly for my use only, so why would other people be making medicine here?

If it were anyone else, they probably wouldn't have investigated further, but Yizhen was meticulous and had a vague feeling that something was amiss, so she asked Dier to call the chef to ask. It turned out that even the chef didn't know who was making the medicine here, so he guessed that it was a careless worker in the kitchen who stole the fire, and it wasn't a big deal.