Crossing the Palace Fighting Fox Harem

Chapter 433: Thunder is useless

After searching for a long time without finding it, just when Ji Anni was feeling discouraged, Yun Zhen suddenly picked her up again.

"If we can't find the mechanism, we can only blow up this wall." Yun Zhen spread out the five fingers of his right hand and pressed them against the stone wall.

"Blow up? But Yun Zhen, do you have explosives?" According to Ji Anni's knowledge, only bombs can blow up the stone road.

"No need for explosives." Yun Zhen's lips curled up slightly, revealing a meaningful smile, "Just a little thunder and lightning."

After saying this, a little blue fluorescence appeared at his fingertips, and he used the fluorescence to draw a strange pattern on the stone wall.

Ji Anni was already used to it and knew that this was a necessary procedure before Yun Zhen cast a spell. She didn't know what kind of magic he would use this time.

As Yun Zhen's fingertips moved, the pattern drawn on the stone wall became more and more complete.

Looking at the gradually taking shape of the curse seal, Ji Anni actually felt that it looked familiar. It seemed... like she had seen it somewhere...

Oh right! I suddenly remembered what Yun Zhen said just now, "We need some thunder and lightning"...

Could this be a thunder spell? It was the same kind of magic Yan Niang had used on the execution ground!

"Yun Zhen..." Ji Anni nervously grabbed Yun Zhen's collar. She had seen the power of Yan Niang's lightning spell. At that time, the thunder from the sky smashed the execution platform into ruins. That was still on a wide plain. Now, if she casts the lightning spell in the tunnel and causes the tunnel to collapse, then there will be no way to go up to heaven or down to earth. There will be no way to go forward, backward, left or right.

"It's okay. I know my limits." As he spoke, the curse was completed.

Although in the tunnel, Ji Anni could still hear the rumbling sound of thunder above her head.

"It happened so fast... I'm not mentally prepared..." Ji Anni snuggled into Yun Zhen's arms. Although she was not afraid of thunder, she was still very nervous standing less than ten steps away from where the lightning landed.

Yun Zhen hid Ji Anni in his arms and protected her tightly. Not to mention thunder and lightning, even the wind couldn't reach her.

But after waiting for a long time, there was still no thunder and lightning. It was much slower than the speed of Yan Niang's curse at that time.

"What's going on? Didn't it work?" Ji Anni poked her head out of Yun Zhen's arms and looked in the direction of the curse.

The curse seal was intact, half suspended on the stone wall, emitting a glowing blue light. There shouldn't be any problem...

We know that there are duds among firecrackers, but duds among thunder and lightning are rare.

"Annie..." Yun Zhen suddenly tightened his arms and hugged Ji Annie tighter, "It might be dangerous."

"Danger?" Ji Anni pricked up her ears and was about to ask, when she suddenly felt that the light around her had become much dimmer.

I turned around and saw that the blue fluorescence of the curse seal was gradually fading...

"There is an evil spirit, something is chasing us..." Yun Zhen's hurried voice added a bit of tension and terror to the scene. He held Ji Annie in his arms and retreated the way he came, retreating faster and faster, and finally he even ran.

"Yun Zhen, Yun Zhen...what happened?" Ji Anni had no idea what was going on. It was just that the lightning spell didn't work. She could just try again. Was there any need to be so nervous?

"I'm sorry, Annie. I was careless. The dark clouds in the sky have exposed our location. People who know the lightning spell can use the dark clouds to determine the location of the curse seal - we have probably been discovered by the monster now!"

"Monster? Is it Yuan Rong?" Xue Lan shouldn't hate them to the point of hunting them down.

Yun Zhen nodded, "It is most likely Yuan Rong."

"Hmph, you're really haunting me!" Ji Anni clenched her fists in disgust, wanting to beat Yuan Rong up.

The lightning-inducing spell did not bring lightning, but instead brought Yuan Rong, a big trouble.

Just as she thought of this, Ji Anni felt a sudden chill down her spine. Looking up, she saw a cold light rapidly shooting towards them in the darkness.

"Yun Zhen, be careful!"

Ji Anni shouted anxiously, and at the same time the shout rang out, the cold light had already flown past Yun Zhen's shoulder.

This was just the beginning. The next moment, overwhelming cold light pounced on them like a fishing net. The arrows were as dense as a downpour. There was nowhere to hide in this narrow tunnel.

"Yun Zhen!" Ji Anni's eyes suddenly went dark and she could not see anything. Her whole body fell into Yun Zhen's arms.

She was no longer being held by Yun Zhen, but was being "wrapped" by Yun Zhen.

In the darkness, she felt Yun Zhen's body suddenly fall down with a deep muffled sound.

"Yun Zhen!" Ji Anni yelled, but all that came out was the squeak of a fox. She struggled hard, trying to escape from Yun Zhen's arms. But Yun Zhen's tightly wrapped arms were like an unbreakable prison, leaving her no room to escape.

"It's okay, Annie...there's no vital injury..." Yun Zhen's breathing became heavier.

The reason why they didn't encounter any traps on the way here was not because they were lucky, but because all the traps were discovered and avoided by Yun Zhen. However, Yun Zhen remained silent and didn't mention it, so Ji Anni had no way of knowing it. She thought that this life and death path was just a false name and was actually a very safe place.

Just now, Yun Zhen was in a hurry to avoid Yuan Rong, and he was doing two things at once, so he ignored the mechanism under his feet, which attracted the terrifying rain of arrows just now.

"You're lying, I smell blood!" Ji Anni's moist eyes felt sore.

"Annie, go back the same way you came... find a safe place to hide before Yuan Rong catches up with you." Yun Zhen slowly opened his arms and let Ji Annie out. "Remember, you can only go back the same way you came..."

"No, I won't leave!" Ji Anni bit Yun Zhen's clothes tightly, venting her dissatisfaction, "We agreed not to separate, why are you chasing me away again!"

"Annie, be obedient. Yuan Rong's target is you. As long as he can't find you, he can't do anything to me." Yun Zhen pushed Ji Annie forward.

"In that case, why don't you accept me as a shikigami? If you accept me, he won't be able to do anything to us!"

"No...you are free, you still have to go back...you can't give up your name casually, and don't let others tie you up easily..." Yun Zhen didn't know what to say to Ji Anni. The increasingly heavy demonic aura behind him was constantly warning him: Yuan Rong was coming soon!

"I'm not going back!" When Ji Anni shouted these five words, her face was already covered with tears.

"Annie..." Yun Zhen gritted her teeth anxiously, but it was too late. Yuan Rong's breath was getting closer and closer, and was already very close.

"Oh, Yizhen... I remember now, Yuanrong was once defeated by Yizhen!"

Ji Anni suddenly had an idea and wanted to ask Yizhen for help, but the next moment she immediately realized that Yizhen had abandoned her and was no longer her friend. Moreover, she was in the path of life and death, where could she find Yizhen...

Just when Ji Anni was getting anxious, she suddenly heard the sound of flapping wings in the air.

When I looked up, I saw the familiar figure of Cang Gui.

"Take her away, the farther the better..." Yun Zhen gave an order to Cang Gui.

The traps and mechanisms of the Road of Life and Death are all set on the ground and walls. Letting Cang Gui take Ji Annie away from mid-air is the best way to avoid touching any mechanisms.

After receiving Yun Zhen's order, Cang Gui let out a sharp hiss, stretched out his two claws, and grabbed Ji Annie's shoulders.

Ji Anni was lifted into the air by it and screamed anxiously: "Let me go! Let me go! You stupid eagle!"

But how could Cang Gui obey Yun Zhen's orders? No matter how Ji Anni struggled, Cang Gui's two claws tightly clasped her shoulders never let go. Ji Anni was taken away by Cang Gui in the blink of an eye, just like riding a glider.

Watching them disappear into the darkness, Yun Zhen slowly got up from the ground. Although he was injured, he was not seriously injured. At least none of the arrows had penetrated his muscles, and at most they had only scratched his skin.

He silently chanted a spell and set a seal on the road of life and death.

Just like the seal in the Ghost King’s cave, it was like an iron gate blocking the enemy’s advance.

He set this seal on the road that Cang Gui and Ji Anni left. As long as the seal was not broken, Yuan Rong would never be able to catch up with Ji Anni.

"Yuan Rong, if you keep pursuing me, we will really become mortal enemies." Yun Zhen said softly, facing the darkness.

Although I couldn't see Yuan Rong's body, I could feel that he was nearby.

As expected, as soon as Yun Zhen finished speaking, he heard Yuan Rong's terrifying laughter coming from all directions.

"Yun Zhen, you are just a nobody, how dare you block my way? Aren't you afraid of being killed without a burial place?" As soon as the words fell, pairs of bright spots lit up on the surrounding rock walls. Upon closer inspection, they were all the shining eyes of poisonous snakes.

Before he knew it, Yun Zhen had been surrounded by a group of snakes.

"Although my Taoism is not as deep as yours, I will not necessarily lose to you..." Facing the unfavorable situation of being surrounded by a swarm of snakes, Yun Zhen remained very calm and possessed confidence that was no less than Yuan Rong's.

"I really shouldn't have underestimated you. Otherwise... I wouldn't have fallen into your trap and been captured by you."

Yuan Rong laughed wildly. If he had not been careless at the beginning, he would not have been captured by Yun Zhen's trap in the Queen Mother's Palace, and he would not have ended up as a half-Taoist, half-demon.

"I heard that you were only in your teens when you entered the palace as the Imperial Master... Although the Imperial Master of the Celestial Empire is not a powerful position, it is definitely not something that an unknown person is qualified to hold..." Yuan Rong knew Yun Zhen. He had heard some rumors about Yun Zhen before entering the palace. "I heard that... you successfully summoned the Dragon God during the ceremony of entering the palace."

The dragon is a symbol of spiritual beasts. Not to mention Taoist priests, even if they hear the call of immortals, they may not necessarily show up.

Yun Zhen, who summoned the Dragon God, proved his strength in front of all the civil and military officials in the court, and naturally became the imperial teacher.

"Honestly, I don't believe it at all." Yuan Rong sneered disdainfully, "You can't possibly summon the Dragon God. You must have used a deceptive spell to make others think they saw the Dragon God."