Retired Villainess Transmigrates into a Cannon Fodder

Vi6-8 minutes 13.09.2020

The Strongest Fox-Demon (66)

Chu Xiang’s enchantment technique was learned in the past from a ten-thousand-year-old fox king. Unsealing it was not generally difficult. The Daoist master knew that the Third Prince had been touched by a demon but did not know what kind of demon and did not know how to break it either. So, he had to invite the Third Prince into the Daoist temple and study it together with his junior brother.

At the critical moment when the old emperor was ill, Prince Qi attached great importance to this matter and increased manpower to investigate where the Third Prince had been that day, who he had contacted with, and finally found out that Chu, the proprietress of Chuji Teahouse, had the most contact with ghosts and demons. She was someone who just came to the capital not long ago as well, and no one knew her background.

Prince Qi didn’t find out that Chu Xiang had any powerful backers. He didn’t take the officials she had helped seriously, so he directly ordered people to arrest her and bring her for interrogation.

Prince Qi went to court, but the people he sent out couldn’t find Chu Xiang. Chu Xiang convened a meeting with the shopkeepers under her, handed over the money they raised to Bai Yi and instructed Bai Yi on how to provide disaster relief. No one knew her estate and of course no one knew where she was. After the meeting, she happened to accept a ghost hunting job in a small town in the suburbs of the capital so she left and didn’t come back overnight.

When Prince Qi went back to the manor and listened to the reports of his subordinates, he felt that Chu Xiang was doubly suspicious. He didn’t doubt that she was a demon. He just suspected that Chu Xiang knew something, so she ran away in fear. He immediately ordered people to go out of the capital overnight to capture her and arrested all the people who stayed in the house and rented with Chu Xiang.

Li Yufeng and Zhuang Yulang were at the examination hall so they were not at home. Meanwhile, Bai Yi and Bai You were busy with disaster relief plans. Bai Yi found an excuse, saying that she was going out of the capital with Chu Xiang, when in fact she was staying with Bai You. Thus, they were not at home either. Only Zhuang Liu was left in the house, so she was brought into Prince Qi’s manor and interrogated harshly about the lives and deeds of everyone in their courtyard.

Zhuang Liu was terrified, weeping and sobbing that she knew nothing. She told everything from having a trip together to the capital after they met Chu Xiang and Li Yufeng. However, she really didn’t know that Chu Xiang was also helping people capture ghosts. She only knew that she had a wealthy dowry and she used it to open a tea house.

In her mouth, Li Yufeng was also a boring and henpecked husband, who knew nothing else except hanging around Chu Xiang all day long. She obeyed Chu Xiang in everything, didn’t study hard, and had little money.

This was all useless information. Prince Qi felt a little impatient after hearing the reports from his subordinates. He decided to arrest Chu Xiang for retrial, and ordered that they must go to the pharmacy to capture Bai Yi the next day.

Chu Xiang was hunting ghosts in a small town that night. She calculated the time and made sure everyone in the town shut their doors. Then, she sat cross-legged in the center of the town, lit a Soul Inducing Lamp in front of her, and waited for the ghost to arrive.

This ghost was a plague ghost who died of illness. It has already caused five people in the small town to fall ill and die. This kind of ghost was terrible to mortals. It was akin to an infectious disease, but to cultivators with high magic power, it was vulnerable and couldn’t withstand a single blow. Chu Xiang restrained her demonic aura and sat there leisurely, thinking that she could just pick up Li Yufeng along the way when she returned to the capital after dawn. She could also ask him how he did in the exam.

All of a sudden, a gust of wind blew. Chu Xiang opened his eyes. “It’s finally here.”

“Hihihi, little girl, how dare you meddle in other people’s business! Do you think you have lived too long?” The shadow of a man loomed out of a black cloud of yin. His body was oozing with pus, turning her stomach.

Chu Xiang took out a magic talisman, lit it with the candle of the Soul Inducing Lamp, and said calmly, “Yanwang will let you die on the third watch. He will never keep you until the fifth watch. With such vicious means of retaliating against the people in the town, I am afraid that you will not be able to reincarnate. Instead, you will go to the eighteenth floor of hell for punishment.”

Plague Ghost let out a piercing laugh and said sinisterly, “I’m dead, but why are they still alive? Why am I the only one suffering from this ghost disease? When I was rich, they welcomed me with a smile. When I fell ill in bed and lost all my wealth, they all hid away and didn’t even spare me a glance. They should be damned!”

Chu Xiang looked at him and said with amusement, “You were seriously ill. As ordinary people, it was normal for them to be frightened. Approaching you would have been strange, right? Didn’t the village chief hire a doctor to treat you? Save these words for hell. Someone else will judge you.”

Chu Xiang threw the magic talisman at Plague Ghost and it quickly hovered around him. Plague ghost was startled, and immediately drifted away. He, however, didn’t expect that the talisman could sense him and followed him after him.

Chu Xiang swept two fingers over the flame of the Soul Inducing Lamp and picked up a small cluster of flame. When she threw it to the ground, it landed as a ball of fire. She repeatedly threw it several times until Plague Ghost was trapped in the flames. He panicked and fled to avoid the talisman, screaming, “Who the hell are you? Who are you?!”

“Me? You don’t need to know.” Chu Xiang held her chin and waited for him to get hit when she suddenly noticed a line of people entering the town and were quickly running in her direction. She frowned and was just about to get up to tackle the plague ghost when two Daoist masters from that party pounced forward, coincidentally disrupting the formation she had laid.  The plague ghost screamed and fled. Unable to escape the spiritual talisman, he simply rushed into the body of one of the guards.