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Chapter 20: Revealing the Strange Plan

The cat stared at Lingxiang for a moment, then walked leisurely towards the city lord's wife. When it got close to the couch, it leaped onto the lady, turned over and lay down, and soon began to snore.

"My wife found this cat herself not long after she got married. I was really surprised at the time. I heard from my wife that she called it Ajin and it was the civet cat in her family. She always took it with her wherever she went. Now it is like this, as if it really has a spirit and always accompanies her like this for a while every day." The city lord saw the doubts in Lingxiang's heart and explained.

Oh? You found it yourself after you got married? Interesting.

Lingxiang glanced at Maidong, and the latter immediately understood what she meant.

That night, the moon was bright and the stars were sparse. Everyone in the City Lord's Mansion had fallen asleep. Even the City Lord, who accompanied his wife every day, was persuaded by Lingxiang and the others to go back to his room.

As soon as the third watch bell rang outside, a shadow crept into the room of the city lord's wife. After a while, a figure was seen standing in front of her bed.

The man looked at the lady for a long time, then took something out of his mouth with his finger, and a clear light flashed across it, and he put it into her mouth.

"No wonder the Madam has not lost her youth despite being bedridden for so long. It turns out that she is nourishing herself with her cultivation."

Lingxiang flashed out from behind the door, startling the man. He tried to escape through the window, but was unexpectedly hit by Maidong outside the window with a flying leaf palm, which knocked him back into the house.

"Tsk, why did you hit him so hard? What if he gets stunned?"

"Oh, I accidentally forgot." Maidong laughed and scratched his head.

The man sat up from the ground, dressed in black, with fair skin and a wary look on his face.

His eyes are actually——

Red gold!
"How did you know it was me?!"

"It's your fault, you tom cat, for not knowing how to adapt." Maidong said with a smile, while the man in black looked confused.

"Let alone how long you followed your wife before she got married, it has been fifteen or sixteen years since the city lord and his wife got married, and you were brought by your wife from her parents' home. How could a cat live that long?" Lingxiang explained.

"Even if he really lived that long, he wouldn't be as agile as you. He would have been frail long ago," Mai Dong added.

That’s right, this person is Ajin.

"We don't understand the time of the human race..." Ah Jin stood up while speaking. He was eight feet tall, thin and handsome.

"No wonder cats look so pretty, they are really so beautiful!" Lingxiang exclaimed.

Maidong rolled his eyes at her and turned around and walked into the house from the window.

"So, tell me, who are you?"

"The City Lord's wife's maiden name is Qiao, and I am the cat spirit of the Qiao family."

"Spiritual object? That means it is an offering! It can be considered a god!" Mai Dong said in surprise.

"It's just a low-level god clan, and I'm not a worshiper, but a spirit controller."

"Hmm... that's a kind of god who sends messengers. His cultivation is at least at the level of a god's messenger, and he has the ability to protect others. How could he let Madam suffer such a disaster?" Lingxiang asked puzzledly, "Could it be that he has an enemy?" Ah Jin lowered his head and was silent for a while, then sat down on the footstool and said, "The Qiao family suffered a disaster more than ten years ago, and the whole family was slaughtered. Madam was spared because she married the city lord who was still a prince at the time. However, she was depressed and suffered from a serious illness. City Lord Zhao loved his wife so much that he gave up his country and retired with her. It's not wrong to say that he has an enemy."

Lingxiang and Maidong looked heavy-hearted when they heard this. They had never expected that their wife would suffer such a fate...

"But this time it was not done by our enemies, but there were other reasons..." Ajin said.

"It wasn't done by an enemy?"

"It's Huang Xian."

Huang Xian? Isn't that a scoundrel? How could the city lord's wife get involved with such a rogue?

The so-called Huangxian is the yellow skin, which is commonly known as the yellow weasel. People in the fields often call it Huang Daxian, saying that it can eliminate pests for farming. In some places, small temples and earthen shrines are built for them, and they are worshipped as the gods of the land. Over time, they really have some divinity.

But they are monsters after all, and even if they have cultivated themselves, it is difficult for them to change their nature.

However, as a field offering, why would he do such a thing to Madam Qiao?

"This has to do with this house." Ajin explained to Lingxiang and the others with a sigh.

Guyang City is already rich in spiritual energy, and this house is built where spiritual energy converges. After the yellow-skinned fox had been eating people's food for a long time, his cultivation level had improved and he was no longer satisfied with the spiritual energy from incense and incense. Perhaps he took a fancy to the city lord's mansion, a place where spiritual energy gathered, so he moved in with his family.

One day, when Mrs. Qiao was admiring the garden, she happened to see the young yellow-skinned creature being frightened. The housekeeper set a trap and caught and killed the little creature. This annoyed the old yellow-skinned creature, and he blamed everything on Mrs. Qiao. That day, he bewitched her right under Ajin's nose.

After several days of investigation, Ajin finally found the old yellow-skinned creature and went to ask it to undo the spell. However, the old creature not only refused, but also started fighting with him.

The old yellow-skinned man had been worshipped by mortals and had some evil magic. Ajin was no match for him and was defeated every time he fought with him.

She couldn't beat him, but Mrs. Qiao's current situation was not a solution, so she could only use her own cultivation to nourish his soul and body every night.

"This housekeeper is really confused!" Mai Dong sighed, "Huangpizi are creatures that value their companions, and he killed the descendant of the old Huangpizi. Isn't this stirring up a hornet's nest? In my opinion, this matter is really difficult to handle."

"No wonder the city lord and his wife look so young, and even their servants and maids are pretty. It turns out they live in such a good place." Lingxiang said this without thinking.

Upon hearing this, Mai Dong rolled his eyes at Ling Xiang and said, "We are talking about serious matters. Can't you be more serious?"

"Isn't this the real business? The yellow-skinned man's magic can last for so long. There are only two possibilities: one is that he was nourished by the spiritual energy and his cultivation increased greatly, so he used the soul-stealing magic; the other is that the spirit can replenish his spiritual power, so he took advantage of people's unpreparedness and used the soul-bewitching magic every day, making it impossible for Madam Qiao to wake up. No matter which one, it is related to the spiritual energy, which is a very troublesome matter."

Maidong and Ajin couldn't help but frown after hearing Lingxiang's reasoning: Yes, if it is the first possibility, if you want to save Mrs. Qiao, you have to defeat the old yellow-skinned guy to unlock the soul-stealing technique, but since he can use the soul-stealing technique, it means that his cultivation has reached a certain level, and he has evil magic, so the three of them are definitely not his opponent. But if it is the second possibility, the soul-bewitching technique is easy to solve, but it can't stop this old thing from attacking every day. Only thieves can't guard against thieves every day.

It’s difficult either way!
"Why don't we try to use the magic of bewitching to help Madam first? If it works, we can discuss the rest later." Lingxiang suggested.

In her opinion, the second possibility was more likely. The yellow-skinned creature was the most likely to bear grudges. If you provoke it, it would definitely make the whole family restless. But now it was only attacking Mrs. Qiao, so it must be that its cultivation was not strong enough.

There was no other way now but this, Ajin thought for a moment and nodded in agreement.

(End of this chapter)