Crossing the Palace Fighting Fox Harem

Chapter 121 Fox Concubine

I have heard of Xian Palace, it seems to be the place where the former emperor's concubines lived. But as for this "Demon Suppression Temple"... I really don't know.

Ji Anni shook her head and stared at Princess Tianning with great interest, hoping that she would continue.

Princess Tianning added, "The Demon-Suppressing Temple has long been sealed and no one is allowed to enter. It seems that a monster once lived in it."

"Monster?" Ji Anni's heartbeat began to gradually speed up.

"It's a fox demon..." Princess Tianning's expression was gloomy, creating an unparalleled atmosphere of horror.

I just heard her slowly speak: "It was during the time of the founding emperor. A concubine was pregnant, but after the child was born, it was found to be a fox, so the emperor ordered that both mother and child be burned to death. The fire burned for a day and a night, burning the palace into ruins, and burning the concubine and the fox prince to ashes. When the eunuchs were cleaning the scene, they found a black bead in the ashes. Legend has it that it is a fox bead, which condenses the magic and wronged soul of the fox demon queen. Later, the bead was picked up by a concubine who was close to the fox demon queen. She originally wanted to keep it as a souvenir, but who knew that the bead would make bursts of crying at night, mumbling "baby...baby...", as if the fox demon queen was looking for her child..."

Hearing this, even Ji Anni shuddered and subconsciously looked around, as if she was afraid that the fox demon in the story would suddenly appear. Yizhen was even more timid and didn't even dare to listen. She covered her ears tightly, her body trembling with fear, and kept begging Princess Tianning to stop.

But Princess Tianning was getting so excited about her talk that she couldn't stop and her expression became more and more exaggerated. Not only were her eyebrows curved into a semicircle, but there was also a sinister smile at the corner of her mouth. It was almost as terrifying as if she was shining a flashlight from the bottom up.

"The bead kept crying 'baby...baby...' every day, making it impossible for anyone to sleep. Finally, the concubine was so scared that she asked a Taoist priest to seal the bead in a wooden box. It is said that the wooden box is placed in the 'Demon Suppression Temple' in Xian Palace. The Demon Suppression Temple is a small temple rebuilt after the palace where the fox demon queen used to live was burned to ashes. Normally, no one dares to go there, not even the palace maids and eunuchs dare to go in to clean it."

"What happened next?" Although Ji Anni's heart was beating faster and faster, she couldn't help but want to continue listening.

Princess Tianning spread her hands in disappointment and said, "It was all over later. What later?"

Ji Anni asked, "Did the bead stop crying afterwards?"

Princess Tianning thought for a moment and said, "A palace maid said she heard crying sounds near the temple, but it's hard to tell whether it's true or not. Since you are so interested, why don't you go to the Demon Temple yourself one night when you have time?"

Ji Anni could only laugh dryly after hearing this. Although she thought she was not a coward, she still had an instinctive fear of these things that went beyond common sense. If the other party was a thief, robber, evil thief, or beast that could be seen and touched, she would not be afraid, but she was afraid that the other party was those evil creatures that could not be told whether they were demons or ghosts. Just thinking about it made her spine shiver.

"But there is one thing that is very strange..." Princess Tianning rarely showed a deep look, "Since the fox demon queen left a fox bead after being burned to death, then where is the fox bead of her child? If her baby is also a fox spirit, it should have left a bead after being burned to death... Later, when we checked the scene, we only found one bead. Isn't this very strange?"

"Ah... Princess, don't think too much. Maybe the fox baby was just born and had never practiced before, so it was burned to death by the fire before it had time to form a fox bead in its body. Or maybe the fox baby is a hybrid of a fox demon and a human, so its physique is quite special, and its bloodline has been neutralized, so it may not have a fox bead at all."

Ji Anni seemed to be listening to a very distant story, without any sense of reality, as if she was reviewing a movie: "But the emperor was really cruel. That was his own child. Even if it was a fox, so what? He actually sent the woman he loved and his own flesh and blood to the stake... He is worse than an animal."

As soon as she finished speaking, she saw Yizhen and Baoguifei winking at her, and then Ji Anni realized that she had said the wrong thing.

Because the person who burned the Fox Demon Queen to death was the founding emperor of the Tianyou Holy Dynasty, and he was not an object of insult at will.

Ji Anni still remembered that when she was training in Renhe Hall, Princess Tianning punished her to hold up a teacup, which was the favorite of the founding emperor during his lifetime - but that was not a pleasant memory.

Fortunately, Princess Tianning didn't seem to notice the words "worse than beasts" in Ji Anni's words just now, and defended the founding emperor, "Zhao Fei, you can't say that... That concubine is a monster. Not to mention the founding emperor, even if it was my brother, he would definitely order the burning of that vixen."

"Your brother wouldn't be so cruel, would he?" Although she didn't have many opportunities to spend time with the emperor, based on her superficial feelings, Ji Anni felt that Long Mohan seemed to be a gentleman with feelings and righteousness, otherwise he wouldn't have tried every means to bring Zhao Ji into the palace. There were so many beautiful women in the harem, could it be that they still needed Zhao Ji to serve them?

Princess Tianning emphasized: "This is not a question of being cruel or not. It is a monster. If it is not burned to death, it will harm people!"

Ji Anni grew up watching The Legend of the New White Snake, so she was much more accepting of snake demons and fox spirits than Princess Tianning and other ancient people from other worlds. She waved her hand and asked, "If he was going to be killed, she would have killed him long ago. Why would she give birth to a child for him?"

"This..." Princess Tianning thought about it carefully, and seemed to think that there was some truth to it, but she was speechless.

Ji Anni added: "In my opinion, the founding emperor simply failed the fox demon lady's sincerity and preconceived that she was a monster and wanted to harm him. In fact, the fox demon lady really loved the emperor, otherwise she would not have given birth to a child for him."

"That happened hundreds of years ago. You can say whatever you want." Princess Tianning was too lazy to argue any further.

But Ji Anni still didn't quite understand one thing, so she pulled Princess Tianning aside and asked, "By the way, why did you suppress the fox demon lady in the palace? Wouldn't it be better to suppress her near a temple or Taoist temple?"

This question opened up Princess Tianning's mouth again, causing her to talk nonstop with a beaming face: "This is really weird. It is said that they did intend to seal the fox bead in a Taoist temple outside the palace... But who knew that no matter which Taoist temple the bead was sent to, it would return to the old palace site that had been reduced to ashes by the evening of the next day. In the end, there was really no other way, so they had to seal the bead on the spot."