northernbook Chapter 472 New World
Chapter 472 New World
The guards who were so frightened that they dared not move finally plucked up their courage and surrounded Ji Annie after they were sure that she was dead.
"Captain, what should we do with her body?" someone asked.
Liu Guang ordered, "Pick up her body and bury it in a pit right here. The emperor will be moving to another palace soon anyway, and this palace will be a ruin in the future. We don't have to worry about burying a fox demon's body and ruining the feng shui."
Just as he finished speaking, Kang Qingyuan and Xuanjizi arrived at the same time.
After listening to Liuguang's brief explanation of the situation, they both looked at Ji Anni's body in silence.
The blood on her chest had not dried yet, and the thick smell of blood lingered in the air. Her face was still rosy, without any trace of the stiff paleness of a corpse. It was as if she was asleep, and it was hard to believe that she was dead.
Kang Qingyuan said fiercely: "This fox demon has done so many evil things, how could it be subdued so easily..."
It seems that he suspects there is fraud.
Liu Guang said: "Although she is a fox demon, she can't use magic. Just now, she bravely went to her death just to use her life to summon the fox demon goddess in the demon temple. However, she failed..."
Fortunately I failed, otherwise I would be the one lying on the ground motionless.
Liuguang secretly thanked his good luck and looked down at Ji Anni again.
This woman who was loved by both the emperor and Yun Zhen has finally ended her life.
However, I did not feel the pleasure of revenge in my heart...
His hands trembled slightly and he subconsciously tightened the hilt of the sword.
Killing her still couldn't heal the wound in my heart. As time passed, the scar of Baoer's death gradually turned into a bottomless pit. No matter how I filled it, it could not be restored to its original state.
Liuguang's body shook slightly.
He was in intense pain and his vision was blackening.
In a trance, I heard Kang Qingyuan say, "The fox demon is finally dead, and the palace is finally at peace."
Liuguang thought so too.
However, Xuanjizi disagreed: "No, she is not dead yet... I can still feel her thoughts, her mind is still alive..."
This is a world without sound, the only sounds in your ears are your own rapid breathing and heartbeat.
I walked aimlessly in the white light, unable to tell where I was.
She wanted to shout, but no sound came out. Ji Anni was so anxious that she held her throat and started coughing.
After a few sounds, a "cough cough" sound was finally heard.
Ji Anni showed a look of joy and looked up into the distance.
In the distant white world shrouded by thick fog, there seemed to be a human figure looming.
You can guess who that person is without looking closely.
Ji Anni ran towards the figure as fast as she could.
The person I want to see the most, the person I would sacrifice my life to see...
"Xue Lan..." The name came out of his mouth, piercing through the white mist like lightning and going straight into the ears of the figure.
The thick fog dissipated at this moment, and the white light gradually weakened.
In the vast white world, a road with a visible surface finally appeared under Ji Annie's feet.
At the end of the road, there stood a woman in white who looked as ethereal as a fairy.
It’s Xue Lan, it must be Xue Lan!
Ji Anni took a breath and without any hesitation, ran towards Xue Lan along the road under her feet.
With the sound of his own panting, he was getting closer and closer to Xue Lan.
She did not disappear or hide, but just stared quietly at Ji Anni who was running towards her.
When she was about ten steps away from Xue Lan, Ji Anni stopped.
Perhaps because she felt the powerful and majestic aura of the other person, she was in awe and did not dare to get too close.
"Girl." Xue Lan spoke first without waiting for Ji Anni to speak.
Ji Anni was startled, but after thinking carefully, she remembered that she had met Xue Lan several times, so it was not surprising that she knew her.
When she was attacked by Yuan Rong in the Demon Temple, Xue Lan saved her. Another time, she confessed to Xue Lan that she was not Zhao Ji, but a soul from another world. However, the manic Xue Lan drove her out of Zhao Ji's body.
That time, Ji Anni thought she was really going to die.
As she wandered around the palace like a wandering ghost, she looked at her own corpse with reluctance.
The crying Prince Ming, the painful Long Mohan, and the solemn Yun Zhen.
The three fetters that tightly bound his destiny held onto his rootless soul.
If Yun Zhen hadn't kept her, saying "Come back, I need you, I want to keep protecting you", maybe she would have died long ago. When Yun Zhen said that what he wanted to keep was not a fake Zhao Ji or a fake Bao Er, the waves in Ji Anni's heart were enough to drown out all reason.
It would be good if I died at that time, at least I would be free...
At least Yun Zhen won't be in danger, but his life or death is still unknown.
But since I am still alive, since I have chosen to stay in this chaotic palace and with my beloved, I cannot just sit there and wait to be swallowed by disaster.
Now is the time when Yun Zhen and Prince Ming need her the most. Ji Anni already has a vague answer in her mind as to how to save them.
"Girl, your impending death is calling me strongly. Why are you so persistent in wanting to see me before you die?" Compared with the last time they met, Xue Lan's mood was much calmer. She no longer clamored to expel Ji Anni from Zhao Ji's body.
"My Lady Fox Demon, the reason I want to see you is because I have something I must ask of you..."
Ji Anni raised her head and looked earnestly into Xue Lan's eyes.
She saw a hint of confusion and puzzlement in the depths of the other person's eyes.
"I don't want to die, and I can't die. At least now is not the time when I can die without any worries, so - I want to ask you to let me live!"
Ji Anni's voice echoed in this boundless space.
The words "Let me survive" echoed over and over again in this space where only the two of them existed.
Xue Lan was stunned for a moment, then smiled faintly.
Although he smiled, he did not express his attitude.
If this ambiguous smile was the answer, Ji Anni seemed to hear her rejection.
My mood suddenly became heavy. If Xue Lan refused to help me, I would really be dead.
No wonder Xue Lan did not appear when he was killed by Liu Guang. It turned out that she had no intention of rescuing him at all.
She already knew that Zhao Ji's body was invaded by a stranger, so how could she help?
If I had thought of this earlier, I wouldn't have gambled with my life.
Ji Anni laughed at herself, but the determination in her eyes did not waver.
"Fox Lady, I want to obtain your power. Although I am not your true descendant now, I believe that even if it were the real Soji, she would definitely do the same. Let me awaken, let the fox blood flowing in my body awaken!"
Seeing that she had no intention of giving up, Xue Lan sighed softly: "Although I am a demon, I hope that my offspring will be human. Born and die like humans... as incompetent and weak as humans..."
Yan Niang seemed to have said the same thing.
Xue Lan fell in love with Taizu and hoped to accompany him for his whole life like a human. She gave birth to a child for Taizu, hoping that the child could live like a human. However, the child was not a human, but a monster with fox ears and a fox tail.
In a rage, Taizu set fire to the mother and son and burned them to death.
When she was on the verge of death, Yan Niang wanted to save Xue Lan, but was rejected by Xue Lan.
She said: "I did kill someone. If life for life is the rule of the human world, I am willing to abide by this rule and die for it... because it makes me feel like a real human being..."
So she would rather die in a sea of fire than even think of living.
Born as Xue Lan's granddaughter, Zhao Ji lived a normal life before entering the palace.
Xue Lan’s wish was finally fulfilled, and her descendants could finally live like humans.
In front of such a Xue Lan, he said that he wanted to use her power to turn Zhao Ji into a monster again, but he had almost no chance of success.
After hearing what Ji Anni said, Xue Lan replied, "Girl, you are very brave, but I can't save you. Emotionally, I don't want Zhao Ji to become a monster; rationally, I can't awaken at all, because my demonic energy is the key to awakening the Ghost King. If my demonic energy awakens in you, the sleeping Ghost King will definitely be awakened by us, and the result will be even more terrible."
"I know..." Ji Anni had already heard from Yan Niang that Xue Lan was the Ghost King's bride.
In order to fulfill the relationship between Xue Lan and Tai Zu, the Ghost King taught Xue Lan how to temporarily become a human by possessing a human. After Xue Lan left, the Ghost King sealed himself up and used Xue Lan's demonic energy as the key. When Xue Lan's life as a human ends, she will turn back into her original fox demon. The awakened demonic energy of Xue Lan will awaken the Ghost King from the seal.
However, Xue Lan was burned at the stake by Taizu, and her evil spirit was sealed in the fox bead for a hundred years.
Therefore, the Ghost King never woke up, and the Tianyou Holy Dynasty was able to spend the next hundred years peacefully without bloodshed or disaster.
Xue Lan asked: "If the Ghost King wakes up and knows that I am dead, what kind of disaster will the people of the world face? Do you know?"
"..." Ji Annie lowered her head and said nothing. She had seen many stories on TV before, where people suffered devastation after the awakening of the devil. But when the same thing happened to her, it was hard to imagine and she couldn't find a sense of reality.
Xue Lan asked again: "You want to become a monster just to seek revenge, right?"
After becoming a monster, he can eliminate all the people, monsters and Taoists who want to harm himself, Yun Zhen and Prince Ming, including Liu Guang, Yuan Rong and the general.
As long as he possesses Xue Lan's demonic power, he will never be passively executed by them again, and he will no longer need to rely on Yun Zhen.
Ji Anni couldn't deny that she had had this thought more than once.
But after meeting Xue Lan...
After listening to Xue Lan's words and recalling Yan Niang's previous description, and truly feeling Xue Lan's determination to become a human being...
Ji Anni's thoughts gradually changed.
She raised her head and blurted out without thinking: "Not only revenge, I...I...I still want to build a new world, a world where humans and monsters live in harmony, a world where there will be no tragedy caused by the different paths of humans and monsters!"