Crossing the Palace Fighting Fox Harem

Chapter 370 Take precautions before they happen

Liu Guang said, "Queen Dowager, even if you want to interrogate him in person, aren't you afraid of being bewitched by him? Queen Dowager, this matter is of great importance and cannot be delayed. We must take precautions before it happens."

Liuguang was right. Taoist Yuan Rong had great magical powers, and ordinary weapons were no match for him. If he wanted to rebel, the imperial guards would be powerless.

The Queen Mother was frightened and asked worriedly, "What's your plan?"

Liu Guang said: "If you want to abolish his magic, you must use magic to attack magic. Why doesn't the Queen Mother seek help from the Imperial Master?"

"National Master?" The Queen Mother almost forgot about this person. After the incident with Concubine Baogui, few people mentioned Yun Zhen, and Yun Zhen rarely showed up in public. Over time, the National Master had become a mere formality.

Liu Guang said, "Queen Dowager, we can lay a trap in the Queen Dowager's palace in advance, and you can urgently summon Taoist Yuan Rong. As long as he walks into the trap, we can catch him by surprise."

"But..." The Queen Mother still felt something was wrong and seemed to have some concerns.

Yan Niang also advised, "Mother, just do as the commander-in-chief said. For things like this, it is better to believe it than not. If Taoist Yuan Rong is innocent, we will definitely give him justice. But if he is really a spy of the Anti-Imperial Society, we must never let him do evil again."

Liuguang and Yanniang, one was instigating the empress dowager's left ear, and the other was inciting the empress dowager's right ear. The empress dowager could not resist at all and soon fell into their control.

"Okay..." The Queen Mother finally made up her mind and said to Liu Guang, "I'll leave this matter to you. If you succeed, you will be rewarded handsomely, but if you fail, I will never let you off easily."

Liuguang knelt on one knee to accept the order and promised: "Don't worry, Queen Mother. I guarantee that this plan will be foolproof."

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In order to prevent the news from leaking out and alerting Taoist Yuan Rong, the "net of heaven and earth" that Liu Guang mentioned only involved him and Yun Zhen.

It would be futile to deal with the powerful Taoist Yuan Rong even if he deployed thousands of troops. He had to rely on Yun Zhen's power to capture him. When Liu Guang came to the Xianke Pavilion and saw Yun Zhen, Yun Zhen was half lying on the bed, listless. After Liu Guang explained his purpose, Yun Zhen was slightly surprised, and thought silently for a long time before finally nodding his head in agreement.

Liuguang and Yunzhen have been friends for many years and classmates, so they know each other very well. Yunzhen knows that Liuguang recommended himself to the Queen Mother this time not only to deal with Taoist Yuanrong, but also to re-establish his prestige in the palace. Although Yunzhen doesn't care who is the national teacher or who has more authority, he is well aware of the threat Taoist Yuanrong poses to him, Ji Anni, and Prince Ming.

If Taoist Yuan Rong continues to stay in the palace, sooner or later, the identities of him, Ji Annie, Prince Ming, or demons or ghosts will be exposed.

It was a rare opportunity for Liuguang to capture Taoist Yuan Rong, and even the Queen Mother secretly supported him. Yun Zhen had no reason to refuse. He simply tidied up his clothes and rushed into the Queen Mother's palace with Liuguang.

By the evening, everything was ready.

The Queen Mother summoned Taoist Yuan Rong as agreed. Taoist Yuan Rong came happily without any suspicion, but as soon as he stepped into the palace gate, he felt something was amiss. The corridors that were usually heavily guarded were now empty. Not only were there no guards, but even the palace maids and eunuchs were nowhere to be seen. There were no extra human voices around, and it was as quiet as an abandoned house.

Taoist Yuan Rong gradually became alert and subconsciously slowed down his pace. At this moment, a long sword suddenly stabbed at his head from above.

Taoist Yuan Rong, sensing the chilling sword energy, instinctively dodged to the side and luckily avoided the sudden attack. But just as he stood firm, he suddenly saw a flash of fire in front of him.

The flames spread along the pattern that had already been drawn on the ground, and in the blink of an eye, it had burned into a circular talisman pattern under Taoist Yuan Rong's feet.

At this time, Taoist Yuan Rong realized that he had stepped into the trap set by the other party.

The person who attacked Yuan Rong just now was Liu Guang. The purpose of Liu Guang's sudden attack was not to take Yuan Rong's life, but to force Yuan Rong into the spell that Yun Zhen had already drawn in the courtyard. As soon as Yuan Rong stepped into the spell, Yun Zhen activated the spell with fire and trapped Yuan Rong in it. The spell itself is a barrier made of magic. Within this barrier, no one can use magic. However, Yun Zhen, who is outside the barrier, can easily strip Yuan Rong of his magic power through Taoism.

Taoist Yuan Rong, who realized he had been tricked, fought back desperately inside the barrier. He tried to call his shikigami and used water to put out the flames, but it was all in vain. As long as he entered this curse, even if he had all the magic power, he couldn't use it. Taoist Yuan Rong, trapped inside the barrier, was just an ordinary person without any power.

Yun Zhen, who was standing in the north outside the barrier, formed seals with his hands, put them to his lips and muttered a few spells. Suddenly, a square talisman appeared in the air.

Taoist Yuan Rong, who recognized the spell, screamed in the flames, cursing Yun Zhen and Liu Guang, the two despicable villains. But his screams were quickly drowned out by the blazing fire. Although the flames would not burn his body, they would turn his spells and strength into smoke. Taoist Yuan Rong, whose strength was sucked away by the flames, could not even stand up, so how could he have the strength to scream and curse.

At this moment, the square talisman hanging in the air flew up, like a sharp arrow shot from a bow, and pierced straight into Taoist Yuan Rong's chest.

With a cry of pain, Taoist Yuan Rong felt as if an arrow had pierced his heart. He knelt on the ground weakly, and pulled open his shirt with all his strength. He found that the square talisman had been firmly imprinted on his skin. This was a magic-binding talisman. As long as this pattern was imprinted on his body, all the magic power would be bound in his body and could not be used.

Taoist Yuan Rong scratched the pattern on his chest with his fingertips like crazy, trying to tear it apart.

Soon, his chest was covered with blood marks from his fingernails, but the square pattern did not fade at all.

No matter how Taoist Yuan Rong grabbed it, the pattern remained firmly imprinted on his chest intact.

In order to prevent Taoist Yuan Rong from hurting himself, Yun Zhen began to chant the spell again. As his lips opened and closed, several slender and agile flames like spirit snakes suddenly flew out from the talisman on Taoist Yuan Rong's chest. Those flames were like ropes, tightly entangling Taoist Yuan Rong's body and tying his hands behind his back, preventing him from struggling or resisting.

"You bunch of beasts... beasts..." Taoist Yuan Rong knew that he had been defeated miserably, but he still had the nerve to curse his despicable enemies.

After Taoist Yuan Rong's magic power was taken away, the flames that formed a circular barrier in the yard began to gradually go out. After a while, the flames disappeared completely, leaving only the prisoner bound in the center of the barrier.

"Now he won't be able to cast spells anymore, right?" Liuguang walked down the stairs and came to Yun Zhen's side.

Yun Zhen released the seal, took a deep breath, adjusted his breath, and replied: "He is no different from an ordinary person now. Not only can he not cast spells, he also has lost the ability to control Shikigami."

"Then I feel relieved." Liuguang lifted the exhausted Taoist Yuan Rong from the ground, "First put him in the dungeon, and after he is convicted, we will deal with him properly."

"You, you..." Taoist Yuan Rong glared at Liuguang and Yunzhen with gritted teeth. Although he wanted to scold them again, he had no strength. He only hated himself for being careless and being tricked by these two juniors.

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The news that Taoist Yuan Rong was imprisoned quickly spread throughout the entire palace. Everyone was a little bit unbelieving. The Queen Mother had clearly listened to Taoist Yuan Rong's orders yesterday, so why did she want to get rid of him today?

Then, all the magic tools that Taoist Yuan Rong had hung in the palace were taken down one by one. According to Liu Guang, those magic tools were not used to ward off evil spirits, but to monitor. The previous paper foxes and fox demons kidnapping the princess were just a few farces that Taoist Yuan Rong wrote and performed in order to deceive the Queen Mother's trust in him.

After all the magical instruments were taken away, Yan Niang could finally come and go freely in the palace.

Liuguang said to Yanniang, "I have captured Taoist Yuanrong as agreed. You should also prove that the princess is not a descendant of the dragon clan as agreed, right?"

Yan Niang said: "But Taoist Yuan Rong is not dead, why don't you kill him?"

Liu Guang said, "If I kill him now, what if you go back on your word? How about this, I make a deal with you, you prove your identity as a princess and then fake your death and leave the palace. You probably don't want to marry the general as a princess, so fake death is your best option. As long as you leave the palace, I will kill Taoist Yuan Rong."

Yan Niang snorted coldly: "You are afraid that I will go back on my words, but am I not afraid that you will go back on your words?"

Liuguang smiled and said, "You have no choice but to trust me now, and I will do my best to live up to your trust."

Yan Niang said, "You'd better take care of yourself and stop playing tricks. I am the kind of demon who repays kindness with kindness and revenges with revenge."

Liuguang used his fingertips to twirl Yanniang's hair and deliberately said in an intimate tone: "I have been with you for so long, don't I know it?"

Yan Niang brushed his hand away and said with disgust: "You are the kind of man I hate the most. If I could, I really want to bite you to death and treat it as a way to eliminate harm for the people."

"If I die, many women will be sad for me."

"If you were alive and flirting with other women, they would be even more sad. Do you want to live like this for the rest of your life?"

"What's wrong with living like this for the rest of my life? Anyway... I will never love anyone else in this world..."

It was very rare that when he said this, Liuguang's face showed an expression he had never shown before, which made Yanniang feel his deep-buried heartache.