Crossing the Palace Fighting Fox Harem

Chapter 275 The Ghost King’s Bride

Although the Ghost King deeply loves Xue Lan, Xue Lan's heart is always with Taizu. She has always wanted to become a human being. No matter how much the Ghost King loves her, she has not changed her mind.

If Taizu had not appeared in Xue Lan's life, then perhaps Xue Lan would have become the Ghost King's bride.

When the imperial palace of the Holy Tianyou Dynasty was first built, Xue Lan had never shown up because the Ghost King had been imprisoning her, preventing her from meeting Taizu.

Finally one day, the Ghost King suddenly realized that even if he could imprison Xue Lan's body forever, he could not imprison her heart that had already been given away. So the Ghost King gave up forcing Xue Lan to be his wife and made a promise with her.

He is willing to teach Xue Lan a forbidden technique, allowing Xue Lan to possess a human body, but the premise is that the secret of this forbidden technique cannot be revealed to anyone. The Ghost King did this not to give Xue Lan to Taizu, but to make Xue Lan end her longing for Taizu.

Human life is limited, and the time Xue Lan spent accompanying Taizu as a human being was only a few short decades.

After these decades have passed, Xue Lan's human body will have died, and she will become a fox demon once again.

Then, the Ghost King will be able to get her back.

During the decades that Xue Lan accompanied Taizu, the Ghost King did not want to witness their love, so he sealed himself up, waiting for the day when Xue Lan would turn back into a fox demon, then the Ghost King would wake up from his deep sleep and marry Xue Lan.

However, the Ghost King miscalculated.

Instead of receiving Taizu's love, Xue Lan, who turned into a human, was ordered to be burned to death.

The burning torture not only destroyed her body, but also her soul, leaving only a fox bead that contained all her memories and magical powers. Xue Lan did not become a fox demon again, so the Ghost King never woke up from his deep sleep.

Xue Lan's evil spirit is the key to unlocking the seal of the Ghost King.

As long as the sleeping Ghost King senses Xue Lan's evil spirit, he will open his eyes again.

The reason why the demonic energy in the cave is so active tonight is because the Ghost King sensed the demonic energy of Xue Lan in the fox bead.

The evil spirit in the fox bead alone is not enough to wake up the Ghost King.

After Xue Lan's death, the Ghost King should never wake up again. However, Ji Anni appeared.

As the third generation of Xue Lan, Ji Anni, once she truly awakens and merges with the Fox Pearl, it is hard to guarantee that she will not produce the same demonic energy as Xue Lan. That demonic energy - without a doubt can wake up the Ghost King from his slumber.

"Maybe this is what is called fate..." Yan Niang sighed, "No matter how hard I try, I can't escape the control of fate."

She thought that Xue Lan's descendants would never return to the Tianyou Holy Dynasty, and the sleeping Ghost King would never wake up.

However, fate seems to have been determined in the cycle of reincarnation and no one can change it.

Feeling the thick evil spirit in the cave, Yan Niang closed her eyes helplessly. Although the ghost king had not awakened, the evil spirits that had been dormant for a hundred years seemed to have suddenly awakened, spreading around the cave with fangs and claws.

Looking at Yan Niang's heavy expression, Ji Anni had a premonition that the awakening of the Ghost King would bring about a great disaster.

"Yanniang, if the Ghost King wakes up, what will he...what will he do?"

You don't want to dominate the world, do you?

Ji Anni kept recalling the martial arts movies she had watched before, where the devil king, evil king, and demon king all seemed to want to unify the martial arts world and dominate the martial arts world after they were resurrected. She wondered if the ghost king she met now had the same ambition.

Yan Niang said, "There can't be two tigers on one mountain. This mountain was originally the domain of the Ghost King, but it was razed to the ground by Taizu a hundred years ago. At that time, under Xue Lan's persuasion, the Ghost King forgave Taizu and did not explode. Once the Ghost King wakes up and finds that his beloved woman is dead, will he still tolerate the existence of this palace built on his territory and this dynasty that took away his beloved?"

Although Yan Niang's tone was gentle, the future she described to Ji Anni was one of heavy darkness.

"He...he, he won't destroy the entire palace, right?" Ji Anni stuttered in fear.

Destroying the palace is not a light punishment. It might also destroy the Long family bloodline and the entire Tianyou Holy Dynasty...

To vent hatred and to take revenge.

Yan Niang shook her head. After all, she was not the Ghost King, so she did not dare to speculate recklessly. If it were anyone else, would they be able to swallow their anger and allow their enemies to occupy their mountaintops when their beloved woman was brutally murdered? The Ghost King would undoubtedly be furious, but Yan Niang could not predict how he would get back at the Long family for this bloody debt.

I just hope he can remember what happened to Xue Lan in the past and not start a bloodbath...

Yan Niang shook her head and sighed softly, "My queen, this is also the reason why I don't want you to return to the palace and get close to the Demon Suppression Temple... I don't want to see the Ghost King awaken, nor do I want to see the lives of the people destroyed... Although I also hated Taizu and the Holy Tianyou Dynasty... But since Xue Lan didn't hate him and died for him without regrets... I suddenly felt that I had no right to hate him at all... So many years have passed, and everything has been safe and sound. I don't want to see a bloody storm break this peace."

Yes, who wants to see bloodshed and sacrifice, who wants to see the imperial city stained with blood?

Whenever Ji Anni thought of the terrifying ghost king sleeping in this cave who could destroy the Tianyou Holy Dynasty, she felt a chill down her spine. Moreover, the key to the ghost king's awakening was related to her...

Ji Anni suddenly felt that a heavy fate was wrapping her tightly and binding her.

"Yanniang, why didn't you save Xuelan?"

With Yan Niang's magical powers, it should not be difficult to rescue Xue Lan from the sea of ​​fire.

Why would Yan Niang choose to watch Xue Lan burn to death instead of lending a helping hand to rescue Xue Lan?

Ji Anni's question brought Yanniang back to the past that she didn't want to recall. Yanniang closed her eyes in pain and said in a hoarse voice: "It's not that I didn't save her... I wanted to save her, but Xuelan chose death herself... If she wanted to survive, if she wanted to escape, she could put out the fire by herself without my help... But she didn't, she would rather turn into ashes in the sea of ​​fire, and didn't even have the thought of greed for life..."

Because of this, Yan Niang did not save Xue Lan, she followed Xue Lan's final choice.

"Why is she so determined to die?" Ji Anni still didn't understand Xue Lan's original thoughts.

Even if she gave birth to a little fox, she wouldn't have to die to apologize, right? Even if it was Taizu's order, she wouldn't have to obey it foolishly, right?

Yan Niang said, "She said that she only wanted to atone for her sins with death, to use her life to pay for the sins she had committed... She said that if 'life for life' was the rule of the human world, then she was willing to abide by this rule and die for it... because that would make her feel like a real human being..."

Having said this, Yan Niang's voice was already choked with sobs and she could no longer speak.

Ji Anni looked at Yan Niang quietly, worried that Yan Niang would suddenly burst into tears.

This was the first time she saw Yan Niang so sad and upset.

This was the first time she realized that Yan Niang also had such a fragile heart.

Only when she mentioned Xue Lan and those painful memories would Yan Niang reveal her truest feelings.

"Are humans really that important?" Yan Niang suddenly turned her back and buried her face where Ji Anni couldn't see. "I don't understand. I have never understood it for so many years... Why does she always regard the identities of monsters and humans as so important?"

Yan Niang's sorrowful voice murmured in the cave, asking one question after another.

"Why does she always love with such inferiority complex? ... Sometimes I wonder, when she admitted to Taizu under the tree that she was a fox demon, was Taizu afraid of her? Was it hatred? ... Or was it still love? If she hadn't lied and said that she was about to ascend to heaven and disappear, maybe Taizu would have kept her by his side and lived with her lovingly until the end of her life, just like all human couples, but..."

Yan Niang's voice stopped here. After taking a deep breath, she continued with a sob, "But... why did she choose to deceive and conceal? Why did she choose such a method that was bound to pay a heavy price?"

Yan Niang's voice became even hoarser, so hoarse that she could hardly speak anymore.

Amid Yan Niang's question marks, Ji Anni was also confused and bewildered.

They all don’t understand Xue Lan, that’s because they have never loved someone so deeply, so persistently, and so foolishly.

I don't want the other person to see my shortcomings, to see my monster side, and I always want to appear in front of my lover in the most perfect and impeccable manner. You can call it inferiority, vanity, or deception... It is precisely because the other person is really important that I am willing to change myself to keep him. If there is no such beautification and concealment, maybe love is not love.

"But Yanniang, what did Xuelan do wrong? Why does she need to pay with her life?"

Ji Anni felt that Yan Niang's story was still not finished, and Yan Niang seemed to have hidden a very crucial part.

"No, she did nothing wrong... nothing..." Yan Niang's voice was very soft and low. It was unclear whether it was because her hoarse throat could no longer speak, or because she did not have the confidence to say "no" in her heart.

"Yanniang, what did Xue Lan do? I am her descendant, I should know..." Ji Anni tried to use this method to induce Yanniang to tell the truth.

Yan Niang was like a patient who was suddenly stimulated. Her body trembled violently. She held her head and muttered frantically, "It's not her fault. It's not her fault at all... She had no choice... She had no choice..."

"Yan Niang?" Ji Anni approached Yan Niang and supported her slightly trembling shoulders.

Yan Niang still buried her face where Ji Anni could not see, and said sadly: "Her only mistake is that she is not human, but she fell in love with humans, and loved them so much that she wanted to become a human at all costs... I still remember that before the burning at the stake, she said to me: Yan Niang, I don't want to be a demon, but I was born a fox demon. Although God has deprived me of the right to choose my birth, at least he left me the right to choose my own death. Yan Niang, don't save me... Just let me die like a human at the end of my life..."

If this is Xue Lan's last wish, how can Yan Niang dissuade her?

If this is Xue Lan's final accusation and rebuttal to Tian Ming, how can Yan Niang keep her?

Life and death, in a split second, if this is Xue Lan's final choice, her final persistence...

Yan Niang couldn't, couldn't, and couldn't bear to call her stupid or foolish again.

No matter how dumb you are, this is the last time. If you are dumb without regrets and are willing to be dumb, you will become smarter.