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The chief steward didn’t dare to have the heart for even a slightest bit of resistance.
Under the instinct of predatory animals and seeking advantages and avoiding disadvantages, the black dog was extremely tame, drooping his ears at the mercy of others. Even after the rope restricting his mouth was untied, he still didn’t make a single sound. Without directions from his captors, he would remain as still as a statue.
Next, the Fan family’s sister and brother fully experienced what it meant for a fox pretending to have a tiger's power in front of Chief Yan, who was tidied up to be obedient and tried to pull out information that everyone wanted.
To the surprise of several people, this house was originally a villa that belonged to mortals.
About a hundred years ago, Steward Yan had not become a “Steward” yet, but was just a dog demon who followed Wutongshen.
One day, Wutongshen got the news from somewhere that there seemed to be an important treasure hidden in a certain place, so he hurriedly gathered Chief Steward Yan, as well as his cadre of minions and rushed over immediately.
When they got to the place to look around, the monsters had found a large house hidden in the forest. As expected, the purple clouds were lingering in the sky and its mystic aura was soaring to the sky. At a glance, they knew that there must be valuable treasures that would prove extremely helpful for cultivation.
So Wutongshen led his subordinates to rush into the mansion, killing all the humans in it and occupying the mansion forcibly.
However, just when the demons were jumping for joy, thinking they had won, they soon discovered a fatal problem—they managed to get in, but could not get out.
As the gray-haired rat previously had described, all of the mansion’s entrances and exits were completely closed by an invisible force, and any violent means of breaking the door, regardless of whether it is jumping out of the window or climbing the wall, will find themselves inexplicably back in the mansion at the moment of landing…
Speaking of this, Steward Chief Yan gave a long sigh.
Even the self-proclaimed ‘God’ Wutongshen tried his best to break through the barrier of this mansion, but also can not break the house boundary, not to mention the Chief Steward Yan and other ordinary demons.
As a last resort, these monsters could only settle down and replace the former mortals as the residents of the mansion.
Gradually, they discovered the rules of the mansion.
It was like a trap with tempting bait, attracting demons and monsters alike, as well as the mountain spirits and ghosts that traveled by this mansion, like a moth to a flame and bewitched them to throw themselves into the net. There was no way out, and the only option was to obediently stay and become a member of the mansion.
The sole way to get out of there was to exchange one’s place with a human who also came in by mistake.
Every time a human was caught, one demon could open the door and leave the mansion—as to why such a specific rule existed, Chief Steward Yan admitted with all sincerity that even he himself had no idea.
Because there was a way out, a way to escape, this reckless group of demons that wrongly barged in now had hope. In addition, due to the presence of the super strong fierce Wutongshen God, no one dared to act rashly, so for more than a hundred years, the mansion really had never changed hands, and remained in the hands of a group of demons, maintaining the daily operation. This cycle had continued until now…
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“Then why don’t you leave?”
Hearing Chief Steward Yan say all this, Fan Hemian stroked her chin and couldn’t help but ask the question.
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He shrugged his shoulders in a particularly patronizing manner.
“Like you said, with my identity, if I wanted to leave, when would I not be able to? If I wanted to leave at any time, all I need to do is wait for the next human to barge in here to switch with me. Why the rush?”
“Hm, that makes sense.”
Fan Luming nodded, approving his answer.
Chief Steward Yan was a confidant of the Wutongshen, and his position here was equivalent to that of the Chief Steward of the Imperial Palace, under one demon and above a thousand demons, he could be as powerful as he wants, plus there is abundant spiritual energy to supply him with for cultivation, so there is really no reason to rush out.
“You just said that you came here back then to find the treasure?”
Ji Dong thought about it and asked a crucial question.
“So, did you guys find that treasure?”
“No.”
The black dog hung his head and shook it vigorously.
“We turned this house up and down, inside and out, and we didn’t find anything that could be called a ‘treasure’.”
Ji Dong pursued.
“But you just said that you broke in because you saw some kind of thing above the mansion, so how come you couldn’t find any treasure?”
Chief Steward Yan cautiously looked up and took a look at the youth in front of him who had shot him in the tail with a single arrow, and was too apprehensive to lie.
“It is reasonable to say that there must be treasure here because purple clouds hung in the air, and the spiritual aura was strong and dense.”
He answered honestly, “But after I really came in, I found that except for the invisible barrier that trapped us here, this is a very ordinary human house, and there is no treasure at all…”
Hearing Chief Steward Yan answer this, Fan Heming could not help but come up with a conspiracy theory.
“Could it be that your Emperor Wutongshen found the treasure but hid it himself and did not tell you, followers, only?”
“No.”
Chief Steward Yan replied simply.
“The Emperor usually does not care about the general affairs, the whole mansion is entrusted to me to take care of, and he trusts me very much, so he will not hide anything.”
He thought for a moment and added.
“Moreover, the Emperor is fond of beauty, especially fond of seeking pleasures, most unwilling to stay here.”
Referring to the word “beauty”, the black dog’s head couldn’t help turning to Ren Jianmo standing by the window.
“If he had found the secret treasure, he would have tried every means to leave here.”
Ji Dong: “……”
According to Chief Yan’s statement, it seemed that this group of demons know nothing more than they, the participants, do not seem to.
Ji Xiao’niao frowned and began to doubt the direction of their investigation.
——Could it be that there are still some crucial clues that they have missed?
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While Ji Dong and the others were hiding in the small dark room and interrogating Chief Steward Yan, Mo Tiangen was busy running for his life.
Logically, the fact that he got rid of his identity as the [Ghost] and also got rid of Zhao Zhui and his two team members should be able to make him feel at ease for the time being.
However, this was not the case.
Mo Tiangen soon discovered that the group of demons was like flies that could smell fresh meat, no matter where he hid, they would soon find his trail.
At this time, Mr. Dagen had just lifted the effect of the[Kunlun Slave Bloodline] and returned to a normal human body shape. He was just like a rabbit that was chased and scurrying around, digging into the dark and quiet secret place.
While running, he touched his arms and immediately discovered the problem.
The wooden token engraved with the phrase {Gold C} that he had hidden in the lapel was missing.
Even though the style of robes in the ancient world were far looser than that of modern attire, when Mo Tiangen activated his powers, his suddenly swollen figure still inevitably stretched the clothes on his body. The small wooden token probably slipped out of the gap in the clothes.
He had already learned very important information from Ji Dong, the wooden token can help disguise the participants as demons so that the mansion of the demons think they are the same, if accidentally lost, then the problem can be serious!
Only now, Mo Tiangen had no way to go back to the fish pond to find his lost, small wooden token, and could only try to run to a secluded place in an attempt to find a place where he could temporarily hide.
“That way! It’s going that way!”
Beyond the wall, it was quite lively. More than a dozen monsters dressed as guards held torches and swords, shouting and chasing along the scent he left behind.
Mo Tiangen was so panicked that he looked around, not knowing where he had run to now, and which direction he should flee in next.
As he was wandering around helplessly, he suddenly raised his head and was so scared that his legs softened and his bottom hit the ground.
He saw that on the eaves above his head, two girls aged about thirteen or fourteen were sitting when he hadn’t been paying attention.
The two girls were wearing light green luo skirts, both dressed as maids, with plain looks and downcast faces.
But that was not the reason why Teacher Dagen was so close to peeing his pants.
He noticed that the bodies of the two girls were translucent.
They were like a cloud of human-shaped mist, sometimes visible, sometimes dispersed, completely without a physical form.
——It was like some scene straight out of a horror story… he’s literally looking ghosts in the face now!
Mr. Dagen felt every single hair on his body stand on end. He was so frightened that he momentarily forgot that he was supposed to be running for his life.
And the two girls sitting on the roof, this time also saw Mo Tiangen.
Two ghosts and a person with six eyes facing each other, no one moved for a while, and no one spoke.
Then the next second, Mo Tiangen saw the two girls raise their hands in unison, together pointing in a certain direction.
Mo Tiangen first froze, then reflexively turned his head, following the direction they were pointing to look over, immediately noticed that about ten meters away is the courtyard wall separating another courtyard, and a small Bell and Drum Tower was hidden in the verdant shade outside the wall.
——Fuck!
In an instant, Teacher Dagen was blessed.
He actually understood what they meant.
So Mo Tiangen, without further delay, hurriedly thanked the two young girls sitting on the eaves, took a few steps to run, neatly climbed over the wall, and jumped into the opposite yard.
Mo Tiangen came to the Bell and Drum Tower and found that this small building shouldn’t have been used for a long time, the door handle was full of dust, and the door beam also had a thick layer of cobwebs.
He reached out and tried to push the door.
At that moment, there was a sudden ‘tinkling, tinkling’ sound above his head, Mo Tiangen stopped moving, looked up, and saw a wind chime hanging under the porch. Standing there was a frail, old woman who, like the two girls she had met earlier, was translucent like mist. Her figure was erratic, and it felt as if a slight gust of wind could blow her away.
The old woman had a compassionate appearance, her eyes were glistening with sadness. Judging by the way she was dressed, she seemed to be a noblewoman of some status.
Mo Tiangen then saw the old woman shake her head at him, then raised her hand and pointed towards the second-floor window.
——Wow, I understood it once again!
Mo Tiangen was a little impressed with himself.
Without saying a word, he found a sturdy tree and like an ape, dawdled around a few times to climb up steadily along the branches. Finally, he tumbled into the second floor of the Bell and Drum Tower.
Thanks for the update 💕
Oh! interesting, maybe they can ask for help from the ghosts?
Thank you for the chapter 💕