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The Strongest Fox-Demon (67)
“AHHHH—— AHHHH——” The guard immediately collapsed to the ground with a miserable scream, covering his face and rolling around incessantly, with pus oozing from his skin.
The two Daoist masters who ruined everything were the two apprentices that the Third Prince had brought to the teahouse. They yelled in alarm when they saw this, but it was too late to save the man. The plague ghost quickly jumped into the body of another guard.
Chu Xiang frowned and scolded them, “Stay away! Don’t mess things up!”
With a wave of her hand, the remaining dozen guards were pushed several meters away by a gust of wind, away from the person possessed by the plague ghost. Chu Xiang flew forward and with her hands clenched, trapped the plague ghost into the formation again. The two Daoist masters immediately stared in shock, saying, “This is not a righteous technique, Chu! What crooked ways have you learned?”
Chu Xiang reached out a little and forcibly pulled out the plague ghost out of the guard’s body. For a moment, the plague ghost’s ear-piercing screams resounded throughout the town. She ignored those people. Seeing that her previous magic talisman had been extinguished, she took out another one and lit it.
Plague Ghost went on a rampage but couldn’t get out of the formation. He tried crying, begging for mercy, and threatening violently. Seeing that Chu Xiang was unmoved, the others also hid far away. With cruelty consuming his heart, he self-destructed before Chu Xiang could hurl another magic talisman. He only laughed wildly and left a sentence behind him, “Do you want me to go to the eighteenth floor of hell? Then I will let all of you be buried with me, hahahahaha
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Plague Ghost blew up boundless mist, and anyone who inhaled the mist would be infected with the same disease as him!
Chu Xiang immediately cleared the mist, but nearly half of the villagers in town still inhaled some and collapsed to the ground, including all the guards sent by Prince Qi.
Chu Xiang looked at the two Daoist masters in displeasure. “You ruined my business.”
The two Daoist masters were taken aback by her powerful aura. They took several steps backward unconsciously, and one of them said, “W-W-We were ordered to arrest you. How could we have known that you are here to catch a plague ghost? We didn’t mean it.”
But the other person expressed doubt, “You are not using the righteous way. After the Third Prince went to your teahouse, he was tampered with by a demon. Now the plague ghost blew himself up in your hands and harmed so many people. I think you did it all on purpose! Who the hell are you?”
Chu Xiang approached them with her hands behind her back. “An order to arrest me? Whose order?”
“Prince Qi.” The Daoist master looked at the guards who were in pain all over the ground, and said calmly, “Follow us back immediately. We will report this matter to Prince Qi and send someone to deal with it.”
“Prince Qi?” Chu Xiang figured that the “Third Young Master” and Prince Qi were brothers almost instantly. She said with a chuckle, “How are you going to deal with it? Like the disastrous flood in the south? Suppress it, don’t report it, and deal with it privately? This is a plague in the outskirts of the capital. If something goes wrong, I’m afraid your Prince Qi can’t afford it.”
“Cut the crap, come with us!” The two Daoist masters snapped and moved to catch Chu Xiang.
Chu Xiang beat them together, bundled them up, and threw them into the ancestral hall of the village. After that, she asked the village chief to come out and carry all the sick people to the broken house at the end of the village and let all the unaffected people go to the village chief’s house. She stuck a talisman on each person to prevent them from getting sick, moved a few huge stones to seal off the entrance and exit roads and began to treat everyone’s illnesses.
She sent a paper crane to Bai You, telling him to be careful of Prince Qi. She also asked him to take Bai Yi out of the capital as soon as possible. Anyway, Bai Yi planned to leave after talking to Zhuang Yulang, but now they could just go directly to the south for disaster relief.
Bai You knew that it was best to stay away from the royal affairs, so he immediately explained the stakes to Bai Yi, and also sent a message to Li Yufeng. Li Yufeng didn’t expect that he just went to participate in the imperial exam, yet so many things happened outside. He understood Prince Qi’s behavior better than others and told Bai You to leave immediately with Bai Yi and the funds. He also told him that it wasn’t necessary for them to keep a low profile in the south. They didn’t have to hesitate to relieve the people in the stricken areas and directly deal with the corrupt officials when necessary. If anything happened, he would deal with them.
Bai You knew that Li Yufeng and Chu Xiang had their own powers. Although he didn’t know the specific situation, he was determined to leave with Bai Yi before dawn after getting their orders. He sealed the door of the pharmacy and directly closed it.
The next day, Prince Qi not only did not see Chu Xiang and Bai Yi, but also heard that a plague broke out in that town. Bai Yi also disappeared. He was so mad that he hurled a precious vase on the table. This was the second time since he was crowned prince that things didn’t proceed smoothly. The first time, he used all his power and almost killed his elder brother. This time, he thought it was a small matter, but he lost not twice but three times. At such a critical moment, ominous premonitions filled his heart.
Before he could dispatch some of his competent underlings, someone from the palace was already at the door to pass a decree, “Your Highness, His Majesty summons you urgently, s-saying that Prince Xiao Yao has returned. All the important ministers have been summoned.”
“What?!” Prince Qi stood up abruptly, his face gloomy. He could no longer care about Chu Xiang. He immediately asked someone to prepare the carriage and entered the palace.
He hurried to the palace and saw a tall man standing in front of the old emperor, and the two were having a pleasant conversation. He walked a few steps closer and saw the man’s face clearly. His handsome face was completely different from his big bearded and scruffy elder brother. He couldn’t believe it: “You are
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Li Yufeng turned to face him and smiled at him. “What’s the matter? Does Second Brother not recognize me? Imperial Father said
 I resemble him when he was young.”
Prince Qi noticed the emperor’s eyes shifting to him. He said with a smile, “I’m just not used to your appearance. However, elder brother does look like Imperial Father. Why didn’t you send a letter when you returned to the capital? I could have gone to welcome you.”
Li Yufeng waved his hands and said with a gentle smile, “Forget it. I just came here to take the exam to be the champion scholar for fun. I heard that Imperial Father is ill, so I came to visit the palace. By the way
 what’s going on with the flood in the south and the plague in the suburbs of the capital? How come when Imperial Father is sick, no one cares about such serious matters?”