The Anarchic Consort c1-1376

by Warring Young Seven

At that moment, Elder Zhan's scalp turned numb!

  Baili Jia Jue made an evil smile and walked passed him.

  Elder Zhan thought to himself. Is His Highness trying to scare him on purpose just now! Ah?! Please don't trick me like that!

  Helian Wei Wei turned sideways, curiosity was seen on her pretty face. "What did you say to Elder Wu to make him so angry?"

  "Nothing much." Baili Jia Jue took her and placed her beside him. "I was kind enough to give him some tips on he should play chess."

  Helian Wei Wei raised a brow. "Is this the time to teach him how to play chess?"

  "He asked me." Baili Jia Jue made an innocent expression.

  Elder Wu had such a refined interest? Helian Wei Wei was very suspicious, but the matter was finally solved. She would not need to use the thing in her hand anymore. She gave the sniper gun to Little Seven who was munching on a bean bun.

  The little one picked it up casually, turned around and aimed the sniper at Nangong Lie who took away his bean bun.

  Nangong Lie's evil smile froze and he jumped up immediately. "Hey! Little Seven, what are you doing! You can't just aim at anyone with that thing! F*ck! Are you for real? Ah Jue, Ah Jue, stop him quickly! Stop this food maniac!"

  No one was able to prevent the Little Seventh Prince's entertainment of chasing Nangong Lie with the long gun. The little one was especially cruel in starting fights, not even a group of eunuchs behind him would be able to stop him.

  It was a fact that the Little Seventh Prince only listened to the Third Prince since ancient times...

  Chapter 564 - Wei Wei’s Soul Was Taken Away?

  "Little Seven, watch out. Don't damage the palace." Baili Jia Jue's faint voice was heard.

  Upon hearing that, Nangong Lie shouted, "Ah Jue, are you kidding right now? He's going to destroy me, not the palace! Your future children will definitely be wild kids if you educate them like that!"

  Baili Jia Jue raised his eyes as he heard that. "Little Seven..."

  "He took the bean bun that Third Aunt made for me." The little one stopped his action. He twisted his little body, curled his little mouth, and complained about it with his cheeks bulged.

  Baili Jia Jue looked at Nangong Lie and said, "Take your time but don't beat him to death. Spare his life so that he can pay for your bean bun."

  "Okay!" The little one nodded seriously before he turned and continued to fight!

  It was a funny scene to watch. Helian Wei Wei spectated it with interest from the side.

  Seeing that the crisis in the Chaoyang Palace was all over, Baili Jia Jue took several shadow guards with him to interrogate Elder Wu himself. He was curious to know who was behind the plot.

  Right after he left, Elder Ming who was hidden in a dark corner extended his scarlet tongue and licked his thin lips...

  Whitey raised its brow. "Wei Wei, what's the matter?"

  "Nothing." Although Helian Wei Wei said so, she was twice as alert as usual when she was walking back to her royal chamber.

  As the chanting of the eminent monks stopped a long time ago, the whole palace was unusually quiet when Helian Wei Wei walked out of the Chaoyang Hall.

  Helian Wei Wei's pace became slow. Although there were not many guards in the path that she was walking, there were usually many palace maids and eunuchs. Why are there so few people here today?

  Is it because of the coup initiated by Elder Wu?

  That can't be it!

  Something feels off.

  When Helian Wei Wei wanted to stop walking, a row of palace maids appeared in front of her all of a sudden. They walked in a strange way without showing their usual respect toward her. They seemed to be a little sluggish and they were walking very slowly. They looked like a row of puppets led by someone, giving out an eerie feeling.

  Helian Wei Wei squinted her eyes and reached for the dagger on her waist with her fingers consciously.

  They hung their heads one by one, with their hair scattered. They did not bow although they saw Helian Wei Wei, they were acting as if she was not in front of them.

  Helian Wei Wei could not pretend like they did not exist because it was too creepy.

  Clunk!

  A noise came to her ear.

  Helian Wei Wei looked toward the direction of the noise and saw that the palace maids' feet were bound with iron chains that were not visible from afar. The chains were black in color, making her uneasy when she saw them.

  It turned out that the reason why they were lining up in a row was because of the iron chain between them.

  When did the palace have such a punishment?

  Also, why are there not any eunuchs around to lead them in getting their punishment?

  The frown on Helian Wei Wei's face got tighter the more Helian Wei Wei thought about it. She wanted to move closer to have a clearer view but dizziness hit her all of a sudden, followed by vertigo...

  A fair-skinned hand reached out and caught her limping body. The person's white sleeve smelled of medicine. He smiled gently and looked at Helian Wei Wei's face with tenderness, "You are indeed vigilant, I have to do it myself."

  "Master, I..." Elder Ming lost his stance in front of others. He went down with both his hands on the ground and looked at the man in front of him with his scarlet eyes.

  The man was wearing a white robe and his face looked porcelain white from sideways, he looked like an exotic species in the world. However, his voice had hints of coughing when he spoke as he had been afflicted with pain and sickness since he was a child, "I don't blame you. She has been quite capable all this time. If it is not for the coup, it would be difficult to approach her even for me. Now, we only need to wait until midnight."

  "Yes, master." Elder Ming looked down with respect...

  Deep asleep, Helian Wei Wei's consciousness was still staying in the previous scene. She took her steps in a trance…

  "Stop moving forward!" Yuan Ming's voice which came from Fantasy Space was filled with panic.

  Helian Wei Wei's sight shook as if she sobered up, "Yuan Xiaoming, why are you so agitated?"

  "I'm agitated?" Yuan Ming's eyes were heavy, "Look at what's in front of you!"

  Helian Wei Wei looked forward as she heard that. Even though she always maintained her cool, she was still shocked by the sight in front of her!

  It was a dark river.

  It was pitch black around her. She could not see anything except for a faint light.

  Ahead of her was an endless jimsonweed field which was crimson and mesmerizing when it was swept by the breeze, whooshing noises could be faintly heard.

  There was seductive beauty in it.

  This red plant could not be seen everywhere.

  The jimsonweed had spread to the whole riverside.

  Helian Wei Wei raised her brow, turned around and saw a tombstone. There was one word engraved on it. The word was scrawly but vicious, 'Underworld'.

  The Underworld?

  "What's going on?" Even though she did not receive much education, she knew about the Underworld. Isn't this hell where ghosts gather like in the legends? Why am I here?

  Yuan Ming's eyes sank. "Someone set up a barrier in the imperial palace and brought you here using resentments in the palace. The palace maids you saw just now are those who died in the imperial palace and they were used to guide you the way. It turns out that the other party wasn't planning to use the eminent monks to take your soul. They wanted to achieve the means of changing souls through the Underworld instead. The Soul Drawing Incantation is just the beginning. This is really a high-skilled trick. He took the advantage and acted when everyone was placing their attention on the coup..."

  "Stop talking so much. How can we get out of here?" Helian Wei Wei pulled the iron chain beside her and regained her usual alertness. "You should be able to go out if you can enter here. With your abilities as a messenger of the demon, this shouldn't be a problem for you."

  Yuan Ming's tone faded, "Indeed, it should not be a problem for me. But we should make sure
that there is no other movement from that person. According to my guess, I think he used the Soul Attracting Seven Stars Formation. This would require him to wait until midnight to completely change your soul. We still have time. However, based on the current situation, the chances of success are still very slight."

  "Why?" Helian Wei Wei was focused.

  There was bloodthirst on Yuan Ming's face. "Not everyone knew how to use the Soul Attracting Seven Stars. According to what I know, this formation was lost a hundred years ago. Now that it reappears in this world, that person must be one of the best in exorcism. Such a person will not allow himself to be found out if he has set up the formation. If no one put out his Soul Changing Lamp, you will still not be able to return to your flesh body even if we are able to get out of here safely…"

  Chapter 565 - Afraid Of Making His Highness Upset

  Helian Wei Wei's fingers stiffened upon hearing that.

  She had a premonition that she would leave her body shell one day.

  Helian Wei Wei already felt uneasy when she was asked to return her body repeatedly in the dream.

  However, she never thought that the day would come so soon.

  She just promised Baili Jia Jue to accompany him for a drink not long ago.

  She did not expect to be in hell in such a short time...

  Helian Wei Wei looked around, her voice was firm and cool, "Anyway, let's get out of here first."

  She never liked to stand somebody up. Also, she would never want to see that person getting disappointed because he had a very strong personality.

  Living in darkness, he never portrayed many expressions and he was always scheming. He always put on an elegant yet evil smile even when he was angry, which made people think that he was indestructible.

  But Helian Wei Wei knew that he would get upset too.

  He would smile forcefully whenever he was unhappy as he did today when he was suspected of murder by his own father in the Great Hall...

  Therefore, she must get out of here no matter what!

  "Wei Wei, remember that you must not drink the soup if someone asks you to. Just turn around if you went in the wrong direction, and stay low." Yuan Ming lowered his voice and said, "The most important thing is not to let anyone find out that you are a living spirit."

  Helian Wei Wei nodded and walked sideways through a door. What she then saw were the ox-headed and horse-faced demons leading a group of people while walking toward the arch bridge.

  The bridge was made of stones. It looked very ordinary, yet there was unusual darkness compared to what was expected in the human world.

  Everyone walking on the bridge was wearing long robes. They had no chains on their limbs, and they had no expression on their faces. They looked like wandering ghosts without any emotions.

  There was an old woman with arched back holding a bowl in her hands near the entrance of the bridge. Her face was not visible and she was handing out bowls of soup.

  "It's Grandma Meng." Yuan Ming lowered its gaze. "Don't go there. They will ask you to drink the soup and cross the bridge if they see you. You can never go back once you cross the bridge and enter the reincarnation path. You must avoid their sight from now on and go to your right. There should be a trial hall and there will be an exit to the human world at the first level."

  Helian Wei Wei followed Yuan Ming's advice and tried to hide in the darkness, which was an easy task for her because the dead souls in hell were all staring forward and they did not move their sight at all. This gave Helian Wei Wei a good chance to hide from them.

  The real challenge was the ox-headed and horse-faced demons as their eyes have never been idle from the beginning. Both their eyes were flickering with demonic redness. They did not forget to chatter away while they scanned around. Helian Wei Wei did not understand what they were talking about.

  "They are speaking in ghost language." Yuan Ming listened carefully. "The man who wants to take your soul used the formation to blur out the boundary between the Underworld and the human world. He caused their workload to increase a lot."

  "It's not that simple, they seem to be really irritated," Helian Wei Wei said as she took a glance.

  "Well, aside from blurring the boundaries, it seems like that man intended to open the main gates of hell and release all the evil spirits from the eighteen layers of hell." Yuan Ming chuckled evilly, "It's a bold and interesting idea. What's more, he will need your help in it."

  Helian Wei Wei said while raising her eyebrow, "My help?"

  "The Exorcism Seal which was placed in the Divine Mainland previously can only be removed by the blood of an exorcist's successor, which is your blood." Yuan Ming's expression was still evil when it was talking, "Don't underestimate your blood. You can even open the gates of hell if you use it well."

  Helian Wei Wei narrowed her eyes, "My will tells me that I don't want to walk around here and meet ghosts."

  "Clearly, your own will doesn't matter." Yuan Ming drifted two steps forward, almost knocking into the ox-headed demon who was escorting a soul.

  The ox-headed demon was not easy to bluff. It turned around and looked at the dark side of the cave.

  Helian Wei Wei and Yuan Ming held their breaths while hiding in the dark.

  The ox-headed demon's strange big eyes twirled as it approached them slowly...

  "What's the matter?" The horse-faced demon standing next to it reached out and stopped it.

  The ox-headed demon did not speak, it drew out its knife and stabbed toward Helian Wei Wei's direction, without any result. It then replied, "Nothing, I thought someone came in."

  "Who would have the guts to enter the Underworld?" The horse-faced demon laughed disapprovingly.

  The ox-headed demon licked its lips. "If someone enters, he will be our dinner."

  "Stop dreaming, just continue with your work. The king of hell's son is full of anger today. Neither of us will have a good meal if you don't send these ghosts back to their original positions." The horse-faced demon dragged the chains and left after dropping this sentence.

  The ox-headed demon was still hesitating, hence it turned around in a circle in the dark before it left.

  According to Yuan Ming, the ox-headed and horse-faced demons had no effect on humans, but souls would follow them automatically and involuntarily once they locked eyes.

  This was also the reason why the ox-headed and horse-faced demons were responsible for drawing souls in the human world when humans were about to die.

  She finally passed this stage without any danger.

  Walking to the far right, the bridge was not visible anymore and her sight was getting clearer. There were fire torches everywhere on the stone walls, casting shadows that floated on the ground.

  "That's the first trial hall, but it's difficult to get past it." Yuan Ming's voice was blanketed, perhaps because they were in hell.

  Helian Wei Wei leaned against a wall stealthily and poked out her head. She stared at a huge creature not far away from her.

  The huge creature looked like a large-sized dog with a very fierce look from afar, it looked like a Tibetan Mastiff breed.

  Helian Wei Wei always liked dogs, but she just could not make herself like this one.

  It had two heads. Each of them looked odd while exposing its fangs.

  "Is this the legendary hellhound?" Helian Wei Wei narrowed her eyes.

  Yuan Ming looked back and asked with astonishment, "How do you know that?"

  "It's written in the books, it is said to be the watchmen of hell. It appears at night with the purpose of nibbling on bodies that were freshly buried into the earth. The living will die inexplicably the next day if they see it with their own eyes." Helian Wei Wei quirked up the corners of her mouth, "I did not expect that this creature actually exists..."

  Chapter 566 - Was She Discovered?

  Yuan Ming looked into the distance as it said, "Behind it is a passageway that leads to the human world. But, you must first bridle it. You have to act as incon
spicuous as possible to prevent alarming the owner."

  "Esthetic wise, its master has a rather dubious preference." Helian Wei Wei owned a pet in modern times as well. She reared a purebred Tibetan mastiff which was far more handsome than this creature before her, at least her dog did not drool in its sleep.

  But, this nevertheless made the toughest challenge for Helian Wei Wei. Having to confront a two-headed dog, she was given almost no chance to sidle up to it. For instance, if one head of the dog was sleeping, another head would definitely stay alert.

  Yuan Ming undoubtedly understood the difficulties she was facing, it scoffed, "Woman, what's your plan this time? You can't sneak past the creature this time."

  "If I can't creep past it, I will confront it directly." Then, Helian Wei Wei smiled as she asked Yuan Ming, "Have you ever heard of split personalities?"

  Puzzled, Yuan Ming watched Helian Wei Wei as she strode away from the stone wall, unveiled herself and stood recklessly in front of the two-headed dog.

  Everything happened nearly within a blink of an eye!

  The alert dog head turned to Helian Wei Wei immediately and stared at her with its crimson eyes. It growled, "It smells so good. It has been a long time since I last caught a whiff of something so delicious!"

  It approached Helian Wei Wei as it spoke.

  The other dog head which was initially sleeping peacefully opened its eyes too. "Hey, what are you doing? Can't you tell that I am sleeping?"

  "There is a human here and she smells very delicious."

  "A human?" It raised its initially rested head and ogled Helian Wei Wei with its sparkling eyes, appearing as if it had not eaten any meat for a very long time.

  "Doesn't she smell good? Let's share the meal!" One of the dog heads was excited to savor Helian Wei Wei!

  Surprisingly, Helian Wei Wei chuckled, "Are you sure that each of you wants to take half of my body? Then, the one who takes my upper body is lucky because my upper body is fatter."

  "I will take the upper body!"

  The two dog heads exclaimed almost in synchrony.