Ji Fengyao and Ji Fengming hadn't gone far when they heard Di Lirong and the sound of her furiously yelling and whipping her horse. The siblings exchanged a knowing smile.

The two were not in a hurry and walked slowly, pretending not to know that there were five or six spies of the Empress and Dili Junyi around them.

"I must say, my brother-in-law's warhorse is a real treasure," Ji Fengming said casually as they walked.

“Of course, Ghost Face is just like your and Brother Xiao Chen’s Azure Phoenix and Golden Phoenix, they are all spirit pets. Moreover, even my immortal master can’t recognize their rank, which shows that they are all very high-level spirit pets,” Ji Fengyao replied with a smile.

Finally, I remembered something.

Ji Fengyao took out a piece of cyan jade fragment from her storage space. It was obtained from the Chen family's secret vault. She and Shang Xiye each collected a piece of the mysterious fragment.

She handed the fragment to Ji Fengming and said, "Brother, hold this."

"What is this?" Ji Fengming took it and held it in his hand curiously. The fragments did not change at all.

"I don't know what this is either. It must be a very mysterious thing." Ji Fengyao took the fragment back and put it back into her storage space.

He pondered in his heart:

None of the trusted bodyguards and maids in the Prince's mansion were any good;

If even my brother can't do it,

It seems that this creature does not choose its master based on its strength.

So what exactly are its criteria for choosing a master?

Now only Black Owl hasn't tried it yet; it's unknown whether the fragment will choose him.

He was engrossed in thinking.

Hu Ji suddenly transmitted a reminder: "Your Highness, they have begun to close the net."

Ji Fengyao gathered her focus and slightly expanded her divine sense. Sure enough, she sensed the auras of nearly a hundred martial artists lying in ambush around them, slowly approaching.

"We're about to enter a mountain pass. It looks like they're planning to trap us like turtles in a jar." Ji Fengming looked up at the steep mountains on both sides and casually transmitted his voice to Ji Fengyao: "Sister, be careful not to get hurt by stray arrows, or Father and Brother-in-law will definitely break my legs."

Ji Fengyao chuckled at his words: "It sounds a bit tragic."

"I've been beaten so many times since I was a child because of you, and I'm used to it because of all the beatings from Dad and Mom." Ji Fengming said nonchalantly, but he spurred his horse closer to Ji Fengyao and smiled warmly, saying, "But you still have to be careful and not get hurt. It hurts my heart."

Ji Fengyao felt a warmth in her heart, reached out and tugged at Ji Fengming's sleeve, saying, "Don't worry, brother, I've never been one to be trifled with."

Ji Fengming held Ji Fengyao's small hand and squeezed it, his smile full of affection.

At this moment, a small, fiery red beast darted out of the woods in front of Ji Fengming and Ji Fengyao. It was the extremely rare Fire Civet, whose skin was worth its weight in gold; if one could hunt a Fire Civet, it would be worth ten vicious wolves.

Upon seeing the fire beetle, Ji Fengming laughed: "Hehe, these Di people's sandbags aren't stupid, they even know how to use bait. However, one fire beetle isn't enough."

As he spoke, Ji Fengming didn't even take out his bow. He casually took an arrow from the quiver behind him and threw it out, thus capturing the fire fox.

One of the guards quickly stepped forward and picked up the fire beaver.

Ji Fengming laughed loudly, "Little sister, the fur of the fire fox is extremely precious. If we hunt a lot today, I'll make you a fox fur cloak later."

A bright red raccoon fur cloak?

This kind of straight-male aesthetic is too stimulating to imagine.

Ji Fengyao quickly shook her head, waving her small hands repeatedly: "No, no, you should keep it for your future sister-in-law!"

"Your Highness, Prince Anping, there are several more rare beasts ahead," Hu Ji reported as he jumped down from a nearby tall tree.

Ji Fengming and Ji Fengyao exchanged a knowing look, and Ji Fengming said loudly with a bandit-like air, "Then let's keep going. If we hunt them, they will all be rare animals. Just twenty of them will be worth a whole cartload of wild wolves and rabbits for them."

Seeing that Ji Fengming and Ji Fengyao were "completely unaware" of his arrangement, and even enthusiastically chasing after the "bait" they had laid out, rushing straight into their encirclement, Di Lijunyi, who was hiding in the shadows, was overjoyed.

Bandits are just bandits, crude and brainless!

This day next year will be the anniversary of the deaths of these two bandits!

Not long after, a signal came from the other side of the ravine that the prey had been caught in the trap.

Di Lijun laughed loudly, leading his men to block Ji Fengyao and Ji Fengming's retreat. He said smugly, "What war god, what empress? They're all being played by this prince. That idiot crown prince is still waiting on the other side of the mountain to run into this bandit. Ha, they're all a bunch of fools."

They hadn't even reached the mouth of the mountain pass yet.

Dili Junyi's arrogant words had not yet faded away.

Suddenly, a familiar teasing voice came from ahead: "Who are you talking about, you idiot?"

“Idiot, you…” Dili Junyi was about to retort instinctively, but upon closer inspection, he was immediately shocked: “You bandits! Didn’t you already go in?”

Ji Fengming adjusted his posture on horseback and said earnestly, "Going out to kill people, you only recognize their clothes and not their faces. You can't even tell if they're men or women. Not only is your professional competence poor, but your eyesight is also terrible. What's your name again, Di something? You'd better be more careful! Killing people can be a life-threatening business if you don't handle it well."

"Hmph, it doesn't matter whether you go in or not, you're all going to die anyway," Di Lijunyi said with a gloomy expression, his hawk-like eyes fixed on Ji Fengyao with a sinister and ruthless look.

Ji Fengyao then noticed Di Lijunyi's appearance, feeling that he looked somewhat familiar, and let out a soft "Eh" in confusion.

"What's wrong?" Ji Fengming asked in a low voice, turning his head with concern.

Ji Fengyao asked curiously, "Are he and Di Lironghe siblings? Why are Di Lironghe's eyes green, but his aren't?"

"Among the Di people, only women have green eyes from birth. Men's eyes only gradually change from black to dark green or green when they reach middle age or old age. Some people don't even change color until they die," Ji Fengming explained in detail.

Di Lijunyi sneered, "I never expected that a mere bandit like you would know so much about the affairs of my Di Kingdom. Considering your meticulous understanding of the state of my Di Kingdom, I will spare your life today."

Ji Fengming smiled knowingly, then whispered to Di Lijunyi, half-covering his mouth, "These are all interesting stories I heard in brothels, but I'm too embarrassed to tell my sister about them in such a vulgar way. So, you'd better tear me to pieces, otherwise I'll feel bad about chopping you into eight pieces later."

"You're courting death!" Dili Junyi roared, his already dark face turning ten times darker. He reached out and tore off the strange black skull necklace around his neck, and a powerful aura suddenly erupted from his body.

A cultivator! A seventh-level Spirit Gathering cultivator!

At this moment, the servants of the Di Kingdom following behind Di Lijunyi also took off the necklaces around their necks, emitting cultivation fluctuations ranging from the second to the fifth level of the Spirit Gathering Realm.

Ji Fengming, Ji Fengyao, Hu Ji, and the others were all taken aback:

Unexpectedly, Dili Junyi and his servants were all cultivators!