Chu Yu sent a message asking: "Is that ancient tomb from 300 years ago?"
Fourth Senior Brother: [No, it's an ancient tomb from a thousand years ago.]
Chu Yu raised an eyebrow: "But the stone coffin says 1725."
She labeled the year on the photo, edited it again, and sent it over.
Fourth Senior Brother: [Damn! There really is a date on it. It's possible that someone later moved the stone coffin into this ancient tomb.]
Chu Yu: [Maybe.]
Fourth Senior Brother: [Right now, no one knows what's sealed inside this stone coffin, so we dare not touch it. Unable to make a decision, we contacted Daoist Yunxiao of Hongfeng Temple. He'll be here soon, and we'll follow his instructions. Never mind, let's not talk about this now. Eldest Senior Brother, has Judge Lu found the Book of Life and Death? I'm waiting to see what happens, so report back quickly.]
Not long after, the eldest brother came online: [I just spoke with Judge Lu on the phone. He looked at the Book of Life and Death. The Zhao family members have short lifespans. They are not descendants of the Demon Queen and mortals. As for the Zhao family matriarch from 300 years ago, she was just a mortal. Her birth date and past life identity are recorded in the Book of Life and Death.]
Fourth Senior Brother: [Wow! That's great! Did the Demon Queen cheat on the Demon Lord?]
Third Senior Brother: [Not bad, not bad, my heart has finally settled down.]
Just as Chu Yu breathed a sigh of relief, her senior brother sent another message: "[However, Judge Lu has noticed something amiss. After the deaths of Madam Zhao and the rest of the Zhao family, their souls haven't returned to the Underworld. They seem to have been wandering in the mortal realm for 300 years, violating the Underworld's rules. Judge Lu has decided to send soul-collecting messengers to find the Zhao family's souls and bring them back to the Underworld.]"
Fourth Senior Brother: [The soul of the Zhao family ancestor has been wandering the mortal realm for 300 years! Good heavens, he's been a lonely ghost for 300 years! Could it be that those terrible events at the Zhao family ancestral home were caused by them?]
Third Senior Brother: [Possibly.]
Chu Yu didn't answer. She looked up at the direction of the ancestral hall, her gaze full of doubt.
Since Madam Zhao and the Demon Queen are not the same person, why does the Zhao family genealogy record that Madam Zhao killed the great demon back then? Is it a lie?
Or did Lady Zhao steal the Demon Queen's credit?
The memorial tablet of Madam Zhao has the aura of the Demon Queen, and Zhao Zhifu also has a strong demonic aura. They must have some kind of connection with the Demon Queen.
This seems to be a mystery.
Based on her intuition, Zhao Zhifu should know the answer to the riddle. To find out the answer, she would have to devise a plan.
Tonight is the night of the full moon, and at this moment, she made up her mind.
...
In the dead of night, a black mist rose around the Zhao family's ancestral home, and gusts of cold wind blew, causing the branches of the trees in the courtyard to sway and rustle, creating an eerie and unsettling atmosphere in the quiet night.
Chu Yu stood in the pavilion, holding a Bagua compass in her hand. The compass needle spun rapidly, eventually pointing to the Bagua-shaped pool in the center of the courtyard.
Chu Yu looked toward the pool. At that moment, the bright moon hung high, and silvery moonlight shone down. Something seemed to be moving quickly in the pool, but upon closer inspection, it was impossible to make out what it was.
Chu Yu wasn't in a hurry. He leaned against a pillar in the pavilion and watched coldly.
Before long, the pool suddenly started gurgling, and the water surface boiled violently, as if it were boiling. Gradually, the clear pool water turned blood red, which looked particularly eerie under the moonlight.
Hahaha……
A strange laugh suddenly came from the bottom of the pool, sending chills down one's spine.
Chu Yu raised an eyebrow. Was the demon sealed at the bottom of the pool about to emerge?
She wanted to see what that thing really was.
The thought had barely crossed his mind when a dark shadow suddenly flew out of the pond and transformed into a huge black fox in the sky above the pond.
The black fox has nine tails behind it, which spread out and sway in the wind, making it both enchanting and eerie.
Chu Yu's eyes turned slightly cold; it turned out to be a nine-tailed fox demon.
This nine-tailed fox demon must be the great demon from back then. It died 300 years ago, and this one is a manifestation of the demonic energy left behind by the great demon.
The nine-tailed fox demon looked at Chu Yu with a gloomy gaze, a strange and cruel sneer curling at the corner of her lips: "Another one coming to die, go to hell!"
The moment the sound came, a black aura shot out like a sharp sword. Chu Yu leaped backward and flew out of the pavilion. The black aura struck the pillar she had been leaning against, and with a crack, the pillar broke.
Chu Yu landed on the opposite grass, her sharp gaze fixed on the nine-tailed fox demon, and scolded, "You're nothing but a demonic creature transformed from demonic energy, yet you dare to act so arrogantly here."
She raised her hand and threw out forty-nine yellow talismans. The talismans transformed into a Bagua Demon-Subduing Array in mid-air, and the array emitted beams of golden light, striking towards the nine-tailed fox.
The moment the formation struck, the nine-tailed fox demon's figure vanished instantly, the boiling water quickly returned to calm, and the blood-red pool turned black.
Chu Yu knew that the evil spirits had not disappeared. A flash of white light appeared in her hand, and the Demon-Subduing Umbrella appeared.
She stood on the grass, holding a demon-subduing umbrella. A gust of cold wind blew by, causing her long hair to fly in the wind, and she exuded a chilling aura.
Not long after, the nine-tailed fox demon, which had been hiding in the shadows, suddenly appeared, and swung its huge tail, like a giant snake, toward Chu Yu.
Chu Yu used the umbrella to block the fox tail, which was bounced away. Soon, another fox tail swung over.
Chu Yu performed a backflip to avoid the fox tail's attack, and upon landing, she quickly spun the Demon-Subduing Umbrella in her hand.
Whoosh whoosh whoosh...
The demon-subduing needles in the umbrella frame shot out one after another, hitting the fox tail that was dancing wildly in mid-air. The fox tail quickly dissipated, and the nine-tailed fox disappeared again.
The wind suddenly stopped, and an eerie silence fell over the surroundings.
Holding the Demon-Subduing Umbrella, Chu Yu cautiously looked around, but after several glances, she found no trace of the nine-tailed fox demon.
She took a few steps forward, and suddenly, a fox tail shot out from the ground behind her and stabbed her in the back.
In the critical moment, Chu Yu used his Demon-Subduing Umbrella to deflect the fox tail's attack.
Immediately afterwards, the nine-tailed fox demon appeared on the opposite side, its tails like giant snakes, and attacked Chu Yu.
A cold glint flashed in Chu Yu's eyes as she engaged the nine-tailed fox demon in battle.
Just as the two sides were fighting fiercely, suddenly, with a whoosh, a black short arrow shot from behind and instantly struck Chu Yu in the back.
Chu Yu's body trembled, and she fell from mid-air. A sharp pain shot through her wound, and then she lost all her strength.
Just as she lost the ability to resist, a large net descended from the sky, landing on her and trapping her.
Chu Yu coughed up a mouthful of black blood with a "poof," her expression changing; the short arrow was poisoned.
Her vision went black, her head drooped, and in the last moment before she lost consciousness, she saw a woman dressed in black walking towards her step by step.
The woman was none other than Zhao Zhifu.
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