However, as Du Guangtong was pinching the fox demon's neck tightly, he gradually felt something was wrong. Although he was using all his magic power to lock the thin white neck, he had a strange feeling of weakness.
"Uh-huh... Water, Lord Water God... please be gentler, I, I'm going to be strangled to death by you... Mr. Ji..."
Under Du Guangtong's tremendous strength, the fox demon seemed to be in great pain. His face above the neck turned red. He grabbed Du Guangtong's arms with both hands and tried to pry them apart. His feet twitched from time to time.
"Mr. Ji, please ask the Water God to loosen his grip. Mr. Ji, Wang begs you, Miss Hongxiu is almost being strangled to death!"
Wang Li was standing by anxiously, and kept bowing and begging Ji Yuan, but he found that Mr. Ji, who was usually easy to talk to, was now as indifferent as a heart of stone.
Ji Yuan frowned and stared at Tu Siyan who was struggling like an ordinary person. A sense of incongruity lingered in his mind. He looked at Du Guangtong and found that his face was also full of solemnity. Not only did the huge force in his hand not loosen, but his demonic aura and magic power became stronger. One of his arms was already glowing black.
"Mr. Ji...save me, save me..."
"Click..."
A crisp sound came from Du Guangtong's right hand, and the fox demon's cry for help stopped abruptly. He frowned and threw the corpse in his hand to the ground.
"Ah... Murder! Murder!"
Wang Li collapsed backward in panic.
"Mr. Ji, this..."
Du Guangtong looked at Ji Yuan with some confusion, and Zhang Rui also stood up and looked at the corpse on the ground.
"Uncover her mask."
"yes!"
Du Guangtong half-knelt down, stretched out two fingers to pick up the back end of the woman's cheek on the ground, dug in half an inch with his sharp nails, and then used his magic power to lift it outward.
"Puff..."
There seemed to be a sound of gas leakage, and instantly the room was filled with a foul smell.
Du Guangtong stared at the painted skin in his hand, then looked at the corpse on the ground.
On the painted skin was the face of a beautiful woman, it was Hong Xiu from before, and on the ground was a rotting female corpse. No one knew how long she had been dead, and the stench was already overwhelming.
"Ugh... Ugh..."
Wang Li, who was just frightened by the "murder", couldn't help vomiting after seeing the situation clearly. He vomited out all the food he had eaten in the evening that he had not yet digested. After vomiting, he ran to the window to get some fresh air and dared not stay at the table.
Ji Yuan rubbed his temple and slowly stood up.
His pair of Dharma eyes opened as wide as possible, and at the same time, he channeled a large amount of magic power into his eyes, visualizing the artistic conception but not manifesting it. Instead, he spread it out with intention, sweeping across the corpse and the painted skin in Du Guangtong's hand, and then swept towards other locations.
When the artistic conception of mountains and rivers was visualized by Ji Yuan, Du Guangtong felt in a trance that although Mr. Ji was still standing in front of the table, his body seemed to stretch infinitely between heaven and earth, as if he had turned into a giant holding up the sky, standing between the mountains and rivers, with a pair of Dharma eyes like the sun, moon and stars illuminating the world.
About two breaths later, Ji Yuan looked towards the east.
"Tu Siyan, I don't know if it's a real name or a pseudonym..."
Ji Yuan muttered to himself, feeling that his energy was being depleted too quickly, and he returned to normal, exhaling lightly.
"Huh..."
Ji Yuan only did this subconsciously. In fact, this did not extend his vision, but it did give him a vague sense of direction. However, this sense, which was like an illusion, was very faint and short.
Far away in the east, a thin cloud of smoke rolled and stretched from time to time, and occasionally turned into the shape of a fox. But at this moment, the clouds seemed to jump suddenly, and it turned into a fox again and turned to look to the west.
The feeling just now made the fox's heart jump suddenly. The moment he turned his head, he saw, as if by an illusion, a giant standing between heaven and earth. The man was wearing a long blue robe, with his arms behind his back, and his pair of pale eyes looked at him indifferently.
At this moment, the fox demon seemed to have a cardiac arrest, but the next moment, this feeling disappeared completely, as if it was just an illusion.
'Ji Yuan... is really amazing. He seems to be a master of the True Immortal level. I played a trick on him this time. I don't feel good... Oh! The Qingteng Sword is really beautiful, but it's a pity that this idea won't work... In addition to the magical power that can freeze people, what other means did he use just now?'
. . .
On the big show ship, Ji Yuan realized that he had been fooled. He also realized that although he had raised his evaluation of the fox demon on the ship several times, he obviously underestimated her. He was not even sure whether it was fortunate or unfortunate that she escaped.
After thinking for a long time, Ji Yuan smiled at himself.
"Hehe... I relied on my own little abilities to underestimate the heroes of the world..."
A minor magical power
Du Guangtong subconsciously looked down at his chest and abdomen. What am I? A small loach in the water
Although the result showed that the monster was indeed powerful and actually slipped away from under Mr. Ji's nose, Du Guangtong did not dare to laugh at Mr. Ji.
Although Mr. Ji's method of immobilizing spirits was exaggerated, it was not too outrageous if one thought about it carefully. Du Guangtong had never seen or even heard of that kind of technique of immobilizing people, let alone seen it. And then there was the feeling at the last moment. The feeling at that moment was so incredible that Du Guangtong, the God of Water, could not even describe it.
"Is this the ability of a True Immortal? Can the Dragon Lord do this too..."
Du Guangtong couldn't help but have this thought in his mind, but he vaguely felt that not all True Immortal-level masters could do it. Then his thoughts changed and he felt a sense of fear.
"To be able to escape from Mr. Ji, that monster must be extremely powerful. If Mr. Ji hadn't come, I would have faced her alone one day..."
Ji Yuan had no idea that the Water God was thinking so many things in his mind. Instead, he felt quite embarrassed as if he had been slapped in the face. However, soon there were more troublesome things waiting to be solved.
"Uh... Hoo... Hoo... Ugh... Ji, Mr. Ji, what should we do with this body? Hongxiu, Miss Hongxiu is gone?"
Wang Li, who was vomiting all over the place, was still concerned about Hong Xiu. He asked in a panic and depressed mood.
"Yeah, I wonder if this female corpse is Hong Xiu?"
Zhang Rui jumped over the table and walked to the female corpse to take a closer look, but she obviously couldn't tell who this person was.
Ji Yuan counted with his fingers and shook his head.
"Hong Xiu is not dead yet. This female corpse came from the mass grave outside the city, but tonight Hong Xiu is already dead..."
Ji Yuan said with some distress.
"The madam will come to look for me soon."
"Ah!? What should we do? If we kill someone, the madam will report it to the police!"
Wang Li suddenly became much more energetic and said something in a panic. Suddenly he realized that there were gods present and he felt a lot more at ease.
"We didn't kill anyone!"
Zhang Rui replied unhappily, then looked at the water god who had been standing respectfully beside Ji Yuan with awe, and then looked at Ji Yuan.
"Sir, what should we do about Hong Xiu? Where is the real Hong Xiu?"
Ji Yuan smiled at her helplessly.
"Send the body back to its original place. As for Zhen Hongxiu, we have to go find Young Master Xiao to have a look. As for tonight's Hongxiu... naturally we have to redeem her. Miss Zhang Rui, I'm sorry to trouble you for a while."
"Ah? Redeem her? Make me work harder?"
Zhang Rui thought that it was Mr. Ji who asked her to move the body, but she found out that Mr. Ji had taken the painted skin from the Water God, and she felt something was wrong.
Half a quarter of an hour later, the cabin was almost back to the way it was before the madam left. Hong Xiu, Ji Yuan and Wang Li were all there. The only difference was that there was an additional water god, Du Guangtong.
All the stains in the room were cleaned up by magic, and the room was restored to tidiness.
Zhang Rui was extremely unaccustomed to her current appearance. It didn't matter if she took clothes off a corpse and put them on, but asking her to pretend to be a prostitute...
To be honest, even if she has been dead for many years, even if she has become a goddess, she is still a woman who has been influenced by this social environment, and naturally feels uncomfortable with the current situation.
Of course, this was tolerable, but the only thing that was unbearable was Wang Li's eyes. Zhang Rui wanted to tear this guy apart and gouge out his eyes.
But Wang Li really wasn't watching out of lust. Of course, there was a bit of sexual desire involved, but more of it was out of curiosity. He saw Zhang Rui transformed into "Hong Xiu" like a living person.
"This is the most magical method!"
This is what Wang Li is thinking now.
"Well... there's only one problem now."
"what is the problem?"
Zhang Rui was the one who wanted to get this matter over with as quickly as possible, while Du Guangtong and Wang Li also looked at Ji Yuan and waited for his next words.
Ji Yuan smiled awkwardly and took out some gold and silver coins from his sleeve.
"It took more than a decade to earn more than a hundred taels of silver. That's all I have left. I still have about 20 to 30 taels of silver left... Hey... How much do you think it would cost to redeem the famous beauty from Youzhou?"
"Uh... one thousand taels?"
Zhang Rui said this carefully, and Wang Li immediately shook his head.
"It's definitely not enough, not even a fraction is enough!"
Ji Yuan felt that the greatest hope among this group of people was Du Guangtong. In his previous life, the Water God and the Dragon King on TV all had the most treasures.
"Du Shuishen, how much silver do you have?"
Ji Yuan asked with a thick face, and Du Guangtong also scratched his head.
"Mr. Ji, I have never owned any gold or silver... What use would such possessions have for me?"
It's over, the greatest hope is gone...
“Boom boom boom…”
The moment the madam knocked on the door, Ji Yuan stopped the magic and connected the inside and the outside.
"Sir, it's almost dawn and the rooms are ready. Why don't you go and rest?"
The madam came in, fanning herself and smiling.
"Daughter, you must keep Mr. Ji here tonight? And these two..."
"Hmm? Two of you!"
The madam wiped her eyes and looked again. Only Wang Li and Ji Yuan were there. She seemed to have seen a man in black clothes just now. It seemed that he was dazzled by staying up late.
"Uh hehe, and Mr. Wang, Xiaoya is waiting for you!"
Zhang Rui looked extremely unnatural. She smiled stiffly, and her hands were clenched into fists under the table.
"No, no thanks, Mom, Mom."
"ah?"
The madam was stunned for a moment. Why is Hongxiu being so stupid again today
"Mother, how much silver is needed to redeem Miss Hongxiu?"
Ji Yuan asked anyway. He was not going to use any real money. He would just use a magic trick to turn it into silver to fool people.