The Extreme Princess

Chapter 132: Strange Villa

There was a bowl of cold mustard greens and a plate of braised meat. The utensils were probably quite old and had even begun to turn yellow.

Several people looked at each other.

While Gu Yue was still thinking secretly, most of the plate of braised pork was gone.

The Taixu Lingmarten squinted its eyes and chewed the meat in its mouth with great difficulty, with dry retching sounds coming from its throat from time to time.

Seeing that Taixu Lingmarten had a hard time eating, the few people just watched quietly.

"Yan Xian!"

After a while, Taixu Lingmarten finally swallowed the braised meat in his mouth and wiped his mouth with his paws in disgust.

Hearing this, Gu Yue and the others couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief.

Soon, the old woman, holding an iron pot in both hands, hobbled over the threshold.

After seeing this, several people hurriedly stood up, and Lin Chengmo, who was closest to the door, quickly reached out to take the iron pot from the old woman.

"cough..."

The old woman sighed and said, "When you get old, you are useless..."

Yuan Lu took two steps forward and wanted to help the old woman sit down, but the old woman waved her hand to refuse.

"After you finish eating, please rest early. I won't disturb you..."

Gu Yue said: "We are the ones who disturbed mother-in-law."

The old woman chuckled, shook her head, and turned to walk outside.

The old woman who walked to the door seemed to remember something, turned around and reminded: "After dinner, if you want to walk around, that's fine, but the master is in poor health and can't stand being disturbed, so please don't intrude into the Dongqu Pavilion where the master and his wife are..."

Gu Yue nodded hurriedly and said, "Don't worry, mother-in-law, we are not such rude people!"

Hearing this, the old woman nodded slightly, and slowly disappeared around the corner with slow steps.

"This mother-in-law doesn't look like a treacherous person..."

Watching the old woman's departing back, a barrier rose again, followed by Yuan Lu's voice.

Gu Yue nodded, "It would be best if nothing happened. You need to leave some good things when you leave tomorrow. After all, people treat you as a gift..."

As she spoke, Gu Yue turned her head to look at the pot of steaming broth, and the words in her mouth suddenly stopped.

Gu Yue quickly stepped forward, grabbed the Taixu Spirit Marten by the neck and lifted it up, "What other kitten can be like you, eating food that turns into stone!"

"Ugh...let go of me, my king!"

While Taixu Lingdiao was struggling, he did not forget to swallow the chicken leg in his mouth, which made Yuan Lu and the others shake their heads.

In just a short while, nearly two-thirds of the whole chicken in the pot was gone!

Gu Yue angrily gave Taixu Lingdiao a slap on the head and scolded: "Did you hear what grandma said? You are not allowed to leave the room at night!"

"I know, I know!"

Taixu Lingdiao replied unhappily, and Gu Yue then threw it off the table.

Once it was freed, Taixu Lingmarten waved its claws angrily and quickly ran out of the house.

Sensing that the Taixu Lingmarten did not stay in the courtyard or even in the villa, but flew directly out of the villa and ran away, Gu Yue shook his head helplessly.

Lin Chengmo frowned and asked, "Wouldn't it be too dangerous for Daji to go out alone like this?"

Gu Yue calmly sat back in her seat, "You'd better pray that it doesn't harm others!"

She has been with the Taixu Lingmarten for such a long time that the two have already established some kind of connection. If the Taixu Lingmarten is in danger, Gu Yue will be able to sense it instantly.

As she spoke, Gu Yue's eyes were unconsciously attracted to the food in the iron pot.

The combination of the rich light yellow soup in the iron pot and the chicken and wild mushrooms reminded her of the chicken stewed with mushrooms in her original world.

Soon, the three of them started eating faster and faster, and their eyes became brighter.

I have to say that the old woman’s cooking skills are excellent. This is almost the most delicious food Gu Yue has ever eaten in all her time in this world.

Gu Yue and the others swept the food away like whirlwind, and the big pot of chicken soup was soon finished.

After they had eaten and drunk their fill, Lin Chengmo blinked his eyes, then left the manor mysteriously.

"If this continues, the Taixu Spirit Marten will probably change its owner..."

Looking at Lin Chengmo's leaving back, Yuan Lu couldn't help but joke.

Just now, when her spiritual sense reached out, she found that Taixu Lingdiao had caught thirteen pheasants in total, tied them up with a vine and was dragging them back!

And Lin Chengmo left at this time, the answer was already obvious.

Gu Yue gritted her teeth and said angrily, "Let it be!"

After saying that, Gu Yue was too lazy to pay any more attention to Taixu Lingdiao and turned around and walked into the house.

Although the villa is large, its furnishings are extremely simple, even crude.

But Gu Yue didn't care about this.

Anyway, we are just staying here for one night.

It was not until late at night that Taixu Lingdiao poked his head in from the window stealthily. Seeing that Gu Yue and the other person were fast asleep, he shook his head and quietly jumped into the room.

Just as the Taixu Lingmarten was preparing to take a rest, a sharp light suddenly flashed in its eyes.

Taixu Lingdiao sniffed and looked somewhere in confusion.

It remembered the old woman's instructions and Gu Yue's stern warning, and then it suppressed the strong curiosity in its eyes, jumped onto Gu Yue's bed, and set up a circle of magic array around itself, directly blocking the smell of that breath, so that it would not be bothered by it.

Nothing happened all night.

The next morning.

Before dawn, Gu Yue was awakened by a series of hurried knocks on the door.

When Gu Yue walked out of the room carrying Taixu Lingdiao and opened the courtyard gate, the old woman's hunched figure appeared in front of Gu Yue.

"Mother-in-law..."

Seeing that the old woman still had a bit of nervousness on her face, Gu Yue was interrupted by the old woman just as she was about to speak.

"It's getting late. My master likes quietness, so please leave early..."

Although the old woman spoke slowly and in a calm tone, Gu Yue could still hear a hint of urgency in her words.

Gu Yue looked at Yuan Lu, who had just gotten up and left after hearing the noise, and then nodded and said, "Thank you for disturbing Grandma last night. We'll leave now..."

As Gu Yue spoke, he moved his palm, and three khaki-colored pills appeared in it. He then stuffed them into the old woman's hands without further ado.

"Mother-in-law, this elixir was obtained from the Tianwu Continent. It has the effect of nourishing qi and raising blood. I hope you won't dislike it..."

Among the small items that Gu Wuyou brought, there were several kinds of elixirs.

The khaki-colored pill that Gu Yue took out at this time was a kind of pill specially used to replenish qi and blood in Tianwu Continent. It was the most numerous and mildest in medicinal properties among all the Fangcun objects, and it was also the most suitable one for ordinary people.

"this..."

The old woman looked at the three pills in her hand that exuded a strong herbal aroma, and wrinkles gathered between her brows.

“The chicken soup cooked by mother-in-law is delicious...”

At this time, Lin Chengmo had also walked out of the room. Gu Yue said with a smile and gestured to the people behind him. After saying goodbye to the old woman, they quickly left the villa and set foot on the mountain path again.

Several people tacitly did not ask the old woman about her abnormality.

To the old woman, they were just passers-by, and there was no need to care too much about certain things.

When they had walked about two or three miles, Gu Yue was the first to speak and break the silence.

She patted the Taixu Spirit Marten in her arms and asked softly, "Did you discover anything last night?"

Hearing this, Taixu Lingdiao blinked his eyes and nodded, "The monster in the villa wanted to attack us, but in the end it seemed to... hold back?"

Taixu Lingdiao scratched his head.

Last night, because it was afraid that it could not resist its curiosity, after the "hostility" disappeared, it isolated itself with a magic circle, and it had no idea what happened afterwards.

"It seems that the palpitating feeling that suddenly appeared last night and then disappeared quickly was..."

"That's right!"

Gu Yue nodded to confirm Yuan Lu's guess, "Perhaps the old woman is the...servant of the monster?"

"It's not impossible!"

Lin Chengmo said in a serious tone, "I have been deep in the forest with my second uncle many times since I was a child, and I have seen monsters capture humans as servants. However, the old woman has not become a monster's meal at her age. I guess the monster has developed some feelings for her."

Gu Yue nodded slightly, then smiled and said, "Never mind, anyway, they didn't do anything to us, which is also a good thing."

"wrong..."

In Gu Yue's arms, Taixu Lingdiao suddenly straightened up, his eyes scanning the surroundings.

In the end, it broke free from Gu Yue's arms, exerted force with its hind legs, and its body quickly turned into a stream of light and rushed away.

Not long after, Taixu Lingdiao scurried back to Gu Yue's side and jumped onto his shoulder. At Taixu Lingdiao's signal, a light blue barrier rose from under Gu Yue's feet, separating the man and the beast from the two of them.

Lin Chengmo was already used to this and walked away for a distance as if nothing had happened.

Because of his joining, Taixu Lingdiao never showed his talent in magic array in front of everyone from beginning to end, and he has been showing himself at an extremely fast speed.

"What did you find?"

A solemn look appeared on Gu Yue's face.

"There is a huge magic circle around here!"

Taixu Lingdiao stood on Gu Yue's shoulder and said seriously: "This magic circle seems to have the same plundering effect as Tianshamen, and it seems to be suppressing something..."

"Tianshamen!"

Gu Yue's face changed.

"It's just that they look a bit like each other, but I can't prove that they are related to them."

Taixu Lingdiao pondered and said, "But this magic circle is already in tatters. Many places have been damaged for a long time and have not been repaired. The effect is minimal and it is about to collapse!"

It was precisely because of this that it did not attract the attention of Taixu Lingdiao at the beginning.

Where the two of them passed by just now, there was a piece of bluestone with most of its body embedded in the mud under its feet, with only one corner exposed. That piece of bluestone was one of the foundations of the magic circle.

It was also because the bluestone attracted the attention of Taixu Lingdiao that it realized that the villa where they were before was located in the center of a magic circle!

Gu Yue frowned tightly, "What will happen if this magic circle collapses?"

Taixu Lingdiao shook his head helplessly, "The magic circle is severely damaged. I can't see its specific effect, and I can't infer what impact its collapse will cause..."

Upon hearing this, Gu Yue's face became solemn, and a vast spiritual power suddenly spread out.

After a while, Gu Yue withdrew his spiritual consciousness and said in a concentrated voice: "You are fast, follow the mountain road and see if there are any villages or towns along the way."

"understand!"

Taixu Lingmarten responded, flew off Gu Yue's shoulder, and quickly ran away.

"What did Daji discover?"

The barrier dissipated, and Yuan Lu asked with a frown.

Gu Yue narrowed her eyes slightly and said in a concentrated voice: "This villa may be related to Tianshamen!"

"Tianshamen?"

Hearing the words "Tianshamen", Lin Chengmo turned around abruptly, and an astonishing murderous aura began to emanate from his body.

Gu Yue waved her hand to signal him to calm down, "It's just a guess, let's go first..."

After hearing this, although Yuan Lu and the others looked unhappy, they had to suppress their emotions temporarily. They turned around to look at the villa behind them, and followed Gu Yue's pace.

The three of them walked and observed. About an hour later, at the far end of the mountain path, a gray streak of light suddenly broke through the void and rushed towards Gu Yue and the others.

"Someone?"

Gu Yue's eyes narrowed when he saw that Taixu Lingmarten was holding a piece of talisman paper in its mouth that had turned white due to sun exposure.

Taixu Lingdiao nodded and threw the talisman paper in his mouth to Gu Yue, "There is a small town ten miles away. Almost every household in the town has a door god talisman paper..."

Yuan Lu and the other person also turned their eyes to the talisman paper in Gu Yue's hand.

"The exorcism talisman still has spiritual power!"

Yuan Lu was shocked. "Did you get this from the town?"

As Taixu Lingdiao nodded, the three people's faces showed even more surprise.

The talismans containing spiritual power can obviously only be made by the monks in the mountains.

Although the spiritual power in the talisman in Gu Yue's hand has been lost, Taixu Lingdiao said that almost every household has one.

It is impossible for ordinary people in a small town to afford such a spiritual object.

There is only one explanation.

The door gods and talismans in the town were all given away by the monks!

The town is not far from the villa, and every household has pasted something to ward off evil spirits. It is obvious who they are guarding against!

"Do you want to go back and check it out?"

Lin Chengmo said in a deep voice.

Gu Yue looked at the talisman paper in his hand and thought for a moment before speaking: "It won't be too late to go to the town to understand the situation before making plans. If the villa is really related to the Tiansha Sect..."

Upon hearing this, both of them nodded, agreeing with Gu Yue's idea.

"Maybe it's too late..."

Just when Gu Yue was about to call Taixu Lingdiao to lead the way to the town, Taixu Lingdiao suddenly turned his head and looked in the direction of the villa.

Upon hearing this, Gu Yue hurriedly extended his spiritual consciousness.

After a while, Gu Yue's spiritual consciousness was withdrawn like a tide, and he said in a concentrated voice: "Go back!"

Suddenly, Gu Yue's body was wrapped by the spiritual power that burst out of Taixu Lingmarten, and the three people and one beast quickly rushed towards the location of the villa.

At this time, a hint of pale sky began to rise in the sky, and the warm morning sun just showed a corner.

After about a quarter of an hour's journey, the location of the villa reappeared in the sight of several people.

Taixu Lingdiao took Gu Yue and stopped on a hillside first.

This place is right at the edge of the magic circle.

At this time, within a one-kilometer radius of the villa, a gray aura was rolling around the villa as the center point.

The gray airflow was filled with deathly aura, and at the same time, a violent demonic aura could be clearly felt even by Gu Yue, a person who had lost all his spiritual power.

As time passed, the mountain grass and trees trembled.

Afterwards, Gu Yue and the others were horrified to find that within the range of the magic circle, the vitality of countless plants and trees was quickly drained away, and all of them rushed into the villa.