However, as Du Guangtong was strangling the fox demon’s neck, he gradually felt that something was wrong. He had clearly used his spiritual energy to hold the thin white neck in place, but he felt a strange feeling of powerlessness.

“Ugh… River, Lord River God… please be gentle, 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 extreme pain, and her face above the neck was flushed red. She grabbed Du Guangtong’s arms with both hands to try to pry them apart, and her feet twitched from time to time.

“Mr. Ji, please tell the Lord River God to let go, Mr. Ji, I beg you, Miss Hongxiu is about to be strangled to death!”

Wang Li to the side was quite anxious, and couldn’t stop begging Ji Yuan, but found that Mr. Ji, who had always been very easy to talk to, now had a heart of stone.

Ji Yuan frowned and stared at Tu Siyan, who was struggling like an ordinary person. A sense of incongruity lingered. He looked at Du Guangtong, he found that the latter was also solemn. The enormous force in his hand did not loosen up, but the monstrous energy and spiritual power grew stronger. One of his arms was already glowing with black light.

“Mr. Ji… save, save me…”

“Crack…”

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 backwards in panic.

“Mr. Ji, this…”

Du Guangtong looked at Ji Yuan with some doubts. Zhang Rui also stood up and looked at the corpse on the ground.

“Uncover her disguise.”

“Yes!”

Du Guangtong squatted down, stretched out two fingers to grab the back end of the woman’s cheek on the ground, and dug in half an inch with his sharp nails. Then he used his spiritual energy to lift it up.

“Puff…”

There seemed to be the sound of a gas leakage, and a foul stench filled in the room in an instant.

Du Guangtong stared at the painted skin in his hand, and then looked at the corpse on the ground.

On the painted skin was the face of a beautiful woman, the previous Hongxiu. On the ground was a rotting female corpse. They had no idea how long she had been dead, but the stench was already overwhelming.

“Ugh… ugh…”

Wang Li, who had just been frightened by the “murder,” could not help but vomit again after seeing the situation clearly. He threw up all the food that he had eaten this evening and hadn’t digested yet. After vomiting, he ran to the window to get some fresh air, not daring to stay by the table.

Ji Yuan rubbed his temples and stood up slowly.

He opened his supernatural eyes as wide as he could. At the same time, he circulated a large amount of spiritual energy to his eyes, and visualized his inner world, but did not manifest it. Instead, he deliberately spread it out, sweeping it over the corpse and painted skin in Du Guangtong’s hand, and swept on to other locations.

When Ji Yuan visualized his inner world, Du Guangtong vaguely felt that, although Mr. Ji was still standing in front of the table, his figure seemed to stretch infinitely between heaven and earth, as if he had turned into a giant, standing amidst the mountains and rivers, with a pair of eyes like the sun, moon, and stars illuminating the world.

After about two breaths, Ji Yuan looked to the east.

“Tu Siyan, I don’t know if it’s her real name or a pseudonym…”

Ji Yuan muttered to himself. Feeling that his mental energy had been depleted too quickly, he returned to normal, and let out a shallow breath.

“Haah…”

Ji Yuan simply did this all subconsciously. In truth, this did not actually extend his vision, but rather gave him a vague sense of direction. However, this illusionary sense was very faint, and short-ranged.

Far to the east, a thin layer of smoke rolled and stretched from time to time, occasionally forming shape of a fox. However, at this moment, the cloud seemed to jump suddenly, turning back into the fox form, and turned to look west.

The feeling just now suddenly made the fox’s heart leap. As he turned his head, saw the illusion of a giant standing between heaven and earth, wearing a green robe, arms behind his back. His eyes looked at the fox indifferently.

At this moment, the fox demon’s heart nearly stopped, but the next moment, this feeling disappeared, as if it was just an illusion.

‘Ji Yuan… he is truly incredibly. It seems that the really is a master at the level of a True Immortal. This time I played with him a bit, and it doesn’t leave me with a good feeling… Oh! The Green Vine Sword is really beautiful, but what a pity that my idea didn’t work… In addition to the supernatural ability to immobilize people, what other technique did he use just now? ’

. . .

On the big performance boat, 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 still obviously underestimated her. He didn’t know whether it was lucky or unfortunate that she had escaped.

After thinking about it for a long time, Ji Yuan laughed at himself.

“Haha… I relied on my own meagre skill to underestimate the warriors of the world…”

Meagre skill?

Du Guangtong subconsciously looked down at his chest and abdomen. Then what am I? A small loach in the water?

Although the end result proved that the demon was indeed skilled, and actually slipped away from Mr. Ji’s eyes, Du Guangtong didn’t dare to laugh at him.

Mr. Ji’s method of restraining the soul was powerful, but it was not too outrageous when one thought about about it carefully, but Du Guangtong had never seen or heard of that kind of immobilizing technique. Then there was that feeling that appeared for a moment. That feeling was incredible and indescribable for the River God Du Guangtong.

‘Is this the ability level of a True Immortal? Can the Dragon Lord also do this…’

Du Guangtong couldn’t help but think this in his heart, but he vaguely felt that not all experts at the True Immortal level could accomplish this. Then, his thoughts changed, and he felt a sense of fear.

‘To be able to escape from Mr. Ji’s, that demon must be terrifyingly powerful. If it wasn’t for Mr. Ji, I would have had to face her alone one day…’

Ji Yuan didn’t know that the River God was going through so many twists and turns in his mind. Instead, he was rather embarrassed to have been slapped in the face. However, there were more troublesome things waiting to be solved in the moment.

“Ugh… haah… haah… bleeeegh… Ji, Mr. Ji, what should I do with this corpse? Hongxiu, Miss Hongxiu is gone?”

Wang Li, who was still vomiting a lot, was still concerned about Hongxiu. In a depression and a panic, he asked a question.

“Indeed, is this female corpse truly Hongxiu?”

Zhang Rui jumped over the table and walked over to the female corpse to take a closer look. However, she obviously couldn’t tell who this person was.

Ji Yuan calculated a divination with his fingers and shook his head.

“Hongxiu isn’t dead yet. This female corpse came from a mass grave outside the city. However, the Hongxiu that was here tonight is certainly dead…”

Ji Yuan was a little worried.

“The Madam will come to look for her soon.”

“Ah!? What should we do then? We killed someone, Madam will report it to the police!”

Wang Li suddenly became more energetic, and spoke in a panic. Suddenly, he realized that there were gods and immortals present, and immediately felt a lot more at ease.

“We didn’t kill anyone!”

Zhang Rui replied angrily, then looked at the River God who had been standing respectfully beside Ji Yuan in awe, and then looked at Ji Yuan again.

“Sir, what should we do about Hongxiu? Where is the real Hongxiu?”

Ji Yuan smiled at her helplessly.

“Send the body back to its original resting place. As for the true Hongxiu, we have to go find Young Master Xiao. As for the Hongxiu that was here tonight… naturally, we must purchase her freedom. Miss Zhang Rui, you have to work hard. “

“Huh? Purchase her freedom? I have to work hard?”

Zhang Rui initially thought that Mr. Ji was asking her to move the body, but then she found that Mr. Ji had taken the painted skin from the River God, and felt that something was wrong. S

Some time later, the cabin had almost been restored to the state it had been in before the Madam left. Hongxiu, Ji Yuan, and Wang Li were all present. However, now an additional person, the River God Du Guangtong, was present.

Some stains in the room had been cleaned up using spiritual techniques and restored to neatness.

Zhang Rui was extremely unaccustomed to her current appearance. Taking clothes from a corpse didn’t matter to her, but asking her to pretend to be a prostitute…

To be honest, even if she had been dead for many years, even if she had become a goddess, she was still a woman nurtured in this social environment, and she naturally felt uncomfortable with the current situation.

Of course, this was all tolerable, but the only thing that was unbearable was the look in Wang Li’s eyes, which made Zhang Rui want to tear this guy apart, and want to gouge out his eyes even more than she had before.

But Wang Li wasn’t really watching because of lust. Of course, lust was a small factor, but it was mostly curiosity, seeing Zhang Rui’s transformation into the “Red Beauty” like a living person.

‘This is the best technique of the gods! ’

Was Wang Li’s current thought.

“Well…there’s only one question now.”

“What question?”

Zhang Rui hoped to get this over with as soon as possible. Du Guangtong and Wang Li also looked at Ji Yuan and waited for his next words.

Ji Yuan smiled a little awkwardly, and took out some pieces of gold and silver from his sleeve.

“I have spent over 100 taels of silver in the past ten years. This is all I have now, maybe about 20 or 30 taels of silver… Hah… Tell me, how much do you think it would cost to ransom the famous Red Beauty of You Province, whose name is known far and wide?”

“Uh… one thousand taels?”

Zhang Rui said carefully, and Wang Li immediately shook his head.

“It’s definitely not enough, not even a fraction of the amount!”

Ji Yuan felt that their biggest hope among this group of people was Du Guangtong. In his previous life, the River Gods and Dragon Lords on TV had the most treasures.

“River God Du, I wonder how much silver you have?”

Ji Yuan asked shamelessly. Du Guangtong scratched his head.

“Mr. Ji, I have never had any gold or silver… What use are these objects to me?”

It was over, their best hope was gone…

“Knock knock knock…”

At the moment the Madam knocked on the door outside, Ji Yuan stopped his isolation technique, connecting the inside and outside of the room back together.

“Sir, it’s almost dawn, and your room has been arranged, why you go and rest now?”

The Madam walked in with a smile, shaking her fan.

“Daughter, do you want to keep this Mr. Ji tonight? And these two…”

‘Hmm? Two?’

The old lady wiped her eyes and looked again. Only Wang Li and Ji Yuan were present. Just now, she seemed to have seen a man in black clothes. It seemed she was dazed due to staying up late.

“Oh, and Mr. Wang, Xiaoya is waiting for you!”

Zhang Rui’s expression was extremely unnatural, and she smiled stiffly, her hands under the table already clenched into fists.

“No, no need, Mother, Mother.”

“Huh?”

The Madam was stunned for a moment. Why did this Hongxiu become dazed again today?

“Madam, how much silver is needed to ransom Miss Hongxiu?”

Ji Yuan asked. Either way, he didn’t plan to use real gold and silver, just a spiritual technique to turn things into silver to bluff.

T/n: Man, Wang Li is really getting so much material for his next upcoming bestseller

Source: Webnovel.com, updated by Aunomay Read