Chapter 694: The Sealed Red Box

Feng Hu returned to his room, utterly dejected.

‘Life is just like a play,’ he thought. After his father’s death, he, the son of the City Lord, had become nothing more than an insignificant pebble in the eyes of others, to be tossed aside at will.

He had once held a sliver of hope for his cousin, Tang Yuan, but now, that hope was completely gone.

At the same time, he was filled with immense hatred for Li Long.

Li Long had actually made him a janitor. He was a Martial King Expert, after all.

It was an unbearable humiliation.

Feng Hu went back to his father’s room.

“Dad, I’m sorry.”

“There’s no place for me in the City Lord’s Mansion anymore.”

He prepared to leave the City Lord’s Mansion. As for where he would go…

He shook his head.

He began to sort through his father’s belongings. His father’s death had been so sudden, so unexpected, that he had left no last words for him.

He went through all of his father’s things.

For the most part, there was nothing of importance.

Now that Li Long was in control of the City Lord’s Mansion, he naturally couldn’t take any of the money or valuables.

“Why am I nothing?”

“The heavens are so unfair to me!”

Overcome with grief, Feng Hu let out a series of low growls.

He had grown up without a mother, his father had just been murdered, and now he had lost his status as the City Lord’s son, reduced to a mere servant.

Humiliation, endless humiliation, washed over him.

“Huh?”

Suddenly, as Feng Hu was packing the belongings, he accidentally brushed against something and triggered a hidden mechanism.

An opening appeared in the wall.

Behind it was a hidden compartment.

Feng Hu was astonished. His father must have had secrets during his lifetime, but he had never known about them.

Now, he stared at the suddenly revealed compartment.

He looked inside and saw a deep red box resting within. It wasn’t very large.

After a moment’s hesitation, Feng Hu took the box out.

The red box was sealed with a strip of paper.

“Contains a baleful entity. Do not open.”

A line of text was written on the paper sealing the box.

It was clearly a specific warning not to open it.

Stunned, Feng Hu hadn’t expected his father to hide something like this, something that was forbidden to be opened.

‘A baleful entity inside?’

‘What kind of baleful entity could it be?’

‘I, Feng Hu, have had a life of nothing but misfortune. What’s one more baleful entity?’

‘I’m going to open this box today, no matter what.’

His fall from grace had made Feng Hu reckless.

He no longer had anything to lose.

Gritting his teeth, filled with anger and resentment, he ripped the paper seal off the box.

BUZZ…!

The moment Feng Hu broke the seal on the box…

A strange aura instantly shot out from within.

This aura was icy, evil, and carried a sensation that made one’s very soul tremble.

The instant Feng Hu felt it, he shuddered and fell to the ground, terrified.

He stared blankly at the red box.

He watched as the box opened by itself.

The evil aura grew even denser.

It made Feng Hu feel as if he had been plunged into an ice cellar, chilled to the very bone.

ROAR…!

Following the strange aura, a flash of red light suddenly burst from the box.

The sound was filled with a ferocious power, like an explosive clap of thunder.

It made Feng Hu’s head feel like it was about to explode.

ROAR…!

In an instant, the roar swept through the entire City Lord’s Mansion.

Not only that, but the sound also rolled out across all of Xingyuan City, so loud it seemed to shake the heavens.

“What’s going on?”

In the City Lord’s Mansion, everyone from the newly appointed temporary City Lord, Li Long, to Tang Yuan, Tang Li, and the Six-Fingered Demon was alarmed.

They rushed out of their rooms one after another, looking in horror toward a certain part of the mansion.

They could feel that this terrifying and evil aura had erupted from within the City Lord’s Mansion itself.

“Li Long, what in the world is happening?”

Tang Yuan demanded of Li Long.

Li Long was sweating profusely. He had just taken his post, and a situation like this had already occurred. He hurriedly sent men to investigate.

Soon, several guards from the City Lord’s Mansion ran toward the source of the aura.

“AHHH…!”

But as soon as they neared the room where Feng Qi had lived, they let out terrified screams.

Blood suddenly began to stream from their bodies as a strange, crimson light appeared on them without warning.

Before long, the guards’ blood was completely drained, and they collapsed to the ground, dead.

Then, their blood, as if it had a life of its own, shot rapidly toward Feng Qi’s room, disappearing inside in the blink of an eye.

Li Long, Tang Yuan, and the Six-Fingered Demon were all utterly horrified.

Even the hairs on the Six-Fingered Demon’s body stood on end instantly.

He hurriedly appeared at Tang Yuan’s side.

“Prince, Princess, be careful.”

“There is a creature of great evil in there.”

“Do not go near it.”

Even without his warning, Tang Yuan and Tang Li could both feel the terrifying Evil Qi emanating from that room.

While the City Lord’s Mansion was in turmoil, figures appeared in the sky from various directions across Xingyuan City.

Jiang Chen, Mr. Qiu Shui, and the others stood in mid-air, gazing toward the City Lord’s Mansion.

Mr. Qiu Shui said, “What a dense Evil Qi.”

“It seems to be coming from the City Lord’s Mansion.”

Xiaotian, the Flame Dragon, and the Black Fire Crow all had incredibly grave expressions.

They could feel that this Evil Qi made even them feel a sense of dread.

Jiang Chen’s sensation was even stronger.

He felt a baleful aura surge into the sky from the direction of the City Lord’s Mansion. That Evil Qi, glowing with a blood-red light, continuously assaulted his soul, making it tremble.

And this was despite being a great distance away; he could still be affected by the Evil Qi.

‘What kind of monstrously evil creature could this be?’

Jiang Chen found it hard to believe. His Nine Heavens Spirit-Seizing Technique gave him extremely keen perception of the outside world.

The baleful Evil Qi from the City Lord’s Mansion was overwhelming, sweeping across all of Xingyuan City.

Those with low Cultivation would surely lose their minds if they got too close to the City Lord’s Mansion.

Jiang Chen never expected such a terrifying Evil Qi to exist in the Lower Realm.

“Don’t go near the City Lord’s Mansion,”

Jiang Chen warned Mr. Qiu Shui.

This Evil Qi was so powerful that he worried even Xiaotian and the others wouldn’t be a match for it.

They could only watch from a distance.

His Nine Heavens Spirit-Seizing Technique gave him a powerful ability to foresee danger.

This baleful Evil Qi was extremely dangerous.

At the same time, Jiang Chen didn’t notice that when the baleful Evil Qi was felt…

Little Xixi, who had just fallen asleep, suddenly opened her eyes.

Flashes of white light sparked in her eyes.

However, Little Xixi did not get up. She simply lay silently in her bed, perfectly still.

Across Xingyuan City, figures took to the air from several directions, all staring toward the City Lord’s Mansion.

At that moment, an eerie atmosphere fell over the entire city.

Countless people felt their hearts pound wildly, as if some great disaster was about to descend.

To say nothing of those inside the City Lord’s Mansion. Tang Yuan and the others were deeply unsettled. They didn’t know what was in that room, but it was, without a doubt, something terrifying.