Ex-Wife is a Big Villainess
Chapter 88 - 83: The mantis stalks the cicada, unaware of the oriole behind! (Two - s combined)_2

Chapter 88: Chapter 83: The mantis stalks the cicada, unaware of the oriole behind! (Two Chapters combined)_2

The Demon Energy in that bottle was quite extraordinary.

However, the boss and a mysterious person had examined it, and that bottle of Demon Energy was just very common, with nothing unusual about it.

But why was the rabbit demon so obsessed with taking it back?

There was only one possibility: someone had switched it behind the scenes!

The Demon Energy that Wen Zhaodi gave to her mother-in-law, and the Demon Energy the rabbit demon placed on Zhang Yunwu, were not the same bottle!

And the person who did this could only have been hiding inside the house to have the opportunity to switch them.

Clearly, on the night when Zhang Yunwu returned home, Wen Zhaodi discovered the Demon Energy and stored it in the cabinet. Then the demon hiding in the house discovered it and stealthily replaced it!

Jiang Shouzhong took a deep breath and continued:

"The appearance of Jiang Qing gave the demon a chance to consume the original owner’s soul sooner.

As is well known, once a demon soul inhabits a body for more than thirty days, even if it manages a successful possession, the demon soul will suffer damage.

So, sensing an opportunity, the demon soul set another trap, using Jiang Qing as a pawn. It planned to create a tragedy to unnerve the original owner, causing their soul to destabilize and then successfully feast upon it.

Therefore, Ge Dasheng’s ’heart-digging’ case, Wen Zhaodi adding Demon Energy to the herbal soup, Zhang being targeted by the rabbit demon, including everything that happened tonight, and why Zhang turned out like this... all were the acts of this demon behind the scenes!

This demon was extremely well-hidden; only Ms. Zhang noticed it in their family. She wanted to tell me, but alas, a person on their deathbed is powerless.

And this demon, it attached and hid itself in..."

Jiang Shouzhong’s chilly gaze shifted to the little girl lying on the ground, Zhang Yue’er, as he curled his lips,

"Letting the little girl witness her mother’s promiscuity firsthand, seeing her father about to kill her mother, then taking advantage of her mental breakdown and unstable spirit to devour her soul, and perfectly taking over her body— I have to say, your move was indeed very clever.

Now that you’ve come out, why still linger in this little girl’s body? Do you think you can still return to it!?"

As the man’s words fell, a miserable cat-like scream arose.

It was Jiang Shouzhong throwing a talisman he had borrowed in advance from Feng Yichen onto Zhang Yue’er’s body.

A cat-shaped soul was forcibly released from Zhang Yue’er’s body and trapped by the divine power of the talisman, unable to move. The resentful demon glared at Jiang Shouzhong with a menacing look, "You intentionally set a trap for me!?"

Li Nanshuang and Zhang Yunwu’s eyes widened in the room.

No matter what, they had never expected that the demon had been hiding in Zhang Yue’er all along!

Jiang Shouzhong sneered, "How could it be me who set the trap? All of this is your own masterpiece. Is this what they call ’hoist with your own petard’?

Why didn’t I prepare a paper effigy for Zhang Yue’er? Because I knew she was the safest. If she died, all the efforts you made would have been in vain.

At first, I suspected that Ms. Zhang had a demon soul attached to her, but I soon dismissed that thought.

Because the boss carefully examined Ms. Zhang’s body when he removed the Demon Energy from her, it was impossible for a demon to be hiding in there. Including the mysterious person who appeared later, since he could see the traces of Demon Energy on Ms. Zhang, he would certainly have been able to detect if there was a demon soul.

In theory, Jiang Qing’s plan was perfect. After Zhang returned from praying at Huailan Lake, Jiang Qing would have already humiliated Wen Zhaodi and escaped. But why did Zhang come back so soon?

Why did he return so early?

I didn’t even need to ask Zhang to guess; it was clear you were the one harming Zhang Yue’er, either giving her a headache, a twisted ankle, or a stomachache, forcing Zhang to return quickly to catch his wife in the act of infidelity, right?

After Zhang returned, he became strange, and during that time, only his daughter Zhang Yue’er was with him all the time. So obviously, you meddled with Zhang behind the scenes, causing him to lose control like that.

Unfortunately, you overestimated Jiang Qing and underestimated Wen Zhaodi, resulting in them not getting involved as you planned. But ultimately, you succeeded in making Zhang lose control and kill in front of his daughter," Jiang Shouzhong concluded.

Listening to Jiang Shouzhong’s analysis, the cat demon’s ferocious expression revealed a deep bitterness.

It was like a stunningly beautiful woman wrapping herself in layers of clothing to prevent light from spilling out, only to find out that the other side had x-ray vision and saw through everything.

The cat demon regretted deeply.

If it hadn’t been so eager to come out, these people would have been concerned about injuring Zhang Yue’er and wouldn’t have taken action so rashly.

At least it would have had a hostage.

It looked at Zhang Yunwu with spite, "You’re right, I meddled with him. Because I knew this good-for-nothing would never act, even if he truly saw his wife cheating. I needed to provoke his rage. But his reaction was bigger than I expected."

"I will slaughter you!"

Zhang Yunwu rushed towards the demon that had nearly destroyed his home and family.

Li Nanshuang stopped him, "Wait, there are still some questions to ask."

Li Nanshuang’s phoenix eyes stared at the cat demon, coldly asking, "Where do you come from, demon, and why did you possess Zhang Yue’er? Also, why is the Demon Energy on you not that strong?"

The latter question was the focus of her inquiry.

Having captured many demons at the Liushan Division, Li Nanshuang had never seen such a strange demon before.

It was as if the demon energy on her body had been cleansed.

Unfortunately, ever since she had fallen severely ill, her innate sensitivity to demon energy had become erratic—sometimes functioning, other times not. She hadn’t been able to detect the demon energy on the red-clad girl in the tavern as she had the last time. Otherwise, she could have intervened earlier to prevent the situation from escalating to this point.

"Are you sure you want to know?"

Fully aware that she was now trapped, the cat demon began to negotiate terms, "Handing me over to the Liushan Division will bring you big trouble. Killing me will also bring you big trouble, don’t believe me? Try and see.

I can tell you where I escaped from, and I will also tell you about the whereabouts of the Netherworld Demon Qi, as well as what those people who captured me are secretly up to?

Just let me go, and I guarantee I’ll grant you a great merit."

"Do you think that’s possible?"

Li Nanshuang’s face was ice cold, "You nearly destroyed my subordinate’s home and now you think you can negotiate your way out? I, Li Nanshuang, don’t care about any great merit! The only thing I want to make sure of is whether there’s someone else behind you!?"

"Kill it."

Jiang Shouzhong suddenly said.

Li Nanshuang was taken aback, looking at the man with confusion.

Killing it was a certainty, but if there truly were people behind this cat demon, wouldn’t that leave behind a potential disaster?

Jiang Shouzhong said indifferently, "From what it says, it escaped from somewhere, which shows that possessing Zhang Yue’er wasn’t someone’s doing, but an accident. Therefore, we can’t hand it over to the Liushan Division, nor can we let it live. Let’s pretend this never happened. That’s the only way to protect Zhang and the others from attracting serious trouble."

Listening to the man’s calm analysis, Li Nanshuang nodded her head, without the slightest hesitation.

In Wind Thunder Hall, Jiang Shouzhong was the brain.

Whatever he said was law.

The cat demon hadn’t expected its own loose tongue to reveal the truth to its opponents; filled with regret, it urgently said, "I was captured by Xichu Pavilion, they stole a vial of Demon Energy from Sky Demon Sect and planned to use it for experiments by possessing young girls’ bodies with demon souls. Just spare me, and I’ll take you there—"

The cat demon was split in two with a single stroke and the soul was scattered.

Jiang Shouzhong, looking at the girl who had cleanly slain the demon, said somewhat helplessly, "It had just opened its mouth; we could have listened a bit more."

Li Nanshuang was stunned.

Her gaze towards the man was sharp enough to cut.

"Why didn’t you say so earlier!"

The girl barely resisted the urge to punch him.

Jiang Shouzhong gave a sheepish smile.

Li Nanshuang snorted coldly, carefully examined Zhang Yue’er’s body, then gave the young girl a precious calming elixir to help her sleep soundly before looking at the messy room and asked, "What do we do now?"

Jiang Shouzhong walked over to Jiang Qing who was gradually gaining consciousness.

The notorious womanizer lay dying, his legs chopped off, and a fatal wound on his back, clearly not long for this world.

"Save... save..."

Jiang Qing’s voice begging for help was extremely weak, his eyes pleading with Jiang Shouzhong.

Jiang Shouzhong crouched down, his gaze icy, "Actually, I could have stopped Zhang from killing you, but I think, someone like you should pay a price. Alive, handing you over to the officials poses the risk of escape, right."

The man’s face revealed despair.

"Rest in peace, I hope you reincarnate as a pig in your next life."

Jiang Shouzhong gently closed the man’s eyes.

After the man’s breath ceased, Jiang Shouzhong began searching his body.

As the name implies—looting.

Indeed, a master thief always has good stuff on him.

After some searching, he found six face-changing masks, two of which were unopened.

He also found a variety of bottles and jars.

Without opening them, one could guess what they contained.

What truly piqued his interest was a book.

"Chasing Wind Steps?"

Jiang Shouzhong curiously flipped through it, realizing it was a Qinggong secret manual.

Without much hesitation, Jiang Shouzhong only stuffed the already unsealed face-changing masks and a few bottles back into Jiang Qing’s embrace, to leave for the officials to confirm his identity, the rest went straight into his own pocket.