Chapter 63: Inexplicably Guilty

Chapter 63: Chapter 63: Inexplicably Guilty

In a room next door, the bedsheets were in disarray, spattered with flecks of blood.

Feng Muxi sat on the bed, his face weary. Miss Feng sat before her brother, her left hand placed on his exposed right chest while her right hand continuously formed hand seals, channeling some kind of mysterious power from the heavens and earth.

The hair on both their foreheads was soaked with sweat. Miss Feng’s face was just as pale, looking as if she had overexerted herself.

It was unclear how long the two had maintained this posture. At a certain moment, a black aura faintly appeared on Feng Muxi’s face.

"PTOO!"

He turned his head and spat a mouthful of black blood onto the floor.

After spitting out the black blood, some color returned to Feng Muxi’s face.

Letting out a sigh of relief, Miss Feng withdrew her left hand from Feng Muxi’s right chest. Her palm... was already covered in dark red blood.

Spiritual Power surged in her hand, cleaning the bloodstains from her palm.

Miss Feng took out a jade bottle, tipped out an Elixir, and had Feng Muxi swallow it.

Watching his wounds heal before her very eyes, Miss Feng could finally, truly relax.

"Brother, this injury... was it the Demon Race?"

After circulating his breath to recover, a bit more color returned to Feng Muxi’s face. He nodded with a bitter smile.

"I didn’t expect the Demon Race to be able to deploy a Celestial Being."

"A Celestial Being?"

Miss Feng’s expression changed. "Brother, you encountered a Celestial Being from the Demon Race?"

Feng Muxi nodded. "But don’t worry. Although I couldn’t take him down, he won’t be able to show himself again for a short while."

Hearing Feng Muxi’s words, Miss Feng’s expression didn’t improve. Instead, it grew even uglier.

"Brother, you... used a Secret Technique?"

Feng Muxi nodded.

"The ruins could open at any moment, and you used a Secret Technique now, Brother..."

Miss Feng didn’t finish her sentence. Her eyes met Feng Muxi’s, and she unconsciously trailed off.

"It is precisely because of our arrival, brother and sister, that Prince Jing’s Residence was targeted by the Demon Race."

"The reason a Celestial Being from the Demon Race came to Lingzhou City this time is also that the Demon you attracted last time was severely wounded by Su and forced to retreat."

Feng Muxi looked at Miss Feng. "This whole affair started because of us. How could I, your older brother, just stand by and watch?"

Miss Feng lowered her head, somewhat ashamed. "That’s not what I meant. It’s just that the ruins could open at any time. I’m worried you won’t recover in time, Brother.

And besides..."

"And besides, Prince Jing and the Princess Consort both have their own secrets, so even if I hadn’t acted, Prince Jing’s Residence would have been fine, is that it?"

As he said this, Feng Muxi’s face was full of displeasure.

However, Miss Feng shook her head. "Brother, you misunderstand. Even if Prince Jing and the Princess Consort have countless tricks up their sleeves, this matter started because of me. How could I let others fall into danger on my account?

What I meant was, when you found the Celestial Being from the Demon Race, you could have just waited for me to bring the Ancestral Artifact!"

Feng Muxi: "..."

’It seems... I’d forgotten about that.’

An awkward look flashed across his face. Feng Muxi glanced at Miss Feng.

"The situation was urgent. That Celestial Being from the Demon Race had already discovered me. There was no time to send a message and wait for you to arrive."

Miss Feng looked at him doubtfully. "But, Brother, you could have sent me a message. I could have directly transferred a portion of the Ancestral Artifact’s power to you through our bloodline."

Feng Muxi: "..."

Miss Feng blinked, looking at Feng Muxi suspiciously. "Brother, you didn’t forget, did you?"

Feng Muxi: "...How could I? I just... didn’t want to expose the existence of the Ancestral Artifact."

Miss Feng looked at her brother, her expression still holding a hint of suspicion.

She nodded faintly. "Oh."

Feng Muxi: "..."

"By the way, that Elixir just now was very effective. Did you refine it?"

Miss Feng glanced at her brother. "The Crown Prince gave it to us a few days ago."

"Su?"

Feng Muxi seemed to think of something, and a strange expression flickered across his face.

"Brother, what is it?"

Feng Muxi came back to his senses and looked at Miss Feng.

"You might not believe this, but having lived in Prince Jing’s Residence for a while now, although I can sense a dangerous aura from both Prince Jing and the Princess Consort..."

"...the one who feels the most mysterious to me is still this Su."

Miss Feng was silent for a moment, then nodded as well.

"When I first met him, I could still see through him to some extent."

"But I don’t know when it started... in my eyes, the Crown Prince seems to have become shrouded in a layer of fog."

"Sometimes he seems very close, as if I can see through him completely. Other times, he feels very distant, so far away that I can’t make out a single detail."

After speaking, the two siblings looked at each other and both fell silent.

In another room, Su Han felt a subconscious twinge of guilt.

’Damn it! Didn’t they say this Heaven-Deceiving Concealment Technique could fool even the Celestial Dao?’

’How does it seem like this brother and sister pair have discovered something?’

Just as Su Han was feeling guilty, voices sounded from the next room again.

"Forget it. We don’t bear Su any ill will, anyway. And he seems like a worthy friend."

"Friendship values sincerity. There’s no need to think so clearly about whether the other person has secrets or not."

After Feng Muxi’s voice sounded, Miss Feng immediately nodded in agreement.

"Speaking of secrets, it’s not like we, brother and sister, are completely open either."

The room fell silent once more. After a long while, Miss Feng spoke again.

"It’s getting late, so I won’t stay any longer, Brother."

"You should rest and recuperate. Try to recover before the ruins open."

"Whether we can obtain the opportunity this time or not, we must at least ensure it doesn’t fall into the hands of the Demon Race."

Feng Muxi nodded, and Miss Feng opened the door and left the room.

As she passed the stone table in the courtyard, she performed a few Magic Formulas to retrieve an Array Plate that had been set up on it.

Seeing Miss Feng leave, Feng Muxi cleaned up the bloodstains in the room, then sat cross-legged and began to meditate and recuperate.

Su Han withdrew his Divine Thought, the heart that had been lodged in his throat finally settling back down.

’So... where exactly did things go wrong? Why could they tell I have a secret?’

’I pulled out the Heaven-Deceiving Concealment Technique skill and stared at it for a long time, but I can’t see anything wrong with it.’

’Just tonight, I successfully fooled a mid-stage Celestial Being, that middle-aged Daoist Nun who refused to give her name.’

’But if it wasn’t a problem with the Heaven-Deceiving Concealment Technique, and I’ve hidden my aura so well, how did the Feng siblings discover I have a secret?’

’Or... did they not discover my secret at all? Is the reason they think I have a secret because...’

’A woman’s intuition?’

’But... Feng isn’t a woman.’

Shaking his head, Su Han, who was completely baffled, temporarily gave up on this unsolvable problem.

’Based on the information I overheard and observed tonight, I can first rule out the Feng siblings being from the Demon Race. From that, I can naturally also rule out the suspicion that Miss Feng was the Demon I injured last time. However, thinking of this, there was still one thing I couldn’t figure out. If the one I injured last time was someone else, then why the coincidence... The day after I injured a little rat who snuck into Prince Jing’s Residence, I ran into Miss Feng first thing in the morning, and she just happened to be injured too.’

’I still remember that faint smell of blood vividly.’