After being forced into marriage, the metaphysical master became the darling of the richest family.

Chapter 49

Her dazed expression suddenly returned, and she shook her head somewhat strangely, "It's nothing."

An Jiuxi, who was standing to the side, frowned slightly.

She seemed to have sensed a very slight fluctuation of spiritual energy just now.

Moreover, that spiritual energy felt very strange to her.

But when she tried to chase after it, the spiritual energy fluctuation disappeared again.

It was so fast it seemed like her imagination!

Meanwhile, in a low, old farmhouse in this area.

The black-robed man, who was sitting cross-legged on the earthen bed, suddenly coughed up a mouthful of blood.

He clutched his chest, his face deathly pale, and a pair of eyes beneath the huge hood flashed with a sinister and ruthless light.

"Who? Who actually broke my demon-summoning formation?"

In the villa.

Both staff members were stunned. "How...how could this happen?"

Roses have a relatively long blooming period; even after being picked, they can maintain their brilliance for two or three days.

It certainly won't wither and rot immediately if its roots break.

An Jiuxi walked over and raised her hand to cast a fire talisman.

The fire talisman landed in the rose bushes, and a ball of flame instantly sprang up.

Despite the absence of wind, the fire spread rapidly throughout the entire flowerbed.

"Ah ah ah..."

A faint, agonizing scream could be heard in the air.

Chi Anruo's face turned pale.

The two staff members looked on incredulously.

The head of student affairs felt his legs go weak. "What...what was that sound?"

An Jiuxi explained succinctly, "This evil thing, nurtured with human essence and blood, has not yet taken human form, but it has already developed sentience. If we don't eliminate it completely, it may cause future problems!"

Lu Huaisang's eyes widened. "Young Madam, you mean... this thing... has become sentient?"

"More or less!" An Jiuxi didn't elaborate.

Chi Anruo simply didn't believe it. "Miss An, what you're saying is too... unbelievable! A rose coming to life? I've never heard of such a thing!"

An Jiuxi said, "I've never heard of this before, simply because I'm ignorant. Besides, to be precise, plants can't become spirits, they can only become beings. However, since someone used evil magic to force it to develop intelligence, it's also accurate to say it became a spirit. After all, demons that harm people don't deserve to be called spirits."

Chi Anruo, "..."

Is this the point?

The point is, how could this thing possibly become sentient?

She couldn't help but give a cold laugh. "Miss An is really... eloquent and persistent! But whether it's a spirit or a being, it doesn't matter. Didn't you say Tang Guo was buried down here? We've been digging for so long, how come we haven't found anything?"

“Isn’t it over there!” An Jiuxi looked at the pit.

Chi Anruo wanted to laugh, "Where is it? I can't see it. Can you see it?"

The two staff members shook their heads with grim expressions.

An Jiuxi clicked her tongue and waved her hand.

A beam of light shone through, and a wooden box suddenly appeared in the previously empty pit.

There was a hole in the wooden box, and a dead rose root was stuck in that hole.

"Where did this box come from? When was it placed here?" The head of the teaching department stood next to the pit, looking at the box that had suddenly appeared, feeling that his entire worldview had been greatly challenged.

An Jiuxi lifted her foot and walked towards the pit.

Lu Huaisang pushed Jin Yize along beside her.

The man held her hand tightly the whole time.

"This box has always been here, it's just been hidden by some kind of illusion!"