Xu Pengju was greatly alarmed: "Who is trying to scheme against our family?"
Standing beside him, Xu Xingsheng also had some anger on his face.
Although these two men did not know what evil energy was, they understood it was not anything good.
"Brother Xu, come out with me to have a look. Maybe someone has set up an array around our home," Anning suggested.
Xu Pengju couldn’t sit still any longer and wanted to follow Anning and Xu Xingsheng out as well.
The three of them left the Xu Family together, walked around the Xu Mansion, and Anning found four things from four different directions.
There was the corpse of a black cat that had been tortured to death, a weapon filled with murderous intentions, two iron nails wrapped in talisman paper, and an Array Plate emitting resentful energy.
Anning picked up these four objects, her smile becoming much colder: "Well, isn’t this great, using such things to harm people."
"What should we do about this?" Xu Pengju had never seen such things and was truly frightened.
Xu Xingsheng was also staring at Anning with wide eyes.
Anning sneered coldly, threw the weapon to the ground, and stomped on it hard several times. She kept the two iron nails, tore the talisman paper, and wiped off the Array Plate with a sweep of her hand; the thick evil energy vanished into thin air.
As for the corpse of the black cat, Anning instructed Xu Xingsheng to find a place to properly bury it. Before the burial, she conducted a ritual for its soul.
By the time they finished, it was almost dawn.
The three of them returned to Xu Pengju’s study.
Anning said to Xu Pengju, "Uncle, have you offended anyone recently? Or maybe you should think carefully whether someone might be harboring grudge against you."
Xu Pengju thought for a long time but couldn’t figure out who would hate him so much as to want his entire family dead.
Seeing that he couldn’t come up with an answer, Anning did not press further: "Alright, we’ll talk about this later. Uncle, be careful these days. If you don’t need to go out, then stay in."
Xu Pengju was truly scared, his complexion still looking very poor: "I understand."
When Anning returned to her room, she flipped over her right hand and took out the Array Plate.
She bit her fingertip and dropped a drop of blood on the Array Plate, then drew a talisman and affixed it to the Array Plate.
About two miles away from the Xu family, there was a dilapidated hut. Inside, a middle-aged man was sitting cross-legged, muttering incantations.
Standing beside the middle-aged man was a young master dressed lavishly.
If Xiao Yuan were here, he would recognize who it was.
This was Young Master Li, who had a falling out with him and had been beaten severely.
He looked at the middle-aged man and asked softly, "Is it done?"
The middle-aged man had a smile on his lips, but suddenly, he let out a scream and a mouthful of fresh blood sprayed out: "Not good, the other side has brought in a master."
Young Master Li was shocked.
He couldn’t help but take a few steps back.
At this moment, the middle-aged man was suffering a backlash, rolling on the ground in pain.
He pointed towards the door and said to Young Master Li.
Young Master Li took to his heels and ran.
He had only run out when he saw the house’s beams collapse, and the whole house went down with a crash. Afterward, the candles inside set fire to the wood, and soon the entire house was ablaze. The middle-aged man never came out and was presumably dead.
Young Master Li’s face turned pale with fright.
He had not anticipated that his attempt at harming others would backfire on himself. At this moment, his legs were shaking, and a scent of urine arose from him.
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She simply used the Array Plate to make the sorcerer suffer a backlash.
She knew that the person performing the sorcery must have perished.
Then, she went to check on the child poison, and seeing that the insect was alive and well, she knew that the Mother Poisonous Insect must not be on the sorcerer’s body.
That is to say, besides the sorcerer, there was another person wanting to harm her.
Anning chuckled lightly, put away the child poison, and then went to bed.
The next day she got up early and went straight to the Xu Family’s storeroom to find some medicinal herbs.
Seeing that the medicinal herbs were not enough, Anning went out to buy more.
After she finished purchasing the herbs, she started to steam, dry, and soak them with a special technique, before grinding them into powder.
This kept Anning busy for the whole day, and by evening, she finally finished preparing the medicine powder.
Anning took a basin, filled it with water, smiled, and sprinkled the medicine powder into the water, and then threw the child poison into it.
The child poison absorbed the medicine powder in the basin, growing increasingly larger and beginning to turn translucent.
Anning took advantage of this moment to draw talismans out of thin air; with a flick of her right hand, the talisman entered into the body of the child poison.
After a moment, the child poison’s whole body was snow-white, with a hint of gold, Anning chuckled lightly; mother and child had switched roles, it was done.
She waited a while longer and after having dinner, she saw that the child poison was almost sentient.
This medicine powder had been developed by Anning over a lifetime, specifically for nurturing poisonous insects.
Poisonous insects nurtured with such medicine powder were extremely strong and could advance rapidly. Child poisons could surpass Mother Poisonous Insects, and larvae could be more formidable than mature poisonous insects.
Now Anning’s child poison had already become more formidable than the Mother Poisonous Insect.
That is to say, this child poison had effectively become the Mother Poisonous Insect; it could control the Mother Poisonous Insect.
Anning waited for the child poison to ascend before taking it out and putting it into a box, then she propped her chin and began to ponder how to deal with the person carrying the Mother Poisonous Insect.
By this time, it was already late, and it was inconvenient for Anning to go out, she thought hard but could not come up with an idea, so she simply set it aside for now.
That night, Anning slept very soundly.
A rather strange dream.
She dreamt of someone chasing after a dog, calling it "my dear," and the dog ran about frantically in fear.
Then, she dreamt of a little girl hugging a frog and kissing it.
Also, there was someone who particularly loved a tiger, remained devoted to it despite everything, only to be killed by the tiger in the end.
When she woke up from the dream, the day had already lightened.
Sitting on her bed, recalling those dreams, Anning couldn’t help but laugh.
Could this be a case of dreams reflecting daily thoughts?
Her thoughts were not entirely pure, which is why she had such dreams.
However, the dreams were also good; she could give it a try.
Anning took the poisonous insect and went out, wandering around.
She first encountered a black cat, sleek and glossy, but Anning shook her head.
After that, she came across a cocky rooster and shook her head again.
Finally, Anning ran into an injured large yellow dog on the roadside, which was being chased and beaten.
This large yellow dog must have been a stray, the kind without an owner.
The yellow dog was very dirty, apparently having not eaten for several days, looking pitifully thin. Furthermore, its fur had been sheared in places, leaving it patchy, and it had many small wounds, indicative of its wretched state.
Anning bought a stuffed bun for the yellow dog to eat and also stroked its fur while whispering softly, "Quite pitiful indeed. Alright, it’s going to be you. I’ll find you a good home so you can enjoy a few comfortable days."
Having said that, Anning took out the poisonous insect and directly implanted it into the yellow dog.