Chapter 218 — Ambush

Then a voice like a silver bell, sweet to the ear, came down from the roof of that yin-laden ghost house, tinged with mockery and with delight: "Did you not say I was playing ghosts and spirits? Then I shall let you see for yourself just who is playing ghosts and spirits!" The demon sorcerer and the mysterious fat man, trapped in the coffin, naturally could not see who this woman on the roof was; but Shangguan Lue stood in the courtyard, enduring the fierce pain, and looked up—and suddenly drew a sharp breath of cold air. "So it is you!" he said in a cold voice. The woman laughed. "Who else but me? Heh heh heh heh..." Her laughter was crisp and carried a stirring, bewitching charm. There in the deep night, one saw only a slender figure seated alone on the rooftop, brows and eyes like a painting, glances like water, a myriad of charms, unmatched beauty—who else could it be but the Nine-Tailed Heavenly Fox, Xiaobai?