The woman's voice was cold and her gaze venomous.
"Bang!" With a sound,
Several poisoned figures on the stage fell.
One figure in red and one in white leaped lightly, arriving on the stage, standing on Gu Qianying's left and right sides simultaneously.
Upon seeing Nangong Mo and Ouyang Qinglin, Gu Qianying quickly told them, "These are poisoned figures, toxic all over. Be careful."
After leaving the farmer's house, she had already left them clues. With the intelligence of Nangong Mo and Ouyang Qinglin, finding her would be effortless.
Poisoned figures? Dead warriors toxic all over?
This made both Nangong Mo and Ouyang Qinglin heighten their vigilance.
Among poisons, they had never encountered poisoned figures before.
With their inner energy fully unleashed, Nangong Mo, Ouyang Qinglin, and Gu Qianying engaged in a fierce battle with the numerous poisoned figures.
Standing not far away, the woman, at the moment Nangong Mo appeared, felt a moment of nervousness. However, she quickly changed her mind, "A'mo, come to me quickly. As long as you let this empress kill Gu Qianying, I promise, from now on, whatever you desire, this empress will give it to you. Come quickly."
After some coaxing,
Nangong Mo remained unmoved. His gaze was as cold as he looked at the nearly deranged and mentally unstable Xia Guo Hou, his voice unusually chilling, "Today, you must die!"
Beside Xia Guo Hou lay a human skin mask and the clothes worn by the old woman. It was clear that the old woman in the farmer's house was Xia Guo Hou in disguise, intending to lure Gu Qianying to this place. As for the old woman's son and daughter-in-law, they never existed.
Hearing Nangong Mo's heartless words, Xia Guo Hou's delicate features contorted. She suddenly roared, "A'mo, you are so cruel! You actually want me to die. I still long to keep you, yet you are so heartless. Fine, today, this empress will let all three of you die here!"
Hiss~
Her slender fingers suddenly slashed her wrist, blood spreading and dripping onto the ground.
Xia Guo Hou looked at Gu Qianying and the other two with an evil grin, "Enjoy your final moments! Hahaha!"
The blood dripping from her wrist turned from red to deep black. It dripped to her feet and, following a hidden crevice, reached the feet of hundreds of poisoned figures.
And those poisoned figures that smelled the deep black blood suddenly became frenzied, their combat power increasing several times over.
Even the fallen poisoned figures stood up as if divinely resurrected.
Seeing this, Gu Qianying and the other two,
Ouyang Qinglin and Nangong Mo both frowned, unsure of the current situation.
At this moment, Gu Qianying quickly said, "It's witchcraft! She used a form of witchcraft called 'Wu Gu,' an extremely potent and self-damaging evil蛊. Using her own poisoned blood and flesh as a medicinal guide, after twenty-one days, by consuming the most poisonous蛊 worms for sustenance, she created a batch of poisoned figures that obey her. These poisoned figures, upon smelling the master蛊's blood, become even more powerful. You two be careful."
As she spoke,
Gu Qianying poured all the medicinal powder from her small medicine pouch into her palm.
She divided it into three portions, giving one to Ouyang Qinglin and Nangong Mo each. "These poisoned figures are unkillable. The best method is to counter poison with poison. Although what I have here won't be very effective against them, it can temporarily slow down the toxins in their bodies, making their limbs move slower. This way, we can leave first and then find a way to deal with Xia Guo Hou."
Ouyang Qinglin and Nangong Mo agreed to this plan.
A dozen black poison pills were accurately thrown from the palms of Nangong Mo and the other two. Each one bounced into the mouths of the poisoned figures.
The poisoned figures that were fed the poison pills did indeed slow down.
Seizing this opportunity, Gu Qianying and the other two prepared to leave,
but suddenly, a swarm of poisonous insects crawled up rapidly from all directions, blocking their path.
"Want to leave? Utterly delusional!"
Xia Guo Hou's twisted expression was filled with malice. She glanced at the surrounding pit, which was drenched in flammable oil, and took out a prepared tinder to ignite it.
Her original plan was to burn Gu Qianying along with these poisoned figures, leave Ouyang Qinglin for the Emperor to deal with, and take Nangong Mo back to imprison him by her side under a new identity for her own enjoyment.
But the moment she slashed her wrist and fed her blood, she clearly saw the lifeline on her palm gradually disappearing, and a sharp pain erupted in her chest. She felt the approach of death.
The Emperor's words echoed in her mind: "Empress, though you have erred, this Emperor cannot bear to kill you. If you can help this Emperor kill Ouyang Qinglin and the other two this time, then this Emperor will overlook your past mistakes and allow you to remain by my side. As for Consort Chen, this Emperor can have her abdicate and retire, allowing you to continue as my Empress, alright?"
Hearing these words, she willingly used the most potent and self-harming evil蛊 left by her master, the sorcerer. But unexpectedly, Ouyang Ting had poisoned her, intending for her to die?
How ridiculous!
This was the laughable decision she made to abandon her master's legacy and turn into a devoted wife for a man!
Glancing at Gu Qianying and the other two trapped by the poisonous creatures, Xia Guo Hou let out a mournful laugh, "Hahaha, so be it, so be it. With you accompanying me to the underworld, this empress has no regrets in death, hahaha..."
Xia Guo Hou threw the tinder in her hand forward.
"Boom!"
Fire!
A sea of flames suddenly surged high, the fire spreading everywhere.
Gu Qianying and the other two's faces changed drastically.
"Not good, hurry!"
Among the three, Nangong Mo and Ouyang Qinglin simultaneously pulled Gu Qianying and leaped upwards along the vines towards the top of the pit.
But the fire was too fierce,
some of the vines hanging from the edge of the pit had already been burned by the great fire, rendering them unusable.
At this moment, the poisoned figures on the stage, surrounded by flames, turned into firemen and, in a moment, turned to ashes.
Seeing this, Nangong Mo and Ouyang Qinglin, with a tacit understanding, thought of a method.
A human ladder!
Although the three of them had profound inner energy and excellent Qinggong, the distance from the bottom of the pit to the top was too great. They could not ascend using Qinggong alone.
Therefore, the three of them needed to cooperate closely. After the person at the top grabbed the remaining vines, the other two would use that person's body as a stepping stone to perform Qinggong and climb up.
This was the most practical method at the moment.
Naturally,
Nangong Mo and Ouyang Qinglin both unanimously decided to let Gu Qianying leave first. They would serve as Gu Qianying's human ladder.
Gu Qianying refused without a second thought at first, but Nangong Mo and Ouyang Qinglin did not give her a chance to refuse.
Ouyang Qinglin grabbed Gu Qianying's wrist, and Nangong Mo supported Gu Qianying's foot, directly placing her on his shoulder.
Ouyang Qinglin, holding Gu Qianying with one hand, used his inner energy to throw her a distance. Gu Qianying's foot landed on Ouyang Qinglin's head, grabbing onto the uneven surface of the pit wall. She was only a zhang away from the opening above and could soon get out.
She looked down, and Ouyang Qinglin and Nangong Mo had not yet used their Qinggong.
Suddenly,
Xia Guo Hou, engulfed in flames and barely clinging to life, lunged at Nangong Mo, embracing him. "A'mo, die with me!"