The Evil Emperor's Favorite: The Sickly and Poisonous Concubine Goes Crazy

In the southern border of the Great Zhou Dynasty, after the reinforcements arrived in the south, with the victory of the Su family army's vanguard, the Zhou army soldiers rallied their forces and fought a fierce battle against Nanyue, capturing two cities from them.

Because of the Shanhe crossbow, the Nanyue army's elephant soldiers suffered heavy losses and wanted to retreat to Tuping City, which was the closest to Nanyue. However, they were trapped on the way back to the city for three whole days.

In Tuping City, Zang Shuo, the second prince of Nanyue, stood beside the sand table, looking at the valley that Tuping must pass through, in silence.

He had heard before that the Great Zhou Su family was good at using military formations, borrowing the mountains and rivers of heaven and earth, the eight trigrams, and the mysterious yellow. They could trap people or kill people.

In recent days, he has witnessed the horror of the Su family's military formations. They set up a trap in advance on the way his elephant soldiers retreated. There were very few formation masters in the South Vietnamese army, not to mention that they were facing the battle-hardened formation masters of the Su family army. They had been trapped in the valley for three days. The Su family's military formation was too mysterious. The distance between the inside and outside of the valley seemed very close, but the people outside could not get in and the people inside could not get out. If they were trapped any longer, within three days, more than half of his elephant soldiers would be killed. The elephant soldiers were too precious, and he had to find a way to break the formation.

"Your Highness, Miss Wen is here."

"Please ask her to come in." Zang Shuo still lowered his head and fiddled with the sand table without looking up.

Wen Lan'er was wearing a goose yellow brocade dress, with two braids, and a few strings of delicate and exquisite glass bells hanging around her waist, which jingled as she walked.

"Brother Shuo!"

Hearing the voice, Zang Shuo turned to look at him and smiled slightly:

"coming."

"I've seen the formation in the valley." Wen Lan'er looked uninterested and didn't greet him. She sat down on the chair as soon as she came in.

"How is it? Do you think you can solve it?" Zang Shuo handed her a glass of water and asked.

Although she was expelled from the list by Mo Linyuan, the person who was most proficient in formations in Nanyue was her master, the Imperial Master.

Wen Lan'er shook her head. "The valley is full of dense forests and deep grass, and full of poisonous insects, snakes and rats. It's an excellent environment for setting up an array. I went around it and it's no wonder that Master told me not to underestimate the enemy. The Great Zhou Su family's array is indeed something special."

"I need a team of people who are familiar with the formation and want to join me. Only by being in the formation can we break it the fastest."

"Okay, I'll order someone to prepare it."

Zang Shuo nodded and immediately sent someone to do it.

"Oh, by the way, there is one more person I want to take with me." Wen Lan'er seemed to have remembered someone and said to him.

"Who?"

"Mr. Wu. When I came here, he said he knew some formations of the Su family army. He was a Zhou person, so I took him with me."

Wu Sheng? Zang Shuo's eyes flashed with hesitation. When Mu Ling surrendered to Nanyue with half of the defense map of the southern border of the Great Zhou Dynasty, he and the national teacher changed his name to Wu Sheng at his request to ensure his safety in Nanyue for two years. But that man had some skills. In just a few months, he had attached himself to many dignitaries in the imperial city.

But when did he come into contact with Lan'er?

"If you think he's useful, then take him with you. But he has bad intentions, so you'd better be careful." He nodded and agreed.

As night fell, the valley was silent, with only the chirping of insects and the rustling of leaves in the wind. A group of people, led by Wen Lan'er, approached the valley quietly.

Wen Lan'er and Wu Sheng stood at the front of the team, their eyes fixed on the quiet valley shrouded in clouds and mist ahead.

The fog was so thick that one could hardly see one step ahead, and the valley was so quiet that not a single sound of birds or animals could be heard. There was something strange about this valley.

"Mr. Wu, can you tell what kind of formation is set up in this valley?" She looked at Mu Ling, who had been silent beside her, and asked.

Mu Ling had a gloomy expression as he looked at the thick fog, a sense of familiarity coming over him.

"It's one of the Su family's eight trap formations - the Earth Trap. You have to enter the formation first before you can break it."

During his time in South Vietnam, the memories in his mind became clearer and clearer, including those about the southern border, about Su Ruofu, and even about how he came to hold that position.

He originally thought that it was just a dream of Zhuang Zhou, but this dream was too clear, he couldn't even regard it as a dream. For example, the formation in front of him, he saw Su Jingning set up the formation with his own eyes in his dream, and he also knew how to break it.

"Ground cage? Interesting!"

Wen Lan'er had a cute, non-aggressive face with a sneer that was totally inconsistent with her appearance.

She dismounted and walked to an old tree, then ordered people to bring bows and arrows to shoot a few arrows into the clouds. Only when there was a "bang" sound from the last arrow did she collect the arrows? Then she ordered people to take the anti-hallucination medicine that she had prepared in advance.

He said coldly to the people behind him: "Follow my steps. Don't make a wrong step, otherwise it will cause the formation to change."

Mu Ling followed her without saying a word. They walked carefully through the woods and headed deep into the valley.

As they went deeper into the valley, the scenery around them became more and more bizarre. The trees became twisted, as if they were distorted by an invisible force. The stones on the ground also showed strange arrangements, and there was a sense of danger everywhere.

They had walked a long way, but still did not hear the sound of elephants. Wen Lan'er and Muleng's faces became more and more solemn. They knew that they had entered the military formation of the Su family of the Great Zhou Dynasty.

Wen Lan'er closed her eyes slightly, recalling the knowledge about breaking the formation that she had learned from her master, and took every step very carefully. The bell on her body swayed gently with her movements, making a crisp sound, which seemed particularly abrupt in this quiet valley.

Mu Ling stared straight ahead, his eyes revealing an indescribable complex emotion.

"Be careful!" Wen Lan'er suddenly shouted, and dodged the sharp thorns that suddenly appeared in front of her.

Two soldiers behind him were unable to avoid it and were pierced in the chest by thorns and died.

"This formation seems to be spiritual and can make corresponding changes according to our movements. We must be careful." Wen Lan'er glanced at the two people and said in a low voice.

Mu Ling nodded and said nothing. He knew in his heart that each of the Su family's eight trap formations contained countless mysteries, otherwise they would not have trapped the elephant soldiers of South Vietnam for three days. It was a pity that he only knew the trap formation of the ground cage.

He had been observing the formation carefully since he entered it. Although the formation was slightly different from what he saw in his dream, he was able to tell the direction.

"Miss Wen, if you keep going in this direction, you should be able to find the center of the formation."

He pointed in the direction where the fog was thickest. The fog was shrouded in darkness, and the strangely twisted trees were like monsters lurking in the dark, ready to swallow people.

Wen Lan'er glanced at him, seeming to be hesitant.

"Are you sure?"

Mu Ling nodded calmly: "I have seen the formation of this formation with my own eyes."

Seeing that he didn't seem to be lying, she lowered her eyes to glance at the compass in her hand and nodded:

"Okay, go that way."

As they went deeper, the fog in the valley became thicker and thicker, as if it was about to swallow them up. Everything around them became blurry, with only the compass needle flickering faintly in the darkness.

A breeze blew in the quiet, almost still fog, and the fog was moving slowly. Wen Lan'er's eyes flashed with excitement.

We are almost finding the center of the formation.

"Light the torches." She said to the people around her.

The light suddenly ignited in the dark night, and the clouds dissipated faster.

Mu Ling looked at the pool of water made of stones in strange shapes that gradually appeared under the fog, and a smile appeared on the corner of his mouth.

"The center of the formation has been found."

Wen Lan'er looked at the pool of water but did not dare to be careless. This formation gave her a very strange feeling along the way. It was her first time to come into contact with a military formation. With such a small pool of water, such a huge formation could be controlled. The person who set up this formation must have understood the mutual generation and restraint of mountains and rivers, and the art of the five elements and eight trigrams to the extreme. It would be better for her to be cautious.

She directed people to remove the stones around the pool little by little, and only breathed a sigh of relief after the last stone was removed.

She watched the water in the pool slowly decrease, and a smile appeared on the corner of her mouth, but it suddenly froze the next moment.

"No! Leave now!"

Mu Ling's expression changed and he retreated desperately.

"boom!"

Suddenly, a loud noise echoed in the valley, as if the earth and the sky were shaking. Gradually, the sound in the valley returned, and the roar of the elephants resounded throughout the valley.

The formation is broken.

Outside the valley, Su Jingyi, wearing silver-white iron armor, stood on the top of the mountain, watching the elephant soldiers of Nanyue leaving the valley one after another.

"Fourth brother, the formation has been broken." Su Luoting stood behind her, with a hint of surprise in her eyes. Her black hair was tied up, but her petite figure was able to support the black iron armor that was shining with a cold light, and her gentle face was calm.

Su Jingyi was also a little surprised. When did a master of formation appear in Nanyue? However, this person who broke the formation could break the ground cage formation he set up, but he might not be able to defend against Ting'er's killing formation in the formation.

"It's okay. No matter how powerful the person who broke the formation was, he didn't see the killing formation you set up at the center of the formation. When people are happy, their defenses are the weakest. If she wants to step out of your killing formation, it won't be that easy."

"Withdraw the troops! Return to camp." Su Jingyi shouted with a smile on his face, and led the Xuanming Camp troops who were ambushing in the dark back to the camp.

A formation within a formation, and killing within a trap. Fortunately, when she was practicing this formation, her second sister saw it and taught her a move.

Su Luoting glanced at the faint fire in the valley, jumped on his horse, and followed Su Jingyi.

In Nanyue, Zang Shuo looked at the returning elephant soldiers with an unpleasant expression.

Almost half of the elephant soldiers he brought this time were killed, and the formation-breaking division that entered the formation with Wen Lan'er was completely wiped out. Only Wen Lan'er and Wu Sheng escaped from the formation, but both were seriously injured.

Wu Sheng is still in a coma, and Lan'er has injured her right hand. It may take another month or two for her to recover.

The army sent by the Zhou Dynasty this time was more difficult to deal with than he had imagined. Moreover, the Zhou Dynasty had a large military force and could continuously send troops to the southern border. The Zhou Dynasty could afford it, but Nanyue could not. It had to fight a quick and decisive battle.

"See the Imperial Preceptor!"

Hearing the voices of soldiers outside the tent, Zang Shuo looked up.

The man was dressed in a dark black robe and had a black scarf covering his face, revealing only his silent eyes. The scarlet mark on his forehead seemed to be even brighter.

"Imperial Master? Why are you here?" Zang Shuo looked surprised.

"We lost three cities in a row. His Majesty ordered me to come and take a look."

As soon as he finished speaking, a figure rushed in.

"Master! You have to avenge me! Look at my injuries!"

Wen Lan'er's right hand was bandaged and she had internal injuries. Her face was stained with blood and looked pale. When she saw You Baishu, she looked aggrieved.

"Didn't I tell you to rest? Why are you here?" Zang Shuo said to her softly.

But she ignored Zang Shuo who was concerned about her and looked straight at You Baishu, hoping that he would care about her.

But when the man spoke, she was disappointed.

"Master has reminded you not to underestimate the enemy." You Baishu's voice was calm and his eyes were still distant and indifferent.

He turned to look at the sand table in the tent and asked, "Do you still remember the formation?"

Wen Lan'er concealed the disappointment in her eyes and walked towards him:

"Remember, Master."

"You talk, and I'll draw." He nodded calmly, and the person next to him handed him paper and pen.

"By the way, Master, Wu Sheng said that the formation is called Earth Trap, and he has seen the technique of setting up the Earth Trap." Wen Lan'er came close to him with an innocent look.

When You Baishu heard the name, Wu Sheng? It was the Zhou Dynasty prince Mu Ling. His indifferent expression finally changed, revealing a hint of disgust:

"He is not someone worth making friends with. You'd better stay away from him."

Ever since Mu Ling stayed in South Vietnam, he always felt inexplicably uneasy, so he had a fortune-teller tell him. His fortune was very strange, one person, but had two fates, one was extremely prosperous, which was obtained by taking advantage of others' fortune, and the other was like an abyss, which he could not see clearly. But no matter what the two fates were, they were all cold and cruel, and his fortune-telling had never been wrong. It is better to stay away from such people.

Wen Lan'er hesitated for a moment, but still nodded in agreement. No matter what his master said, he would not disobey his master's orders:

"Yes."

As Wen Lan'er narrated, a formation diagram appeared in front of You Baishu.

"Master, that's it. The person who set up the formation was so malicious that he even set up a high-level killing formation at the last step of breaking the formation. Lan'er almost couldn't get out!"

You Baishu looked at the center of the formation and suddenly fell into deep thought. Giving a fatal blow at the most relaxed moment, this method seemed familiar.

"Array within an array, kill within an array!" He murmured in a low voice. He had broken through such an array in the hands of that man.

"Master, what did you say?" Wen Lan'er heard him whispering something and moved forward in confusion.

"It's nothing. You are injured. Go back and rest." He shook his head and said lightly.

"But, you still..." She wanted to refuse, but met her master's unquestionable gaze, so she had to change her words and walked out with a wronged look on her face.

You Baishu put away the formation diagram and sent everyone in the hall away before speaking to Zang Shuo:

"The Crown Prince has no moral integrity. The King has already issued a decree to depose him. It will be announced to the world in a few days. The decree to appoint a new Crown Prince should also be issued soon."

"Really?" A light flashed in Zang Shuo's eyes. The prince could defeat him except for being the eldest son. In no other way could he compare to him. His father was finally completely disappointed in him.

"Yes, but what the king meant is that it is after you take the other two cities on the defense map."

Zang Shuo was excited. There were eight cities on the blueprint Mu Ling gave him. They had all the guards of the Zhou army, and with the fierce attack, they quickly broke through six cities. In order not to disturb the other two cities, they did not move.

"I will capture those two cities for the king!"

You Baishu nodded and continued:

"The Shanhe Crossbow in the hands of the Great Zhou is suppressing the elephant soldiers. The elephant soldiers take a long time to train and are worn out too quickly. South Vietnam cannot afford to drag out the war with the Great Zhou. We must finish this battle as quickly as possible."

"Now that the Zhou Dynasty has transferred the Su family's military forces, the northern border of the Great Zhou has lost a force of support. This is the best opportunity for Northern Yan to take action. Even if Yan and Yue cannot swallow up the Great Zhou, they can still weaken the strength of the Zhou Dynasty."

"So, Your Highness, it's time to get Beiyan involved in this mess."

Zang Shuo looked at him, his eyes full of ambition and ruthlessness.

"Okay! With the Imperial Master's words, I feel relieved. I will send a letter to Northern Yan immediately. We have been allies for so long, it is time for them to contribute."