My reborn husband and son are thinking about how to kill me every day.

In Yixing, at the Yilan Palace, King Qi Jing, his face dark, said, "Have the soldiers I sent to gather intelligence not returned yet? What have they been doing?"

He led his soldiers away from Qiongdu, and before they even reached Yixing, they heard a deafening explosion coming from the direction of Qiongdu.

Everyone was startled by the earth-shattering explosion.

At this moment, he was very grateful that he had listened to Grand Tutor Li and withdrawn from Qiongdu. Otherwise, he feared...

He felt a surge of fear and relief, and at the same time sent someone back to gather information.

Regardless, he needed to find out what had happened in Qiongdu. In his heart, he had always been temporarily away from Qiongdu.

Once the crisis is over, he will bring people back.

But just like before, he sent out three groups of people, but none of them came back to report.

This gave him a bad feeling, and he became increasingly irritable.

The courtiers who fled to Yilan Palace with their families were also extremely anxious, and they were just as worried as King Qi Jing about the earth-shattering explosion in Qiongdu.

Seeing that no news had come back for a long time, Grand Tutor Li worried that Yixing was also unsafe, and couldn't help but suggest: "Your Majesty, that sound doesn't seem to be the work of refugees. This old minister thinks that someone is probably using the refugees as a pretext to do their own thing."

We've probably fallen into Zhou's trap.

That plague was probably caused by the Zhou state, which wanted to throw our Qi state into chaos before taking advantage of the situation.

Qiongdu may already be occupied by Zhou soldiers. Next, they might even pursue us to Yixing. Should we... try to go somewhere else?"

Upon hearing Grand Tutor Li's words, King Jing of Qi slammed his hand on the table in anger, shouting, "Damn it! You treacherous brat!"

Grand Tutor Li said, "Your Majesty, the most important thing now is not to fall into their hands. If we fall into their hands, our Great Qi will be finished."

King Jing of Qi looked extremely grim.

Grand Tutor Li advised, “Your Majesty, your safety is of utmost importance. Why don’t we have the Imperial Guards escort you to a safer place first? We can leave some men here to continue gathering information in Qiongdu. Once we have a clear picture of the situation in Qiongdu, we will report back to you.”

King Qi Jing sneered and said, "You've made me run around like a drowning dog before I even understand the situation. If word gets out, won't I be laughed at? How will my great nation stand in this world after that?"

After he finished speaking, he called people over again and sent two groups of people out to investigate.

Considering the extreme risks of going to Qiongdu, where they might be captured by the Zhou people and unable to return to report, he divided his men into two groups and ordered them to keep an eye out for those who had escaped from Qiongdu, to gather information from them.

Unexpectedly, not long after sending people out, one of them came running back, crawling and rolling.

"Your Majesty, this is terrible news! There's a monster! We must run!"

King Qi Jing jumped up from his chair. "What did you say? What monster?"

Like King Jing of Qi, none of the ministers present understood what the soldiers meant.

The soldier stammered, "They look like snakes, with lots and lots of heads, but they're not snakes. They have incredibly sharp teeth. They eat people, and they come from Qiongdu."

At this, the expressions of King Qi Jing and all the ministers present changed.

King Qi Jing's eyes widened, his voice still filled with disbelief and shock, "Absurd! How could such a monster exist in this world?"

The ministers all looked at the soldier, clearly finding it absurd just like King Jing of Qi, and not yet fully believing what the soldier was saying.

"It's all true, Your Majesty. We really didn't lie. All my comrades who went to gather information with me were eaten by monsters. They sacrificed themselves to block the monsters for me, allowing me to escape back and report to Your Majesty."

The soldier, thinking of the tragic scene before his comrades died, couldn't help but burst into tears.

"My body is covered in the blood of my comrades, Your Majesty, let's escape! Don't let them sacrifice themselves in vain."

Seeing his heartbroken state, the ministers no longer had any doubts and began to panic.

Grand Tutor Li, with another burst of wild imagination, said, "Your Majesty, that monster might be a creature tamed by the Zhou Kingdom, specifically trained to deal with you. Your Majesty, make a decision quickly and escape! Don't fall into the Zhou Kingdom's treacherous trap."

King Jing of Qi found it utterly absurd!

Did the Zhou Kingdom specially train multi-headed monsters to murder him? Or were they large, snake-like creatures with many heads and long fangs?

This sounds absurd no matter how you look at it. How could such a thing exist in this world?

At that very moment, another team of soldiers he had sent out brought back the same message.

“We asked many people who had escaped from Qiongdu, and they all said that a ferocious monster, like a snake, had appeared in Qiongdu. People had no way to deal with the monster, and many people had been eaten by it.”

"They said they were lucky to escape quickly and survived. Those who ran slower and were unlucky were eaten by the monster."

……

Perhaps King Qi Jing hadn't believed before that such a monster existed in the world. But now, he had no doubts.

He hurriedly asked, "What was that deafening roar that came from Qiongdu? Have you asked around?"

The soldier said, "We asked around, and they all said they didn't know either. They said there were monsters in the city, and they barely managed to escape. Nobody dares to go back."

The ministers all turned pale upon hearing this.

Grand Tutor Li urged again, "Your Majesty! Let's escape quickly! Those monsters... we can deal with them later."

King Jing of Qi, no longer caring about saving face, ordered his men to continue westward. He also sent soldiers back to gather more information.

*

Inside the space, Lu Yanqi hesitated for a long time before finally taking out two pills from the porcelain bottle, dissolving them in water, and feeding them to Ji Yunshuang.

What finally made him decide was the delicate fragrance wafting from the air.

He had long noticed that every evening, a faint, delicate fragrance would waft through the air. The scent was so subtle that he couldn't identify what flower it came from.

But he knew that the fragrance was beneficial to his health. After practicing his martial arts while inhaling that faint fragrance, his skill level increased rapidly.

Just now, as he was holding the porcelain bottle, wondering if giving Ji Yunshuang too much medicine would harm her body, he smelled a faint fragrance coming from somewhere.

The fragrance in the air this time was stronger than the smells I had smelled before.

Moreover, he discovered that the life-saving pills Ji Yunshuang gave him had a similar scent to the flowers.

However, because the pills had a very faint fragrance, and it was mixed with the scent of other medicines, he didn't recognize it at first.

Upon discovering that the faint fragrance in the air resembled the scent of pills, he had a bold guess in his mind.

Perhaps, the substance that made this pill and the fragrance he smelled that night were the same thing...

Despite having this suspicion, he fed Ji Yunshuang two more pills. But he dared not be careless at all.

After feeding her the medicine, he stared at Ji Yunshuang nervously, afraid that something might go wrong after she took the medicine.