The villain, Xiao Nanliang, caused the female lead excruciating pain.

Upon hearing Ye Feng's words, Ning Hongyu fell into utter despair, her face filled with self-reproach and tears streaming down her face. She trembled as she hugged Su Qi tightly.

"Xiao Bao, I'm sorry, it's my fault."

At this moment, she felt immense regret.

She hated herself for dragging Su Qi into this mess, causing things to escalate to this point, beyond repair.

Just then, shouts of killing suddenly came from outside.

Bai Luo's expression darkened.

He knew that the Empress Dowager and Luo Ai's people had made their move.

At that moment, Su Qi, who had been barely breathing, suddenly sprang up and took out a jade talisman from his storage ring and threw it out.

boom……

The impact of the explosion caused everyone to stagger backward.

"Don't you dare leave!"

One of the guards saw Su Qi dragging someone towards the window and hastily raised his hand to strike from a distance.

"careful!"

Ning Hongyu saw the palm strike and turned around to stand behind Su Qi.

The palm strike landed squarely on her body, and Ning Hongyu coughed up blood and fainted.

Su Qi grabbed her tightly and jumped out of the window.

Just as the guards were about to give chase, Bai Luo stopped them.

"Don't worry about him, he won't live much longer. Things outside are more important now."

……

Holding the unconscious Ning Hongyu, Su Qi flew into the air on his sword. Seeing that no one was chasing after him, Su Qi stopped pretending.

Although it seemed dangerous just now, it was all an act.

Even if he was hit in a vital spot, he had already protected it with his marrow-turned-corpse technique.

Despite his seemingly near-death appearance, he was actually only slightly injured.

I glanced down.

Ying Muxue's palace has been surrounded.

A woman dressed in a phoenix robe was standing hand in hand with Luo Ai, the governor of Jingzhou.

The woman's eyes were full of determination and resolve, but she would occasionally glance at Luo Ai with a tender look.

Tsk tsk tsk, with a mother so obsessed with love, it's no wonder Ying Muxue wanted to eliminate any future troubles.

After speeding away from the capital, Su Qi landed in a random forest, placed the unconscious Ning Hongyu on the ground, and then turned and left.

After about the time it takes to drink a cup of tea, Su Qi captured a bandit of similar build to himself, took out the bone ball from his storage ring, and ignoring the bandit's cries of pain, shoved it directly into his mouth, controlling the bone ball to open.

Use your spiritual power to imprison him on the ground and wait quietly.

After a while, the bandits began to wail in agony.

Su Qi took a step back and released the restraints on his body.

"Ah~"

The bandit began to struggle violently, his hands scratching furrows into the ground. His body began to rot and emit a foul stench. In a few breaths, his entire body, along with his clothes and bones, turned into foul-smelling pus.

Su Qi observed three seconds of silence for him, then removed the mask from his face, tore off the ropes used to secure it, thought for a moment, pressed a bloody handprint onto it, and threw it a short distance away.

After glancing at the scene and checking to confirm everything was correct, Su Qi nodded in satisfaction and vanished in a flash.

About two hours later, Ning Hongyu slowly woke up.

"vomit……"

As soon as she opened her eyes, she was nauseated by the pungent stench.

She propped herself up and, seeing the disgusting pus beside her, instinctively moved a few steps away.

Suddenly, her hand touched something, and when she turned her head, she saw a familiar mask.

"This is... Xiao Bao's mask?"

As her memories gradually returned, she finally remembered and immediately looked around anxiously.

"Xiao Bao, where are you?"

After searching anxiously for a while, she finally found the marks of struggle and scratching around the pus.

Thinking of the venomous dragon-like creature that could cause decay, he glanced again at the mask that looked like it had been forcibly torn off, and the bloody handprint on it.

Ning Hongyu's face turned pale, and her lips trembled as she looked at the pool of thick liquid.

This is... Little Treasure, who was turned into thick water by the Remnant Dragon Deer?

No...no, Xiao Bao must still be alive.

Ning Hongyu covered her mouth, staggered back two steps, and collapsed to her knees, her eyes gradually filled with despair. Tears streamed uncontrollably down her face.

"what……"

A heart-wrenching wail echoed through the mountains and forests.

Several miles away on a hillside, Su Qi sat on a large tree, munching on fruit while enjoying the despair he had created for Ning Hongyu.

The little female lead is easy to control, isn't she?

After an unknown amount of time, Ning Hongyu finally cried herself to sleep.

Its eyes were lifeless, and it began to move like a walking corpse.

She walked to the pool of thick water, took off her outer robe, and spread it on the ground.

Then he used his hands to dig out the foul-smelling pus that had seeped into the soil and wrapped it up on his outer robe.

After doing all this, she cast a cleansing spell to make her hands clean, then picked up the mask and put it on her face.

Those lifeless eyes peered through the mask at the dug pit and the traces of struggle around it.

Ning Hongyu couldn't imagine what kind of suffering Xiaobao had gone through before he died.

The deathly stillness in his eyes was gradually replaced by hatred. His fists clenched so tightly that his nails dug deep into his flesh, and blood flowed out and dripped onto the ground.

"Ye Feng... Bai Luo... Great Ling Dynasty... I will make you all pay with your lives for Xiao Bao!"

As she gently stroked the foul-smelling bundle covering her body, a sickly look crept into Ning Hongyu's eyes.

"Xiao Bao, wait for your sister! I'll take them all over there and then come find you right away!"

After saying that, she closed her eyes, took a deep breath, and decisively turned and left with her bag on her back.

Watching from afar as the pillar of fortune around her turned into black energy, Su Qi tossed aside the fruit pit in his hand, clapped his hands, and turned to leave.

A day later, when Su Qi reappeared in the capital of the Great Spirit King, he had already reached the Nascent Soul stage.

I made a few inquiries.

As expected, the Empress Dowager and Luo Ai, the governor of Jingzhou, failed in their rebellion and were killed on the spot.

Ying Muxue went to court this morning as if nothing had happened, and the officials did not dare to utter a word about the Empress Dowager's death.

Su Qi hesitated, wondering if he should pretend to be Feng Baobao's master and extort money from the Great Ling Dynasty.

After thinking about it, he decided to give up.

If Ning Hongyu found out that the Nascent Soul Master who doted on Feng Baobao had actually accepted the money and wasn't going to pursue the Great Ling Dynasty anymore, it would seem very fake.

Moreover, judging by the time, it's time to return to the Eastern Region. If we don't go back soon, Du Yunyi really will lead her people to invade the Southern Region.

As for the female lead, Ying Muxue...

Su Qi thought it was okay to put it aside for now.

According to the information revealed in the scroll, when the original owner's previous life, the Yunmiao Immortal Sect, was chasing Ye Feng, the Great Ling Dynasty did not intervene to protect Ye Feng.

This means that Ye Feng had not yet won over the Empress by then.

Otherwise, given Ying Muxue's personality, she would never have let her man be hunted down without doing anything about it.

Moreover, judging by the timeline, Ye Feng will be returning to the Eastern Region soon.

Although I don't know why Ye Feng, who was doing so well in the Southern Region, suddenly went to the Eastern Region, the plot is arranged this way, so it can't be changed, right?

Two days later, Su Qi returned to Tianzui Ancient Capital in the Southern Region via the teleportation array of Tianfu Ancient Capital.

As he walked out of the city gate, he saw a person.

She seemed to emerge from the celestial mist, her figure light and her steps elegant. Her long, flowing hair cascaded down like a waterfall, shimmering with a faint moonlight.

Her face was exquisitely beautiful, her skin as white as snow, with a luminous glow. Beneath her arched eyebrows were a pair of watery eyes, like clear lake water, gentle and serene.

Her nose was straight and beautiful, and her lips were as luscious as cherries. When she smiled slightly, it was like a spring breeze, making people feel incredibly warm.

She wore a light blue fairy dress, its hem fluttering, as if she had blended into the surrounding clouds and mist. Every gesture she made exuded gentleness and tranquility, as if the hustle and bustle of the world had nothing to do with her.

What a coincidence.

In her past life, Du Yunyi died at her hands.

Ye Feng's master after joining the Qingyun Sect is Ruo Bingli, who is also one of the female protagonists.