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The private room where the banquet was held was still in the same state as when Song Qingqian left, everything was normal and there was no trace of a fight.

Song Qingqian picked up the wine glass that Lu Jingchuan had used, brought it close to her nose and smelled it. Her eyes instantly turned cold. It was a sleeping potion!

So Lu Jingchuan must have been drugged and taken away after she left. This shopkeeper is indeed suspicious. But the place is heavily guarded, and it's not easy to take someone away.

Just then, Bei Chu burst in, anxiously reporting:

“Young Madam, I just asked around, and no one has left this room since you left.”

Song Qingqian nodded and calmly said, "The trick is still in this room. Search carefully and see if there are any secret passages or mechanisms here."

"Yes!"

Bei Chu was anxiously searching on the side.

Song Qingqian's gaze fell on a row of antique shelves against the wall. She noticed that many people liked to set up mechanisms on their ornaments, and wondered if this was a common practice.

She then began to rotate each of the ornaments, and sure enough, after a short while, she discovered the secret on a jade unicorn ornament.

"Bei Chu, this!"

Song Qingqian called out, and Bei Chu quickly came over. Following Song Qingqian's instructions, he forcefully turned the jade unicorn, and the antique shelf instantly began to move.

A short while later, a tunnel appeared, and the two of them quietly went in one after the other. The tunnel led directly to a grove of trees outside the post station.

Looking at the quiet surroundings, Bei Chu was extremely anxious, wondering what to do.

"Young Madam, has the master already been taken away and murdered?"

"Don't panic. Do you remember the side road we just took? Maybe they didn't even leave the post station."

After pondering for a moment, Song Qingqian instructed, "Continue searching around here. I'll go check another fork in the road."

Bei Chu nodded, and the two parted ways.

The reason Song Qingqian chose that side path was because it was too narrow, only wide enough for one person to pass through.

She thought that Li Jing would definitely not choose that one behind Lu Jingchuan's back, but now she had to reconsider.

Squeezing through the side path, after walking three or four meters, the passage suddenly opened up, and a stone door appeared in Song Qingqian's sight.

She tiptoed closer and suddenly heard a man's deep, sinister laugh coming from inside.

In the very center of the dark room stood a huge stone coffin, with Lu Jingchuan's limbs tightly bound to it with ropes.

Not far to his side, Li Jing stood respectfully to one side, while another man fiddled with a dagger and spoke to Lu Jingchuan…

Lu Jingchuan's forehead veins bulged, as if he was enduring immense pain. He gripped the stone coffin beneath him with both hands, his fingers bleeding from the friction.

The moment the man turned around, Song Qingqian's eyes narrowed deeply. His figure was exactly the same as the man who had been drinking at that time, but his face was completely different.

If it weren't for the injury on his arm that betrayed him, Song Qingqian might not have been able to tell that it was Lin Zhang!

Just as he was about to plunge a dagger into Lu Jingchuan's heart, Song Qingqian swiftly threw out the boomerang in her hand.

Li Jing couldn't dodge and fell to the ground instantly, his face pale. He stared blankly at the new wound on his abdomen...

Lin Zhang saw the boomerang and dodged it in time. Just as he was in shock, a hidden weapon swiftly pierced his heart.

Song Qingqian retrieved her boomerang and walked in. Lu Jingchuan saw her shaking her head in pain.

Song Qingqian then realized that Lu Jingchuan's eyes had turned blood red. Was Lin Zhang planning to sacrifice Lu Jingchuan?

She had only heard of this ancient secret technique, but had never seen it before…

Lin Zhang pulled the hidden weapon from his heart, his face changing drastically—it was deadly poison! Suddenly, he burst into laughter:

"So what if you kill me? Lu Jingchuan is doomed! Even in death, he'll never be reincarnated, hahaha..."

Song Qingqian gave a wicked smile, instantly moved closer to him, and before Lin Zhang could react, plunged the dagger in her hand into his heart.

"You're wrong. Today, you will be the one who dies, and you will be the one who is reduced to ashes!"

Song Qingqian ruthlessly twisted the dagger in her hand. Lin Zhang screamed and coughed up blood before dying from the poison.

Upon seeing this, Li Jing was so frightened that he instinctively backed away, pleading:

"Young Madam, please spare me! I... I was forced into this... I had my reasons..."

"Give me the antidote, and I'll consider sparing your life!"

After threatening him, Song Qingqian used a dagger to cut the restraints binding Lu Jingchuan and helped him up.

At this moment, Lu Jingchuan felt as if thousands of ants were constantly gnawing at his flesh and blood, causing him to itch unbearably all over and his body to feel somewhat out of control.

"I...I don't have the antidote. He gave it to me, he said..."

The shopkeeper, trembling, said, "He said that as long as the War God General dies, he can bring my son back to life, allowing Han'er's soul to possess the War God General's body and live on..."

"Bullshit, you actually believe such mindless nonsense?"

Song Qingqian cursed, "Either hand over the antidote, or you die!"

"Young mistress, please spare me! I was bewitched. I really have no antidote. Please have mercy on me. I will never dare to do it again."

Li Jing knelt down and repeatedly banged his head on the ground, each sound making a clear noise, demonstrating the sincerity of his apology.

Lu Jingchuan couldn't hold on any longer and coughed up a mouthful of blood. Song Qingqian's heart skipped a beat. She didn't care about Li Jing anymore and took out a Hundred Herbs Detoxification Pill from her space and stuffed it into Lu Jingchuan's mouth, making him swallow it.

This only treats the symptoms, not the root cause. Lu Jingchuan has been poisoned by a Gu, and only by removing the Gu can he be completely cured.

Li Jing suddenly realized and said, "I...I know what the War God General was poisoned with. Lin Zhang just fed him a corpse worm poison."

"They say...these insect eggs are incredibly powerful; they'll keep hatching inside him until they've completely devoured his internal organs, and then he'll be turned into a puppet..."

As Li Jing spoke, he lowered his head. As long as he became a puppet, he could summon Han'er's soul, and Han'er could possess his body.

Song Qingqian coldly rebuked, "Hand over the antidote!"

"I...I really didn't!"

"Since you are of no use in living, then die!"

As soon as Song Qingqian finished speaking, three hidden weapons pierced straight into his chest. Li Jing's eyes widened as he fell to the ground...

"Can I still leave?"

After Lu Jingchuan had calmed down for a moment, Song Qingqian asked, "Where do you feel unwell? Tell me, and I'll try to find a solution..."

Lu Jingchuan strongly suppressed his physical desires and whispered an explanation: "Itchy, incredibly itchy!"

Besides the itch, he also felt inexplicably excited, especially when Song Qingqian got closer, this feeling was even stronger.

"Hang in there, let's get out of here first!"

Song Qingqian helped Lu Jingchuan down from the stone coffin. Out of curiosity, she pushed open the coffin and was instantly astonished to find a skeleton lying inside…

"This...this can't be Li Jing's son, can it? Didn't he die on the battlefield?"

Lu Jingchuan stared at the skeleton in silence for a moment, then whispered an explanation: "It's Li Han. His body was taken away back then."