Chapter 1162: One Side of Water and Soil Raises One Side of People

"Then I don't know."

Dong Rui looked at her, unable to hide his curiosity: "What flaw did you reveal that was discovered by the Bo King?"

This woman had been plotting for a long time, and the plan seemed well-thought-out. How did the Bo King suddenly discover that the person behind the scenes who stole the tribute and framed the Bo Kingdom was her? "The slip-up should have been with the Imperial Physician Assistant Wang Chuanyi." Consort Mei said leisurely, "Imperial Physician Chen revealed that he had used sedatives on the Bo Second Prince, not that his condition had improved. This was how Wang Chuanyi was pulled down, and he himself sat in the position of Imperial Physician Assistant. After the Bo King recalled it later, he probably guessed that it was me who borrowed his hand to cut off Wang Chuanyi's head."

"Do you have a grudge against Wang Chuanyi?"

"He was the one ordered to prepare the poisoned wine and force it down my father's throat." Consort Mei stated the facts in her heart, "The Bo King's lackeys and accomplices all deserve to die, and I can't let a single one go! But I was indeed too impatient at the time; this person should have been dealt with last."

A small mistake exposed her.

"Of course, there is another possibility, and that is you." She pointed to He Lingchuan.

He Lingchuan was a bit surprised: "Me?"

"In Xun City, Nangong Yan wanted to find trouble with you, but I stopped him." Consort Mei said gloomily, "Nangong Yan always had some suspicions about me. I shouldn't have been meddling under his nose."

Dong Rui asked her: "Why did you help us?"

"I thought you were just innocent passersby." Consort Mei sighed, "The Feather Guards arresting and killing wrongly is already a common occurrence. I can save one if I can, and save a pair if I can."

"You're quite kind-hearted."

"Actually, you didn't need my help at all, right?" Consort Mei changed her posture and leaned against the wall, "Nangong Yan was later killed by you, right?"

He Lingchuan didn't make a sound, and Dong Rui answered first: "He and the Gold Guards under him were not easy to kill."

Consort Mei looked at Dong Rui, her beautiful eyes deep: "At least half of the Bo King's evil deeds were completed by Nangong Yan on his behalf. This person is guilty of heinous crimes, yet no one in the Bo Kingdom could defeat him. You eliminated the violent and brought peace, a great achievement. The people are all grateful; why be unsung heroes?"

Hearing the beauty's gentle praise, Dong Rui's chest puffed out unconsciously.

He Lingchuan, however, remained unmoved: "The 'Elder Cao' who secretly traded the Bright Lamp with the Bo Kingdom was impersonated by you, right?"

Elder Cao himself vehemently denied it, and there were Carefree Sect disciples to testify, so the one who truly handed the Bright Lamp to the Bo King was a fake.

As soon as he returned to business, Consort Mei pouted and had to admit: "Hmm, it was me."

"How did you do it?"

Consort Mei bit her lip subconsciously, took out an object, and handed it over reluctantly.

This object was round and blunt, slightly reddish in color, and seemed to have a layer of short, fine fluff on the surface.

"Looks like deer antler." Dong Rui also leaned over to look, "What is this?"

"Mirage Horn."

This answer was far beyond expectations, and both were very surprised: "What?"

"This is a horn shed by a Mirage Demon long ago."

"With just a Mirage Demon's illusion, you have the confidence to deceive the Bo King's envoy and officials?"

Although the Bo Kingdom's primordial power was weak, seeing through a bit of illusion might not require much primordial power, and the Bo envoy himself had some cultivation. Most importantly, Consort Mei's strategy only allowed for success and not failure. Without feasible confidence, she wouldn't dare to do this, right? On Zhu Erniang's Silk Island, there was also a Mirage Demon, and He Lingchuan also didn't know what it looked like.

But that was because it never showed itself in front of He Lingchuan, and he didn't want to force the other party.

According to Zhu Erniang, Mirage Demons had different forms and were not uniform.

This was a peculiar and rare demon species.

Having handed over her life-saving treasure, Consort Mei said dejectedly: "Ordinary illusions might not, but this Mirage Demon is an ancient great immortal!"

An ancient great immortal? He Lingchuan's heart moved, and a strange thought popped up.

No way? "Which one, does it have a title?"

"Its honorable title is 'True Person Thousand Illusions'."

He Lingchuan and Dong Rui looked at each other, unable to speak for a long time.

A Spirit Mountain mission more than a year later actually had a clue appear at this time, in this place?

"How did you get such a rare treasure?"

"My father accidentally obtained an immortal's old collection, and the Mirage Horn was among them." Consort Mei said indifferently, "This Mirage Horn was originally a pair; I used the other one on Bai Mao Mountain."

"The Bright Lamp?" He Lingchuan had an idea, "You didn't attack the Shadow Tooth Guards at all, right?"

"Yes." Consort Mei nodded, "If I had such good skills, would I still need to borrow the power of the Mou Kingdom to take revenge?"

"Wait." Dong Rui was confused on the side, "Then how was the Bright Lamp in the hands of the Shadow Tooth Guards stolen?"

He Lingchuan pointed out: "The Shadow Tooth Guards never got the Bright Lamp, so there was no such thing as it being stolen."

"When the Bright Lamp matured, I climbed Bai Mao Mountain in advance, collected the Bright Lamp, and then used a Mirage Horn to transform it into the appearance of the Bright Lamp, letting the Shadow Tooth Guards take it away." Consort Mei pointed to the Mirage Horn, "This kind of passing off the fake as the real can be maintained for three days, and even those with great supernatural powers might not be able to see through it. But once the Mirage Horn is materialized into a real object, after the three-day deadline, it will disappear on its own."

"Three days." He Lingchuan suddenly realized, "But after the Shadow Tooth Guards took the fake Bright Lamp, they left too quickly, so you had people create floating wood to block Giant Deer Port, with the purpose of delaying them from boarding the ship."

"Heaven helped me; there happened to be a fleet carrying timber at the time."

When the Shadow Tooth Guards discovered the Bright Lamp was missing before boarding the ship, they naturally wouldn't leave and started investigating the thief.

Consort Mei just had to lead them to the Bo Kingdom.

Dong Rui let out an "um": "Is Elder Wu of the Carefree Sect also your accomplice?"

"That's not it, just a coincidence, I've met him a few times."

She emphasized the words "coincidence."

"As soon as I saw this person, I knew he was lecherous. Yet he still wanted to pretend to be righteous and talk to me." Consort Mei brushed her temples and smiled, "I have plenty of ways to deal with this kind of person. As long as I accompany him for a few drinks, he will pour his heart out to me, and then I feed him a little medicine, and he tells me the password for the Bright Lamp."

"Later I left, and he never knew my true identity." Until He Lingchuan showed Consort Mei's wanted portrait to Elder Wu.

He Lingchuan and Dong Rui both felt a chill in their hearts. Even if Elder Wu was a bit lecherous, being able to climb to the position of Elder of the Carefree Sect and control the Bright Lamp password showed that he really had some skills.

Such a cultivator, yet he was defeated and crushed in front of Consort Mei? Cough, sure enough, lust is a bone-scraping steel knife.

"Where did the red string on your wrist come from?"

"This?" Consort Mei raised her wrist, revealing the red string, "It was also collected by my father."

Dong Rui couldn't help but ask: "Who is your father?"

How could he collect so many strange objects?

"My father is Mai Liansheng." Consort Mei revealed some sadness in her eyes, "He once assisted the current Bo King in raising troops, but was killed by the Bo King after the country was established!"

He Lingchuan suddenly realized: "So it was that Lord Mai."

When he first arrived in the Bo Kingdom capital, he encountered the guards searching for "rebel remnants," which was also the crime Jin Bai and other Shadow Tooth Guards were accused of—the Mai Party.

He even saw civilians secretly burning paper in the dark alleys of the Bo capital, and the memorial tablet they were offering was Lord Mai.

Burning paper for Mai Liansheng was risky, but people still did it.

"My father was a good official who loved the people and was deeply supported by them, yet he was poisoned by the Bo King out of suspicion! That year I was nine years old and saw my family destroyed with my own eyes." Consort Mei said gloomily, "Over the years, many people have borrowed my father's name to revolt, but unfortunately, none have succeeded."

Mai Liansheng had a foundation of public opinion in the Bo Kingdom, and others even had to use his banner to revolt.

He Lingchuan suddenly asked: "Does the Bo Second Prince's insanity also have something to do with you?"

"Good people don't live long in this world, and scourges live for a thousand years. If I hadn't made a move, how could he have gone crazy while perfectly fine?" Consort Mei said lightly, "The Bo Second Prince is also not a good thing, cruel and suspicious, very much like his father. Heh, it's ironic: before he went crazy, the old Bo King was also very wary of him."

This woman could harm whoever she wanted. Dong Rui admired her more and more: "How did you make him crazy, with medicine?"

"The Bo King and his son did too many evil deeds, so they were extra careful with their own food. I've been in the palace for more than two years, and the Bo King never eats with me, never lets me stay overnight, and even when drinking, he drinks his, and I drink mine. I couldn't poison them at all." Perhaps her legs were numb, Consort Mei changed her sitting posture, and that figure, carved by the candlelight, inadvertently revealed a bit of enchantment.

Dong Rui was a bit distracted subconsciously. No matter from which angle he looked, this woman seemed to have no flaws.

"But the Bo Second Prince likes to covet his father's things the most, especially those he can't get. I just need to appear in front of him a few more times, be cold and indifferent to him, and the Bo Second Prince will naturally be interested in me."

"The more interested he is in me, the more I ignore him, and I even advise him to respect himself. Finally, one time, the Bo Second Prince couldn't hold back and wanted to force himself on me, but was caught red-handed by his father!" Consort Mei pouted, looking at her slender, fair fingernails, "From then on, every time the Bo Second Prince saw me, there was a fire burning in his eyes."

What you can't get is always restless.

"This person has poor character, but his cultivation talent is good, and he practices the orthodox mental method that the Bo King spent a lot of money to seek for him. This mental method is fast-acting and powerful, and the only problem is that it has very high requirements for the practitioner's focus. A slight mistake and..." Consort Mei shrugged, "I managed to go to the hot springs at the imperial villa with the Bo King, having as much fun as possible, and 'happily' bumped into him. Heh, he was hiding in the bushes peeking, thinking I didn't know! That night, he went into qi deviation."

Dong Rui gave a thumbs up: "High, truly high!"

A wet beauty, a charming body, graceful low moans, and all kinds of indescribable things with his old man. Let alone the Bo Second Prince who had ulterior motives for her, if any other man came, he would also have blood flowing backward while practicing.

This female demon didn't need a knife to kill.

"The Bo King's death, it's a pity I couldn't see it with my own eyes." Consort Mei looked up and asked He Lingchuan, "Was he painful? Did he suffer?"

(End of chapter)

"In the end, she said she had succeeded in her revenge and could die without regrets, just to make us..." He Lingchuan looked at Dong Rui, "to make you feel pity and let her go. You likely couldn't bear to bind such a beauty and take her back to the Mou Nation to face justice."

The moment he first laid eyes on Consort Mei, he knew she wanted to live.

Even if this world was as rotten as a quagmire, she still wanted to live; even if there wasn't a shred of justice in heaven or on earth, she still wanted to live; she had finally taken her revenge and could finally breathe for herself.

And only by surviving was there hope, was there everything... was there a future. That was why there was still light in her eyes—the light of one who seeks life in the face of death.

Her desire to live was far stronger than the walking corpses He Lingchuan had grown accustomed to seeing on the Flash Gold Plain.

Dong Rui made a scoffing sound: "Is it just me who felt pity? You were the one who let her go!"

(End of chapter)