Chapter 29: Gepu Clan

Li Xiaosi fed the centipede her own blood, and at this moment, the centipede was already gasping for air and dying.

And the Gu insect is connected to the mind of the person who refines it; at this moment, it suffered heavy damage, and the person who refined it also suffered a backlash.

These poisonous insects crawling around in the courtyard were because the owner's mind was damaged and he had no strength to restrain them, so they crawled out.

These poisonous insects had not yet been refined into Gu insects, so they should be spare materials, without the ferocity of Gu insects, so they were just scurrying in the courtyard and didn't hurt anyone.

And as soon as Li Miao landed, he smelled a bloody scent, hidden among a group of female family members huddled together.

The poisonous insects didn't hurt anyone, so the blood was naturally the blood vomited by the owner of the Gu insect when his mind was damaged.

Li Miao looked at a woman with a beautiful face and pale complexion among the group of female family members.

She was holding a handkerchief at this moment, covering her mouth, as if she were retching from being scared by the poisonous insects.

A group of female family members screamed from time to time, huddled together, and the courtyard was in chaos, so the woman was not conspicuous hidden among them, but the trace of bloody scent leaked out and was smelled by Li Miao.

At this moment, everyone in the courtyard was stunned by Li Miao's powerful palms and didn't dare to move; hearing Li Miao report the name of the Embroidered Uniform Guard, they were even more dumbfounded than when they saw the poisonous insects crawling all over the ground.

Although the Embroidered Uniform Guard rarely handles cases of ordinary commoners, in the Great Shuo, the so-called public opinion is still dominated by three parts: officials, scholars, and Ordinary Jianghu people.

And in the views of these three parts, the Embroidered Uniform Guard is undoubtedly synonymous with cruelty, tyranny, and coldness.

So among the commoners, even if basically no one has seen them, the name of the Embroidered Uniform Guard still carries considerable weight.

Li Miao finished speaking, and his eyes stared straight at the group of female family members.

At this moment, the group of female family members was stared at by Li Miao, as if their throats were gripped, and the chattering sound stopped.

After a while, a few people on the periphery walked away tremblingly, and seeing Li Miao didn't react, others also scattered like birds and beasts.

Revealing the woman who was standing still with a pale complexion.

"Sigh..."

She sighed lightly and put down the handkerchief covering her mouth.

The handkerchief was bright red, and there were still residual blood stains on the corners of her mouth, making that beautiful face look eerie and enchanting.

"Still, one step too slow, couldn't hide."

She stepped forward a few steps and bowed to Li Miao.

"This concubine is of the Gepu clan, I have seen the Lord."

Li Miao looked her up and down, didn't speak, raised his hand, and struck a palm at her from a distance.

The few palms he used to kill the poisonous insects were deliberately controlled in power, dispersing the strength to kill insects without hurting people.

This palm was different.

With one palm struck, true energy burst forth, emitting a stern wind sound, hitting the Gepu woman's chest from a distance of more than ten steps.

*Pfft——! *

The Gepu woman flew backward in response, spraying blood from her mouth, hitting a corner of the wall heavily, and fell to the ground.

"Cough cough... *retch*——"

She opened her mouth to speak, and another mouthful of blood gushed out; it took a long time to recover, and she barely spoke.

"Lord, good methods..."

"With this kind of skill, I have been in the Central Plains for many years, and I have truly never heard of it..."

"But... is it the Commander himself?..."

The Gepu woman was struck by Li Miao's palm from a distance and could still speak, but there was a patch of black pus and blood on her chest, emitting a stench, and some limbs of poisonous insects fell from her collar.

She used the Gu insects she raised to block Li Miao's palm, but was still hit into heavy injury.

And looking at Li Miao's indifferent appearance, the palm just now was clearly just a casual act, not using full strength.

"You know quite a lot, I don't have such a big official position, just a fifth-rank Thousand-Household."

Li Miao looked at her: "I originally thought it was some ignorant village woman who accidentally obtained the refining method of Gu insects, didn't know the weight, killed people indiscriminately, and wanted to plot the money of the Wu mansion."

"But looking at your appearance, it is different from Central Plains women... Gepu clan... are you from the twelve branches of the Miao nationality?"

"Actually still have a foundation."

"Since you know the Embroidered Uniform Guard, and you are not someone without a master, where did you get the courage to kill people and refine Gu in this Pingshan Guard?"

Li Miao's palm was controlled in strength, just to make her injured but not dead.

Miao territory witchcraft and Gu are eerie and hard to guard against, not the same path as Central Plains martial arts, and no matter how high the martial arts, it is difficult to avoid omissions.

Li Miao wouldn't let her stand there and talk properly; anyway, she was someone with human lives on her hands, so he would beat her to her knees first, and then come to ask questions.

Of course, he wouldn't really

"How should I put it... I can only say that for a moment, I was blinded by greed."

The woman of the Ge Pu clan sighed.

"I originally thought that the art of witchcraft and Gu was rarely known in the Central Plains. Even if I went a bit too far in those few days, it would only be treated as some gossip or rumor."

"Even if lives were lost, it wouldn't be reported to the Embroidered Uniform Guard for a while."

"When that flying thief came that day, playing god and acting like a ghost, I was actually happy for a while, thinking that heaven had sent me a helper. With him causing such a scene, it would drag things out even longer."

"Who would have thought that you... would arrive so quickly..."

"It was my own... foolish wishful thinking..."

At this moment, her face was full of sorrow, and paired with her beautiful features, she looked pitifully fragile, like Xi Shi clutching her heart.

Squire Wu, who had been standing at the door of the main room in a daze, saw her miserable state and couldn't help but stammer, "Ping... Ping'er..."

"You..."

But after being glared at by Li Miao, he swallowed his words, his eyes fixed straight on the woman of the Ge Pu clan, full of pity.

Squire Wu was not stupid; hearing the exchange between Li Miao and the woman of the Ge Pu clan, he had already roughly understood the current situation.

But to be honest, compared to the shock that the culprit behind the recent deaths was his own concubine of many years, the woman's current mournful appearance made his heart ache even more.

This was not surprising; no matter how good Squire Wu's reputation was in the Pingshan Garrison or how kind his appearance, he was still a quintessential feudal landlord.

He wouldn't turn a blind eye to the deaths of old guards, masters, or coroners, but to say he truly took them to heart would be a joke.

Li Miao didn't care about Squire Wu's feelings either; he just looked at the woman of the Ge Pu clan and said, "What was your plan, what was your goal, and do you have any accomplices? Speak."

"Don't think about making up some nonsense to fool me. I've been serving in the Embroidered Uniform Guard for twenty years; I've interrogated at least eight hundred people, if not a thousand."

"If you tell one lie, I will break one of your limbs. If you lie again, I'll break another."

"Don't think about holding out. Even if you're reduced to a human trunk, I have plenty of ways to make you talk."

At this moment, the plain and lazy expression on Li Miao's face vanished, and he looked at the woman of the Ge Pu clan coldly.

He never claimed to be a good person, and he acted entirely according to his own will. But for someone who would use beasts to harm their own kind, he would not spare any means.

To speak of humanity to such a thing would be giving her too much credit.

The woman of the Ge Pu clan, who had originally maintained a composed attitude, couldn't help but shudder under Li Miao's gaze.

(End of chapter)