Chapter 408: with translation of chapter title

Once it enters the viscera, even a Great Luo Divine Immortal cannot save your life.

Either die, or continue living in a state neither human nor ghost.

As soon as these words were spoken, everyone who heard them rose.

Li Qingluo

Pei Lao Furen hurried forward, her emotions agitated as she seized the Miao girl's hand and asked: "Since you can tell at a glance that she has been poisoned, do you have a way to save her?"

If you can save my granddaughter's life, I am willing to give you half of my fortune.

Saying this, Pei Lao Furen's knees went weak and she was about to kneel: "Please, I beg you, save my granddaughter's life—"

Grandma

Xiuzhen

Old Lady

Everyone rushed forward to support Pei Lao Furen, and Li Qingluo was the first to rush over and embrace her grandmother's arm.

Grandmother had been proud all her life, yet now she was willing to kneel before a stranger for her sake.

Li Qingluo's tears instantly poured down.

Luo er

Luo'er, don't let Grandmother do this.

Pei Lao Furen raised her hand and wiped away her tears.

Silly child, Grandmother is willing and sincere in her plea; Grandmother feels nothing wrong with it.

you all

She gave a stern shout, lowering her head slightly to look at the others.

Luo Shen Yi

Dong Siyuan

The Miao girl glared at him, her eyes filled with extreme disgust: "Get lost!"

But at the moment Pei Lao Furen's knees touched the ground, she reached out and helped her up.

junior

DaLiang

we

Li Qingluo quickly said: "Grandmother, nothing should be forced. My fate, no matter the outcome, I will face it calmly."

Over the past year or more since her rebirth, Li Qingluo has already fulfilled many of her past life's regrets and grudges.

If she truly cannot be saved, she will not blame heaven or resent others.

Zu Li Ya, Zong Zheng Wu Heng

Pei Lao Furen: "You… Grandmother does not allow you to say such things!"

But whenever she thought of the girl's miserable state when the poison flared up, she could not bear it.

Dong Siyuan, A Jin

The Miao girl coldly said: "I've said it, don't call me Ajin! Disgusting!"

Dong Siyuan lowered his head with a look of loss.

Everyone's doubtful gazes went back and forth between the two, but at this moment no one dared to ask.

After the Miao girl took Li Qingluo's pulse, she swiftly drew a small knife from her waist.

Would you mind if I take some of your blood?

Li Qingluo naturally nodded: "Of course."

Saying this, she calmly rolled up her sleeve and then personally made a cut on her fair arm.

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The Miao girl caught some in a small bowl, and when she thought it was enough, she told her to step aside to tend to the wound.

Luo Shen Yi personally bandaged Li Qingluo's wound.

Meanwhile, the Miao girl took a bamboo tube from her waist under everyone's gaze.

She tilted the bamboo tube, and a completely snow-white worm fell into the bowl.

Only to see the worm wriggling in the bowl, soon crawling out and falling onto the tabletop.

But then, it had no movement.

The Miao girl prodded the worm back and forth, declaring: "Indeed, even your blood has become poisonous."

people

Dong Siyuan, Luo Fan

Luo Fan, MiaoJiang

If there is any need, we will certainly cooperate with all our might.

Miao woman

I

I've heard that the source of today's poison has also arrived; quickly take me to see it.

Dong Siyuan, Jin Sect Leader

Hudie

Butterfly Room

Judging by the appearance, she also took Hudie's blood.

"Please give me two more days, preferably when this young lady's poison flares up so I can get close to examine her; that timing would be best."

Li Qingluo nodded: "Good, I'll come when the poison acts up."

Saying that, she handed a poison from Kill Seven to the Miao girl.

The Miao girl smelled it and her face instantly changed.

Then she solemnly hurried back to her room.

Pei Lao Furen instructed Ying'er to bring people to stay here.

"Be attentive in service, handle affairs meticulously, and let them learn to prepare a few dishes of Great Chu or the MiaoJiang people."

"Whenever needed, run errands. If you need money, take the Token to get it—no need to come ask me."

"This courtyard is left for her use; just follow her arrangements."

Ying'er brought several grannies: "Yes, Old Lady."

Hudie has fallen into deep coma these past few days, so she can only stay here.

Dong Siyuan naturally also needs to stay behind.

Li Qingluo recalled that two Great Chu people were still locked up behind the mountain, so she gave Dong Siyuan a glance.

After they walked aside, Li Qingluo asked him: "What is the temperament of Sect Leader Jin?"

Dong Siyuan: "Is the County Lord worried she'll interfere with the matter of those two behind the mountain?"

Zu Liya likewise comes from MiaoJiang, and Zong Zheng Wu Heng is even the Sixth Prince of Great Chu.

MiaoJiang is also part of Great Chu's territory.

"Rest assured, the Witch Moon Sect and Cloud Valley are mortal enemies."

"They never involve themselves in court affairs; no matter how dynasties change outside, they don't care, only turning within their own sect's world."

"I didn't expect this time to be able to invite her down the mountain so easily."

Li Qingluo glanced dubiously at Dong Siyuan.

She had reason to suspect this Miao girl came for him.

The lover who vanished over a decade ago, who said he'd leave and left not a word.

And when news came again, it was a letter summoning her to DaLiang.

If she truly didn't care, why after all these years would she see him and first give him a beating?

The key is, Li Qingluo noticed Sect Leader Jin's hair bun is still that of an unmarried maiden.

While they were talking, two lovely young ladies carrying trays walked in.

Both looked like beauties with flowery faces and moonlike beauty.

Dong Siyuan: "They are Sect Leader Jin's disciples, one called A Lan, the other A Duo. They seem to know the etiquette."

"County Lord, rest assured, I'll keep an eye on them these days."

Although Dong Siyuan is trustworthy, Li Qingluo still left a Kill Two at Green Pine Temple.

After settling this, Li Qingluo went to the rear mountain of Green Pine Temple accompanied by Kill Seven.

Zu Liya was still hanging on the cliff.

After not seeing her for a few days, she had become so thin she looked like a skeleton.

It was as if something had reversely sucked her blood—terrifying to describe.

If not for being sure she still clung to life by a thread, Li Qingluo would have thought she was already tortured to death.

"Wake her up."

At Li Qingluo's command, a basin of cold water poured from above drenched Zu Liya.

Seeing she had no reaction, Kill Three then brought a bowl of pig's blood to pour down her throat.

Zu Liya instantly opened her eyes and eagerly gulped it down, not wasting a drop.

Not a single drop was spared.

Kill Seven and Leng Dian watching nearby almost vomited from nausea.

But Zu Liya grew more spirited the more she drank, finally licking the bowl clean.

Yet this was animal blood, unable to replenish what she lacked inside.

So she turned her head and 'waa'—vomiting even the bitter fluid in her stomach.

Her face had already burst open and split.

Now black and red, she had vomit hanging from her chest and mouth corners, her eyes drooping lifelessly.

She blankly turned her eyeballs, finally settling on Li Qingluo.

In her eyes finally sparked a hint of hatred.

"It's you…"

"Kill me… please kill me…"

Li Qingluo: "Can't you even bear this?"

"Isn't this poison something you yourself refined over five years?"

Li Qingluo raised her hand and sat down on the chair brought from behind.

She placed her hands lightly on the armrests, her eyes like cold stars, turning into icy sword light, revealing unquestionable dignity and intimidation.

This, this girl, when did she acquire such bearing?

Zu Liya's heart gave a great start.

She had never before placed the lost Li family's golden daughter in her eyes.

Even when she first heard of her, it was Zheng Wanxiu and her siblings saying they wanted to use this girl as a replacement body for their sickly brother.

In Zu Liya's eyes, she wasn't even worth a worm gu.

She left an impression only because the Sixth Prince said she seemed familiar with Jinling's underground defenses; if captured and used, it would surely benefit Great Chu's uprising.

So that's why she took out this medicine.

Who would have thought this medicine would become a blade that tortures her!

Zu Li Ya knows she cannot survive.

For more than half a month, she felt as if life were worse than death.

The experiences of this life have flashed through her mind like a cursory tour, over and over again.

Only now does she realize that the one she owes the most to deep in her heart is her own younger sister, Zha Yina.

The two sisters have depended on each other since childhood.

Back then, Zha Yina was clearly the master's most beloved disciple, yet she, for power and status, urged her to flee MiaoJiang to pursue true love.

Even after learning that the one she loved was not a good man, she neither warned nor stopped her, but instead fanned the flames behind her…

Watching her step by step fall into the abyss of love.

Then she used her closest kin—Hudie—to forge poison, cultivate a Gu, and draw blood.

"What on earth do you want to do?"

"Better tell me clearly, so I can die with satisfaction!"

Li Qingluo: "I want Hudie to live."

"I also want all the remaining poison you have left."

Zu Li Ya lifts the corner of her mouth: "Poison? Didn't I give all the poison to Qin Ling?"

Li Qingluo: "You may stay silent. But I can also keep you hanging on to life, so you cannot die, yet you cannot truly live either."

"Do you think I truly don't know about your dealings with Minister Wu Heng?"

"You want the military manual and also the Jinling City underground defense map. Behind you, Zu Li Ya, there is another master, isn't there?"

"Your Great Chu has been eyeing DaLiang with predatory intent; any fool can see what you're scheming, right?"

"The poison in your hand could not possibly be just one bottle handed over to Minister Wu Heng."

"Zu Li Ya, what exactly are your remaining conspiracies?"

"If you don't speak up, I will hand you over to DaLiang's Grand Justice Office; surely they have even more poisonous methods to deal with you, a Great Chu secret agent."

"Then, when the time comes, your broken arms and legs will be more than just the pain of being unable to drink human blood."

A trace of panic flashes in Zu Li Ya's eyes.

"You, stop scaring me!"

"The world I've seen, the storms I've weathered, are not something a little scoundrel like you can suppress with a few words and tricks!"

Li Qingluo: "Fine. Bring her another bowl of pig's blood to taste."

Zu Li Ya shouts in terror: "No—"

"I said!"

"I already ordered the people of Princess Qin Yu's residence to poison the upstream of the Qinhuai River… counting the days, it's just these two days."

"Then, everyone in Jinling City will become, like you and me, blood‑sucking demons!"

"Ha ha, hahahaha—"