Chapter 552: Luo'er Strikes Back! This Person Must Not Be Allowed to Stay!

The Empress's tone carried a faint excitement.

The palace maid standing beside the Empress replied in a low voice: "Your Highness, it should be her."

"I might need to paint another portrait, take it out of the palace to confirm."

"However, this matter is already nine out of ten certain."

The Empress slammed her palm heavily on the armrest: "It turns out she is actually the County Princess of the State of Liang."

"She actually ran to our Nan'an, stirring up the whole Nan'an's customs into a mess!"

"Now many women are following her to learn to open shops and do business; even I have been implicated and severely scolded by my father, and now what has become of the customs of Da Chu?"

"As the Mother of the World, how can I allow this foreign County Princess with sinister intentions to harm all the young women of Da Chu and stir up trouble here?"

"Once her identity is confirmed, I will surely take severe action against her!"

The palace maid advised: "Your Highness, don't be anxious."

"This is not the most urgent matter."

"What's important is that this woman is also a remnant of the Witch Moon Sect from MiaoJiang!"

"She surely possesses a treasure of the Witch Moon Sect!"

"This treasure can prolong life and grant immortality; otherwise, why would the Fourth Prince have gone to stir up trouble with the MiaoJiang tribes for Consort Ning's sake?"

The Empress listened, entranced.

Unable to contain herself, she asked excitedly: "How can you be certain that this treasure will definitely be on her?"

"She is none other than Li Wu's wife."

"You didn't see how Li Wu killed someone that night."

"Even the Heir of Marquis Wei Wu died at his hands."

"If I were to join you in harming his wife for this treasure, I fear that when Li Wu returns..."

The palace maid hurriedly said: "Your Highness, you're being foolish!"

"You are the Empress of the Central Palace; what can he possibly do to you?"

"Moreover, Li Wu hasn't returned yet, has he?"

"You yourself said that if he doesn't return today, it means he failed to complete the task the Emperor gave him."

"Even if he did return, these two days he's been stretched thin; furthermore, he's sheltering a foreign County Princess who is also a remnant of the Witch Moon Sect—what more could be said even if we captured him?"

"After all, it's still the treasure that's most important!"

"Your Highness, as the Mother of the World, her not presenting this treasure to you voluntarily is already a grave offense of disrespect, yet you are still so lenient and kind-hearted."

"Leave this matter to me to handle..."

The two whispered again.

In the blink of an eye, night fell once more.

On the long street, a figure hurried toward the direction of the palace gate.

Suddenly, a pebble fell from the wall.

Then, four or five pebbles rolled to her feet.

The palace maid immediately stopped and nervously looked around.

The palace maid stopped in her tracks and nervously looked around.

The patrolling guard had not yet passed by.

Nearby, there were no palace maids or eunuchs.

Only the dim yellow lamp swayed in the corridor, casting the palace maid's own shadow on the ground, making it look like a fanged, five-clawed monster.

Suddenly, another black shadow swooped swiftly from the ground.

The palace maid quickly turned around.

A figure stood squarely behind her.

Before the palace maid could even let out a startled cry, the opponent seized her throat in one grip.

Then she was dragged into the darkness.

Then she was dragged into the darkness.

As the palace maid struggled, she panickedly shook open a bamboo tube from her waist.

The black-clothed figure with a covered face pressed it down firmly.

"Your poisonous insects are useless against me; don't waste your effort."

The palace maid hastily drew a dagger from her waist, but before she could strike, the opponent firmly grabbed her wrist.

Then, with a twist, she was forced to plunge the dagger deep into the base of her own thigh.

A anguished cry escaped from her covered mouth.

The black-clothed figure covered her mouth with one hand and continued to control her wrist with the other.

As she lifted her hand, the moment the dagger was pulled from the base of her thigh, a jet of blood spurted out.

Next, the bamboo tube spilled onto the ground.

Inside, the countless insects instantly burst out.

They plunged into the pool of blood on the ground and in an instant sucked every drop dry.

They plunged into the bloodstain on the ground and in an instant sucked all the blood dry.

Saying that, he stabbed another knife into her abdomen.

When he pulled the blade out again, blood dripped and splattered all over the ground.

Watching the pile of poisonous insects surge again toward the blood pool, the palace maid's face instantly filled with despair.

Watching the mass of poisonous insects surge again toward the blood‑soaked shore, the palace maid's face instantly filled with despair.

"Can't... eat anymore..."

Black-clothed person: "Why?"

"Because drinking too much of your blood will cause a violent death, right?"

"But this little bit is clearly not enough."

"How about this?"

Speaking, the black-clothed person grabbed the palace maid's wrist, lifted it high, and then cut it off with another stroke.

The palace maid instantly felt despair.

She knew the black-clothed person behind her must be a woman!

But where in this world is there a woman with such great strength!!

Not only is she strong, her methods are also vicious.

This isn't about making those poisonous insects burst from overfeeding.

But also to risk one's own life!

"Who exactly are you——"

The black-clothed person stepped forward, and in the faint light, slowly pulled down their veil.

"Aren't you trying to join forces with the Empress to take my life?"

"How come you don't recognize me so quickly?"

"You want to harm me, but do you have the fate for it?"

Li Qingluo's icy, breathtakingly beautiful face was half-revealed.

The palace maid screamed in fright: "Is it you——?"

And this palace maid was naturally not a real palace maid.

But rather, she is the person who, in the Empress's palace today, is stirring the Empress to harm Li Qingluo.

Li Qingluo recognized her.

At that night banquet in the palace, this woman was clearly beside Zongzheng Wuxie.

Li Qingluo remembered her.

Because she had glanced at me several more times then.

So afterward Li Qingluo had Wu De and his grandson investigate her.

The information received was that this woman is indeed a person from Cloud Valley.

And it's highly likely she saw me in MiaoJiang, which is why she glanced at me several extra times.

Now, this speculation has been thoroughly confirmed.

This woman is the one who recognizes me!

Moreover, she even wants to use the Empress's hand to get rid of me!

Li Qingluo: "It's you who brought this upon yourself."

"Your life cannot be spared any longer."

Having said that, Li Qingluo shoved her hard.

Pushing her into her own pile of poisonous insects and pool of blood.

"No, no——"

"Ah——ah!!"

Soon, her poisonous insects burrowed into her flesh through her wounds.

Next, countless dense wounds were filled with the poisonous insects she herself had raised.

Under her skin they frenziedly burrowed, incessantly gnawing at her unusually fresh flesh.

However, immediately afterward, those poisonous insects each violently burst and died together with her in the darkness……