Chapter 622

Who? Naturally, it's the one who came to take your life!

Seeing that this cook was actually a woman, Ba Zha spat a mouthful of blood in anger.

"You are a person from the Central Plains—"

"I actually... fell into the hands of a Central Plains woman..."

Li Qingluo walked forward with a stern, cold expression and stepped hard on Ba Zha's chest.

"It's a pity, I did not become the living sacrifice of the Shatuo Buddha."

"But your subordinates Batu'er and Liu Li have become sacrifices, and they have already been fed to that water monster."

"And now that you have eaten that water monster, does that mean you have eaten them?"

Ba Zha felt another wave of nausea, but turning his head he could only spit out mouthfuls of blood.

"You... poisonous woman!"

"You will not die a good death..."

Seeing his miserable end and pain, Li Qingluo was extremely satisfied.

"They are waiting for you in hell; when you go down, the underworld's little demons will be waiting to cut you into a thousand pieces—"

Feeling Li Qingluo's killing intent, Ba Zha's face finally showed a look of shock.

"No, no!"

"The Shatuo Buddha will bless us; we killed so many innocents to serve him."

"No—"

Li Qingluo raised her knife and cut off both of Ba Zha's hands.

Amid his anguished howls, she coldly said: "If the Shatuo Buddha truly existed in this world, he would certainly not bless you lunatics!"

"The Buddha pities the world, helps the world, has already saved the world."

"And you, are you worthy?"

"Moreover, how dare you even covet Nanping, and dare to covet our Central Plains women?"

"Whether Central Plains women or Western Region women, none should become your tools for abuse!"

"You beast, you should have died long ago!"

Li Qingluo vented her anger, then without further words, she sliced Ba Zha's throat with a single stroke.

Ba Zha painfully clutched his throat, opened his mouth to howl again, but could not utter a single word.

Gradually, a pool of blood spread behind him.

He fell into that blood pool and then completely breathed his last.

Li Qingluo could no longer hold back, turned her head and vomited.

This pungent bloody smell is truly strong.

Her morning sickness reaction is growing stronger; Li Qingluo anxiously touched her belly: "Be good, Mother still has many things to do, help Mother, okay?"

She murmured softly, then suddenly heard a voice from beside her: "You're pregnant."

Li Qingluo gripped her knife and turned to face behind.

Seeing it was a beautiful woman, she also did not relax her guard.

"Are you the beauty from Ba Zha's rear courtyard? Come out!"

That beautiful woman had not yet spoken when Zhui Yu and Sha Yi rushed in together.

"Miss!"

Seeing Ba Zha already dead on the ground, the two simultaneously let out a sigh of relief.

Although they had different duties, Ba Zha was no ordinary person, so both felt nervous, fearing Li Qingluo alone could not handle him.

But now it seems their miss not only could cope, but did so quite well.

Although Li Qingluo's group had only twenty or thirty people, capturing the leader first, Ba Zha being dead, the others in the lord's manor naturally surrendered as well.

As for whether any other reinforcements would come to capture them, Li Qingluo's group is not worried at the moment.

"Rest assured, once Ba Zha is dead, as long as I step forward, no one will bother you again."

The speaker was precisely that beautiful woman just now.

She wore splendid robes, her bearing noble; at a glance one could tell her origins were extraordinary.

She knelt on the ground and sincerely kowtowed to Li Qingluo as thanks.

"I am the late king's consort, Hai Liye; after Ba Zha rebelled and usurped the throne, he forcibly kept me and made me a woman in his rear courtyard."

"I have merely survived until this day, waiting for him Ba Zha to reap what he sowed and meet a bad end!"

"So no matter where you come from, you upheld justice and killed Ba Zha; on behalf of the Ying Kingdom I deeply thank you."

"If you ever need help in the future, I, Hai Liye, will certainly do my utmost to repay you."

As it turned out, she was the former queen seized by Ba Zha.

To endure humiliation and bear burdens to this day is indeed no easy feat.

Li Qingluo stepped forward and helped her up: "Your Majesty, please rise, you are being too polite."

"However, I have a few questions I'd like to ask you: Is the Shatuo Buddha real or false? Also, do you know whether the river outside Ying Kingdom's city has always been unusable for the people?"

Hai Liye: "Our Ying Kingdom originally, like the other twelve states, worshipped the true Lord Allah. Five years ago, the teaching of the Shatuo Buddha suddenly appeared. Ba Zha was his most devout follower."

"After Ba Zha usurped the throne, he, to control the water source, fully promoted the Shatuo Buddha, and turned the river outside the city that the people could drink into a filthy, stinking ditch."

"Thus he could achieve his true goal: to fully control the Ying Kingdom, turning everyone into his slaves, unable to resist."

"We all hate him to death."

"Please believe the people of the Ying Kingdom; we harbor no harmful intent."

"The Ying Kingdom was originally an oasis in the desert; outside the city there were flowers, grass, trees, by the river there were cattle and sheep grazing, and even the people could play and splash in the river."

"Since Ba Zha arrived, everything has changed!"

"And among those innocent victims, there are also the citizens of Eagle King City who wanted to resist Ba Zha."

Upon hearing this, the queen's eyes reddened and tears slipped down.

Li Qingluo: "But now the water source in that cavern is already piled with corpses; even if Ba Zha dies, the water cannot be used."

Hai Liye's eyes filled with fury: "That beast! He died far too cheaply!"

Li Qingluo: "If I say I want to seal that cavern, may I have the queen's consent?"

If Queen Hai Liye were to oppose vehemently, Li Qingluo would naturally not proceed further.

After all, this is a matter of their own kingdom.

But if the queen agrees, she does not mind adding another bond with the Eagle Kingdom.

A simple effort now might later bring some other possibilities.

The queen was shocked: "Seal—seal the cavern? How can that be done?"

Li Qingluo: "I have my own method."

"That cavern is harmful; if ordinary people accidentally enter, they will fall into traps, and many more innocents will later die."

"Only by sealing or completely filling the cavern can the water source return underground, seep through layers of soil, so that your descendants may once again welcome the water and return to the days of the former oasis."

"You wouldn't want, someday, when desperate, to actually drink corpse water, would you?"

Once a person has a selectable path, they will inevitably take it.

Queen Hai Liye is not a fool; she quickly understood Li Qingluo's meaning.

She knelt again, excitedly.

"Although we do not know where the young lady truly comes from, she saved the citizens of Eagle King City and its future; she is the goddess sent by the Almighty Allah to rescue us!"

"I, Hai Liye, on behalf of the citizens of Eagle King City, deeply thank the goddess for her great grace."

"If the goddess has any request, speak freely. As long as Eagle King City can fulfill it, we will spare no effort to help."

Li Qingluo hurried forward again to help the queen up: "The goddess does not deserve it; I am merely an ordinary person. It would be fine if the queen calls me simply Li girl."

"But I truly need something."

"It's all very simple."

"What I really want is a promise from you, queen."

Hai Liye looked at her puzzled, "A promise? What promise, goddess… oh, Li girl, feel free to tell me."

"As long as I, Hai Liye, can do it, I will not shirk."

Li Qingluo solemnly uttered three words: "Lan Hai Nation."

Ba Zha's corpse was hung at the gate of the City Lord's mansion for three whole days without being taken down.

Meanwhile, Ba Zha's former followers seized the opportunity, rose in rebellion against the old forces of the former Eagle Kingdom, were swiftly captured, and then eradicated.

The entire Eagle Kingdom was in chaos for three full days.

Ba Zha's corpse was pierced into a hedgehog shape, and the final fire turned it into black charcoal.

When all the dust settled, the people also found a continuously gushing well in Alikun's courtyard.

Hai Liye also made the well in the City Lord's mansion available to the people, allowing three draws of water per day.

She also said that once the water source fully recovers, every household will once again dig wells.

The people were naturally overjoyed, and rumors spread that a goddess descended upon their Eagle King City, killed Ba Zha, exposed the conspiracy, and thus saved the city.

On the day of departure from the city, Hai Liye personally led officials and citizens of Eagle King City to escort Li Qingluo out of the city.

"Great goddess's grace, Eagle King City will forever remember it! Unforgettable for a lifetime!"

"Farewell, goddess—"

"Goddess—"

The people waved their hands reluctantly, walking nearly five li before they finally stopped.

Li Qingluo sat in the gap of the carriage packed with gifts, her face full of helplessness.

She never imagined becoming any goddess!

It was as if she were being roasted on a fire rack, feeling as uncomfortable as sitting on a needle mat.

Finally she left, only to be stuffed into this luxurious carriage again, packed with gifts filling five entire compartments.

Que'er was overjoyed beyond measure.

"Girl, the citizens of Eagle King City are actually quite enthusiastic."

"But they won't expose our Central Plains identity, will they? If it spreads to all the Western Regions, we'd be in trouble."

After all, we still need to find Mr. Nangong, so keeping a low profile is more convenient.

Li Qingluo pushed aside the mountain of wool blankets before her.

She let out a slight sigh.

"It won't happen."

"Hai Liye still has a heap of messes to clean up, and she deeply remembers my great kindness, so she won't betray us lightly."

Nan Ping also thought so, "The former Eagle Kingdom royal family was almost completely annihilated. It is said that Queen Hai Liye has spent these years enduring humiliation beside Ba Zha, secretly searching for any remaining royal bloodline."

"Importantly, I heard she actually hid an illegitimate son of the former king!"

"As long as we bring this child back to the throne, Eagle King City won't stir up any more turmoil."

Li Qingluo: "Moreover, when Ba Zha rebelled and usurped the throne, the imperial court in Hala City turned a blind eye, and in these years they have shown no intention of delivering justice for the former royal family."

"Seeing Queen Hai Liye's attitude, the people of the Eagle Kingdom have long given up hope on the imperial court."

"In the future, this Eagle Kingdom will find it hard to align with the imperial court of Hala City."

Zheng Mama suddenly realized upon hearing this: "Girl, so all you've done is for this move?"