Ren Baqian was very anxious on the mountain. It was impossible to say that he wasn't worried. But other than moving his fingers, what else could he do?
After waiting for at least eight to ten hours, Ren Baqian finally saw a red figure appear in front of him.
At this moment, the empress was in a sorry state. Her white inner shirt and red chiffon skirt were torn and stained with blood. Her waist and shoulders were dripping with blood. Her face was pale and there was a trace of blood at the corner of her mouth.
"Zixiao!" Ren Baqian's heart tightened. Seeing the empress in this state, it was as if his heart was stabbed.
In his eyes, the empress had always been awe-inspiring. When had she ever looked like this? When had she ever been in such a sorry state?
But who was she doing this for?
With such thoughts in his mind, he couldn't speak for a moment. At this moment, he threw the matter of the antidote to the back of his mind.
"Open your mouth!" The empress stood in front of him and said. A longan-sized pill appeared in her hand and a few boxes were thrown on the ground.
Seeing that Ren Baqian was still in a daze, the empress pinched open his mouth and popped the pill in. It almost got stuck in his throat and choked him to death. Seeing that he couldn't even breathe, she quickly slapped his back to get the pill out and stuffed it into his mouth.
Ren Baqian chewed the pill with great difficulty and swallowed it. Then, the empress stuffed a water bag into his mouth and drank a mouthful of water.
Ren Baqian didn't have any complaints about almost choking to death. The empress had always been like this. This small matter couldn't be compared to what she had done in the past.
"Are your injuries serious?" Ren Baqian finally asked this question.
"I can only use thirty percent of my strength for one month. But, even with thirty percent of my strength, no one can stop me." The empress was always full of confidence.
"But, I'm hungry." The empress's tone changed.
The battle just now caused a lot of damage to her body. At the same time, she felt a strong sense of hunger.
The aboriginals needed to rely on large amounts of food or medicinal herbs to replenish their qi and blood.
Ren Baqian moved his fingers but still couldn't move.
The empress looked at him and said, "It will take a while for the antidote to take effect. I will go and find some food."
Ren Baqian nodded. The antidote wasn't an elixir and naturally wouldn't take effect immediately. He watched as the empress left again.
After the empress left, Ren Baqian tried to move his body every once in a while. However, he couldn't move at all. Just when he was doubting whether the medicine that the empress brought back with her injuries was effective, he felt his shoulder twisting a little.
Ren Baqian's face immediately revealed an ecstatic expression.
Although it was just a slight movement of his shoulder, he had not been able to move at all for the past ten days. At this time, even the slightest change made him extremely sensitive and excited.
This meant that the antidote was real.
Following the movement of the shoulders, the forearms began to move as well, followed by the arms and the legs.
When he could move his waist, he felt like he had come back to life.
Ren Baqian supported Qi Shui, who was beside him, and tried to stand up. Not being able to move for more than ten days made his body feel rusty. His joints kept creaking and his legs felt weak. He felt like he was experiencing the effects of aging in advance. If he wanted to recover, he would probably have to move a lot more.
While Ren Baqian was moving his body, the empress came back with a lot of meat wrapped in oiled paper. It was emitting a fragrant aroma.
Seeing that Ren Baqian was moving carefully, the empress revealed a look of joy in her eyes.
She had finally saved him.
This was the greatest joy in her heart at this moment.
"Zixiao!" Ren Baqian looked at her with a face full of joy.
The empress suppressed the joy in her heart, carried the meat wrapped in oiled paper and asked, "Do you want to eat?"
Her voice was clear and less cold.
"Okay." Ren Baqian nodded happily. As for the origin of the meat, he didn't care at all. In any case, the empress definitely didn't have any money on her.
Indeed, the empress brought back a lot of meat and wine. Ren Baqian only ate a little and quietly watched the empress eat. It was as if he could never get enough of her.
"You have worked hard," Ren Baqian said sincerely. He didn't say thank you. At this moment, it was already meaningless to say thank you.
The empress raised her head and drank a mouthful of wine. She simply said, "If you lie to me in the future, I will kill you."
Upon hearing this, Ren Baqian couldn't stop laughing. This made the empress a little sullen. This guy was getting more and more impudent.
After a long while, Ren Baqian finally stopped laughing. He looked at the empress with a sincere face and said, "When the time comes, you won't have to do anything."
The empress remained silent and ignored him.
After a while, the empress finished eating the wine and meat. Feeling less hungry, she then said, "Let's go. Just now, two people ran away. We can't hide the news for long. We have to leave Great Xia before they react."
Previously, five people ran away. The empress caught up with three of them and killed them. She didn't know where the other two were hiding, but she couldn't be bothered to look for them.
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A day after the two of them left, a group of people arrived at the col of the Nine Pavilions. Among them, the leader was a man in his thirties who was dressed in an embroidered robe.
Even though the Nine Pavilions was feared by many, they still had some dealings with the outside world. Otherwise, how could the Lian family be in such a desperate situation?
This group of people came to the Nine Pavilions for some business.
However, when they walked to the mountain pass, everyone's facial expression immediately changed.
From here, they could see countless corpses lying on the ground. Almost all the buildings near the gate of the Nine Pavilions had collapsed.
"What happened here?" Everyone was shocked. Someone launched a large-scale attack on the Nine Pavilions? How was this possible? Who was so daring?
More importantly, the Nine Pavilions was like a ghost town at this moment. There wasn't the slightest movement inside.
The last time they came here, there were many disciples and livestock. But now, there wasn't even a bug in sight.
Everyone stood at the mountain pass and didn't know whether to advance or retreat. They wanted to go forward and check, but they were afraid that there were enemies inside.
After waiting for more than an hour, there was still no sound inside. At this time, everyone mustered up their courage and went down.
The more the leader in the embroidered robe walked in, the more shocked he was because the corpses lying on the ground were all disciples of the Nine Pavilions.
Very quickly, everyone realized that these people were all poisoned to death.
The Nine Pavilions were famous for their use of poison. How could there be a poison expert in this world who could actually poison the people of the Nine Pavilions to death?
What about Hua Sanliu? What about the other eight pavilion masters?
Even if ordinary disciples were poisoned to death, these few people couldn't possibly be poisoned to death, right?
When he saw half a corpse, his whole body instantly froze.
This corpse only had a head above the chest. He had seen this face before. It was Hua Sanliu, the fifth most powerful expert in the world, Hua Sanliu.
Previously, he had only seen him twice from afar. At that time, he was so powerful. Now, he actually died here?
Since Hua Sanliu died here, could it be that the other pavilion masters were also dead? Otherwise, why wasn't there anyone cleaning up here?
Suddenly, a thought emerged in his mind. This thought terrified him. If this news were to spread, the whole world would probably be shaken.
The Nine Pavilions had actually been destroyed.
Soon after, another thought emerged in his mind. Since the Nine Pavilions had been destroyed, were the resources and secret manuals that the Nine Pavilions had accumulated over the past few hundred years still around?
When he thought of this, he suddenly felt a burning passion in his heart. He raised his head and looked at the Nine Pavilions with a burning gaze.
However, when he walked to the entrance of the village, a person beside him suddenly fell to the ground, followed by a second and a third person. This made him suddenly think of something. Was there still poison here?
When he hurriedly tried to leave, he didn't run far before he fell to the ground.
Yes, even though a day had passed, the sarin gas still lingered in the air here. Furthermore, it was attached to those corpses.
When they checked and flipped over the corpses just now, they naturally came into contact with some.
Only a few people who were guarding the mountain pass were spared. A few of them rushed in and carried the man away, but he was already foaming at the mouth and dead.
When the rest of the people saw this, they hurriedly ran out of the mountain.
As they left, the news of the Nine Pavilions being destroyed spread. In just two days, countless people gathered outside the mountain.
The two disciples who originally ran away wanted to come back in two days to take a look and bring away those ancient manuals. Therefore, they hesitated and did not spread the news of Qi Zixiao's arrival in Great Xia.
It was just that they did not dare to go near for a while and were discovered by these people.
It was only now that the others learned from the two disciples that Dayao's empress, Qi Zixiao, personally came to the Nine Pavilions, beat up Hua Sanliu, and used an unknown poison to kill the eight pavilion masters and all the disciples of the Nine Pavilions.
Everyone was shocked!
Subsequently, the whole world was shocked!
Countless pigeons spread this news throughout the entire Great Xia in just two days, and then to the rest of the world.
Countless people spread this news by word of mouth. Countless people were shocked by the fact that the Nine Pavilions had been destroyed, and even more people guessed Qi Zixiao's strength. After all, she could beat up Hua Sanliu, which meant that she was ranked fifth in the world now.
There were even more people guessing what poison Qi Zixiao used to kill thousands of people in the Nine Pavilions, including the eight pavilion masters, in such a short period of time.
No one knew that the empress of Dayao, Qi Zixiao, who was originally ranked seventh in the world, was actually an expert in using poison.
Her identity, the strength that she had displayed, and the methods that she had displayed, all of them had shocked the world.
At the same time, the troops at the border were getting ready, and countless experts were dispatched. No matter what, they had to make Qi Zixiao stay and not let her return to Dayao.
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