Thanks to Nightingale's threat, she finally got to see her mother as she wished.
However, when she saw her mother, her eyes were blood - red.
Nan Qiao wasn't under house arrest in a palace like Nightingale. She was locked up in a desolate mountain forest. In the middle stood a tall stone plinth, surrounded by pillars.
Nan Qiao was chained to one of the pillars.
Nightingale stared at the middle - aged woman with a cold and angry look in her eyes and asked, "Is this how you treat my mother?"
The middle - aged woman sneered, "She's a traitor who contaminated the blood of our Holy Maiden of the Vanishing Moon Palace. It's already a mercy that we didn't kill her."
Nightingale's eyes were completely scarlet. She rushed towards Nan Qiao.
But just as she was about to reach Nan Qiao, a sudden resistance force bounced her back.
The middle - aged woman snorted, "Do you really think our Vanishing Moon Palace is a place where we'd lock someone up without setting up a formation?"
Nightingale's face was extremely ugly.
She looked at Nan Qiao in the distance.
Nan Qiao, who had been in a coma, felt someone coming. She opened her eyes with difficulty and looked up.
Over the years, people from the Vanishing Moon Palace would often come to trouble her.
They either tortured or humiliated her, all in an attempt to find out Nightingale's whereabouts.
But no matter how they tortured her, she never said a word.
She only hoped that her daughter could get away from the Vanishing Moon Palace and live a good life.
However, now she saw Nightingale.
The face that resembled hers by 70 - 80%.
Coupled with their special bloodline, Nan Qiao instantly realized that the girl standing in the distance was her daughter, Nightingale.
A glint of excitement flashed in her eyes. But the next moment, when she saw the middle - aged woman beside Nightingale, she was stunned.
After a moment of daze, Nan Qiao became anxious. "Yinger, why are you here?"
Nightingale took two steps forward and was just about to speak when Nan Qiao's voice rang out again. "Yinger, leave quickly..."
The middle - aged woman sneered, "Nan Qiao, have you been locked up for so many years that you've gone stupid? Do you think your daughter can leave our Vanishing Moon Palace once she's here?"
Nan Qiao's cold gaze suddenly turned to the middle - aged woman. "Left Protector, haven't you tortured me enough over the years? Do you still want to torture my daughter?"
"Nan Qiao, don't push your luck." The Left Protector roared, "If you hadn't escaped back then, would our Vanishing Moon Palace have been afraid to emerge for so long? If you had cooperated obediently back then, how could your daughter have been captured and brought to the Vanishing Moon Palace today?"
"Master once said that we shouldn't associate with those people. In the end, it would be our Vanishing Moon Palace that would suffer." Nan Qiao roared.
After that, due to over - exertion, she kept coughing. Finally, she couldn't catch her breath and fainted.
"Mother..." Nightingale's face changed drastically when she saw this.
She looked at the Left Protector and said, "I'll agree to whatever you want me to do, but you have to release my mother first."
This formation was so powerful that she had no way to get in, so she had no choice but to negotiate with the Left Protector.
"You should know the consequences of deceiving us." The Left Protector said.
Nightingale sneered, "What else could the consequences be? Being tortured and under house arrest like my mother?"
The Left Protector said, "Your mother's blood has been contaminated because she had an affair with a man. But you're different. Although we want you to cooperate willingly, if you dare to play any tricks, we can use the forbidden Soul - Capturing Technique ourselves."
Nightingale's pupils suddenly constricted.
She knew about the Soul - Capturing Technique. It was similar to the hypnosis technique that A Qin had mentioned before.
It meant completely losing one's own mind and doing whatever others told you to do.
Thinking of this, a glint of cruelty flashed in Nightingale's eyes.
She immediately took out a poison pill and swallowed it.
Because her movement was so fast, when the Left Protector saw it, she had a bad feeling in her heart.
It was a pity that her attempt to stop was too late.
By the time she grabbed Nightingale by the neck, the poison pill had already melted in her mouth...
"What did you take? Spit it out." The Left Protector always felt that Nightingale's action would have a very bad effect on her.
Seeing the Left Protector so anxious, Nightingale wanted to laugh. But with her neck being grabbed, there was still a hint of a smile in her eyes. "It... melted."
The Left Protector's face changed drastically. With a sudden force, Nightingale felt as if she was about to be strangled to death.
Just when Nightingale thought she was going to be strangled to death by this old woman, the Left Protector let go of her.
Then the Left Protector dragged Nightingale away from the mountain forest.
Nightingale subconsciously looked back at Nan Qiao and silently thought in her heart, "Mother, wait for me. I will definitely save you."
Nightingale was brought back to the previous palace again.
Soon, an alchemist from the Vanishing Moon Palace came. Behind him followed a man in a maroon robe.
There was a look of hostility in the man's eyes, and his whole body exuded a sinister aura.
When the Left Protector saw the man coming, she immediately stepped forward to salute. "Greetings to the Deputy Palace Master."
The Deputy Palace Master gave the Left Protector a cold look. "I'll settle the score with you later."
The Left Protector's face instantly changed.
She knew that this time it was her own mistake.
"Pharmacist Lu, detoxify her." The cold and blood - thirsty voice of the Deputy Palace Master rang out.
Seeing Pharmacist Lu come to feel her pulse, Nightingale curled her lips into a mocking smile. "You don't need to waste your efforts. This poison of mine is a poison pill given by a master. You won't be able to detoxify it."
Nightingale highly admired A Qin's alchemy skills. So she didn't think these people could remove the poison from her body.
Hearing this, Pharmacist Lu frowned and looked arrogant. "Is this how ignorant Nan Qiao's daughter is?"
The Left Protector was now hoping that Nightingale could be detoxified, otherwise her punishment would be quite severe. So she immediately flattered Pharmacist Lu. "After all, she grew up outside. She must not know how powerful Pharmacist Lu is."
Pharmacist Lu snorted and continued to examine the poison in Nightingale's body.
At first, he looked very proud. But gradually, Pharmacist Lu's face changed.
First, it was confusion, then solemnity, and finally his face became extremely ugly.
The Left Protector's mood also became tense as she watched Pharmacist Lu's changing face. But seeing Pharmacist Lu examining Nightingale, she didn't dare to ask.
After Pharmacist Lu finished the examination, the Left Protector immediately asked, "Pharmacist Lu, this poison should be a piece of cake for you, right?"
Pharmacist Lu glanced at the Left Protector and then said to the Deputy Palace Master, "I can't detoxify her poison."
The Deputy Palace Master's eyes darkened, and the Left Protector's face instantly turned ashen. "Phar... Pharmacist Lu, you're the most powerful alchemist and the most skilled physician in the Vanishing Moon Palace. How could you not be able to detoxify it?"
This remark made Pharmacist Lu, whose face was already ugly, even more ugly.