The King of the Eastern Continent looked embarrassed.
But when he met Bai Zhi's gaze, he finally nodded.
"Thank you, Your Majesty."
Night fell.
The lights in the princess's palace were brightly lit, but an air of death hung over it.
After the King of the Eastern Continent brought Jin Se to the princess's mansion, he left first due to urgent matters.
Before leaving,
he specifically instructed the guards that no matter what happened, they must protect the safety of Lady Jin Se.
After the king left,
Lady Jin Se stepped forward.
She pushed open the main door.
Inside the palace,
only Dongfang Yinuo was there, all alone.
The door was wide open.
The guards could clearly see every move inside the hall, but they couldn't hear what the women were talking about.
Jin Se walked step by step towards Dongfang Yinuo.
Although Dongfang Yinuo looked in a sorry state at the moment, she still carried the pride of a princess of the Eastern Continent in her bones.
"What are you doing here?"
"Just coming to take a look at you, the culprit."
Dongfang Yinuo laughed.
"I'm the culprit? You, a lowly servant girl, should know better than me what the truth of the matter is."
Lady Jin Se stepped forward.
She bent down.
Taking this opportunity, Dongfang Yinuo struck.
But she found that
the other woman was by no means a weak girl. There was a powerful spiritual energy surrounding her body.
She herself
was no match at all.
No wonder this Lady Jin Se dared to approach her alone.
"Who on earth are you?"
"I'm the one who's going to take your life. Oh, by the way, just to make sure you die in peace, your mother will also go to hell with you."
Lady Jin Se clapped her hands.
Two men dressed as secret guards appeared.
In their hands, they were holding a person, none other than Dongfang Yinuo's biological mother, Dongfang Ruoxi.
Seeing her mother on the verge of death after being tortured,
Dongfang Yinuo flew into a rage.
But her actions couldn't cause the slightest harm to the woman in front of her.
"With just your meager skills, you really think you're a talented cultivator? Just because there are so many people flattering you on a daily basis, you've become so arrogant that you don't know your own limits?"
Lady Jin Se sneered.
Dongfang Ruoxi was also thrown to the ground.
The mother and daughter hugged each other.
For so many years, this was the first time they had endured such humiliation.
"Aren't you going to act weak anymore? Aren't you afraid that he'll discover your true face and realize that you've been lying to him all along?"
"Afraid? I have nothing to fear. It's almost over. You'll all go to hell together."
Outside,
a bright light flashed across the sky.
Finally,
it exploded in the air.
It was a firework.
However,
it was a signal firework.
Dongfang Yinuo looked back at her mother beside her.
Bai Zhi looked outside and then at the two women in the room. She also guessed what was going on.
"This signal firework..."
"I set it off."
"You can talk now?"
Dongfang Ruoxi stood up and helped her daughter up as well.
"If I hadn't pretended to be weak, wouldn't I have been constantly oppressed by you, a lowly slave?"
Bai Zhi's expression changed slightly.
"Even if you've informed those outside the palace, do you think this palace is still the same as before, under the control of the Dongfang family? Neither of you will survive this night."
Dongfang Yinuo looked at her mother.
Dongfang Ruoxi shielded her daughter behind her.
"We of the Dongfang family have nothing to worry about in life and nothing to fear in death. This Eastern Continent has truly been ruined by the King of the Eastern Continent."
Bai Zhi sneered.
Dongfang Ruoxi continued to mock.
"Lady Jin Se, I'll have my own daughter accompany me on my way. Oh, by the way, what about your fully - formed child? All alone in the underworld. Won't you go and accompany him? I heard it was a boy. Such a pity."
Bai Zhi was hit where it hurt.
She took a few steps back.
A powerful spiritual energy surged in her hand.
With one palm, she struck towards Dongfang Ruoxi's crown.
With just one blow,
Dongfang Ruoxi's eyes widened. She spat out a mouthful of blood in the air.
At the moment she fell,
there was a faint smile on her face.
If Dongfang Ruoxi's earlier state of being on the verge of death was an act, now she was truly gasping her last breath.
But she was smiling.
She was actually smiling.
Dongfang Yinuo quickly supported her mother.
Her mother's body became extremely stiff.
Moreover, her body was getting cold at an extremely fast speed.
"Mother, Mother."
Dongfang Ruoxi stretched out her hand.
She wanted to hug her favorite daughter one more time.
But
she didn't have the strength anymore.
As early as several months ago, her shoulder blades and spiritual roots in her body had been taken away by Lady Jin Se's men. She no longer had the ability to protect this youngest daughter.
This was the last thing
she could do for her youngest daughter.
"Mother, Mother—"
"Yinuo, Mother is leaving first. You must—you must listen to your uncle. Don't—don't be sad—"
Dongfang Ruoxi wanted to wipe away her daughter's tears.
But before her hand could touch Dongfang Yinuo's face, it dropped to the ground.
Her breath
at this moment
vanished completely.
"Too weak to even provoke me."
Bai Zhi snorted.
But suddenly, she felt a sharp pain in her palm.
She quickly raised her hand.
Only to find that
there were dozens of small holes in her hand. They must have been pierced by silver needles, and there was a faint black spreading around the holes.
Her right hand
went numb.
Bai Zhi was greatly shocked.
She quickly stepped forward.
She pushed Dongfang Yinuo away.
Taking a closer look,
she saw that there were hundreds of tiny needles stuck all over the woman's head.
Since it was night, and the tips of the needles were coated with a black, highly poisonous substance, and Dongfang Ruoxi had been acting crazy in recent days with her hair in a mess, these needles hidden in her hair were not easy to spot.
However,
these needles
must have caused Dongfang Ruoxi great pain when they were inserted.
Early in the morning, when Dongfang Ruoxi knew that her daughter hadn't returned, she had already anticipated the worst outcome.
She arranged for the signal firework.
Then,
she locked herself in the room.
She inserted all these dense needles into her own head.
To prevent others from noticing,
each needle was inserted very deeply.
When those two men appeared and took her away, she knew that her plan had worked.
As a mother,
she must shield her child from the last bit of danger.
So,
that was how the previous scene happened.
"How dare you plot against me."
Bai Zhi was furious.
She roared at the guards behind her: "The princess has violated the moral code. Cut off her head."
Bai Zhi's hand
had been poisoned and could no longer exert force.
When the guards heard this,
they looked at each other.
"If you don't obey, after the king returns, all of you who disobey orders will surely be beheaded."
"Those who kill the princess will be rewarded with a thousand spirit stones."
The queen was already dead.
This woman would surely be the mistress of the harem in the future.
After a moment's thought, the guards immediately rushed in.
Dongfang Yinuo fought desperately, but she was no match.
In the end,
she could only hug her mother's body tightly, using her own body to protect her mother's intact corpse.
"Clang—"
Dozens of swords suddenly broke.
Dongfang Yinuo opened her eyes in a hurry.
"Senior?"
But the person who came into view wasn't Zhao Shuning.
It was the Crown Prince of the Sea Spirit Kingdom, Xia Jingning, whom she had been missing for several years.