Everyone was watching the Ghost Lady skillfully moving around the gu altar. Except for Long Xiaojiu, no one else knew what she was doing.
Su Wan'er and Si Junlin were particularly worried about the current situation, so they stared intently at every step the Ghost Lady took.
Normally, it was easier to plant a gu than to remove it. Even if it was a gu planted by the Ghost Lady herself, it would still take some time to remove it.
Ordinary people naturally didn't know this. Su Wan'er had hoped that these people could return to normal immediately, but obviously it wasn't that easy. The Ghost Lady just kept repeating one action.
"Uncle Emperor, it'll probably take another whole night here. Why don't you go back and rest first? I'll stay and watch." Long Xiaojiu naturally tugged at Si Junlin's sleeve. Different from the intimidating attitude she had towards the Ghost Lady just now, now she seemed like an ordinary cute girl again.
Si Junlin was annoyed that this child dared to tug at his sleeve. How bold! Who gave you the right to tug at me? I'm the emperor, the Son of Heaven! How could I let you tug at me like this?
Actually, he thought that the reason Long Xiaojiu dared to do this was because Su Wan'er, who had been inside his body before, had provoked this child.
What made him even more angry was that Long Xiaojiu had clearly expressed her liking for the "Uncle Emperor". Yes, not for him, but for the "Uncle Emperor" when Su Wan'er was in his body.
This kind of philandering behavior was simply outrageous! How dare Su Wan'er use his body to please a child, and even got the child to like him? To be honest, he had never seen Su Wan'er get so close to anyone other than her family.
"Humph." The more Si Junlin thought about it, the angrier he got. In order to maintain his grace and the good image he had always built, he calmly pulled his sleeve out.
"Uncle Emperor?" Long Xiaojiu still felt it. She truly felt the coldness from Uncle Emperor. She had thought that since she was brought back from a hundred miles away, Uncle Emperor should have missed her too. She had even wanted to get closer to Uncle Emperor...
Su Wan'er clearly saw that her Xiaojiu was being cold - shouldered by this emperor. She immediately shot a glare at him. What's so great about being an emperor? Is it so great to wear a dragon - robe? What's wrong with such a cute girl touching your sleeve? How exaggerated!
"Come on, Xiaojiu. Come and rest with me. Your Uncle Emperor is very capable. It'll be fine to leave him here alone." Su Wan'er deliberately softened her voice, intending to comfort Xiaojiu. But unexpectedly...
"No way. How can we leave Uncle Emperor alone? He doesn't know anything about gu. He'll be in danger." Facing the child's serious warning of "being in danger", Su Wan'er didn't know whether to laugh or cry. On one hand, she could see that she, as the "Uncle Emperor", was really charming. On the other hand, she despised Si Junlin's so - called grace even more in her heart. How could he bear to reject such a cute and considerate child?
"Okay. How about we go back first? Xiaojiu is the Holy Maiden. She can surely handle this matter well." Si Junlin saw that Su Wan'er actually wanted to leave him here and take Xiaojiu away. Naturally, he wasn't willing.
"How can that be?" He was the emperor of a country! What was he thinking? Leaving a little girl here alone.
Originally, the three of them were just saying some insignificant words. Chang Ke had been taken away by the secret agents for punishment, and the Ghost Lady had been burying her head in removing the gu. So everyone had relaxed their vigilance a little. Therefore, no one noticed what the Ghost Lady was really doing. Even Xiaojiu had focused all her attention on Si Junlin.
"It's okay. Dealing with the gu slaves is my duty anyway. Uncle Emperor and the Empress Dowager should go and rest first." Xiaojiu was always sensible and considerate of Uncle Emperor.
"Okay." But she didn't know that the person in this body now was the real Si Junlin. He actually agreed readily.
Xiaojiu was also a little surprised and felt that something was wrong.
But in order to maintain her position as the queen and considering the cold - faced queen image Si Junlin had established for her before, Su Wan'er had no choice but to agree obediently.
In an instant, just as Su Wan'er and Si Junlin were about to leave and Xiaojiu was a little distracted, unexpectedly, there came a strange noise from where the Ghost Lady was. When the three of them looked over, they found that the noise was coming from the gu altar. Moreover, the gu altar had now grown more than twice its original size! And it faintly showed a dark red blood color!
"Ghost Lady?! What are you up to?" Xiaojiu immediately reacted and realized that something was wrong. This color clearly didn't indicate the removal of the gu. Such a deep blood color meant that she was planting a gu in the altar.
"Hehe. What am I up to? I should be asking you, Holy Maiden, what you're up to?" The Ghost Lady suddenly looked up. Her eyes were filled with crazy ferocity and also seemed to hold despair. It was as if she had made a decision and was going all out.
"As the only Holy Maiden of our Southern Border, you've been wandering in the Jin Kingdom and deliberately hiding so that even the Gu Division couldn't find you! Why are you so close to the emperor of the Jin Kingdom?" the Ghost Lady loudly questioned.
"I... This is my own business. You just need to know that I've never let the Southern Border down! Uncle Emperor and I are just..." Xiaojiu seemed a little hesitant.
"Uncle Emperor? Hahaha... Hahaha... How absurd! As the Holy Maiden of the Southern Border, you actually call him uncle?!" The Ghost Lady laughed sarcastically and contemptuously, as if she had gone even more crazy.
"Ghost Lady, you'd better remove the gu from these people properly, and I'll spare your life." As the dark red color in the gu altar grew deeper, Xiaojiu realized the seriousness of the situation. The Ghost Lady was slowly putting all the gu in her body into it and constantly refining them. At this time, no one could touch her, not even herself.
Because what was in the gu altar was the mother gu of the corpse gu that was almost formed. Although the corpse gu wasn't the king of gu, it was one of the top three great gu on the gu list. Even Xiaojiu's bracelet couldn't defend against it. Once it was triggered, the gu altar and the Ghost Lady's body would explode together, and the child gu would immediately spray out in all directions.
As the Holy Maiden, Xiaojiu was naturally immune to all gu. But what she was worried about were the people present. Once someone was infected with the corpse gu, since the gu planter would also die, it was almost impossible to remove it. The person would immediately turn into a mummy.
"Spare my life?" The Gu Lady was still crazy. "Since the founding of our Southern Border, we've never been so humiliated. The Jin Kingdom is such a great threat, but our Holy Maiden has actually come here on her own initiative and been captivated by this emperor's good looks!"
Hearing this, Su Wan'er immediately got angry because this was an insult to Xiaojiu. "What are you talking nonsense about? You poisonous woman!"
Unexpectedly, this sentence seemed to enrage the Ghost Lady. "Whether I'm talking nonsense or not, you all should know clearly. The national fortune of the Southern Border is hopeless, and our plan has failed. What face do I have to live on?"