Chapter 230: Giving the Mark (Bonus Chapter for Monthly Tickets)
Le Xia's face was deathly pale, and she spoke incoherently, "No… it wasn't me… Your Majesty, believe me, I have absolutely no ulterior motives… How could I possibly harm you!"
"I don't know what this thing is! Someone secretly slipped it to me! Yes! Those people want to murder me! They want to use me to murder Your Majesty!"
Even now, she was still trying to argue.
Fei Yuan had run out of patience. "This Emperor will ask one last time, who gave you this Enchantment Gu?"
"I… I bought it from the black market!"
"Which black market?"
"So many years have passed, I can't remember… Your Majesty, I really don't know!"
"Le Xia, you have been with this Emperor for so many years, you should know that what this Emperor detests the most are those who are full of lies, and you should also know what methods this Emperor will use to deal with them." Fei Yuan reached out and pinched her slender, fragile neck, his eyes ice-cold and piercing, flashing a hint of bloodthirsty red.
His entire aura was even more violently terrifying!
Completely different from his usual frivolous and casual demeanor, Sang Luo found this side of Fei Yuan extremely unfamiliar, her heart rate quickening… then she remembered that this guy was rumored to be a notoriously tyrannical ruler, killing people without blinking an eye, his hands stained with who knows how much blood!
He was not a benevolent person at all.
He restrained his violent nature in front of her to please her and have children, to the point that she had forgotten those rumors that caused people to turn pale at the mere mention of them…
Le Xia trembled with fear, crying until her face was covered in tears, "Please, Your Majesty, don't kill me! I was coerced! That person… that person is…"
She tried desperately to say that person's name, but found that no matter what, she couldn't say it. Her throat seemed to be stuffed with a wad of cotton, making her whimper indistinctly. Then, her eyes widened in horror as she looked at the empty air in a certain direction. Black blood flowed out of her eyes, nose, ears, and mouth, and her entire body rapidly withered like a punctured balloon…
She had been poisoned!
Sang Luo didn't have time to think and quickly walked out from behind the screen, "We can't let her die, otherwise the clues will be cut off!"
Fei Yuan knew what she wanted to do, didn't say anything, and laid Le Xia flat on the ground to facilitate her treatment.
Sang Luo knelt beside her, a wisp of light green light emerging from her palm, enveloping Le Xia's entire body.
Soon, the black blood in her body was forced out, and her body gradually returned to its original state, but she was still unconscious and didn't wake up.
Sang Luo looked at Fei Yuan, "The poison in her body hasn't been removed?"
Fei Yuan wiped the blood on his hands and took out a new silk handkerchief to carefully wipe the black blood that had accidentally stained her palm. "I know."
He had discovered it when he was treating Le Xia. She had also been poisoned with a hidden poison, and this poison and the poison he had been poisoned with in the past clearly came from the same person, and even he couldn't completely remove this poison.
"That person is a master of poison."
"Le Xia's sudden entry into the palace this time must have been under the coercion of that person. He discovered that the poison on your body had been cured and wanted to use this to re-poison you. Those people can place a Le Xia by your side, they can definitely place other spies. I don't know how many of their spies are in the palace…" As Sang Luo spoke, she suddenly looked at Fei Yuan, "When I left the palace at that time, you didn't stop me much. Did you already know that the palace was also unsafe?"
Fei Yuan nodded, then frowned, "I originally thought that you would be safer in the Marquis's mansion, but I didn't expect that you would be targeted by the demons again."
In that case, it would be better to keep her by his side, watching over her personally at all times.
Those cockroaches and rats only dared to attack in the dark and didn't dare to reveal any flaws in the open.
Sang Luo subconsciously touched her belly, not saying anything. Fei Yuan sensed her unease.
His heart softened, and he hugged her onto a soft couch in front of the screen, lowered his head and kissed her hair, "Don't worry, with me here, no one can hurt you and the child."
His kiss then followed her forehead, to the tip of her nose, then to her lips, and then to her neck and collarbone… slowly falling, gently nudging open her collar with the straight bridge of his nose, biting down hard above her chest—
"Uh～"
Sang Luo hummed softly, and the next second, she was enveloped by a gentle force, and the trace of blood that seeped out quickly solidified into a scab, and the wound healed.
On her right chest, a Xuan Feng mark that seemed ready to take flight appeared, falling right on that spot of red allure, like vermilion in ink, making one's heart and liver numb and tremble…
After leaving his exclusive mark on Sang Luo's body, Fei Yuan lowered his head and looked at it with considerable satisfaction, as if admiring a wonderful masterpiece. After admiring it, he reached out and tidied her messy collar, covering up that snowy white and soft scenery.
Sang Luo felt a sweet warmth in her heart, but now was clearly not the time for flirting. She got up again and walked to the unconscious Le Xia.
Turning her head to Fei Yuan, who had followed behind her, she said, "The poison on her body should be bound together with some kind of forbidden curse. As long as the forbidden curse is not triggered, this poison can coexist peacefully with her body, but once the forbidden curse is triggered, she will die instantly."
"It seems that the name of the mastermind is the forbidden curse. Even if she wakes up, you won't be able to get any useful information out of her. I can try using mental power to see if I can get some clues."
Fei Yuan nodded, and seeing her close her eyes, his fingertips condensed wisps of light purple energy threads and entered Le Xia's sea of consciousness.
Soon, Sang Luo's face turned pale, and cold sweat faintly oozed from her forehead!
Peeking into memories consumes a lot of mental power!
She needed to search through every memory of Le Xia's over the years, and her sea of consciousness was aching due to being unable to withstand the huge amount of information!
Fei Yuan quickly grabbed her hand.
Through the soul mark, he transmitted a portion of his original energy to her.
Sang Luo's complexion improved a lot.
Soon, she withdrew her hand.
She said to Fei Yuan, "The Gu worms were given to her by her father."
"The Qingluan Clan Leader?"
"It's reasonable for the father and daughter to collude."
Fei Yuan's phoenix eyes flashed a hint of surprise, seemingly not expecting that the mastermind would be him, "The current Qingluan Clan Leader is not her biological father, but an elder who was later pushed up. His ability is average, and his temperament is timid and cautious, a puppet with no ambition."
Sang Luo said, "No matter what their relationship is, the Gu worms were indeed given to Le Xia by him. Even if he's not the mastermind, he's definitely an accomplice and must still have contact with the mastermind. We can try to break through from his side first."
"Do you want to strike first and capture him?" she suggested.
"It's easy to capture a clan leader, but it's not easy to move the Qingluan Clan behind him." As the Beast Emperor of a country, Fei Yuan also weighed the pros and cons and coordinated the overall situation, "The Qingluan Clan is a large ancient clan with inextricably linked blood ties to the Phoenix Clan. It can also be regarded as a branch of the Phoenix Clan, with considerable power. Rashly arresting the clan leader may cause turmoil."
He had people take the unconscious Le Xia down first and kept her under strict guard as a bargaining chip.
The Qingluan Clan might give up a clan leader, but they would never give up a pure-blooded Royal Beast female.
"Luo'er has helped me a lot."
Fei Yuan lovingly touched her face, which was still a little pale, and carried her horizontally, teleporting to the bedroom, placing her on the bed.
"This matter is my duty, you don't need to worry too much, just take good care of your pregnancy."
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