Back in the courtyard, Su Luo helped Nangong Chiyu wash up and then laid him down to sleep.

"Luo Luo, the real Su Luo has already returned to her hometown. If possible, I would like to hold a ritual for her, a ritual that only the two of us know about. What do you think?"

Su Luo nodded. Nangong Chiyu probably also wanted to do something for the dead, and since Su Luo had used someone else's body, she naturally wouldn't lack even this much magnanimity.

"Okay! Whatever you say."

Having experienced so much today, Nangong Chiyu could only pat Su Luo's hand and say softly.

"Alright, it's getting late, you should go to sleep too."

Su Luo was also very tired tonight, and Nangong Chiyu was injured. In order not to disturb him, Su Luo slept in the cubicle, which was originally the place where Lian'er slept to make it easier to take care of her.

In Su Luo's mind, this small courtyard was a relatively safe place in Beichuan City.

After several days of traveling and fighting, she had just gotten into bed and thought she could finally sleep soundly, but she had a lingering sense of foreboding.

Even she herself thought that this feeling must be due to her excessive worry for Nangong Chiyu. She tossed and turned for a long time before finally falling asleep.

...

On the Beiliang military camp side, Shuang Shuo reported the failure of the siege to Ye Beihan.

"Master, that's how it happened. The last few poisonous insects were burned into a circle by Chi Yi and were all killed."

Shuang Shuo hunched over and peeked at his master with a slight tilt of his head. His skin was already ulcerated, and his face was full of pits and craters. With the action of tilting his head slightly, he looked like a demon from hell.

"With Nangong Chiyu guarding Beichuan City, I never thought you could take it down in one go."

Ye Beihan sat lazily in the main seat, holding a piece of bone in his hand and pounding his joints.

Moreover, the bone was thin and long, much like a woman's leg bone.

"But Master, we lost more than 30,000 people this time, most of whom died from weapons in the hands of Nangong Chiyu and Su Luo."

Shuang Shuo placed the spent cartridge case he had found on the table in front of Ye Beihan, and then spoke.

“Master, doesn’t this weapon look familiar? Last time in Nanning, I was injured by Su Luo’s weapon.”

Those weapons are powerful enough to take on a hundred enemies, and there are those that explode upon landing. I'm afraid our poisonous insects are no match for them.

Ye Beihan smiled wickedly. As long as you use your brain, there's nothing to be afraid of.

"Fool! Only the weak would do something like boosting the morale of others. The number of people lost in Nanning this time was no less than ours. Besides, didn't you say that only Nangong Chiyu and Su Luo had this kind of weapon?"

That means only two of them had it. If a large number of people had it, why didn't they bring it out at the beginning of the battle?

Shuang Shuo snapped out of his daze. His master was right, and it seemed that only Su Luo possessed this kind of weapon. They had been fighting for two days and two nights outside Beichuan City.

So many people died in the Akabane Army. If Nangong Akabane had had such powerful weapons earlier, they should have used them long ago.

He had originally intended to use the poisonous insects as a final blow, but unexpectedly, Nangong Chiyu and Su Luo vanished into thin air, something Shuang Shuo couldn't understand.

Even if he told his master, the master wouldn't believe him, so Shuangshuo didn't say anything. He would wait until he had verified the truth before telling his master.

"Master, if we fail to attack the city, we still have a trump card in our hands. We are just waiting for your order to make Nangong Chiyu wish he were dead."

Ye Beihan's eyes were full of disdain and amusement. He tossed the bone in his hand under the table and spoke in a lazy tone.

"Don't hurt Su Luo, or I will lose a lot of fun."

Shuang Shuo gritted his teeth and sneered. After enduring so many days, he could finally use this trump card. Nangong Chiyu, you can just wait to die.

"Yes, Master!"

Shuang Shuo put down the two swords on his body, took out a small box from his pocket, and opened it to find an insect inside.

He poured the insects from the box onto his wrist, and then the insects bit his skin, releasing venom that slowly crawled upwards through his meridians.

"Did you see that?"

Ye Beihan and Shuang Shuo were used to this kind of scene; it was something they had experienced since childhood.

Shuang Shuo twisted his face but still answered Ye Beihan: "It'll be soon. Fortunately, Master had the foresight to put the worm in the letter to Su Luo."

Ye Beihan sneered, shifted his position, and continued to lean lazily back in his chair.

“If she cared about me, she wouldn’t have burned the letter I gave her. But if she did, the larvae inside the amber would be released.”

Having lived under the same roof with poisonous insects for so long, even if Nangong Chiyu dies, it will be Su Luo who kills him.

After Shuangshuo's brain is invaded by the venom of the mother worm, his eyes will see the same images as the daughter worms.

He could also control the offspring with the mother insect, and through his mental perception, he saw the offspring under a tile.

Under his control, the larvae slowly descended from the roof beams. They were extremely small, much smaller than the poisonous insects that attacked the city.

Its mission is only once: it will die after releasing its poison, but its poison is also the most difficult to cure.

Climbing onto Nangong Chiyu's bed, Shuangshuo saw Nangong Chiyu's neck and controlled the worm to jump up and bite him to death.

Nangong Chiyu felt a sharp pain in his neck, his eyes snapped open, and his whole body went numb. He couldn't move or speak.

But he knew in his heart that he had been bitten by a poisonous insect. There were poisonous insects in this courtyard. The only thing he could do now was to use his last bit of willpower to turn his head and look at Su Luo.

Seeing that she was alright and sleeping peacefully there, he panicked but could do nothing and fainted.

The next morning, the first thing Su Luo did upon waking was to look at Nangong Chiyu's bed. She was used to not seeing Nangong Chiyu when she opened her eyes every day.

Surprisingly, he got up later than him today. There were too many things to deal with in Beichuan City and the Chiyu Army today. Why wasn't Nangong Chiyu up yet? This was not like the responsible person he was.

Stretching, Su Luo walked into the inner room with a puzzled look in her eyes. When she got closer, she found that Nangong Chiyu's face was ashen, as if he were dead.

Instantly, Su Luo's body stiffened as if she had been electrocuted.

Her face was expressionless, numb like a mannequin, and even taking a step forward required immense courage and strength.

They had just resolved their differences and had no more secrets between them. Only a few hours had passed, so how did Nangong Chiyu become like this?

Su Luo's outstretched hand trembled as if she were ill. She placed her index and middle fingers on Nangong Chiyu's reddened neck, sensing a faint pulse within.

Although faint, it showed that he was still alive, and as long as he was alive, there was still hope.

Su Luo immediately took his pulse. The pulse was deep and weak, and it could only be felt by pressing down to the bone.

The pulse at the cun, guan, and chi positions in both hands, as well as the pulse at the heart, liver, kidneys, lungs, spleen, and life force, are all extremely weak.