Since ancient times, beautiful women have had short lives. Who will pity them when their beauty fades?

Pei Zhiyuan knelt on the ground, holding Yu Qingzhu's gradually cold body, with his head lowered and tears streaming down his face. The big tears soaked the thin red gauze skirt.

Yu Xinzhu's death seemed to have broken a line of defense in his heart. His body trembled as he tried hard to suppress the grief and anger in his heart.

Shen Xu stood aside with a solemn expression, looking at Pei Zhiyuan who lowered his head and kept crying without saying a word, and said in a muffled voice: "Master Pei, if you want to cry, just cry out loud."

Pei Zhiyuan knelt on the ground holding the girl in his arms in silence for a long time. Suddenly, he raised his scarlet eyes, and his deep, sharp eyes were filled with an icy murderous intent. He gritted his teeth and spoke word by word, "Miss Shen's plan to assassinate the Imperial Master, are you still going ahead?"

"Yeah." Shen Xu nodded calmly, picked up the crossbow leaning against the wall, and asked: "Let's go now, is your poison no longer a problem?"

"Let's go." Pei Zhiyuan gently leaned Yu Qingzhu's body against the wall, stood up with a stern face and said, "It's just a slight inhalation of poisonous mist, it's nothing serious."

He bent down to pick up the knife dropped by the pursuer, took a deep breath, and rushed into the Red Silk Bewilderment Formation again with the knife in hand. It only took about a cup of tea for him to rush out again, covered in blood, holding two sets of clothes in his hands.

He threw a set of clothes to Shen Xu, and quickly wiped the blood off his body and put on another set of clothes.

Shen Xuzhan was wearing a light and semi-transparent red gauze dress, a low-cut skirt and an almost transparent red gauze outer coat. It was a nice long skirt, but the slit on one side was open to the hips. It was too sexy and seductive, and it couldn't cover up her shame at all.

She frowned slightly, but the sad and solemn atmosphere did not allow her to be picky, so she had to put on the clothes through the red gauze.

She draped the half-dried undergarment outside. It was covered in dust and mud, so that its original color could no longer be discerned. When worn over the gorgeous red dress, it looked like a red rose covered in dust.

Fortunately, Pei Zhiyuan's aunt had died at this time, so he had no time to look at her.

The two of them quickly broke into the Black Tortoise Formation and activated the Golden Scale Dragon Formation.

Chen Xu easily solved the puzzles on each movable wall, and the two of them quickly moved to the center of the formation. They saw iron chains connecting various mechanisms on the high dome above their heads, and above the hole in the center hung the winter melon-sized blood-enriched Dzi bead.

"That's the Dzi bead." Pei Zhiyuan looked up, his deep eyes as cold as the abyss. He looked around, ready to find a place to get the Dzi bead.

The center of the formation is like a conical well that is narrow at the top and wide at the bottom. The upper well mouth is one square meter wide and it looks like it can only accommodate one person through.

The area below was spacious enough to be the size of a room, with smooth walls all around, and the chain mechanism above was several feet high.

Chen Xu looked up and circled the Dzi beads on the dome, visually assessing their height. As if having some understanding, he murmured, "So that's how it is."

She asked Pei Zhiyuan to take her back to the mechanism room, opened the sluice gate and movable wall, and then broke into the Golden Scale Dragon Formation again.

She still made her way to the center of the formation and asked Pei Zhiyuan to take down a wide and thick wooden board. She carried the crossbow on her back and squatted down to lower her center of gravity.

Soon, a movable wall with a riddle rose up. This time she did not choose to answer the riddle, but directly pressed the mechanism on the wall.

All I heard was a rumbling sound accompanied by the shaking of the ground, and the entire ground began to shake violently.

Pei Zhiyuan saw that she had triggered the mechanism, and his expression was slightly panicked, but more puzzled: "You triggered the mechanism, what should I do next?"

"A golden scale is a creature that lives in a pond. Once it encounters water, it transforms into a dragon. Of course, I will wait for the golden scale to transform into a dragon and then ride it up."

There was a loud splash, and a thick column of water shot up into the sky from the side of the two people, forming an arc like an arch bridge, and the water level under their feet rose rapidly.

"Now!" Shen Xu asked Pei Zhiyuan to throw the wooden board on the water column. The two of them climbed up the wooden board that was going up along the water column without any delay and lay down on the board tightly.

The wooden board moved along the water column to the highest point of the water bridge. Pei Zhiyuan saw the right opportunity and let go, then jumped up and climbed onto the mechanism chain that was running on it.

Without any hesitation, he used a hook to pull Shen Xu up to the ceiling.

The two of them moved along the running mechanism chain until they reached the narrow hole above.

Shen Xu found a platform to stand on, raised his crossbow and shot down the Dzi beads on the dome, and the five-colored Dzi beads fell down with a bang.

Pei Zhiyuan flew out of the cave, held the winter melon-shaped Dzi bead in his hand, and landed back on the edge of the cave entrance.

Master Hua and his guards gathered on the balcony above the cave entrance, looking down from above.

Song Lin and the little emperor were also there.

Pei Zhiyuan held the Dzi bead in his arms, looked up and met Master Hua's gaze, his hawk-like eyes filled with murderous intent.

"Where's Xiuxiu?" Song Lin asked anxiously, but was held down by two guards.

Master Hua's face was gloomy, and his tone was cold as he said, "I didn't expect that you guys actually broke through the Qimen Four Symbols Formation and even got the Dzi Bead."

"Is this the Dzi bead?" Shen Xu crawled out of the cave, lifted up her skirt and squeezed the water out of her clothes. Her clothes were soaked again. Fortunately, it was summer now, so she didn't feel cold even in wet clothes.

She turned her head to look at the Dzi Bead in Pei Zhiyuan's arms and said in a frivolous tone: "Can this thing really revive the dead and turn flesh into bones?"

Pei Zhiyuan replied in a low voice: "The Imperial Master used the powder made from this frost to cure the illnesses of the late emperor and the imperial concubine. Now, Your Majesty has the same illness and needs the treatment of Dzi beads."

Shen Xu stood beside Pei Zhiyuan, looking at the winter melon-shaped five-colored Dzi bead curiously, and even dipped a little with his finger to taste it.

She spat twice in disgust, trying to expel the bitter and astringent taste from her mouth, and then took advantage of the man's unpreparedness and snatched the Dzi bead.

"Is it really that magical? I heard it can even control people's minds?"

Chen Xu suddenly gave a sinister smile, holding up the winter melon-sized Dzi bead and throwing it directly into the hole of the Fish Dragon Formation. "Oh, then I want to see how the Imperial Master can control people's hearts without the Dzi bead!"

Everyone was shocked. The little emperor showed an anxious look on his face and stretched out his hand, ordering: "Pei Qing, quickly find the Dzi Bead for me!"

Pei Zhiyuan pursed his lips and glanced at the anxious little emperor. After a moment's hesitation, he quickly jumped back into the center of the formation.

Hua Guoshi's expression suddenly turned cold, his hoarse voice filled with anger, and his triangular eyes gleamed with ferocity. He directed his command to the two guards nearby: "Kill them."

The two masters guarding the two sides of the throne flew down from the balcony with swords in hand and attacked Chen Xu directly.

Shen Xu fired two crossbows at the expert flying down, but both were dodged. She simply abandoned the crossbow, went back into the eye hole of the fish dragon formation, and hid.