"I really have nothing left!"

Ying Ziru raised his hands in surrender, "Since I'm so cooperative, Master Jiang Feng, please remove the rune from my head!"

"Hmph," Jiang Deng raised his hand to wipe away the lighting symbol on Ying Ziru's forehead and said impatiently, "Go away."

Ying Ziru cast an ice spell on the ground, shone a light on the frozen ground, and when he saw that his forehead was no longer bright, he cried with joy.

"Oh my God! It's finally dark!"

Ying Ziru ran away happily.

Feng Jiuyou, who was standing aside, also stood up silently, intending to leave with Ying Ziru.

Feng Qing frowned and said, "You're leaving now? Without even going to see Mother?"

"Lin Jun will not let my mother go. Since she is already dead, there is no need for me to go over and see her."

Feng Jiuyou turned his head away, clenching his fists in anger. "The most urgent thing is to return to the sect immediately and tell Master everything that Lin Jun has done. I want Master to expel Lin Jun from the sect!"

Everyone: “…”

Let’s just say that although you are the direct disciple of the sect leader, Lin Jun is the direct disciple of the ancestor!

Feng Qing frowned and said, "Lin Jun is the junior uncle of the Taichu Sword Sect, and is on equal footing with the Sect Master. Do you think it would be helpful if you go back to find the Sect Master?"

Feng Jiuyou became even more angry and said, "I don't believe there is no justice in this world! I want justice!"

"Oh, fair?"

Jiang Deng couldn't help but sneer, "I've seen you use your status as the sect master's disciple to bully others many times before, and you didn't think there was anything wrong with it. Now, because someone has a stronger backing than you, they turn around and bully you, and you think the world is unfair. Don't you think you're being a bit hypocritical?"

"I, I... a good man doesn't fight with a woman. I won't argue with you!"

After saying that, Feng Jiuyou flicked his sleeves and flew away angrily on his sword.

Seeing Feng Jiuyou's figure gradually disappearing into the horizon, Jiang Deng sneered.

It’s a good thing that Feng Jiuyou returned to Taichu Sword Sect. It was a good opportunity to teach him a lesson so that he wouldn’t be so stupid again after this incident.

Retracting his gaze, Jiang Deng patted Jiang Zhiling on the shoulder and praised: "Zhiling, I can't tell that your blackmail skills have improved."

"Hehe," Jiang Zhiling scratched her head sheepishly, "It's all thanks to my elder sister."

Jiang Deng said modestly: "That's right!"

——

The three of them came all the way to the harem.

Sure enough, there were corpses everywhere, and bodies cut in half were everywhere.

The way these palace maids and eunuchs died was exactly the same as that of the Yulin Guards outside. It was obviously Lin Jun's doing.

Looking at the corpses lying all over the ground outside the Pepper Palace where the queen lived, Feng Qing felt a little nervous and she hurried into the palace.

"Mother!"

Jiang Deng and Jiang Zhiling looked at each other and followed him into the palace.

The first thing that caught his eye was the queen lying in a pool of blood. Her chest was wounded by the sword energy, the wound was so deep that the bone was visible, and the blood gushing out completely dyed the blanket beneath her red.

Because her injuries were too severe, she had no hope of survival, but her cloudy eyes looked towards the door, stubbornly refusing to die.

Hearing the sound of footsteps, the queen's face lit up with joy, and she murmured, "My son... is it my son who has arrived?"

Feng Qing paused for a moment, the sadness in her heart fading away at the Queen's words. She pursed her lips and said, "I'm sorry to disappoint you, Mother. My brother believed you were dead and left a long time ago."

The queen seemed to ignore him, a happy smile on her face as she spoke to herself, "I knew my son wouldn't abandon me. If I could see him one last time before I die, I would die with no regrets."

“Hehehe…”

Feng Qing suddenly laughed softly, and an unprecedented resentment towards her mother surged in her heart.

That was because she had been neglected, ignored, and despised by her mother since she was a child... It accumulated bit by bit and became such a deep resentment today!

Why is it that both she and Feng Jiuyou are the Queen Mother's biological children, but the Queen Mother only has Feng Jiuyou in her heart and eyes, as if she is just a by-product of giving birth to Feng Jiuyou?

No matter how much she did, her mother never had her in her eyes, and she never cared about her. Otherwise, she wouldn't have allowed her father to sell her to the Taichu Sword Sect...

Feng Qing squatted down, took out the eye-restoring pill she had specially prepared for the queen, and stuffed it into her mouth. Her voice was filled with suppressed anger, "Mother, open your eyes and take a good look at who I am!"

It is worthy of being a Xuan-level elixir, it melts in your mouth.

In an instant, the queen's eye disease was cured, and even her fatal injury was temporarily suppressed.

The darkness that had lingered in the queen's eyes disappeared, replaced by a palace covered in blood and Feng Qing's cold face.

The Queen could no longer deceive herself. She sobbed softly, "Why? Sixteen, why are you so cruel to me? You make me feel so uncomfortable even when I walk. You are simply, simply the debt collector I gave birth to!"

Feng Qing remained unmoved. "I also want to ask, Mother, why are you so cruel to me? Why do you always treat me and my brother differently? Is it all just because I'm a woman?"

The Queen stopped crying and said with a confused look, "How have I ever been mean to you? The reason I pay more attention to your brother is because I hope that after he ascends the throne, he can choose a good husband for you. Isn't that your best option?"

"The best way out?"

Feng Qing couldn't help but laugh, "Why is my only hope to be married? Why can't I achieve great things like my brother and become the emperor?"

The Queen's eyes widened in disbelief. "Sixteen, do you know what you're talking about? You and your brother were both born into the royal family, raised in luxury. You've enjoyed all the favors the royal family has brought you, so naturally, you must also shoulder your responsibilities!"

"Oh, my brother's responsibility is to become emperor, to be recorded in history, and to live forever. My responsibility is either to travel to another country to marry a princess, or to choose a consort to check and balance the powerful ministers, wasting my life in the backyard and dying in silence. I want to ask, are these responsibilities truly equal?"

The queen was stunned. She had never thought about this question before, but after hearing what Feng Qing said, she felt the blood surging in her chest. The anger not only burned away her rationality, but also her grace and magnanimity.

"You, you're just making up stories! I never thought I'd raise an ungrateful person like you. If I'd known, I shouldn't have given birth to you!"

Looking at the mad queen, Feng Qing smiled faintly, "Mother, everything I did before was thinking about gaining your love, but now I find that I no longer need it."

"Rather than receiving your care and love, what I really want is... to become the rule maker and change all the unreasonable rules in this world!"