The Su family found a fortune teller and gave him a sum of money.

Let him use Li Muge's birth chart for divination.

This led to the conclusion that Li Muge's fate was to bring misfortune to his mother and hinder his father.

The fortune teller readily agreed.

He gave Su a divination result.

"My lord," Madam Su said, wiping her tears with a handkerchief, "I had no choice; there was simply no way to keep it a secret any longer."

"The master said that if Mu Ge really goes to Ziyang Palace, it will definitely affect your career development and even the entire Li family."

"This is outrageous!"

Marquis Zhenyuan coughed heavily a few times, and Madam Su immediately brought him warm tea.

He sighed with satisfaction: "If Li Muge had even a fraction of Qing'er's qualities, I would be more than happy to have him."

"My lord, you must take care of your health. You are the head of the family. Without you, the Zhenyuan Marquis's mansion would be without its pillar."

"Yes, Madam, don't worry."

It has to be said.

Marquis Zhenyuan was not very shrewd.

But he focused almost all of his remaining attention on Li Muge.

He dared not provoke the regent.

So he simply went to the palace to meet the new emperor, who then asked Li Muge to stop going to Ziyang Palace to cultivate.

Therefore, the Regent will certainly not obstruct it.

The new emperor was naturally happy to lend a hand to the regent's father-in-law.

His original intention was to have the regent marry a fool.

If that fool really did join such a great immortal sect as Ziyang Palace...

He learned magic.

For the regent, this would be like adding wings to a tiger.

Emperors are often suspicious.

He even wondered if the Regent had orchestrated Li Muge's success in passing the Ziyang Palace test.

Li Muge carefully hid the token.

He came to see the Regent with a cheerful smile.

She had almost no friends in the capital; the only person she could share her affections with was Regent Yunqi.

"Regent, Regent."

Li Muge walked into Yun Qi's courtyard and called out several times, but no one responded.

She pushed open the door.

"Regent, Regent, where are you?"

Li Muge stepped into Yun Qi's bedchamber and searched almost the entire place, but still couldn't find the Regent.

Just as she was about to leave,

But I accidentally moved a vase on the wooden shelf.

Li Muge quickly moved the mouth of the vase back to its original position.

Who would have thought that a secret passage would appear in the Regent's bedroom?

Unable to resist her curiosity, Li Muge went inside.

The tunnels inside the structure had been dug extremely deep. After finally reaching the end, Li Muge discovered a hidden door.

Li Muge opened the hidden door without much effort.

The sight before her stunned her.

Li Muge's pupils dilated in shock; she could hardly believe her eyes.

Inside the dark room.

Several people who had lost their minds were imprisoned, and they were still bound by shackles around their waists.

It occasionally let out roars like a wild beast.

The skin had already become ulcerated.

Who are they, and why did they become like this?

Li Muge pursed her lips and left, only to find that the mechanisms in the room had just been restored and the door closed.

Yun Qi just happened to be back, and the two bumped into each other at the perfect moment.

"You're looking for me?" Yun Qi narrowed his eyes.

"Yes, that's right, Regent. I came to tell you that I have passed the disciple test of Ziyang Palace."

Li Muge kept telling herself to stay calm and not let Yun Qi see anything; her intuition told her otherwise.

If the Regent discovers that she has found those inhuman, ghostly monsters in the secret room...

The Regent will definitely make her die.

Li Muge guessed correctly; Yun Qi was indeed sizing Li Muge up.

If her expression shows even the slightest sign of something amiss, Yun Qi will definitely turn this woman into one of those monsters.

"Yes, congratulations." Yun Qi said expressionlessly, still wanting to test Li Muge further.

Unexpectedly, Li Muge suddenly threw herself into the Regent's arms.

"Regent, thank you."

Li Muge was genuinely grateful to the Regent. For the past ten years or so, she had devoted herself to studying cultivation techniques.

But then she suddenly remembered the monsters she had seen in the secret room, and a chill ran down her spine.

That night, she tossed and turned in bed, unable to fall asleep, and was thinking of going out for a walk.

They happened to see the Regent talking to a man in blue.

They were talking about something like curing a strange disease, and Li Muge listened carefully, not wanting to miss any details.

The man in blue made it sound like the people in the basement had contracted a strange disease, and the Regent was doing this to protect them and to better cure them.

That's why they hid them.

Upon learning the truth, Li Muge breathed a sigh of relief. She knew that the Regent was a good person, and that people had simply misunderstood him due to rumors.

After Li Muge left.

The man in blue said with a hint of mischief, "Regent, do you think this woman will believe the illusion we've created for her?"

Yun Qi's pupils were sinister: "She will believe it."

He also wanted to say, so what if Li Muge doesn't believe it?

No matter what methods she uses, she can never be his match.

“That’s true. Your Majesty, you always have confidence in what you do. But Your Majesty, I really don’t understand. Didn’t you always prefer to kill the innocent rather than let the guilty go free?”

"Why are you going to all this trouble to ask me to come and play along with this charade?"

The man in blue was named Wu Qingyi.

He is Yun Qi's only friend.

Wu Qingyi is a doctor.

However, this doctor was not a healer, but a devil who researched poisons and killed people without hesitation.

Yun Qi collaborated with him in order to develop a poison that even magic could not neutralize.

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