Xin Liangmu approached Mu Tiantian step by step.

Mu Tiantian was on high alert and wary. "Don't come any closer."

Xin Liangmu ignored him and continued forward.

Mu Tiantian glanced at the stone bed behind her, preparing to kill him.

The moment he walked up to her, Mu Tiantian quickly pulled out the hairpin from her hair and stabbed it into his left chest.

Logically speaking, the poison in the hairpin would seep into his heart, and even if he didn't die, it would take half his life.

But he didn't dodge or get scared; he just frowned slightly and took a pill.

Seven Commanders: [This medicine is made with Shia's blood; it is immune to all poisons and can also reduce the damage caused by poisons.]

At this moment, Mu Tiantian finally understood why Xia's luck value was so high, and why the World Management Bureau was so certain that Xia could save Long Fantian in their prediction.

Seeing that Xin Liangmu had swallowed the medicine and continued to approach her, Mu Tiantian suddenly grabbed his neck and heard him say in a low voice, "If I die, you will die too."

"What do you mean?" Mu Tiantian suddenly had a bad feeling.

Xin Liangmu smiled slightly, "Including the Empress Dowager, the Emperor, and the Regent, they will all die within a month. After they die, what do you think this country will become?"

“And you, you will die less than a day after I pass away.” Xin Liangmu glanced at the human skin mask on the ground, looked up at her, and chuckled, “I have planted a symbiotic Gu on this skin. I don’t know if the goddess will die.”

Mu Tiantian let go of his hand; she dared not take the risk.

He spoke his last sentence in a flippant tone, with a hint of skepticism.

Xin Liangmu always thought she was a goddess with extraordinary abilities, but after observing her, he realized that she could get injured and be poisoned by Gu, but her abilities were stronger than ordinary people, and she could expel the Gu worms in her own way.

Otherwise, he is no different from ordinary people.

Therefore, if he wanted to, he could certainly keep her by his side and use her for his own purposes.

At that moment, another person was thrown in through the stone gate.

Shea was extremely weak from blood loss, and she looked at the dimly lit secret room with great panic.

After she secretly took Mu Tiantian out of the palace, Mu Tiantian was taken away by Xin Liangmu's men. She didn't know where Mu Tiantian was hidden, nor did she know about the existence of this secret room.

At this moment, a person was hanging on the wall in front of her, his face peeled off and covered with worms. Xia was terrified and screamed incessantly.

Shinragi frowned, utterly disgusted by Shia's shouts.

He walked to her side, took a Gu worm from the Gu puppet on the wall, and forcibly fed it to her.

Shea coughed violently and gagged incessantly, and soon the Gu worm was vomited out.

The Gu worm was useless against her.

"Xin Liangmu...why are you treating me like this?" Xia didn't understand why he suddenly seemed like a different person. The person who had always been good to her suddenly threw her in like trash.

"Why? Of course, it's because you have the Holy Silkworm Gu in your body. I did so much just to kill you and take the Gu. Otherwise, why do you think I would have tolerated you for so long and even recommended you to be the Holy Maiden?" Xin Liangmu's tone was no longer as gentle as before, but instead full of disgust for her.

Ulana regained some of her senses upon hearing the term "Holy Silkworm Gu".

The Seven Unifications' database has also been updated: [It turns out that the person who unintentionally ate the Sacred Silkworm Gu cultivated by Ulana's father was Shia. Because she ate the Sacred Silkworm Gu, she is immune to all Gu and also has some immunity to poisons. Apart from skin injuries causing uncontrollable bleeding, she recovers quickly from other internal injuries.]

Mu Tiantian: [So, if Shia hadn't consumed the Sacred Silkworm Gu back then, perhaps she wouldn't have become the world's female lead, and Ulana's family might have escaped this calamity?]

Seven Unifications: [Theoretically speaking, the Sacred Silkworm Gu is the strongest among all Gu worms. If Xin Liangmu had possessed the Sacred Silkworm Gu when he killed Ulana's family, it's possible that Xin Liangmu would have been the one to die, and the subsequent development of the world would have been completely different. Perhaps Ulana would have become the female protagonist of the world.]

Seven Unifications: [However, now that everything has already happened, it's impossible to verify the alternative developments of that year.]

According to the information currently collected.

As a child, Shia met Ulana's sister and the two became friends. She was then invited to Ulana's house to play. Shia thought the Sacred Silkworm was fun, so she ignored Ulana's sister's advice and insisted on taking the Sacred Silkworm, which was placed high up, down to play with it.

As a result, the sacred silkworm gu accidentally fell into her mouth and she ate it.

Ulana's father couldn't bear to remove the Gu poison from Xia, who was so young, so he raised her at home, planning to remove it when she was older, so that he could save her life.

But soon after, Xia secretly ran away and could not be found no matter how hard they searched. Years later, Ulana's family was ambushed by Xin Liangmu because they did not have the Sacred Silkworm Gu, and the family eventually met with misfortune.

Later, Shia rescued Xin Liangmu from Ulana, and Xin Liangmu discovered that Shia had the Sacred Silkworm Gu in her body, but he didn't know how to remove it.

Although it is recorded in the Gu Collection, he only has the second volume, so he cannot remove the Sacred Silkworm Gu intact.

Therefore, he needs the first volume of the "Collection of Gu Objects".

Including the Gu poison he used on the Emperor and Empress Dowager, if it weren't for the instructions in the previous volume to make the Gu worms obey him, not only would the others die, but he himself would also die.

Therefore, Xin Liangmu believed that Mu Tiantian must have a way to help him find the Gu Collection.

Whether she was a goddess or not, he firmly believed she had a way.

When Shia heard Xin Liangmu mention the Sacred Silkworm Gu, it sounded familiar but she couldn't quite place it. "What is the Sacred Silkworm Gu? How could I not know about it when I have something like that in my body?"

“Yes, you should ask yourself how the Wu family’s Sacred Silkworm Gu ended up in your body. I’ve been telling you not to get hurt, not to bleed, and I even bribed the executioners to go easy on you, all because you have the Sacred Silkworm Gu in your body. Your blood has the effects of the Sacred Silkworm Gu, but if you bleed too much, the effects will weaken, and the Gu worm will be even harder to remove.” Xin Liangmu looked at her coldly, as if she were looking at a dead person.

He said emotionlessly, "Once I get the first volume of the Gu Collection, I can find out how to extract Gu. Then you won't be of any use. It just so happens that one of my Gu puppets is broken, so you can replace it."

As he spoke, he threw down the Gu puppet whose face had peeled off from the wall, and all the Gu worms on it crawled up the wall onto the Gu puppet next to it.

"Men, take the corpse out and burn it," Xin Liangmu ordered.

Inside the secret chamber, a guard drags away a corpse whose insides have been completely devoured by Gu worms.

Shia couldn't believe that Xin Liangmu would kill her. "I saved you, how could you do this to me?!"

Xin Liangmu suddenly brought up the events of that year, "Originally, I pretended to be injured and infiltrated the Wu family to steal the Sacred Silkworm Gu. I poisoned the Wu family members to force them to reveal the whereabouts of the Sacred Silkworm Gu, but they said they didn't know. Since they didn't want to talk, there was no point in keeping them around."

"Speaking of which, I really have to thank you. If it weren't for you, I might have been killed by Ulana." Xin Liangmu suddenly laughed. "But I'm really lucky. The Holy Silkworm Gu actually ended up on you, and you're so stupid that you believe everything I say. So, I really can't treat you like this."

"How about this: after I successfully extract the Sacred Silkworm Gu, I'll kill you, and then use your corpse as a breeding ground for my Gu worms. This way, you'll die without pain, and your body won't be wasted. It's a win-win situation," Xin Liangmu said with a smile, uttering chilling words.

In the past, Xia would have thought his smile was gentle and refined, but now, seeing his smile, she felt that he was like a demon from the underworld, utterly terrifying.