Everyone fell silent upon hearing this, except for the little mute boy, whose expression grew increasingly panicked.

Seeing Cui Yulu becoming increasingly distressed, he transformed into a black shadow and left the house.

Seeing Cui Yulu in such distress, Ji Xiaotang quickly took out silver needles and instructed Fu Xiaoyu to lay her flat and control her body.

“These needles might hurt a lot. This is my first time trying this too. You’d better hold her down and not let her move around, or the consequences could be dire.”

Fu Xiaoyu nodded with a dark expression.

He increased the force in his hands a few more times before he was able to control Cui Yulu.

"You all shouldn't linger here. Go and rest first. Having too many people around might not be good for her recovery."

After hearing Ji Xiaotang's words, everyone left the room on their own.

At this moment, Cui Yulu was immersed in darkness, with no light around her, and fear surrounded her.

There was no light in her dream, and it felt as if someone was constantly chasing her. She could only maintain her last shred of sanity by running forward.

Suddenly someone thrust a huge silver needle at her. Cui Yulu was so frightened that she tried to open her eyes, but the voice rang out urgently.

"Kill him, kill him and you'll be free."

Just as Ji Xiaotang inserted the last silver needle, Cui Yulu suddenly opened her eyes.

He glared at Fu Xiaoyu.

When their eyes met, Fu Xiaoyu had never seen her gaze so intimidating.

"Why are you holding my hand? I'm going to kill you."

"Don't move around. You have silver needles on your body. Moving around will hurt you."

But Cui Yulu, who was already under his control, wouldn't listen to him and twisted her body trying to break free from his grasp.

But Fu Xiaoyu's hand gripped hers like an iron clamp, making her unable to move.

Seeing that she was trying to break free, Ji Xiaotang inserted another needle into her sleeping acupoint.

Cui Yulu struggled a few more times before drifting off to sleep again.

"Don't blame me, this is for your own good."

Fu Xiaoyu didn't speak, but just silently watched Cui Yulu's face, which was soaked with sweat.

When will she get better?

"It's uncertain. The Gu worms in her body have been affected and are very active now. She could be awakened at any time, so we must be vigilant and pay attention to her every move."

"You mean she's just a puppet now?"

Ji Xiaotang shook his head with a worried expression and said, "It hasn't reached that level yet, but it will soon become a puppet corpse. We can feel her consciousness fighting against the Gu worms, and we can suppress them for the time being. If the Gu worms grow to a certain extent in her body, then we will lose control completely."

Fu Xiaoyu nodded worriedly and said nothing more.

When the mute boy arrived at the Shadow Pavilion, Lu Changfeng was sitting in the main hall, resting with his eyes closed.

He said he was resting with his eyes closed, but actually he was waiting for the little mute boy to arrive.

He knew that once the kid saw Cui Yulu's painful state caused by the Gu worm, he would definitely come looking for him to demand an explanation, so he had been waiting for him here.

"You've arrived. Don't speak, just sit down."

He didn't even open his eyes, but waved his hand from his seat, gesturing for him to sit down and talk.

The mute boy didn't know what his purpose was, but once he realized that Lu Changfeng had been using him all along, he no longer wanted to follow him.

"I don't want to waste any more words with you. Please remove the poison from Yulu. Consider it my way of repaying you for following you all these years, okay?"

Lu Changfeng waved his hand again, signaling him not to be impatient.

"I've taken everything to heart. Isn't this what you wanted? Now I've transformed Cui Yulu into the person you wanted her to be. Why aren't you satisfied?"

"I beg you to remove the poison from Yulu. I don't care about anything else, as long as Cui Yulu is safe, I'll do whatever you say, okay?"

The little mute boy gestured very quickly, and his emotions were unusually agitated.

“You’ve become disobedient, and I don’t really like the way you are now.”

Lu Changfeng narrowed his eyes, casting a cold gaze at him.

In the past, he would have ended there and said nothing more, but this time he continued to gesture.

"I'm begging you, I can give up revenge, as long as Cui Yulu is safe."

Seeing his pathetic state, Lu Changfeng waved his hand and sent the little mute flying.

"Useless thing. Who told you to give up revenge? You're even giving up your parents' revenge for a woman. I really misjudged you."

He ignored these words and kept begging Lu Changfeng to let Cui Yulu go.

This enraged Lu Changfeng, who slapped him to the ground.

"If you keep pleading like this, I'll kill her right now, you believe me?"

These words made him stop crying and stare at him fiercely.

"You've been using me from the very beginning, haven't you? My parents weren't killed by Fu Xiaoyu at all. It was your Lu family who did it, wasn't it?"

Lu Changfeng's lips twitched twice, and his eyes suddenly sharpened.

She grabbed his neck: "Do you believe Fu Xiaoyu or me? If I say it's not like that, will you still believe me?"

His expression became distorted, and he grew increasingly agitated as he spoke.

Her face turned bright red.

"Your father has been using my father's military power from the very beginning, and now you're using my loyalty to continue hurting the woman I care about. What else do you want?"

Lu Changfeng burst into laughter after hearing this.

"Haha, you're just as naive as your father. He believed just a few words from my father. It's a pity that Fu Xiaoyu came along halfway. My father could have survived, but because of Fu Xiaoyu's appearance, my family was executed."

The little mute boy couldn't believe his ears. So this was the truth. He almost went crazy and wanted to fight back.

But he was no match for Lu Changfeng.

"Save your energy. You're just a dog I raised. You're too green to rebel against me now."

As she spoke, she pushed him away with one hand and spat out a mouthful of blood with a "poof".

"I can pretend that what happened today never happened, but you'd better keep your little schemes to yourself. You'll suffer a terrible fate if you betray me."

After saying that, Lu Changfeng turned and left, leaving him sitting there in a daze.

Cui Yulu fell into a deep sleep again, and everyone could finally rest.

Fu Xiaoyu received news that Fu Xiaofan would be arriving in Jingyuan Town that night, so he had no choice but to lead his guards to meet him.

Fortunately, the emperor was traveling incognito this time, so very few people knew about it.

Fu Xiaoyu also proceeded secretly, and finally met Fu Xiaofan and Xu Wanqing's group as night fell.

Unbeknownst to them, Cui Yulu had already awakened, injured the guards, and escaped, her whereabouts unknown.