Qi Guze sighed softly and reached out to rest her head on his shoulder.

"Ah Yue, remember, your safety is more important than my life. If anything happens to you, I'll give my life for you."

"Don't do that!" Xu Yuehuai gripped his hand tightly. In the instant their eyes met, they were each other's focus, as if that moment were eternity.

"You're fine, of course I wouldn't do that." Qi Guze smiled and rubbed the tip of her nose.

Xu Yuehua smiled and gently bit his earlobe.

The peace between the two did not last long. A few days later, the power within Xu Yuehuai suddenly became uncontrollable, plunging her into a desperate situation once again.

The aura within her was incredibly violent and terrifying, as if it could explode and kill her at any moment.

"Ha ha ha ha!"

"We've finally reached this point!"

"I'll succeed soon!"

She walked out with her hair disheveled and started smashing things all over the mansion.

"Your Highness! What's wrong?"

"Please don't hurt yourself!"

"Stop it now, or the prince will be heartbroken!"

When the servants saw her going mad, they didn't run away, but immediately stepped forward to try to stop her.

However, Xu Yuehuai had already lost her self-awareness and couldn't see who was in front of her at all.

"Anyone who tries to stop me deserves to die!" Xu Yuehuai waved his hand and sent a group of servants flying.

"Get out of the way! All of you, get out of the way!"

The servants coughed up blood, but they still crawled over to block her way, worried that she might be in danger if she ran out of the palace.

Could ordinary people like them have stopped Xu Yuehuai?

With another wave of her hand, Xu Yuehuai sent them flying dozens of meters away, and they all disappeared from her sight.

She moved with ease, quickly reaching the main gate of the Prince's mansion, and it looked like she was about to leave.

The next moment, Qi Guze suddenly appeared beside her.

Seeing her struggling in pain, he felt a pang in his heart and spat out a mouthful of blood.

"Ah Yue, wake up! Don't let that force control you!"

He shouted frantically, but she seemed to be trapped in a nightmare and couldn't receive any messages from the outside world.

Her body suddenly trembled, and the power within her surged wildly. "Who are you? Get out of the way!"

"Ah Yue! It's me!"

Qi Guze formed hand seals and came to Xu Yuehuai's side, attempting to inject his magical power into her body.

However, the power of the Ling Shu Jue was not something he could control alone.

His extraordinary power seemed to vanish into thin air, utterly useless, completely devoured by her techniques.

"This technique is so terrifying. If I had known this would happen, I would have made you destroy it back then. Even if you had lost all your martial arts skills, you wouldn't have gone into a state of qi deviation like you are today."

"It's all my fault for being so incompetent that I caused you to encounter such a dangerous situation."

"Ah Yue, wake up! Look carefully at who I am!"

Qi Guze was sweating profusely, and his whole body was almost exhausted.

However, he has not yet found the flaw in the Ling Shu Technique!

The Ling Shu Jue has long since disappeared, and no one has left any records of it.

If he can't find a flaw, he'll probably be unable to stop Xu Yuehuai's murderous intent.

The heart? Yes! The most crucial root lies in the human heart!

Perhaps the solution lies in using one's own mind to control another's mind!

“Look at me, Yue!” He held her tightly, no matter how much she struggled.

But Xu Yuehuai couldn't see him clearly; all she saw was a hazy blur.

"Get out! I told you to get out!"

She suddenly went mad, and the dagger he had given her appeared in her hand. In an instant, the dagger pierced his chest, and blood stained their clothes red.

"Your Highness! Your Highness!"

The people around them couldn't believe that the two of them would kill each other.

"Your Highness! Step back immediately! The Princess Consort has lost her mind!"

"If you stay any longer, you might die at the hands of the princess!"

"Let the princess leave first, and we'll arrange for someone to follow her later."

Yan Qing and the others immediately shouted, trying to get Qi Guze to step back.

But in Qi Guze's world, the voices and figures of others have been lost, leaving only Xu Yuehuai in front of him.

"Ah Yue, don't be afraid, it's alright." As he spoke, he kept spitting out blood.

When Xu Yuehuai saw the glaring red, a glimmer of clarity finally flashed in her eyes.

She immediately stopped struggling, as if she had broken free from a nightmare.

"you……"

Upon seeing this, Qi Guze softened his tone even more and said, "Do you remember the first time we met? At that time, you were a village woman fleeing from war, with a group of troublesome family members by your side."

"We fought against the mountain bandits together, overcame all kinds of hardships together, and finally arrived in the capital."

"We also overthrew the prime minister and helped the Hanlin Academy reclaim the throne."

Qi Guze kept talking about what had happened between them. There were so many things, and he talked for a very long time, so long that the blood he vomited stained the ground and also completely stained Xu Yuehuai's eyes.

"No! Stop talking!"

Xu Yuehuai suddenly roared to the sky. When she lowered her head again, the crimson in her eyes gradually faded and became very clear.

In that instant of clarity, she immediately mobilized her power, merging it completely with Qi Guze's power to jointly challenge Ling Shu's absolute control over her.

"Boom!"

After a deafening roar, Xu Yuehuai felt that she had regained her composure, and the control over the Spiritual Pivot Technique had completely collapsed.

She collapsed into Qi Guze's arms, but her hand touched something sticky and wet, and her eyes instantly became even more moist.

"Aze...you...I..." She didn't dare to look up at Qi Guze, afraid that if she looked at him for even a second, her heart would break.

Qi Guze smiled and stroked her cheek, speaking gently, "It's alright, we're both fine. I won't let anything like this happen to you again."

As soon as he finished speaking, Qi Guze fainted. Xu Yuehuai hurriedly shouted for Yan Qing and the others to come and help.

Immediately afterwards, the two of them were taken to a room, and Yan Qing quickly arranged for a doctor to come and treat them.

The doctor was shocked when he saw the wounds on the two men. Without asking any questions, he quickly treated their wounds.

It was more than a month later when their external injuries had healed.

To prevent Xu Yuehuai from falling under the control of that evil technique again, Qi Guze decided to personally help her break free from it.

In the following months, Qi Guze and Xu Yuehuai went into seclusion to cultivate and discuss solutions together.

Finally, they found an effective method. Qi Guze used his supernatural power to help Xu Yuehuai gradually extract the remaining power of the Ling Shu Jue from her body.

During the separation, not only Xu Yuehuai, but also Qi Guze felt great pain. The two were tightly connected, sharing the pain and gritting their teeth to endure it.

Xu Yuehuai almost fainted several times, and Qi Guze gently encouraged her.

"It'll be ready in a little while."

No one knows how many times this was said, but finally a new day arrived, and the remaining evil power in Xu Yuehuai's body finally disappeared completely.