"..." Qi Xiao's expression immediately changed.

He didn't want to expose his secrets in front of so many people.

He has been exposed to Gu poison since he was sixteen years old, and the number of people who have died at his hands is not in the thousands but in the tens of thousands.

They were all homeless poor people in the capital.

Anyway, most of those people were physically weak, and they would have died sooner or later anyway. As his test subjects, dying in his hands would at least be of some use.

However, Qi Xiao was also well aware that this was only his reasoning, and others certainly wouldn't agree with it, especially Qi Sichen and the others who were most firmly on Qi Yuan's side.

but!

Lin Wanyue is just a five or six-year-old kid. Do these people really think she has the ability to stop them?

"A mere trick!" Qi Xiao sneered, and with a flick of his wrist, a dark-colored flute appeared in his hand.

Before the light, floating talisman even got close to Qi Xiao, he picked up his flute and began to play. As the flute music began...

Scattered sounds came from every corner of this seemingly ordinary study and courtyard, like insects crawling through holes or snakes slithering through grass.

Previously, everyone had experienced a large number of moths suddenly flying out of the grass, and now that this was happening again, everyone immediately looked towards the surrounding grass.

Sure enough, all sorts of insects swarmed out, and several venomous snakes, which are rarely seen on ordinary days, also slithered in from the corner of the wall.

“These insects and snakes... look a bit off,” a sharp-eyed guard said urgently.

He was a guard who had trained with swords and knives in the training ground for many years, but he was not afraid of injury or death. He was just most afraid of snakes.

Just seeing how terrifying these venomous snakes and insects looked made me instinctively tremble.

Lin Wanyue saw it too, and her face turned ashen.

These insects were raised on human corpse oil. Due to the excessively strong yin energy and resentment, they were constantly enveloped by gloomy auras on their carapaces and wings. They even took on human form, leaving pale spots on their bodies.

The venomous snakes looked even more terrifying. The spots on their bodies had turned a lime-like color, and their already frightening vertical pupils were also a grayish-white color.

"Everyone, come closer!" Lin Wanyue shouted in a somewhat shrill voice.

Everyone was already terrified, especially the guards.

They usually considered themselves incredibly brave, even willing to die, but this time they weren't facing real enemies, but rather these insects that could crawl onto them at any moment.

You should know that those moths didn't even get close; they just flapped their wings and poisoned several of their brothers to death.

If it weren't for the little princess's ability to summon wind and rain, and even control her divine fire magic to burn all the poisonous moths to death, they wouldn't know what to do.

At this moment, it was the imperial physicians who looked like weak scholars who became excited when they saw these insects, and a few even tried to grab them.

"These bugs look so strange, the medicine must be very effective!"

"This is definitely poison. We can't add too much. As for its effects, we'll know once I catch a few and take them back."

The actions of these imperial physicians terrified the guards, who quickly grabbed their clothes and threw them into the encirclement.

Qi Xiao stood on the rooftop with a smug expression, and the sound of his flute grew even faster.

Then he looked down and saw that Lin Wanyue didn't seem panicked at all. Instead, she was holding a small porcelain bottle and pouring a layer of black liquid around the crowd. The surface of the liquid shimmered with the light of candlelight and seemed to have a faint golden glow.

"What is this?" Although Qi Xiao had underestimated Lin Wanyue before, after such a long battle of wits, he still felt that she was quite capable.

Driven by him, the venomous snakes and insects rushed towards Qi Sichen and Lin Yanping.

But right outside that small circle of liquid, all the insects and venomous snakes stopped.

Qi Xiao didn't understand why, but he gritted his teeth and continued playing the flute.

The insects and snakes became agitated, and a few of the bolder insects tried to cross the thin black line.

But as soon as they got close, they left the body outside.

Soon, a large number of insects died outside the encirclement, as did several venomous snakes.

The snakes are slightly smarter than the insects. They stood up, trying to leap into the encirclement, hissing and flicking their tongues as they opened their blood-red mouths.

The scene looked so terrifying that everyone inside instinctively clung to their companions, trying to squeeze further inside.

But it didn't work.

Whether it was a poisonous snake or an insect, all of them died stiffly as soon as they got close to the black liquid.

"!!!" Qi Xiao was heartbroken at the sight.

How much manpower, resources, and money has he spent over the years to raise so many insects?

But now Lin Wanyue has almost used up all the cards he has left!

What exactly is that?!

Qi Xiao glared at Lin Wanyue with such anger that his eyeballs almost popped out, making his face look distorted.

"You..." He couldn't help but put down his flute and asked angrily, "What is this thing? What are you doing!"

Standing inside the encirclement, ignoring the strange looks from the crowd, Lin Wanyue took out a large spray bottle from her small sleeve.

Then she poured the spiked black dog blood into the spray bottle, raised her soft little face and smiled at Qi Xiao, saying, "Of course I'll deal with them first, then you!"

After she finished speaking, she gently pressed the switch on the spray bottle, and the black mist carrying the smell of blood was evenly sprinkled on the poisonous insects that rushed over.

Black dog blood is an extremely yang substance, making it an ideal substance for dealing with these Gu worms nourished by yin energy and resentment.

Moreover, black dog blood will not have any effect on ordinary people, except that the smell is indeed a bit strong.

Moreover, Lin Wanyue added other things to the black dog blood, making it even easier to deal with these insects.

The insects would die instantly if they came into contact with the black liquid even slightly.

Seeing that all the Gu worms he had carefully raised for so many years were easily dealt with by Lin Wanyue, with the ground littered with the corpses of insects and snakes, none of them able to move.

Qi Xiao was filled with rage, and he spat out a mouthful of blood.

Just then, the yellow talisman was finally stuck to his forehead, and suddenly turned completely black.