"Didn't this old woman say that the Empress Dowager is prone to tantrums when she's ill? Let's go and cheer her up," Ji Fengyao said to Xi Que with a playful wink.

Xique's eyes widened instantly, her gaze filled with joy. She excitedly clenched her little fists: "So Miss is going to do something naughty! That's great! That old hag is always trying to harm Miss and her husband. I hate her so much! This time, while she's sick, we should make her so angry that she dies. Let's see if she dares to harm anyone again!"

Look at this girl's fiery temper!

It really suits her taste!

Ji Fengyao happily shook the magpie's hand, turned around and went into the room, carrying the old woman on her back. She then took out a needle case and a small medicine box from her storage space.

The old woman was so moved by Ji Fengyao's kind words and the fact that she actually brought out her medicine box that she almost cried: "Princess, you truly have the heart of a bodhisattva!"

Xiqiao: "..."

That old codger really knows how to flatter!

If that old man knew what she and her young lady were up to, he'd probably want to chew his tongue up and swallow it!

Ji Fengyao knew why the old woman was acting this way: it must be because the medicine she gave the Empress Dowager had taken effect prematurely.

What she originally prepared for the Empress Dowager was a powder that could cause symptoms similar to ALS (Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis).

But the Empress Dowager repeatedly crossed and challenged her bottom line, which angered Ji Fengyao, who then added many more ingredients to the mixture.

Finally, she named the newly developed poison "The Calamity of Seven Emotions and Six Desires".

When the poison takes effect, the Empress Dowager's seven emotions and six desires will be amplified to the extreme, and gradually disappear one by one, until she becomes a "wooden person" without any emotions, only pain, but no desire to narrate or express anything.

The Empress Dowager was a person who never cultivated her character and was always ruthless and vicious.

Once the poison takes effect, she becomes an uncontrollable ferocious beast.

Ji Fengyao and Xique arrived at the Empress Dowager's meditation room, where they found a scene resembling a hellish landscape:

Najib was still lying by the Queen Mother's bedside, but he had already died.

Sun Shouli was also beaten until his head was swollen like a pig's head. His gray hair and beard were almost completely pulled out, and his hands hung limply, clearly broken off as well.

He slumped against the table and chairs in the center of the room, barely breathing, tears streaming down his face, his expression ashen.

Na Xiang suffered even worse; he was tortured to the point of being unrecognizable, and his neck was almost broken by the Empress Dowager using a curtain.

"Good heavens!" Xique jumped out in surprise as soon as she stepped into the room, grabbed Ji Fengyao's hand and exclaimed, "Miss, the Empress Dowager probably didn't send us here to treat the patient, but to fight the ferocious beast!"

The timid old woman hiding in the back: "..."

Isn't the Empress Dowager a ferocious beast now?

Ji Fengyao knew the Empress Dowager was cruel, but she never expected that the Empress Dowager was simply not human!

It's clear how many inhumane things the Empress Dowager did when she came to power!

Ji Fengyao's gaze turned completely cold, showing no mercy whatsoever to the old woman: "Yes, we're here to fight the ferocious beast."

Upon hearing this, the magpie flicked its wrist, and a long whip appeared instantly, slicing through the night with a crisp "crack".

She nervously shielded Ji Fengyao behind her, saying, "Miss, please step back, I'll protect you!"

This straightforward girl hadn't quite grasped the situation yet; she still thought they were really hunting wild animals.

Ji Fengyao was amused by the magpie's silly and adorable way of protecting its master. She chuckled and said, "The Empress Dowager can't withstand your whip. Put it away quickly. We don't need weapons to deal with that old hag."

"What? The ferocious beast in the house is the Empress Dowager?!" Xi Que exclaimed in shock. "That old hag, is she even human?!"