This is all he can do.

Carrying the man back to the cell, the jailer sighed inwardly.

What he didn't see was that shortly after he turned and left, Cui Shizhen, who he had put on the ground, turned into a pig in the blink of an eye. One of the pig's front hoofs was chopped off and wrapped with a white cloth strip.

The real Cui Shizhen had been staying in the cell all along, but he was made invisible.

Cui Yue looked at the pig that had suffered in place of her father and felt angry, hateful and distressed.

If it weren’t for Sister Zhizhi, the one with the hand chopped off would really have become the father!

How could that old vicious woman be so evil! She swore that one day she would seek justice for her father! Shen Yizhi put the pig into the space, cast an illusion on Cui Shizhen, making him look like a real disabled person, and then took Cui Yue out of the cell.

She had to go and deal with the "severed hand" that Nanny Zhao took away.

After sending Cui Yue back to the courtyard, Shen Yizhi followed Nanny Zhao and came to Changning Courtyard.

During this time, Nanny Zhao seemed to have sensed something and stopped to test it out.

Shen Yizi couldn't help but feel a chill in his heart. This Aunt Zhao was obviously just a mortal, but her perception was very sharp.

Fortunately, she was in invisible and breath-hiding state, so it was impossible for Nanny Zhao to discover her whereabouts.

After entering the yard, Nanny Zhao handed the box containing the "severed hand" to Zhao.

Zhao took a look, closed the lid, and told Zhao Mama: "Stand outside and don't let anyone in."

"Don't worry, ma'am."

Zhao entered the inner room and fiddled with a porcelain vase on an antique display shelf against the wall. The shelf then opened and Zhao walked in.

Shen Yizhi followed closely behind her.

It seems that this is the secret room where Cui Huo is imprisoned.

Sure enough, after going down a flight of stairs and turning a corridor, a stone chamber appeared in front of them. Cui Huo, wearing only a white undershirt, was hung by iron chains with his feet suspended in the air. His hair was disheveled and there were several whip marks on his body. Bloodstains were visible and were particularly obvious on the white undershirt.

Who could have expected that Cui Huo, the lord of a region, would fall into such a situation.

Zhao walked up to him with the box, a smile on her face: "Guess what's in this box?"

Cui Huo raised his head with difficulty, and his pupils shrank when he saw the box.

He smelled blood coming from the box.

Thinking back to what Zhao had said before about making Dalang suffer, he had a terrible guess in his mind.

His lips trembled and he looked at Zhao with a look that was both sad and angry.

Zhao curled her lips and opened the box.

Cui Huo blinked, suspecting that he was hallucinating. Otherwise, why would he see a pig's trotter lying in the box?

A voice sounded in his mind: "Lord Cui, Zhao did want to chop off Uncle Cui's hand, but I fooled them with an illusion. Don't reveal your flaws."

After all, having been the domain lord for so many years, Cui Huo's acting skills have reached perfection, much better than Cui Yue's exaggerated acting skills, and he quickly responded accordingly.

He stared at the bloody "severed hand" in the box, his body tensed to the extreme, and tremblingly said: "This is, Dalang's?"

Zhao looked at his pained expression and felt indescribably happy. "Cui Huo, oh Cui Huo, you have finally come to this day. It is worth it that I kept that bastard until today."

In an instant, an extremely strong murderous intent burst out from Cui Huo, and that murderous intent was all directed towards Zhao.

This murderous intent is not a show, but real.

He wants to kill her!

Zhao was so frightened that she took several steps back, her face looking much uglier than before.

After all, Cui Huo was once a cultivator at the peak of Qi Refining. Even though his cultivation was now wasted, his aura was still terrifying when he got angry.

Zhao didn't dare to get any closer, so she spoke to him from a distance of several steps: "Cui Huo, hand over the Suzaku Order, and that bastard can still save his life. Otherwise, next time it won't be as simple as just a hand."

Cui Huo closed his eyes and said nothing.

Zhao: "Humph, I thought you were infatuated with that bitch, but it turns out that you are nothing in front of power? You even cruelly abandoned her only flesh and blood left in this world. Cui Huo, when it comes to cruelty, I am not as good as you."

Cui Huo suddenly opened his eyes and said, "Zhao, even if you get the Suzaku Order, Erlang will not be able to sit firmly on the position of the Lord of the Southern Territory."

Zhao's eyes flashed, "Whether you can sit still or not, you don't need to worry about it. You just need to hand over the Suzaku Order."

"It seems that your Zhao family has been planning this for a long time." Cui Huo suddenly said.

Zhao's heart skipped a beat. Was he discovered? But even if he was discovered, so what? He was now a prisoner, his cultivation was ruined, what kind of waves could he make?

Seeing that she didn't deny it, Cui Huo suddenly shouted, "Do it!"

Zhao was shocked, but before she could react, she felt a sharp pain in the back of her neck, then her eyes went black and she fainted on the ground.

The one who attacked her was naturally Shen Yizi.

She let Zhao fall to the ground without picking her up.

Stepping over Zhao's body, Shen Yizhi put Cui Huo down and handed him a rejuvenation pill, "This is a healing pill."

If she wanted to harm him, she wouldn't have to save him, so Cui Huo didn't doubt that there was anything wrong with the pill she gave him and took it and ate it.

The mild medicinal power spread throughout his body and soon healed all the injuries inside and outside his body. His condition immediately improved a lot.

"Thank you for your help, young lady. May I know your name?"

Cui Huo looked at Shen Yizi with a hint of inquiry in his eyes.

"Shen Yizhi, I am Yue'er's friend."

Shen Yizi stated his position and identity in a simple sentence, and then told him about the situation outside.

"You stay here to recover first. I'll go out and subdue the fake guy outside, then you can come out."

Shen Yizhi tied Zhao, who was lying on the ground, to Cui Huo's original position and gave her a mute pill to make her temporarily unable to speak.

He left some food for Cui Huo and then left the secret room.

When she stepped out from the antique shelf, she looked like Zhao.

Zhao Ma Ma was standing guard outside the door. When she saw her, she said, "Madam, the second young lady came to see you just now. She wanted to rush in, but the old servant persuaded her to stop."

Shen Yizhi frowned: "But who made her unhappy again?"

"They are just those little bastards from the first wife's house."

Shen Yizhi's eyes flashed with anger, "Go and ask the kitchen to make two dishes that Huang'er likes. I'll go see her later."

"I will go right away."

Shen Yizhi went straight to the front yard and entered Cui Huo's dormitory.