No sooner had Peng Silang finished speaking than Mo Fei shot a throwing knife at him.
Mo Fei steadily shot the sand snake that had just emerged from its head and neck, and raised an eyebrow at Lu Zheng.
Lu Zheng smiled slightly and said, "Si Lang, put down the medicine boxes and send people to support the brothers around here. I'm afraid they'll pop up in other places as well."
Peng Silang immediately ordered his men to disperse.
As expected, sand snakes soon appeared everywhere. Fortunately, they had brought quite a few people, and they were killed as soon as they appeared.
Half an hour later, Gu Xin came out.
“I’ve added some new stuff. I used it before when I was in the Quicksand Palace. I would give some to the brothers in the army every time we went out. Once we encountered a sand snake and it made it unable to move. I just don’t know if the stuff in this forbidden area is the same as the stuff in the desert!” Gu Xin explained.
Lu Zheng took it, went to find some dry grass, then broke off a branch and wrapped the dry grass around it.
He then told the people closest to him not to kill any more snakes, but to let one snake escape.
Seeing the snake crawl down the wall, Lu Zheng lit some dry grass, sprinkled some poison powder, and then extended a tree branch.
The sand snake tried to climb up the tree branch, but it only managed to wrap half its body around before collapsing to the ground, unable to move.
Lu Zheng poked it with a twig; it was already a dead snake.
Gu Xin blinked her big eyes. "Hey, this is good stuff! I didn't find this medicinal herb in Da Zhou. I can take it back and plant it. Then the people of Linzhou Prefecture in Qingyuan Book will be able to live a good life."
Things went much more smoothly after that. Some people went with Gu Xin to grind the medicine powder, while others continued to guard the area.
As darkness fell, everyone followed Lu Zheng's example, bringing branches, dry grass, and medicinal powder, and began to enter the forbidden area.
When Peng Ze and Gu Hui arrived, the yard was filled with the corpses of sand snakes. They both felt a chill run down their spines, even though they were inanimate objects.
"General Ze, Madam, Princess Xinxin asked us to wait here. They went to chase after King Yunhai and the Seventh Princess. Princess Xinxin asked you to send people to collect the corpses of these sand snakes, as she will need them later!" Two soldiers from the Great Zhou Dynasty, who had been left behind, said upon seeing the visitors.
"Did Xin Xin and the others say they needed reinforcements?" Gu Hui asked.
"Reporting to Madam, the princess said that General Xue has already led his troops towards the land. So there's no need for reinforcements here. The princess told General Zhou that not many people will escape through this secret passage, no more than the men they brought. The princess said, absolutely do not send reinforcements, as those who went there all have powder that can kill the sand snakes, and there's not much left," the Zhou soldier replied.
Gu Hui and Peng Ze then understood the meaning behind it; they were afraid that there might be poisonous snakes in the secret passage.
If you get bitten by this snake, you'll really go straight to the underworld.
The couple then had someone search the princess's residence for storage items to collect the corpses of the sand snakes that filled the forbidden area.
That night, they took control of the entire Yunhai Royal City. However, the people of Yunhai Royal City had been drugged by the Yunhai King and his daughter Ajir, and there was no chance of survival for them, not even the Yunhai soldiers who remained.
Therefore, the vast Cloud Sea Royal City is now only inhabited by the soldiers of the Great Zhou, Shalingozi, and the Four Directions of the Flowing Sands.
Peng Ze, Gu Hui, Helian Yi, and Prince Shalin worked together to handle the matter. Prince Shalin and Peng Erlang led troops to pursue Xue Qianyu, determined to capture the remnants of Yunhai's forces.
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