The moment the man in black fell to the ground, the Royal Guards quickly surrounded him and captured him.

Li Tingzhou turned around and wanted to run. Seeing this, Chu Xuan raised his hand and snatched the knife from a soldier beside him, and threw it in the direction of Li Tingzhou. The tip of the knife pierced Li Tingzhou's calf exactly.

The imperial guards rushed forward and captured Li Tingzhou, Pei Tianqi, Li Shou, Wang He and others one after another.

The outcome was settled, Chu Xuan breathed a sigh of relief, and suddenly a surge of blood surged up from his chest. Chu Xuan felt dizzy and his ears were ringing. The trees and people around him were spinning. He wanted to hold Lu Yanluo's hand to see if she was okay, but there was only a shadow in front of him.

"A'Luo..." Chu Xuan murmured, then fell backwards.

Lu Yanluo noticed that Chu Xuan's face looked wrong from the beginning. She originally thought that he was injured, but at this moment Chu Xuan's lips were blue and purple and he was spitting black blood, which were obvious signs of poisoning.

"Chu Xuan! How are you?" Lu Yanluo helped the man up, trying her best to suppress her panic, and took his pulse to diagnose him.

Yes, it was poison. Although it was not a deadly poison that would kill people instantly upon contact with blood, Chu Xuan had just rushed to open up the acupuncture points, causing his qi and blood to surge, aggravating the poison's effects.

When Li Tingzhou saw Chu Xuan fainting on the ground, he immediately felt a glimmer of hope and said, "He was poisoned. The antidote is here with me. As long as the princess orders me to go, I will hand over the antidote immediately. How about it? Do you want to do this deal, princess?"

Lu Yanluo's face was gloomy, and she stared at Li Tingzhou: "You want to leave? Dream on! Li Tingzhou, I have already predicted your fate, you can't escape."

Li Tingzhou glared at him and shouted, "You don't want his life? Fine! In that case, I will let the noble Night King be buried with me! You will never find the antidote, and he will die soon."

Li Tingzhou spoke every word, intending to break down Lu Yanluo's defenses and give himself a chance of survival.

Lu Yanluo didn't bother to talk to him anymore. She took out the silver needle she carried with her and accurately inserted it into Chu Xuan's body, trying to force the poison out.

"What's so scary about death? Sometimes the scariest thing is to live a life worse than death. Master, you have been immersed in the imperial court for half your life. I wonder if you have ever heard of the punishment of bone removal. It just so happens that we have someone in the Yewang Mansion who is proficient in this punishment."

Lu Yanluo's hands moved quickly, and she kept saying, "Shen He, help the Master Taifu remove the bones. You will stop when the prince wakes up."

Upon hearing this, Shen He took out an extremely sharp dagger from his sleeve and walked towards Li Tingzhou with a cold face.

"Princess... this is not good." Yao Wenqing, a guard of the same age as Li Tingzhou, who was ordered by the emperor to arrest him, hesitated and said, "Your Majesty has personally ordered me to arrest someone. If you torture him in private, it will not be good for His Majesty to know about it. Why don't you let me take him back first?"

Lu Yanluo lowered her head and turned a deaf ear, as if she had not heard Yao Wenqing's words at all.

Yao Wenqing felt embarrassed and stopped talking. He simply ignored it. Anyway, if His Majesty blamed him, Lu Yanluo would take the blame. He would then say that it was Princess Ye who was worried about King Ye and tortured her to force out the antidote.

Anyway, Li Tingzhou's crimes were extremely heinous and he could not escape death.

The guards of Prince Ye's mansion took Li Tingzhou from the royal guards and tied him to a tree nearby. Shen He raised his hand and slashed him with a knife. Li Tingzhou felt a chill on his wrist, followed by a sharp pain. He didn't even have time to scream, as another wave of pain came over him.

When he tilted his head to look over, he saw that his finger bones had been pulled out alive.

Before he could beg for mercy, Shen He acted extremely quickly and cut off the second finger bone with another knife.

Li Tingzhou screamed and couldn't help struggling, howling: "Kill me! You kill me!"

The poison was temporarily under control. Lu Yanluo handed Chu Xuan to the servant and stood up and walked towards Li Tingzhou.

"Antidote. As long as the prince is okay, I can kill you quickly." Lu Yanluo's tone was flat, as if the person in front of her was not a person at all, but an ant that could be killed at will.

Li Tingzhou was shaking with pain and raised his head with all his strength: "Kill me if you have the guts, otherwise I will let the Night King be buried with me. On the road to the underworld, I have an old man like the Night King to accompany me. This life is not in vain."

Lu Yanluo nodded and took the dagger from Shen He: "Very good, then I pray that you can endure these few hours of punishment."

Lu Yanluo was even more ruthless than Shen He. After shaving one of Li Tingzhou's finger bones, he fainted from the pain. Seeing this, Lu Yanluo inserted a silver needle and woke him up.

The most extreme pain was to watch himself die bit by bit, but be unable to do anything. The bones in his body were being shaved off bit by bit. He could neither die nor live. Li Tingzhou finally collapsed.

"I'll give it to you! I'll give it to you!" Li Tingzhou trembled as he revealed the location of the antidote. "The antidote is in a courtyard fifty miles away from the capital. You can get it there."

That was the place where he met Pei Tianqi and others last time. It was his old nest here.

Upon hearing this, Lu Yanluo stopped and had someone hand Li Tingzhou over to Yao Wenqing.

"He is still alive. I am not embarrassing Lord Yao. Go back and report to His Majesty. If His Majesty asks, Lord Yao can tell the truth. Goodbye."

Lu Yanluo was anxious, so she took Chu Xuan on horseback and rode straight to the villa that Li Tingzhou had instructed.

Yao Wenqing had no choice but to take the half-dead Li Tingzhou away, fearing that if he was a step later, the man would suffocate to death.

In fact, there was nothing much to examine in the case of banned drugs. Li Tingzhou was caught red-handed with solid evidence and had no way to defend himself. Wang He, Li Shou, and Pei Tianqi were guilty of selling banned drugs, which was unforgivable.

In the Taiji Hall, the emperor sentenced Li Tingzhou to immediate execution, and the rest of them were exiled to the northern desert, never to return for the rest of their lives.

However, the emperor was still resentful and unhappy about Lu Yanluo's escape from prison and the private torture of Li Tingzhou.

Concubine Xian saw through the emperor's thoughts and secretly instigated him, saying, "Your Majesty, Princess Ye really doesn't take the royal dignity seriously this time. It's ok to just do small things on weekdays, but now she dares to escape from prison and torture the prisoners in public. If she is not severely punished, who knows what she will do in the future!"

Every word touched the emperor's heart. After thinking it over again and again, he summoned Lu Yanluo to the palace to reprimand her.

Unexpectedly, Lu Yanluo was feeling depressed because of Chu Xuan's poisoning, and she directly retorted back at the emperor's scolding.

"May I ask, Your Majesty, whether Li Tingzhou was still alive when he came before you? But the prince is in imminent danger, and I can only do my best to put the prince's safety first. Besides, is a spy from Beiliang worth your Majesty mobilizing troops to punish me?"

"Your Majesty imprisoned me without asking any questions about the Yan Shaobai case. I dare not say much, but I saw that the traitor was about to escape, and I could not just let him go. As for the jailbreak, please do not blame me for my meritorious service to atone for my crime."