Chapter 184 The Sickly Beauty!
After Shen Lanxi returned and reunited with them, Ban Sicao still followed.
Liu Yan frowned: "Aren't you taking your people to heal their wounds?"
Ban Sicao glanced back at her entourage and, seeing that they were all standing properly, immediately said with a grin, "They're all fine, no need for healing."
"My lord, are you alright?" Shen Yuanjing stepped forward and asked with concern.
Shen Lanxi: "It's alright, let's go back!"
Feng Wu whispered, "The Ten Thousand Poisons Sect."
Shen Lanxi nodded slightly.
Feng Wu looked back and was surprised to find that the Wan Du Sect members, who had disappeared for so long, had actually appeared here!
“My lord, they have been following us all along,” Liu Yan replied.
Shen Lanxi: "He knows where Song Daoxi is."
Liu Yan was taken aback and murmured, "It came so easily!" After saying that, he immediately went to Ban Sicao's side.
Zhao Chengkai watched Shen Lanxi's retreating figure thoughtfully. He never expected that Princess Lanxi, who had been raised like a pampered princess since childhood, would actually know martial arts.
His martial arts skills were surprisingly not bad.
She really got incredibly lucky; she ran into someone who knew Song Daoxi's whereabouts so quickly.
Thinking of this, Zhao Chengkai's face began to darken.
He was unwilling to remain subservient to women forever.
Liu Yan returned shortly afterward to report.
“He said Song Daoxi was at the Prince Cheng’s residence in Gannan, and he also said that Song Daoxi was a fake!” Liu Yanhui said in a very low voice the last part.
Shen Lanxi: "How could the successor of Guigu be fake? Our mission is to bring this successor back."
Liu Yan's eyes flickered, and she immediately nodded: "Understood."
When they joined up with the main army, Bansicao stopped at a distance and didn't come over.
Shen Lanxi waved her hand: "We're stationed in Liuzhou. We'll rest here tonight!"
"Yes, General!"
Five thousand soldiers swaggered into Liuzhou, and the people outside the city looked at them with fear, suspicion, vigilance and doubt.
Qian Feng raised his voice: "We are the imperial army, personally appointed by the court, here to recapture Liucheng. Everyone, there is no need to panic!"
Various forces were heading to Liucheng, but none were from the imperial court.
Because the Great Zhou Dynasty had only recently fallen into chaos, and people's deeply ingrained beliefs still existed, everyone made way for Qian Feng after he shouted that!
Shen Lanxi successfully took over the Liucheng government office as a temporary work location!
In the middle of the moonlit night, Shen Lanxi suddenly opened her eyes.
Ban Sicao was surprised that she was still awake, and sat down in the chair.
Shen Lanxi: "Tell me the purpose of your trip, and I'll spare your life!"
Ban Sicao's eyebrows practically shot up to the top of his head. Shouldn't he be the one saying that?
After thinking for a moment, he said, "If you just tell me why you weren't poisoned, I'll tell you why I'm here."
Shen Lanxi glanced at him, and the next second, the teacup in Ban Sicao's hand was cleaved in two by an invisible stream of air!
Ban Sicao was instantly stunned.
His internal energy was released outwards, reaching the level of splitting rocks and shattering gold—what terrifying martial arts skill!
"You...you let your inner energy envelop your entire body, so my poison powder didn't touch you!" Ban Sicao stood up in surprise.
Shen Lanxi: "Now you can state your purpose."
Ban Sicao was both excited and apprehensive, as if she had just met her ancestor.
After walking around the round table twice, he spoke his purpose.
"Someone is impersonating our Ten Thousand Poisons Sect to commit evil deeds. My purpose in coming to the Central Plains this time is to find this person and tear him to pieces!"
Shen Lanxi: "Is it because of the harem?"
Ban Sicao hummed in agreement, then suddenly looked up.
"Aren't you even a little surprised to hear that I belong to the Ten Thousand Poisons Sect?"
Shen Lanxi glanced at the startled Ban Sicao and exclaimed, "Surprised!"
"Then why don't you seem surprised at all?"
Shen Lanxi: "Do you think I can make you see through it?"
Ban Sicao looked at her thoughtfully and said, "That's true. Truly accomplished people like to pretend. My father and the others all love to act profound!"
Shen Lanxi: "You must have been trained to be tough." You got a lot of beatings when you were little!
Ban Sicao asked incredulously, "How did you know?"
Shen Lanxi: Looking at you like this, I can tell without even thinking!
"Go on!"
Ban Sicao nodded quickly and continued, "I went to the capital first, but I was discovered and chased all the way. Later, when I passed through Cangzhou, I found that someone was impersonating our Wan Du Men. After investigating for a long time without any results, I got angry and drugged them all. After that, I heard that the successor of Gui Gu had appeared, and I wanted to find that Song Daoxi to give me some advice!"
Shen Lanxi: "Then Song Daoxi said he didn't know, so you said he was fake?"
Ban Sicao nodded, her tone disdainful: "What bullshit about being the smartest person in the world? He's just a pretentious pretty boy!"
Shen Lanxi's tone was slightly cold: "The two taels of silver you threw were poisoned. Do you think we're the ones chasing you?"
After being exposed, Ban Sicao felt embarrassed.
"Later I found out that you weren't like that. Didn't we cure you of the poison?"
Shen Lanxi sneered: "It's easy for me to let you go!"
Ban Sicao looked at her warily.
"Do you know that there is a kind of poison that doesn't kill you immediately? It's like being poisoned with a muscle-weakening powder. You'll feel weak in your limbs, vomit blood every day, and your body will gradually weaken. In the later stages, you'll become delirious and it will take more than half a year before you die."
Ban Sicao thought for a moment and asked, "What about your hair and face? Have they changed?"
Shen Lanxi: "...Hair loss and whitening, his face should be covered with wrinkles, like an old man!"
These are facts, though she has always been unwilling to recall them.
"Your poison is somewhat like that of a sickly beauty, but it's also different. A sickly beauty is weak in the limbs, coughs up blood every day, and gradually weakens, but doesn't die so quickly. This poison is a slow poison that will slowly deplete a person, taking at least five years and at most several decades to die. When she dies, her appearance will only become more and more beautiful, which is why it's called a sickly beauty."
"This poison of yours hastened my death and made me ugly. Could it be that it has altered the medicinal properties?" Ban Sicao murmured in confusion.
"I need to see the poison, or the person who was poisoned, to confirm whether the two poisons are from the same source. Where is the person who was poisoned?"
Shen Lanxi: "If there are no patients, and it is a sickly beauty, where does this poison come from?"
Ban Sicao gave her a strange look: "Since you saved me, I'll tell you. This poison comes from our Ten Thousand Poisons Sect."
Shen Lanxi looked at Ban Sicao: "Didn't your Ten Thousand Poisons Sect go into seclusion? Besides you, who else went to the capital?"
Without a second thought, Ban Sicao denied it outright: "No, only us. Our Ten Thousand Poisons Sect has already migrated to the outer realms. If it weren't for someone impersonating us this time, we wouldn't have returned to the Central Plains!"
Shen Lanxi: "Is it possible that the person impersonating you is actually from your Ten Thousand Poisons Sect?"
Ban Sicao paused for a moment and then said, "I will find out the truth."
"Alright, now I know why you weren't poisoned. I'm leaving!"
Shen Lanxi remained silent.
"Am I really leaving?" Ban Sicao asked, turning around.
Shen Lanxi: "If you don't want to leave, then stay in the yard and become fertilizer!"
Banscao nimbly jumped out of the window and left.
She is now certain that the poison that killed her was 80% likely from the Ten Thousand Poisons Sect. The reason why the Ten Thousand Poisons Sect was wanted by the imperial court more than a decade ago is vague. Officially, they are said to be ruthless, but there are many people who are even more ruthless than the Ten Thousand Poisons Sect, and they are not wanted by the imperial court.
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