Chapter 457 Breaking the Xijin Gu Poison, the Fierce Battle is in Full Swing
Chi Rui stayed in the camp to guard it, and he was leading the soldiers responsible for guarding the camp in martial arts training in the drill ground.
Upon seeing Ji Qingwu appear, he quickly put down the sharp spear in his hand.
After last night, everyone in the Northern Army camp knew Ji Qingwu's place in Emperor Wusu's heart, and no one dared to neglect this young lady in the slightest.
On the east side of the training ground, in a makeshift animal enclosure, a mother wolf was wagging her tail at Ji Qingwu from the shadows.
Chi Rui said respectfully, "This humble general greets Miss Ji."
Ji Qingwu asked, "Deputy General Chi, how is that little red spider?"
Chi Rui replied, "I sprinkled some of the medicine powder that Eunuch Li sent on the spider, but it didn't eat it. I also fed it to mosquitoes, but it didn't touch it either."
Ji Qingwu asked curiously, "The powder has medicinal properties, so it's normal that it doesn't eat it. But why won't it eat food either? Can spiders go on a hunger strike?"
Chi Rui was also confused. He said, "This subordinate will bring the red spider over right away."
The group found a military tent where they could discuss matters. The tent flap was rolled up, and the she-wolf was crouching at the door.
Ji Qingwu sat at the table and accepted the transparent glass bottle presented to him by Chi Rui with both hands.
The red spider that was crawling actively in the bottle curled up immediately when it was placed in her hand, like a congealed bead of blood, and wouldn't move no matter how she shook it.
Chi Rui clicked his tongue: "This spider is playing dead again."
Qi Peiyao bent down to examine it closely, recalling, "I remember this thing wasn't this dark in color."
Chi Rui said, "Darker? I think the color has become lighter."
Hearing their words, Ji Qingwu's eyes flickered slightly. She placed the bottle in her hand on the table, wanting them to examine it more closely.
Ji Qingwu gestured for Qi Peiyao to sit down before speaking, and then asked, "Have you seen her before?"
Qi Peiyao nodded and said, "This little spider is quite cute."
Chi Rui said, finding it hard to believe, "You call this cute?"
Qi Peiyao thought he was making a fuss over nothing, and said, "I used to catch these things to play with when I was a child. I called them Cherry Maidens. Every midsummer they would spin red spider webs in the sea buckthorn bushes."
She lightly tapped the bottle with her fingertips, and the spider actually started to climb up following the sound.
Qi Peiyao said, "But when I got older, these Cherry Maidens were rarely seen. For a time, merchants bought these spiders, and one could sell for a string of cash."
“That means it was originally non-toxic.” Ji Qingwu pointed to the bottleneck, and the little spider retracted its limbs again. She frowned and said, “It must have been acquired by the people of Xijin and turned into a spider gu.”
"insanity?"
Qi Peiyao stared wide-eyed in surprise. She had never seen it before, but she knew how dangerous the Gu poison was.
She was bold enough to reach out and touch the small bottle. Once in Qi Peiyao's hand, the little red spider began to slowly crawl again, as if it wanted to crawl out and attach itself to someone.
Chi Rui said, "Put it down quickly, aren't you afraid of it?"
Qi Peiyao said with a mixture of fear and excitement, "I'm scared, but I'm even more curious. It's the first time I've ever seen a Gu."
But she quickly put the small bottle down.
Ji Qingwu stared at the little red spider, and suddenly the corners of her lips curved into a smile.
“One of you says its color is dark, and the other says it's light. If I'm not mistaken, this Gu must have been fed with the blood of the person who cast the spell, which is why it has an abnormal red color.”
Chi Rui said, "That's right. Without human blood to feed it, the spider's color has become lighter these past few days. No wonder this spider doesn't need to eat."
Seeing that the spider was getting closer to her, Ji Qingwu started to play dead again. She said, "I have something else I want to verify. Please go out for a moment."
The two left the tent, and she took out a silver hairpin with a crescent moon engraving from her sleeve.
Before even getting close to the bottle, the little red spider reacted strongly, circling back and forth at the bottom of the bottle.
Ji Qingwu's eyes lit up.
That day, the wolf king regained his senses, not because of the mother wolf's howl, but because of the hairpin in her arms.
The little red spider pretended to be dead when it saw her, not because it was afraid of her, but because it sensed the silver hairpin she was wearing.
Ji Qingwu held her breath and opened the bottle. As soon as the silver hairpin approached the red spider, a popping sound rang out, and the little red spider exploded, leaving a bloodstain with a blue halo on the bottle.
Ji Qingwu used a hairpin to poke at the bloodstains, and the blood was instantly absorbed.
She looked at the seemingly ordinary hairpin in her hand with slight surprise, how it had broken the spider curse so easily.
The silver hairpin was Su Daiyue's last possession, which she entrusted to Ji Qingwu to pass on to her aunt before her death, but it ended up back in Ji Qingwu's hands.
She remembered that when Yuwen Tianqing went to the dungeon to find Su Fengyue, he also mentioned this hairpin.
Although it is unknown what the relationship is between Su Daiyue's aunt and Gao Zhaoyue, it is certain that this hairpin is of great use and is probably a treasure that can break the poison of Xijin Gu.
After cleaning the hairpin, Ji Qingwu carefully wrapped it up and put it away.
The howls of wolves echoed outside the military tent.
Qi Peiyao had never seen anything like this before, and looked at Ji Qingwu, who came out of the tent, as if pleading for help.
The little wolf, who had been craning its neck to respond to its companions, immediately nuzzled over affectionately when it saw her appear.
Ji Qingwu asked, "What happened?"
Chi Rui frowned as he listened to the increasingly loud wolf howls, indicating that the wolves were getting closer.
He said, "That's the sound of wolves calling their companions. Could it be that the wolf clan has been controlled by a curse and is about to attack the military camp?"
Although the little wolf was beside Ji Qingwu, its eerie green eyes were fixed on the distance. Ji Qingwu followed the little wolf's gaze.
A pack of wolves was charging toward the military camp, and the largest one at the very back of the pack was the wolf king who had been released that day.
Chi Rui said, "Miss Ji, don't be afraid, I'll send someone right away..."
Ji Qingwu stopped him, saying, "They mean no harm; they just want to help us."
The little wolf wagged its tail at her, as if responding to her words.
As expected, the wolf pack did not rush into the camp, but instead lingered around it, with hundreds of gray wolves forming a moving wall that protected the camp.
Qi Peiyao said, "They're here to protect us!"
Ji Qingwu stroked the little wolf nestled against her skirt and smiled, saying, "Thank you."
The northern military camp had gained another layer of protection, but...
Although Gao Zhaoyue can no longer control the wolf pack, she can still control thousands of other ferocious beasts such as tigers and leopards.
What will Gao Zhaoyue do after learning that Yuwen Tianqing is not dead?
As Ji Qingwu gazed at the magnificent, round setting sun on the horizon, he mentally calculated the stamina and time required for the march.
The Northern Li army should have already arrived at the Western Jin camp, and the two armies should now be engaged in fierce fighting.
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On their march, Bei Li encountered a mirage that clearly projected the scene inside the Xijin camp onto their faces.
The location of Xijin's military camp was extremely well hidden, and because Yuwen Tiancheng disliked bright light, the lighting inside the barracks was deliberately dim.
To outsiders, it looks like a maze; even the Northern Li's secret guards have never managed to infiltrate it.
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