Just as Lu Dacheng was about to detonate himself, a bronze bell fell from above and covered him.
As the bronze bell fell, the mechanism inside was activated, binding Lu Dacheng's limbs. Then, a transparent needle pierced Lu Dacheng's head from the top of the bell.
Lu Dacheng wanted to end his life by self-destructing and destroy his body, but little did he know that Li Ting had already planned it all.
Because Lu Dacheng's body was still useful.
Judging by the time, Li Ting waved to the outside of the courtyard, and several beggar children entered the courtyard.
The group worked together to move Lu Dacheng's body out.
Then they opened the secret room inside Lu Dacheng's house.
Inside the secret room was a young woman who looked remarkably like Zhao Yunwan.
This woman was Lu Dacheng's beloved concubine, a female physician, a medicine maker, and an accomplice.
When she saw that the person who came in was not Lu Dacheng, the woman panicked for a moment and tried to escape, but Xu Ningyou quickly stopped her. Her hands were tied and her pressure points were pressed.
"Linghua, a criminal woman from the Hu tribe of the Dayue Kingdom. Lu Dacheng rescued you because you look very much like someone and hid you here."
"Over the course of ten years, you and he abducted a total of 180 fifteen-year-old girls, using their blood to make exotic perfumes to bewitch the monarch of Nanchen Kingdom."
"According to the law, he should be executed."
"Kill me or torture me, it's all up to you. Why all this formality?"
"You love Lu Dacheng so deeply, but you're just a substitute. Are you really that devoted?"
"Furthermore, have you considered why your Hu tribe was convicted?"
Do you know what Lu Dacheng's status is in your Great Yue Kingdom?
"Isn't he the imperial physician of Nan Chen Kingdom? He went to Da Yue Kingdom to collect herbs to save me, and risked his life to bring me to Nan Chen Kingdom and hide me here."
"Are they all fake?"
Xu Ningyou shook her head repeatedly: "Another woman blinded by love. How pitiful and lamentable. She has done so many unforgivable things for a man whose heart is not with her at all."
Who is the person he loves?
Looking at this poor woman, if she had died when the Hu tribe disappeared, she wouldn't be suffering like this now.
"His beloved disciple is the current Empress of Nan Chen Kingdom."
"It was her!"
"Haven't you noticed that you and she look about 80% alike?"
Xu Ningyou found it strange; shouldn't Linghua be more concerned about the extermination of the Hu tribe?
Linghua shook her head blankly: "He never lets me see her. I only know she exists, but she doesn't know me."
"Over the past ten years, you have abducted fifteen-year-old girls in the Southern Chen Kingdom. Do you plead guilty?"
"I confess. I was an accomplice. I harmed those people. Even a life wouldn't be enough to pay for it."
"So, are you going to end it all yourself?"
"He took his own life."
After saying that, Xu Ningyou let go of her.
Linghua took out two pills from her bosom, took one out, and dissolved it in a teacup to make tea.
Linghua carried the teacup to Lu Dacheng's corpse, squatted down, cut open Lu Dacheng's stomach, and poured the tea inside.
Everyone in the room was puzzled by what the woman was doing.
Linghua began to speak slowly.
"This is the method my Hu tribe uses to curse people, so that they will never be reincarnated and will never leave my side."
After saying that, Linghua touched Lu Dacheng's face again, and then swallowed another pill.
"Since you have harmed my entire clan, then I will curse your clan with eternal damnation, so that one day they too will be wiped out, just like my Hu tribe!"
"Grandma, Grandpa, your daughter has avenged you!"
Linghua died peacefully, with a smile on her face.
Xu Ningyou sighed.
Afterwards, the secret agents of the Qianji Gate, disguised as beggars, rearranged the room inside and out.
Lu Dacheng's body and Ling Hua's body were both placed on the bed.
The Qianji Sect used a special drug on Lu Dacheng's body to make it appear as if someone had cut open his abdomen and poured the drug inside, causing his death.
All the mechanisms inside the house were removed, and all traces of Li Ting and the others were cleaned up, as if no one else had ever been there.
The girls who were whipped and covered in bruises will soon wake up.
Li Ting and Xu Ningyou then retreated outside the courtyard.
Soon, a boy of about seven or eight years old appeared, walking along while making a megaphone shape with his hands and quietly calling out, "Ah Huang, Ah Huang, where did you run off to?"
"Woof woof woof," came the sound from Lu Dacheng's house.
The little boy tentatively stepped into the yard.
His mother used to forbid him from going near this courtyard, saying it was the mistress of some high-ranking official in the capital.
But Ah Huang was his beloved dog, and the yard was very quiet, as if no one was there.
The little boy mustered his courage and went inside.
Ah Huang was barking incessantly at the two people on the bed.
The little boy carried Ah Huang and ran out, shouting, "Something terrible has happened! Someone's dead! Someone's dead!"
The people in the underground city gathered around upon hearing the noise.
They usually didn't like to go near this house, always feeling that it had a strange air about it.
But someone actually got in today?
There's no sound from inside. Should we go in and check?
Several braver villagers went in one after another to investigate.
One by one, the girls who had been in a coma woke up.
Then the people helped him out and settled him in an open space.
Seeing this, more people went inside.
It wasn't until someone discovered the two people lying on the bed, checked their breathing, and found they were no longer alive.
They quickly sent someone to report it to the authorities.
The constable arrived quickly and, upon seeing that it was Physician Lu lying there, panicked instantly. Not daring to make a decision himself, he had no choice but to ask someone to report to the Dali Temple.
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