However.
Ji Fengyao, holding a short whip, landed lightly a short distance away. Looking at the bronze candlestick overturned by Chu Ling's sword energy, she burst into laughter: "Are you kidding me? You used the Ten Thousand Swords Annihilation of the Cold Imperial Palace? No, no, no, I think you just used Ten Swords Embroidery, and the embroidery skills are not very good either. You couldn't even cut a candlestick."
Chu Ling: "You're asking for it!"
"What, you want to bite me?" Ji Fengyao shook the short whip in her hand, her bright smile turning somewhat wicked: "If you want to bite, hurry up, while you still have some strength and can lift your sword."
Chu Ling sensed something was wrong. She carefully examined the spiritual energy within her body and discovered that it was rapidly fading away, as if something had solidified her physical strength.
Chu Ling was shocked: "What...what did you do to me?!"
"It's nothing, I just improved the formula of the Condensing Breath Incense to make your spiritual energy stagnate and unable to circulate for three months." Ji Fengyao's smile became more and more wicked. She cracked her short whip and approached Chu Ling step by step: "How does it feel to be drugged? Do you want to try my aphrodisiac? I guarantee it's better than yours. The key point is that it has no aftereffects and won't harm your body."
"In a battle between cultivators, you actually used poison! Which immortal sect are you from? You've brought shame upon your family!" Chu Ling rebuked in shock and anger.
"Don't you think what you're saying is ridiculous? Can I be more shameless than you?" Ji Fengyao walked up to Chu Ling and stared at her with confidence: "Besides, why rely on skills when you can win by doing nothing? Any means are suitable to deal with someone like you."
Chu Ling raised her sword and fiercely thrust it forward, but her moves lacked power.
Ji Fengyao easily dodged to the side, then lashed out with her whip, knocking the sword away. The whip's end wrapped around the woman's smooth wrist, pulling her to the ground.
Knowing that the situation was hopeless, Chu Ling rolled towards the half-open bookcase on the inside.
The secret room behind the bookshelf was locked from the inside; once she hid inside, she could safely leave through the secret passage.
"Trying to run away?" Ji Fengyao leaped to the half-open bookshelf and kicked the gap shut. "We haven't settled our score yet, where do you think you're going?"
"Xiangguan, Xianglan, Xiangfen..."
"No shadow, no sorrow!"
Chu Ling called out loudly to her maid, and Ji Fengyao mischievously followed suit, calling out to Shang Xiye's secret guards.
Furthermore, Ji Fengyao had spiritual power, making her voice significantly louder than Chu Ling's.
"princess!"
"Princess……"
The shadow guards, including Wuying and Wushang, arrived almost one after the other, along with eight maids, including Xiangguan, Xianglan, and Xiangfen.
Everyone was quite surprised to see the scene inside.
Seeing Chu Ling lying on the ground, looking disheveled and pitiful, Wu Ying had no intention of showing her any pity. He grabbed her by the veil covering her body and slapped her twice across the face: "You shameless woman, you have no shame whatsoever. My prince doesn't want you, yet you resort to such despicable means, climbing into his bed yourself. Don't you know shame?"
Wuying struck with extreme ruthlessness, and Chuling's delicate and beautiful face immediately became swollen.
"Princess!"
"Release our princess immediately, or you will cause war between our two countries. Can you bear the consequences?"
Xiang Guan and Xiang Lan stepped forward angrily and summoned the other six red-clad maids, trying to rescue Chu Ling from Wu Ying's clutches.
"You're overthinking it. Our prince can easily take the blame for killing you all," Wu Shang coldly stepped forward and blocked the eight maids, completely disregarding them. "Gaoqi Kingdom is just a tiny piece of land. Our prince can flatten it with a flick of his toe. What are you all?"
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