CHAPTER 1221: CHAPTER 1301: TRAITOR

Zhi Chen and Shu Yu had dealt with the guards sent by the Eighth Princess and were busy looking for reliable people to help them drive the carriage. To say the least, those guards had swept through the Forest of Bewilderment like a whirlwind, picking every fruit clean, but it was quite unfortunate for them.

They did the work, yet, in the end, it was the Liang Family Brothers who conveniently reaped the benefits.

Finally, Zhi Chen and Shu Yu also set off on their return journey. Haoming and Yue Ning, who had left earlier, were already on the road, while another incident had occurred over at Anyang Mountain.

Dong Huiying believed she could no longer sleep.

Whether it was a resurgence or some other illness, as long as it was a "disease," there must be some root cause, right?

In fact, she was a bit scared herself, frequently sleeping for many days, unable to eat while asleep. Yixuan and Shujun could only feed her some broth, on edge, fearing she might choke herself in her sleep.

She dared to bet that if this continued, she might just never wake up one day. And more importantly, what if she was really unlucky and choked to death on the broth in her sleep?

In conclusion, the old method was still the way to go.

Using Golden Needle Acupuncture to stimulate her nerves, keeping her brain in a state of excitement and alertness. Meanwhile, she seriously contemplated a solution.

She refused to believe it. Was there really no way out, and could she truly be doomed by this inexplicable resurgence phenomenon?

She began recalling what she had consumed. Born with innate divine strength, and in the past few years, to deal with that damned Devouring God Gu within her, she had taken many gus, and then there were the Paralysis Pills, and so on...

She had a vague feeling that her sleepiness caused by this resurgence shouldn’t be merely due to the "resurgence," nor just because of the Orchid Grass. Although Yun Ge had said that taking that during the resurgence was akin to poisoning, after thinking it over for a couple of days, Dong Huiying felt that even if it were toxic, she would have neutralized it during the making of the Paralysis Pills.

There had to be other reasons.

As she was pondering this problem, something happened.

***

The incident began because the weather was getting warmer. The clothes Dong Huiying originally brought weren’t suitable anymore; they were too hot. So, Yixuan decided to get her some lighter clothes and personally went down the mountain.

In Anle City at the foot of the mountain, Yixuan encountered some rather suspicious-looking women. He wasn’t alone at the time, surrounded by over a dozen big soldiers belonging to the Eighty Thousand Souls.

Coincidentally, among those "suspicious people," there were some acquaintances of these big soldiers.

"How is it you!?"

"So, you really are here!"

Both sides almost spoke at the same time.

Yixuan looked at his big soldiers, "Liu Yan, do you recognize her?"

Liu Yan, in the Eighty Thousand Souls, held a status equivalent to Hong Fei. Before Marshal Baowei’s departure from the capital, Liu Yan was also a commander.

She wore a gloomy expression, her hand gripping the sword hilt: "I recognize them. These are traitors!" Liu Yan’s face was full of displeasure, with a murderous intent swirling in her eyes.

Yixuan glanced at the other side indifferently. There were only three or four of them, not a big threat. But what if there were others hidden in the city?

Heavens knew whether these "traitors" had other accomplices.

Therefore, Yixuan immediately made a relatively safe decision.