Chapter 70: Do dragons lay eggs or give birth to live young?
Like an invisible devil's claw, it quietly reached out to this prosperous palace and took away the lives one by one.

The originally fragile bodies of the concubines became vulnerable to the ravages of the plague, and in just one week, no one survived.

Of course, this was just a way for Madam Mingzhu to fake her death and escape. All the female corpses were just bodies that Wei Zhuang found from the mass grave.

Then Madam Mingzhu will change her appearance.

However, in order to put on a complete show, the two concubines who participated in Gongsun Ce's advancement and served the King of Han were really dead.

Lady Mingzhu did not trust them to keep the secret, and indeed needed two concubines to die of the plague.

King Han looked at the desolate scene from afar but did not dare to enter the harem.

What grieved him was not the death of his concubine, but the fact that after the death of Madam Mingzhu and Concubine Hu, he could no longer find a way to regain his masculinity.

Gongsun Ce rode Xiao Mimi slowly towards the border of Qi State. Gongsun Ce lay on Xiao Mimi's back, holding the map and observing it carefully.

According to the possible routes marked by Xunzi, the other party would either go to Daze Mountain in Dongjun or to Xiaoshengxianzhuang in Sanghai.

So, Gongsun Ce really needs to go out and find someone?
Gongsun Ce thought it would be better to just wait for the other party to deliver the goods to his door.

Eight days later, at the border of Qi State.

The sky was originally a deep blue, the sun was shining, warm and bright. A breeze blew, causing Gongsun Ce and Xiao Mimi to yawn at the same time.

Dark clouds gathered quietly from nowhere, like a group of black beasts, rolling in the sky and swallowing up the originally bright sunlight.

They spread rapidly, dyeing the entire sky ink-black.

Suddenly, a flash of lightning streaked across the sky, like a sharp sword splitting the darkness.

Then, thunder rumbled, deafening. Gongsun Ce looked up at the sky, a little speechless, "This damn weather, it really changes at any time."

Gongsun Ce looked around and found a small pavilion next to the pipe.

Gongsun Ce patted Xiao Mimi's tiger head and said, "It's going to rain soon. Let's go to the pavilion to hide from the rain."

"Ow~"

Little Mimi roared, quickened her pace, and ran quickly to the bottom of the pavilion.

Just as the man and the tiger entered the pavilion, raindrops as big as beans began to fall.

They were sparse at first, but soon became dense. The rain flowed down the eaves, forming curtains of water.

Soon, heavy rain poured down, and the whole world seemed to be shrouded in mist, hazy and mysterious.

The rain came so hard that it seemed to wash the whole world clean.

Gongsun Ce sighed softly, "Rainwater cannot cleanse this world. It would be better to set off some thunder to kill all the sinners. This would at least bring temporary cleanliness."

"Boom, boom, boom, boom..."

Gongsun Ce looked at the thunderbolts that kept striking down from the sky and grumbled softly, "You're so obedient. I asked you to send me a girl, will you?"

As soon as Gongsun Ce finished speaking, a burst of noise came back from the sickle weasel. He carefully distinguished it and found that it was the sound of footsteps, shouting, and the clanging of swords...

Gongsun Ce touched his chin, thinking it couldn’t be such a coincidence.

"Lord Jingwei, you know best what the consequences of defecting from Luowang will be. Why bother?"

"Stop talking nonsense, Jingwei, hand over the Jingwei Sword and the Hanguang Sword, and follow us back to Luowang to be punished!"

"Jingwei, considering your contribution to Luowang, the most you will suffer is physical pain. Give up resistance."

……

Jingwei snorted coldly, "Do you believe that Luowang will let me live? You know best what Luowang's purpose is!" Mission failure means death. A lifelong trap, a trap for generations.

If Jingwei returns to Luowang, she will not be executed immediately. Instead, she will be executed after her child is born. As for her child, he will be trained to become a killer of Luowang, or even the next generation of Jingwei.

The enlightenment of Wuming, the master of the Hanguang Sword, finally made Jingwei realize that she was tired of being a killer and did not want the next generation to become killers.

Through the rain, Gongsun Ce saw Jingwei fighting and retreating with Yan Lu in the distance.

The Jingwei Sword kept sweeping through the air, reaping the lives of the Earth-level Luowang killers in front of it like the god of death's scythe, gaining a great upper hand.

However, she had the upper hand but had to retreat frequently. It was not because she had lost her murderous intent, but because she was trying to prevent the Luowang killer from hurting her child and Yan Lu.

Heaven-killing and earth-destroying, the Heaven-level killer is at the Grandmaster level, and the Kill-level killer is at the Half-step Grandmaster level.

Both the Earth-level and Jue-level killers are at the first-rate realm, and if one has enough merits, one can become an Earth-level killer.

The first-class realm can be accumulated over time, and there are many people who break through the first-class realm when they are near death.

But masters are hard to come by, so when Luowang was in Lu Buwei's hands, there were only three top-level killers: Yanri, Xuanjian and Jingniu.

Grandmasters are even rarer, so the number of grandmasters can also be used as one of the criteria for measuring a country's national strength.

The only one left in Korea was Bai Yan, a fake grandmaster, and he was killed by Gongsun Ce.

However, the State of Chu was able to exile Qu Yuan, a master in the aspiration to become a great master.

Tianwen is not only the name of a sword, but also one of the stepping stones for Qu Yuan to become a grandmaster.

Through the heavy rain, Jingwei discovered Gongsun Ce watching the show in the pavilion.

The Luowang killers, led by several "killer"-level killers, also noticed Gongsun Ce's existence at this moment.

With the improvement of his blood and bloodline, even if Gongsun Ce did not open his golden eyes, he still carried an aura of pressure that could not be ignored.

This is also one of the reasons why Meng Tian almost made a mistake between Gongsun Ce and Ying Zheng.

The Emperor Manggai mentioned by Donghuang Taiyi represented that Gongsun Ce at this time was enough to crush Ying Zheng in terms of momentum and luck.

The cold rain slowly flowed through Jingwei's snake scale soft armor, washing away the bloodstains on Jingwei's sword.

Jingwei suddenly felt abdominal pain at this time, which might be a sign of premature birth. Yan Lu beside her was breathing rapidly after being exposed to the rain for a long time, which seemed to be a sign of catching a cold.

Jingwei gritted his teeth and decided to take a gamble. He bet that Gongsun Ce, who was wearing the Confucian clothes of Qi State, was the person sent by Xiaoshengxian Manor to pick up Yan Lu.

Jingwei lifted Yan Lu, dug his right foot into the ground, and then kicked forward, sending mud, sand and rain water splashing towards the Luowang killer in front of Jingwei.

At the same time, Jingwei retreated quickly and entered the pavilion.

After entering the pavilion, Jingwei saluted Gongsun Ce and said, "Are you the gentleman from Xiaoshengxian Manor?"

Gongsun Ce glanced at Jingwei with his bulging belly and suddenly understood why someone would control this. It might be that XP was too free.

"Yes, I am Gongsun Ce, the third disciple of Xunzi, and I have come to take away the descendant of the sage Yan Hui."

Jingwei was relieved, but still remained wary of Gongsun Ce.

Gongsun Ce was somewhat glad that he had left the Sun-Covering Sword at Xiaoshengxian Manor, otherwise if the young widow saw it, who knows what she would think.

Jingwei is in the late stage of pregnancy and is extremely sensitive. In addition, as a killer, she has the ability to sense danger, so the slightest abnormality is enough to arouse her suspicion.

Gongsun Ce looked at the Jingwei sword in Jingwei's hand, "You are Jingwei of Luowang? Why do you want to protect the descendants of the sage Yan Hui?"

Jingwei looked at the Hanguang Sword in Yan Lu's hand with a complicated expression, "Little Yan Lu's mentor has influenced me with his life."

(End of this chapter)