93: This one works better.

Outside the Saintess Hall of the Hehuan Sect.

A cold and elegant figure slowly descended from the sky.

Chu Qianqian looked haggard, her eyes sunken and her gaze dim.

These past few days had felt like years to her.

Since returning to the Yaochi Holy Land, she had frantically searched through all the ancient texts on Gu poison in the Scripture Pavilion.

She had even taken several rare detoxifying Medicinal Pills from the Alchemy Room.

But no matter what method she tried or what miraculous Spirit Pills she swallowed,

the Gu insect entrenched deep within her Dantian remained unresponsive, as if it were dead asleep.

On the contrary, as the seven-day deadline approached, the Gu insect began to grow increasingly restless.

Every few hours, it would tremble slightly, as if it were counting down.

That feeling of being on pins and needles was truly unbearable.

As soon as she stepped into the hall, she was greeted by Chu Qianqian's piercing laughter:

"Oh, isn't this my dear little sister?"

Toying with a purple jade pendant in her hand, Chu Qianqian looked at the slightly disheveled Chu Qianqian and smiled:

"Why do you look so pale? Tsk, tsk, look at those dark circles. Did you miss your sister so much... that you couldn't even sleep?"

Chu Qianqian gritted her teeth hard. She didn't respond but simply looked up.

With an extremely cold gaze, she stared at the two people on the high platform.

What made her feel sorrowful was that as she stepped into the hall and drew closer to the mother gu jade pendant in Chu Qianqian's hand,

the restless Gu insect inside her body actually quieted down instantly.

The strange sensation dissipated along with it.

While this made her breathe a sigh of relief, a deep sense of powerlessness welled up in her heart.

"Enough, stop making that funeral face."

Seeing that she wasn't speaking, Chu Qianqian also found it a bit boring.

With a casual wave, a cyan Jade Slip recorded with information turned into a streak of light and flew straight toward Chu Qianqian.

"Take it."

Chu Qianqian instinctively reached out to catch the Jade Slip and asked with a frown:

"What is this?"

Chu Qianqian said lazily:

"Giving you something to do. After you go back, help me investigate this person's background thoroughly. I want to know every detail of his movements since he entered Yaochi."

"Investigate someone?"

Chu Qianqian sent her Divine Sense into the Jade Slip.

The next moment, a look of astonishment appeared on her face.

"Mu Yun?"

She was stunned.

This name was not unfamiliar to her.

Wasn't he the Disciple she encountered a few days ago by the Mirror Heart Lake who was full of nonsense?

She instinctively frowned, her heart filled with doubt and resistance:

"He's just a Disciple, what's there to investigate?"

She looked up, eyeing Chu Qianqian and Lu Yi suspiciously:

"What exactly are you trying to do? Are you plotting some kind of conspiracy?"

"Enough with the nonsense!"

Seeing that she actually dared to question her, Chu Qianqian's face instantly darkened.

Her eyes turned cold, and she said in a chilling tone:

"I told you to investigate, so do it! Know your place!"

Before she finished speaking, Chu Qianqian lightly brushed her finger across the jade pendant and shifted her thoughts.

"Buzz—"

In the next second, Chu Qianqian's face turned deathly pale.

An indescribable sensation erupted from her lower abdomen without warning!

It felt as if countless ants were frantically clawing at her.

"Ugh..."

Chu Qianqian groaned, her legs giving way as she stumbled and fell to one knee.

Cold sweat instantly soaked her temples.

She clutched her lower abdomen tightly, curling into a ball and trembling in pain, squeezing out a sentence through gritted teeth:

"St... Stop!! I'll investigate! ...I'll do it!"

Hearing her plea for mercy, Chu Qianqian finally withdrew her Spiritual Power and stopped the activation, satisfied.

"Humph, wouldn't it have been easier if you'd just done this from the start?"

Chu Qianqian toyed with the jade pendant and sneered:

"Why bother making yourself suffer before you'll listen?"

Lu Yi, who had been silently watching the entire process from the side, was now stroking his chin, his gaze fixed on the jade pendant in Chu Qianqian's hand.

In his eyes, a light called "interest" flickered.

"Tsk, tsk, tsk..."

Lu Yi commented thoughtfully:

"This thing... it's like a remote control. Quite convenient."

With just a light press, a high-and-mighty Saintess instantly loses all ability to resist.

This is simply a must-have Divine Artifact for traveling and controlling villains.

Thinking of this, Lu Yi turned his head and reached out his hand to Chu Qianqian:

"Is there an extra one of these jade pendants? Give me one."

"Hmm?" Chu Qianqian glanced at him.

"Since she's our inside agent in Yaochi and I'm the main planner, how can I not have some control?"

Lu Yi said righteously:

"What if you're not around one day and she stops being obedient?"

Hearing this, without a word, Chu Qianqian pulled out an identical but slightly lighter purple jade pendant from her Storage Ring and tossed it to Lu Yi.

"Catch."

She explained casually:

"This is for punishment; the effect is the same."

Lu Yi caught the jade pendant. It felt warm to the touch, and he could feel a trace of strange fluctuations within it.

However, Chu Qianqian, kneeling on the ground, felt a surge of unprecedented despair upon hearing this conversation.

Having her weakness held by Chu Qianqian meant being humiliated at most.

But if it fell into this man's hands... She suddenly looked up, pointed at Lu Yi, and shouted through gritted teeth:

"You! How could you..."

Before Chu Qianqian could finish, Lu Yi, with the curiosity of "trying out a new toy," directly funneled a trace of Spiritual Power into the jade pendant.

"Buzz!"

The jade pendant vibrated slightly.

In the next second.

"Ah—!!"

Chu Qianqian's body could no longer hold up; she slumped and fell to the ground in a pathetic heap.

The rest of her words were forced back down her throat.

Lu Yi looked at the struggling Chu Qianqian and nodded with satisfaction.

Then, he cut off the Spiritual Power output.

"Hmm, not bad."

He marveled, as if reviewing a newly acquired electronic product:

"The response speed is very fast, and there's no lag. This thing really is more useful."

Chu Qianqian lay prone on the cold floor, her body drenched in cold sweat, her messy hair sticking to her cheeks.

She struggled to look up, meeting Lu Yi's expression of wanting more.

At that moment, the despair in her heart reached its peak.

A cruel, heartless devil of a sister.

A perverted man with a twisted sense of fun.

My life... why is it so bitter!

Chu Qianqian looked down at her, her smile fading as she said flatly:

"Enough, stop playing dead. Get back and investigate. If you can't find anything..."

She shook the jade pendant in her hand and said with a heavy threat:

"I won't be so polite then..."