Dream Picking Records

Chapter 374: Shifting the Target

"It's simple. Let me go, and you can't hunt me down again within a month."

Yu Ling quickly responded to Matsushima Aoi's request, "Okay, but you have to hand over the antidote first."

Matsushima Aoi snapped her fingers and a pill shot out of the cave and flew into Yu Ling's hand, and then she tried to escape immediately.

"Wait, you can leave only after the antidote takes effect and confirms that there is no problem."

"That's not up to you." Matsushima Aoi said and was about to leave with the former prince's body.

"Leave Xiaoyu here!"

"That won't do. One thing for another. I've already exchanged the antidote for the Queen's life." Matsushima Aoi suddenly wasn't so anxious anymore and smiled slowly.

"You can ask for any other conditions you want, but the former crown prince must stay!" Yu Ling was very tough and resolute.

"Let me think about what I want! Well... I don't seem to lack anything. How about this, you have to choose between the Queen and the Crown Prince!" She pinched Zhu Xiaoyu's neck, ready to stop his last breath at any time.

"you dare!"

Yu Ling burst out with great force, but that was all he could do to express his anger.

"You have the antidote, but you want to turn your back on me? Could it be that Commander Yu of the Ming Dynasty is a villain who doesn't keep his word? Aren't you afraid that this will get out and be laughed at by all the cultivators in the world? Haha! You are nothing, but I don't want to see where Master Yu's face can be put, and where the Ming Dynasty can hide its face!"

"Ahem... antidote... no need, change... change Yu'er!" Queen Wang woke up somehow. The presence of the poison made her feel excruciatingly painful with every word she spoke.

Yu Changzhou and Feng Tingyun suffered from heart pain, but they could only prevent the poison from spreading further and watch the queen suffer.

"It's all my fault. I am willing to sacrifice my life for yours!"

"What a great mother-son love! Haha. My patience is almost exhausted. I don't want to watch your drama anymore."

"Snapped!"

Void slapped Matsushima Aoi silently in the face.

"Sorry, I am late."

Minghuang's voice suddenly appeared, and he grabbed the opponent's neck, his murderous intent almost materialized.

"Your Majesty, you cannot kill her!" Wang Xiao called a halt urgently.

"Give me a reason."

"The Gu Mind God, the one who casts the Gu and the one who is poisoned are linked by the same fate."

The emperor's calmness allowed his reason to override his anger, and he threw her out with a flick of his hand.

“Haha, you’re so young and yet you know the unique skills of my Valley of Insects.” Matsushima Aoi struggled to get up. When she saw Wang Xiao’s appearance clearly, she turned from indifference to hysterical roar: “It’s you! It’s you who killed my two disciples!”

"Kill him and I can remove the Gu Nian God!" She suddenly threatened the Emperor Ming.

Wang Xiao was quite surprised that the other party immediately shifted the focus to him.

Emperor Ming looked deeply at the prince in front of him, and the past could not help but replay in his mind. He felt mixed emotions, and turned his head with difficulty to come to Queen Wang. He took the antidote and crushed it, and then used his own tyrannical skills to detoxify the queen.

Under his gentle care, the queen's condition improved.

The Queen held his big hand that he had not touched for many years, and pleaded against her will: "Your Majesty, please don't. Yu'er has been... buried twenty years ago. I have already let it go..."

Emperor Ming smiled bitterly. It was easy to say "let go", but it was not easy to do it. Heaven is ruthless, but people are kind. Even if he could do it, he would have just ended Matsushima Aoi's life.

"Why don't you do it!"

Seeing that no one was moving, Matsushima Aoi took the initiative to control Zhu Xiaoyu to fly out of the cave and approached them step by step.

The queen's heart was bleeding. She didn't dare to look at him, but she couldn't help looking at him a few more times. Her face was covered with tears, but she couldn't cry out loud. Although she tried hard to restrain herself, Wang Xiao could still hear her sobbing from a distance with her back turned.

The more sad she was, the more rampant Matsushima Aoi laughed. Soon she was no longer satisfied with this and further controlled Zhu Xiaoyu to attack them.

Wang Xiao's heart twitched slightly. It was difficult for him to have any emotional fluctuations in his current state of mind, but Matsushima Aoi did just that. Among all the people he had seen, Matsushima Aoi was the first one who could be so bad.

Emperor Ming patted the Queen's shoulder to comfort her, and then suppressed Zhu Xiaoyu's body, "Remove the Gu Nian God, and I will let you live."

"Your Majesty, you seem to have misunderstood the situation. It is you who should make the choice, not me! The Insect Valley is destroyed, my apprentice is dead, and I have nothing to be nostalgic about. I will take whoever I can with me!" Matsushima Aoi's face was ferocious and she had become desperate.

"Killing a foreigner who has nothing to do with you is just an easy choice, isn't it? You can save your son and kill me for the Tang Dynasty to bring the two countries closer. Why not do it? Or do you want to repeat the mistake you made many years ago and abandon your son again?"

"Damn, you're really worthy of being a dead bug from the Bug Valley, with a heart of a snake and a scorpion, and your mind is so vicious that it's outrageous!" Feng Tingjun flew to Wang Xiao's shoulder and cursed angrily.

The Emperor Minghuang slowly stood up and walked forward, his eyes frighteningly cold.

"Wang Xiao, thank you for your contribution to the Ming Dynasty. Both I and the Ming Dynasty will always remember you."

He stretched out his palm, which was like a cage, and all living beings in the Valley of Flowers were at his mercy.

"That's right, the death of an outsider is good for both you and me!"

The Emperor ignored Matsushima Aoi, while Wang Xiao looked at him calmly. Feng Tingjun nervously grasped his shoulders, fearing that the Emperor would suddenly say "but".

"Oh, your father taught you to be prepared to sacrifice for the country since you were young. You did it, and you stayed alone to protect your compatriots, but I didn't... I have made you suffer for the past twenty years."

"puff!"

Matsushima Aoi's chest was completely sunken, with broken internal organs and blood gushing out.

"Are you going to kill your son with your own hands!?" Matsushima Aoi was anxious and shouted desperately, no longer showing her previous attitude of not caring about life and death.

"Death is sometimes a relief, but I will inflict upon you a thousand times the pain we have endured!"

The Emperor Ming then attacked her and beat her so badly that she didn't dare to explode.

"Your Majesty, please calm down. Leave the rest to me." Wang Xiao waited for the Emperor Minghuang to vent for a while before stopping him.

Although puzzled, Emperor Minghuang still chose to stop and gave the decision-making power to him.

Wang Xiao came to Matsushima Aoi openly and confronted her, but she ended up crawling for several steps in fear.

"What are you going to do!?"

"It's not as pleasant as having someone else do it for you. Don't you want to kill me yourself to avenge your apprentice?"

Matsushima Aoi glanced around and was completely passive at the moment, not understanding what the other party meant.

Wang Xiao smiled and said, "Don't think I don't know. Once the Gu Mind God is planted, even the caster cannot remove it. Don't say no. I'll give you a chance. As long as you swear a blood oath to never detonate the Gu worm, I can ask His Majesty to spare your life. I can also fight you one-on-one. If you win, you can take my life."

When everyone heard this, they exclaimed, "What a close call! They almost fell for her trick." At the same time, they were worried about Wang Xiao, because Matsushima Aoi herself was a genuine cultivator at the third level of Heaven's Destiny.

I don't know what Matsushima Aoi was thinking, and it took her a long time to make a decision.

"Okay, I promise you. But you have to get Emperor Ming to make a promise first."

"no problem."

Wang Xiao nodded and came to Emperor Ming's side, "Your Majesty..."

"No! I know you are very strong and can kill enemies across levels, but the methods of the Insect Valley are too insidious. No one knows what other tricks she has up her sleeve."

"Your Majesty, rest assured. I have the means to break the Gu Nian Shen. The most urgent task is to stabilize her first."

"Really?" The Emperor Minghuang was both pleasantly surprised and astonished. But after a moment's thought, it was reasonable. After all, he had gotten rid of the evil spirit in the Emperor Minghuang Bell.

"I encountered two of her disciples during the Five Realms Grand Gathering. Three of them were under her control. I tried it out and gained some experience."

The Emperor Ming said coldly to avoid revealing his flaws: "I agree. As long as you swear a blood oath, I will let you go."

Matsushima Aoi immediately swore a blood oath upon seeing this, and then she looked at Wang Xiao and Emperor Ming: "See you here in three days. If you don't come, I will risk my life to detonate the poisonous insect."

After she finished speaking, smoke exploded around her, and when the smoke cleared, she had already escaped.