Chapter sixty-three 

While the people of Ying Zetian are carrying out the destruction of the city of Debu, she was also leading her group of people in the three cities of Yingan to destroy these three cities. Ying Zetian, her dark guards and the one hundred and fifty people that she had put in the three cities of Yingan were a safe distance away from the three cities when the hell sounding boom of the explosives of Ying Zetian sounded.

Ying Zetian watched as the three cities of Yingan disappear in a big billow of smoke and fire that was created by the explosion of the bomb. Ying Zetian was confident of her calculations and actions, so she did not leave any people to check out that the paddy fields and the three cities of Yingan was utterly destroyed.

Another reason was that Ying Zetian had read the weather that in one more week, there will be a strong sandstorm happening between Yingan and the next nearest state of Tai Ping, Changping. And there is a dangerous route via a mountain range in between Yingan and Changping. This route could ensure that Ying Zetian and her one hundred and fifty people will reach Changping before the sandstorm started.

Why people rarely choose to travel the mountain range to reach Changping from Yingan and choose the one month longer route where sandstorms frequently happen is because of wild animals that was rumored to reach inhuman sizes. But Ying Zetian is not afraid of these wild animals as Xiao Ying had taught them a special gu medicine.

Xiao Ying is the daughter of the tribe leader, so she is skilled in the most special skill of the secret tribe of Rouran that will be taught to the leader of the tribe and the appointed heir only without any gender discrimination, just as long as the person is skilled. This gu medicine is in the body of the person who choose to train these gu worm. This gu worm will then be supported by the blood and life of this person and is his or her chosen master. It was lucky that Tang Wudi and Ying Zetian is naturally talented enough to grow these gu worm in their bodies.

Ying Zetian and her people were at the entrance of the mountain range where she opens her mouth for her baby gu worm to fly out. Ying Zetian personal dark guards were used to seeing these scenes, but the rest of her followers were not used to seeing a worm flying out of their master's mouth. The rest of Ying Zetian followers watch in amazement as this gu worm that flies out of her mouth and grew to an enormous size that could cover the whole of their platoon of people. Ying Zetian gives the signal to move, and they give a slap to their horses, and they start their ride through the fabled forest.

It was the next day nighttime when they found a river and Ying Zetian found it safe enough for her and her people to set up their camps as they rested along with their horses. The large gu butterfly of Ying Zetian spray her special powder over them as they rested after eating a rough dinner after attending to their horses. Ying Zetian had told her people that the powder could ensured their safety when they were sleeping so they shut their eyes after their leader's reassurance, and they went into dreamland amazingly fast.