4968

Chapter 4968: 5.0720 Wasting if Left Empty

"So, this time, are you eyeing, and wanting to collaborate with, the current leader of the Wangchuan Clan Territory? That Demon Cult Master, Ding Yun?"

Shentu Jing frantically shook her head, repeatedly saying, "I don't know. I truly don't know where Second Imperial Advisor Shen Nan Gui took Lily No. 0."

"Please, Your Majesty, understand!" Shentu Jing said, panicked, "What I said is true, every word of it. I have no intention of deceiving Your Majesty."

She had only interacted with Duan Yue once. But that one time had cost her a clone, and Lily No. 9 was completely destroyed along with it. Such a ruthless person, she shouldn't continue to court death in front of him. Otherwise... she might end up without a burial ground.

Shentu Jing took a deep breath, trying to meet Qiao Mu and Duan Yue's eyes with utmost sincerity.

Qiao Mu glanced at her. "Throw her into the Imitation Punishment Pagoda."

Duan Yue's mouth twitched. He turned his head to covertly glance at the little stoic. Even when angry, the little stoic was endearing, especially with her constant mention of the Imitation Punishment Pagoda...

Two thin branches emerged from her sleeve and immediately wrapped around Shentu Jing's terrified arms.

"I, I really told you everything!"

"I've already, told you everything I know, you, what else do you want?" Shentu Jing shrieked in terror. "I, I swear, I dare, I dare to make an irreversible Heavenly Dao blood oath, everything I said is true! Not a single word is false."

Qiao Mu looked at Shentu Jing expressionlessly, letting Little Tree Ball-Ball drag the woman into the Imitation Punishment Pagoda.

Ball-Ball chirped, "Master, Master, next time, can you not say the words 'imitation'?" Although their Punishment Pagoda was indeed an imitation, it worked fine!

"The real Punishment Pagoda has seventeen levels, and you only have twelve. If you're not an imitation, who is?" Qiao Mu pouted slightly, mumbling softly.

"Master~" Ball-Ball's voice echoed melodiously in her ear.

"I can also reinforce and heighten the Punishment Pagoda! It can be repaired to the height of seventeen levels!"

"Don't bother," imitation is imitation... no amount of repair could turn it into the real Punishment Pagoda.

Ball-Ball angrily tossed Shentu Jing into the first level of the Imitation Punishment Pagoda.

As soon as Shentu Jing entered, she felt an uncontrollable force dragging her, and she immediately let out a shriek. Several iron chains suddenly dropped from above, binding her tightly.

"Qiao Qiao, do you think what she said wasn't completely truthful?" Duan Yue asked, puzzled.

Qiao Mu shook her head. "She probably wasn't lying." One can distinguish the truth of a person's words by observing their eyes and subtle expressions. Just now, Shentu Jing dared to meet her gaze and spoke at a normal pace, not like someone carefully choosing their words. Essentially, she was probably as truthful as she claimed, revealing everything she knew.

Duan Yue silently twitched his eye, then coughed lightly. "Then why did you... drag her into the Punishment Pagoda?"

"Oh, that pagoda has been empty for a while, and there's no one to throw in there. Let her try it out."

Duan Yue was speechless. So, this Shentu Jing was just a unlucky test subject for the pagoda... Lord Qiao Qiao had thrown her in now, and who knows if she'd even remember that such a person was in the Punishment Pagoda months later.