"Ah! No! My lord… Master, please no! Don't abandon Ting Qin! Master, please no!"
The voice of Ting Qin was filled with extreme panic and terror.
She watched as the poisoned Private Guards of the Prince Mansion, their eyes gleaming with green light like hungry wolves, pounced toward her, causing her entire body to tremble uncontrollably.
The proud woman who had previously stood beside Feng Yuan, who had dismissed the comparison of Prince Ning's own master with Luo Qingtong with palpable disdain, was now shivering like a drenched chicken, her body violently trembling with fear!
"No! Master, please take me with you! Master!"
She desperately crawled to Feng Yuan's feet, frantically kowtowing and begging.
Master, save her! Save her, please!
However, how could Feng Yuan, who had personally pushed her away, possibly take her along now?
What Luo Qingtong had afflicted her with was a chain poison.
Each link triggering the next, inducing a vicious cycle!
Something that simply couldn't be resolved quickly!
Only by sacrificing Ting Qin could she herself escape unscathed!
Feng Yuan's sleeves swept heavily, and Ting Qin was sent flying by the force.
Observing the woman she had just flung away, a ruthless glint flashed in Feng Yuan's eyes.
A breath of energy was flicked towards Ting Qin.
"Whoosh!"
Her figure dashed out of the Prince Ning Residence.
"Ah! Master!"
The scream of Ting Qin, coming from behind her, sounded exceptionally mournful.
The next second, she was overwhelmed by a group of poison-stricken Private Guards!
The sounds of tearing clothes, of wails, were ceaselessly harrowing!
By the time the people sent by Luo Qingtong arrived, she was already dead, bereft of breath!
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"Dead?"
Within the Inner Hall of the Great Chu Imperial Palace, Luo Qingtong raised an eyebrow when she heard the report from the officer outside.
The poison she administered was not meant to be lethal!
Otherwise, Prince Ning would have long been deceased.
"Yes!"
The kneeling officer outside reported: "However, the deceased is only one of the opponent's maids."
That officer recounted the details of his investigation thoroughly.
"The one who actually refined the Lust Poison is a person claiming to be Heavenly Doctor Saint Hand! The individual had already left the Prince Ning Residence by the time we arrived. We, your subordinates, were incompetent and failed to track their whereabouts."
"Oh."
A playful smile played on the lips of Luo Qingtong.
It looked like it was the Heavenly Doctor Saint Hand who took matters into their own hands.
To kill their own personal maid, the opponent was indeed decisive and ruthless.
"Heavenly Doctor Saint Hand? Quite an arrogant name to use."
Heavenly Doctor? Saint Hand?
It precisely mirrored her own title of Evil Doctor Ghost Eyes!
Luo Qingtong couldn't help but be intrigued!
Heaven against evil, saint against ghost!
This person was certainly interesting!
Luo Qingtong, leaning languidly on the Imperial Concubine Couch nearby, had a smile on her lips that was wickedly captivating.
She wouldn't have known about such an interesting individual if she hadn't come this time!
"Yes. This Heavenly Doctor Saint Hand seems to have appeared in the Holy Dynasty only recently. There are some tales about her that have spread across the Four Great Holy Dynasties. It's rumored that her medical skills and alchemy strength are not inferior to that of the Evil Doctor Ghost Eyes."
"Recently, her reputation has been progressively spreading. Many forces within the Four Great Holy Dynasties are quite taken with her."
"Oh!"
Hearing this, Luo Qingtong became even more interested.
To say that this person wasn't specifically targeting her, she wouldn't buy it!
How could just any alchemist pop up and have something to do with her?
And even deliberately compare themselves to her?
Those claims that the opponent's strength was not less than that of the Evil Doctor Ghost Eyes were probably just rumors intentionally spread by that person!
All to overshadow her own reputation!
Well, this was getting interesting!
Why would someone she didn't even know want to deliberately undermine her fame?
The eyes of Luo Qingtong narrowed faintly.
Just then, she seemed to hear some noise…