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The four bodyguards stepped forward with a sword in their hands that flickered with a cold saber light. The other two held a long and thin golden needle as well as a faint flame. When the wind blew, the entire hall was chilled to the bone!

Qin Lie was secretly shocked. These were the two types of torture within the clan, named "Eviscerate" and "Light the Sky Lantern". They were the most cruel and bloody.

The former used a golden knife to remove the bones of the clan criminals one by one. Their flesh became a mess of flesh and blood, and from then on, they became cripples without the ability to move anymore. On the other hand, the Heaven Lamp was drawing out a person's essence energy and spiritual consciousness. This was not the end, after all, the user would have to place their essence energy and spiritual consciousness on the candle flame to form drops of liquid. This was the most terrifying thing.

Usually, this clan's punishment was originally used to deal with heinous criminals, but they never thought that Xia Shi would be so vicious.

However, he didn't resist. He stood there silently, looking at Xia MengLan as he asked loudly, "Is this the Demon Lord Manor?" "I've seen how right and wrong can be reversed, and what goes around is right and wrong, and what goes around is colluded.

"You still dare to be stubborn!?" Protector Xia Shi, in my opinion, you can hand him over to me for me to handle later. Tu Mo's face was vicious, he went up and asked for instructions.

"Yes, the execution begins!" Xia Shi glanced at Tu Mo and nodded.

As the two guards approached, one of them took out a knife and pierced it towards Qin Lie's shoulder blade.

Another person shot out a needle, which released a golden light, causing Qin Lie to feel an intense pain in his head, the Divine Purgatory Diagram was trembling, it was not calm, the Qi was intertwined, all the Profound Qi in his body evaporated, and left his body.

However, Qin Lie still did not make a sound. His expression was calm, and his eyes seemed to carry a mocking look as he looked at Xia Menglan.

Those eyes were filled with arrogance, ridicule, and even … Disappointment! At this moment, facing Xia Menglan's cold eyes, he could no longer remain silent.

"Swish …"

The golden blade stabbed into his body, causing blood to spurt out, staining the ground red. Qin Lie bore with it, but his body was trembling.

Only, the pair of timid eyes did not change, as though they did not feel pain, and stared at Xia Menglan with a smile.

"Swoosh!"

The golden needle flew over, wanting to pull out Qin Lie's spirit energy. His skin quickly relaxed, as his spirit energy had evaporated, his life force disappearing, just like that, it was about to pierce through Qin Lie's body.

"Clang!"

In a split-second, a silver needle flew over, striking the golden needle and causing it to emit an ear-piercing metallic sound. Just a little bit more and Qin Lie's spiritual consciousness would have been sent flying.

At the most crucial moment, Xia Menglan had made his move. Her speed was extremely fast, and before she could even clearly see when she had made his move, a beam of light shot out, saving Qin Lie from pain.

"Miss, you …"

Xia Shi and Xia Heng's face changed at the same time, while Tu Mo's expression tensed up. The young miss had personally taken action, what was the meaning of this? To protect him?

"Hold on!" Xia Menglan's beautiful face was as cold as ice. He glanced at Xia Shi and said, "Protector Xia Shi, I have heard of Qin Lie's name, he has always protected his own responsibilities within the Duke Palaces. All of the things that you've said were done by him, and I find it hard to believe them."

"But …" That's the truth, we have no choice but to believe it! " Xia Shi forehead broke out in cold sweat as he laughed in embarrassment.

"Is that so?" Xia Menglan looked at Xia Shi deeply and said: "Since that's the case, then let me interrogate him. Although I don't bother with matters of the Duke Palaces throughout the year, I have the authority to interfere in matters of the Clan Hall."

"Yes, Miss …" Xia Shi agreed softly. He was so scared that he did not dare to breathe.

In the end, Xia Shi gave up and gave up the seat of interrogation. Xia Menglan sat on the stage, covered his face with a veil, and could not be seen clearly, but his temperament was extraordinary. His eyes looked at Qin Lie and asked: "Qin Lie, the witness and evidence are both here, why are you unhappy?"

"Yes!" Qin Lie's body remained calm and steady. With the righteous energy, he was no longer afraid of Xia Menglan's aura.

At this moment, Xia Menglan was enforcing the law. Qin Lie stood at attention and asked: "Miss, let me ask you, for the people in the clan who beat them up in private, you will be punished with a staff punishment of 50. If we poison them to death, how should we deal with them?"

Qin Lie shouted in a stern voice as he looked at Tu Mo with an ice-cold gaze. He thought that Qin Lie would definitely die, and would come back to life. He never thought that as long as he lived, the matter of him using the Toxic Pill to harm others and destroy their corpses to eliminate them would be exposed, and everything would come to light.

"Tell me about it!" Xia Menglan frowned, and her face instantly darkened. She looked at Qin Lie and said: "If you have anything else to say, feel free to say it!"

"Yes." Qin Lie replied, then coldly looked at Tu Mo, and told him the whole story of how Tu Mo snatched the Ice Soul Cold Python Beast's core, killed him with the Single Horned Scorpion, and exterminated the corpse.

After saying all of this, Xia Menglan's face slightly changed, and she looked at Tu Mo with a cold gaze that was deep inside her bones: "Is what Qin Lie said true?"

"I …" Tu Mo stared at him until his spine turned cold, his expression slowly dimmed. In front of Xia Chu Lan, he did not want to lie.

He did not expect that the situation would turn around so quickly. This time, even Xia Heng would not be able to save him.

Young miss, this is only one side of his story, you cannot trust him! If he said that Tu Mo poisoned him, then why is he standing here facing us, isn't he already dead?

"Qin Lie, how do you explain that?" Xia Menglan muttered to himself.

"Miss, Qin Lie's fate was tough, the scorpion poison did not manage to take my life, and was on the verge of death, the rain inadvertently flowed into the soil and a stalk of Spirit Grass, after I accidentally swallowed it, my abdominal pain was unbearable, after I fainted, after I woke up, I discovered that my poison had been detoxified, and my Cultivation Level had also levelled up, so I crawled out of the soil with difficulty." Under the gaze of everyone, Qin Lie replied indifferently.

"A Spirit Grass?!"

Not only Tu Mo and Xia Heng, Xia Menglan also felt that it was unbelievable. Just by casually using a spiritual herb in Herb Mountain, he was able to bring him back to life. Was this really true?

Herb Mountain had always been a place where Misty Cloud City flourished with spirit grass and wondrous flowers, and had many unsolved secrets. Yet, in front of him, there was a person who should have been dead, because a stalk of the Wasteland grass had been resurrected.

Tu Mo and Xia Heng's face were ugly, although they did not believe it, up till now, they still could not find any suspicious points on Qin Lie's body.

"Miss, so the King's Manor is already so prosperous. The Toxic Pill with the Black Scorpion Poison seems to have a price but no market. It can only be found on the black market, right?"

Qin Lie suddenly let out a faint sigh, as if he was sighing with emotion or praising. However, Xia Heng and Yue Shuang shivered all over, looked at each other, and saw the shock in each other's eyes.

The Pill s were stolen and the Toxic Pill s killed people. Originally, these two items could not even be used together, but Qin Lie had strung them together!

Even the stupidest person would understand when they heard Qin Lie's words, let alone the fact that he was a smart person. What he meant was, wasn't it abnormal for a lowly abandoned son to possess a Toxic Pill like the Black Scorpion, that he didn't dare to underestimate it? How did he get it?

If they went any deeper, what kind of thing was a Single Horned Scorpion? A price without a market, incomparably rare! There weren't many powers that possessed the entire Heavenly Dragon Empire, and they all hid themselves like killing machines. It was impossible for Tu Mo to have an abandoned son. Then why would he use Toxic Pill to harm others? There was only one answer, which was obtained by the person relying on the Direct Vein.

Even if the Single Horned Scorpion Toxic Pill were to be extremely rare, with the Duke Palace's background, they would definitely be able to get their hands on them. Xia Heng was the Great Guardian of the Kung Fu Hall, if Tu Mo really wanted to, it wouldn't be difficult.

Sure enough, Xia Menglan's expression darkened, and she bellowed: "Tu Mo, you're serious now?!"

Tu Mo lowered his head, not knowing how to conceal his thoughts. But he didn't dare to reply carelessly either;

"Miss, if Tu Mo can steal the horned scorpion Toxic Pill from the treasury, who can guarantee that this Soul Gathering Pellet wasn't stolen by him? After all, the treasury is guarded by heavy soldiers, who would dare to ignore it and take the risk? "

"Qin Lie, you …" Tu Mo's eyes were spitting fire, he hated Qin Lie, he did not expect Qin Lie to be so meticulous, the two seemingly unrelated matters, had actually been taken advantage of and linked together.

Originally, he had splashed dirty water on Qin Lie, but in the end, he had lifted a rock and smashed his own foot. For a fellow clansman to harm another clansman, no matter where they went, was a grave crime. They would be punished by the clan.

Both Tu Mo and Xia Heng had not expected that things would turn around so quickly. Originally, they had wanted to borrow Xia Chu Lan's hands to get rid of Qin Lie, since stealing from the treasury was something that even the disciples of the Duke Palaces would not be able to avoid.

Right now, the ones who were panicking was no longer Qin Lie, but Tu Mo and Xia Heng.

"Tu Mo, did you steal this New Year's Day?"

As Xia Menglan sat at the top position, her expectations slowly increased. A long time after she had left the Duke Palace, too many things had happened in the Duke Palace that she didn't know about. This gave Xia Heng, who was always greedy for power, an opportunity to take advantage of.

Tu Mo was merely an unofficial member of the Demon Suppressing King Palace, and even with Xia Heng's support, he was still equivalent to a servant. However, he had committed several crimes on multiple occasions, stealing from the Black Scorpion Toxic Pill in order to murder the Duke Palace had already deeply violated the clan rules.

"Tu Mo, if you can get me from the truth! I might be able to spare your life. " Seeing that Tu Mo's expression was ugly and did not dare to speak, Xia Menglan's calm tone became even colder. An invisible pressure slowly rippled out from Xia Menglan's body, and then, like a mountain, it pressed towards Tu Mo.

"Plop!" With a dull thud, Tu Mo was no longer able to withstand Xia Menglan's Ten Thousand Profound Suppression, and directly fell to his knees, falling onto the ground. It was me, it was me! "

The atmosphere in the Clan Hall quickly became somber, Xia Menglan slowly stood up, her eyes were sharp like a sword, and a formless killing intent filled the air. As for some of the protectors of the Clan Hall, they remained silent and did not say a word.

They all knew that Xia Menglan was angry.

Although Tu Mo's trouble had already been resolved, there was one thing that made him unable to feel at ease. How could that Black Scorpion Toxic Pill be easily obtained by Tu Mo?