Reborn Divine Doctor: The Abandoned Girl's Legend
Chapter 173 - 43: If the Poison Doesn’t Kill You, the Fear Will

Chapter 173: Chapter 43: If the Poison Doesn’t Kill You, the Fear Will

Ye Lingyue had an excellent memory and was certain that this palace maid was under Noble Princess Consort Luo’s command.

Realizing something was amiss, Ye Lingyue stayed alert, yet her expression remained unchanged.

"Thank you, Auntie, here is a piece of Gold Leaf. Please accept it with a smile, and I will need more kind words from you in front of the Heavenly Empress in the future," Ye Lingyue said, taking out a golden leaf and handing it to the palace maid.

The moment she took out the golden leaf, Ye Lingyue’s fingers grazed over it.

Upon seeing the golden leaf, greed flashed unmistakably in the palace maid’s eyes. She quickly took the leaf and uttered a few polite remarks.

After speaking, Ye Lingyue walked towards the palace ahead.

"Offend Noble Princess Consort Luo, and you won’t be able to stay in the palace," the palace maid spat venomously at the back of Ye Lingyue.

She weighed the golden leaf in her hand again, bit it and confirmed it was indeed high-quality gold, then finally pocketed the golden leaf.

The gate ahead was the entrance to the Empress’s Chaohua Palace. Ever since the Sixth Prince contracted "that illness", the Empress had sealed both the inside and outside of Chaohua Palace. Trespassing meant only one thing—death.

Ye Lingyue, having just entered the Imperial Palace, was naturally unaware of this secret.

The palace maid was indeed one of Luo’s people placed beside the Empress Dowager. After showing the way, she hurriedly ran towards Conubine Luo’s place to deliver the message.

In the Empress Dowager’s Bai Feng Palace, the Empress Dowager closed her eyes while a female official beside her brewed a cup of tea and handed it over.

The tea aroma was captivating, and upon drinking, the Empress Dowager opened her eyes.

"This tea?"

"Reporting to Empress Dowager, both the tea water and leaves were brought into the palace by Princess Ye today, claiming she brought them from her hometown. Seeing the quality of the leaves was high, I took the liberty of accepting it," said the female official, an old servant by Empress Dowager’s side familiar with her preferences.

"It’s good tea and the person is quite skillful," the Empress Dowager muttered contemplatively, gazing into the tea leaves in her cup.

Indeed, it was superior tea, even more refreshing than the palace’s tea, and the water was also delicately sweet.

"Why then, does the Empress Dowager allow Qiao Yun to take Princess Ye out? Qiao Yun is under the Noble Princess Consort’s service," the female official wondered, given the Empress Dowager knew that Noble Princess Consort Luo held a grudge against Princess Ye because of the Hong Residence.

"In the Imperial Palace, it’s either you die or I live. That child is clever, and it’s about time someone suppressed Luo’s arrogance," the Empress Dowager said, finishing her cup of tea with her gaze piercing and no longer showing her daytime frailty.

"Did you personally see Princess Ye enter the Empress’s Chaohua Palace?"

The beautiful Noble Princess Consort Luo was sitting on her couch, fiddling with a Jade Ruyi in her hand.

"The servant saw it clearly, but Noble Princess Consort, Princess Ye seems very favored by Empress Dowager. Today, Empress Dowager even gave her the token to enter the palace. If she dies, wouldn’t the Empress Dowager..." The young maid told Noble Princess Consort Luo everything about Empress Dowager keeping Princess Ye for a meal and her praises.

"I want the Empress Dowager to investigate. As long as that wench the Empress lives, I can’t ascend to her position. If she kills Empress Dowager’s person, how could Empress Dowager possibly spare her? Then, the entire harem will be mine," Noble Princess Consort Luo said, her enchanting face filled with a victor’s pleasure.

She seemed to envision herself clothed in a phoenix robe, reigning supreme.

Just as Noble Princess Consort Luo was enjoying the thought, the female official kneeling before her suddenly let out a horrific scream.

"Noble Princess Consort..." The maid named Qiao Yun suddenly collapsed and started convulsing on the ground. Her skin was festering, and blood and flesh poured out, leaving nothing but a stinking sludge within a breath’s time, leaving behind only her clothes and a pair of eyeballs.

"Ah!!"

Noble Princess Consort Luo was so frightened that her beautiful face turned pale, and she rolled off her couch, trembling incessantly.

"Princess Consort, Qiao Yun she..." Several palace maids who wanted to check on Qiao Yun’s death barely touched the foul water when their bodies began to fester and rot. In just moments, they had died cleanly just like Qiao Yun.

The palace of Noble Princess Consort Luo was instantly thrown into chaos.

A perfectly healthy person, how could she suddenly be gone?

"Princess Consort, Qiao Yun was poisoned." Close to Noble Princess Consort Luo, one of the more insightful palace maids carefully examined Qiao Yun’s corpse. "However, I can’t tell what kind of poison it is."

"This is bad luck, quickly throw their corpses out and clean this up. No one is allowed to speak of tonight’s event," Noble Princess Consort Luo, after taking a Calming Pill, finally caught her breath.

Noble Princess Consort Luo did not dare to make the death of Qiao Yun public, she suspected that the Empress Dowager might have secretly poisoned Qiao Yun, or maybe someone else did. But she never thought of Ye Lingyue.

Because she could never imagine that a fourteen-year-old young girl could possess such potent poison.

At this moment, Ye Lingyue had already entered Chaohua Palace, she calculated the time, almost up, the poison must have taken effect, and if she was not wrong, the poison smeared on the golden leaves must have already caused that palace maid to die of poison right in front of Noble Princess Consort Luo’s eyes.

One can imagine, Noble Princess Consort Luo is bound to have a sleepless night.

The poison on Qiao Yun was indeed from Ye Lingyue, on that piece of Golden Leaf, she smeared a new type of poison which she refined using Viper Eggs and Ice Crystal Grass. This poison, once it contacts the skin, will turn all the blood in the body into lethal poison within half an hour, leaving the person instantly reduced to bones.

If others do not provoke me, I will not provoke them. But if anyone offends me, they will not escape unscathed.

Ye Lingyue sneered and turned into a corridor. Ahead, it was pitch-black without any noise.

Ye Lingyue realized only after entering this palace that it was remarkably large, probably not much different from the Empress Dowager’s Bai Feng Palace.

However, in such a huge palace, there seems to be no sign of anyone; no palace maids, no guards, even the trees seemed as if they’d been lacking care for many years, entirely withered.

The entire palace was filled with a deadly silence, like a dark ghost waiting with its wide-opened mouth, ready to devour everything that entered.

Could this be the cold palace? Ye Lingyue wondered, but just then...

Poof—

In the air, a series of sharp and cold sounds resonated.

Dozens of cold arrows shot out from the dark, causing Ye Lingyue’s alarm bells to ring.

Almost instantly, the Blink Shield protected her vital areas.

Multiple figures whistled out, among them hidden golden strands of Yang Gang Yuan Power, it turned out that dozens of Innate Experts were ambushing in the dark.

Seeing that there was no escape, Ye Lingyue took a deep breath and as she mobilized her Primordial Power, her sleeves fluttered, only to see golden sparks flying in the darkness as dozens of cold arrows were either blocked by the Blink Shield or collided with Dragon Saliva Needles.

~Little Ling Yue: Yikes, it’s terrifying, someone is going to die again.

Reader Tribe: Roar! Destroy the scumbag concubine, scumbag father, and all the scum.

Little Ling Yue: Such murderous aura, you guys are intense.

Reader Tribe: Pretend, keep pretending.~

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