Surprise! The villain is my brother, stay calm!

However, Steward Yu claimed that he was too old to travel long distances, so he insisted on staying at the mausoleum to guard the old duke's tomb. Lu Zhanxing had no choice but to agree.

Lu Zhanyan and Mu Qingli were sitting in a carriage, but Lu Zhanxing refused to ride in the same carriage with them or Su Xianye. Instead, he lay comfortably in his own carriage, with Liu Xu and Xiu Lan serving him. As for Yu Lu, she was arranged to help Lu Tong.

Yu Lu felt that Lu Tong was not ugly and was a servant of the young master, so his future was naturally bright. It was better for her to be with him than to be abandoned in the farm like Ting Xue, so she nodded and agreed.

The two of them passed by Lu Zhanxing and set up two tables of food to treat their own people to a meal. Lu Zhanxing and Su Xianye both gave the couple a lot of things as gifts.

Now it is a good arrangement for Lu Tong and Yu Lu to stay in the manor to look after the goods supplied to Paradise.

Su Xianye had her own carriage, with Luzhu and Hongmei serving her, while Lu Jin had his own carriage.

The last one is for storing things.

Everything was kept simple on this trip. The carriages were luxurious inside but ordinary outside. The two Huali sisters and Bai Jing followed on horseback, with about a hundred guards, but no one was aware of what was going on in secret.

Lu Zhanyan discussed things in the carriage: "Now that Emperor Qian is in a coma and won't wake up soon, and the two princes are fighting, I'm afraid the civil strife won't be stopped so easily. Mr. Mu, when do you think it would be more appropriate for our Lu family to attack?"

Hearing this, Mu Qingli wanted to end the battle quickly, but it was not possible. Even if she was in a hurry, she could not drag the Lu family into the abyss. Although they might not lose if they took action now, she was afraid that if the three princes joined forces to deal with Lu Zhanyan, it would be more trouble than gain.

It would be better to wait until the two sides decide the winner before taking action.

"Don't be impatient, my lord. Let them fight first. When one lion wins, we can kill him while he's still weak."

Lu Zhanyan chuckled: "Mr. Mu is right."

Then he looked at Mu Qingli: "I heard that your Mu family is moving recently."

Since he knew about Mu Qingli's situation, he naturally sent people to keep an eye on his clansmen.

Mu Qingli was startled at first, then sighed: "The person who competed with me for the position of power has taken a step ahead of me. He is already the State Master of Qi. I am afraid it is too late."

"Why do you say that, sir? It won't take us long to accomplish our goal. If we succeed, I will not treat you unfairly." Just now he knew that Mu Qingli would not let him act rashly for his own selfish reasons, which showed that he was not a selfish person, so he was trustworthy.

Mu Qingli shook his head: "If the tribesmen are willing to follow them to the territory of Qi, it proves that they have chosen him, and I... I have the Tongsheng Gu planted by the high priest. Even if I don't go back, I will die."

"What?" Lu Zhanyan was shocked: "Isn't this a forbidden technique?"

Ever since he knew Mu Qingli's identity, he went to look up the deeds of the Mu family. It was rumored that thousands of years ago, the Wu family controlled the world with poison, and everyone bowed to them, but they were not truly submissive, most of them were just controlled.

Those who were controlled were unwilling to accept this, so they secretly gathered together to plan a resistance and found a way to temporarily put the poison in their bodies to sleep. Because the Mu family was brutal and cruel, they would poison you if they didn't like you, making your life a living hell, so they would not compromise.

After years of fighting, the Wu clan finally couldn't withstand the human wave tactics. After all, their poison was limited. Later they were forced to survive in a forest, which was also listed as a restricted area for the world, called the Misty Forest.

At the same time, the Wu clan was designated as a taboo, and the new emperor issued an order to kill all the Wu clan members on sight, and absolutely not to collude with these witches and harm the people.

In order to avoid being hunted down, the patriarch of the Wu clan changed his surname to Mu and settled down in the misty forest.

There are many poisonous barriers there, the environment is humid, and there are many poisonous insects in the woods. Most of them are extremely poisonous and anyone who enters will die.

Unless there is a local leading the way.

The Mu family also felt that it was becoming increasingly difficult to survive in this kind of place, and most of them would not live long enough to stay there. Later, the clan leader decided to let the young people go out to the outside world to find a way out for the Mu family. However, over the past hundreds of years, most of the people who went out never came back, and some even took their families away.

The number of tribe members is decreasing, less than 100,000.

After that, the clan leader proposed the position of the Holy Son. Whoever went out to find a more suitable place for the clan members to live would be the Holy Son and could lead the entire clan.

However, after several years, the young people who went out saw the vastness of the outside world and no longer wanted to stay in that place full of damp and poisonous gas. They got married and had children under unknown names, which made the high priest very angry.

Later, as a last resort, the clan leader selected the most capable and intelligent wise men in the clan to go out, and the high priest gave the two future saints a heart-to-heart poison. That kind of heart-to-heart poison was very shocking and extremely vicious. There was no antidote. Once one of the heart-to-heart poisoners died, the other would die as well.

Then Mu Qingli...

"Although it is forbidden, I have to use it for the sake of my tribe members. It's just that this time I use it on my own people, and I had no choice at the time." Thinking of the days in the tribe, he was in great pain, and a trace of hatred flashed in his eyes.

No one could imagine the scene of more than a hundred young people being left in a poisonous forest to fend for themselves. In order to survive, he had to fight.

In order to survive, they did everything. They fought wits and courage in the forest. They not only had to guard against people, but also against poisonous gas and poisonous insects. Only two people survived out of a hundred, and he was one of them.

The two were chosen by the high priest as half-holy sons. They thought they would go out to find a way out and also bring honor to their grandfather, the clan leader.

After all, although grandpa is the patriarch, he has never had much say in the clan, and the high priest has the final say.

Mu Qingli and the others were poisoned by the Heart-Shaping Gu, and the Gu's mother was in the hands of the high priest, so their fate was already controlled by it.

If the winner is found, the high priest will let another Gu mother be put into the mouth of his daughter. As long as the Holy Son and the future priest are united, the Gu worm will fall into a deep sleep until the end of the person's life. Then the Gu worm will break out of the body by itself and be handed over to the next generation.

If they lose, they will be sacrificed by the high priest to the poisonous insects they raise to become nutrients. It is said that the losers have no right to live, so they might as well dedicate themselves to the poisonous god and emit their remaining heat.

Even if Mu Qingli is capable, both of them are half-saint sons, so one of them has to disappear. Otherwise, the status of the saint son will be unstable, and there is also fear of turmoil within the clan. The best way is naturally to keep only one.

Why not let Mu Qingli go out and explore on her own?

The high priest hated those who betrayed the Mu clan. He thought that in the past, their Wu clan was also glorious, but because those people were jealous of their abilities, they deliberately said that poison was a forbidden technique.

The tribe gave them ten years to venture out into the world. Whoever found a place for the tribe to survive first would win.

It has only been three years and that person has achieved it. It shows that his wisdom is also extraordinary, while I am still a step behind him.

I thought there was no need to rush and I could take it slow, but unfortunately I followed the wrong master. Later, I transferred to Lu Zhanyan. I thought that when Lu Zhanyan was in a high position, it would not be impossible for him to help me apply for a piece of Feng Shui treasure land.

Who knew that Lu Zhanyan would have to take an even more difficult road. He thought that he could afford to waste a few years, but who knew that the outcome would be unpredictable.

The main reason is that Lu Zhanyan is not a prince. If he were a prince, he would always ascend the throne as long as other princes died, so it would be easy.

However, Lu Zhanyan is a traitor and a traitor, which makes it even more difficult...

If he didn't have the Tongxin Gu, he really didn't want to go back. He really wanted to stay with his beloved, but unfortunately, this was a luxury...