The man in black stared at her fiercely with his only remaining eye, spewing out evil words: "Want to get information from me? Dream on! Little bitch, I wonder how long you can be so proud!"

Feng Qiongzhu was unmoved and said calmly: "You can pass through the bamboo forest full of formations and come here safely. Your identity must be extraordinary. I guess you should be someone of the current emperor, right?"

The man in black's fingers trembled slightly, but his face remained indifferent. He lowered his head and breathed heavily.

Feng Qiongzhu continued, "Did I guess it right? Then let me guess again. I heard that the princess of the previous dynasty had an army of 20,000, but nearly half of them were instigated to rebel, leading to the fall of the previous dynasty. As someone close to the emperor, you should know the secrets behind this, right?"

The man in black coughed violently and looked at Feng Qiongzhu in disbelief.

He didn't understand how this young girl could know such a confidential matter.

His eyes were fixed on Feng Qiongzhu's face, and he seemed to see something familiar in it.

"You...you look a bit like someone...who are you?" asked the man in black puzzledly.

Feng Qiongzhu sneered and said, "Since you asked me who I am, I will tell you another secret."

As she spoke, she stabbed the black-clad man's lower body with the dagger in her hand.

"Ah..." The man in black let out a heart-wrenching scream, but Feng Qiongzhu pulled out the dagger without mercy.

The man in black almost fainted from the pain, but he still refused to give in.

Feng Qiongzhu said coldly: "Since you are the emperor's confidant, you should know that your master is a eunuch, right?"

An Qing was terrified watching from the side. He couldn't help swallowing his saliva and subconsciously clamped his legs together. It was so scary and frightening...

Seeing this, the guards around secretly warned themselves to keep their distance from her in the future to avoid unnecessary trouble.

At this time, the man in black was rolling on the ground in pain, uttering incoherent curses, trying to vent his inner anger and pain.

However, Feng Qiongzhu did not give him any chance. She quickly raised the dagger in her hand and stabbed the man in black in the abdomen.

Then, she expertly twisted the handle of the knife, causing the dagger to cause even greater pain inside the man in black's body.

The man in black cursed loudly: "Ah...you vicious little bitch, you'd better give me a quick death, otherwise I will never let you go!"

Feng Qiongzhu just smiled sweetly, as if all this had nothing to do with her.

She said casually, "Don't worry, I'm more skilled at skinning. Do you want to give it a try?"

Hearing this, the man in black's legs trembled and his face turned even paler.

He didn't expect that this seemingly weak and harmless girl could be so cruel.

He trembled all over and said, "Whatever the girl wants to know, I will tell you, I just ask you to give me a quick death..."

At this point, he had completely lost the courage to resist and could only hope for Feng Qiongzhu's mercy.

Feng Qiongzhu said to the guards behind her with a cold and ruthless aura, "Everyone, leave. I have something to ask him alone."

An Qing hesitated for a moment and asked with concern: "Girl, what about your safety?"

Feng Qiongzhu waved her hand and said, "Don't worry, he is just a pile of mud now and can't do anything to me. You guys go out."

The guards respectfully left the secret room.

Feng Qiongzhu looked back at the dying man in black lying on the ground.

He asked, "Are you one of the former princess's betraying secret guards?"

The man in black replied weakly and slowly: "Yes."

Feng Qiongzhu continued to ask: "How many of you are still alive?"

The man in black remained silent for a long time, unwilling to speak.

The dagger in Feng Qiongzhu's hand shook slightly, and the man in black was terrified and deflated.

"You... don't do anything. I'll tell you everything." The man in black said in a trembling voice, "Our group lost three to four thousand people in the battle in the palace. Later, we dealt with some dirty things for the emperor and lost more people. Now there are less than four thousand left."

Feng Qiongzhu asked again: "How many of you know about this Taoist temple?"

The man in black replied, "Many people know about this Taoist temple. The princess built this place to serve as a secret base for the secret guards."

"After the incident, the princess planned to take all the royal family members to escape to this place, but she failed in the end. She was rebelled by these secret guards. However, half of them still swore to protect the princess to the death and escaped." The man in black continued.

Feng Qiongzhu heard this and asked in confusion: "Since most of the people you betrayed knew the location of this Taoist temple, and you are the emperor's men, why didn't he send people to besiege this place?"

The man in black explained, "When we were sent here to build this Taoist temple, we were all blindfolded the whole way here. With the influence of the formation, we couldn't tell the direction from real to fake, and we didn't know what was real and what was fake. Even if we knew there was such a Taoist temple, we didn't know which mountain it was on. Even if we finally knew the location of the mountain, it would be difficult to break through the formation here, and we couldn't get in at all."

"I discovered you by accident. I followed the marks in the bamboo forest and came in." The man in black added.

Feng Qiongzhu was immediately furious when she heard that it was the mark that was used to follow her.

She needed to make some changes and use more subtle marks from now on.

It seems that the injury on the shoulder was not in vain, it was caused by my own carelessness.

The man in black asked in a discontinuous and unwilling voice, "Who... who are you? You... you look very familiar to me..."

Feng Qiongzhu looked at him, still concerned about this question with her last breath, and thought that she should satisfy his curiosity.

So, he squatted down and said in a voice that only the two of them could hear: "Your prince consort is my father."

The man in black widened his only remaining eye, too shocked to speak.

Feng Qiongzhu threw away the dagger in her hand and walked out of the secret room with an expressionless face.

An Qing was confused when he saw her come out. He didn't know what Feng Qiongzhu asked in there. He only heard screams, which became more and more frightening.

He stared at Feng Qiongzhu's back with a sad face, thinking that this girl was really cruel. How would the prince live in the future...

Suddenly, Feng Qiongzhu turned around and found An Qing staring at her.

She frowned and said, "Why are you looking at me? Go in and deal with the body."

He widened his eyes and exclaimed, "Dead...dead?"

An Qing hurried to the secret room, his mind full of doubts. How come he was killed by the girl before he could even ask for any useful clues?

Feng Qiongzhu's face was gloomy and she was in a very bad mood.

From the man in black, she learned that there were many people who knew about this Taoist temple.

It was just because of the confidentiality measures and the concealment of the formation back then that they did not discover this place.

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