Fuyao frowned and said, "Why does she keep saying sorry to you? Did something happen?"

Sanlang spoke, but his question was one step closer than what he asked, saying: "Ke Mo said that Ban Yue State Master went to the Central Plains after a riot. Does this riot have anything to do with you?"

After he reminded him and recalled the contents of the stone tablet, Xie Lian vaguely remembered something and said, “This…”

Ban Yue fell to the ground and said, "It was to save me."

Everyone looked at her, and she whispered, "General Hua rushed in to save me, and was crushed."

“…”

Hearing her say “squashed”, Xie Lian instantly recalled the feeling of being trampled by a thousand or a hundred people. The other two also stared at him with mysterious expressions. He quickly stopped talking and said, “No, he wasn’t flattened. He really wasn’t flattened.”

Fuyao didn't know what she was unhappy about, she said sarcastically: "Oh, you really put yourself aside for others."

Xie Lian immediately waved his hands and said, “I don’t deserve it. That’s totally not the case.” He rubbed his temple and said, “I don’t remember the details very clearly. It seems that there were a few children playing at the time. I just wanted to pick them up and run away immediately. Who knew that I didn’t have time to retreat, and when I turned around, I ran into the two sides fighting.”

Fuyao asked, "If that's the case, how could you not even remember something like this?"

Xie Lian was speechless for a moment, then said, “Don’t you see that I’m already hundreds of years old? I can encounter a lot of things in ten years, and it’s impossible for me to remember everything clearly. Besides, it’s better to forget many things. Instead of remembering that I was chopped and stepped on hundreds of times hundreds of years ago, it’s better to remember that I ate a delicious meat bun yesterday, isn’t it?”

Ban Yue said, "I'm sorry. It's all my fault."

Xie Lian turned around, sighed, and said, “Half a month.”

He didn't know what tone to use to talk to the girl. After considering for a moment, he slowly said, "If you want to say sorry to me because of this, it's totally unnecessary. Saving you was my own choice. You did nothing wrong. If you want to say sorry, maybe you should say it to someone else."

Half Moon was silent.

Xie Lian said, “I don’t know why you opened the gate and led the army to slaughter the city, and I don’t know why you let the scorpion snake out to bite people. But…”

After a pause, he said, "But maybe my impression of you is still stuck in two hundred years ago. I always feel that you are not a child who would do such a thing. So, are you willing to tell me what happened?"

After hearing this, Banyue kowtowed to him several times and finally stood up from the ground.

Tears rolled down her eyes as she said, "It was my fault for opening the door. But, General Hua, I didn't release the snake on purpose."

Xie Lian was startled and asked, “What?”

Ban Yue said: "My magic power is weak, and the snake doesn't listen to me anymore."

Hearing this, Fuyao showed an expression of impatience, rolled his eyes, and said, "I've heard this many times. Who wouldn't say this after being arrested? Even if you say it wasn't intentional, it's useless."

Ban Yue quickly wiped her face, wiped away the tears, and said, "It's true, General Hua. I didn't lie. But those who passed the checkpoint were indeed bitten by the scorpion-tailed snake. It's still my fault. You can arrest me."

As expected, she stretched out her hands, ready to be executed. Fuyao immediately threw out a rope from her sleeves, tied her and Ke Mo up, and said, "Okay, the purpose of this trip has been achieved, we can end it now."

Xie Lian felt that it might not be over yet, so he lowered his head to think. At this time, San Lang said, "She didn't have to lie."

Xie Lian nodded, agreeing with him, and said to Ban Yue, “Are you completely unable to summon the Scorpion Snake now?”

Ban Yue shook her head and said, "I can summon them. Most of the time they listen to me, but sometimes they don't. I don't know why."

Xie Lian thought for a moment and said, “Call the snake out and show it to us.”

Ban Yue finally stood up and nodded. Not long after, a purple-red scorpion snake swam out from under a corpse, raised its upper body, coiled on the pile of corpses, and silently spat at everyone.

Xie Lian was about to take a closer look at the snake, but he saw Ban Yue slightly widen his eyes, with a strange look on his face. Seeing this, Xie Lian's heart sank, and he thought to himself, "That's not right."

Sure enough, after the scorpion-tailed snake spit out its tongue, it suddenly opened its teeth and leapt towards him!

Although the snake's attack was sudden, Xie Lian was prepared and saw it clearly. He was about to grab it, but before he could touch it, he heard a "bang", like the sound of something exploding. Looking closely, the snake had fallen to the ground limply, exploding from head to toe, from the inside out, and the explosion was very measured, without any venom splashing out. Xie Lian immediately remembered that before entering the Half Moon Kingdom, a scorpion-tailed snake also died in this way. It was self-evident who did it. Before he raised his eyes to look at Sanlang, he saw an arrow sleeve connected to a red robe stretched out, blocking him and separating him from the Half Moon. And Fuyao over there said coldly: "Sure enough, she lied to you."

Ban Yue's face was already bad when he saw the snake. Hearing this, he raised his head and said, "I didn't. I told you that some people don't listen to me, and that one just now is one of them."

Fuyao didn't believe it at all, and said, "Who knows whether he listened to you or not?"

Ban Yue said: "I didn't summon it at all."

Just as Xie Lian was about to speak, he saw two more deep purple scorpion-tailed snakes crawling out from under the corpses, spitting their tongues at them in a show of force. Then, the third, fourth, fifth... countless scorpion-tailed snakes swam out from every corner of the mountain of corpses!

Everyone looked at Banyue who was kneeling on the pile of corpses. Fuyao circulated a ball of white light in her hand and said to Banyue, "Let them retreat. It's impossible that they all won't listen to you."

Ban Yue closed her eyes and chanted a spell, as if trying to find a way to drive them away. However, more scorpion-tailed snakes continued to appear, tumbling and entangled, slowly approaching. Even if one or two snakes could not bite them to death, it would be hard to say if there were hundreds or thousands of them. Even if they could not bite them to death, it would probably be very ugly. Xie Lian raised his wrist and was about to summon Ruo Xie, but saw that the snakes stopped when they were still a few feet away from them, hesitating and forming a weird encirclement. Xie Lian suddenly realized and looked up at San Lang beside him. He was looking down at these scorpion-tailed snakes with contempt in his eyes. The scorpion-tailed snakes seemed to understand his gaze and did not dare to approach. They retreated a little, lowering their heads as they retreated, and put their ferocious snake heads on the ground, looking like they were submissive. However, it seemed that some force was driving them, not allowing them to give up the attack and leave directly, so many scorpion-tailed snakes turned around and swam towards Fuyao. Fuyao waved his hand casually, and flames burst out from his sleeves, burning one circle to death and forcing another circle back. However, this could not last long, and Xie Lian said, "Let's go up first and leave here first."

Hearing the sound, Ruo Xie leaped upwards with a whoosh. Unexpectedly, not long after, it slid back with a whoosh. Xie Lian was slightly stunned, raised his wrist, and said to the rolled up white silk: "Why did you come back? The formation has been set, hurry up and go."

Ruo Xie was trembling on his wrist, as if it had encountered something terrible. Xie Lian was about to comfort it, when something fell down and hit Fu Yao's shoulder with a "snap". Fu Yao grabbed it, and his expression changed drastically. He raised his hand in front of him and saw that the thing that fell from the sky was also a scorpion-tailed snake!

Fuyao was caught off guard and was bitten. She threw the snake at Banyue's face. Banyue's hands were tied, but she subconsciously raised her hands to grab it. She caught it right away. The purple-red snake wrapped around her pale wrist and did not attack. At this time, there was another "snap" sound, and the second scorpion-tailed snake fell to the ground!

Xie Lian probably guessed why Ruo Xie refused to go up.

He raised his head, and with the help of moonlight, he could barely see the scene. Hundreds of tiny purple dots were falling rapidly from above the sinners' pit.

Snake rain!

Seeing those purple dots getting closer and closer, Xie Lian said, “Fuyao! Fire! Send up a screen of fire and finish them off in mid-air!”

Fuyao bit her palm and waved her hand. A drop of blood flew upwards and turned into a blazing flame barrier, which flew upwards at a rapid speed. The fire barrier rose dozens of feet high and burned in the air. Any scorpion-tailed snakes that touched it were instantly burned to ashes, intercepting the rain of falling snakes.

Seeing that he was out of danger for the time being, Xie Lian breathed a sigh of relief and said, “Good! Fuyao, it’s all thanks to you.”

This kind of spell must consume a lot of mana. After casting it, Fuyao's face turned a little blue. He turned around and set a circle of fire on the ground to burn away the snakes below. He said to Banyue: "You still say these snakes don't listen to you? If you are not controlling them, how can these scorpion-tailed snakes not attack you?"

Saburo smiled and said, "Maybe it's just because you're unlucky? It didn't attack us either."

Fuyao turned around and glanced at the two of them fiercely. Xie Lian had a bad feeling in his heart, but because he had a clue in his mind, he didn't have time to sort it out. He didn't want to see them fight first, so he said, "Let's first figure out what's going on with these snakes."

Fuyao sneered, "What's going on? Either this Banyue Imperial Master is lying, or the one next to you is playing tricks."

Xie Lian glanced at Ban Yue, then at San Lang, and said, “I think it’s probably not them.”

Although his tone was gentle, he was very resolute. This was the conclusion he came to after thinking about it. However, Fuyao must have felt that he was deliberately covering up for her. The firelight made his face look particularly unfriendly, and it was unclear whether he was angry or smiling.

He said, "Your Highness, don't pretend to be ignorant. I think you should have known what that thing next to you is. I don't believe you haven't noticed it yet!"