"High Lord, spare my life! High Lord, spare my life! This old woman did not recognize Your Excellency and has slighted you. I beg the High Lord to forgive my offense!"
The old woman bound by Gu Cheng wore a terrified expression, afraid that Gu Cheng would kill her the next instant.
"As long as the High Lord spares my life, this old woman is willing to give up everything."
Gu Xingzhi's meaningful gaze swept over the old woman's entire body, and a strange smile appeared on his face.
"Oh? Are you truly willing to give up everything?"
The old woman immediately nodded.
Compared to her life and livelihood, everything else was merely an external possession.
Without her life, she would have nothing. She did not want her cultivation through endless years to become nothing but a bubble.
Gu Xingzhi's gaze stopped at the old woman's abdomen and did not move for a long while.
"Then hand it over!"
The old woman froze and gave a hesitant, bitter smile. "This..."
"Hm? Weren't you willing to give up everything?" Gu Cheng frowned, his expression suddenly turning stern.
The old woman shuddered, let out a breath, and agreed with a helpless look.
Gu Xingzhi did not hesitate either. With a wave of his hand, he released her from her restraints.
With an unwilling expression, the old woman formed seals and cast a spell, separating the object in her abdomen from her body.
For a time, the old woman screamed without end, her face twisted in agony as sweat poured down like rain.
Her originally Crane-haired Childlike Face appearance began to wrinkle, and she rapidly aged.
When the screams stopped and the object had been removed from her abdomen, she had become old and muddled, hideous beyond compare.
She did not even have