By the time Xiao Mo carried Qin Siyao out of the forest on his back, it was already early afternoon.
The hunting ceremony had just ended, and the other imperial relatives were emerging from the Imperial Hunting Forest one after another.
Seeing his daughter being carried out by Xiao Mo, the Qin Kingdom's Lord knew something must have happened and hurried over.
"Si Yao, what happened?" Empress Shi asked her daughter, anxiety in her eyes.
"Father Emperor, Mother Queen, Xiao Mo and I ran into a Moon Wolf. Then I fell and couldn't walk." At the sight of her parents, all the hurt Qin Siyao had been holding back came pouring out.
"Imperial physician!" the Qin Kingdom's Lord called to the medical cultivator accompanying them.
In fact, there was no need for his command. The medical cultivator had already noticed something wrong with the princess's foot and hurried forward to treat her.
The female medical cultivator pressed her hand against Qin Siyao's ankle, and a faint light shone.
Soon, Qin Siyao felt no pain at all in her little foot. She even gave a few happy hops.
"I failed to protect the princess. Please punish me, Your Majesty." Xiao Mo cupped his fist and voluntarily admitted his fault.
Before the Qin Kingdom's Lord could speak, Qin Siyao stepped in front of Xiao Mo and said:
"Father Emperor, it wasn't Xiao Mo's fault. If not for him, that wolf would've eaten me! Xiao Mo beat that Moon Wolf to death all by himself and saved me."
Looking at Xiao Mo's fists, stained with filthy blood and scraped raw, the Qin Kingdom's Lord suppressed his surprise and asked, "You killed a Moon Wolf by yourself?"
"Your Majesty, that Moon Wolf was old and weak. That was the only reason I succeeded," Xiao