When Xiao Yan left the Heavenly Scorpion Tomb Mansion, those people were still blockading it outside. He looked at the tunnel he had dug himself and felt that this really was a little underhanded, so he poured a great deal of poisonous mist into it. The mist flowed along the tunnel into the tomb mansion, turning its interior into a forbidden zone where nothing could survive.
This could count as a little gift he had left for everyone else. He was sure that once the others from the Chu Yun Empire found a way through the outer layer of poisonous mist, they would get to enjoy his gift. By then, however, Xiao Yan would have long since disappeared to who knew where.
By coincidence, though, the tunnel Xiao Yan dug this time happened to emerge near the Ten Thousand Scorpion Sect, indirectly lending further weight to the claim that its disciples had entered the Heavenly Scorpion Tomb Mansion...
After settling matters with the Ten Thousand Scorpion Sect, Xiao Yan immediately sought out Ye Xiaolian. He gave her the pills he had promised before turning to leave. Given his temperament, those pills were naturally anything but ordinary. He had added some special ingredients to all of them. If Ye Xiaolian tried any tricks later, those little extras would be enough to make the entire army she had painstakingly raised drop dead.
As for the Ten Thousand Scorpion Sect, he had made some arrangements there too. This mighty power within the Chu Yun Empire was now so overwhelmed by the affair of the Heavenly Scorpion Tomb Mansion that it naturally had no attention to spare for the Chu Yun Imperial Family. By the time those fellows came to their senses, they would surely discover that the imperial family they had once been