Zuan rubbed his forehead. Even if the Dragon King liked the Mermaid Queen, he wouldn't show such a perverted side in front of his subordinates.

"The Mermaid Queen is the most beautiful!"

How could this female assassin believe such an outrageous password?

The mermaid queen was already extremely ashamed and embarrassed when she uttered the command, but the reaction of the guards opposite her was also unexpected.

She was, after all, a renowned powerhouse among the sea creatures, and she immediately reacted, forming a hand seal that seemed to freeze the surrounding water instantly.

The guards' shrill warnings only existed within this small space and did not spread outwards at all.

The mermaid queen swayed her hips, her entire body sliding in an extremely graceful arc, and her fingers touched the guards directly.

The guards froze, their weapons falling to the ground.

However, after the previous assassination attempt, the Dragon King was worried about another mishap, so he sent only the elite of his guards to this location.

The whole thing happened so suddenly that the mermaid queen almost didn't have time to react.

It was already quite impressive that she could instantly solidify a wall of water around herself and subdue most of the guards.

In that short time, she could only control most of them. Two guards, seeing that things were not going well, hurriedly ran out, and the direction they ran was the same as where that foolish guard was.

The mermaid queen felt a chill in her heart. There were no foolish guards; the fool was clearly herself.

They actually believed such outrageous nonsense. The other party must have taken this opportunity to cooperate with the two escaped guards to notify the other guards in the Four Directions Hall.

Once surrounded, even if she were the mermaid queen, her chances of survival would be slim.

It will also bring annihilation to the mermaid race.

Just then, the foolish guard actually made a move... no, he kicked out, subtly extending his right foot to block the foot of a nearby fleeing guard.

Caught off guard, the guard tripped and fell flat on his face.

The other guard, both shocked and enraged, brandished his weapon and attacked Zu'an.

Zuan instinctively brandished his sword to block, but his sword was knocked away in the first exchange.

This is the difference between elite guards and slacker guards!

"Help, heroine!" Zu'an cried out in horror as his weapon slipped from his grasp. He scrambled and rolled around in a disheveled state, trying to dodge the opponent's fierce attacks.

As luck would have it, while dodging an attack from a guard, he stumbled and fell to the ground, landing squarely on the waist of another guard who was just getting up.

The guard's face immediately contorted with pain.

But that wasn't the end of it. While the opponent was desperately trying to dodge the attacks, they would either accidentally step on his hand or accidentally kick him in the head.

So much so that the guard was interrupted several times when he tried to get up to help.

The mermaid queen reacted quickly, darting over and subduing the two escaped guards in the blink of an eye.

"Whoosh~"

Zuan, his hands on his knees, hunched over and panting heavily, said, "Thank you for saving me, heroine!"

The mermaid queen looked at him with a hint of suspicion. Although he had been badly slashed, he had managed to dodge every fatal blow and had even kept another guard from getting up.

Is this silly kid pretending to be weak while actually being strong?

Thinking of this, her expression turned cold, and a sword appeared in her hand, which she thrust directly at the other person's throat. The speed was so fast that no one had time to react.

Zuan seemed to be stunned, staring blankly at her without knowing how to avoid her.

Finally, the sword stopped half an inch from his throat. The mermaid queen secretly breathed a sigh of relief. That sword strike came without any warning and was aimed directly at the opponent's life. If the opponent had truly been hiding his true strength, the instincts of a cultivator would have made him instinctively dodge.

The other party seems to be completely stunned and can't seem to react.

"Heroine... what are you doing?" Zu An chuckled inwardly. Previously, Yan Xuehen had taught him the Supreme Forgetfulness Technique, which not only allowed him to perfectly conceal his aura and killing intent, but also made him extremely sensitive to the killing intent of his enemies.

Although the opponent's move seemed fierce, it actually had no killing intent whatsoever; it was probably a deliberate test.

"You lied to me!" The mermaid queen's beautiful eyes were filled with coldness.

"I'm innocent! How could I dare to lie to a female knight?" Zu An explained instinctively.

"Hehe, what's with that 'The Mermaid Queen is the most beautiful' command?" Even though the matter was over, the Mermaid Queen was so embarrassed by the thought of how she had confidently boasted in front of the guards that she almost dug a dragon palace out of the ground with her feet.

It's incredibly difficult for a mermaid to develop legs, but right now she's just thinking that she doesn't need them anyway.

Zuan suppressed a laugh, but he had already come up with a plan: "Mainly because I was just held hostage by the heroine, I was worried that if I became useless, she would kill me to silence me, so... so..."

"So that's why you made up a password?" The Mermaid Queen was so angry that her teeth itched. The key point was that she had actually believed this absurd nonsense.

Zu An hurriedly waved his hand and said, "It's not made up. I'm the outermost guard and I don't know the password inside. But I often hear them say this when they meet, so I figured it was probably the password. I didn't expect I was wrong."

Seeing the cautious look in the other person's eyes, the mermaid queen couldn't vent her anger.

These guards are really boring, talking about me like that behind my back.

At this moment, Zuan looked at her expression and asked curiously, "Heroine, you are a very capable person. You must have seen that mermaid queen. Is she really as beautiful as the legend says?"

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