Yan Ruoying was so angry she wanted to curse. Didn't Pusheng say that the Tower of Faith in District 4 had been completely demolished and that the Queen wouldn't be able to return to the capital?
Not only did she return, but she also appeared directly in the palace. It's as if the heavens are against her!
The queen approached the three of them step by step. Pu Sheng couldn't figure out how she did it, so he could only find a silk scarf in his system backpack, roll it up, and quickly cover his eyes.
The Queen's eyes are related to Shekh; it would be troublesome if she were to turn to stone as well.
Ji Hui imitated his movements, retreating while searching for something to cover his eyes.
Yan Ruoying looked around and realized that all three of them couldn't see the road, so she simply grabbed one of them with each hand and led them to find their way.
"Follow me, all of you!"
The queen raised her hand, and the bluish-black corrosive liquid solidified into several sharp spikes that attacked the three of them.
Pu Sheng's wrist was gripped painfully, and he threw white talismans behind him. The white paper scattered everywhere looked like paper money being thrown, which made Yan Ruoying hallucinate that he was sending her off to her death.
A tightly sealed wall of talismans surrounded a rotating structure. Pu Sheng muttered incantations, but they only managed to block a few of the sharp spikes.
The protective wall formed by the talisman paper was completely corroded, but fortunately there was a layer of metal mesh inside, which bought them another second.
Ji Hui, blindfolded, threw the knife behind him with surprisingly high accuracy. Although it didn't hurt the Queen, it did cause her some harm.
Yan Ruoying stared at the dead end ahead, her mouth twitching, "Run faster, talisman dagger, quicker, faster!"
Her back was being melted by dark blue thorns, and pieces of skin were peeling off. She was panting and gasping for breath from the pain. Pu Sheng put a talisman on her, while Ji Hui slapped his arm hard and stuck a gold leaf on it.
The three women's backs, covered in sores, healed rapidly. The Queen walked quickly forward, and when she passed the bedchamber, she saw the ashes hidden in the bed frame, and her heart clenched suddenly.
Yan Ruoying jumped over the broken wall, and as soon as she landed, a pair of hands gripped her neck tightly, so hard that the nails dug into her flesh.
The three were thrown out of formation by the strange force and were stunned when they hit the ground.
A corner of a snakeskin, which Ji Hui hadn't had time to retract, peeked out from under his clothes. The Queen noticed the purple hue, grabbed his collar, and said in a chilling, sinister voice, "It's you..."
She ripped off the blindfold covering Ji Hui's eyes, moved her fingers to extract a bluish-black corrosive liquid, and then dug into his eyes.
"Ji Hui!"
While Pusheng was still in his hand, the queen on the other end had already pinched an eyeball between her fingertips.
She turned back, leaving the trembling, aching Ji Hui behind, and walked towards Pu Sheng. "Why did you cover your eyes when you saw me? Do you know something? Have you seen that person before? What's your relationship with her? Tell me, did she send you here?"
The way she asked the questions made her seem like a mental patient on the verge of going insane, which terrified Pu Sheng.
His talisman was corroded by the Queen. She seemed particularly enthusiastic about gouging out eyes. She moved her fingers again and went straight for Pu Sheng's eyes. She was so fast that she couldn't be stopped.
The ground was pitted and corroded, and four eyeballs rolled down in front of Yan Ruoying.
She stepped back and inadvertently caught a glimpse of a faint golden light emanating from the gaps in Ji Hui's hands that were covering his eyes.
When the Queen came before her, Yan Ruoying couldn't look directly into those oppressive purple eyes.
She bit her lip, Pu Sheng was writhing on the ground in pain, while Ji Hui was already recovering and could even throw a knife while blindfolded...
Just as the Queen's fingertip was poking at her, Yan Ruoying tossed the gold leaf in her hand to Ji Hui, who was recovering faster.
The red fingernail appeared in front of her in the blink of an eye, and Yan Ruoying reflexively closed her eyes.
Just then, the Queen's movements suddenly stopped.
Noticing the hand gripping her chin loosen its hold, Yan Ruoying drew her gun and pulled the trigger. At the same time, Ji Hui, whose left eye had fully grown, used his control skill to create fourteen daggers that formed a prison that descended from the sky, enveloping the queen.
The two ran towards Pusheng, grabbed his shoulders, and ran desperately toward the maze.
"...Your eyes."
Ji Hui was covered in cold sweat: "One."
"The leaf... is for you."
Pu Sheng fumbled and slipped the gold leaf into Ji Hui's palm. "That corrosive liquid... consumes a lot of life force."
Shi Jinzhe is not a stingy person. Since he gave her the gold leaf, it wouldn't just be for treating minor injuries. The gold leaf is meant to save their lives. The life force in a single gold leaf would definitely not be difficult to restore even one eye.
"Shekh also possesses corrosive abilities, but her corrosive liquid is blackish-gold and appears more refined, while the Queen's..."
"The Queen uses it as if it's free."
Yan Ruoying saw it clearly: "The ground is covered in corrosive liquid. She had to extract a handful of it just to gouge out an eye. I think the Queen can't really control these things, so she can only pile them up. Your eye sockets are filled with this stuff. Before Yezi's eyeballs can recover, she has to protect her brain, so of course the consumption is huge."
The Queen broke through the metal cage behind them and gave chase, but her movements stalled several times, allowing the three of them to run into the maze.
The gold leaf and the snake molt were both in Ji Hui's hands. As soon as he placed them on the base of the black statue, a white halo immediately appeared.
"I've got it!" Ji Hui slung Pu Sheng over his shoulder and jumped into the white circle. "Let's go!"
Yan Ruoying was half a step behind, still missing half a foot, when suddenly someone grabbed her hair from behind.
The queen's eyes glowed purple, and dark blue liquid dripped continuously from her clothes. She moved her hand, which was gripping the back of Yan Ruoying's neck, forward, her fingers curled, and reached for Yan Ruoying's heart.
But the next second, her movements stopped again.
Pusheng and Ji Hui seized the opportunity to pull Yan Ruoying into the white circle. In the blink of an eye, the white circle disappeared, leaving the Queen alone in the same spot.
She covered her eyes with one hand, and the purple light around the outer edge of her pupils flickered before finally fading away.
When she looked up again, the Queen's purple eyes revealed a slight blue tinge.
"You really came back..."
...
Beneath the overlapping white cones, where Shekh and Shijinzhe had just sat, appeared a group of petrified guards.
Shekh flicked his snake tail, cleared away the obstacles, and glanced at the broken human figures on the ground—it was the couple.
They betrayed Shekh in exchange for the city's guards hunting him down.
Having been subjected to multiple petrification attacks, Shekh felt a stinging pain in her eyes. It was as if a nerve in the center of her pupil was being forcefully pulled from the other end, causing throbbing pain in waves.
Shi Jinzhe tried his best to alleviate her discomfort. He said, "Those people use you as an excuse because they can't get what they want. You didn't make them fight or make them sacrifice. What gods or anything? You shouldn't be falsely accused like this."
“But I have received the power of faith,” Shekh said. “It came from the princess.”
"Then you should return it to her."
Shi Jin turned her head and made Shekh look at the white wall protecting the city. "This is your power. You have given her country the most stringent protection. Without this wall, she would have wiped out all her people."
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