Chapter 524: Imprisonment
After some commotion, it was already morning. Before Saintess Qiue could rest much longer, she and Cha Nai Xue received a transmission from Oberon.
[Three Saintesses, please gather at the Main Hall for urgent matters.]
Under the multiple shackles, Xia Feng was no longer afraid of Saintess Qiue causing trouble. He let her go, and at the same time, he wanted to see the progress of Oberon’s investigation. However, to be honest, with two Saintesses covering for her, Oberon would never find Miss Mu. He and Miss Mu could already treat this Area 20 Holy See as their own home.
The morning light was faint. Cha Nai Xue and Saintess Qiue, using the Moon Saint Technique Domain, arrived outside the Main Hall in an instant. However, standing before the magnificent Hall’s tall gate, both women froze for a moment.
“Don’t go in, something’s wrong,” Cha Nai Xue’s thoughts echoed in Saintess Qiue’s mind.
Saintess Qiue had naturally sensed it too. If it were anyone else, they wouldn’t have noticed anything unusual. But she had come into contact with the Snowfield consciousness and was very familiar with this kind of eerie pollution. At this moment, the aura of pollution permeated the hall. Although it was faint, she still perceived it keenly. As for Cha Nai Xue, she had directly penetrated and analyzed the surroundings with her Infernal Eyes, discovering that everything inside the hall was shrouded in a layer of mist, and piercing roars could be heard from within, which was not the case before. Furthermore, there were now many layers of eerie formations, dark purple and blood red. At this moment, the talismanic lines on these formations danced like silver snakes, slowly rotating. A bright silver vertical pupil with bloodshot threads suddenly opened in the center of the formation. Cha Nai Xue’s beautiful eyes narrowed, and she said in a deep voice, “Run!”
Saintess Qiue had a thought, but found that the permission for the Moon Saint Technique Domain had disappeared. She frowned. Without hesitation, she directly used the authority of [Immortal Words], and the spoken words followed: “I stand behind the Q-Masked Man.”
However, to her surprise, even Immortal Words could not take effect. Cha Nai Xue looked up at the sky, the vortex-like purple pupils in her eye sockets strange. The world around her seemed to be decomposed into countless information streams, converging into her eye sockets.
“This is… Six-eyed Level, Slaughter Calamity Realm.”
“When we appeared here, this Calamity Realm formed simultaneously. Its purpose should be to isolate us from the Real World.”
Cha Nai Xue frowned and looked back at the hall door. “It seems we are in trouble.”
“Hiss—”
As soon as her words fell, the tightly closed hall door automatically opened to both sides. Inside the hall. Eighteen ancient and profound pillars carved with Sacred Marks, shining with silver light, supported this magnificent hall from the ground to the sky. At the end of the hall, the Black Moon Goddess Statue had its hands on its chest. Her face was unclear, but her majestic and sacred aura made people unable to help but feel reverence. Oberon, wearing a red Cardinal robe, stood with a jet-black scepter planted on the ground. He was hunched over beneath the statue, his lowered eyelids slowly lifting as the hall door opened wide. His cloudy eyes showed neither joy nor sorrow, but a detached, hoarse whisper: “Two lords, please enter the hall.”
As he spoke, a circle of light lit up under the feet of the two Saintesses, instantly teleporting them to the center of the hall. The hall door boomed shut. The two women quickly scanned the situation inside the hall. There were eighteen pillars of silver light, and in front of ten of them sat a person with their eyes closed. The Justice Holy Son, Yan Si, and Jin Jili—these ten people were the geniuses of various factions who had previously entered the Bei Qiu Abyss. What was strange was that their souls were detaching from their bodies in a twisted posture, flickering on and off. At the same time, each of them had a golden thread piercing their forehead, connected to the blood-red formation on the ground.
Cha Nai Xue frowned. She had initially thought that Oberon had ambushed her because her sheltering of Mu Qingtong had been discovered. But now it seemed that the situation was even more serious. As the hall door opened wide, dense, ink-like purple mist faintly appeared in the surroundings, rushing towards the two women like a thousand evil spirits. Cha Nai Xue and Saintess Qiue backed to back, tacitly forming seals with one hand simultaneously, gathering Spirit Particles at their fingertips, and casting Black Moon Protection. An ink-black halo protected them.
“Heh heh~ The outside world claims that the two Saintesses have a bad relationship and hate each other, but this level of mutual trust and tacit understanding doesn’t seem like it.” A woman wearing a high-slit red and white qipao walked out from the shadows. She swayed her hips, her posture making her voluptuous figure even more alluring. She wore a white cat mask on her face, concealing her appearance. Saintess Qiue’s ethereal eyes glanced at the woman, frowning in confusion.
“Saintess Qiue, have you forgotten me so quickly? That’s truly heartbreaking.” The woman held a round fan with ink-painted landscapes, covering her lips. She let out a low laugh, then spun the fan—her figure transformed into a woman wearing a red cloak, it was Tang Ruyan. With another spin of the fan—her figure changed again into Teresa wearing a nun’s robe. Seeing this, Saintess Qiue immediately understood that this woman wearing the white cat mask was the second Teresa, the one who had truly disrupted the teleportation point, trapping Ye Li Kong in the Bei Qiu Abyss. Now it seemed that the White Cat Woman and Oberon were in cahoots. The White Cat Woman’s act of disrupting the teleportation point was likely to give Oberon a reason to seal the Holy See and temporarily detain the geniuses of various factions. Last night, while Saintess Qiue was being disciplined by Xia Feng and the other two, something must have happened in the outside world, and Oberon successfully captured these geniuses and imprisoned them here. Therefore, Oberon’s earlier words about fully investigating Teresa were all nonsense. This Cardinal had no intention of dealing with the missing Teresa at all.
“Tsk tsk~” The White Cat Woman had returned to her original form, her qipao fitting snugly against her curved hips as she swayed, circling the two women. She gazed at their cold, expressionless faces and let out a charming low laugh, “The two Saintesses are truly aloof. However, my little brother likes your type, which is truly exciting.”
“White Cat, do not be rude,” Oberon’s cold voice, devoid of emotion, sounded as he tapped his scepter. The White Cat looked back with a glance, chuckling mockingly, “Old man, you’re even making a move on your own Saintesses, so why pretend to be respectful and obedient?” Oberon frowned but did not reply, merely looking at the two Saintesses with heavy eyes: “Two lords, surrender yourselves. After accepting the erosion of the purple mist, you will not die; instead, your strength will be enhanced.”
“Bang—”
The ink-black halo formed by the Black Moon Protection shattered instantly under the attack of the purple mist. However, after Saintess Qiue burned the [Strong Protection] talisman, another protective net was formed, shielding them again. Saintess Qiue did not expect to encounter a pollution that was similar to the Snowfield consciousness even after leaving the Black Abyss. This made her very confused. Could it be that the Snowfield consciousness had escaped?
“This mist is an unknown substance that can even pollute gods,” Saintess Qiue’s reminder echoed in Cha Nai Xue’s mind. “Be careful yourself. Do not leave the barrier I’ve set up under any circumstances. If you are eroded and polluted by the purple mist, your mind will be affected, and the consequences are unpredictable.” Although she said this calmly, Saintess Qiue’s frown grew tighter. She was currently very weak, and unlike before, she did not have Xia Feng providing dragon blood beside her. Therefore, if this continued, she would not be able to hold on for long. Sooner or later, her soul and mind would be corrupted by this purple mist, and she would lose her true self.
