254: Even jumping into the Yellow River wouldn't clear his name! The Empress's boundless rage!

Buzz!

A faint ripple of Law, almost non-existent, flashed and vanished.

Su Chen's tall figure vanished into thin air within the room.

In his place was a pitch-black mosquito, no larger than a grain of rice, looking as humble as could be.

[Holy crap! It worked!]

Su Chen felt his brand-new body, his sense of novelty exploding.

His vision instantly transformed into countless honeycomb-like lattices, reflecting everything around him in a 360-degree view without any blind spots.

With a light flutter of his wings, his body hovered silently in the air.

The best part was that he could clearly sense that all of his aura, including his Divine Soul fluctuations, had completely assimilated with this world.

He was a mosquito.

An ordinary mosquito that came and went with the wind.

[This cheat... is amazing!]

Su Chen gave it thirty-two thumbs up in his heart.

Controlling his mosquito body, he nimbly squeezed through a gap in the window and instantly blended into the deep night.

High above the Imperial City, the sky was filled with invisible anti-air arrays. Those crisscrossing webs of Law emitted a terrifying power sufficient to strangle a Saint.

In the past, wanting to infiltrate the Imperial Palace would have been nothing but a pipe dream.

But now... he was just a mosquito, less significant than a speck of dust.

Those powerful Restrictions were like non-existent to him.

Vibrating his wings, he easily passed through layers of arrays, flying accurately toward the deepest part of the Imperial Palace, toward that most magnificent and dazzling palace.

Fengming Hall!

The closer he got to Fengming Hall, the more alarmed Su Chen became.

The security here was tight to an outrageous degree.

A post every three steps and a sentry every five, all of them Imperial Guard experts with heavy auras.

In the shadows, there were dozens of powerful Divine Thoughts as deep as the sea, scanning every inch of space like the most precise radar.

[Just how afraid of death is this woman, Ji Hongxue?]

Su Chen kept his body extremely low, flying along the corners of the palace walls, doing his best to avoid the patrolling Imperial Guards.

Several times, he almost came face-to-face with a Shadow Guard Commander whose aura was as high as the Great Saint Realm.

That Killing Intent, as solid as substance, almost caused his little mosquito body to disintegrate on the spot. It scared him so much his mosquito legs went weak, and he nearly tumbled headfirst from the air.

[Thrilling! This is so damn thrilling!]

Su Chen felt his heart beating so fast it was about to explode.

He finally understood why those stealth games in his previous life were so addictive.

This feeling of swaying wildly on the edge of a blade was simply irresistible!

Having bypassed numerous sentries and Divine Thought scans without further incident, Su Chen finally arrived outside the main hall of Fengming Hall.

The hall was brightly lit, yet it was so quiet there wasn't a single sound.

Su Chen pressed his tiny body against a gap in the window lattice and looked inside.

There was no one.

[Where is she? Did she go to the side hall?]

Su Chen began to wonder.

Just then, the sound of splashing water accompanied by billowing mist faintly drifted from a side hall behind the main hall.

He could no longer care about any risks. Vibrating his wings to the limit, he turned into an imperceptible black shadow and lunged toward that side hall like crazy.

It was a luxurious bathroom built entirely from Ten-Thousand-Year Warm Jade and Top-Grade Spirit Stones.

In the center of the bathroom was an exaggeratedly large white jade pool.

The pool was not filled with clear water, but a petal bath soup blended from countless rare flowers, exotic herbs, and Ten-Thousand-Year Spirit Liquid, emitting a fragrance that could intoxicate even the Divine Soul.

Billowing mist rose from the surface of the pool, enveloping the entire bathroom in a dreamlike haze.

Deep within that hazy mist, a beautiful figure was faintly visible.

Floating in mid-air, Su Chen peered through the layers of water vapor and finally saw the scene in the pool clearly.

In that instant.

His mosquito brain completely crashed.

Boom!

It was Ji Hongxue.

The iron-blooded Empress who usually ruled over the world with peerless majesty.

Right now, she was lazily leaning against the edge of the pool, which was carved from a single piece of Ten-Thousand-Year Warm Jade.

Her ink-black, waterfall-like hair was loosely held up by a simple jade hairpin.

A few rebellious strands of hair, dampened by the steam, clung playfully to her smooth, jade-like forehead, adding a touch of charm and laziness that was absolutely impossible to see on a normal day.

Her eyes were closed, and crystal-clear water droplets hung from her long eyelashes. Her cold and peerlessly beautiful face was flushed with a heart-stirring crimson under the steam.

And beneath the water's surface... despite the cover of petals and mist, those faintly visible, breathtaking curves were so perfect they didn't seem to belong to the mortal world.

It still made Su Chen, an 'old driver' who claimed to have seen all kinds of beauties, feel dry-mouthed and his Divine Soul entranced.

[Holy... crap...]

Su Chen's brain was left with nothing but a blank space.

[Is... is this scenery real?]

[This figure... this skin... this temperament...]

[Foul! This is absolutely a dimension-breaking foul!]

Su Chen felt like his countless compound eyes were about to burst from the vivid and sensual scene before him.

He was watching too intently.

His Divine Soul felt as if it were being sucked in.

So much so that he didn't notice at all that the Qi in his body, which maintained the transformation Divine Ability, was being depleted at an alarming rate.

He noticed even less that his tiny 'mosquito' self was uncontrollably drifting closer and closer to that pool emitting a fatal temptation... Time seemed to have been drained away.

Su Chen's entire world was left with only that peerless beauty within the hazy mist.

He watched in rapt fascination.

Until... "Buzz—"

A sudden sense of emptiness instantly swept through his entire body.

The last trace of Qi in his body that maintained the Divine Ability was exhausted.

The profound power of Law suddenly dissipated.

The next second.

Less than three feet above Ji Hongxue's large and luxurious bath pool.

That humble black mosquito vanished into thin air.

In its place was a man dressed in white, handsome in appearance, with eyes wide and mouth agape, wearing a completely dazed expression.

The sound of dripping water vanished.

The billowing mist stopped moving.

All was silent.

Ji Hongxue, who was resting with her eyes closed, seemed to sense something.

Her butterfly-wing-like long lashes trembled slightly.

Then, she slowly opened those Phoenix eyes that were as deep as the starry sky.

The next instant.

Their eyes met.

Su Chen stared blankly at the Empress in the pool, who was unclothed and staring back at him with a look as if she had seen a ghost.

Ji Hongxue looked in shock at her fiancé, who had appeared out of thin air in mid-air and was looking down at her with a dazed face.

The two of them stared at each other.

The entire world fell into an eerie silence.