364: Chapter 364 Behind the Veil! A Vibrant Scene!

These two words were uttered lightly, yet they were more destructive than any supreme Divine Ability.

They struck like a Nine Heavens divine thunderbolt, precisely piercing through Su Chen's completely frozen brain, stirring up a billion-foot-high tempest in his blank Sea of Consciousness!

He stood rigidly, staring at the woman before him.

At that face, flushed crimson like blood from the steam and shyness, radiant and dazzling.

At those eyes, hazy with tension and a certain resolve, as if they could drip with moisture.

At those slightly parted, luscious red lips, as if waiting for something.

Su Chen's throat was as dry as if he had trekked through the Sahara Desert for three days and three nights, almost about to emit smoke.

He could even clearly hear the frantic thumping of his own heart—'thump, thump, thump'—each beat like a war drum pounding, making his eardrums buzz.

[Mad! Mad!]

[This Iron-Blooded Empress has gone completely mad!]

[Does she know what she's doing? Does she know who she is?]

[The Empress of the Great Xia Divine Dynasty! The Dominator of billions of subjects! The very embodiment of decisive and ruthless action! How could she... how could she present herself in such a 'ready to be plucked' manner?!]

[This is a trap! This is absolutely a trap! A honey trap! She must be trying to test me this way! Test my resolve! Test my character! Yes! That must be it!]

[I must not fall for it! I, Su Chen, am a gentleman! How could my supreme Dao Heart, cultivated through effort, be shaken by mere 'Red Powder and Bones'?!]

Su Chen's inner self roared frantically, trying to use high-decibel internal ranting to suppress his heartbeats, which were growing louder and louder like war drums.

He wanted to turn around, to avoid looking at what should not be seen.

He wanted to tell her righteously: Your Majesty, please have some self-respect! Ours is a pure revolutionary friendship! Acting like this will make me commit a mistake!

But his body seemed to have been cast with an immobilization spell, not moving an inch.

His feet seemed welded to the ground by an invisible force, unable to move even a fraction.

His eyes were even more like they were magnetically attracted, fixedly staring at the perfect form in the pool, utterly unable to look away.

Ji Hongxue looked at Su Chen's dumbfounded, foolish appearance, and the tension and shyness in her heart quietly dissipated a bit.

Replacing it was a hint of mischief-succeeded amusement that even she hadn't noticed.

This guy.

Usually always appearing frivolous and carefree, as if nothing mattered even if the sky fell.

Who would have thought he also had such an innocent side.

She scooped up a handful of warm spiritual spring water; the crystal-clear droplets, imbued with pure Spiritual Qi, slowly slid down her fair, jade-like arm, leaving a glistening trail on her skin.

'Splash—'

A crisp sound of water echoed in the silent hall.

Each sound was like a heavy hammer, fiercely striking the fragile string named 'reason' in Su Chen.

He felt his mouth growing drier and drier.

His body grew hotter and hotter, as if a fire was burning in his lower abdomen.

He forcibly calmed his mind, cleared his throat, trying to break this suffocatingly ambiguous atmosphere.

'Ahem, that... Hongxue.'

He spoke with difficulty, his voice as dry as if sandpapered.

'Summoning me late at night, I wonder... I wonder if it's to discuss state affairs, or...'

[I am a gentleman, I am a gentleman... my foot!]

[Who can withstand this! If this scene were to spread, the three thousand worlds would boil!]

[If I keep looking, my Dao Heart will become unstable, and I'll suffer Qi Deviation! Run! I must run quickly!]

Su Chen let out a desperate wail in his heart.

Right now, he just wanted to quickly escape this gentle, seductive lair like the Spider Cave.

However, Ji Hongxue's next words and actions completely cut off all his retreat paths.

Looking at Su Chen's forced composure and his awkwardness of not knowing where to look, the curve of her lips became even more pronounced.

That smile held a hint of teasing, a hint of provocation, and a hint of all-or-nothing resolve.

She slowly stood up from the water.

Splish-splash—

The sound of water grew loud.

Warm spiritual spring water cascaded down her smooth, flawless skin like the most luxurious silk.

Countless delicate petals slid off with her movement.

A flawless, perfect body, as if the heavens' most outstanding masterpiece, was thus exposed without reservation before Su Chen.

Although most of the spring scenery was still veiled by the hazy mist.

But those faintly visible, breathtaking curves were even more tantalizing and deadly than complete nudity!

'Boom!'

Su Chen's brain completely exploded, blank.

He felt a scalding heat flow in his nasal passages, uncontrollably stirring.

He abruptly tilted his head back, staring fixedly at the hall's dome, not daring to look at that feast-for-the-senses scene again.

[Do not look at what should not be seen! Do not look at what should not be seen!]

[amitabha, form is emptiness, emptiness is form...]

[Red Powder and Bones are all illusions... How can my Saint King-level Physical Body not control this heat flow surging upward?!]

He began frantically reciting the 'Heart-Cleansing Mantra' in his mind.

But the next second.

Ji Hongxue's voice, carrying a hint of laziness and huskiness, as if capable of ensnaring one's soul, sounded again in his ear.

Looking at his comical appearance, the amusement in her eyes deepened.

'Last time...'

Her voice paused, as if giving Su Chen time to react.

Then, her vermilion lips parted slightly, uttering that heart-piercing statement enough to make heaven and earth change color and completely shatter Su Chen's Dao Heart.

'...you didn't get enough of a look, did you?'