254: Chapter 254 The Witch

"Sister... it's them."

Xiaoqing bit her lip, a flicker of hostility flashing in her green eyes.

She was introverted; Bai Suzhen was usually responsible for the White Snake Cult's interactions with other factions.

She wasn't very familiar with Zhuge Jinyu and the other three women.

"Those... women who were entangled with Young Master Su during the contract ceremony."

An extremely complex emotion flashed across Bai Suzhen's breathtakingly beautiful face.

Although she had prepared herself for the worst psychological expectations, the worst-case scenario had indeed come to pass.

Those who were going to compete with her for Young Master Su...

Actually turned out to be these troublesome 'colleagues' of hers.

One must know that even when Zhuge Jinyu and the other two had not yet broken through their realms, she didn't have a hundred percent confidence in defeating them.

At this moment, in Bai Suzhen's heart...

There was a bit more of the bitterness that came with being the (self-proclaimed) primary wife.

But even more so, there was a sense of vigilance born from facing a common enemy.

She knew clearly that now was absolutely not the time for jealousy or petty squabbles over a man's favor.

The world was collapsing.

Although she didn't know why the 'monsters' facing Zhuge Jinyu and the others had disappeared...

Bai Suzhen's heart was still filled with caution.

She took a deep breath.

She suppressed the myriad of thoughts swirling in her mind.

Lightly tapping the void with her toes, she led Xiaoqing and glided over.

"White Snake Cult, Bai Suzhen, Xiaoqing, greetings to our fellow colleagues."

"Has the catastrophe of the East Sea already been quelled by you all?"

A cool, clear voice rang out in the ears of Zhuge Jinyu and the other three women simultaneously.

As fellow Transcendent Realm experts of Great Xia, the three women besides Jiang Luoli naturally sensed the identities of the newcomers keenly.

The White Snake Cult.

That lineage had rarely walked the world since ancient times, yet it had always silently guarded the ancient orthodoxy of this Divine Land in the shadows.

Zhuge Jinyu put away her vermilion bird feather fan.

A trace of respect flashed in those cool, fox-like eyes as she stepped forward to greet them with polite solemnity.

"So it is our fellow Daoists from the White Snake lineage. Great Xia is in trouble; we have troubled you both to emerge from seclusion."

Zhuge Jinyu sighed softly, an irrepressible bitterness and lingering fear surfacing on her exquisite face.

She shook her head, refuting Bai Suzhen's statement.

"The monsters have not been purged."

"To be precise, we... were saved."

As soon as these words were spoken, both Bai Suzhen and Xiaoqing were visibly shaken.

Saved?

Even with four of Great Xia's top Transcendent Heroic Spirits gathered, facing that unspeakable Cthulhu, they hadn't gained any advantage?

What was even more shocking...

Exactly who could 'save' them in a desperate situation of this level?

"What Hall Master Zhuge said is no lie."

"We were simply not that monster's match; we really were saved."

"Just half an hour ago."

To the side, Ye Jingjun gripped her broken sword and spoke slowly.

An image formed by her powerful Transcendent Realm spiritual energy unfolded like a light screen before Bai Suzhen and Xiaoqing.

"This... this is?"

In the image...

It was a one-sided slaughter sufficient to make one's soul tremble.

No matter how sharp Ye Jingjun's Heartless Sword intent was...

No matter how Cang Mingyue raised ten-thousand-foot tsunamis...

No matter how Jiang Luoli exhausted the Phoenix Fate foundation of her past life as Queen Jiang to assist Zhuge Jinyu's Qimen Dunjia...

Before that Cthulhu monster, so massive it occupied half the sky, they were all like ants trying to shake a giant tree.

It had reached a level incomprehensible to ordinary people, not just in the realms of power and physical strength...

But more importantly...

That kind of pollution and suppression from a higher-dimensional plane kept their sanity on the brink of collapse.

Just as the four of them were prepared to burn their life souls to buy the last bit of time for the lands of Great Xia through mutual destruction...

A sudden change occurred.

They watched with their own eyes.

That overbearing Cthulhu monster that seemed capable of devouring everything...

Its massive, hideous head...

Without any warning...

Exploded.

Boom—!

Zhuge Jinyu and the others were almost certain that this explosion definitely did not originate from any of their attacks.

Rather, from its most central interior, it was forced open by some extremely elegant power...

And burst apart by sheer force.

"Awooo—"

Suddenly wounded, the massive monster emitted a terrifying sound wave that induced dizziness.

It left the souls of Zhuge Jinyu and the other three women somewhat shaken.

For a moment, thick, blackish-green plasma continuously flowed down the Cthulhu's massive body.

"Who is it?"

"To actually be able to... wound this unspeakable monster from the inside?"

There...

In the center of that plasma pouring down like a waterfall...

A slender and petite figure, stepping on the monster's mangled flesh, slowly walked out.

It was a stunning witch.

She wore a black lace gown of extremely intricate workmanship and intense mid-century Gothic style.

The layers of the skirt's hem outlined her blood-pumping curves.

On her head, she wore a wide witch hat with a hanging black veil.

What was amazing was...

Even though she walked out from the deepest parts of the monster's filthiest flesh...

Not a single speck of blood or gore stained her body.

She was too clean.

So clean she seemed out of place in this apocalyptic Shura field.

Just as Zhuge Jinyu and the others were dazed, Jiang Luoli, upon seeing the face of the witch who had descended from the sky, was struck as if by lightning and cried out in shock.

"President?!"

That pale and charming woman...

Was precisely the highest authority of the Huayu Association.

The one known as the 'Prophet,' Lady Witch!

For a moment, Jiang Luoli's breathing became somewhat rapid.

Although she had already obtained Queen Jiang's memories and could technically be considered a major figure...

Ultimately, her body was still dominated by the consciousness of 'Jiang Luoli.'

The President of the Huayu Association was a god-like existence in the heart of this Huayu Association member.

Had it not been for her well-off family circumstances that allowed her to go to Paris City to see this Lady Witch once...

She probably wouldn't have been able to recognize the other party at a glance.

"This is the one... who went missing on the East Sea and whom we were sent to find, the President of the Huayu Association?"

Zhuge Jinyu narrowed her eyes, her voice low.

"Her strength is actually this terrifying?"

"To be able to break out from inside that monster's body and leave it in such a pathetic state."

"Even more frightening is that we can't sense even a single trace of cultivation fluctuation from her."

Ye Jingjun said.

"No spiritual power, no laws, no pressure..."

She was like an ordinary mortal girl without even the strength to truss a chicken.

Yet it was such a 'mortal' who had just torn apart the strongest monster in this wave of invasion with her bare hands.

Recalling the scene from just now, her breathing was still somewhat hurried.

At this time...

That Lady Witch stood suspended in the air.

First, she tilted her head and playfully waved her hand at the four of them.

"Yoo-hoo~"

"Good evening, guests from Great Xia."

"And Little Li... Big Sister hasn't seen you in a long time."

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