"I heard you wanted to get naked earlier? I'll be waiting patiently here," Gu Yi chuckled.

Hearing such vulgar words from the man, Fu Xie Lan rolled her eyes in embarrassment.

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"Don't take this potion," said the girl, putting the cup back in her hand.

Gu Yi immediately got up from his position, approaching Fu Xie Lan.

"So what? Will I die if I drink it?" said the man taking one of the cups on the table.

"Ahh, why not just give it a try?"

"I'm afraid you'll be sad if that happens," Gu Yi replied, putting the cup back down after inhaling the aroma.

Suddenly a commotion came from below, Fu Xie Lan and Gu Yi immediately approached the window.

Some of the faces of the participants who just registered today seemed to be walking towards the Moon Pavilion. They had just returned from the royal family's banquet.

Some kept yawning, while others looked so excited.

Fu Xie Lan's eyes looked coldly at those people. This was the night she had been waiting for. Just to make sure, whether the guess is right or wrong.

Stay in that position for a few minutes until the last participant enters the moon pavilion.

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Leaning against the window, the girl's violet eyes flashed coldly, scanning everything that reached her unobstructed view.

And sure enough, what she had guessed happened tonight. Men and women who share the same room do sex, all of them. while those who have the same female or male roommates are fast asleep.

Fu Xie Lan did not understand what all this meant.

"Can you take me without getting caught?" asked Fu Xie Lan turning to Gu Yi.

"Where, honey?" Gu Yi replied.

"I want to check something."

"Okay, when?"

"Now. Come on!" Fu Xie Lan replied as she smoothed Gu Yi's clothes which exposed his upper body.

Silently they came out of the moon pavilion.

"Can you follow the balls of light?" asked Fu Xie Lan when they were already under one of the densely leafy trees not far from the moon pavilion.

Gu Yi immediately set his sights following Fu Xie Lan's index finger.

Right now, above them, so many balls of light were scattered. if people don't pay close attention, maybe people will think of it as a firefly.

"Okay," said Gu Yi. The man was also curious about the little lights.

They then quietly moved very fast, streaking through the cold night, following where the light went.

Leaping out through the palace wall railings that were roughly four meters high, Fu Xie Lan and Gu Yi continued to move. Runs silently.

Now that they were far away from the royal palace, and the more they followed the light, for some reason Fu Xie Lan felt that the number of balls of light she was following was increasing.

What had previously flown erratically towards a place, has now changed. the balls of light, all in one direction, seemed to be forming a stream of light that was so beautiful to look at.

"Stop," whispered Fu Xie Lan asking Gu Yi to stop his movements.

"Why, Queen."

"Look over there!"

Immediately Gu Yi looked in the direction Fu Xie Lan was referring to.

not far from him stood a tower of such a high size.

"What's that?"

Fu Xie Lan's violet eyes immediately pierced through everything that reached her sight without a barrier.

There was no one around the tower.

"Get a little closer," Fu Xie Lan said to which Gu Yi nodded.

Currently, they are in an area that is very far from human touch, still included in the territory of the Zu kingdom. Untouched forest with trees that are so dense.

Moved closer with the eye power that she kept using. Her eyes caught a strange rune on the tower wall, turned her gaze to the top of the tower, right at the top was a crystal ball, and all the light-centered there.

Fu Xie Lan's brow furrowed.

She seemed familiar with the crystal ball, looked again carefully. There was something inside the crystal ball, Fu Xie Lan sharpened her vision even more. And what she encountered was very difficult for her to explain.

'A snake skeleton?'

Not! its tail gradually formed along with the many balls of light that were absorbed into the object.

What sight is this?

Why was there a snake skeleton inside the crystal ball?

'Be careful, Miss,' Hao's voice buzzed in her head. The creature immediately jumped onto his Miss's shoulders, its white fur even seemed to have stood up, looking so alert.

"Stop," said Fu Xie Lan, and at that moment they stopped. The distance from the tower was only about five hundred meters.

As Fu Xie Lan drew closer, the girl felt something tugging at her body. It was as if something inside her wanted to be forcibly taken away.

Cold sweat with chest throbbing in pain, her breath that sounded hoarse made the girl unable to stand up normally.

"What's the matter, Queen?" Gu Yi asked when he saw Fu Xie Lan like she was in pain.

"G-get away from this place a bit."

Immediately, Gu Yi obeyed Fu Xie Lan's words.

Back away from there, the awkwardness felt in Fu Xie Lan's body now disappeared. The girl then tried to normalize her feelings again.

"Still sick?" Gu Yi asked softly.

Fu Xie Lan shook her head, her focus currently focused on the snake skeleton within the crystal ball that was at the top of the tower.

"What do you see, Queen?" Gu Yi asked when he previously found that Fu Xie Lan's expression was not as usual.

"Snake skeleton, no, a part of its body began to form as the amount of light absorbed by the crystal ball," answered Fu Xie Lan bluntly.

Hearing this, Gu Yi's eyes flashed coldly. His expressionless face looked so terrifying.

Was Fu Xie Lan saw was the same snake that wiped out his entire family?

It's a hell snake. A creature that changed his life drastically. The summoned beast of the black magicians who attacked the demon palace at that time. Yes, Even though he managed to eliminate the cursed creature, that doesn't mean he wasn't hurt at all.

He had to check it himself.

If it is true, it means that someone again wants to resurrect the creature.

"Honey, can I ask you something?"

"Is that the ball of light you were referring to in the gazebo this afternoon?" Gu Yi asked pointing at the stream of light that kept moving from various directions.

Fu Xie Lan just nodded.

Hearing this, Gu Yi became even more certain of his conjecture.

Someone was trying to resurrect the cursed creature. Using new souls created from human penetration.

No wonder, neither he nor his two bodyguards ever found any trace of the black witch. It turned out that they were moving in human territory.

The territory of the human race that they have considered a cursed place is also the most dangerous area and threatens the safety of the entire race of inhabitants of the Artland World.