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"Your Majesty, you haven't really fallen for him, have you? Look at him, what kind of person does he look like?" a maid teased.

"What do you know? I was testing him. What are we going to do on this trip...?"

"Well!..."

The empress was unwilling to say more, but another maidservant grasped the essence of the sentence.

"Mother? You said they're from the same village?"

The Empress's personal maid couldn't help but beam with joy, because the Empress's departure from the mountains this time was kept secret from the royal family, and even the princes and princesses didn't know about it.

The Empress is a secret of the royal family.

This matter was known only to the core members of the royal family and ministers; even the empress was unaware of it.

"Hmph, you girls, don't make wild guesses!"

The Empress glared at the two maids, clearly not wanting to say anything more.

But the two maids smiled slyly, because they thought that the Empress must have fallen for that young man named Ye Xiu.

"Mother! What should we do? This man is a great demon; he will devour you!"

Qi Lin whispered in the Empress's ear.

The Empress's ears turned bright red.

"Get lost! I don't like this human at all. He's too rude, too barbaric... But he's actually quite handsome, hee hee hee..."

The Empress looked infatuated and seemed a little excited.

"Oh dear? Mother? Why are you like this? This is wrong!"

Qi Lin pouted, looking very angry, but the Empress didn't take it seriously at all and continued drinking her tea.

"Huh? Right, where am I? Why has my martial spirit suddenly gone out of control? Could it be because of my constitution...?"

Thinking of this, the Empress quickly sat down cross-legged and began to examine her body.

But she found that she was fine. Her martial spirit was still there and had not dissipated.

"Huh? This shouldn't be happening. Could it be that I didn't die?" The Empress wondered, because her martial spirit had disappeared.

A sudden string of bells rang, startling the Empress, for she had never heard such a sound since her resurrection.

"Who is it? Who is summoning me? Could it be my father, or my mother!"

The Empress stood up, but unexpectedly, the bell stopped ringing, and a line of words appeared in her mind: "Your Majesty? It's me..."

"Who is talking to me?" the Empress asked in astonishment, and at that moment, the bell rang again.

"Your Majesty, it is I, Medusa!" the bell's voice said.

"Who are you?..."

The Empress was even more surprised.

"Your Majesty? I am you, and you are me, but now, I am nothing but a remnant soul!..."

A sense of resentment arose in the Empress's mind.

This person drifted slowly like a wisp of smoke. When the Empress saw him, she was immediately shocked, for it was a ball of flame, dark gold in color, flickering in the ethereal void.

"Medusa?... " The Empress was surprised, but Medusa smiled faintly and said, "My name is 'Flame Spirit Princess'!"

"Yan Lingji was my older sister, but she has already perished..."

As Yan Lingji spoke, tears streamed down her face again, while the Empress looked completely bewildered.

Chapter 382 Thunderous Artillery Fire!

"Yan Ling Ji, what's wrong?"

"Your Majesty, I cannot tell you, I cannot hold on much longer. Please take good care of 'Li Hanyi' for me. Although she is a demon, she is a kind demon. Please do not harm her..."

"Don't worry, I will protect her!" the Empress replied.

"That's good. I hope I can find a way to save her and bring her back to life!...By the way, Your Majesty, how are your injuries? What kind of medicine do you need? Just give the order!"

After Yan Lingji finished speaking, she disappeared from the Empress's mind, leaving behind a glistening tear in the Empress's eye.

"Hey? Look! Her Majesty's eyes are wet. She just cried. Wow, so gentle..."

Shh, shh! Don't talk nonsense!...

"I'm not afraid, I'm not afraid, I love it when Your Majesty cries..."

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"Your Majesty? Are you alright?"

The palace maids gathered around.

"I'm fine, you may all leave! I'll rest for a while, you guard the palace gates!"

The Empress waved her hand, and all the palace maids withdrew.

The Empress plopped down in the chair, still feeling a little uncomfortable.

After all, she had liked that guy for seven or eight years, but she had never had any physical intimacy with him.

"Sigh! Fine, I'll just have to make do for now and go to sleep! I have to go to the competition tomorrow anyway!"

The empress sighed, lay down on the bed and fell asleep. In less than three seconds, she was fast asleep, drooling.

Upon seeing this, Qi Lin and the others shook their heads. They dared not move, and stood there waiting for the Empress to awaken.

"Your Majesty, Your Majesty? Can't you sleep?" Qi Lin patted the Empress.

"Hmm! Don't bother me!" the Empress mumbled.

"Your Majesty? If you fall asleep, you'll become a vegetable..." Qi Lin prompted.

"A person in a vegetative state, isn't that just a plant?" The Empress opened her eyes groggily.

At this moment, the Empress looked absolutely adorable, with a fair and delicate face that seemed almost flawless.

"Your Majesty, Your Majesty? Look at your neck, it's all swollen!"

Qi Lin pointed. The Empress looked down and saw that a purplish-black mark had appeared on her neck, as if someone had been choking her.

"Your Majesty? Are you feeling any better?" Qi Lin asked, while the Empress closed her eyes, wearing an expression of enjoyment. She felt that this was a kind of enjoyment, a feeling that was something to yearn for.

"Mmm, that feels so good!" The Empress nodded with her eyes closed; the feeling was simply wonderful.

The Empress felt that every cell in her body was shouting and leaping with joy.

The Empress felt as if it were all a dream. But no matter how she called out to him, he remained unresponsive.

"Hmph! Pretending to be profound!"

The Empress snorted coldly, and found this person extremely annoying.

"Your Majesty? Shall we go? Have you forgotten? We're heading to the western expeditionary camp tomorrow."

Qi Lin reminded her, and as a result, the Empress was startled awake.

"I just remembered, we're going to visit the Western Expeditionary Army tomorrow."

That is the most elite force of our human race, and there are many experts among them. If they encounter any trouble, things could get very bad!

"Qilin, are you ready?"

"Your Majesty? I am ready..."

Qi Lin answered respectfully, and the Empress, without further ado, took Qi Lin and left the imperial city, traveling by carriage to the Western Expeditionary Army camp.

The Western Expeditionary Army's main camp was built to be quite magnificent and splendid.

The entire mountain peak was a huge platform, on which numerous tents and battlefield fortifications were erected.

These things acted like a wall, blocking the onslaught of the beast tide.

These defenses can block everything; even the wings of an angel would probably not be able to cross them.

Surrounding this area are dense defensive arrays in concentric circles.

"Boom! Boom!..."

From afar, one could hear bursts of artillery fire exploding in the air, the sound like raindrops falling into a lake, which was very shocking.

The Empress frowned slightly upon hearing the sound; she loathed the smell of gunfire.

Because she herself had witnessed the horrific tragedy of her father being killed in an explosion...

"Your Majesty? We've gone the wrong way. This isn't where we're supposed to be!"

Suddenly, just as the Empress stopped outside a tent, Qi Lin stopped her.

Chapter 383 "Get out of my way! I am the Empress of the Great Xia Kingdom!..."

The Empress frowned, because this place was too close to the main camp. If something happened here, the consequences would be dire.

"Your Majesty? You can't go in anymore!"