Yaoshi Yuan and Shang Xin Lei crossed the curtain of flames that was about to go out. The first thing they saw was Ying Ru Shi's white hair streaming in the wind. Beneath her damaged white fox mask was an eye like a blazing sun. Its base color was molten gold, flowing with scorching Light Flame. Yet at the center of that sea of gold burned two clusters of undying blood flames, as if all living beings in the mortal world were blazing within them.
But the next second, Ying Ru Shi closed her eyes. When she opened them again, they had returned to their usual restrained black. They were not as unfathomable as Yan Qing's, but calm and easygoing, without the slightest pressure of a Foundation Establishment True Person. This immediately won over the two thieves whose strength lagged slightly behind.
"All the Bai Bao Guard outside have fallen, and the other troops have scattered and turned into unruly soldiers." Shang Xin Lei swallowed nervously. "Ying Le... is she dead?"
"Fortunately, I did not fail." Ying Ru Shi nodded. "She's dead."
While Ying Ru Shi fused with the Glazed Dream Pearl inside the ruby cocoon and condensed Golden Nature to perfect [Pillow in the Red Dust], she had clearly heard Ying Le's final heartbeat stop.
Shang Xin Lei's hands trembled slightly. She suddenly sprang into the air and leaped toward Yan Qing, but Ying Ru Shi happened to walk over and block her path, catching Shang Xin Lei's hug. Shang Xin Lei did not mind. She wrapped herself around Ying Ru Shi like an octopus and cheered, "We won! We really won! We killed Qi's emperor in Qi's imperial palace—we did it! We're the greatest thieves in the world!"
Ying Ru Shi's tightly wound emotions gradually relaxed amid Shang