The Brocade Kasaya dropped over their heads.
The Queen's vision suddenly darkened.
Within that tiny space, heaven and earth shifted.
Beneath the kasaya,
only Xuanzang and the Queen remained, mere inches apart.
The Queen froze for a moment, but soon her lips curled upward again. "Heeheehee..."
She still held Xuanzang around the waist, showing no intention of letting go. Instead, she pressed even closer, her hands slithering like snakes from his waist, inching up his back.
"Imperial Brother."
"So this is what you like?"
Her voice sounded right beside Xuanzang's ear.
"You should have said so. Why go to all this trouble?"
Her fingertips climbed to the center of Xuanzang's back, then all five fingers hooked inward!
At the same time, the Queen suddenly lifted her face and parted her lips.
Whoosh!
A stream of foul breath rushed straight at Xuanzang's face.
She naturally knew this monk must have a few tricks, so that cup of tea had only ever been the first layer.
Once she truly got close, she had other preparations waiting.
Yet in the next instant, Xuanzang's body suddenly lit up.
Five-colored radiance flowed and intertwined, forming a thin halo against his body.
It was the five-spirit fortune virtue true qi.
The foul, sickly sweet breath struck the five-colored halo and melted like snow, dissolving instantly and scattering to either side, unable to touch him.
At the same time, the five-colored halo knocked the Queen's hands away.
Xuanzang reached back, seized both sides of the Brocade Kasaya, and wrapped them inward!
The kasaya, which had merely covered them both, now bundled the Queen tightly inside it.
The Queen's expression changed. "What are you doing?!"
She struggled with all her strength,
but Xuanzang recited softly beside her ear, "Benefactor, wearing this kasaya, you shall not sink into