The Princess Cannot Escape: The Cunning Prince Is Not to Be Messed With

Chapter 282 Mysterious Woman

After the men fell, the group of savages who had attacked the four men emerged from the jungle. They escorted a woman who wore a crown woven from feathers, was wrapped in a white tiger skin, and whose wheat-colored skin shone brightly in the sunlight. Green vines were wrapped around her legs, and her eyes had long, curved lines at the corners.

Wildness mingled with allure, sexiness tinged with a hint of wickedness, yet a single glance was enough to make a man fall for her. She toyed with a long fox tail in her hand. "Take all these people away." The woman's gaze swept over Yin Quan, finally settling on her ring. Upon seeing the ring, the woman's expression suddenly changed, and she excitedly leaned closer, even before she touched the ring.

A wisp of green smoke rose into the air, and Ying'er and Leng Shuang blocked the woman's path. "Who exactly are you?" The woman looked at the two with disdain. "So the other two souls were hiding with her. It was truly effortless. It seems my day of rebirth is not far off!" She formed a hand seal and muttered to herself. A bright green gemstone in the center of the crown on her forehead kept flashing.

The crowd behind them knelt down upon seeing this scene and began to worship the woman with reverence, as if she were a deity.

Ying'er and Leng Shuang's souls were drawn to the emerald green gem, and their bodies were constantly being pulled away from the ring. "Sister Leng Shuang, this is bad! This woman is trying to force our souls to merge with her!" Leng Shuang resisted with her arms outstretched. "I know, but that woman is unconscious right now and can't activate the ring's formation."

The woman smiled wickedly, "Don't count on her. Without my antidote, she won't wake up within three days. You'd better obediently enter my body." With a change of her incantation, both of them were sucked into the woman's body. After a series of alternating blue and white lights flashed around the woman, the gem on her forehead became even more emerald green.

She gazed greedily at Yin Quan's ring, but no matter how hard she tried, she couldn't remove it. She pulled a dagger from her boot, intending to sever Yin Quan's finger, but before she could strike, the dagger was deflected. A gem on the ring turned slightly, and a burst of golden light erupted around the ring.

An octagonal pattern flew out of the ring and covered Yin Quan's body. The woman felt a burning sensation whenever she got close to Yin Quan.

"Damn it, who placed a curse on her? Does anyone in the world know this secret? Impossible! Even if he's the Emperor himself, I'll get it." The woman glared at Yin Quan and turned to leave.

Yin Quan, feeling dizzy and disoriented, opened her eyes to see a dark shadow with white pupils like two jade balls staring straight at her. Their eyes met, and Yin Quan cried out first.

"Help!" Yin Quan's shout startled the man, who slumped back and landed hard on his butt.

He looked around in a panic and hurriedly covered Yin Quan's mouth. Only then did Yin Quan realize that the person in front of her was the little boy she had saved from Gu Lounan that day.

The little boy looked somewhat panicked, babbling in a language that Yin Quan couldn't understand, and kept pressing his index finger to his lips. Only then did Yin Quan slowly realize that the little boy didn't seem to have any ill intentions towards her. "You won't hurt me, right?" The little boy nodded frantically.

Slowly lowering her hand, Yin Quan was locked in a small wooden house. Hearing the commotion inside, people came in. A tall man asked the little boy something, and the little boy was slapped across the face. Yin Quan hurriedly protected the little boy.

The man shoved him away forcefully, grunted twice, and was about to kick Yin Quan when the little boy grabbed the man's leg. "Stop it, all of you!" A bewitching woman walked in from outside the door. She was covered in animal skin, but it still couldn't hide her exquisite figure.

"You may all leave. No one is allowed to come in without my permission." The woman walked up to Yin Quan, squatted down, pinched her chin, examined her for a moment, and then lifted her up. To Yin Quan's surprise, the woman's strength was astonishing.

When Yin Quan saw the woman's face clearly, he was completely stunned. This woman was another woman who looked exactly like Ying'er and Leng Shuang.

"Judging from your expression, you don't seem to know this secret. So how did you get this ring?" Yin Quan felt that she must have encountered triplets, a once-in-a-century occurrence. But wasn't the chance too small? It was as rare as winning the lottery.

Or are these souls actually one person? But then I realized that this woman wasn't a spirit, so I dismissed that idea.

"Don't you have two younger sisters?" The woman smiled meaningfully, smoothing her nails. "You mean those two good-for-nothings? I took them in a long time ago. Now I only need one more thing to be reborn. Tell me, what's your relationship with that woman?"

Yin Quan was completely bewildered by the question. "What are you talking about? I don't know you at all, and what about the three people who were with me?"

The woman narrowed her eyes, exuding a dangerous aura. "You won't talk? Why won't you behave if I don't teach you a lesson?" The woman had a long whip wrapped around her waist. She pulled it out and cracked it in the air, startling Yin Quan so much that he immediately sat down obediently like a lamb.

"Let's talk this out, let's talk this out. Why do you always resort to violence to solve problems? Aren't we civilized people?" She dealt with the woman while trying to summon Ying'er and Leng Shuang, but no matter how hard she tried, the ring didn't react at all.

"Don't waste your energy. I've already eaten those two good-for-nothings. I've absorbed half of her seven souls and six spirits. I have to thank you for this. If it weren't for you, I really wouldn't have known that woman hid them in such a hidden place. No wonder I've been searching for so many years without finding them."

"You know they are spirits? Ordinary people can't see them, how do you know?"

"If I told you I'm also a soul, would you believe me?" Yin Quan frowned, and had to take a closer look at the woman. Although she had the same appearance, this woman's eyes were full of evil, and she had a faint smell of blood about her, which made people very uncomfortable. The woman's eyes were slightly raised, and she was obviously not someone to be trifled with.

"How could you be a soul? A soul is a spirit, while you are a physical person. How can I believe you?" The woman seemed quite curious about Yin Quan as well. "Let me tell you a story. Long ago, there was a woman who thought she was very clever, but she was not allowed to exist in this world. She fell in love with someone she shouldn't have and even had a child with that unfaithful man. In order to stay in this world, she tried many methods."

Yin Quan became increasingly shocked as she listened. Wasn't she the one this world didn't allow to exist? The person who fell in love with this world had the exact same experience as her. Recalling recent events, Yin Quan couldn't help but make a bold conjecture: she might not be the first person to travel to this time and space.

Seeing Yin Quan's furrowed brows, the woman continued, "That woman searched the world for treasures and finally found a way to stay. The world is full of spirits, but her spirit does not belong here. She will leave when the spiritual energy is exhausted. In order to keep her spiritual artifacts, she planned to use the power of divine artifacts. So she found the most powerful weapon blacksmith in the world and forged four divine artifacts, among which the Ancient Spirit Pearl is the most precious treasure of the guardian spirit."

Yin Quan grew increasingly alarmed as she listened. So, the Ancient Spirit Pearl could not only heal Xiahou Ying's injuries but also help her stay in this time and space? "What you're saying has no basis whatsoever. How can I believe you?" The woman suddenly laughed, bending over with pleasure. She shook her head. "Don't treat me like a fool. Do you think your secrets won't be known by anyone in this world? If I'm not mistaken, you're also from another world, aren't you?"

Yin Quan was struck dumb. She opened her mouth but couldn't speak for a long time. "What else do you know?" The woman said slowly, "Don't worry, I know far more than you can imagine. Let me finish. This woman became pregnant during the process of forging the divine artifact. Because she has two spirits in her body, she cannot use the power of the divine artifact. So when her spirit was about to dissipate, she dispersed her soul."

Yin Quan suddenly realized that Ying'er and Leng Shuang were the same person.

"Since you are the same person, and you are also one of their souls, why are they all spirits, while you have become a real person?"

A flicker of disgust crossed the woman's eyes. "She thought she had found true love, but the man she loved didn't love her at all. If she had aborted the child, she wouldn't have ended up with her soul scattered. She still chose that path for that man, and soon after she disappeared, he found someone else. What a ridiculous love! I am the darkest part of her soul, and of course she didn't want me to be discovered. She even wanted to destroy me, so she kept me in a hellish place."

A burning hatred blazed in the woman's eyes. "It doesn't matter. Since she was abandoned, why should I care about her? I broke the seal and escaped from there. Heaven didn't forsake me. I found the Ancient Spirit Pearl, which can solidify souls. As long as I can collect all of her soul and get the ring that scattered her soul, I can replace her and live in this world again." Others might not believe these shocking words, but Yin Quan had no choice but to believe them.

The ring on my hand had such a great function, but it was clearly a gift from Xiahou Ying, who said it was his mother's keepsake...

Thinking back on everything, Yin Quan felt that the world was full of absurdities. Could it be that Xiahou Ying's mother was also a time traveler? Thinking of this, Yin Quan felt a tremor in her heart. Xiahou Ying did lose his mother at an early age, and everything about Xiahou Ying's mother was a mysterious legend.

As Yin Quan was still immersed in this unbelievable fact, she felt a chill on her wrist as the woman's whip silently wrapped around it.

"But don't worry, I only want that ring. Just hand it over obediently and I won't do anything to you."