A weak and evil woman was exiled? The beastly husbands risked their lives to protect her

Chapter 396 Xueyin, is it Yunbo?
Jiang Xinli said "Oh," her eyes crinkling with a smile, "That works too~"

She is a person who has a strong sense of boundaries.

Since this had little to do with finding the Star Gate, Xueyin was unwilling to say more, so she didn't want to ask any further questions.

"Then I'm leaving." Jiang Xinli said, glancing at the hand that was still being held tightly by the boy.

At the edge of the Holy Tomb barrier, a narrow exit shrouded in a pale purple mist appeared.

"Miss Xinli, please be careful." Xueyin's gaze followed her eyes, and she gently squeezed the back of her hand with her fingertips for a moment before slowly letting go.

His voice was hoarse and dejected as he said, "Goodbye."

"Okay." Jiang Xinli looked at the dejected and lonely boy, then suddenly reached out to hold his shoulder, stood on tiptoe, and quickly kissed his cheek. "Goodbye."

The soft lips and fingertips gently touched his skin, and also touched the tip of his heart.

The boy's phoenix eyes widened, and his breath hitched.

Before he could even react, the girl's slender figure had already disappeared into the pale purple mist.

The well-defined fingers gently touched the lingering warmth on the thin cheek.

A faint rose scent lingered in the air.

The boy's ears turned red, and his heart was pounding.

He stared intently at the exit, a smile he himself didn't even realize appeared in his eyes.
Jiang Xinli walked briskly through the pale purple passage.

She didn't understand how it could take so long to leave when she had only been inside for a blink of an eye.

The burning gaze on her back finally disappeared, and she paused, reaching out to rub her temples.

She must have gone mad just now, to actually kiss Xueyin on her own initiative.

Can--

If given another chance, she would probably do the same thing again.

Jiang Xinli felt a little confused.

Forget it, I don't want to.

I wonder how Xuan Ying is doing outside.

The smell in the passage became unpleasant, and the water-repelling bead on Jiang Xinli's chest shone brightly.

She guessed that they were nearing the exit.

"Whoosh—" A pale purple light flashed by.

The pungent stench of decay and blood filled the air.

As soon as Jiang Xinli opened her eyes, she saw Xuan Ying surrounded by a dense swarm of mutated sea creatures.

Xuan Ying stood tall, his long, icy blue hair swaying gently in the seawater, holding an icy blue longsword in his hand.

The ground was covered with fresh corpses of mutated sea creatures.

Xuan Ying turned around, her icy blue vertical pupils lighting up instantly, "Silly pear!"

He deftly twirled his longsword, cleaving through a "beast wall," and with a leap of his long legs, he dashed towards Jiang Xinli like lightning.

Before Jiang Xinli could react, Xuan Ying had already pulled her into his arms.

The mutated beasts swarmed around them in a flash.

He brandished his icy longsword, repelling the mutated beast that charged at him three meters away. "Little silly pear, are you still going to the sea?"

Jiang Xinli nodded, "Go."

"Okay, hold your husband tight." After Xuan Ying finished speaking, she drew a circular arc in the water with her long sword.

As ripples spread outwards, the mutated beasts that first came into contact with the water were instantly frozen into bizarre ice sculptures, which sparsely drifted down to the bottom of the ravine.

Jiang Xinli was extremely surprised, "Xiaoying, that move of yours is really amazing!"

Xuan Ying's thin lips curled up, "That's right, don't you even know whose husband he is!"

After saying that, he glanced at her from head to toe. "By the way, you didn't encounter any danger in the Holy Tomb, did you?"

“No.” Jiang Xinli shook her head. “I’ll tell you the details later. Let’s go upstairs first.”

"Mmm." Xuan Ying embraced her, wielding his longsword to repel the mutated beasts as they swam upstream.

As the densely packed mutated beasts were frozen and disappeared from sight, Xuan Ying flashed and transformed into a snake, carrying Jiang Xinli as they swam rapidly towards the sea.

Jiang Xinli told Xuan Ying almost everything about the situation.

Seeing that the photon signal had been restored, he also sent the information to the family group chat. Xuan Ying turned his head and asked, "Xue Yin? You mean, that Xue Yin is also in the Holy Tomb?"

No wonder he smelled an unfamiliar male pheromone scent on her just now.

Jiang Xinli looked at the mysterious figure with its head covered in snake scales and spitting out scarlet snake shapes. She was momentarily taken aback and trembled all over. "Hmm."

She said, "If it weren't for him, I probably wouldn't have been able to get out."

Seeing that she was still somewhat afraid of his snake-like form, Xuan Ying turned her head back. "Why has that mermaid been so kind to you all this time?"

Jiang Xinli thought for a moment, "Because we're friends."

"Friends?" Xuan Ying scoffed. "A sea creature male you've only met a few times considers you a friend? Are you sure he didn't have ulterior motives for approaching you?"

After transforming into a snake, he swam very fast.

The seawater began to lighten in color, and a light appeared overhead; we were about to reach the surface.

Jiang Xinli slapped his snake-like neck, "Xiaoying, Xueyin is different, you can't talk about him like that."

She blurted out, "Besides, I feel sorry for him."

"Pitiful?!" Xuan Ying's eyes turned cold, and she sneered, "Jiang Xinli, you're a real scumbag!"

Jiang Xinli was completely bewildered, and her body trembled as she was suddenly chilled by the Xuan Ying Snake's body.

But when she thought about how she had kissed Xueyin when they parted, she felt a little guilty.

"Well, actually," she reached up and touched her nose, "Xiaoying, it's not what you think."

"You fall in love with every good-looking male you see, ha—" Xuan Ying was filled with jealousy. "Jiang Xinli, do you think others are pitiful? Are you here to help the poor?!"

Jiang Xinli looked aggrieved: "Xiaoying, that's not what I meant."

The man sneered, "Jiang Xinli, that's exactly what you meant!"

Jiang Xinli reached out and pinched him, feigning annoyance to change the subject, "Don't you call me 'darling' anymore?"

The black shadow snake turned its head away, "Hmph!"

"Fine, I won't yell then." Jiang Xinli hugged his snake neck and snorted.

The light grew brighter and brighter.

Jiang Xinli looked up, and sunlight pierced through the sea, scattering down.

Xuan Ying stopped arguing with her, transformed into human form, and leaped out of the water with her in his arms.

Clear blue skies and waters, a gentle breeze.

Jiang Xinli came alive.

"My God!" She had just taken a deep breath when she smelled the stench in the air.

I almost couldn't utter a single "yue".

Looking down, a layer of pollutants, resembling oil, floated on what appeared to be a deep blue sea.

"Snapped--"

Xuan Ying took a small boat out of his spatial ring and gently tossed it onto the sea.

This was something Ye Kuo specially purchased after learning about Jiang Xinli's ocean dream on Dark Star.

I never imagined that I would ever need it.

Xuan Ying embraced her as they slowly descended onto the small boat.

Jiang Xinli opened the chat window with Bai Yao on the computer, but it was still stuck on the previous chat interface.

She pointed ahead, "Xiaoying, the sea over there looks much cleaner. Shall we drive over there and take a look?"

"Scumbag!" Xuan Ying glared at her with his vertical pupils, but still obediently steered the small boat in the direction she pointed.

Jiang Xinli's wrist vibrated with a "buzz".

Just as she was overjoyed, thinking she had finally made contact with Bai Yao, a message from Sheng Tianze popped up in the family group chat:
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