Chapter 11637 — Look Into My Eyes
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The Zhou Son of Heaven was nowhere in sight, nor was Yi Liuchao.
Wei Zhao felt an instinctive sense of déjà vu, yet no matter how he searched his memory, he could not recall ever having seen this scene before.
It was as if it had already happened, and yet reason and reality alike told him that nothing had happened at all.
The inexplicable familiarity was nothing more than the effect of déjà vu.
The Queen's lips curved upward at the corners.
Of everyone present, she alone knew the truth of the matter.
The timeline had been rewound, making everything begin anew—that Steward Yi possessed precisely such an inconceivable power!
This, too, was a realm only a peak divine expert could touch; the lesser cultivators below could not even begin to dabble in it—even if everything were laid bare before them, their understanding was simply too limited to comprehend it.
Still, feeling the pressure of Yi Liuchao's covert gaze, the Queen did not dare be negligent.
Ignoring the poison-coated long saber Cheng Shuang'er held against her, the Queen fixed her eyes directly on Wei Zhao and spoke in a low, mesmerizing tone.
"Look into my eyes."
Wei Zhao was instantly subdued; the entire world vanished in an instant, leaving only the Queen before him, and he felt an involuntary urge to kneel at the hem of her skirt.
But only for an instant.
Wei Zhao promptly regained his senses and looked at her with a meaningful smile. "Your ability doesn't seem to work too well on me."
The Queen's eyelid twitched, and astonishment flooded her heart.
She had not previously made a point of using her divine beauty to charm Wei Zhao; that he had been able to withstand her allure was still more or less understandable—after all, she had encountered such figures before within the Inner Royal Court.
But now she had gone all out, targeting Wei Zhao alone, and her divine beauty had actually failed.
How could that be?
Not only she—Yi Liuchao, watching this scene, was likewise struck dumb.
At his level as a peak divine expert, he naturally looked down on the Queen; but to give credit where it was due, since she had been chosen by that personage, personally granted divine beauty, and made the herald who would sound the horn of a new era, the Queen's ability in this regard had at least been tested and proven.
Among those below the peak divine level, it could not be said that absolutely no one could withstand her divine-beauty charm, but one could be certain that there were absolutely very few.
This Wei Zhao was proving more interesting than he had anticipated.
Yi Liuchao wore an expression of amused interest.
Then he snapped his fingers.
"Rewind."
Time rewound once more, and the Queen turned her divine countenance upon Wei Zhao again. "Look into my eyes."
Wei Zhao could not help but feel his senses blur.
That overpowering sense of déjà vu surged up once more.
In the end the divine countenance failed again, but what delighted the Queen was that Wei Zhao's resistance had clearly begun to weaken.
Such was the domineering might of the divine countenance.
Even when it failed, the beguiling effect it produced did not simply vanish into thin air, but accumulated ceaselessly in the deepest recesses of the target's consciousness; once it reached a critical mass, even the hardest bone to gnaw would ultimately be conquered.
So at least in theory, there was no one under heaven who could withstand the divine countenance.
Provided the Queen was given enough opportunities.
And now, Yi Liuchao could rewind without limit, which meant she had limitless opportunities.
Thus Wei Zhao's capture by her divine countenance was no longer a matter of probability, but an inevitability.
"You still think you have a chance to turn the tables? Heh. Ignorant little brat."
Yi Liuchao was still sizing Wei Zhao up.