Chapter 523: The Core
Venerable Jingse heard the voice, and some of the gravity on his face eased. He called out, "Please come in, Your Majesty."
The words had barely fallen when the courtyard gate was gently pushed open, and a figure walked in at an unhurried pace.
It was a woman dressed in Western Region attire, who appeared to be around thirty years of age, in the full bloom of her mature years.
She wore a long fire-red robe woven with gold thread, with a jade belt set with pigeon-blood rubies at her waist, tracing the slender curve of her figure and making her tall posture and natural grace all the more striking.
Her appearance was strikingly beautiful, not the youthful freshness of a girl, but the mature and captivating charm that comes with the passage of years.
Her pair of peach-blossom eyes had slightly upturned outer corners. When they glanced about, they carried a natural regal authority that needed no anger to convey, yet also concealed a clarity and insight that suggested she had seen through the ways of the world.
Between her brows was a vermilion lotus mark, adding several more layers of rich exotic appeal.
The aura around her was full and gathered inward. She had already reached the Fifth Revolution of the Grandmaster realm, and within these ruins, she counted as one of the top-tier experts.
The woman walked into the courtyard, and her gaze fell first on Chen Qing. Those lovely peach-blossom eyes narrowed slightly, and her delicate brows furrowed briefly, before she turned toward Venerable Jingse and asked, "Venerable Jingse, who is this?"