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Chapter 4312: 5.0064 Uninvited Guest

Everyone looked up and saw a large mass of harpy-like creatures rushing towards them from the direction of the pier.

Peach Blossom Immortal Venerable and Mi Yan Holy Son flew quickly to Qiaomu's side. "They found us; we need to leave quickly. Those human-headed, lion-bodied creatures can't cross water. If they want to attack us in the water, they'll have to fly."

If they only had to deal with these harpy-like creatures, whose attack power wasn't very high, it wouldn't matter even if their divine sense was temporarily locked.

The situation was urgent, but He Luan remained composed, giving a cold command, "Anchor immediately, go!"

The large ship answered by raising its anchor and promptly started moving towards the vast expanse of water ahead.

Qiaomu pulled out hundreds of bows and arrows from her storage talisman and handed them to the Phoenix Clan members and Qingxuexue's three hundred personal guards.

She leaped onto the bow first, demonstrating by firing a black-gold arrow, and said with a cold little face, "Shoot for the center of the brow. There's a mutated black crystal there."

As the arrow flew, it made a whistling sound through the air.

Everyone looked on with varied expressions, watching as the little crown princess's single arrow shot down the foremost harpy-like creature into the water, creating a huge splash.

The Phoenix Clan members almost foolishly cheered but were silenced by a glance from Qiaomu, making them stop.

"Who's lurking around?" Qiaomu turned her head and saw that Qingxuexue had quietly woken up.

Meanwhile, the shouts of several maidservants came from the opposite cargo hold.

Before long, a woman dressed very revealingly was pushed and shoved in front of everyone, her arms twisted behind her back.

Qiaomu gracefully landed on the deck and glanced sideways at the woman.

"Hongse, why are you here?" Qingxuexue looked slightly stunned.

Qinghongse glared angrily at Qingxuexue, then burst out in a torrent of curses, "Of course you don't want to see me here!"

"If I hadn't been clever enough to sneak away here early, I'd still be on Qingcheng Island right now, probably already had my throat slit."

"How could that be?" Qingxuexue murmured.

But Qinghongse seemed to have been stung by a wasp, suddenly jumping up and shouting furiously, "Mother is truly too biased! When disaster strikes, she only arranges for you to leave!"

"We're both her biological daughters, so how can she be so unfair?"

She considered herself clever for having snuck away earlier. She pitied her other sisters, who were probably already dead by now.

"Hongse, your maternal grandfather's family colluded with Heavenly Fate and rebelled."

Qinghongse, of course, knew that the Tushan family had rebelled, but precisely because she knew, she needed to escape even more.

Who knew if the Tushan family, after joining Heavenly Fate, would expose her? The Tushan family had certainly sold out their masters for glory often enough.

She was just a granddaughter; what did she matter in the face of the entire family's interests?

"It's Princess Hongse." He Luan raised a hand, ordering someone to release her.

Qinghongse clutched her almost broken arm, her gaze casually sweeping over Mo Lian, Feng Chen, and the others, her voice incredibly sour. "Heh, Mother is really good to you. She even gave you handsome men to accompany you on your escape."

She seemed to recall the eighteen handsome men the Queen had bestowed upon Qingxuexue, and a trace of indignation flashed across Qinghongse's face.

Such extreme partiality!

Qingxuexue was speechless and looked at Qiaomu with a slight apology. "This is my third sister, Qinghongse. Sister Qiao, please don't mind her."

"Hey, everyone, look! Is Qingcheng Island sinking?"