I Became the Devil Queen's Heart Demon-Chapter 978 - 364: Moonlit Tiger Ambush! Empress Strikes!

Looking at the two women in front of him, the man in black felt a chill run down his spine.

These two showed no signs of leaking energy, which only made them seem extremely dangerous!

The Nine-headed Mountain base had multiple arrays set up; if an outsider broke in, it would trigger the alarm immediately. But these two had slipped in silently, so close that no one noticed...

"The situation is dire!"

The man in black's mind raced.

Fighting them head-on without knowing their background was clearly unwise.

Anyway, the mission in Fengmu County had failed, and there was no need to defend this spot to death—survival came first!

With this in mind, he steadied his energy in his dantian and shouted angrily: "Enemy attack! All disciples, follow me quickly to kill the enemies!"

His loud voice echoed in the cave.

"What?"

"Enemy attack?!"

The disciples, who were busy refining Gu, were jolted alert. They then realized outsiders had broken in, and their faces changed drastically as they pulled out their weapons and rushed forward.

The man in black, however, retreated, darting toward the exit, intending to make a run for it!

"As long as I can stall them for a while..."

"They're just lower-ranking laborers, expendable. The elder can always transform a new batch if need be..."

To the Gu God Sect, these so-called "disciples" were the least valuable.

With specific Gu poison worms implanted, even ordinary people could possess strength matching that of Mortal Cultivators, making new disciples worship the Sect Hierarch as a deity, unaware that they were just firewood to keep the Sect running.

Even if they didn't die here, they would eventually be used as nutrients for the Gu poison worms after their value was exhausted, nourishing those of higher status.

Once you joined the Gu God Sect, there was no way out except to climb desperately upward.

"Just five more feet..."

The man in black flickered through the air, on the verge of leaving the cave.

The next moment, his body suddenly felt light—

To be precise, he could no longer feel his body.

Puzzled, he looked back to see a headless figure standing there, looking eerily familiar... as if it were him?!

Thud—

His head fell to the ground, rolling far away from sheer inertia.

Yet his consciousness didn't fade and he could still clearly see the scene around him.

"Kill!"

The disciples screamed as they charged at the two women.

"Noisy."

Yu Youhan flicked her finger lightly, and a streak of cyan light shot out, weaving through the crowd like a thread.

A disciple who had just arrived was swept by the light, froze in action, then toppled like a set of building blocks, cut into dozens of pieces, the edges smooth and clean without a single drop of blood spilled.

The second, the third...

As more disciples were reduced to pieces, they finally realized something was wrong and turned to flee, but it was too late.

In just three breaths, the strands of light dissected hundreds into neatly divided carcasses, piling them into a small hill.

"There are too few people; even killing sparingly isn't enough." Yu Youhan seemed unsatisfied.

"..."

Ye Zi'e swallowed hard.

With Her Majesty the Consort's power, she could wipe them out in a single breath. The reason for such a display was only one: to vent.

Ever since that "reverse raid" incident, the Empress had been in a bad mood, harboring an unrelenting fury.

"So..."

"What exactly happened that night after the Empress threw Li Yuan and me out?"

Recalling the scene of the intruders breaking in, Ye Zi'e's heart trembled, her cheeks flush with red. Could it be that Chen Mo and the Empress also... She shook her head vigorously to drive away the intrusive thoughts.

Impossible!

The Empress, nobly born, would never do such a thing!

Still, to have such a connection with Her Majesty the Imperial Consort... was not a wasted trip.

Unaware of Ye Zi'e's wild notions, Yu Youhan, having slaughtered all present disciples, raised her hand and the man in black's head flew back, floating before her.

"Wh-who are you?!" The man in black was terrified, as those earlier methods had surpassed anything he understood!

Killing wasn't hard, but to kill with such cruelty and elegance was beyond ordinary people!

Could it be that the court had sent two Grandmasters?

Impossible!

Yu Youhan wasn't in the mood for conversation. Her jade fingers pointed at his brow from afar.

A wisp of a semi-transparent Divine Soul was extracted, disintegrating into ashes amid ear-splitting wails.

"Tch, even the protector doesn't know Yin Tiankou's exact location. He's hidden really well," Yu Youhan shook her head. Based on the information gained from the Soul Search, she turned to the altar.

She injected a strand of Primordial Qi into it, igniting the array underfoot.

Lights intertwined in the sky, forming a hexagram pattern, accompanied by a rustling sound.

Soon after, a vague voice emerged: "What is it?"

Yu Youhan didn't reply; her eyes flickered as the star pattern reversed, converging into a beam of light vaguely pointing south.

"Huh?"

The other side seemed to have sensed something, let out a startled cry, and hurriedly severed the connection.

However, Yu Youhan had already locked onto the approximate location, sneering, "Turtle hiding in its shell, let's see where you can hide!"

"Empress, what about this guy?" Ye Zi'e pointed at Li Chichang, asking aloud, "How about you search his soul too? Just in case there's a major discovery."

"F-fairy, spare me..."

Li Chichang's legs turned to jelly as he kneeled and shivered on the ground.

Seeing the tragic end of those disciples and protectors firsthand, he was scared out of his wits.