As the "bridge" connecting the two powerful clans of the Mist Ghost Clan and the Four-Armed Ape Clan, this woman's special status was both the source of her noble standing... and, when necessary, a death warrant hanging over her head.
Secondly, Wei Tu could not be certain whether the "Great Abyss Consort" before him was the Great Abyss Consort's true body, or whether she was, like Pei Hong, merely a "Blood Ghost Soul-Splitting Technique" incarnation.
If so, then Old Ghost Pei's soul fragment would be even less restrained in his actions when death came knocking.
—Though he knew that cultivating the "Blood Ghost Soul-Splitting Technique" was no easy task, not something as simple as Old Ghost Pei's inherited secret art, one could never be too careful... If this worst-case suspicion proved true, all the painstaking effort he had expended in this battle would go down the drain.
"Seems not?"
The next instant, Wei Tu's figure soundlessly appeared behind the Great Abyss Consort once more. He reached out and seized her, using the [Myriad-Ban Demon Curse] to imprison her magic power while locking his grip around her jade-like neck. His divine sense swiftly probed the soul hidden deep within her sea of consciousness.
This sudden "attack" instantly made the Great Abyss Consort's delicate body stiffen. She shuddered inwardly, and her lovely face turned deathly pale once again.
At this moment, she could clearly sense the masculine aura of the male cultivator behind her, as well as the cold killing intent buried deep within his eyes.
"Why must Fellow Daoist Ruan go this far? You and I made an alliance pact within the sedan... Just now, just now, this lady had no choice but to join that old thief Farmer Woodcutter in setting up an array against you..."
"This lady... no! This