Commander Wei sized Xu Chunniang up without betraying a hint of emotion, silently assessing her strength.
The wanted notice had made it perfectly clear: more than a hundred years ago, Xu Chunniang had merely been a minor cultivator in the Human Immortal Realm.
Who would have thought that after only a century or so, she had gone to the demon realm once and returned with such strength?
Such progress was downright terrifying. No wonder the demon realm's order was in chaos, its demon cultivators bold and combative, with so many willingly falling into the demonic path.
Commander Wei looked at Xu Chunniang and coldly demanded, "Are you Xu Chunniang, the one who fled to the demon realm during the war between immortals and demons more than a century ago?"
Facing Commander Wei's gaze head-on, Xu Chunniang replied neither humbly nor arrogantly, "I am Xu Chunniang, but I was not a deserter. I was forced into the demon realm with no other choice."
"Lies!"
Commander Wei stared directly at her, his gaze stern.
"Your crime was personally determined by Zhao Mengdi, commander of the Left Peak Army at the time. More than sixty years ago, Commander Zhao had already passed the Immortal's Three-Nine Tribulation and advanced to become an Immortal King. How could a crime personally determined by her elder possibly be wrong?"
Zhao Mengdi had broken through in cultivation and become an Immortal King?
Xu Chunniang was not surprised to hear this. When she had left the immortal realm, Zhao Mengdi had only been one step away from the Immortal King Realm. It was only natural that she had taken that step.
"There were some misunderstandings regarding what happened then. I can explain..."
"No need! The wood has become a boat; there is no room for turning back now. Considering