Lin Qiye had more or less figured out the situation.
After the Iridescent Mist descended, Queen Mother of the West realized that another batch of identical duplicates had appeared in Yaochi. After testing them, she discovered that there was simply no way to distinguish the fakes from the real ones. They had completely blended in among Yaochi's gods.
To prevent the fake gods from escaping Yaochi and infiltrating the Heavenly Court, causing even greater trouble, and to protect the Eternal Immortal Pill, Queen Mother of the West had simply chosen to massacre Yaochi. Every god shrouded in the mist, real or fake, would be slaughtered... That way, the calamity could be strangled within Yaochi itself.
That was why she had sent Jialan and Jiang Zhu away, setting a ten-day deadline... because by her calculations, ten days would be more than enough to slaughter the entire Yaochi.
Yet during this process, she had inevitably encountered her own duplicate.
Since the duplicate possessed the same personality and way of thinking as Queen Mother of the West, and likewise wished to protect the Heavenly Court and the Eternal Immortal Pill, it would certainly agree to clear out Yaochi first. That was how the scene of the two of them joining forces to kill Ju Mang and Zhu Rong had come about.
How ruthless... Lin Qiye thought as he looked at the two Queen Mothers of the West in the sky.
Her own territory, her own guards, the guests she had invited—she could order them all massacred without hesitation, not even leaving behind a single immortal crane... No wonder she could become the Queen Mother of all gods.
"A human intruding into Yaochi is quite a rare sight." The Queen Mother of the West on the left spoke slowly. "This palace saw them earlier.