As soon as she entered, Li Hange respectfully asked, "Holy Son, what are your orders?"
As she spoke, she gazed at Pei Ling with eyes full of admiration. Her gaze was more fervent, reverent, and awestruck than ever before...
Not far behind her, Ouyang Xianxing was just as respectful. She followed with a bow and said, "The Holy Son's World-Shaking Divine Might has subdued all under heaven!"
Pei Ling listened without changing his expression and gave a slight nod. Then he said, "Senior Sisters, please take the Li Clan disciples and the Jiansang lineage disciples and return to the sect at once."
"I have important matters to attend to next, and I'm afraid I won't have time to look after them."
Li Hange and Ouyang Xianxing immediately bowed and replied, "Understood!"
Pei Ling continued, "Jin Sumian will stay behind."
Ouyang Xianxing paused slightly. Once she understood, she quickly said, "Understood!"
Pei Ling nodded. "Go."
Seeing that he had no further orders, Li Hange and Ouyang Xianxing bowed and took their leave.
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Lower deck of the flying vessel.
Inside a cabin.
Four righteous female cultivators sat in a circle. Between them, a water mirror hung in the air, its surface displaying every detail as scene after scene shifted within it.
Lin Hanyan, Chen Jingmeng, Zhao Juanjuan, and Shen Yinchen all stared at the sight, their faces flushed red.
"That's... the Empress Dowager! The Empress Dowager's come to save them!" As she watched, Lin Hanyan's eyes suddenly lit up. She fixed her gaze on the slender figure in the distance within the water mirror and cried, "Pei Ling is definitely doomed this time! The Empress Dowager's cultivation has already reached..."
Before she could finish, Chen Jingmeng's face turned pale. "What?! How could the Empress Dowager lose too?!"
Zhao Juanjuan stared blankly,