Jade Maiden's Methods: Behead the Chief Envoy Again, Arrive with the Dawn, and Overturn Everything with a Flick of the Fingers!

Li Xian frowned deeply and scanned his surroundings. Seeing the oppressive, terrifying silence, he knew the elders' courage had already shattered and that they could no longer amount to anything. He could not stop praising her. "What methods, what methods—she first sent word that she would wipe out the Flower Thieves within ten days." She might not have been certain she could truly destroy the Flower Thieves within ten days; rather, she had spread pressure and stirred up their fighting spirit. Then, for the first four days, she had held her troops in place. That transformed the Flower Cage Sect's utmost terror into utmost arrogance. Yet there was a principle: one burst of effort, then decline, then exhaustion. Once the Flower Cage Sect's momentum had soared and gathered into a single blaze, she extinguished the drums and made no move. When the flames had burned themselves out and the sparks scattered in all directions, she struck them head-on again, naturally smashing their courage and hot blood to pieces!"

"This woman is far from merely famous. Her schemes and methods cannot be underestimated either. The elders have already fallen into her calculations and cannot pull themselves free. They are trapped in passivity now. I only seek to protect myself, so why should I warn them? Even if I did, they would no longer be able to listen."

Seeing more than a dozen corpses sprawled across the ground in miserable death, the elders all thought, Among the many elders already dead, some surpassed me in ability, strategy, and wealth. Even they could not escape calamity. Could we—could we possibly do so? Today's corpses will be tomorrow's us. Dangerous! Bitter! Miserable!

They kept covering their faces and sighing, unable to settle their terrified hearts. Then they saw Jin Shichang executed. Their former protection