The demons in the hall fell silent as cicadas in winter, their hearts and guts torn apart by terror.
All except one.
Beneath her disheveled hair.
In an angle no one noticed, the girl's lowered eyes gradually filled with an emotion much like the boy's.
"What a coincidence. I was thinking the same thing."
"..."
The smile on the boy's face abruptly froze.
The heat in his eyes swiftly receded, turning to surprise, then shock, and finally boundless fury.
"You court death!"
The boy's expression darkened. Golden light surged around him, and his figure vanished in an instant.
He did not charge toward Jiang Yuechu. Instead, he became a streak of light and lunged straight at the Azure Nether Great Sage nearby.
Kill the weak first, then devour the strong.
That was a predator's hunting instinct.
The Azure Nether Great Sage's pupils trembled violently, and he was about to retreat.
But an even swifter figure in black moved later and arrived first.
She was not going to intercept the boy.
Instead...
BOOM!!!
On the other side, a wary Mountain-Viewing Realm flood dragon did not even have time to let out a mournful cry.
A palm drove its head straight into its chest.
Jiang Yuechu released her grip, letting the headless corpse slump limply to the floor.
Billowing black vapor gushed from the apertures all over her body like hungry ghosts released from their cage, instantly enveloping the demon's corpse.
In the blink of an eye, its ethereal soul was forcibly torn out. Wailing within the black mist, it became a mass of pure light and sank into the girl's body.
It happened so quickly that the brocade-robed boy had only made it halfway before he was forced to stop dead.
He whipped his head around and stared fixedly at the