The night deepened, but the secluded Manor outside Shrek Academy remained brightly lit.
Gu Yue sat at the head of the room, her fingers unconsciously tapping the armrest. The tap, tap rang especially clearly in the silence. Her expression shifted unpredictably, her silver eyes flickering with anger, shock, and a trace of fear that was difficult to detect.
Di Tian and the Myriad Demon King stood below her, reporting everything they had discovered that night. The note found in the abandoned warehouse now lay quietly on the table before Gu Yue, like a cold, venomous snake flicking its tongue.
"The Holy Spirit Cult... the Qiangu Family..." Gu Yue murmured, a slight tremor in her voice. "They really have colluded."
Although she had long known that the Qiangu Family was wildly ambitious and would stop at nothing for power, she had never imagined they would be deranged enough to cooperate with Evil Soul Masters. This was the Holy Spirit Cult, the common enemy of the entire Soul Master World, an existence that even she, the sovereign of all Soul Beasts, loathed to the core.
"Supreme Lord," the Myriad Demon King said gravely, "although the plants cannot serve as human witnesses, the contents of that note are enough to prove that the Qiangu Family is colluding with the Holy Spirit Cult. Their so-called 'gift' is unlikely to be anything good."
"It is more than collusion," Di Tian added coldly. "Judging by the tone of that note, the Qiangu Family seems to be tacitly permitting, even encouraging, the Holy Spirit Cult to move against Shrek Academy and the Tang Sect. They intend to kill with a borrowed blade."
They would use the Holy Spirit Cult as their "blade" to eliminate Shrek and the Tang Sect, the two thorns lodged deep in their hearts.