With Zhang Yuan and Xiao Yuanjun there to steady her nerves.
Tan Chengcheng showed no sign of backing down. Her tongue spared no mercy as she sneered:
"Tan Yuming wants to kill me. Unfortunately, he's destined to be disappointed. Since he sent someone to assassinate me, shouldn't he have found out who these two beside me were first? Sending you here in such a hurry-if you ask me, there's a good chance he deliberately sent you to your death."
Only upon hearing this did Shangguan Ying turn her gaze to Zhang Yuan and Xiao Yuanjun and size them up.
As the reigning Crown Prince's intelligence network covered all of Heaven-Reaching City, she knew that Tan Chengcheng had recruited Zhang Yuan and Xiao Yuanjun and housed them in the Eldest Princess's Residence.
However, their origins were mysterious, and Tan Chengcheng had shielded them well. She had only guessed that they were reinforcements Tan Chengcheng had recruited; she knew nothing of their actual identities or cultivation realms.
But did that matter?
Not in the slightest.
If Tan Chengcheng could recruit reinforcements, couldn't His Highness the Crown Prince do the same?
Shangguan Ying smiled confidently. "Eldest Princess, I might as well tell you: His Highness not only recruited the First God Cult, but also invited a Demonic Celestial Person from the Central Demon Realm. However formidable your reinforcements may be, could they possibly be stronger than a Demonic Celestial Person?"
"Senior, it is time for you to act. Please display your divine abilities and eliminate this thorn in His Highness's side. Once His Highness ascends the throne, he certainly won't treat you poorly."
She dared to approach Tan Chengcheng so closely because, besides the First God Cult followers accompanying her, a Demonic Celestial Person from the Central Demon Realm had followed behind her.