As the Brainless Minister spoke, the Black-Armored Guard beside him immediately locked onto Zhang Yuan and Xie Jingxin, radiating the dangerous aura unique to the ghost deities of the [Yin Net Tranquil-Illumination Palace]. Even the aura leaking from him sent a tremor through the demons resting beside the Demon King Palace, and they all retreated in unison.
The demons turned their gazes back onto Zhang Yuan and Xie Jingxin. Even though they could not see through the pair's disguises, they had already guessed their true identities.
The [Yin Net Tranquil-Illumination Palace] had existed for far too long, and far too many cultivators had come to attack the Demon King Palace. To successfully infiltrate it, human cultivators had exhausted every conceivable method, and the most commonly used was disguising themselves as demons.
The demons really had seen this all too often.
At first, this method had actually worked fairly well. Some human cultivators really had slipped in and found opportunities to infiltrate the Demon King Palace. But as more and more people used it, the method stopped working. The vast majority of impostors were detected by ghost deities in advance, and those outrageously defiant human cultivators were executed outside the city gates.
From the looks of it, these two humanoid demons, who were terrifying enough to frighten other demons, were also human cultivators in disguise.
All the demons believed Zhang Yuan and Xie Jingxin were human cultivators in disguise, but the Brainless Minister speaking to Zhang Yuan thought otherwise. He disagreed with their judgment. Rather than disguised human cultivators, he believed the pair were ghost deities from some Demon King Palace, just like himself.
There was no other reason for it.
The conceptual images of fierce baleful intent emanating from Zhang Yuan and Xie Jingxin made even him, a legitimate ghost