Everyone jumped in fright. Their already unsettled hearts grew even more anxious, refusing to calm.
At this moment, Qin Xuanji was undoubtedly a thousand times-ten thousand times-more terrifying in their eyes than the soul-reaping ghost officers from the Underworld!
The instant they saw her appear before them, the first thing they felt was a guilty conscience.
So guilty that they instinctively averted their gazes, not daring to look her in the eye.
Bang! Boom!
The elder who had addressed Qin Xuanji directly by name just a second earlier exploded the next instant, blood scattering and chunks of flesh falling.
Wait! If Qin Xuanji is here, then who is she?
Communicating silently, they whipped their heads back and forth, looking at Ye Qingcheng, then Qin Xuanji. Their heads felt twice their normal size, and they could not make heads or tails of the situation.
Th-this shouldn't be possible... Apart from the Female Emperor Qin Xuanji, the Divine Court actually has another expert this powerful? Are you sure this isn't a joke?
I wish it were a joke. Then all those people who died could come back to life.
So what do we do now? Fight our way out?
Fight our way out? We can't handle even one of them, let alone two.
We have no choice. We can only stall as long as possible and wait for the Sect Master and the others to notice the disturbance here and come to our aid.
How long can we hold out? The time it takes to drink a cup of tea? To burn a stick of incense?
However long we can!
Although they had resolved to resist to the bitter end, when they actually faced Qin Xuanji and Ye Qingcheng, their hearts could not stop beating a retreat.
An indescribable terror kept breeding