Gui Mei stepped into the cold, oppressive room with a relaxed expression. Several gazes laden with immense pressure and piercing hostility instantly locked onto him. His eyes swept calmly across the room before settling on the girl seated at its head. He bowed slightly, his tone neither servile nor overbearing. "Black Impermanence Gui Mei greets Your Excellency, the Silver Dragon King."
At those words, the Ferocious Beasts' gazes grew even colder.
This man actually knew their lord's identity?!
Gu Yue sat at the head of the room, studying the figure before her. Beside her, the White-Haired Dumpling had become serious for once and sat there with a deliberately solemn expression, though the frosting lingering on her delicate, cherry-pink lips seemed to give something away.
Gu Yue scrutinized the person before her-or rather, he was not a person at all. He looked like a middle-aged man with black hair and black eyes, but her senses told her he had no physical body whatsoever. His form consisted of a mass of energy that resembled divine power, yet was not divine power.
She did not connect him to the two Quasi-Gods of the Holy Spirit Cult who had attacked Shrek earlier. In the circulated footage taken by the Military Satellite, those two Quasi-Gods had been completely obscured by two masses of energy, one black and one white. Their actual appearances were impossible to make out, and Yue Guan and Gui Mei had disguised their voices that time as well.
"Your purpose." Gu Yue's voice was as cold and clear as ice, without the slightest trace of emotion.
"I come bearing goodwill," Gui Mei said.
"Allow me to introduce our lord-he is the supreme deity who rules the kingdom of the dead, the sole sovereign of the boundless Netherworld, the Yanluo Heavenly Son who