The headquarters hall of the Four Directions Gate.
Gu Yanshuang and Gu Chenfeng sat side by side in the hall's seats of honor, with a huge painting of a fierce tiger descending a mountain hanging behind them.
Before them, Yan Sihai, master of the Four Directions Gate, knelt on both knees with his head pressed to the floor.
Not only was his posture humble to the extreme, even his imposing body was trembling slightly.
Cold sweat had already soaked his clothes.
If Yan Sihai had felt shock and fear upon discovering that the young woman before him was actually a Source Core Realm expert...
Then after she had crushed him with a single thrust of her spear and casually tossed him that waist token bearing the character "Gu"...
His heart had been submerged in boundless despair.
It turned out that the people he had provoked were actually the Gu clan of Great Li.
The supreme lineage that every gang and sect in southern Yan Province feared most.
The terrifying existence that had once washed the entire martial cultivation world in blood.
If the Gu Lineage truly mobilized its strength...
Forget a single Four Directions Gate-even the entire Hidden Dragon Mountains could be razed flat.
At the same time, he had also deduced...
The identity of this beautiful young woman, who possessed the terrifying cultivation of the Source Core Realm at such a young age, yet carried an austere, murderous military air.
Gu Hanshuang, the eldest daughter of the Gu Lineage's third generation.
Deputy commander of the Tiger Guard, one of the Twelve Imperial Guard Divisions.
After figuring all this out...
The last shred of Yan Sihai's courage had been drained away.
He no longer harbored any hope of getting lucky, much less dared entertain the slightest malicious thought.
He had