Mochuan Neiku had ambushed Niu Langchedan from behind, cutting off his head with a single stroke.
Seeing that his ambush had succeeded, Mochuan Neiku leaped into the air, caught Niu Langchedan's flying head, and burst into smug laughter.
At that moment, both the cult disciples inside the encirclement and those surrounding them were stunned, staring blankly at the laughing Mochuan Neiku.
When they recovered, Niu Langchedan's diehard followers began attacking Mochuan Neiku, but most of those twenty-odd thousand people were Mochuan Neiku's own men.
They had originally been on the same side, but now they began fighting one another again.
Ju Ju’ouyao watched the two groups fight inside the encirclement with a broad smile. He also promptly stopped the cult disciples who wanted to attack.
After the time it took to drink a cup of tea, only Mochuan Neiku's loyal cult disciples remained inside the encirclement, numbering fewer than ten thousand.
Just as he held up Niu Langchedan's head, ready to present it to Cult Leader Ju Ju’ouyao, Ju Ju’ouyao waved his hand, and the cult disciples outside the encirclement unleashed attacks that blotted out the sky upon those within.
Mochuan Neiku only managed to say, "You're ruthless!" before he was obliterated amid the sky-filling spell arts and sword qi.
"How could this Divine Cult tolerate a traitor like you?" Those were Ju Ju'ouyao's final words to Mochuan Neiku.
After getting rid of the stumbling block that was Niu Langchedan, Cult Leader Ju Ju’ouyao sent men to finish clearing the battlefield.
Then he summoned his loyal followers and the opportunists who had supported his rise to power for a meeting to discuss how to deal with the Immortal Realm Allied Army's coming attacks.
After everyone spent the night talking over one another, they still had no concrete plan. Some wanted