Leng Yue and Xue Yue

"Whoever killed my disciple, come out and die!"

A terrifying wave of sound surged straight toward the Spirit King's Manor. The icy voice struck everyone's hearts, deafening them.

"They're here!"

Madam Wang, who had slumped to the ground, abruptly raised her head and looked at the royal elder.

The elder said nothing and led everyone out of the side hall.

Before their eyes, two streaks of spiritual light tore through the distant night, approaching at tremendous speed before stopping above the manor.

In the hazy darkness, the two Primordial Spirit Realm cultivators unleashed their pressure without restraint upon the entire Spirit King's Manor. Many low-level cultivators could not withstand their presence and were knocked unconscious.

"This feeling..."

The elder's pupils contracted sharply. Sensing the two women's cultivation, he was filled with shock.

"One is at the middle Primordial Spirit Realm, and the other is at the late Primordial Spirit Realm!"

Madam Wang also gazed at the two distant women, whose faces were full of murderous intent. Her heart brimmed with bitterness and resentment.

Two great Primordial Spirit Realm cultivators had come at once. She had never anticipated this.

Still less could she understand why Dai Cheng had died for no reason! She had expended such a precious Heavenly Soul Flower, only to fail to turn the situation around and instead bring about such a grave mistake!

Who was plotting against them from the shadows?

Madam Wang's heart twisted in agony, but she found no answer.

"Elder, can you handle them?" Though Madam Wang knew the chances were slim, she asked the question anyway.

"Both of them are far stronger than I am. The woman in white is at the middle Primordial Spirit Realm, and the woman in red beside her is even more terrifying!"

"If I'm not mistaken, she is already infinitely close to the perfected realm. In the entire Ling Kingdom, only His Majesty can suppress her alone."

The elder spoke helplessly.

Although he was in the Primordial Spirit Realm, his cultivation was only at the early stage, far below that of the two women.

The moment his presence met theirs, it fell at once into a disadvantage. When they truly came to blows, he feared he would not last more than a few moves!

At his words, Madam Wang's heart sank into utter despair.

"Activate the formation!"

Looking at the two figures in the sky, whose pressure bore down on the entire Spirit King's Manor like great mountains, she gave the order with trembling hands.

In an instant, pillars of spiritual light shot skyward from every part of the Spirit King's Manor. Countless formation patterns and secret incantations appeared in the air, forming an enormous restrictive formation that enclosed and protected the entire manor.

Having anticipated such a calamity, Madam Wang had long since ordered the formation foundations throughout the manor reactivated.

These spiritual formations and restrictions had been left behind a thousand years ago. Without a Dao Palace Realm mighty figure holding the fort, the Spirit King's Manor could no longer maintain its protective restrictive formation for long. The formations that remained were only fifth-tier.

A fifth-tier formation could indeed hold off Primordial Spirit Realm cultivators, but it was not insurmountable. Once the spiritual formation was completely destroyed, the Spirit King's Manor would still have to face the two great cultivators' attacks.

Everyone in the Spirit King's Manor looked up at the enormous curtain of light above them, and suddenly forgot their earlier fear.

"Madam, we swear to live and die with the manor."

Someone spoke with conviction.

With one person taking the lead, the others all found their resolve.

The Spirit King's clan had endured for a thousand years, its bloodline unbroken. Though they had their disputes, they had not lost the fighting spirit of the first Spirit King.

Looking at the growing number of clanspeople behind her, Madam Wang straightened her back once more. The vulnerability vanished from her expression, and her bearing seemed sharper than ever.

"Elder, sorry for the trouble, but please explain the whole course of events to these two great cultivators from the Moon-Gazing Sect."

Madam Wang spoke calmly.

"If the situation cannot be turned around, our Spirit King's Manor will meet its end today. When the time comes, Elder, you may return and report to His Majesty. Tell him that the Spirit King's Manor's fortune has run out, and nothing could be done to save it."

Madam Wang had cast aside all hope. Yet at this moment, she was more resolute than ever. Bearing the conviction of everyone in the manor, she no longer feared even death.

"Alas..."

The elder looked at the faces before him and started to speak, but stopped. In the end, he said nothing, only letting out a deep sigh.

There are some things I cannot say outright. The Ling Kingdom could never allow anything to happen to one of its princely manors. So if this crisis cannot be resolved peacefully, the only ones who will die are these two.

The elder spoke to himself inwardly.

In midair, the woman in red watched the spiritual formation rise. Her cold brows slanted as she sneered, "A trifling high-grade fifth-tier spiritual formation dares stand in our way!"

"Once we break the formation, you'll have ten deaths and no chance of survival!"

The woman in white merely pressed her lips tightly together. She could sense a familiar presence: her disciple's. But that presence no longer had the vitality it once possessed.

At the thought, her heart felt as though it were being cut by knives, and her hatred knew no bounds.

"Cold Moon Like Frost!"

The woman in white shouted and raised her sword high.

A silver crescent moon suddenly appeared in the sky. Bright moonlight poured down, and a chill spread across heaven and earth, condensing countless layers of frost in the air.

"Crimson Moon Like Blood!"

The woman in red pressed her palms together, and a flash of red light passed through her eyes. In an instant, a crimson crescent moon appeared in the heavens, facing the silver moon and forming a complete circle with it.

The blood moon blazed with baleful light. Endless crimson radiance fell, carrying overwhelming might.

The two Primordial Spirit Realm spells stirred a resonance in heaven and earth. The land for dozens of miles around shone as brightly as day, and countless people in Myriad Phenomena City looked toward the Spirit King's Manor.

Inside the royal mausoleum, Ling Yun's pupils contracted. Feeling the pressure of the two spells, he gained a deeper understanding of the Primordial Spirit Realm's power.

So strong. They truly are great cultivators, capable of stirring a resonance in heaven and earth. How could an ordinary Core Formation Realm cultivator withstand that?

Ling Yun's heart sank to the bottom of a valley.

If he unleashed his cultivation and all his many methods, could he match a Primordial Spirit Realm cultivator?

Ling Yun did not know.

Half a month ago, he certainly would not have entertained such a thought.

But after cultivating the Life-bound Talisman, Ling Yun felt an inexplicable confidence in himself.

Ling Yun's gaze flickered as he murmured to himself:

"As I am now, I should be able to have some effect on the situation."

As he pondered, the two spells came crashing down.

Above the manor, the protective spiritual formation blazed with light, holding both spells at bay. Terrifying explosions thundered throughout the manor, and their residual force sent countless ripples across the formation.

"It held..."

Ling Yun breathed a sigh of relief.

After all, it was a sixth-tier spiritual formation left behind a thousand years ago. However incomplete it was, it could still hold out for a time against the attacks of two Primordial Spirit Realm cultivators.

"Hm?"

The women in white and red cried out in surprise.

"This spiritual formation... isn't as simple as it looks..."

The woman in red frowned slightly as she spoke.

"It seems... to be an incomplete sixth-tier formation!"

After a while, she finally discerned what was going on, and a trace of seriousness entered her gaze.

"It seems the Ling Kingdom truly was powerful a thousand years ago. Even after its foundation was severed by an evil cultivator, it still has such power."

"But that's all it amounts to!"

In the Moon-Gazing Sect, a pair of female fiends were infamous, and few dared provoke them. They were these two women.

They were sisters by blood. The one in white was called Leng Yue, and the one in red Xue Yue. They had wandered homeless since childhood, relying on each other to survive, and only later joined the Moon-Gazing Sect.

After joining the Moon-Gazing Sect, both displayed exceptional talent, rarely seen even within the sect. Because the sisters had led such difficult lives in their early years, they cultivated as though their lives depended on it once they learned how talented they were.

But bullying the weak was commonplace in the Moon-Gazing Sect. The two endured it again and again, but once they grew stronger, everyone who had wronged them was killed swiftly and cleanly.

The two carved out a fearsome reputation through killing in the Moon-Gazing Sect, but they also made countless enemies. Just as some were plotting to dispose of them once and for all, Leng Yue and Chi Yue achieved the Primordial Spirit Realm one after the other, becoming major figures in the Moon-Gazing Sect!

From then on, the name of the fiends resounded far and wide, and Leng Yue and Xue Yue became people few in the Moon-Gazing Sect dared offend.