My Evil Imperial Wife is Too Arrogant

The Young Lord of the Hidden City smiled eerily, then the surrounding space fluctuated.

From under the nine black crystal pillars, more than a dozen gigantic, Yin Nether Beasts with grim, frosty scales all over their bodies suddenly climbed out, all at Peak-Phase Tier 9.

More than a dozen Yin Nether Beasts stared with their big green eyes as big as buckets and attacked Su Jin and the others in unison.

Long Yao and Bing Ji no longer hid when they saw it and immediately revealed their figures, greeting the enemy with the four of them.

Ming Xiu and Lou Mu Yan kept bombarding the yang palace weakness of the array. As soon as the Yin Nether Beasts approached the two of them, Mo Yan suddenly grew larger, and a cloud of cyan nether flames spewed out.

Meanwhile, the second incarnation of the cyan-clothed man fought with the Ye Qing Han.

With a thought from Ye Qing Han, three more spirit pets appeared around him.

Among them, the Golden Eagle King had advanced to Peak-Phase Tier 9, while the other two were sea beasts that Lou Mu Yan had never seen before, both of which were Tier 10 cultivation bases.

[BOOM BOOM!!]

Not long after, a crack suddenly appeared in the Nine Palaces Eight Trigrams Array, emitting several loud noises, and began to collapse from the yang palace.

“PU!!” The nine people headed by the cyan-clothed man spat out a mouthful of blood and their aura weakened greatly.

“Damn you!” The cyan-clothed man had a ferocious look on his face. With a tap of his toes, he fell in front of the two of them and struck with his palm.

Ming Xiu huffed coldly and greeted him with a palm.

After the palms met, they both took a few steps back.

“You actually have the strength to fight me.” The cyan-clothed man narrowed his eyes and looked at Ming Xiu dangerously, asking: “Just who are you?”

“You can find the answer to this question in Hell.” Ming Xiu held a scarlet longsword in his other hand and waved it at the cyan-clothed man.

Right now, the other eight people weren’t idle either and they attacked one after another. Among them, the only female Sword Deity attacked with her palm towards Lou Mu Yan’s head.

Lou Mu Yan sneered and with a step she disappeared in a few afterimages. The palm strike also landed on the ground.

She wasn’t the Sword Venerable who had just entered the Land of Inheritance anymore. After advancing to Advanced-Phase Sword Saint, she now already possessed the ability to fight against a Sword Deity.

Lou Mu Bai and the others could deal with the Tier 9 Yin Nether Beasts, but after the other eight Sword Deities entered the battle, they were obviously inferior. It was only thanks to Long Yao’s spatial skill supporting them that they weren’t seriously injured.

Su Jin did have the strength to fight a Sword Deity, but even if the eight had lost their elemental essence and elemental energy, they were still Late-Phase Sword Deities, so they still struggled after being besieged.

Seeing that Lou Mu Bai and the others were about to be overwhelmed, Ye Qing Han instructed the three spirit pets to help.

Above the altar, there was chaos.

And after the Nine Palaces Eight Trigrams Array was broken by Lou Mu Yan and Ming Xiu, the devil force around the three people in the centre of the nine black crystal pillars gradually decreased. The yin’sha devil force in the deep well also stopped transporting outwards with the stop of the array.

In a hidden corner, someone beside Lan Si asked telepathically: “King, are we going to help?”

Right now, the Holy Maiden and the Holy Messengers’ split souls had yet to merge with the three—it was the perfect time to kill them.

“No need for now, the Holy Maiden’s split soul will be merged soon. After she succeeds, we’ll kill them.” Lan Si sneered.

“King, won’t it take a lot of effort to kill her after her fusion is successful?” Someone asked inexplicably.

Lan Si raised an eyebrow and said: “The fusion hasn’t yet been completed. Her split soul isn’t marked with the imprint of this interface yet. Even if we kill her now, it won’t hurt her foundations much.

“But after the fusion is completed and the aura of Tian’ling Continent is imprinted, her original body will suffer a lot of backlash as soon as her split soul’s destroyed,.” He paused, then added.

“King is wise.”

Ming Xiu and Lou Mu Yan didn’t rush to attack Gu Yan Ran and the two, having the same idea as Lan Si.

As soon as the Nine Palaces Eight Trigrams Array was broken, the devil force that the yin palace was transferring into them also disappeared. Their soul fusion would also be weak for a period of time, so it would be best to act then.

Within the area, there were traces of the chaotic battles everywhere, and soon, more than a dozen Yin Nether Beasts were all burnt to death by Mo Yan’s Netherworld Flame.

Of course, the elemental essence and soul energy of the Yin Nether Beasts were also secretly extracted by him and would be tossed to Jun Luo Chen later.

After an incense stick of time, Gu Yan Ran abruptly opened her eyes and made several complicated hand seals in front of her chest.

The vortex in the sky turned into a beam of light and entered her body. Her cultivation base soared from the initial Sword King, quickly advancing to Peak-Phase Sword Deity.

Because Lou Mu Yan destroyed her dan’tian, she couldn’t gather and absorb spiritual force and her cultivation base had been stagnant.

After the Devil Race of the Hidden City repaired her dan’tian, they sealed it, not allowing her to absorb the motely spiritual force and affect the descent of the Holy Maiden’s split soul.

Gu Yan Ran casually glanced at the two women who were still merging beside her, stood up, and looked at Lou Mu Yan, her beautiful face with a never-before-seen devilishness, “Lou Mu Yan, do you still remember the owner of my body?”

Hearing her words, the nine Sword Deities headed by the man in cyan clothes immediately ended the battle and knelt down towards Gu Yan Ran, saying respectfully: “Greetings to Holy Maiden!”

“Stand.” Gu Yan Ran said lightly without the slightest warmth in her eyes.

Lou Mu Yan raised her eyes and looked at Gu Yan Ran indifferently, saying: “Of course I remember. A trash whose dan’tian I destroyed, how big of a wave can you create?”

Gu Yan Ran’s face suddenly turned ferocious, then her eyes grew extremely cold, and she muttered to herself: “You actually want to regain the initiative of this body? Not knowing your own strength, it seems I can’t leave you.”

Then a wisp of cyan smoke emerged from above Gu Yan Ran’s body and the Holy Maiden said: “Leave peacefully. Your hatred, ben’gong1 will avenge.”

She tapped her fingertips lightly. A cluster of yellow flames flew out and instantly engulfed Gu Yan Ran’s soul.

Lou Mu Yan narrowed her eyes. As she guessed.

Gu Yan Ran accepted the loss of her body so calmly, but in fact, she wanted to regain control when the Holy Maiden’s soul was weak.

It was just a pity that the Holy Maiden of the devil race wasn’t some mediocre person. Lou Mu Yan purposely angered Gu Yan Ran to make her resist—the Holy Maiden would naturally not keep such a soul that could counter-devour any time in her body.

And right now, the indescribable feeling in Lou Mu Yan’s heart also disappeared with the destruction of Gu Yan Ran’s soul. If Gu Yan Ran’s soul wasn’t destroyed today, she just felt that something unexpected would happen in the future.

Fortunately, the Holy Maiden was as sinister and arrogant as she had guessed and didn’t allow anyone to resist at all.

After Gu Yan Ran’s soul disappeared, the Holy Maiden immediately took full control of her body. She swept her gaze over Lou Mu Yan and the others and said: “Although this body is a little weak, but it’s more than enough to deal with you lot.”

When her eyes swept over Ming Xiu, her icy pupils constricted inadvertently, “Are you from the Ming Palace Imperial Family?”

Lan Si, who was hiding on the side, heard the four words ‘Ming Palace Imperial Family’ and suddenly a hint of clarity rose in his eyes.

No wonder Ming Xiu always gave him a sense of familiarity. So it turned out that he was from the Ming Palace Imperial Family of Guang’ling World.

If Ming Xiu was a member of the Ming Palace Imperial Family, then it was explainable if he didn’t have the aura of a projected avatar or the descent of a split soul—because he must’ve been sent to Tian’ling Continent since he was a child.

“You even discovered this.” Ming Xiu gave a meaningful smile.

The Holy Maiden was in a trance for a moment, then said something, as if in nostalgia and resentment, “You truly look alike.”

She restrained all her emotions, her eyes regaining an icy chill, and the corners of her lips curled up, “He must also want you dead.”

1a form of self-address typically used by females of high status, such as empresses and such. She’s not an empress, but she’s of high status.