"Ultimate Technique, Nine Manifestations of the Divine Dragon."
The ultimate sword technique seemed to slow the entire world down, forming its own domain—the domain of sword intent.
The array enveloped the entire city, the battlefield filled with sword formations and sword energy laid out by Qian Renyue.
Immediately, a thunder dragon emerged, and Qian Renyue darted back and forth among the sword energy, clearing out enemies within the sword formation. Her speed was so fast that even a Title Douluo like Ju Gui could hardly keep up.
Finally, the sword technique ended, the sword formation exploded, and all the Netherworld Ghosts within the formation were annihilated. Not a single Netherworld Ghost remained in the city. The Netherworld Old Ghost, forced to appear in the air, was now wrapped in a purple thunder dragon. The other eight thunder dragons transformed into powerful sword energy, severing the Netherworld Old Ghost's limbs and leaving several deep bloody gashes on his body.
The Netherworld Old Ghost looked at Qian Renyue with fear and rage in his eyes. Finally, she burst into laughter, and the Netherworld Old Ghost's limbs reappeared. However, these limbs were no longer human; they were the limbs of soul beasts, each with a different limb, making them look extremely bizarre.
Qian Renyue, seeing the transformed Netherworld Old Ghost, was so disgusted she almost vomited. The old ghost's repulsive appearance reminded her of her most hated villain from her past life, Naraku. Qian Renyue's mood worsened, and she directly commanded the last lightning dragon to attack.
Before the Netherworld Old Ghost could complete its transformation, the last lightning dragon, acting as a sword aura, severed its neck.
Watching the Netherworld Old Ghost's head fall to the ground, Qian Renyue walked forward expressionlessly, gathering soul power around herself, and stomped on it until it was crushed.
Seeing Qian Renyue's violent act, the entire arena fell silent; not a single sound was uttered.
Suddenly, a child's innocent voice rang out:
"Her Highness the Holy Maiden is invincible!"
The child's words were like a pebble thrown into a lake, instantly creating ripples. The cheers of the people surged like a tidal wave.
"Spirit Hall! Spirit Hall! Spirit Hall!"
"Angel God! Angel God! Angel
God!" "Holy Maiden! Holy Maiden! Holy Maiden!"
"Blade of the Empire! Blade of the Empire! Blade of the Empire!
"
The cheers of the people rose higher and higher. All those belonging to the Spirit Hall stood tall with pride, proud to be members of the Spirit Hall, proud that the Spirit Hall had such an outstanding Holy Maiden and team.
Yue Guan and Gui Mei exchanged a glance, their expressions also revealing pride.
Qian Renyue loudly addressed the crowd: "The Spirit Hall will not abandon you. We will help you rebuild your homes. We hope everyone will unite and rebuild the Principality of Riverio as soon as possible."
"Yes!" The entire crowd cheered in response.
The members of the Blade of the Empire also regrouped, looking at each other with pride. Qian Renyue stepped forward and said, "Blade of the Empire!"
"Invincible!" the crowd echoed in unison.
The next morning, in the Spirit Hall branch of the Principality of Rivelio in the Star Luo Empire,
Qian Renyue and Hu Liena finished processing the reports that had arrived early that morning and organized the matter to send to Pope Bibi Dong.
Hu Liena stretched and said in a slightly languid tone, "Although this city will nominally belong to the Star Luo Empire from now on, it will also be considered our Spirit Hall's territory."
"Take this opportunity to arrange for the core personnel in the city to be Spirit Hall members, which will serve as a future stronghold for the Spirit Empire facing Star Luo. However, the city is currently in dire need of reconstruction, so we must be careful when assigning personnel. It's best to avoid scoundrels like Vivortes from appearing again." Qian Renyue pinched her brow and said wearily.
"That's true. Does Your Highness have any plans next?" Hu Liena asked.
"Yes, Mother will arrange for someone to take over the work here in a few days. Our main task is to participate in and complete the Divine Examination. We can leave the political affairs to the Papal Palace and the Elder Palace. As for the Star Luo Empire, we can make good use of this incident; however, the specifics depend on Mother's plans," Qian Renyue said.
"In that case, after we hand over our affairs, let's rest for a couple of days before heading to the next place," Hu Liena said, looking at Qian Renyue with some concern. "Your Highness looks quite tired."
Qian Renyue paused for a moment, then smiled and said, "I'm fine; I just don't really enjoy handling political affairs. But we really should rest. We've faced and defeated opponents stronger than ourselves several times in a row; we should summarize and review our experiences, digesting them properly. Therefore, let's take this opportunity to rest in the city for half a month before setting off again."
"Yes, Your Highness," Hu Liena replied with a smile.
"By the way, everyone should have finished their assessments by now, right?" Qian Renyue suddenly remembered that Hu Liena had defeated a Title Douluo-level powerhouse.
"Yes, I've completed my kill mission, Rongrong's has, and my brother's has too. Yan has completed his, but he thinks the target was too weak and doesn't want to hand in his mission; he wants to wait a little longer. And Yanzi hasn't finished yet."
"I'm not worried about Yan, but I'm a little worried about Sister Yan. She's not a power-attack type. Poison attacks are strong, but they're for group battles; I'm a bit worried about her in single combat." Qian Renyue couldn't help but worry when she heard that Dugu Yan hadn't finished her divine test.
"Yanzi doesn't seem to be in a hurry; she looks quite relaxed. Who knows what powerful move she's holding back?" Hu Liena thought for a moment and said.
"Really?" Qian Renyue asked, somewhat shocked.
Hu Liena nodded.
Qian Renyue thought for a moment and said, "Let Sister Yanyan play by herself first. If it really doesn't work, we'll think of a solution together. Nana, you've been busy all morning, go back and rest. We'll set off early tomorrow morning to investigate the City Lord's Mansion."
"Okay, Your Highness, please rest early as well." After saying that, Hu Liena yawned and left.
The next day,
since everyone had already destroyed several of the Holy Spirit Cult's hideouts, this investigation of the City Lord's Mansion was quite easy. They specifically sought out places that blocked divine sense detection and forcibly entered.
They quickly discovered that the Holy Spirit Cult had built something comparable to an underground palace beneath the City Lord's Mansion.
Because they hadn't had time to destroy it and were very confident in this battle, the Holy Spirit Cult had preserved it very well.
The entire underground palace was divided into several areas, including an experimental area, a rest area, a combat area, a simulation area, and so on. All of these were for the Holy Spirit Cult to conduct various horrific experiments and put the experiments into life-or-death duels to test the results of their experiments.
In the underground palace, there were some evil soul masters who were not very powerful but obsessed with experimentation. Even when Qian Renyue and the others came up to them, they were still talking about their experimental subjects. For these people, Qian Renyue ordered them to be captured and sent to the Slaughter City so that they could experience what it was like to be prey.
There were also many ordinary people and soul masters captured, as well as some soul beasts. Those who hadn't been harmed were all sent away by Qian Renyue. Those already used as experimental subjects, those injured but still receiving treatment, were treated by Qian Renyue, and arrangements were made for them. Some failed experimental subjects could only be sent to their deaths by fire under the unbearable gazes of the crowd, giving them a quick end.
It took three days to completely resolve the affairs of this underground palace. Every time the problems left behind by the Holy Spirit Cult were dealt with, everyone's mood was extremely heavy.
This time, under Qian Renyue's leadership, the Spirit Hall saved many innocent people harmed by evil soul masters. Qian Renyue couldn't imagine how many innocent people would be plunged into nightmares if evil soul masters were not suppressed and spread across the continent.
When the Holy Spirit Cult could send people to participate in events like the Continental Advanced Academy Soul Master Tournament, how many innocent people would be saddened, and how incompetent the continent's rulers would be exposed.
Qian Renyue and all members of the Empire's Blade were determined to eradicate the evil soul masters from the continent at all costs, restoring peace and tranquility to the land.
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