“Patriarch, this is terrible—the Young Patriarch is dead!!”
“Patriarch, this is terrible—our supreme being at the Quasi-Emperor realm is dead too!!”
“Patriarch, the Divine Dragon Empress is chasing after us!!”
Just as they were getting close to the sect, every single one of these people who had been following the Young Patriarch of Sishui Sect started shouting at the top of their lungs.
They had already sensed it: the Divine Dragon Empress was coming after them.
For them, this was an absolutely enormous crisis.
None of them were a match for the Divine Dragon Empress.
Under these circumstances, the only one who could possibly save them was their Patriarch.
So they yelled as loud as they could—so loud that their entire sect could hear them.
Altogether, they announced three things.
However, every single one of those three things was a massive shock to Sishui Sect.
Whether it was their Young Patriarch being dead, their Quasi-Emperor realm expert being dead, or the Divine Dragon Empress coming after them—
All of it made the people of Sishui Sect feel like disaster was right on their doorstep.
Their Patriarch, in particular, appeared instantly.
“What did you say? My son is dead?!”
“Yes, Patriarch! The Young Patriarch had his head chopped off with a single sword strike!!”
“Who? Who did this? Who dared to touch my son?!”
Hearing this, the Patriarch of Sishui Sect flew into a violent rage.
His son was the apple of his eye—someone he would never allow anyone to harm in the slightest.
All these years, he had protected his son perfectly. Whatever his son wanted, he gave him.
Whatever his son did, he covered for him.
It was precisely because of his meticulous protection that his son could live such a good life.
But now, his son was dead—killed by someone else.
He just couldn’t accept this outcome.
He grabbed that subordinate by the collar and demanded:
“Who? Who exactly did this?!”
“The Divine Dragon Empress! The Divine Dragon Empress did it! It was all the Divine Dragon Empress!!”
“The Divine Dragon Empress? Where is she? Where is she now?!”
By this point, the Patriarch of Sishui Sect was completely blinded by rage. It never even crossed his mind whether he was actually a match for the Divine Dragon Empress.
His thoughts were very simple: kill the Divine Dragon Empress and avenge his son.
So he demanded loudly, trying to find out where the Divine Dragon Empress was.
And right as he was shouting, the voice of the Divine Dragon Empress rang out.
“Are you looking for me?”
The Divine Dragon Empress had followed them all the way here. She had thought that the people of Sishui Sect might show some restraint—both because of what happened to their Young Patriarch and because of her identity as the Divine Dragon Empress.
But they showed no restraint at all.
On the contrary, their Patriarch actually wanted to kill her.
She had no intention of indulging someone like that.
Because of this, the Divine Dragon Empress appeared right in front of everyone, face to face with the Patriarch of Sishui Sect.
This direct confrontation put tremendous pressure on the people of Sishui Sect.
The Divine Dragon Empress was simply too powerful—so powerful that many of them couldn’t withstand her pressure.
Even the Patriarch of Sishui Sect sobered up quite a bit in an instant.
“You… you are the Divine Dragon Empress?!”
“Yes, I am the Divine Dragon Empress!!”
“What mistake did my son make, that you hated him so much you had to kill him? If you don’t give me an explanation today, don’t you dare think you can leave our Sishui Sect!!”
“An explanation? I should be the one demanding an explanation from you!!”
Hearing the Patriarch’s words, the Divine Dragon Empress couldn’t help but laugh.
She never expected that after arriving at Sishui Sect, it would be the Patriarch interrogating her.
It felt as if the Divine Dragon Empress had done something wrong and had to answer for it.
Hearing that, the Divine Dragon Empress could no longer hold back.
The killing intent inside her instantly rose to its peak.
“Fine then. To be honest, I would’ve felt a little guilty about killing every single one of you.”
“But after seeing you, Patriarch, I’ve realized—Sishui Sect is a nest of snakes and rats. You exist only to plague this world.”
“If that’s the case, then let me just destroy it completely!!”
As the Divine Dragon Empress spoke, her aura began to surge rapidly.
This rapid surge included the application of the Character of All.
Although she hadn’t fully mastered the Character of All, she could already use a part of it.
Because of this, her aura directly surpassed every Quasi-Emperor realm expert, reaching an even higher level.
This level brought pressure down on everyone in Sishui Sect.
Their defensive formation immediately activated.
They hoped to use this formation to block the Divine Dragon Empress’s attack.
Even the Patriarch himself couldn’t help but retreat a few steps back into their sect’s formation.
With the formation protecting him, he felt safer.
He also felt more confident in dealing with the Divine Dragon Empress.
The Divine Dragon Empress showed no reaction to this at all.
Instead, countless sword intents began to condense around her.
The number of these sword intents might not match Ye Wushuang’s, but it still reached tens of thousands.
Of course, they were fundamentally different from Ye Wushuang’s sword intents as well.
Ye Wushuang’s sword intents already contained the power of the rules of the sword path.
The Divine Dragon Empress was nowhere near achieving that yet.
But even so, the sword intents she condensed were enough to strike fear into people.
Tens of thousands of swords gathering in mid-air made the people of Sishui Sect feel as if a heavenly punishment was about to descend.
Every single one of them entered a defensive state.
They didn’t know if their defenses could withstand the Divine Dragon Empress’s attack, but at this moment, defending was the only thing they could do.
The next moment, the Divine Dragon Empress’s voice boomed in their ears.
“Ten! Thousand! Swords! Return to One!”
As soon as the words Ten Thousand Swords Return to One were spoken, every sword intent shot down like a rain of arrows, heading straight for the defensive formation of Sishui Sect.
At that moment, everyone in Sishui Sect was tense to the extreme.
Prayers began in their hearts.
“Hold! It has to hold!!”
“We can do this—our formation will definitely block them!!”
“Ah! Survive—we will definitely survive!!”
Amidst the Divine Dragon Empress’s sword intents, they felt the threat of death.
Because of that, they desperately hoped to live through it.
This desperate hope made them unable to even blink—they stared unblinkingly at the descending Ten Thousand Swords Return to One.
It felt exactly like waiting for a verdict to be handed down.
