"Stop!"
Seeing that things were going badly, Zhao Ruofan shouted and moved to take action — he intended to rescue his hundred-plus spirit world creatures.
After all, Eggy had already developed killing intent. If he didn't intervene, all of his spirit world creatures would surely die.
"Insolent!"
However, at that very moment, an furious roar rang out, shaking the void itself. At the same time, a vast and overwhelming force swept outward, sealing Zhao Ruofan's power in an instant. The space around him was transformed into an invisible cage, rendering him incapable of striking out.
It was the President of the Red Butterfly Association. Though her cultivation was merely that of a first rank Martial Ancestor — seemingly inferior to Zhao Ruofan's on the surface — at this moment, brilliant purple light radiated from her entire body, making her resemble an otherworldly goddess. She possessed a Heavenly Bestowed Divine Body, and not only that, she could actually use her Heavenly Bestowed Divine Power to elevate her cultivation by one full rank. Through this power, her cultivation had now reached the second rank of Martial Ancestor, equal to Zhao Ruofan's.
However, her combat strength was far superior to his. Zhao Ruofan was merely an ordinary second rank Martial Ancestor who did not possess heaven-defying battle power. The President of the Red Butterfly Association, on the other hand, did. Though her original cultivation was only first rank, paired with her current second rank Martial Ancestor level, she was capable of fighting an ordinary third rank Martial Ancestor — and could naturally suppress a mere second rank like Zhao Ruofan.
"Uagh—"
And while Zhao Ruofan was being restrained, screams began echoing from high above in the sky.
A slaughter — a horrifying slaughter was unfolding.
Nearly everyone present had witnessed grand spectacles before. Killing was nothing new to them, and massacres, too, they had seen.
Yet the massacre playing out before them now still made their blood run cold.
Setting aside the fact that the killer was a stunningly beautiful girl, the method of slaughter itself was utterly brutal. Tragic — over a hundred spirit world creatures of the Immortal Spirit World had been wiped out in mere moments, but every single one had been torn apart beyond recognition. Every one of them had died in the most wretched manner imaginable.
"Are there any more spirit world creatures? This Queen hasn't killed enough yet." After annihilating every last one of Zhao Ruofan's spirit world creatures, Her Majesty taunted him openly.
In this moment, she showed not a shred of guilt. On the contrary, her face was alight with delight — as though slaughter were, for her, a source of pure joy.
"You!!!" Zhao Ruofan trembled with rage. Only he knew how much time and effort it had cost him to form contracts with all of those spirit world creatures. And now Eggy had killed every single one of them, reducing years of painstaking effort to ashes in a single day.
"It seems that's all of them. With such paltry strength, I have no idea where you got the confidence to compete with Chu Feng in the art of formation. Could it be that you've grown senile?" Eggy mocked, paying no attention to Zhao Ruofan's twitching lips and the expression on his face — as though he had just eaten excrement — before gracefully, alluringly, and enchantingly stepping through the spirit world gate and vanishing from everyone's sight.
"Madam President, why did you stop me from saving my spirit world creatures?" Zhao Ruofan demanded furiously. By now, he had abandoned all pretense of restraint, and even the last shred of respect he held for the Red Butterfly Association's President had vanished. All he wanted was justice.
"Why?" The President of the Red Butterfly Association smiled coldly. "You agreed beforehand to compete with defensive formations. You lost, but you refused to accept it. You demanded that Chu Feng also set up a defensive formation for you to dismantle. Chu Feng humored you and set one up — and yet you didn't even dare to attempt the dismantling."
"Why didn't you? Because you knew you couldn't possibly construct a formation powerful enough to undo Chu Feng's within such a short time."
"So you changed the terms again, insisting on comparing the strength of your spirit world creatures instead. You loudly proclaimed that Chu Feng's spirit world creature was only a half-step Ancestor at the sixth rank, and that releasing it would be sending it to its death — making it clear that you had already prepared yourself to kill it."
"But once Chu Feng's spirit world creature entered the fight, you realized that your own creatures were no match for it. And so you actually intervened personally, attempting to use your own power to destroy what was supposed to be a battle between spirit world creatures."
"All I want to know is this: as the Vice President of the Red Butterfly Association, don't you find your actions today utterly shameful?"