Yasenia and her group swiftly descended, and soon, they arrived at the entrance of the Silent Fang Sect. It was a large door embedded in the rocky cliff, with a design that was hard to distinguish from a distance compared to its surroundings. Unless someone came as close as they were to it, noticing that it was an entrance would be very complicated.
The dragoness rubbed her chin and asked while looking at the giant doors. "So, why is nobody coming? We have a concealing formation around us, but that shouldn't be enough to dodge all their detection methods, right? Or am I missing something? Are we in an illusion formation?"
Angel shook her head and said very convincingly. "That's impossible. The formation levels and quality must be extremely high so that I do not notice anything. With my Truth Intent, Energy Flow Intent, and my formation mastery, while formations affecting me is possible, me not noticing them is almost impossible."
Yasenia nodded and looked around again. "Can this be a trap? Or… have we been discovered, and they are preparing an ambush?"
Doriel spoke. "Young Miss, I don't detect anyone in the nearby area. I haven't tried pushing against the door's formation with my spiritual sense. However, from what I can sense from my normal senses, there is no danger on the other side of the door."
Yasenia frowned. "You are telling me that all the security one of the Nine Sects has is a few guards at the top and a few traps in the way?"
One high-level Epoch Core in the group coughed. "Sect Master, I wouldn't call those many traps a few. There were several of them. Moreover, they were really complicated and had delicate mechanisms. The fact that Sect Master and her people could defuse all of them without being alerted is outlandish enough not to be taken into account."
The dragoness's frown disappeared, and she turned to look at them. "Do all of you natives feel the same way?"
Yasenia received quite a few nods, making her become thoughtful. 'The situation is quite similar to our attempt on the wolf clan. They didn't realize until we were right above their wedding site. Have I grossly overestimated their detection methods all this time?'
The dragoness looked at Angel and asked her. "Open the door, baby."
Angel nodded a few times, and her aura spread from her body, creating several glass structures per second. The structures combined, becoming an intricate pattern that mixed with the surroundings, and after five minutes of constant work, the formation Angel created disintegrated, and with it, the door's formation also disappeared.
Embera, the fire spirit, looked at Yasenia and commented. "To be fair, Angel's proficiency is stupidly high. I've been roaming the world by myself for a while, and not a single place had formations even close to Angel's. Even the formation-focused sects I saw were lacking in some aspects."
Evelyn asked with surprise. "Angel has already outgrown this world's formation master level?"
One of the high-level Epoch Cores commented. "I truly believe in that. Lady Angel has become quite an icon among old Formation Masters in the sect." He laughed and commented. "A friend of mine, who is quite adept at formations, calls her the most talented formation master that has ever existed."
Angel blushed a bit and said shyly. "Thanks for the compliment. B-But! There are many formation masters I must overcome! I am still learning!"
The old Epoch Core smiled gently. "That's perfect, Lady Angel. I hope that motherhood only nourishes your talent."
Angel's face brightened, and she nodded many times. "I hope so, too!"
The fact that Angel and the rest were pregnant was known among the people present. While Yasenia didn't need to tell anybody but the maids, she wanted to make it clear to these people. They were here in the first place because they'd won Yasenia's trust over the years.
All the people here had been tested many times, and even Tatyana gave the go-ahead. So, she didn't mind placing that information in their minds so that her girls received a bit of extra protection.
Angel, Evelyn, and the other girls were all in the center of the formation, and some old female cultivators were walking close to them, sharply looking at their surroundings and attentive to even the faintest of changes.
As they spoke, Yasenia walked forward under the protection of the concealing formation and opened the doors.
Once she opened them, she saw Doriel and five other maids dart forward at an incredible speed that even she had difficulty following. The six maids quickly immobilized and stunned around 20 people and carried them to Yasenia's side, tied down with ropes and with their mouths covered.
Yasenia blinked. "Didn't you say that there was no threat on the other side?"
Doriel tilted her head. "But, there was no threat. These twenty people are all third-realm weaklings."
Yasenia shook her head with a helpless laugh. "Next time, tell me, okay? I want to know all the details of the situation."
Meanwhile, the twenty people who had been captured realized who was in front of them after seeing the dragon tail swishing around and a heavenly and voluptuous beauty looking down at them.
Their eyes widened to the limits, and Evelyn asked. "So… Kill them?"
Yasenia nodded. "Spare no one. But before that, we need to learn a bit about the inner paths of this sect. So, well, speak."
Yasenia freed the mouth of one person and heard him shout. "HELP! WE-"
Bang!
Yasenia's tail fell, splashing his head on the ground and moving toward the next person. "Speak."
That woman looked at Yasenia with a cold gaze, looking defiant. So, Yasenia's tail fell again and splashed her head open.
Bang!
She moved toward the next person and did the same. "Will you tell me about the inner paths?"
"You can go to hell! How dare you kill Senior Sister-"
Bang!
"Will you speak?"
"I have nothing to say to a heartless-"
Bang!
"WIll you speak?"
"Who would-"
Bang!
"Well, what about you?"
The people around saw Yasenia going one by one, asking the same question, and the second they didn't say anything, they were killed.
After a few moments, Yasenia shook her head. "Well, unlucky that there wasn't a coward between them. Let's go inside. Doriel waits at the entrance and kills anybody who tries to leave. Do you need more people?"
Doriel nodded. "To be 100% sure that nobody escapes, I would like Selena to be with me as well."
Yasenia agreed. "Sure." She looked at Selena, and the red lamia cupped her fists. "Leave it to me, Young Miss."
Yasenia smiled. "Be careful." Then, she walked into the sect. "Let's go."
Everyone blinked and followed behind. The dragoness had saved the 20 corpses in her ring and cleaned the blood on the ground, leaving the scene pristine.
One of the seniors asked. "Sect Master, why didn't you put in more effort in the interrogation? With your methods, making them spill everything shouldn't be impossible, right?"
Yasenia shrugged. "Why lose time when we are already inside? Their detection methods have failed, and no one knows we are here. We'll just walk around, asking and killing anybody who doesn't obey us. Moreover, people can't escape using spatial treasures. The only way is the guarded entrance."
Andrea asked. "Aren't you afraid that there are many entrances to this place?"
Yasenia shook her head. "As a world-renowned assassin sect, they should've thought of having just one entrance. The reasoning behind it is that it's easier to defend. Other than that, look around."
The dragoness used her tail to point at various places, and after squinting, they realized that there were hidden tunnels and entrances everywhere.
Yasenia commented. "Once alerted, ambushes would be plenty across these passageways. The deeper you go, the more convoluted the paths will become, with far more chances to get attacked. Even with a large army, the assassins in this sect can probably whittle everyone down by using their techniques, skills, poisons, and myriad different methods."
The dragoness paused. "Of course, it's not like I've completely disregarded…" Alaia's body got covered with lighting and flashed forward, imapling five people and returning to her position. Yasenia continued speaking like nothing. "... the option of more than one entrance being present."
Looking at the five people, she noticed that they were relatively young. All of them had a hole in their stomach, rendering them immobile. "So, do you have a map or something of this place? I don't want to sweep everything slowly and take a while."
The five people looked up at her with confusion and fear. Their situation had evolved so fast that they didn't know how to react, and their brains froze. Yasenia hummed. "I see. Paralyzed due to fear. Well, bad luck, I guess."
The dragoness killed the five of them swiftly and moved forward. Her hand extended, stealing the five spatial rings and easily breaking through the barriers. "Hm… Nothing interesting again. Are all assassins here poor? There is nothing good. Our techniques for assassination that we have in the sect are like ten times better. If the Silent Fangs can be called an assassin sect, the Astral Sky Clan can as well!"
Evelyn asked. "So, what were you trying to say about the 'different entrances' situation?"
Yasenia exclaimed. "Right! So, even if there is more than one entrance, we are killing everyone we meet quickly, right? So, for those entrances to be helpful, we need to alert somebody first. Then, that somebody needs to escape without us noticing. Then, that person reaches the higher-ups, allows that person to pass, and after explaining, they believe him. Even taking into account that they believe them and come to check on us, we can just kill everybody since they will probably be high-level Epoch Cores at most."
Evelyn blinked. "But if they know we are the Astral Sky Clan, they won't react that lightly, right?"
The dragoness laughed. "For someone to notice us without us noticing them, they probably won't be able to differentiate us. I mean, look at how many half-steps we have with us. Our detection range is much more extensive."
One of the high-level Epoch Cores suggested. "How about we separate to kill people faster?"
The dragoness, maids, girls, spirits, and even some other Epoch Cores looked at the man who spoke with a deadpan, making him cough. "Is it that bad of an idea?"
Yasenia asked with a sigh. "Haven't you heard what I just said? We can kill everyone we meet because we are together. If we separate, things will change, and escapees might appear. Just follow behind me and kill anybody you see."
With those orders, the dragoness picked up the pace and began cleaning everyone they encountered.
Before they were finally discovered by a peak-level Epoch Core, Yasenia's team of 300 top-tier experts had cleaned around 85% of the sect, including many high-level Epoch Cores.
"YASENIA DRAVORY! PREPARE FOR DEATH!"
The dragoness clicked her tongue. "Tsk. We were discovered. It was so fun until now… Anyways, prepare for real combat!"