For a moment, the high-ranking officials of the sects, who stood like shadows in the rain, had gloomy faces, staring fixedly at the Empress.
And the Empress, still expressionless, turned her gaze amid her flying hair to the officials begging for mercy, who had just thrown themselves at the feet of the high-ranking sect officials with full eyes of fear, even pleading.
Whoosh!
Instantly, these officials shivered in unison, feeling death closing in, enveloping them with no chance for resistance as if even the blood in their bodies began to coagulate and stop flowing.
They had been extremely proud of themselves for pledging loyalty to these high-ranking sect officials just now, smugly mocking their colleagues for being too foolish, lacking their own wisdom.
