The thought made Zu An swallow in fear. He had been courting death earlier on!

Something else quickly crossed his mind. “If she killed so many court experts, why didn’t His Majesty intervene? Didn’t you say that the former Devil Sect sect master had been killed by His Majesty?”

Zhuxie Chixin explained, “That woman was too crafty. She made her move as soon as His Majesty left for the capital. Whenever the forces of the imperial court were greater than what she could handle, she would vanish, along with her subordinates. Only when the imperial court’s forces were weakened would she suddenly appear like a ghost and wipe those men out. After several such defeats, the imperial court decided to withdraw its forces temporarily.”

Zu An was incredibly shaken. Yun Jianyue was an expert at guerilla warfare! However, he didn’t understand the decision of the imperial court. “They withdrew? The court actually...