Chapter 2853: Chapter 2853: You Are Cultivator?!

Watching the swelling ranks of dark cultivators flooding the area, the dark-faced man felt a surge of renewed confidence.

"You are as good as dead." The dark-faced man sneered, grinning maliciously even while pinned to the floorboards.

Yu Qi gave a subtle gesture to Long Hui, signalling him to retract his pressure.

Long Hui complied instantly, pulling back his aura in a heartbeat.

The crushing weight that had been pinning the dark-faced man to the floor evaporated instantly.

Slowly rising to his feet, the dark-faced man dusted off his clothes and straightened his collar, casting a smug, arrogant look at Yu Qi and Long Hui.

"Now then... You are starting to feel genuine fear, aren’t you?" The dark-faced man taunted. He then sneered, "Don’t bother thinking about escaping, because I would not give you the chance. Since you have delivered yourselves straight to our doorstep, you can stay here forever! Every single one of you will end up in our stomachs!"

Hearing their leader’s declaration, the surrounding crowd of evil cultivators burst into cruel, mocking laughter. They had not expected three high-grade cultivators to practically deliver themselves on a silver platter today. To these monsters, it felt like a lavish feast had been served to them without them having to lift a finger to hunt.

The dark-faced man then turned his attention back to Yu Qi, eyeing her up and down.

"You really have terrible luck, lady, coming to a place like this and getting dragged along by someone like him. Unfortunately for you, he is no ordinary human being." The dark-faced man said, shaking his head.

He genuinely assumed that Yu Qi was nothing more than an ordinary, defenceless woman who had accidentally been pulled into this mess by the two cultivators. After all, no matter how hard he probed, he could not detect a single ripple of unusual energy coming from her body. He could not sense any cultivation aura at all, leading him to conclude that she was just a helpless mortal.

"Not an ordinary human being?" Yu Qi raised a delicate eyebrow, her voice dripping with subtle amusement.

"That’s right. Not an ordinary human at all. They are cultivators! Yes, exactly like the ones you thought only existed in fantasy novels and wild imaginations." The dark-faced man chuckled arrogantly.

He looked at Yu Qi as if he were condescendingly educating an ignorant child.

"You probably went your whole life believing cultivators were not real, didn’t you?" The dark-faced man chuckled.

Yu Qi did not bother offering an immediate reply.

Instead, her cool gaze slowly swept across the sea of evil cultivators surrounding them.

There were indeed quite a few of them packed into the space. However, not a single one among them possessed enough power to pose even the slightest genuine threat to her.

Noticing Yu Qi’s continued, eerie calmness, the dark-faced man mistook her silence for frozen terror, assuming she was simply too traumatised to react.

"Don’t worry, little girl. You will understand the reality of your situation soon enough." The dark-faced man grinned wickedly.

"Is that so?" Yu Qi looked back at him, a faint, chilling smile touching her lips.

"Of course." The dark-faced man nodded with absolute, arrogant certainty.

He had no idea that the very woman he dismissed as a helpless, ordinary mortal was actually the single most dangerous entity standing in the entire mansion.

Yu Qi’s lips curved into a light, calm smile.

The dark-faced man frowned deeply as he caught the amused expression on her face. He genuinely assumed the woman had lost her mind from sheer terror after realising the truth of her situation. However, his smug frown instantly shattered when a sleek, shimmering sword suddenly materialised out of thin air directly into Yu Qi’s hand.

"Surprise." Yu Qi chuckled softly.

"You?! You are a cultivator as well?!" The dark-faced man shouted, his voice cracking in utter disbelief.

"Who said I was not?" Yu Qi retorted smoothly with an innocent tilt of her head.

Hearing her playful, nonchalant reply, Dian Chi Ne and Dian Wan Ye nearly burst out laughing on the spot. Sister Yu Qi truly possessed an unmatched talent for driving her enemies up the wall.

"Fine... fine! Even if you are a cultivator, you would not escape from this place alive! Your spiritual power will belong to us tonight!" The dark-faced man spat, trying to regain his composure.

"Well, we shall see about that." Yu Qi replied with icy calm.

Without warning, she drove her sword straight down into the floorboards with overwhelming force. The instant the blade struck the ground, a loud, thunderous crack echoed throughout the entire mansion, sending violent shockwaves rippling through the foundation as the hidden array beneath them shattered into dust.

In that exact instant, Dian Chi Ne and Dian Wan Ye felt the heavy, suffocating pressure that had been suppressing their meridians instantly vanish into thin air. Their spiritual power surged back, returning to its full, unhindered peak.

"You?! You knew where the eye of the array was hidden?!" The dark-faced man screamed, his eyes bulging in utter shock.

"Did you honestly think we were wasting our time having a friendly chat with you?" Yu Qi asked with a faint, mocking smirk.

That sinister array formation had been meticulously designed to drain righteous cultivators while amplifying the strength of evil cultivators. For years, not a single victim had ever discovered its core location, allowing these monsters to maintain an unfair advantage over their captives.

Yet, decades of ruthless efficiency had been completely undone in a single second by one woman.

"Brothers, sisters, kill them all! Leave no one alive!" The dark-faced man bellowed in a frenzy of rage, ordering the evil cultivators.

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