Animal-eared Girl Era: Start by Forming a Contract with an SSS-Class School Belle
Chapter 480: Empress Takes Action, The Situation Reverses

Chapter 480: Chapter 480: Empress Takes Action, The Situation Reverses

The three, along with a young maid, passed through the pitch-black space rift, traversing the void, and arrived before the spatial position of the Secret Realm.

A tiny point of light flickered in the endless dimness of the void.

Seeing that the little point of light still remained, Gu Qingcheng breathed a sigh of relief.

This faint glow was the outward manifestation of the Secret Realm. If it disappeared or dimmed to darkness, it meant the Secret Realm had been completely destroyed, ceasing to exist, or its core had been forcibly plundered and absorbed, losing its vitality as a minor Dimension World.

"This Secret Realm was imprisoned, access permissions blocked, so the Teleportation Array in the Secret Realm Hall became ineffective."

Gu Qingcheng’s expression improved somewhat, but her face still stayed cold and severe.

All these Secret Realm cores had already acknowledged her as master. She mobilized the permissions of the Secret Realm core, trying to open a breach to enter.

But the tiny point of light showed no reaction at all.

Gu Qingcheng snorted coldly, "Sure enough, someone used a Supreme Treasure to shield the Secret Realm core, so not even I, its master, could enter smoothly."

But that would not stop her.

As someone at Great Perfection of the Saint Realm, entering a Dimension Secret Realm was a piece of cake for her.

"Boom!" With an earth-shattering roar, Gu Qingcheng raised her hand, stuck out her middle finger, and unleashed the might of her Saint Realm, pointing at the little speck of light.

A beam of energy shot forth, striking the tiny point of light.

With a crisp cracking sound,

an extremely unstable space rift appeared.

"Let’s go!"

Gu Qingcheng barked harshly, taking the lead and charging inside.

Jiang Xue’an waved her hand, forming an energy shield around Ziran and Xiao Ye, then dashed after Gu Qingcheng. The shield, tethered by Jiang Xue’an, followed them in too.

That extremely unstable passage surged with spatial turbulence and spatial storms, raging inside.

Spatial turbulence contained random teleportation, countless spatial blades, and spatial imprisonment effects. Anyone caught inside risked utter annihilation at worst, or at best being randomly thrown to some unknown corner of the universe.

The spatial storm contained countless spatial blades, space compression, and spatial imprisonment effects. Anyone caught by it would be obliterated—either shredded to a pulp or compressed into a 2D barcode.

Yet, all the spatial turbulence and storms battered the energy shield like water droplets falling into the sea, not stirring the slightest ripple.

"This was a Quasi-Saint Realm-level spatial attack," Ziran murmured.

After the four made it through the wildly unstable passage, their view suddenly opened up—they had entered Special Secret Realm No. 28.

But the scene inside the Secret Realm at present set everyone’s hearts blazing with fury.

Inside Special Secret Realm No. 28, it was all dim. The Secret Realm’s mountains, rivers, and seas were in total disarray, as though someone had dug three feet deep, turning everything over and over searching.

Suspended in midair, the three and the maid swept the scene below into their gaze.

"Damn it!"

"Are they trying to wipe out everything—didn’t even spare a single demon beast!"

Ziran said grimly, scowling darkly.

Everywhere she looked was absolute chaos; not a single demon beast in sight, only blood spattered everywhere.

*If all the demon beasts were slaughtered, and she did not obtain the Rule Fragments needed for advancement, how could she face Qin Xi’Er, how could she answer to Yun Bing?*

Gu Qingcheng said nothing, yet her beautiful eyes brimmed with ice, her delicate face colder than ever.

Suddenly, Jiang Xue’an said, "My lord, my lady, there are people ten thousand meters underground. They must be from the Wu Family."

"Let me count—about twenty in total: four at Saint Realm, others at Venerable Realm."

"The highest cultivation, only late Saint Realm."

She looked a little dumbfounded.

"Seriously? Just these two-bit thugs dared to barge onto my lady’s turf and steal stuff? Got some balls!"

Without delay, the group headed for their location, intending to wipe them out completely.

At that moment, deep underground in the center of the Secret Realm, inside a vast cave ten thousand meters down—

A group dressed in old-fashioned garb, the word "Wu" carved into their backs, completely surrounded a band of Hang City soldiers.

The Wu Family leader sneered contemptuously and boasted,

"Run! Why aren’t you running now?"

"Thought you could hide here and we wouldn’t find you?"

The twelve Hang City soldiers looked grim. Their captain said, "You Wu Family bastards openly loot our Hang City Secret Realm. Aren’t you afraid we’ll have you punished?"

The Wu Family thugs laughed scornfully.

"Punished? What, with your asses?"

"Hah! Even if all of Hang City ganged up on us, they couldn’t stir shit."

"And news is sealed—how would anyone outside even know what’s happened here?"

The Wu Family leader grew impatient, "Enough of their crap. Kill them!"

"This Secret Realm’s nearly picked clean. The others must be about finished too. Let’s hurry home and report back."

*Hearing that, the Hang City soldiers grew faintly uneasy. They drew together, back to back, faces set, not a sign of panic.*

"Boom!" The Wu Family erupted with murderous intent—they were making their move.

The Hang City captain roared, "Kill, fight our way out! Even if we detonate ourselves, drag them down with us and die together!"

*Hearing that, every soldier embraced death without fear. Each one drew on their template’s power, transformed into their Summoned Beast, and began to self-detonate.*

"Bang!" With a thunderous report, the captain leapt at the Wu Family leader—his Summoned Beast’s flesh exploded, white light blazed, and Venerable Realm-level self-detonation power burst forth.

The Wu Family men fell back in defense.

A second later, scorn flashed in their eyes.

"That’s it?"

"We thought you’d hidden some ace—turns out, you’re trash."

The Wu Family leader wiped blood spatter from his face, eyes gleaming viciously, "Kill them!"

They attacked all at once, now holding nothing back, charging the Hang City soldiers.

*Seeing their captain died detonating himself, yet failing to injure the Wu Family, despair washed over the Hang City soldiers.*

*Eyes reddened, they charged at the Wu Family, self-detonating in turn.*

Suddenly, a domineering, cold, and lonely voice rang out in the vast underground cavern.

"Stop!"

It was the voice of the Hang City Empress.

With a wave of her hand, Saint Realm Perfection power swept across—within milliseconds, everyone present was immobilized.

Whether in the air or standing on the ground—

Their bodies and spiritual power were completely paralyzed, unable to move an inch.

The Hang City soldiers’ eyes filled with tears; hope and light dawned in their gaze.

"The Empress is here. We’re saved."

"Thank God—the captain didn’t die for nothing."

"Your Majesty, they killed our captain. Please, avenge him!"

After regaining their mobility, the Hang City soldiers shouted excitedly.

Gu Qingcheng nodded, her icy gaze sweeping over the Wu Family ranks.

In an instant, the Wu Family mob felt deathly cold sweeps through them, as if plunged into a glacial hell—the chill biting through to their very souls.

The Wu Family leader’s face turned deathly pale!