You don't want your secret to be revealed by others, right?

"Second Sister," Lin Yue clasped his hands together, helplessly saying, "I didn't expect I would still need to trouble Second Sister to take action this time."

"The Main Hall Master sure knows how to calculate, aware that Your Highness would intervene and thus avoiding any and all karma."

Princess Yongning gave him a glance and shook her head slightly, "No wonder the Main Hall Master has lived for so many years, Your Highness has indeed seen a lot."

Lin Yue coughed lightly, not in a position to comment on his own master.

On the day of his grand wedding at Duke Heng's mansion, this Second Sister had come to see him in private, asking him for a jade hairpin.

In exchange, the Second Princess promised that she wouldn't take action against him until he was Sealed King and, when the rules permitted, would put forth her full effort for him just once.

That year, when the Demon Clan besieged Great Yong from all sides, the Second Princess made a move, and even the Divine Beast Fire Phoenix went through continuous deaths and rebirths in nirvana, and the Dream Demon Ancestor was beaten into severe injury and forced to escape. Both were existences on the level of Proving and transcendence, revealing the terrifying strength of the Second Princess.

Princes and princesses of the Great Yong Xiahong bloodline could start to harness the Ancient Divine Power after Harmonization into Saints, not to mention after Proving and transcending.

Any Prince or Princess who had Proven and transcended possessed unfathomable strength.

After communicating with his Martial Arts True Body hidden within the sword blade, his master knew he could request the Second Princess to make a move and believed that the favor of her full effort was rare and tried to help him retain this opportunity, and therefore she showed up to take action.

Regrettably, the Heavenly Demon Ancestor had also anticipated the master would make a move and prepared the Source of Eternal Night.

The Master couldn't be tainted by the Source of Eternal Night and moreover didn't have enough time to kill Golden Feather Demon Saint and Duanmu Yan before dissipating; at most, she could kill those five ordinary Demon Saints who posed no real threat.

Therefore, it was normal for the master not to make a move.

After all, after transcending Heaven and Earth, killing any creature within them would generate karma and lead to greater rejection by Heaven and Earth, inviting even more terrifying disasters.

Since they were going to repay the Second Princess's favor anyway, it might as well all be undertaken by her.

—Although Lin Yue could not say it outright, it was obviously what his master was thinking.

"Princess Yongning?"

Duanmu Yan's expression was grave, as he coldly said, "With such a reclusive temperament, one barely hears of you getting involved in the world's affairs, yet you're willing to make a move for the Seventeenth Prince?"

Lin Yue couldn't help but think of the Fifth Prince's evaluation of the Second Princess—

The Second Princess lived in a dream.

Over the years, indeed, there had been no mention of the Second Princess taking any action, almost always staying at home, a pure homebody.

"Are you Duanmu Yan?" Princess Yongning glanced at Duanmu Yan, not even recognizing him.

Duanmu Yan's face was icy as he said, "I've heard that in her past life, Princess Yongning was the Ancestor of Illusion Demon, most skilled in dealing with illusions and fakery. It happens that Duanmu is also proficient in dream illusions becoming reality; could it be that Princess Yongning thinks she can deceive Duanmu like this?"

He didn't believe that Princess Yongning, who had only Proven for less than a thousand years, could ignore the small world isolated by the World Tree and forcibly descend with her True Body.

He had witnessed the greatness of the Dream Demon Ancestor and understood how profound and mysterious that realm was.

Thus, he determined that Princess Yongning was deceiving him through an Illusion Realm.

Perhaps it was just an Illusion World Treasure that Princess Yongning had given to the Seventeenth Prince?

"Dreamy fog and mist, all is the void..."

Princess Yongning gave Duanmu Yan a look and said indifferently, "Because the heart stirs, all things come into being; dreams and reality, why should one discern them clearly? You can't even see this, it seems you have no hope of Proving."

She didn't say much more, turning her eyes to Lin Yue and saying, "Seventeenth Brother, speak of your request."

Lin Yue immediately clasped his hands and said, "I ask that Second Sister annihilate these people, leaving none behind, just dealing the Demon Clan a heavy blow and teaching them a lesson will suffice."

The Demon Clan's Saints' expressions shifted slightly.

Could it be true?

Princess Yongning nodded slightly and said, "As you wish, then it shall be as you desire."

As her words fell, she had already turned her gaze to the Demon Saints, her calm eyes sweeping over each of them.

Lin Yue faintly sensed a vast and illusory world descending, yet he couldn't detect anything specific.

Following that—

One after another, each Demon Saint's eyes turned completely vacant, as if they had fallen into an illusion.

"Ha ha... let's all die together."

"Enough, enough, let's just end it."

"Living is so tiresome..."

"It's just death..."

The Demon Saints, whether laughing madly, weeping in pain, breaking down in despair, or living without desire, unanimously chose to end their own lives at that moment!

One after another, the immense vitality of each Demon Saint rapidly diminished and faded away, their bodies disintegrating into specks of light.

The staggering pressure that had just been present disappeared in the blink of an eye.

In just an instant, the five Demon Saints, as well as the avatars of Duanmu Yan and the Golden Feather Demon Saint, had utterly extinguished their own life force.

Vanishing into the heavens and the earth.

Only their Magic Treasures and Miracle Items remained, falling from the sky.

"Is it over?"

Lin Yue couldn't help but be stunned.

There was no Great Divine Power disturbance, not even the slightest ripple, and these Demon Saints had self-destructed?

He immediately swept up the Treasures falling from the sky with a wave of his sleeve, including the golden crown-shaped Semi-Divine Artifact, and took them all.

Princess Yongning, however, couldn't even be bothered to give them a glance, seemingly completely uninterested in any Semi-Divine Artifacts, allowing him to collect them.

As Lin Yue gathered these Treasures, he asked, "Second Sister, which Treasures would you like? Or I can leave them all for you if you prefer."

"No need," Princess Yongning replied casually, "I have no use for them, you keep them."

"Thank you, Second Sister."

Lin Yue was unceremonious and then added, "Those Demon Saints, they're all just...dead?"

"The five regular Demon Saints were their True Bodies, they're as dead as can be."

Princess Yongning said softly, "As for the Golden Wings Clan's rebellious Heavenly Demon Saint, through his avatar, I also made his True Body self-destruct in the Illusion Realm, but... Duanmu Yan's True Body seems to have been protected by a Dream power akin to mine, and he regained consciousness just before the self-destruction."

"The Golden Feather Demon Saint, his True Body also died?" Lin Yue was taken aback.

He had thought Princess Yongning would wipe out only the True Bodies of those five Demon Saints and the costly avatars of Duanmu Yan and the Golden Feather Demon Saint, even taking away that Semi-Divine Artifact.

That would have been a significant blow to the Demon Clan.

But unexpectedly... even the Golden Feather Demon Saint's True Body had died?

And Duanmu Yan had almost perished?

Lin Yue couldn't help but look towards his Second Sister; this was rather terrifying...

Princess Yongning glanced at him and casually explained, "This small world formed from the branches of the World Tree, while isolating all Divine Thought, was still under the control of Duanmu Yan and the Golden Feather Demon Saint. Hence, their Divine Thought could leave this small world and contact their True Bodies, allowing their avatars to exist here. This was also the cause of their demise."

"I see..." Lin Yue understood what she meant.

An avatar is like a Puppet, remotely controlled by the True Body's Divine Thought. Only when consciousness descends into it does the avatar exist.

Even in this completely isolated small world, Duanmu Yan and the Golden Feather Demon Saint could still control their avatars.

Once the avatar fell into the Illusion Realm, sharing thoughts and consciousness with the True Body, the True Body would naturally fall into the Illusion Realm as well. If the avatar self-destructed, the True Body would do the same.

However, Duanmu Yan must have had the protection of power granted by the legendary Dream Demon Ancestor, which is why he woke up at the last moment.

While the Golden Feather Demon Saint truly died.

"Second Sister's Illusion Divine Skills are indeed extraordinary."

Lin Yue praised sincerely, "I've heard that this World Tree isolates heaven and earth, yet Second Sister could directly descend in your True Body, utterly unimaginable."

"It seems like another world, but the soul still exists." Princess Yongning shook her head slightly, "At this level of Illusion mastery in my realm, naturally, I can make the unreal real. As long as you carry a token and have seen me, I can naturally descend in my True Body."

"Second Sister stands at the pinnacle in the Illusion Realm, truly worthy of being the Reincarnation of the Ancestor of Illusion Demon." Lin Yue praised without sparing any compliments.

"Second Prince could do the same," Princess Yongning glanced at him, then added, "Besides, this doesn't count as the highest realm of the Illusion Realm."

"It doesn't?" Lin Yue asked, puzzled.

"Although I can make the unreal into the real, it's limited to objects; I cannot make the Illusion World real. If I could make the Illusion World real too, that would truly be the utmost height..." Princess Yongning sighed, her eyes becoming a bit melancholic.

Lin Yue was astonished.

Indeed, living in a dream, this Second Sister, if in the modern world, is probably the kind of person who dreams of turning the two-dimensional into three-dimensional...

"Can anyone actually do it? Even the Ancient Gods can't achieve it, can they?" he couldn't help but exclaim.

"Yes," Princess Yongning glanced at him, saying, "Actually, there is an Ancient God who can accomplish this, only..."

She shook her head slightly, without continuing.