“How is this possible?”

Not only was the Crow Cultivator dying to ask this, but even Empress Ghast was curious as well.

Alex managed to decapitate the Crow Cultivator so easily. On the other hand, no matter how hard she exerted her strength and gave her all to the point of paying a heavy price, the Crow Cultivator was unscathed.

Even if the laws of Dairaionji Temple had restricted her, there shouldn't be such a wide gap between them, right?

‘Has... he been hiding his strength?’

She believed it had to be the only explanation.

Furthermore, Empress Ghast had been awfully arrogant since the beginning. Nothing strange about that, though. She was the boss of the nether realm that held the greatest authority. Although Alex was the inheritor of Ksitigarbha, he was no match for Empress Ghast. Therefore, it turned out that she treated Alex as a junior.

Subsequently, she managed to overcome all the obstacles along the way.

She had played the role of a guardian.

‘If I hadn’t protected you