"You!"

Her Majesty the Queen wished she could simply slap Tie Yi to death, but on second thought, she considered that things might indeed be as Tie Yi had described.

"Guards! Take her away and lock her up properly!"

Her Majesty the Queen immediately ordered.

"At once!"

The next moment, two upper members of the Xingyu Clan approached Tie Yi and tied her hands with ropes.

One of the upper members used his Divine Sense to inspect Tie Yi's body internally to check if there were any weapons.

After a while, the upper member reported to Her Majesty: "Your Majesty, I sense the aura of the Soul Transformation Seal on Tie Yi. She is under its control!"

"What?"

Hearing this, Her Majesty's expression changed drastically. She instantly flew to Tie Yi's side and her Divine Sense entered her body.

Moments later, her eyebrows deeply furrowed.

"So that's how it is! You've been controlled by a Soul Transformation Seal!"

Her Majesty the Queen was filled with emotions.

"So Tie Yi did not truly betray me; she was controlled by the Soul Transformation Seal! But isn't the Soul Transformation Seal a treasure of the Hua Hun Clan? How did it get involved with the Human Clan?"

Her Majesty the Queen thought it highly possible that Tie Yi was controlled by the Hua Hun Clan, and she sensed a great conspiracy behind it.

"Could it be that Tie Yi is being controlled by Yan Tianguan?"

Her Majesty's eyes shimmered, and she hastily arranged for Tie Yi to be taken to a secret location within the Star Feather Tribe.

The Xingyu Clan has had at least ten thousand years of conflicts with the Hua Hun Clan, and the senior members of the Xingyu Clan knew that the Clan Leader of the Hua Hun Clan possessed a treasure that could control the Divine Souls of the Xingyu Clan members, known as the Soul Transformation Seal.

Previously, the Hua Hun Clan had used the Soul Transformation Seal to control some of the Xingyu Clan Members.

Over the years of continuous contention, the Xingyu Clan Members had finally found a way to sense if someone was under the control of the Soul Transformation Seal.

Therefore, when detaining someone, it was customary for the Xingyu Clan to first check if the individual was controlled by the Soul Transformation Seal.

Now knowing that Tie Yi was controlled by the Soul Transformation Seal, Her Majesty the Queen doubted the veracity of Tie Yi's earlier words.

However, to know the truth, she felt it necessary to dispatch some experts to sneak into the Hua Hun Clan tribe to check if their headquarters had indeed been buried by the volcano.

"Or maybe this is just a bitter trick by the Hua Hun Clan!"

But after pondering for a while, her eyes suddenly flashed with brilliance.

"Logically speaking, it is impossible for the Human Clan to control Tie Yi with the Soul Transformation Seal. They are too weak, utterly incapable! It is impossible for them to snatch the Soul Transformation Seal from Yan Tianguan! This means that the true mastermind controlling Tie Yi is Yan Tianguan!"

Her Majesty the Queen exhaled a breath of turbid air, then realized that the previous explanations given by Tie Yi were deliberately manipulated by Yan Tianguan to confuse her.

"It is very possible that the Hua Hun Clan tribe was truly engulfed by the volcanic magma, but the Hua Hun Clan had already evacuated all their clan members from the tribe! He wishes to make me believe that the strength of those Demon Beasts is terrifying, and once they attack, our Star Feather Tribe will be overrun! In fact, this is a deceitful tactic by Yan Tianguan! He wants me to abandon our tribe's defenses! Hah, Yan Tianguan, do you think I am a fool?"

Her Majesty the Queen then deduced the subsequent developments of the situation as if unraveling a cocoon, ultimately concluding.

All this was a scheme by Yan Tianguan, aiming to make her believe that the Fire Demon Spirit was terribly fearsome, and her best course of action would be to retreat, to retreat to the island previously agreed upon with Tie Yi.

If she truly led her clan members to retreat, then the Hua Hun Clan would effortlessly take over the Star Feather Tribe.

In this way, the Star Feather Tribe would never again be able to resist the invasion of the Hua Hun Clan at critical junctures.

This means that from now on, the Xingyu Clan will always be in a position of passive endurance.

Such an outcome is the last thing Her Majesty the Queen wants to face!

"Think you can deceive me? Maybe in your next life!"

Her Majesty the Queen sneered internally, then made up her mind to reinforce the defenses of the Star Feather Tribe, while deploying more clan members to resist the attacks from the Hua Hun Clan and those Demon Beasts.

Meanwhile, Duan Gujin in a distant location received a response from the Soul Transformation Seal.

"Is she imprisoned?"

Duan Gujin inferred that since Tie Yi hadn't returned for so long, and the response from the Soul Transformation Seal and her previous signal had disappeared, there was only one possibility: she had been imprisoned by Her Majesty the Queen, and in a chamber that could block the sensing of the Soul Transformation Seal.

But this blockage would not restore Tie Yi back to normal, as her Soul Seat was still within the Soul Transformation Seal,

the Xingyu Clan did not have the capability to free Tie Yi from the control of the Soul Transformation Seal.

"Should I go to find her?"

Duan Gujin originally wanted to find Tie Yi and rescue her, but upon reflection, he realized that the Queen must have secretly dispatched top experts to lurk nearby to protect Tie Yi.

Once he infiltrated, he would definitely be captured by those experts.

His current strength was merely that of a Ninth Layer Martial Monarch, far inferior compared to the experts of the Xingyu Clan.

"Can I only give up on her?"

Duan Gujin knew that he was no match for the experts of the Xingyu Clan, it was impossible for him to rescue Tie Yi from the many experts of the Xingyu Clan.

"Without Tie Yi, I fear that moving even a step would be difficult on the Fire Cloud Continent in the future!"

Thinking of this, Duan Gujin felt he must rescue Tie Yi.

He was very clear that without Tie Yi, a high-ranking expert of the Martial Emperor Realm, to protect him, it would likely be impossible for him to leave the Fire Cloud Continent alive.

After much thought, Duan Gujin finally decided he should rescue Tie Yi, just not at this moment.

He was lurking about ten kilometers away from the Star Feather Tribe, observing every move of the Star Feather Tribe, while also monitoring the Fire Demon Spirits.

He could not approach the Star Feather Tribe, nor did he know what the Queen's next move might be.

Over the next few days, he saw many members of the Xingyu Clan flying in from other places.

Once these members of the Xingyu Clan entered the tribe, they did not leave.

Moreover, he saw many areas previously damaged being repaired by these clan members, visibly recovering at a noticeable rate.

Seeing this, Duan Gujin's brows furrowed deeply.

"Could it be that the Xingyu Clan members are planning a decisive battle against the Fire Demon Spirits within the Star Feather Tribe?"

And Duan Gujin observed that the number of Fire Demon Spirits was increasing. Initially, there were about hundreds of Fire Demon Spirits gathered, launching a fierce attack on the Star Feather Tribe.

Although the Fire Demon Spirits were quite powerful, their small number was no match against the Xingyu Clan members who were tenfold in number, and they were wiped out instantly.

But Duan Gujin saw that about twenty kilometers from the Star Feather Tribe there appeared at least ten thousand Fire Demon Spirits, and more endless reinforcements behind them.

He had once used the Flying Technique to ascend into the sky, and he saw tens of thousands of large armies appearing behind the Fire Demon Spirits.

He gasped in shock at that moment, imagining if these tens of thousands of Fire Demon Spirits armies launched a joint assault on the Star Feather Tribe, it was unknown how much the Xingyu Clan would lose.

"Hope the Xingyu Clan is prepared for battle!"

At this point, all Duan Gujin could do was pray for the Xingyu Clan.

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