Deliverance from Calamity

Tap, tap, tap!

What answered Wang Chen was still that rhythmic knocking.

One knock after another, each perfectly regular.

The unknown presence outside was conveying its message to Wang Chen in this manner.

Please open the door!

Wang Chen fell silent.

Due to the peculiar environment of the Sha Eye region, no surveillance Magic Tools like the Mandarin Duck Mirror had been installed outside Anranju. From inside, he could not see what was happening outdoors.

Nor could he tell what exactly was knocking at the door!

There was, in fact, a way to solve this mystery. Wang Chen only needed to open the door without deactivating the defensive array, and he would be able to see everything clearly.

But doing so would create a weak point in Anranju's overall defenses.

Under normal circumstances, that would not be much of a problem. Yet Wang Chen's intuition told him that if he did so now, he would truly have been kicked in the head by a donkey!

When the Sha Tide rose, even demon spirits and Evil Spirits born from Yin Sha energy would hide away in caves and burrows.

Anything that could stroll about at such a time was bound to be a terrifying existence!

As for it being another cultivator, that possibility did not exist.

Any cultivator who came here would necessarily belong to the Prison Department, and Anranju was not Wang Chen's private property. Any cultivator holding the appropriate talisman token could open its doors and walk in openly.

Like Sima Changming and True Person Ye before them—uninvited, ill-mannered guests though they were—Wang Chen had no right to shut them out.

Whoever stood outside had to be something else!

Tap tap tap tap!

At first, this unknown being had been quite patient, knocking on the door again and again.