At this moment, in the utterly inconspicuous little thorny forest outside Great Freedom Palace, where Moon Shadow had set up a formation to conceal their auras, Little Wu Qiu had already curled itself into a ball. Xiao Cha, the tall and stunning young woman, had gone deathly pale and was spinning around in frantic circles.
Although Xiao Cha's cultivation was so low that, to a cultivator of Han Wuji's level, it could practically be ignored, her perception of Heaven and Earth Spiritual Energy—especially Luo Bei's aura—was far sharper than that of ordinary cultivators.
The instant Luo Bei activated Purple Heaven Thunder Light Escape and charged out of Great Freedom Palace, Xiao Cha sensed it at once. But she immediately saw that the point of light formed by Luo Bei and Nalan Ruoxue was forcibly intercepted by another point of light that pursued them from behind. At the same time, more than a dozen streaks of blazing light tore through the sky, converging upon those two points of light from all directions.
The fluctuations of magical power emanating from those dozen streaks of light were all overwhelmingly powerful to Xiao Cha. Moreover, from her previous conversation with Nalan Ruoxue, Xiao Cha had already learned that these were all cultivators of exceptionally profound cultivation whom Qi Lianliancheng had deployed... Their cultivation had reached the level of grandmasters of their respective sects. After the battle outside Tianyi City in Gunzhou against the Northern Bright King, Qi Lianliancheng had practically thrown all of Kunlun's power in the mortal world into this place.
Other than these people, even if Qi Lianliancheng had been given more time, he could not possibly have found more cultivators of such astonishing cultivation. For these people, Qi Lianliancheng had offered rewards and benefits several times greater than before. Each of