The Purple Escape Light flickered like a phantom across the boundless heavens, moving at an utterly extreme speed.
In a daze, Mu Yun saw that streak of purple light shoot down with a "whoosh," plunging straight into the pitch-black abyss below and vanishing from sight.
Was he going after the Azure Snake Demon King?
Mu Yun recalled the information Li Chengxing had secretly passed to him a day earlier.
The Director was far away in the Northern Region and could not personally descend upon Nether Prefecture in the Southern Region.
Therefore, the Director had personally reported the matter of Nether Prefecture to His Majesty.
His Majesty had then issued an edict appointing Lu Xuan as the new Blackbird Guard Vice Director, ordering him to come to Nether Prefecture and assist Mu Yun and the others.
If nothing unexpected had happened, then that unfathomable Purple Escape Light from earlier had belonged to the mysterious new Blackbird Guard Vice Director, Lu Xuan.
No wonder His Majesty had made an exception and personally decreed the creation of another Blackbird Guard Vice Director position.
Judging by that man's overwhelming aura just now, Mu Yun dared to conclude that Lu Xuan was even stronger than he had imagined.
After all, Mu Yun himself was a Half-Step Divine Mansion martial artist. His Martial Realm had already reached a point where there was no further path forward.
Yet Lu Xuan's martial aura far surpassed his own.
Could he possibly be an existence of that realm?
A Divine Palace True Person?
Since when had the Great Xia Dynasty gained a Divine Mansion Realm martial artist that even Mu Yun knew nothing about?
And one personally granted the position of Blackbird Guard Vice Director by His Majesty!
Mu Yun abruptly snapped back to his senses. His body exploded into