Meng Yunzhou, a great power of the Meng family in the Body Integration Realm, gave a slight shake of his head, his gaze sweeping over everyone in the hall.
"She is at the late Void Refining Stage and is skilled in formations. Even if you go, I fear you will be unable to do anything to her. I must handle this matter personally."
Though his tone was calm as he spoke, it carried an innate, powerful confidence.
"With Third Granduncle taking action himself, she will surely be captured with a wave of his hand!"
Meng Yunzhou took a single step, and his figure had already appeared beyond the city gates.
There was a flight-ban formation within the city. Forget teleporting within the city—even flying was forbidden.
Yet Meng Yunzhou was the lord of Xian City, and the city lay under the Meng family's control. Naturally, he was not bound by the flight-ban formation.
Meng Yunzhou's appearance immediately stirred up quite a commotion.
"It is City Lord Meng! For City Lord Meng to appear here, could something major have happened in the city?"
"Our Xian City lies far from the borderlands and has the Meng family, one of the Seven Great Families, stationed here. It has always been peaceful. By all rights, nothing major should happen."
"Could it be that the city lord has come for Scholar Xu?"
Even as the crowd discussed it, Meng Yunzhou vanished once more, chasing in the direction Xu Chunniang had taken.
As Meng Yunzhou gave chase, Xu Chunniang, having sensed that something was amiss, was also fleeing at full speed.
The Sky-Gazing Hound spoke gravely. "Offending the Seven Great Families is the same as offending more than half of the human race's forces. If you dare show your face in any city, you will immediately