After receiving the order, the guard commander gave a light cough and addressed the middle-aged male cultivator before him.
"Xu Dahai, is it? Hand over your identity token."
"Xu Dahai" took out his identity token and handed it over, while drawing in his divine sense so the commander could inspect his soul aura.
The moment the guard commander accepted the identity token, the City Lord of West Extremity City, far away in the City Lord's Mansion, directly released his divine sense and swept it back and forth over the token and "Xu Dahai."
Xu Chunniang reacted almost immediately. That divine sense was incomparably vast; it was certainly not the soul consciousness of the Void Refining Stage guard commander before her.
Someone else was examining her soul aura!
Realizing this, Xu Chunniang forcibly steadied herself and calmed her emotions.
The Sky-Gazing Hound had said that this technique for altering one's soul aura was exceedingly rare. Unless one belonged to the Thousand-Faced Fox clan, it was difficult to detect any flaws.
The person secretly examining her soul aura should not be able to notice anything unusual, right?
Who knew how much time passed before that vast divine sense finally withdrew.
The guard commander returned the identity token and asked "Xu Dahai" several more questions before allowing him through.
Xu Chunniang let out a breath of relief and followed the two treants out of the city, but she still did not dare lower her guard.
Only after they had traveled far enough from West Extremity City and entered the Treant Race's territory did she finally breathe a long sigh and restore her soul aura.
At last, she had successfully escaped the human territory!
Xu Chunniang looked back at the land behind her, her feelings complicated.
Back then, she had been abducted by the