Blood Touch

A smile appeared on Chen Fei's face. At last, there was some movement. He had truly been worried that Sword Return Tower had merely recorded the Yuan Chen techniques on paper rather than using inheritance steles.

If it was only simple ink and paper, the Sword Guiding Art would surely not have elicited any response. Sword Return Tower likely had not anticipated a special method like the Sword Guiding Art.

Still less would they have imagined that someone in the Aperture Refining Realm could move through their sect so freely and silently.

After all, Aperture Refining Realm cultivators could sense one another within a certain distance. Moreover, their movement techniques were swift, and the sound of breaking through the air was sometimes unavoidable.

Yet Chen Fei's Spirit Slaughter Technique and Gathering Wind Technique had resolved both issues.

As for the formation covering Sword Return Tower's entire mountain gate, since Chen Fei was already inside, it gave him no warning whatsoever. That was also why Chen Fei had disguised himself as an Ordinary Disciple and slipped in.

Any sect with even a little size would be extremely cautious about protecting its mountain gate. At the very least, once someone approached the range of the mountain gate, the formation would sense it.

Sword Return Tower had late-stage Aperture Refining Realm experts guarding it, so it naturally possessed such a formation. But this formation guarded against outsiders rather than those within, and did not monitor the interior. That was, however, a characteristic shared by most formations.

Major sects would only continue setting up formations at crucial locations. Even if someone truly infiltrated them, those formations could still protect the important places.

Following the pull of the Sword Guiding Art, Chen Fei arrived above a lake. Under the moonlight, faint ripples stirred across the