The streets were ablaze with lights, brightness winding like dragons. Pedestrians rubbed shoulders and crowded together in a bustling, lively spectacle.
Cries and hawking calls rose everywhere, noisy and clamorous.
Su Yi strolled leisurely through the crowd. Within his Divine Sense, all manner of wondrous secret arts were already in motion, taking in everything on the streets.
Every person's cultivation, aura, shifts in expression, and changes in speech appeared before him in the finest detail.
Even the dazzling array of shops and goods along the streets was all perceived by Su Yi without missing a single thing.
Ahead, a group of men and women walked together, chatting and laughing. They clearly came from the same cultivation faction.
As they passed Su Yi, a Green-Clad Woman blinked her beautiful eyes and suddenly transmitted her voice to a companion beside her. "Do you see that man in the blue robe? If I remember correctly, he is the distinguished guest staying in Number Nine, Heavenly Character. He really looks young."
The other men and women were visibly startled and all turned their gazes toward Su Yi.
"I'll go greet him and see whether I can learn his identity."
As though gathering her courage, the Green-Clad Woman stepped forward. "This fellow Daoist..."
Su Yi suddenly stopped, seized the Green-Clad Woman's arm, and yanked her whole body to one side.
A blade edge silently flashed into existence where the Green-Clad Woman had just been standing.
Had Su Yi not saved her, her throat would have been pierced through by that single strike!
Crack!
With a flick of his finger, Su Yi shattered that blade edge into pieces.
Only then did the Green-Clad Woman abruptly come to her senses, her pretty face instantly turning deathly pale.
Her companions changed expression as well.
Someone had actually launched