"Who dares trespass into the forbidden grounds?" A furious roar gave the three of us a fright. Long Yue instinctively stopped to answer, but without thinking, I grabbed her and fled outside. Xiao Mengtong, clever and quick-witted, had also reached the Transformation Realm of a seventh-stage immortal. Under that roar, she had even pulled a stretch of distance ahead of me.
"Stop, all of you! Where do you think you're running?" The old man chased after the three of us. I was, after all, an eightfold Dao inheritance, so I was much faster than Xiao Mengtong, who had a threefold inheritance. I quickly caught up with her, picked her up, and used the Shrinking Earth Technique to fly outside.
However, just as we appeared over the sea ahead, a huge net swept toward us.
"There's an ambush!" Xiao Mengtong cried out in surprise. Long Yue reacted at once, summoning two curved swords and rushing ahead to cut through the net. Clang, clang! Two muffled impacts rang out. Not only did the swords fail to tear the net open, they instead sent bolts of lightning shuddering through it. Caught off guard, Long Yue was blasted backward by the thunder and flew straight into my arms.
Xiao Mengtong instinctively said, "We're acting under Elder Valley Lord Luo's orders, heading to the Inner Sea on business. We're also supposed to go to Lei Prefecture to deliver a message to the Old Dragon King, so we happened to pass by here."
I raised the token-key to the Inner Immortal Sea. It even bore Luo Shanyang's signature. I wasn't worried that they would fail to recognize it.
Sure enough, the expression of the leading old man immediately softened. He said, "This is indeed something the old valley lord carries with him. Elder Long's visit is