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Even with Old Madam Nangong and one of her supreme-grade guards protecting her passage, Li Nianjun had expended quite a lot merely escaping under the Forbidden Slave's fierce assault. She was now at death's door, so when I said we should rest, she seemed to breathe a sigh of relief.
I didn't know whether her supreme-grade guard had transformed into a phantom and fled or gone to summon reinforcements. In any case, he was nowhere to be seen. Since she didn't mention it, I couldn't bring myself to press her, so I entered the estate with her first.
"I want to share a room with you." The moment Li Nianjun entered the room, she said this impatiently.
"No." I instinctively refused, then glanced around the sitting room and pointed out a room. "You go in first. I'll recover here in the sitting room."
"Oh... all right, but if anything happens, you must come and call me." As she spoke, Li Nianjun drifted into the room.
Not only could Li Nianjun not send a message to Old Madam Nangong, even I felt that communications were blocked. This was perfectly normal. For a relatively secretive divine city like Azure Immortal Pavilion, the boundary-wall formation was far sturdier and more complicated than those of ordinary divine cities. Being unable to send messages was inevitable. On top of that, the nebula interfered with signals. To contact the outside world, one had to leave the city and reach the nebula's outskirts before a message could be transmitted.
This place was therefore a sealed fortress, so it was no wonder Taishu Qian needed time to contact the other unorthodox factions.
I sat cross-legged on a meditation mat in the sitting room and began absorbing the local immortal qi to restore my Dao body. The expenditure