The bamboo fence around the spirit fields was neatly built. Climbing spirit plants wound around it, their gray leaves veined with dark gold and shimmering faintly beneath the gloomy sky.
It was a grand array.
No wonder the giant beast had skirted the spirit fields and plunged into the woods.
The spirit fields' grand array stayed active year-round. There was no way it would let beasts inside to steal food or cause damage.
Luo Shangdu walked at the front and quickly withdrew her Pill Flame.
As we drew closer, sounds came from deep within the spirit fields.
"Someone's there," Su Yunshang whispered.
"No kidding. Of course there's someone in the spirit fields." I followed behind with my hands clasped behind my back, walking unhurriedly.
The spirit fields covered roughly thirty or forty mu, with a dirt path trodden between the rows.
At the end of the path, a man in a short gray homespun tunic was bent over, guiding water through an irrigation channel with one hand. He held a jade flask in his right hand and took a sip now and then, perfectly content.
He gave off fluctuations of Laws at the middle stage of the Celestial Being Realm. He had concealed them extremely well, but at close range, that faint aura of an Immortal Tower was still perceptible.
He was the only person in this vast stretch of spirit fields.
I stood outside the array with Su Yunshang and Luo Shangdu. We exchanged glances and reached an unspoken understanding.
Luo Shangdu took the hint and stepped forward twice. Her gaze moved away from the man and swept over the pale golden barrier rising from a bluestone stele around the spirit fields.
The barrier enclosed the entire stretch of fields, leaving not even the slightest edge exposed.
The spirit