The lake shimmered beneath the bright sunlight, and koi after koi leaped from the water, sending sprays of waves into the air.
Lotuses covered most of the lake, their blossoms competing for beauty as they bloomed in a riot of brilliant colors.
When Lin Bai entered the area around the lake, he immediately sensed that something was wrong.
This place was protected by an extremely powerful formation.
The entire Princess's residence was protected by formations, but they were all defensive formations.
The formation around the lake was also defensive, but it stood out from the formations covering the rest of the residence like a sore thumb.
It was like a red flower appearing in a lush green meadow—how could it not draw attention?
By now, Lin Bai had finally confirmed that Li Guxian had an unusually close connection with the Nine Underworlds Demon Palace.
Even if she was not a hidden agent of the Nine Underworlds Demon Palace, she surely had an inexplicable relationship with it.
"I spent a great deal of time setting up this formation."
Lin Bai had already seen through the clues, so Li Guxian simply stopped pretending and instead smiled openly from the heart.
"That's indeed the case." Lin Bai nodded in agreement. "The imperial clan's and Chu Kingdom's Five Great Families and Seven Sects' residences in the imperial capital were all elaborately crafted and refined by artifact refiners from the Celestial Mystery Pavilion. The formations arranged within them were also supervised and maintained by Formation Daoists from the Celestial Mystery Pavilion."
"To build this formation right under the Celestial Mystery Pavilion's nose, I imagine you have people among the Celestial Mystery Pavilion's Formation Daoists as well, don't you?"
Li Guxian did not answer Lin Bai directly. Instead, she said softly, "For today's matter, we paid