At the City Lord's Mansion, the Star Observation Platform still stood tall and towering. That dazzling Compass, too, turned slowly as though it had remained unchanged since time immemorial.
Beneath the Star Observation Platform, Mu Liuyun sat cross-legged, his mind faintly connected to the platform. The barely perceptible link between them emitted an indescribably profound ripple.
Just then, hurried footsteps suddenly rang out.
A man quickly arrived beneath the altar and bowed. "Reporting to the City Lord... he has left the city."
As those words fell, that indescribably profound ripple slowly receded and faded away.
Mu Liuyun leaped into the air and stepped upon the clouds. Looking down, he could see a figure in a green robe crossing the city gates, already vanishing into the winter wind and snow.
In ordinary eyes, he was merely an ordinary Golden Core Realm cultivator.
But to one in the Dharma Appearance Realm, one who walked the Rule Path, everything looked utterly different.
It was as though Heaven and Earth had cast him out. The vast world had already locked onto that solitary figure in green, its majestic heavenly might seeming ready at any moment to Descend and destroy that frail figure.
"I am the Rule... the Dao Integration Realm!"
Mu Liuyun murmured to himself. Great waves now churned in his eyes, once as still as an ancient well.
At that moment, an Escape Light swept across the skies. In the blink of an eye, Mu Nanfeng abruptly appeared at Mu Liuyun's side.
The instant he appeared, Mu Nanfeng immediately locked onto the green-robed figure stepping into the wind and snow.
"He... entered the Dao Integration Realm ahead of time?"
Even Mu Nanfeng's breath was somewhat unsteady, his voice filled with disbelief.
"That should be correct."
Mu Liuyun took a deep breath, trying to