Outside the Imperial Pool, Jiang Zhi stopped swinging his sword only after seeing Chu Huai Xu emerge unscathed.
The Moon Kingdom cultivators responsible for guarding the Imperial Pool were already lying scattered across the ground.
But it was clear that this Peerless killer of the Dao Sect had held back and had not dealt these people a fatal blow.
As for the external Formation Restrictions, they had nearly been hacked to pieces by his Sword Qi. Only the shattered formation cores were still struggling to hold on.
"Did anything happen to you?" Jiang Zhi asked.
Chu Huai Xu did not hide it. "Grandmaster, the Emperor's Divine Sense attempted Body Possession."
That short sentence left the other man stunned. Then his face filled with killing intent and frost.
He immediately probed Chu Huai Xu's current condition with his divine sense.
Only after confirming that Chu Huai Xu was unharmed did he ask, "It failed?"
"Yes. I used a few methods." He did not elaborate.
Jiang Zhi had always known that Chu Huai Xu still possessed many secrets.
But he was not the sort to pry into every detail.
All cultivators had secrets they did not want others to know. For many people, those secrets were the foundation of their survival.
Even so, he had never imagined that Chu Huai Xu, with only a Third Realm cultivation, could escape disaster within the Moon Kingdom's sacred land.
"Let's go. We'll leave this place first." Jiang Zhi looked up at the sky and spoke.
"Good."
The two of them flew through the air toward the Monastery.
While flying, Chu Huai Xu did not forget to tell him that Niu Yuanshan had died.
Jiang Zhi's eyelids drooped slightly, and the index and middle fingers of his right hand twitched faintly.
He had thought his Grandmaster