"Someone's coming."
As he pondered, at the very edge of Xu Xiaoshou's Perception range, he suddenly detected a figure speeding toward them.
Gritting his teeth, he did not choose to rush up and pull the famed sword free.
Instead, he grabbed Yu Zhiwen's hand and abruptly retreated.
"You're not taking the sword?"
Yu Zhiwen lowered her head, then raised it again, asking in surprise.
She struggled a little and found that she truly could not break free. "Let go."
"Oh."
"Not taking it."
As Xu Xiaoshou retreated at light speed, spiritual array patterns had already flown from his hands.
He suddenly paused and looked toward the woman beside him.
"Set up an array. Hide first."
Though his half-baked array skills surpassed most grandmaster spiritual array masters in theoretical knowledge, in actual practice, Yu Zhiwen—a Heavenly Secrets Art practitioner whose entry threshold was grandmaster level—could set up arrays far superior to his.
Yu Zhiwen had also seen someone approaching.
With a wave of her hand, no spiritual array patterns appeared. Yet Xu Xiaoshou was startled to discover that he had actually fused with heaven and earth.
Unless one deliberately examined this patch of space in meticulous detail, even if someone walked right past them, they might not notice the two people hidden here.
"Such an ingenious art?"
Xu Xiaoshou exclaimed in surprise.
If this Heavenly Secrets Formation were paired with his Concealment, it would practically be invisibility!
"It's not that ingenious. Just a little trick for borrowing from the heavenly secrets."
Only after seeing him release her hand did Yu Zhiwen rub her wrist. Her beautiful eyes shifted as she watched the Yanmang trembling in the void.
"This is a famed sword. Are you sure you want to yield it?"
She found it somewhat unbelievable.
Xu Xiaoshou, who had declared "the