He entered the barrier smoothly, without encountering any obstruction. The familiar feeling put Zhou Xu's mind completely at ease, and even his footsteps grew considerably lighter.
Before long, he arrived at the palace gates. Zhou Xu looked up and saw that there was no plaque or anything of the sort hanging above them.
[Secret Peeping Eye!]
As soon as the True Words took effect, the ancient palace gates before him abruptly changed appearance.
The entire palace gate before him—even the surrounding walls and the floor—was covered in densely packed runes.
This super-restriction formed from the True Words was so complex that it even surpassed the one at the Xilan Divine Temple!
Zhou Xu did not dare look for long, afraid that he would be unable to withstand a restriction of this level and suffer backlash.
However, during that process, he had already noticed that the center of the restriction was on the enormous palace gate before him.
Without hesitation, Zhou Xu placed his hand against it.
In that instant, an invisible force swiftly swept over his body. Immediately afterward, the system's notification rang out in his mind...
[System Notification: Identity confirmed as 'Zhou Xu.' Prerequisites fulfilled. External restriction lifted!]
At the same time, amid a rumbling boom, the tightly closed palace gates slowly opened.
His identity had passed verification, so Zhou Xu had nothing left to worry about. He strode straight inside.
Zhou Xu had originally thought that, like at the Xilan Divine Temple, there might be some kind of projection left behind here as well.
But reality was that there was no such thing. The palace before him was even more bare than he had expected, and his arrival did not activate any message.
If he really had to put it that way, he himself had not