When Shen Mo stepped into the Immortal Arts Pavilion, he saw no neat rows of ancient books and jade slips.
Instead, the spacious hall was filled with things floating in midair, each radiating a faint glow.
The halos came in every color—red, orange, yellow, green, cyan, blue, and violet—all dazzling as the stars in the sky.
"What's wrapped inside these halos must be the jade slips containing immortal arts!"
Thinking this, Shen Mo leaped into the air and tried to snatch one of the glowing slips to examine its contents.
"Whoosh!"
But the halo nimbly dodged his hand, then dragged a streak of light behind it as it darted around the hall.
"It can actually dodge? The Inner Sect's Immortal Arts Pavilion really is something else."
Shen Mo's expression flickered with surprise. He quickly used Thunderbolt Quickstep again and gave chase.
"Whoosh!"
"Whoosh!"
"Whoosh!"
After advancing to the Qi Gathering Realm and receiving the boost from Thunderbolt Quickstep, Shen Mo was as fast as the wind and lightning.
Yet the glowing jade slip was even quicker to react than he was.
Every time he appeared beside it, the slip would turn into a streak of light and flee, refusing to let him touch it.
The chase went on for nearly a quarter of an hour.
"This thing seems to be slowing down!"
Shen Mo fixed his gaze on the jade slip wrapped in a pale yellow halo, his heart lifting with delight.
At its original speed, he would never have been able to catch it, no matter what he did.
But after the man and the slip had chased each other around for so long, the slip seemed to have lost a great deal of energy, and its speed had begun to drop.
"Stop running!"
Shen Mo moved, leaving a