The power of Night Raid Must Succeed lay in the fact that while it crossed the final hundred meters separating it from its target, it also fixed the user's position behind the target and maintained the user's stealth.
In theory, as long as you stayed still after teleporting, your target wouldn't notice someone had appeared behind them.
That was exactly Su Yuan's situation now.
Inside a luxurious bedroom steeped in an old-fashioned style, Su Yuan stood beside the bed.
Three feet in front of him, a woman with a faint, delicate fragrance about her lay on the bed with her back to him.
The woman had no blanket over her. She wore only a close-fitting, smooth silk nightgown, and her shapely figure was bathed in the faint moonlight, its outline inviting the imagination to run wild.
He couldn't tell whether she was truly asleep or merely pretending to doze with her eyes closed.
Su Yuan recalled the intelligence broker's description of Huai Lingwei. She was a mid-ranking official in the Immortal Official System, holding Principal Sixth Rank, and her cultivation was only at Golden Core Second Layer.
Of course, for a puny Foundation Establishment Sixth Layer cultivator like him to say that someone was "only" at Golden Core Second Layer sounded a little arrogant.
But according to the common knowledge the intelligence broker had explained to him, one normally needed to reach Golden Core Fourth to Sixth Layer to rise to Principal Sixth Rank.
Judging by how quickly she'd been promoted, Huai Lingwei was a typical well-connected official.
Still, she was the ambitious sort of well-connected official. She had talent and ability of her own, which was why her uncle, a Third Rank Great Official, had taken an interest in her.
And Su Yuan had come here on a night