Profound Bright Heaven, Nine Luminaries Palace.
Hai Yuqiong, clad in a golden crown and silver robes, looked down at the enormous nine-cornered palace below. Light flickered in her peach-blossom-bright eyes as she scrutinized the entire palace through a secret art.
Shen Xuanjing stood quietly a little behind Hai Yuqiong. Though she was of the imperial clan, she could not act presumptuously before a sixth-rank Pure Yang cultivator. Even her position had to show due respect to a sixth-rank Pure Yang cultivator.
She wore a purple robe covered in intricate gold and silver embroidery that faintly formed the shapes of sun and moon. Though the purple Dharma robe was not as magnificent as Hai Yuqiong's Lesser Sumeru Dharma Robe, it possessed a far deeper, more solemn bearing.
At this moment, her innate Taiji Gang Qi circulated silently around her, covering a radius of several hundred zhang. She knew full well how elusive and unfathomable Gao Xian was. The man was also notorious for being insidious and vicious.
Even with Hai Yuqiong at her side, Shen Xuanjing remained exceedingly cautious. Gao Xian was now a sixth-rank Pure Yang cultivator. One stroke of his sword would mean certain death.
Hai Yuqiong, on the other hand, was utterly relaxed. She even held a three-legged golden goblet in her left hand, its blood-red Crimson Sky gently rippling within as though it might spill over at any moment.
"Gao Xian is here?" Hai Yuqiong took a sip of Crimson Sky before asking.
"According to the Emperor Eye's resonance, he should be here." The Emperor Eye between Shen Xuanjing's brows glimmered faintly. She was fairly certain of this.
Members of the celestial human imperial clan could use their Emperor Eyes to sense each other's locations. If willing, they could even establish spiritual-sense connections across immense distances. It