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"What was that sound?" Someone suddenly cocked an ear to listen.

Everyone immediately fell silent.

"What sound? You must have heard wrong."

"No, listen..."

As the words fell, everyone's expressions turned uncertain. There really was a clear ding ringing by their ears, like someone flicking a piece of metal with a bent finger.

At first, the sound was faint and infrequent, but it quickly grew louder, the ding-ding sounds becoming ceaseless.

"Where is that coming from?"

Everyone's faces changed. Now that they listened closely, it was as though someone were making noise right beside their ears, yet they could not discover anything at all!

The next moment, a valiant voice suddenly rang out beside their ears, leaving everyone utterly stunned.

"Pang Huanyin of the Purple Star Dao Palace has come for Mountain Worship. Please open the gate!"

"Purple Star Dao Palace..."

"Pang Huanyin?"

The group of cultivators on guard were dumbfounded.

Naturally, they knew this name well. They had just been discussing this woman, after all. But what they found inconceivable was how her voice had reached their ears!

She sounded close at hand, yet they could not see a single person.

Among the crowd, an older guard cultivator seemed to realize something and said, "Quick, activate the Heaven-Illuminating Mirror and see what is happening outside!"

"Elder Jiang, you mean..."

"Stop talking nonsense and activate the Heaven-Illuminating Mirror!" the old man urged.

Very quickly, the guard cultivators activated the might of the Heaven-Illuminating Mirror. Countless eyes turned toward its bronze surface, and all of them could not help but gasp.

Within the mirror, several figures were reflected. At their head stood a woman dressed in men's clothes, her hands clasped behind her back and her bearing heroic and imposing. Even if they had never met her before, one glance was