In the dead of night, when all was still, the tiny black beetle Zhang Tie had transformed into flew out through the window of a luxurious room on the thirty-eighth floor of a hotel by Lake Sword-Washing, heading straight for the prince's residence in Great Tang City...
During the day, the taxi driver had already taken Zhang Tie on a circuit around the prince's residence. With the Lotus Blossom Eye, Zhang Tie had seen the entire residence clearly, so by now he knew the place like the back of his hand.
Great Tang City had fallen asleep by this hour. Other than the streetlights along its roads and the lights in a handful of buildings, the entire city lay steeped in silence, utterly unlike its daytime clamor.
It had been a long time since Zhang Tie had used his tiny beetle incarnation. Now that he had transformed into one again, he once more felt that unrestrained, unfettered freedom.
Zhang Tie's beetle incarnation flew more than a hundred meters above the ground. Its form, enhanced with the Super Concealment Technique, flickered like a speck of dust in the air as it flew directly toward the prince's residence. In just over twenty minutes, the residence he had seen during the day appeared before him once more.
The prince's residence stood at the heart of Great Tang City, covering roughly four square kilometers. A military camp beside it guarded the grounds, and the entire residence was under exceptionally tight security. From the air, Zhang Tie could see that all the streetlights outside the residence were lit, while patrols of guards marched one after another. Open guards and hidden sentries filled the grounds, leaving virtually no blind spots.
Of course, that was only true for ordinary people. At Zhang Tie's level, such ordinary guards