Profound Sun Pursuit

Profound Sun City, city gate.

Li Yuan walked along the main street toward the city gate, his pace neither hurried nor slow.

The tracking mark on the clothes covering his back remained quietly attached, continuously emitting a positioning signal.

The verification formation at the city gate operated automatically whenever cultivators passed through. When entering the city, it verified identity and Spirit Stones. When leaving, its inspection focused differently, mainly checking for contraband and abnormal spiritual energy attachments on the body.

Li Yuan stepped into the detection range of the city gate formation.

The formation's spiritual energy swept across his entire body.

About two breaths after the scan was completed, a pale yellow light lit up on the stone pillars flanking the city gate.

Two Immortal City guards emerged from within the gate.

Both were at Late Golden Core Stage, clad in the standard short armor of Profound Sun City guards, their expressions calm.

"Fellow Daoist, please wait." The guard on the left stepped forward.

"The city gate formation has detected an abnormal spiritual energy attachment on you, suspected to be a tracking mark."

"Do you need us to help remove it?" the guard on the right added.

Li Yuan stopped, putting on a look of surprise.

"A tracking mark? I didn't notice it. I'll trouble you two to remove it for me."

The left guard nodded and raised a hand, releasing a strand of purifying spiritual energy that swept across the surface of Li Yuan's back garments.

When the spiritual energy passed over where the mark was attached, the mark's outer structure disintegrated under the purification. Most of the aura anchor embedded deep within the fibers was stripped away, and the positioning signal abruptly weakened.

"It has been cleared." The guard withdrew his spiritual energy. "Fellow Daoist, stay safe. If