As she left the armory entrance, a group of five Void Piercing Dao disciples swept in from the southern islands in the distance.
Treasure light flowed over all five of them. Each possessed no fewer than three divine artifacts for protection alone.
At their head was a refined, scholarly man surnamed Ju, wearing a scholar's headscarf. A "Array Spirit" offspring Gu lay curled upon his shoulder.
"Fellow Daoist Yuwen, remain within my inner heaven and earth. The armory does not permit accompanying outsiders to act. I'll have to trouble you to circulate your Gu Dao Method several more times and bear it upon Dao talismans."
"There is something off about that Liu fellow. His Gu Dao may already have reached One-Body Immortal as well. Even with my Dao method, which combines Exotic Gu arts from other paths, you may still find it difficult to take him down."
"If we cannot take him down, then brand him with the Azure Firmament Palace blood mark and leave those elders to painstakingly track him down."
The man surnamed Ju communicated telepathically with the offspring Gu. Without opening his inner heaven and earth, the Gu acted like a miniature teleportation array, suddenly spitting out a jade talisman of deep azure-green hue.
This time, Azure Firmament Palace had truly spent heavily. Dao talismans were ordinarily used to bear the profound methods of elders, bestowed upon direct blood descendants or sect holy sons to preserve their lives.
Yet now, to accommodate the rules of Void Piercing Island's armory, the Dao talismans were being used to bear a One-Body Immortal Dao method. It was truly extravagant waste.
The "Fellow Daoist Yuwen" concealed within the man surnamed Ju's inner heaven and earth was none other than Yuwen Shangwu. The exotic Gu "Array Spirit," such a rare Gu, was