Welcome Inn.
Zhang Shuai appeared inside the inn. Before the maid who came forward to greet him could speak, he briefly spread out his senses, then flashed and appeared outside one of the courtyards.
Every room in this inn was protected by restrictions, but with a casual swipe of Zhang Shuai's hand, the restrictions silently vanished.
Zhang Shuai walked straight in.
It was a small, independent courtyard, heavily warded and tranquil.
At that moment, within the secret chamber in the courtyard, a middle-aged man dressed in a green robe, with an ordinary face and a deep, steady aura, sat cross-legged. A faint and peculiar Dao aura, mingling annihilation and vitality, circulated around him.
Before him floated the phantom of a lush green lotus petal and the phantom of a chaos-colored azure lotus seed. Clearly, he was nurturing and refining them with his own origin, preparing to open a world in the future.
This man was Xu Hong, who had taken the alias Tianxi and was hiding here!
Suddenly, Xu Hong's tightly shut eyes flew open, shooting out two terrifying beams of light. An expression of extreme shock and unease appeared on his face!
Just then, without warning, he felt his heart palpitate, as though some unimaginable, supreme existence had glanced at him from afar across endless void and layer upon layer of restrictions!
The bone-chilling cold brought by that "glance," along with the terrifying sensation that all his secrets had been laid bare, made even his Dao heart tremble!
Not good! Alarm bells blared in Xu Hong's heart. Almost instinctively, he moved to put away the lotus petal and lotus seed and flee using a secret art.
However, it was already too late.
The sturdy restrictions around the secret chamber might as well have not existed. A young man dressed