Mutual "Scheming"

"Esoteric Sect?"

Hearing the guard's words, Shu Lichuo frowned. She had not even gone looking for Bai Yu yet, but the other party had actually come to her doorstep. This fellow truly had the nerve to defy heaven.

Ba Longxiang, standing beside her, was also stunned. He already knew where the Great Medicine had come from. What shocked him was that the person capable of refining a top-tier eighth-grade Great Medicine was merely a cultivator in the Void Refinement Realm.

"Mother, that person doesn't seem as simple as she appears. Now that she has come to find you, could this be some kind of trap?"

Ba Longxiang asked doubtfully.

"Of those who can reach such heights at such a young age, which one is simple? But we need her now. So there are some matters we can simply pretend not to know."

"Besides, compared to a rabbit, I prefer taming a monkey."

"Monkeys are born unruly and untamed, but so long as they are in my hands, I can naturally tame the wildness in them."

Shu Lichuo said disdainfully.

After confirming that there was nothing abnormal within Ba Longxiang's body, she slowly left the room and headed for the Book Hall.

Led by the guards, Bai Yu smoothly entered the City Lord's Manor. At this moment, numerous fully armed soldiers were stationed around the Book Hall, their absolute defense making the surrounding atmosphere far more unusual.

The moment Bai Yu stepped into the Book Hall, her gaze swiftly swept across it. At the foremost desk, Shu Lichuo watched her with an amused look. At present, they were the only two people in the hall, yet wave after wave of pressure filled the chamber, undisguisedly directed at Bai Yu.

"Greetings, Holy Empress."

Sensing the strange atmosphere in the hall, Bai Yu's