The True Cultivator Circle district was cold and quiet. The cultivators who made their homes within spent year after year secluded behind layers of restrictions, rarely venturing out, while outsiders who did not know the rules would make a fuss outside, loud enough to be heard clearly for over ten miles around.
Zi Qu had just returned from the auction house and was in the midst of changing her incense when she heard mention of the Sea Rain Incense, causing her to pause slightly. Looking toward the pavilion window, two black cats had climbed onto the sill at some point, one on the left and one on the right, both looking out with curiosity. For a moment, it was impossible to tell which one had been transformed from a person and which from a talisman.
"Wasn't that one sleeping soundly?" Zi Qu hurried to the window, only to hear the cat's speech: "Mwah, it's really chaotic here."
Despite uttering complaints, the black cat showed not the slightest bit of dissatisfaction. Instead, she straightened her feline body, quite excited: "A fight is about to start, hmm? It's that annoying fellow... There are quite a few people watching the fun!"
With her cultivation realm, she only needed to move her thoughts slightly for a radius of a hundred miles to be within her perception. Although it was a full twenty miles away from the scene of the incident, looking down from her high vantage point, she could still see everything very clearly.
In the distance, Chou Wu was carefully observing the situation as it changed, a mysterious sensation stirring in his heart. He raised his head blankly, looking around in a circle, and upon seeing the Yuangguang Pavilion—which left only a dark shadow in the distance—he suddenly understood:
How could he have