Stimulated by the sword intent, Ghost Yan's outer robe fluttered without wind, dissolving the pressure, but no matter what he did, he could no longer control the leakage of his aura. A gloomy and cold aura blew past, rubbing against the sword intent and sparking clusters of Azure Flame Yin Fire within the room, flashing and extinguishing in an instant as if entering a ghost realm.
The attendant had the lowest cultivation, caught right in the center of the collision of auras between the two Longevity True Men. Swept by the aftershock, he collapsed and died without even a groan. As for Shen Wan, she reacted very quickly, instantly activating all the defensive arrays in the central zone. She was finally not injured by the aftershock, and even managed to send out an alarm.
Of course, with Shen Wan's unremarkable Returning Elixir initial-stage cultivation, having the breathing room to activate the arrays was also the result of Ghost Yan secretly lending a hand. Seeing that she was temporarily unharmed, Ghost Yan shifted his entire focus onto the opponent who had broken through the door.
He noted that the person speaking was not actually following closely behind the attendant, but rather had arrived by tracing the aura while the attendant was speaking.
The distance between them was a full mile, layered with partitions, doors, turns, and more than a dozen other checkpoints guarded by cultivators, not to mention all sorts of mechanisms and defensive arrays arranged by Suixin Pavilion. The security was extremely tight. Yet these completely failed to play any role at all; wherever the sword intent passed, those defensive arrays acted as if they were deliberately leaving a gap for him, walking through as if in a leisurely stroll.
Ghost Yan held a single description in his mind: handling