Elsewhere, at Grace Hall headquarters, Tang San hid atop the roof of the nearest house, carefully observing the several Soul Master guards on night duty at Grace Hall, searching for an opportunity to enter.
Grace Hall's exterior structure was highly unusual. The three-story-high outer walls offered almost no footholds and were exceptionally smooth. Above the third floor, there were footholds, but most of the walls were gone, replaced by floor-to-ceiling windows made of all kinds of glazed glass. Soul Masters patrolled almost constantly, visible even from outside. Moreover, there were not merely one or two patrolling Soul Masters, and their cultivation levels were unknown.
Tang San was only a Soul Emperor now. He had neither consumed the Infernal Delicate Apricot and Octagonal Mysterious Ice Grass nor the Full Moon Wearing Autumn Dew. The Divine Slaughter's Domain he had obtained was also extremely weak. The only thing that matched the original was the Blue Silver Emperor's "Blue Silver Domain."
Besides, Tang San did not dare kill anyone from Grace Hall. Ever cautious, he had no desire to casually make an enemy of a major force.
Without using hidden weapons—lethal weapons when deployed against an enemy—even against a Soul Sage, he only had the strength to fight. If he encountered two or three opponents of the same level, he could barely escape at best.
Once he went up there, even Tang San, a professional assassin and killer from the Tang Sect, would inevitably be discovered instantly. Moreover, since he was in the wrong, he could not fight without restraint as they could.
The people of Grace Hall only had to worry whether their attacks would smash through the surrounding walls and floors. Tang San, on the other hand, had to worry about injuring them!
Thus, the main entrance, which ordinarily should have