Ten Breaths to Activate the Sword Array That Severed Heaven's Secrets!

Dongling City.

The Star-Picking Tower.

At that moment, two men sat at a window-side table on the third floor.

One was Yun Shanhe. Dressed in white, he was strikingly handsome, though the gloom between his brows lent him an air of melancholy.

Across from him sat a man with an utterly ordinary face.

So ordinary that he would be hard to spot in a crowd.

"Fellow Daoist, when do you think he'll return?" Yun Shanhe asked.

"I don't know." The ordinary-looking man shook his head. "But I've reinforced the array to make it harder to detect. I also added a linked set of array disks. If anyone powerful enters its range, I'll know."

Yun Shanhe nodded at that.

"No wonder you were in the mood to invite me out today!"

"It's freezing outside. Keeping watch the whole time would be too much trouble! We may not fear heat or cold, but hot wine tastes especially good in weather like this." The ordinary-looking man shook his head.

Then he sighed. "A pity the wine here is lacking. Since I came on orders, I couldn't bring any of my treasured bottles."

Yun Shanhe smiled.

"Once this is over, drinks are on me. We'll drink our fill!"

"Once it's over, we certainly will!" The ordinary-looking man nodded repeatedly.

"I just wonder how long we'll have to wait," Yun Shanhe said.

"There's no rushing it now. At a time like this, we can't afford to beat the grass and startle the snake! We have time. Our best chance is the first strike, while we know what's coming and he doesn't. If Marquis Dongling grows wary, things will get much more troublesome," the ordinary-looking man said.

He continued, "According to our intelligence, this is one of his homes. He's bound to return. Besides, two women