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While Yu Chen's divine avatar was speaking with Huang Yan, he was not idle within Milo Palace, still observing the other strongholds.

As he watched, he drew the attention of two cultivators patrolling the front lines between the Central Plains and the Western Ocean.

One of them, upon sensing Yu Chen's gaze, sent two azure sword lights exuding a Pure Yang aura flying from his sleeve. Like green pythons and flood dragons lying in wait, they were ready to unleash a fatal blow at any moment.

Yet just as the two sword lights were about to fly from that cultivator's sleeve, the other cultivator beside him acted first. Rings suddenly appeared in the void, revolving back and forth. Faint glimmers of light within them traced paths through the air that seemed to change in an instant, yet also seemed eternally unmoving.

The azure sword lights had barely flown out before returning to the cultivator's sleeve, revealing the attacker's ability to manipulate the light of time.

Then the cultivator who had blocked the sword lights spoke. "So it is True Person Yu Chen. You must have discovered the disturbance at the stronghold where Guanzizai was and come here to investigate. True Lord Miaotong, you are an old acquaintance of his. Shall I leave the matter of speaking with him to you?"

The cultivator who had acted turned his head toward the old monk beside him, a slight, withered figure with a sallow complexion.

He wore a hat resembling both a crown and a Five Buddha Crown, along with a dark-red kasaya that left one lean shoulder bare, its skin covered in Buddhist scriptures. In his hand, he held a cylindrical prayer wheel whose surface was painted with countless Buddhist-scripture motifs, several strings of diamonds hanging beneath it.

At that moment, the