Before the azure foxfire could draw near, the remnants of the array around the Immortal Pool of Returning to True stirred with faint ripples.
Su Shi'er frowned slightly.
The chaotic blood and qi within him had yet to settle, but his divine sense immediately spread out, probing toward the distant array paths.
Though the foxfire came swiftly, it carried not the slightest killing intent.
Instead, a familiar aura flickered in and out of perception.
"Hmm? This is... Hu Meier's aura? She came to the Qingyun Immortal Mansion too?"
A glint flashed through Su Shi'er's eyes.
The vigilance in his heart did not lessen, but the hand seals he formed shifted accordingly.
The remnant array shrouding the Immortal Pool of Returning to True trembled slightly, opening a gap just large enough for the foxfire to pass through.
The next moment.
The azure foxfire passed through the array's radiance and arrived before Su Shi'er in the blink of an eye.
Amid the dancing flames, Hu Meier herself did not appear.
Instead, a palm-sized fox phantom, suffused with a faint azure glow, condensed from within the fire.
The instant the fox phantom appeared, it hurriedly spoke.
"Fellow Daoist Su, something has changed in the Myriad Spirits Immortal Garden of the Qingyun Immortal Mansion! This place is a necessary passage for going deeper into the Qingyun Immortal Mansion and seeking treasures and opportunities."
"Xuan Shi has set an ambush here. The array paths of the Immortal Garden have now been sealed. The restrictions here are peculiar—I can still hold on for now, but I cannot last much longer."
"No matter where you are now, you must not continue deeper into the Qingyun Immortal Mansion..."
Before she could finish.
The fox phantom's body suddenly shuddered, and a crescent of pitch-black moon silently emerged behind it.