Su Yueli stood in the muddy alley, silently watching Han Yu for a long time.
The night wind, mingled with fine rain, stirred the white hair beside her ears.
"Wait here. I'll come back once I'm done."
After giving that instruction, Su Yueli ignored the astonishment and awe in Han Yu's eyes and turned straight toward the alley's exit.
Her steps looked slow, but with each one, her body instantly crossed dozens of yards.
The bustling streets of the outer city rushed backward on either side of her vision.
The Great Xia Immortal Dynasty's Imperial Palace stood at the very center of the inner city, while the Imperial Heavenly Abyss Pavilion rose along the central axis of the palace grounds-a dark-gold tower nine stories tall.
Su Yueli stopped in the square outside the Heavenly Abyss Pavilion.
Ahead lay an empty expanse of jade paving. There seemed to be no guards, but the air was filled with the faint distortions produced by high-level formations in operation.
This was the Great Xia Immortal Dynasty's Guardian Nation Grand Formation.
It was said that three formation grandmasters of the fourteenth realm had spent a hundred years of painstaking effort establishing this grand formation. Its core was connected to the supreme-grade spiritual vein beneath the Imperial City.
Once triggered, the formation could draw on the power of the entire spiritual vein in an instant, unleashing a devastating attack powerful enough to annihilate twelfth-realm cultivators.
Su Yueli stepped forward and walked straight into the formation's range.
The formation patterns in midair immediately sensed a physical intrusion. Countless streaks of pale-gold light wove into a net, sweeping over Su Yueli's body from every direction.
The formation's identification logic was extremely rigorous. It scanned an intruder's divine sense fluctuations, spiritual power circulation, and life aura.
Yet when its