"What! Something like that actually happened?" Shen Luo stopped in mid-flight, astonishment written across his face.
Just now, Zhen Yuanzi had told him how the Six-Eared Macaque's divine soul had suddenly disappeared.
"Judging by the Six-Eared Macaque's expression, he seemed to have known this would happen..." Zhen Yuanzi said gravely.
Shen Luo knitted his brows tightly, his expression equally solemn.
The Six-Eared Macaque had been inside the Mountains, Rivers, State and Society Diagram. To move a divine soul out without him, the diagram's master, noticing a thing-probably only Chi You in all of Chang'an City could accomplish that.
In that case, Chi You very likely already knew he had infiltrated the city.
Just then, a long roll of war drums sounded from deep within Chang'an City. As the drums thundered, members of the Demon Clan throughout the city swiftly sprang into action, seemingly searching for something.
"That was certainly quick!" Shen Luo snorted coldly, but he was not worried. He activated the Mountains, Rivers, State and Society Diagram again, slipped into the void, and continued flying forward.
The restrictions throughout the city also went into full operation, waves of probing energy sweeping in every direction. But the Mountains, Rivers, State and Society Diagram was a heavenly dao treasure that could merge with the void, and he was becoming increasingly adept at wielding it. Unless he encountered a peerless magic treasure or restriction like the Six Paths Reincarnation Wheel, which could completely cut off spatial power, nothing could stop him. The city's myriad restrictions might as well not have existed.
He advanced stealthily and soon reached the inner reaches of Chang'an City, near the Imperial City, without being detected by the Demon Clan.
A black magic formation shrouded the entire area around the Imperial City. It seethed with vicious, baleful energy,