Guided by the Momentum, Entering Along the Formation

Su Che shattered the heavy palace gates with pure mana, immediately setting off all manner of changes within the palace city.

As the seat of imperial fortune throughout the successive Southern Dynasties, Jiankang's palace city—the paramount residence of the Son of Heaven—was itself a powerful ward.

The protective formations laid atop the palace city by dynasty after dynasty were nested layer upon layer. Over the years, they had even permanently altered this stretch of heaven and earth, leaving behind profound "traces."

These "traces" overlapped one another like webs. Once an external force tried to force its way in, it would naturally trigger the formations' response.

As the first gateway guarding the imperial court, the Meridian Gate was naturally the first checkpoint in this system. The mana Su Che had injected into the gate was like a clumsy insect tugging at a spiderweb, naturally drawing the backlash of the entire system. At that moment, the formations that had lain quietly dormant within the palace city for years were activated, like a waking beast, sending wave after wave of pressure toward Su Che, the instigator.

"Young Master..."

What was happening before him had truly exceeded Shen Buying's expectations. Under Su Gui, he was responsible for commanding the Iron Plume Guard.

The Iron Plume Guard consisted entirely of deathsworn painstakingly trained by Su Gui. As the leader of these deathsworn, Shen Buying naturally controlled an independently operating intelligence network as well.

In other words, Shen Buying knew the defenses within Jiankang's palace city, as well as this grand formation whose layers were linked together into a whole, like the back of his hand.

Lord Su intended to accomplish a great undertaking, so he had naturally factored the protective grand formation within Jiankang's palace city into his considerations. Such a complex formation, layered one