Chapter 384: Interception! "Please keep subscribing! Extra update this afternoon!"
"A change in fortune?"
Deep within the Great Liang Imperial Palace.
Liu Qiankun, who was cultivating in seclusion, suddenly felt the Nine Dragon Seal inside him tremble gently.
This seal was a nation-guarding magic treasure, nourished by the nation's fortune.
Only a change in Great Liang's fortune would stir it.
He brought two fingers together, conjuring a phantom image, and the Nine Dragon Seal flew out from his dantian. Its nine phantom dragons had actually dimmed slightly.
"Someone has defected?"
"And for a disturbance of this magnitude, the defecting lineage must be extremely powerful. It could only be..."
"Shadow Guard!"
Liu Qiankun spoke softly, and a dark figure suddenly darted out of the shadows.
He appeared middle-aged, dressed entirely in black with his face masked and his eyes sinister. Coming before Liu Qiankun, he knelt on one knee. "Your Majesty, what are your orders?"
"Investigate any unusual movements in the Zhao Clan."
"Yes."
The sinister middle-aged man cupped his fists, then turned into a shadow and quietly departed.
Though this mystic art was uncanny, it had yet to reach the level of a divine ability.
If someone's spiritual consciousness covered the area, it could not evade detection.
Seven days passed in the blink of an eye.
The Zhao Clan Grounds.
Si hour.
Three slender azure spell boats, over a dozen zhang long and several zhang wide, hovered quietly above a flat stretch of valley outside the Zhao Clan Grounds.
Faint spiritual light shimmered across their hulls, and many Zhao Clan disciples in the late stage of qi refining stood on their decks.
A Foundation Establishment Realm cultivator stood aboard each boat.
Inside the cabins were cultivators with lower cultivation in the early and middle stages, along with children.
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