These palaces and towers were exquisitely built, adorned with carved dragons and painted phoenixes.
Faint fluctuations of spiritual power could also be detected around the buildings. These must have been the restrictive seals Daoist Qingwen had mentioned earlier.
He activated his Sharingan and looked. A faint layer of azure light covered each building like an enormous overturned bowl, extending even beneath the ground.
In the Naruto World, this would have been called a barrier. But that world had no barriers that could run on spirit stones alone; all of them required ninja to maintain them.
Naruto took the two women around the area and soon found the building where Daoist Qingwen was staying.
Standing before the restrictive seal, he pressed the spirit talisman Daoist Qingwen had given him against the azure light outside the entrance.
Ripples immediately spread through the light, and a large circular opening appeared, just wide enough for one person to pass through.
Only after Naruto, Hinata, and Karin had passed through one after another did the opening slowly shrink and close completely.
The two women marveled at the sight.
When Naruto and the others entered, they found Daoist Qingwen chatting with several other people in the hall. Apparently, these people were night owls too.
Han Li was absent, though. He had probably gone to rest.
Seeing Naruto and the women return, Daoist Qingwen immediately rose from his seat. After exchanging a few cheerful pleasantries with Naruto, he introduced two rogue cultivators Naruto had not met during the day.
One of them was his accomplice in robbery, Wu Jiuzhi, a plump man with fair, soft skin.
"Well, well! I'm Wu Jiuzhi. The moment I saw you, brother, I felt an immediate connection. Could we have known each other in a previous life? Why don't we become sworn