After entering, Mo Chen shut the wooden guestroom door behind him and reiterated that he needed to cultivate and could not receive visitors.
As the footsteps outside faded into the distance, Mo Chen could not help sighing.
"That female cultivator finally left."
Her excessive enthusiasm was no good thing. She had even wanted to take him to meet the Li Household's elders afterward, saying he was about to reach the eighth layer of Qi Refining and hoping to bask in some reflected glory herself.
But she had no idea that Mo Chen had come to steal the bride. How could he possibly accompany her to meet their elders?
Fuck, they'd beat me to death.
Mo Chen flicked a fingertip, sending another strand of spiritual power into the room.
At the same time, he activated the guestroom's restrictive wards. Two curtains of light descended, isolating the divine sense inside from that outside.
Mo Chen tried extending a wisp of divine sense. The moment it touched the wards' edge, the curtain of light trembled faintly.
Not bad. Pretty sensitive.
If anyone probed inside with divine sense, both the guestroom's wards and his own would raise an alarm.
After confirming that he was safe, Mo Chen took two rolled maps from his Storage Bag and spread them across the table.
One had come from the old man of the Zhu Household, showing the layout of the Li Residence that he had obtained through his connections with the Jade Transformation Sect.
Unfortunately, the old man's map was so sloppily drawn that he had probably sketched it himself. Its only useful information was the marking of several locations where Zhu Shengxia might be imprisoned.
The other was a complete layout of the Li Residence that the female Li cultivator had just given Mo Chen.
This