Xue Lan arrived before a magnificent hall within the Mysterious Court.
This hall was the Mysterious Court's sect treasury, which housed the Heavenly Materials and Earthly Treasures the sect had collected over countless years.
Seeing Xue Lan approach, the Mysterious Court disciple guarding the hall cupped his hands. "Senior Brother Xue, what Heavenly Materials and Earthly Treasures have you come for in the middle of the night? Do you have an elder's written authorization...?"
"Urk!"
Before the guard could finish speaking, Xue Lan unleashed his late Purple Mansion Realm cultivation and brought out the [Northern Profound-Devouring Nether Capital Banner], freezing the mid Nascent Soul Realm guard into an ice sculpture. With a casual wave, he smashed him into fragments.
"You talk too much."
To gather intelligence on the Mysterious Court's treasury, Xue Lan had often interacted with the guard. Within the sect, they had always appeared to be on excellent terms, calling each other brothers.
But now that his identity had been exposed and a Demon Fiend was pursuing him, Xue Lan had no time to keep up the charade.
However close they had seemed before, it had all been false. Whoever took it seriously would die.
With the obstacle removed, Xue Lan pressed on without pause and immediately entered the treasury hall. He took several objects brimming with spiritual energy out of his Spatial Treasure and swept his hand. A formation he had spent a long time preparing lit up across the floor-the Heaven-and-Earth Recirculation Formation.
It was a fixed-destination, one-way teleportation formation, with its other end at the Nine Serenities Sect in the Western Sea Region.
"Formation, activate!"
Xue Lan rapidly formed hand seals. As spiritual energy poured in, the formation's patterns slowly lit up, and ripples spread through the surrounding space.
"Everything happened so suddenly that my