After Gao Gonglu led Li Fuchan up the mountain, he immediately formed hand seals and cast a spell, throwing the mountain's protective formation wide open.
Spiritual light flared in succession along both sides of the ridge. Layer upon layer of formation patterns spread like spiderwebs, shrouding the entire mountaintop without a gap.
Li Fuchan gave it a casual glance, then stepped into the formation without hesitation.
Seeing how readily he entered, Gao Gonglu could not help breathing a sigh of relief.
Who knows whether he really has the ability, or is merely bluffing.
Li Fuchan paid no attention to Gao Gonglu's expression. Standing within the formation, he quietly felt out the omnipresent suppressive force surrounding him.
Unfortunately, this was only a false body. Though the Rare Image spirit talisman empowering it was enough to pass the false off as real,
he could not draw his register qi over as well.
Had Embrace-Lock Crouching Cicada been present too, its Crouching Cicada ability would surely have responded to the pressure and strengthened him.
After all, the pressure this formation exerted on him was considerable.
But he did not mind. Turning toward Gao Gonglu, he came straight to the point. "Now that I have entered the formation, what other excuses do you have, Household Head Gao?"
His words were blunt. Clearly, he no longer cared to observe even the courtesies.
Seeing him remain so arrogant even after entering the formation, Gao Gonglu instinctively glared at him with eyes like a vicious wolf's.
Yet the instant he directed that glare at him, he abruptly came to his senses.
The other man was an Outer Scenery cultivator. Not only was his own cultivation a level lower, he had no wish to tear away all pretense of civility and escalate matters, disrupting Gao Gongjin's important undertaking.