The Azure Cloud Eagle flew swiftly, and before long, it arrived outside Chu Province City.
Chu Province City had now become the Azure Cloud Sect's territory. With the means of Nascent Soul Cultivators, its city-defense grand formation had been repaired, and spiritual light shimmered ceaselessly across the formation's light screen, which reached straight into the clouds.
Because of the city-defense grand formation, Liu Changxu directed the Azure Cloud Eagle to land at Chu Province City's north gate.
More than a hundred Azure Cloud Sect cultivators were inspecting cultivators coming and going at the gate.
Among them were three Golden Core cultivators, more than thirty Foundation Establishment cultivators, and over a hundred Qi Refinement cultivators-a formidable lineup indeed.
The eight Qi Refinement and Foundation Establishment cultivators responsible for inspecting those leaving the city each held a jade disk shimmering with spiritual light. Called Heart-Questioning Disks, they could detect whether the cultivators being questioned were lying! Whenever someone lied, the jade disk would flash red. They were truly remarkable!
Heart-Questioning Disks were made from a precious kind of spirit jade and cost far more than Heart-Questioning Talismans. However, a Heart-Questioning Talisman could only be used once, while a Heart-Questioning Disk could be used repeatedly. As a result, the vast majority were held by large Lineages and sects. Even Liu Changxu was seeing one for the first time.
At that moment, a young Foundation Establishment late stage cultivator of the Azure Cloud Sect was holding a second-tier Heart-Questioning Disk as he inspected Foundation Establishment cultivators leaving the city.
While he was questioning an elderly Foundation Establishment middle stage cultivator, the Heart-Questioning Disk unexpectedly blazed with red light!
In a flash of lightning, the elderly Foundation Establishment cultivator struck. He sent the young Foundation Establishment late stage cultivator flying with a punch, then turned