Standing on the carriage shaft and gazing into the distance, Yin Xu felt a weight lift from her shoulders. The speed at which the pursuer had flashed out of the carriage behind them told her this was an expert who could frighten the soul clean out of someone. She truly had not expected Shi Chun to escape so calmly under pursuit by such an expert. What nerve! What skill!
She knew that, in his place, the mere sight of an expert like that making a move would probably have turned her legs to jelly.
Recalling how she had teased him when they first met at the Vermilion Jade Pavilion, she finally understood what it meant to see someone's true mettle.
So this was the bearing of the Skyfall Meteor Assembly's foremost champion, the bearing that had allowed the Divine Fire Pact to take the crown. No wonder he had caught the Ancestor's discerning eye.
Little did she know that even Shi Chun himself had not realized how much his confidence when facing such experts had changed. That confidence came partly from the pile of magical treasures he had painstakingly acquired to protect himself, and partly from his experience of personally slaying three Heavenly Immortal Realm experts.
Only after Shi Chun disappeared into the night did the lights and shadows on the Divine Mountain draw her attention. She had no idea what was causing the earthshaking disturbance over there.
Many people in the city climbed onto rooftops or walls to look.
Neither the people on the Divine Mountain nor those in Distant Mountain City had ever seen such a fantastical spectacle from the Divine Mountain's protective grand formation.
Only now did the city's activated defensive grand formation open an exit at one of the gates. After orders passed up and down