The Old Residence in All Its Glory

After leaving Lü Zhongtang, Duan Rong felt somewhat indignant. But as for divorcing Xiao Yu, so long as he himself had no such intention, no one else could sway him no matter what. After walking some distance, he cast the matter from his mind.

At that moment, he saw an ancient-looking stone pavilion not far away.

He slowly walked over and sat down cross-legged within the pavilion.

Though the Lü Family Estate was heavily guarded, most of its guards were concealed in the shadows. They all knew Duan Rong's identity, and none of them would release their divine sense to sweep over him.

Even so, Duan Rong could still sense a pair of eyes watching him from atop a nearby wall. It was the keen instinct of a cultivator's six senses. With a thought, he sent his divine sense sweeping toward that spot.

Sure enough, someone was hidden in the recess beneath the bracket sets, clearly one of the Lü Family Estate's hidden guards.

That person noticed Duan Rong's divine sense sweep over him and immediately changed hiding places, avoiding Duan Rong.

Sitting in the stone pavilion, Duan Rong's lips curled faintly as he muttered, "First level of the Qi Cyclone Realm. Not bad."

He had expected the Lü Family Estate's guards to be formidable, but even in such a remote corner, he had encountered a Qi Cyclone Realm guard. Their strength was somewhat greater than he had imagined.

Sitting cross-legged in the stone pavilion, Duan Rong calmed his mind and turned his awareness inward, beginning to refine the God and Demon Imprint.

Besides wishing to finish refining it as soon as possible and fully understand the power of the Bloodlight Divine Shadow Escape, there was another reason: that strange red light was wrapped around the Five-Colored Ruyi Pearl at