"Hm? Why are you looking at me? Don't mind me. Let's keep looking at the plans."
Li Chen's gaze remained fixed on the plans. He paid no attention whatsoever to the two men beside him.
He had come here because he had been following Amir.
A few hours earlier, after Li Sixing took his leave from the Imperial Palace, Li Chen began preparing to head out.
He first returned to his Bedchamber Palace. With his abilities and his familiarity with the Imperial Palace, no one could possibly notice him slipping out.
Li Chen had visited the Imperial Clan Forbidden Grounds several times, so he found his way to the vicinity as easily as an old horse knew the road.
Dressed in ordinary clothes today, he wandered around near the Imperial Clan Forbidden Grounds.
These so-called restrictions amounted to nothing before Li Chen. He could bypass them with ease.
While he was there, he also checked the area for any oversights.
These formations had been established ages ago, by the first few generations of powerful Li cultivators.
As the ages passed, the formations inevitably weakened, and successive generations of Li experts patched them up. It could hardly be called improvement; they were merely filling gaps.
Yet few of those later experts had reached the saint realm. No matter how hard they worked to patch things up, some gaps remained.
That was why people could enter the outer regions without being discovered.
The pagodas inside had also been built later to supplement the formations, and they could not make them perfect.
Li Chen was, after all, the reigning emperor. With his saint realm cultivation, he could spot certain clues, which he noted mentally so he could have Li Sixing repair the flaws after he returned.
After a while, he noticed a mysterious