Yun Huanling's expression stiffened for a moment. He had not expected Su Jiu to have guessed right.
Still, he was reluctant to give up. "Are we just going to leave the Library Pavilion alone, then? I keep feeling it must be hiding some secret. After all, when something is protected by a barrier like this, no one would believe there's nothing suspicious about it."
Lan Fang Ziyi pondered beside them. "Breaking this barrier wouldn't be difficult, but slipping through it without a sound would be very hard."
"Junior Granduncle, would even your Boundary-Pausing Pen not work?" Back in the Wuyi Tribe, they had used the Boundary-Pausing Pen to overhear the conversation between the chieftain and his guest.
In theory, melting away part of the barrier with the Boundary-Pausing Pen should have allowed them to avoid the guards' notice...
Chu Luohen shook his head. If the Boundary-Pausing Pen could work, he would have used it already rather than waiting for Su Jiu to remind him.
Su Jiu watched the cultivators coming and going around them, then glanced at the three cultivators sitting beside the entrance, explaining things to the others. Suddenly, another idea came to her.
"We can't break the barrier by force, we can't use the Boundary-Pausing Pen, and a Concealment Breath Talisman would expose us. But all these restrictions are based on the consequences of those three gatekeepers noticing what we're doing.
"But what if they don't notice?"
Yun Huanling glanced at Su Jiu, clearly not understanding what she meant.
The corners of Su Jiu's lips curved slightly, and a faint gleam rose in her eyes. "I mean, what if they fall into chaos first? They couldn't keep watching the barrier then, could they?
"Besides, the male cultivator in the middle has probably run out of patience already. All