The light inside the hall was soft, and elegant sandalwood incense burned.
Li Lingyue stood before the window with her back to him, her luxurious crimson-purple court robes setting off her upright figure.
"You're back?" She did not turn around, and her voice betrayed neither pleasure nor anger.
"Yes," Lu Changfeng replied, just about to speak.
A sudden change erupted!
Li Lingyue spun around and swept her delicate hand outward. An illusory scroll, suffused with the deep purple of a starry sky and traced with the paths of the celestial stars, shot from her sleeve. It swelled upon meeting the air, instantly covering the space overhead throughout the hall!
Countless points of starlight fell, forming a magnificent formation that sealed off the inside from the outside and created a space of its own-the secret treasure she had obtained on Li Mountain, the [Purple Tenuity Scroll]!
The instant the formation unfolded, space seemed to solidify. Lu Changfeng felt his entire body grow heavy, as though he had sunk into a mire of stars, and his movements were immediately restricted!
Li Lingyue seized the opportunity to close in like a phantom and strike with her palm. Its concentrated force carried the faint essence of falling stars, their radiance held within, and drove straight toward his shoulder blade. It was the supreme technique she unleashed after suppressing her cultivation to the Fourth Realm-"Heavenly Pivot Falling Star Palm"!
The surprise attack came without warning, swift and vicious!
Startled but unflustered, Lu Changfeng instantly circulated his newly advanced vertical and horizontal true qi throughout his body. His formidable true qi and the "momentum" he had comprehended from the Treatise on All Under Heaven slightly weakened the spatial restraints imposed by the Purple Tenuity Scroll. Curling the five fingers of his right hand, he reached out