Niwan Palace Grotto-heaven

"It worked!"

Watching the fruit tumble across the ground, Li Rui could not help swallowing.

But he did not rush.

Instead, he suppressed the excitement in his heart and remained in Hongwen Pavilion until the evening of the seventh day before leaving the Divine Void Imperial Palace as usual.

Having lived for so long, he understood well that haste made waste.

The fruit was in his Purple Palace, where no one could take it away. But if he revealed anything unusual, some old monster within the Divine Void Imperial Palace might notice a clue.

Though the possibility was low, he still had to guard against it.

Before long.

He returned to the small courtyard.

"Senior, you're back."

Cui He sprang to his feet and grinned at Li Rui.

He was the only one guarding this house, and he had been bored out of his skull. Naturally, he was delighted to see Li Rui return.

Li Rui said, "I'll be entering closed-door cultivation for a while. If anyone comes to visit during that time, refuse them for me."

"Closed-door cultivation?"

Cui He blinked.

He was an exceptionally perceptive man and immediately sensed that something was amiss.

With Li Rui's cultivation, even if he were waiting for a heavenly tribulation, there was no need for such a deathly seclusion. There had to be something else.

Yet Cui He did not ask. He merely smiled and nodded.

Li Rui said nothing further.

He walked straight into the room.

Dealing with someone like Cui He was effortless.

Li Rui stepped into the very center of the room, and formation patterns slowly emerged.

It was a great formation that blocked divine sense.

After finishing all this.

Li Rui activated another formation.

A formation within a formation.

The next instant.

His figure vanished completely from the