Zhang Xiaohua's divine sense detected something unusual about the two characters "Misty" on the archway of Misty Mountain Villa. He immediately drifted over, his feet never touching the ground as he flew toward it. Once beneath the archway, he stood with his hands clasped behind his back, slightly closed his eyes, spread out his divine sense, and carefully examined the Misty archway that had stood for ten thousand years.
The drifting snowflakes still could not settle upon his upright figure.
After a long while, Zhang Xiaohua suddenly opened his eyes, a flicker of confusion flashing through them. After thinking for a moment, he floated up onto the towering archway, looked around beneath the deep night sky, then employed his lightness skill and headed east. After traveling for quite some time, he arrived at a desolate, abandoned area. Sweeping it with his divine sense, he entered a dilapidated courtyard, searching as he walked until he stopped before a wall. He examined it from top to bottom and pondered for a moment, then rose again and headed toward another location along the boundaries of Misty Mountain Villa. In this manner, Zhang Xiaohua spent quite some time walking the entire perimeter of the vast villa. One moment he stopped amid a ruined rubbish heap, the next before a brand-new garden, then before half-old, half-new houses. At every location, Zhang Xiaohua paused for a while and released his divine sense for a careful inspection. The confusion in his eyes steadily lessened, and when he returned to the archway once more, a faint smile had already appeared at the corner of his lips.
"Misty Sect truly was a great sect with an Immortal Path inheritance spanning ten thousand years. This archway was actually one of the formation eyes of the '[***] Annihilation Formation.' Unfortunately, for