"Hmm...?"
The sudden voice startled the young man and woman outside the Snow God Palace gates.
They turned at the same time and saw that, at some unknown moment, a handsome young man in blue robes had appeared before the Imperial City gates.
He stood outside the gates with his hands behind his back, looking at them mildly, like a traveler out on an excursion asking locals for directions.
But what was this place? This was the Snow God Palace's domain.
All eight hundred li of the Snow God Palace's territory were forbidden grounds. Outsiders were prohibited from entering without prior notice.
"You... who are you? How dare you trespass on our Snow God Palace's grounds!"
Frost immediately veiled the young woman's reasonably pretty face. Her hand went straight to the sword at her waist, ready to draw it against him.
"Junior Sister, stop!"
The white-robed man shouted to stop her.
He immediately leaped down from the stone platform and cupped his fist toward the blue-robed young man.
"Senior... may I ask which faction in Qi Province you come from? Do you have an invitation from one of our Snow God Palace elders?"
The white-robed man had far more experience than his junior sister.
He knew that someone who could cross the Snow God Palace's eight hundred li of restrictions and appear directly before the Headquarters gates without alerting anyone-
and whose arrival just now neither of them had sensed beforehand-
was very likely an old monster with profound cultivation and a method of preserving his youthful looks, despite appearing about his own age.
He had seen quite a few such figures while traveling with his master in the past.
Although, as a Snow God Palace disciple, he naturally stood above martial artists from other sects and factions,
he still