Pei Ye did believe in the power of [Entering the Palace Gate]. The woman had once said that within two hundred li, she could keep him safe against anyone below [Body Recasting], but against [Entering the Palace Gate], even Glaze could guarantee nothing.
Every step upward in the Profound Gate Realm was a qualitative leap. Those at [Entering the Palace Gate] already possessed immortal robes and jade bones and were about to ascend the Sky Tower. Glaze certainly had the strength to fight them, but Pei Ye himself remained flesh and blood.
"If you face someone at [Entering the Palace Gate], you must stay within my sight," the woman had once told him solemnly.
Yet this [Great Sima Mountain] had now chosen to avoid Glaze rather than fight. Pei Ye had no ability to distinguish the cultivation levels of Profound Gate Grandmasters, and his opponent had not revealed his, but Pei Ye could not help suspecting that the man had yet to climb the third Jade Step-or was in very poor condition.
Whatever the case, the man had voluntarily retreated after the formation broke, and Pei Ye naturally refused to let him escape.
The Scripture Repository was built into the mountain. Following the faint movement Black Cat had detected, Pei Ye crossed the high cliff and plunged into the dense forest.
Thin mist hung in the cold night. The woods were deep and hazy, the vegetation like cold emerald after rain, gleaming beneath the dim moon.
In the silence, only the youth's light panting and the sounds of his bounding passage were clearly audible. Within mere breaths, his quarry had vanished completely. For someone at the Meridian Tree's Sixth Growth to pursue a second- or third-step Grandmaster was a tale from the Arabian Nights, but the decisiveness of the man's