Meanwhile, Mad Sword Feng San had already reached the deepest part of Wang'an City's Imperial City.
Half a quarter-hour earlier, he had received instructions relayed by Shen Puzhao.
At the time, Mad Sword Feng San had still been outside the city, leading the two "Astonishing Rainbow Sword Immortals," Bai Lingxi, in a search for clues concerning the corpse army.
South of Wang'an City, they had found an enormous underground cave, its passages complex, twisting through countless turns, and thick with yin energy.
The three had searched only some of its passages before finding thousands of poison corpses and corpse beasts.
Feng San judged that the depths of this cave were very likely where Emperor Jianyuan had refined the Heaven-Gazing Hou clones.
Yet upon receiving the message, he had abandoned the place without hesitation and headed straight for the Imperial Palace with the two women under his command.
By now, the Great Ning Kingdom's elites had all been deployed, and the vast majority of its foremost experts had followed Emperor Jianyuan south.
Besides, Emperor Jianyuan was like the sun sinking beyond the western hills, deserted by followers and kin alike. Few people in the Great Ning Dynasty could truly be called "foremost" anymore.
The only person in the Imperial Palace worthy of Feng San's attention was the Imperial Noble Consort, Changsun Bingquan, who had already become a lunar goddess.
Changsun Bingquan had no intention of fighting to the death. After exchanging a few blows, he had promptly withdrawn from the Imperial Palace, simply yielding the vast Palace City to them.
Mad Sword Feng San had thus found the object Sleeping Dragon described in the jade slip, inside a pavilion on the western side of the inner palace.
It was a pair of black human-skin gloves, placed right in the center of