Moonlight flowed.
A formation divided the residence and the outside into two worlds.
Outside, cries of battle shook the heavens, and streaks of light from countless Law Artifacts and talismans crisscrossed the air.
Inside this residence, however, it was excessively quiet.
The gray-robed cultivator silently, slowly took shape in the moonlight.
His gaze swept over the empty pool in the courtyard and the two side rooms standing beside each other.
He immediately sensed a Gold Core True Person's Divine Sense, carrying a keen edge, sweeping toward him from the left room's slightly open window.
"Quite perceptive."
The gray-robed cultivator was somewhat surprised.
His figure swiftly dispersed before that Divine Sense reached him.
In the blink of an eye, he silently re-formed in another patch of moonlight.
Like a ghost, he deftly evaded the other party's Divine Sense.
At the same time, he willed a thought.
A well silently rose from the ground.
A face identical to the gray-robed cultivator's slowly bulged from the water within. Then a head emerged, slowly extending above the rim, and exchanged a knowing glance with the gray-robed cultivator beneath the moonlight.
Then, beneath the moonlight, the gray-robed cultivator's figure dispersed bit by bit once more.
He silently appeared outside the left room.
The head inside the well turned toward the right room.
There was not the slightest emotion in its eyes.
"Foundation Establishment..."
The well rapidly faded.
But just as it was about to disappear-
Hum!
A brilliant burst of Sword Light suddenly broke through the wall of the left room!
It slashed straight into the Moon Body that had just taken shape outside the door!
The Moon Body was instantly cut in two!
"Truly vigilant."
Inside the well, the gray-robed cultivator's expression did not change in the slightest.
Instead, he swiftly sank into the