Someone suddenly appeared in the main hall, startling Tang Yuniang at once. This ordinary-looking young man had appeared without any warning at all, and the sect's formations had given no alert whatsoever.
Her Divine Sense swept over him, and she found him to be like a mortal. Yet someone who could appear inside the sect like this—Tang Yuniang was no fool, so naturally she would not take him for an ordinary man.
Though she could not see through his cultivation, as the deputy sect master, and given the Wood Flow Sect's ties with the Phantom Sect, she still gathered her courage and prepared to question him.
When the young man in azure robes saw Tang Yuniang look up, he raised a hand, and a token flew toward her.
Tang Yuniang caught it instinctively and looked at it. She was immediately shocked. After examining it carefully for several breaths, her expression promptly turned respectful.
It was unmistakably a Phantom Sect token!
The newcomer was Li Yan. He had originally intended, as he had last time, to appear directly before Bai Rou.
However, after arriving here and sweeping out with his Divine Sense, he discovered Bai Rou's aura inside an artifact-refining room, with the formations and restrictions outside that room activated as well.
After giving it some thought, Li Yan did not sneak into the artifact-refining room himself.
Although he and Bai Rou had a good relationship, she was clearly in the midst of refining an artifact. He had no desire to see her artifact-refining methods; that would only make her unhappy.
He then discovered Tang Yuniang handling matters in the sect's main hall. Aside from Bai Rou, she was also the sect's highest-cultivated Great Perfection Foundation Establishment cultivator.
Tang Yuniang immediately gave a respectful salute, presenting Li Yan's token with both