Li Yan turned past another bamboo grove, and his body silently came to a halt. There were no longer great swathes of pavilions here, nor did any starlike radiance spill from within them.
This place lay in deathly silence. Only the white snow beneath the night sky reflected a grayish-white glow. Dense bamboo groves stood like fences, sealing this place far away from all others.
After Li Yan passed through the woven thickets of bamboo and rounded another bend, a vast clearing within the forest appeared ahead. Several bamboo cottages stood in the middle of it, with no walls enclosing a courtyard around them.
It was as though the broad clearing itself was their courtyard, while the dense bamboo groves surrounding it formed a natural hedge.
Though snow also covered the clearing here, it was not as thick as elsewhere. Apart from a faintly exposed stone path leading straight to those bamboo cottages, green grass covered the rest of the open ground.
This grass was not spiritual vegetation, yet it remained verdant and tender, rising only to ankle height above the ground. Judging by the depth of snow elsewhere, it should long since have been buried beneath it.
Yet the grassland looked as though spring ice and snow had half melted. Much of the green grass poked through, leaving the snowy ground mottled and patchy.
He did not sense any formations in this open stretch. Only on the few bamboo cottages did he detect extremely faint fluctuations of restrictions.
Such a situation was perfectly reasonable. This was the residence of Qianyu Sect's strongest cultivator. With cultivation at the Integrated Body Middle Stage, he would be a terrifying existence not only within this sect, but anywhere. His cultivation alone surpassed the vast majority of formations.
Thus, it was enough for him