121: Chapter 121 Night Raid on the Imperial Palace

Elder Luo Xi immediately took Xia Shaoxin and the other one and turned back toward the capital.

Arriving at the Highlands near the Imperial Palace in the city, Elder Luo Xi climbed up to observe and discovered that the Yue Kingdom had strengthened the vigilance within the Imperial Palace, with many more Cultivators on guard than usual.

"You two, I suspect that back then, my brother was set up by the Yue Kingdom and tricked into coming here for some shady business; Shenji Tower will definitely have clues."

"Senior, you already alerted the enemy earlier; the Yue Kingdom is on guard now," Xia Shaoxin said.

Elder Luo Xi said calmly, "It doesn't matter. No matter how many people there are, they cannot stop me."

"Are you planning to force your way in?"

"I have no mood to force my way in. Just follow me tonight."

Elder Luo Xi found a quiet place and circulated his energy to heal his wounds.

His Cultivation had gone awry, and a lame leg was just the mildest symptom.

The circulation in his meridians was difficult, and his cultivation would slowly decline. Elder Luo Xi estimated he could last at most one year before his True Qi dissipated and his lifespan came to an end.

Xia Shaoxin observed carefully from the side. When Elder Luo Xi finished circulating his Cultivation Technique and rested, he seized the opportunity to ask, "Did Shenji Tower set up mechanisms that cause poisoning?"

"The Yue Kingdom only put a Seal on Shenji Tower; they did not set up any poisons. It is the poison inside Shenji Tower that has leaked out."

"Oh, is that... a type of poison like poisonous miasma?"

Elder Luo Xi was silent for a moment. "No one has ever held that view; this is the result of my latest research."

Xia Shaoxin pointed out sharply, "You are using me as an experiment!"

"Suppose you could say that!" Elder Luo Xi's eyes were sharp.

"What if it's not?"

"I don't have much time left to live, so why should I care about that!" Elder Luo Xi's tone was extremely cold.

Xia Shaoxin found him impossible to communicate with and could only resign himself to bad luck.

He asked one last question, "Is there any Medicinal Pill that can restrain the poisons of Shenji Tower?"

Elder Luo Xi paused and nodded, "When the Yue Kingdom entered Shenji Tower back then, they did indeed consume a type of Medicinal Pill, but the Pill Formula has been lost, and I never obtained it."

Xia Shaoxin thought, since Elder Luo Xi concluded that the world beneath Shenji Tower was the same as the Chiyan Sect, he would bet that he was right.

He still had a few three-corpse three-insect body refining pills in his hand; he might as well treat a dead horse as if it were alive.

Soon, it was late at night. Elder Luo Xi leaped up, "Let's go!"

He took out three sets of clothes from his Storage Pouch and disguised them as palace guards.

Elder Luo Xi had come to the Yue Kingdom capital a year ago, disguised himself as a Mortal, and spent a whole year scouting the capital before making a move. He knew the terrain, architectural layout, and patrol patterns inside like the back of his hand.

They arrived at the foot of the palace walls and stopped.

"Miss Liu, I have heard that you have extremely high talent in Formations. This is one of the eye locations of the palace's Protective Array. If you can find the eye, we can enter quietly without wasting my energy, and perhaps avoid accidentally harming anyone."

Liu Tingting stepped forward and used her own methods to probe for the existence of the array eye.

Before long, she spoke, "There is no array eye here."

Oh! Elder Luo Xi exclaimed, but his expression was not surprised.

"It seems that last time I forcibly broke the Formation here, my methods were not clever enough, and I was discovered. They have reset the grand Formation."

Liu Tingting said, "The Protective Array was set up by experts in the past and usually wouldn't be completely reset; they probably just moved the location of the array eye."

She carefully probed the vicinity, and after a while, she smiled and said, "It's here!"

She slapped the wall with both hands, saying urgently, "When I say go, you two must vault over the wall. Do not touch the wall, do not go higher than three feet above the wall, and when you land, you cannot exceed three feet from the wall!"

Xia Shaoxin looked up at the wall, which was ten zhang high. He was only at the Third Layer of Qi Refining, so he couldn't possibly do that.

Elder Luo Xi patted his shoulder, signaling him not to worry.

Liu Tingting continued to tap lightly on the wall. Soon, they heard something fall inside the wall.

"Go!" Liu Tingting ordered.

Xia Shaoxin suddenly felt a powerful force under his arm, throwing him up onto the high wall.

He barely cleared the top of the wall, rolled over, and fell down. He dared not stretch his body out freely and landed heavily, smashing a pit into the ground.

As he landed, he saw a flag on the inside of the wall, right against the wall, slowly descending.

Liu Tingting and Elder Luo Xi followed closely behind. Just as the flag was about to land, Liu Tingting caught it and threw it against the wall, and the flag instantly vanished.

The Formation on the palace wall recovered to normal in the blink of an eye, without causing any violent fluctuations in Spiritual Qi.

Elder Luo Xi nodded approvingly at Liu Tingting.

He looked into the distance and listened intently. Judging that they hadn't alerted the patrolling Cultivators in the palace, he took the two of them and continued forward.

The Imperial Palace was much more tense than before, but in Elder Luo Xi's eyes, it was all useless decoration.

The place they had climbed over the wall into was the backyard, which contained countless palaces used by the great Cultivators of the Yue Kingdom to reside and Cultivate.

Besides that, there were all kinds of Formations.

This place was where the Yue Kingdom's strength was at its peak.

Yet, the three of them moved as if there was no one around.

Then they arrived outside a high wall. The area nearby was somewhat desolate, and the weeds grew very tall.

"Behind this wall is Shenji Tower."

Xia Shaoxin was surprised, "Why are there no guards here?"

"Because this place is shrouded in poisonous gas; even the guards cannot stay here."

Upon hearing this, Xia Shaoxin hurriedly took out three three-corpse three-insect body refining pills, popped one into his own mouth, and gave one each to Liu Tingting and Elder Luo Xi.

Liu Tingting recognized the Medicinal Pill and was stunned, "You actually have this kind of Medicinal Pill? Did you refine it yourself?"

"Bought, I bought it," Xia Shaoxin lied.

Liu Tingting didn't know that the Immortal Market would sell this kind of Medicinal Pill, but she didn't press further and quickly consumed it.

"What kind of Medicinal Pill is this?" Elder Luo Xi was very surprised.

"We ate this when we entered the Forbidden Ground of the Chiyan Sect last time; it can resist the poisonous gas of the Chiyan Sect's Forbidden Ground."

Oh!

Elder Luo Xi frowned, not really believing that this Medicinal Pill would be useful, but he tossed it into his mouth.

Immediately, a clear energy surged within his body.

He narrowed his eyes to savor it for a long while, then said in surprise, "This Pill makes me feel refreshed, and a very special power is flowing through my body. What kind of Pill is this?"

"This Pill is called the three-corpse three-insect body refining pill."

Elder Luo Xi exclaimed, "I have heard of this Pill. It is used to purify the body, making it easier to absorb Spiritual Qi; it is not a Medicinal Pill for resisting poisonous gas."

Xia Shaoxin nodded, "Once the body is purified, the speed at which it is eroded by poisonous gas slows down, which is equivalent to indirectly resisting the poisonous gas."

Elder Luo Xi gave a thumbs up, "Heh, your Chiyan Sect Elders are very clever; they have glimpsed the secrets of heaven! It's just not very cost-effective, like slaughtering a plow ox just to eat a meat pie."

Xia Shaoxin did not want to dwell on this matter and changed the subject, "Is there a Formation Seal here?"

"Of course there is a Seal inside, but it is not to stop you from going in, but to guard against the things inside coming out. Let's go over."

Elder Luo Xi leaped up and vaulted over the wall.

Xia Shaoxin and the other one followed and vaulted over as well.

It was already night, and it was pitch black and hard to see clearly, but once they landed in the courtyard, they immediately plunged into an even darker world.

"Don't move yet. This place is filled with poisonous gas; even in the daytime, it is impossible to see clearly."

Xia Shaoxin stood in place, motionless, while the surroundings were deathly silent.