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Night stretched on; the gongs struck midnight.
Having swallowed the secret elixir, the Emperor, arm in arm with his veiled bride, walked to the bridal chamber under heavy escort.
The other guests drifted away.
Li Yuan supported his thoroughly drunk wife back to their quarters, settled her gently on the couch, slipped off her shoes and quietly stepped outside.
He activated Mortal World Transformation. His body turned translucent, then re-formed as a woman—no servant or kin from the Xie household, just an unfamiliar face.
Then he gazed into the distance.
Two years of training, plus the senses granted to him by Mortal World Transformation, had honed his perception to a razor’s edge.
Li Yuan could feel the newlyweds crossing the threshold of their chamber. He could feel Zhao Gutong departing. He felt the rings of blockade around the Xie residence—so tight even an ant could not crawl through—yet he himself was inside the walls, scarcely a hundred paces from the bridal chamber.
Clearing his mind of every stray thought, he focused on the rare, almost one-of-a-kind skill...
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