Away from all the fighting, Advisor Liu and Elder Zhao moved with extreme caution, taking deliberate, light steps through the narrow, damp stone corridors beneath the inner district of Leaf Green City.
Cold sweat continuously trickled down their pale faces, dripping onto their luxurious green silk robes.
Surrounding them in a tight, impenetrable defensive formation was an elite escort force, compromising of seven imposing early-stage Spirit Ascension experts with drawn weapons and twelve late-stage Nascent Soul realm combat wardens whose divine sense actively scanned every shadow, corner, and stone tile for the slightest hint of danger.
Advisor Liu continuously wiped his drenched forehead with his sleeve, his hands shaking so violently he could barely hold his administrative talisman.
