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Zihe Palace.

Dark clouds surged, thunder rolled.

Streaks of lightning occasionally slashed the clouds, illuminating the land below for an instant.

Zihe Palace, originally situated within the mountains, was now completely shrouded in a dense gray mist.

The gray mist thoroughly enveloped the Taoist Palace complex, coiling around the mountain range like a living entity, it didn't disperse in the wind and even slightly wriggled, as if it was devouring and digesting something.

Hiss.

Suddenly, a beam of purple light punctured the gray mist, like a purple blade, flying towards the distant horizon.

The purple light continued unabated, crossing dozens of miles in a blink of an eye before gently falling into a small black stone basin outside a villa on the outskirts of a city.

Plop.

The purple light settled into the basin in the villa courtyard, trembling slightly then becoming still.