Chapter 338: Trouble
Seeing Zhao Muning cooperate readily and point the way, Li Musheng gave a slight nod, said nothing further, grabbed hold of her, and disappeared swiftly into the darkness.
And during the time Li Musheng had spent wandering to the wrong location, the Hidden Intelligence Bureau Director, who had left later than Li Musheng, had already arrived near the Great Xuan imperial palace ahead of him.
Ever since the Theft Saint Bai Wuying had forced his way into the Great Xuan imperial palace years ago and walked away with a consort without a scratch on him, the Great Xuan emperor had been furious.
In the years that followed, the Great Xuan imperial house had spared no effort in constructing defensive fortifications around the palace and recruiting and cultivating martial world experts to guard it.
One could genuinely say, without exaggeration, that the Great Xuan imperial palace was the most formidably defended of all five nations' palaces.
At that moment, the Hidden Intelligence Bureau Director stood concealed in the shadows of an alley. Looking up, he could see the grand and imposing Great Xuan imperial palace rising in the distance several li away.
The palace had three rings of imperial guard formations outside it, two protective rivers running around it, and watchtowers and lookout posts set at regular intervals, all arranged according to the strictest possible military defensive standards.
Even an expert at the level of a Martial Dao Grand Master would find it nearly impossible to pass through the dense defensive layers outside the Great Xuan imperial palace.
Even so, it was not quite enough to stop the Director of the Great Li Hidden Intelligence Bureau.