The daoist priest didn't say anything further and headed straight toward the palace gate.

He seemed to be very familiar with everything in the palace, and after passing through a massive hall and several long corridors, he arrived in a peaceful courtyard.

All types of exotic flowers and plants were growing inside the courtyard, and there were two women in palatial dresses standing beside the entrance with silver veils over their faces.

The women had skin as fair as jade, and they were very elegant, but their auras were quite ethereal and unfathomable.

"Greetings, I've come to pay the palace master a visit," the daoist priest said as he extended a polite salute toward the two women.

One of them women stepped gracefully off to the side to avoid his salute, and said, "We wouldn't dare to accept your salute, Master Li. Please go in; our palace master has been waiting for quite some time now."

"Hehe, then I'll be going on ahead," the daoist priest replied with a smile before...