All of a sudden, an alarmed look appeared on Han Li's face as he exclaimed, "Yin Xu and Gui Mu are catching up to us again!"

"We can't keep running away like this," Baili Yan spat through gritted teeth. "At some point, we'll just have to turn around and fight them."

"In my current state, I can only use my spatial powers one more time to teleport us some distance away from those two, but it won't buy us much time at all," Shi Chuankong sighed.

"Looks like we'll have to make a final stand here, but I'm not optimistic about our chances," Fox 3 said in a grim manner.

"Don't be so quick to resort to extremes. Yin Chengquan forbade battles in the nearby vicinity, so this must be an important place that is not to be damaged. In that case, why don't we go and hide inside the palace for now?" Han Li suggested.

"That could work!" Weeping Soul replied as her eyes lit up.

No one else raised any objections, so the group quickly made its way to the palace.

Through the light barrier, they could see that the gates of the palace were tightly shut,...