Shaken

It took only a single hit from the snakehead staff to almost bring the roof of a building down.

Yet, the strike did not manage to break the barrier above the base.

"What's with the barrier?" The crone looked into the vaguely visible barrier in the dark of night. There was a tinge of unease seen in her eyes.

The standard of that barrier far exceeded what she anticipated. It was so sturdy that even an Airborne Realm being like her would have difficulty breaking it.

It was not to say that she was unable to break the barrier; it was just that she needed a lot of time to do so.

Unfortunately, time was what she lacked most at the moment as well. Not only was she unable to get Lu Xuan to show up, but she was unable to even break through the Heavenly Palace in time.

That barrier was naturally something erected by Lu Xuan himself. He finally decided what happened last, to set up the barrier throughout the Heavenly Palace base.