Li Fan was witnessing this fellow's 'connections' along the way, following Eunuch Zhang through the checkpoints and straight into the deep palace.
On both sides of the walkway, there wasn't much scenery to admire—just high walls inscribed with secret runes. The red walls and golden tiles stretched to the horizon, endlessly in sight, and not even Divine Sense could penetrate them.
The Taiwei Enclosure was indeed a legitimate government body. After passing through the heavily guarded gates and sentinels outside, inside bustled with elderly civil officials clutching their documents, along with palace eunuchs, but there was no sight of consorts swinging in bras or Daoist priestesses in lace fairy dresses practicing their cultivation—so much so that the scene did not stir any poetic fervor, which was quite a pity.
As Li Fan followed Eunuch Zhang through the palace paths, finding themselves momentarily alone, he said, probing,
