The sunlight was brilliant as a carriage traveled along the rugged mountain road at an unhurried pace.
No one knew how much time had passed before the carriage slowly came to a stop, and a graceful figure emerged from the carriage.
"How much longer until we arrive?"
The woman asked softly.
The girl pouted and said, "At this rate, it'll take at least another three or four days."
"Senior Sister, shouldn't we return to the sect as soon as possible?"
"Why are we taking our sweet time?"
The girl blinked her big eyes, her face full of confusion.
Before leaving the ruined temple the day before, her Senior Sister had deliberately left behind the two of their identity tokens and other keepsakes, creating the illusion that they had perished. She had then driven the carriage toward the sect at a leisurely pace, just like an ordinary mortal.
A journey that could originally be completed in a day by flying had been forcibly stretched into three to five days.
Zhou Wutong was silent for a moment before saying, "Junior Sister, don't you find it strange?"
"Strange?"
"Our actions this time were extremely covert, yet the other party still saw through them. Not only did we fail to expose the mastermind, we were nearly schemed against by them instead."
"If Senior hadn't suddenly appeared, the two of us might have died already."
The girl's almond-shaped eyes opened wide. "Senior Sister, you mean..."
"Beforehand, only several elders of the sect knew about our plan."
"Senior Sister suspects..."
Zhou Wutong nodded lightly. "No one else could have leaked our plan. Only those who knew about it could have known our specific arrangements."
"So I deliberately staged the illusion that the two of us had perished, and I'm in no hurry to return to the