Time flowed away in silence like running water, and two and a half months passed in the blink of an eye.
Within a dark, secret Cave Abode somewhere, a hoarse voice slowly rang out from the shadows:
"News has just arrived. Shen Changchuan has appeared in the Tiannan sub-region and returned to his old nest, the place called Big Bay City."
The speaker deliberately turned his gaze toward a certain figure, his tone dripping with undisguised mockery.
"..."
"Hehe, didn't some people swear that everything was under control? What happened? If news hadn't come from over there, I'm afraid they would still be kept in the dark!"
"Tsk tsk, if I remember correctly, just a few months ago, someone was thumping his chest and guaranteeing that nothing could go wrong. Yet he did not even realize the target had quietly left more than two months ago. What truly 'divine foresight and brilliant calculation'!"
"Situ Yuan, what profound insight do you have on this?"
Amid the barbed mockery that came one sentence after another, Situ Yuan, who was being ridiculed by the crowd in turns, found that even with the thick skin he had cultivated over a century, his face could not help turning green and then white!
He had been played!
The investigation had revealed that when Shen Changchuan came to the Immortal Sect, he had ridden his former Master You Longzi's Ten Thousand Miles Empty Boat, and that flying vessel had long since been taken away in advance by another former Junior Brother, Hong Yang.
Because the investigation had clearly established that Shen Changchuan had come to the Immortal Sect aboard the Ten Thousand Miles Empty Boat of his former Master You Longzi, while that very Ten Thousand Miles Empty Boat had already been taken away beforehand by another