Seeing that Ling Tian had set up a formation restriction—and one with a huge range and tremendous power—Gong Qi was deeply shocked. His first thought was that someone among his own people had leaked the news. He looked at the few people who had taken part in the Inter-Interface Contest alongside Piao Ye, and his expression darkened.
"Brother Gong Qi, I've been keeping an eye on those people the whole time. They haven't leaked anything," Chi Xue said through spiritual sense. Seeing Gong Qi relax, only to look confused again, he murmured, "Thinking back, Piao Ye's route seemed to lead us straight into the formation restriction. In other words, he and Ling Tian were working together."
"Mm, that's right." Gong Qi nodded. "They must have realized we were following them when Piao Ye suddenly changed direction. That's when they started working together. Damn it, they led us around by the nose for so long."
His expression darkened, and Gong Qi muttered, "There's no way Piao Ye could have noticed we were following him. Ling Tian must have told him. But how did Ling Tian know we were tracking them?"
"Ling Tian is as cunning as they come, and he knows all kinds of secret arts. It's not impossible that he figured out we were following them," Chi Xue said. But inwardly, he thought, It must have been the Artifact Spirit of Ling Tian's Order Divine Artifact that discovered us. With so many of us, it's inevitable that some people let their auras slip.
But it sensed us from that far away. That means the Artifact Spirit of the Order Divine Artifact has grown stronger again. Then again, it's only natural for its grade to rise a little after refining so many Order Divine Artifact fragments over the years.
Of course,