Shi Yue could hear the concern in Xiaoyaozi's voice. Smiling, he said, "I'm fine! How did you find out I was in trouble so quickly?"
"Good news doesn't leave the house, but bad news travels a thousand miles. You're quite the celebrity now, so it'd be hard for me not to hear about it. But what exactly happened? How did the people from Yanluo Hall attack you in the market town? Did someone tamper with you somehow?" Xiaoyaozi asked, his expression grave.
Shi Yue shook his head and furrowed his brow. "I don't think so. Otherwise, that Body Integration Cultivator would've caught up to me long ago. I can't figure out how they knew I'd go to Ziyang Market Town, either. I didn't tell anyone where I was headed. To avoid being tracked, I kept changing my appearance and direction along the way. I even hid on Spirit Turtle Star for over half a month, but they still found me. It's baffling."
After escaping with his life, Shi Yue had kept turning it over in his mind. How had he been tracked? How had his enemies known he would go to Ziyang Market Town?
"If my guess is right, it was probably the Divination Technique. Many years ago—cough, I mean, back in the era when I was alive—there was a major cultivation sect called the Immortal Divination Sect. They specialized in divination. But using the Divination Technique went against the natural order. The higher the target's cultivation, the more lifespan the diviner lost—and the less accurate the result." Xiaoyaozi sounded uncertain.
Shi Yue furrowed his brow. In all his years in the Cultivation World, this was the first time he had encountered the Divination Technique.
Xiaoyaozi's reasoning was probably right. Red Sun Star had only one major market town with