Wang Xian looked at the old man standing at the road junction outside the town and smiled.
No matter how clever you are, you probably never imagined that I hid the innkeeper.
An invisibility talisman.
Once activated, this talisman completely concealed a person's aura. Not even a divine sense search could detect them; even heavenly calculations would find no trace.
This was Wang Xian's trump card for escaping with his life. Even outside the secret realm, when facing the crazed Ye Honglian, he had never used it.
Today, he had slapped it onto the innkeeper without hesitation.
Daoist Wu stood at the town entrance for a long while.
His divine sense poured out like a tide, sweeping across every inch of Azure Dragon Town—every house, every alley. He even searched the desolate graves and wilderness outside the town.
Yet he could not find that woman's aura.
The girl who had fled Sunset City ten years ago—the name he remembered even in his dreams, the woman he had pursued for ten years yet always fallen half a step short of catching.
She was clearly within Azure Dragon Town now. He could feel it, yet he simply could not find her.
It was like admiring a beauty through a thin veil: a hazy silhouette, seemingly within reach, yet the veil could never be lifted.
So he did nothing. He merely stood there quietly.
He waited for Du Yulin to appear, then he would attack.
He was in no hurry. He had patience to spare.
He had waited ten years already. What was a little longer?
He knew that woman would definitely appear...
Not to kill him, but for that sword.
There was some strange connection between the sword and Du Yulin. Though person and sword were separated, the connection remained. As long