Bai Xiaowen's judgment that "something was wrong with Tang Ren" was not born of a personal grudge. He had evidence.
First, Tang Ren had been partly responsible for screening guests entering the Supreme Clarity Ceremony. Yet thirteen Black Heaven Cult experts had slipped in. The number was staggering.
Second, Tang Ren had always been hostile to Bai Xiaowen, which was hard to explain. Bai Xiaowen had saved the Supreme Clarity Sect. Without him, the sect might not have been destroyed, but it would at least have suffered a devastating blow, and its most important texts would have been at risk of falling into outside hands.
Of course, there was one last reason: Tang Ren was ugly.
Bai Xiaowen had no time to deal with Tang Ren now.
He was simply glad he had sent Cecilia back early.
At the Supreme Clarity Sect, Cecilia had not taken part in Bai Xiaowen's investigation. While the Supreme Clarity Ceremony was underway, she had raided a Black Heaven Cult hideout outside the sect's mountain gate. After gathering a haul of supplies, she had quickly returned to the Spatial Node where she had entered and left ahead of him.
The Spatial Nodes through which they had entered were in different places, so there was no chance for them to meet up again. Besides, Bai Xiaowen had sensed he was about to stir up something big, so he had sent Cecilia out of harm's way.
Now Bai Xiaowen only had to worry about escaping himself.
Once he confirmed that Black Heaven Cult spies were watching him, Bai Xiaowen abandoned his disguise as a traveling scholar. He summoned Rageclaw and raced off, passing inns and towns without stopping.
But after covering over a thousand li in a single day, he found that the spies on his tail