"You...!"
Su Mo's eyes widened in utter shock. Zixiao was actually here? He had been discovered?
Su Mo did not flee, for he knew that in front of Zixiao, escape was simply impossible.
Stomp! Stomp! Stomp!
At that moment, Zixiao walked over with his hands clasped behind his back and a blank expression on his face.
Within a few strides, he arrived right in front of Su Mo.
"What were you and Ling Shang doing?" Zixiao looked down at Su Mo, his voice calm, yet his tone brooked no refusal.
He had been in secluded cultivation prior to this, but because he had arranged for someone to keep an eye on Ling Shang, he only came out of seclusion temporarily upon receiving a disciple's report.
After searching for a moment, he found this place. Before he even had time to investigate the situation inside that Spatial Treasure Artifact, Su Mo and Ling Shang had emerged.
"We weren't doing anything!" Su Mo took a deep breath, maintaining his composure as he met the other's gaze directly.
He did not know whether the other had discovered the matter of him fusing Nascent Souls for Ling Shang, but he figured they probably had not.
Spatial Treasure Artifacts all possessed defensive arrays; although not exceedingly strong, the moment they suffered an attack, or if someone else's physical body or spiritual consciousness attempted to force entry, he would know at the very first instance.
Earlier, the Spatial Treasure Artifact had been completely calm and showed no reaction whatsoever, clearly indicating that Zixiao had not been prying into it.
Perhaps the other had just arrived, or perhaps the other had wanted to wait and see how things developed.
"You weren't doing anything, yet you hid inside a Spatial Treasure Artifact. What disgraceful business is there?" Zixiao's