Battling Wits with the Air

Time flowed away like water, and two and a half months vanished in the blink of an eye.

Within a dark, secret cave abode somewhere, a hoarse voice slowly rose from the shadows:

"Word has just arrived. Shen Changchuan has shown himself in the Tiannan Minor Domain and returned to his old den, a place called Dawan City."

The speaker deliberately turned his gaze toward a certain figure, his tone filled with undisguised mockery.

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"Heh heh, didn't some people swear that everything was under control? What's this? If news hadn't come from over there, I'm afraid they'd still be kept in the dark!"

"Tsk tsk, if I remember correctly, just a few months ago, someone was pounding his chest and guaranteeing that nothing could go wrong. Yet he didn't even realize the target had quietly left more than two months ago. Truly, what 'divine foresight and brilliant calculation'!"

"Situ Yuan, what brilliant insight do you have to offer on this?"

Amid the barbed mockery, Situ Yuan, who was being ridiculed by everyone in turn, found his face shifting between green and white despite having cultivated for a century and long since tempered his skin to great thickness!

He had been played!

Back when the investigation revealed that Shen Changchuan had come to the Immortal Sect aboard his former master Roaming Dragon's Ten Thousand Mile Sky-Traveling Boat, that Flying Boat had already been taken away in advance by another former junior brother, Hong Yang.

Because the investigation had clearly established that Shen Changchuan had come to the Immortal Sect aboard his former master Roaming Dragon's Ten Thousand Mile Sky-Traveling Boat, and because the Ten Thousand Mile Sky-Traveling Boat had happened to be taken away first by another former junior