Song Wen left Demon-Suppressing Town and flew through the air at the speed of a Nascent Soul Realm cultivator, neither hurried nor slow.
When he was some twenty to thirty thousand li away from Demon-Suppressing Town, he suddenly noticed a familiar figure roughly two thousand li ahead to his left.
Though the newcomer had concealed her face and aura beneath a bamboo hat and thin veil, Song Wen recognized her at a glance. It was Ye Bing.
"Fairy?" Song Wen transmitted with his divine sense.
Hearing the familiar voice, Ye Bing paused slightly and turned to look over.
"Gou Jun?"
"It's me."
"Why have you changed your appearance again?"
"It made it easier to enter Demon-Suppressing Town and investigate."
Ye Bing glanced behind Song Wen, a trace of teasing in her voice.
"So even you have your horse stumble. Someone has set their sights on you, haven't they?"
Song Wen swept his divine sense over the area around a thousand li behind him. A man and a woman were rapidly closing in.
"Just two ants I deliberately lured out. Fairy, wait a moment. Once I deal with them, I'll come find you."
With that, Song Wen ended the divine-sense transmission and descended into the dense forest below.
Though Ye Bing did not know what Song Wen was up to, she did not ask. She flew past from a thousand li away and continued toward Demon-Suppressing Town.
The man and woman pursuing Song Wen knew nothing of the exchange between him and Ye Bing. They followed Song Wen down into the forest.
Following the lingering traces of Song Wen's aura, they pursued him into an underground karst cave.
Song Wen stood upon a steep rock wall inside the cave, as though he had been waiting for them.
"You two have pursued