Floating Dust Market.
Song Wen disguised himself as a middle-aged male cultivator at the early Mahayana stage and descended before a residence.
The plaque above the residence's gate bore two prominently inscribed characters: "Dan Estate."
"May I ask why you have come, Senior?"
Two guards stood watch outside the gates of the Dan Estate. One of the slightly older guards spoke.
"I have come to seek Fellow Daoist Dan Chen. I would ask the two young friends to announce me," Song Wen said.
"Please wait, Senior. This junior will report your arrival at once." After saying this, the older guard turned and entered the Dan Estate.
Yet after he went inside, he did not return for a long while.
At first, Song Wen thought that Dan Chen simply did not wish to see him.
He could not help considering whether he should reveal the Divine Blood Sect inner sect elder's token he had prepared beforehand.
As the master of a sect himself, obtaining an elder's token was naturally effortless for Song Wen.
However, Song Wen did not wish to take out the elder's token in full public view. That might alert the Tribulation Transcendence cultivator lurking in the shadows.
Song Wen had originally intended to reveal the elder's token privately after meeting Dan Chen.
As he hesitated, time slowly passed.
Song Wen suddenly noticed that the other guard outside the Dan Estate's gates showed no sign of surprise at the older guard's prolonged absence, as though... he was accustomed to it.
A thought immediately arose in Song Wen's heart:
Perhaps Dan Chen did not refuse to see him. Perhaps this man was not even in Floating Dust Market at all.
This Dan Estate before him was likely merely a facade to deceive others.
Dan Chen most likely had another cave