"You... you were following us?" Li Piaoyu cried out again as she stared at the suddenly appearing Zhu Hanwei.
Zhu Hanwei smiled at Li Piaoyu's Golden Core, his smile carrying a trace of cunning no matter how one looked at it. "Following? I wouldn't call it that. I merely came to catch up with my good Martial Brother. Why must you be so guarded against me, miss?"
"Hmph! If you wanted to find Senior Brother Su, you could have relied on your own abilities. Leaving a divine-sense Tracking Mark in secret and then tailing us from the shadows—what a petty villain's deed!"
Li Piaoyu snorted coldly and spoke with displeasure.
With Su Shi'er's sudden question earlier and Zhu Hanwei's appearance now, how could she not realize that he must have left behind some other, more concealed method?
Thinking that Zhu Hanwei had been led here because of her and Lu Chenyuan, exposing Su Shi'er's whereabouts, Li Piaoyu felt increasingly upset and even more self-reproachful.
It was fortunate that Su Shi'er had already fully recovered his cultivation. But if his injuries had not yet healed, or if he had been in secluded cultivation and been interrupted, the consequences would have been impossible to predict!
"Haha, a petty villain's deed? I never claimed to be a gentleman."
"On the other hand, miss... you spoke so many ill words about me behind my back. That hardly makes you so upright and aboveboard either, does it?"
Zhu Hanwei laughed heartily, his gaze falling on Li Piaoyu's Golden Core as he spoke with a hint of teasing.
"You..." Li Piaoyu was so furious that her soul body swayed.
Zhu Hanwei feigned disappointment and let out a soft sigh. "Alas, what a waste of my painstaking efforts. I spent so much time and energy finding a