"It looks like she's been following us and keeping watch all along... Bai Xiaotian, do you still dare say she's innocent?" Shen Luo asked.
At those words, Bai Xiaotian immediately shook his head like a rattle drum.
"Come on. Take us there," Shen Luo said gravely.
Yuan Qiu answered and immediately took flight, racing toward the spot where the Gu Insect had been killed.
Shen Luo and Bai Xiaotian promptly followed.
The three sped north for several li and soon reached a stretch of elevated ground. On the tallest old cypress there, Yuan Qiu found the Gu Insect's crushed remains.
"Now this will be easy." At the sight, a smile appeared at the corner of his mouth.
Then he took out another grayish-white Gu Insect and waved it over the dead insect's remains.
Once the grayish-white Gu Insect caught the scent, it immediately beat its wings and flew swiftly east.
Shen Luo and the others hurried after it.
After flying more than ten li, Shen Luo suddenly raised his brows and said, "Found her."
The woman had been concealing her presence all along. Apparently pressed by the pursuing Gu Insect, she could not resist releasing her divine sense to probe behind her. Shen Luo immediately caught that fleeting ripple of divine thought.
Without the slightest hesitation, he used Yimu Immortal Escape and pursued Lin Xinyue.
Lin Xinyue was fleeing in haste when she glanced back and suddenly saw a figure appear little more than ten li behind her in an instant. Her face drained of color.
A layer of flowing white light shone around her, and her figure blurred in midair before vanishing from Shen Luo's sight again.
Shen Luo immediately activated Yimu Immortal Escape once more and caught up.
But when he emerged this time, he saw only Lin