"I knew it."
Li Fuchan glanced back from afar. Sensing Li Thunder's simmering fury, he turned and fled, not daring to linger for a moment.
The Lord of Zongshedu Mountain had once said that Black Mountain was something's eye. That was why, after the earlier simulation ended, Li Fuchan had fled Black Mountain like a madman.
Even then, he had begun to suspect something.
Peaceful Way Abbey would not offer the Xu Household guidance in cultivation without reason. To travel a thousand miles and condescend to help them, they must have had some purpose in mind.
And the most likely focus of that purpose was Black Mountain.
In the previous simulation, his intention to recruit the Xu Household had stirred ambitions in Xu Xuan, prompting him to reveal his aspirations before Xu Sansheng.
Knowing someone could take charge of the household after his death, Xu Sansheng had sacrificed himself and the other elders to eradicate the fiend within Black Mountain—Hua Hong, whom Li Fuchan had stuffed into the mountain—and, in doing so, uprooted the venomous hatred in Xu Xuan's heart.
Those changes had undoubtedly disrupted Peaceful Way Abbey's plans to some degree. That was why they had gone to such trouble to divine his whereabouts.
This time, without Li Fuchan's involvement, the situation that unfolded naturally was undoubtedly what Peaceful Way Abbey wanted.
He had come only to confirm his suspicions and see how the situation had changed, lest this matter leave him at a disadvantage in the future.
To find Jia Hua, he would still have to go to Huaishuo Town.
What he did not know was that Jia Hua had already found the person he sought. After personally bestowing a name and a cultivation method, he had wasted not a moment before setting out for Black Mountain.
Jia