"Had they finally discovered Xia Ziyi?"
Just as Elder Fang and the others came calling and used the True-Sight Talisman to break some of his arrangements within the Xia Residence, Li Chen sensed something and awoke from his hazy meditation.
He was not surprised in the slightest. He had even made specific preparations for this and had no fear of them coming to his door anytime soon.
He was certain that their Primordial Spirit Great Power had not discovered him. If that Great Power had, it would not have been Elder Fang and the others finding Xia Ziyi-the Immortal Alliance's Primordial Spirit Great Power would have come straight to his door.
Yet he also keenly perceived certain threads of karmic entanglement.
They came looking precisely during this period when I wanted to become a Grand Confucian. Had that Primordial Spirit Great Power already glimpsed the truth and divined what I was plotting here?
If I wanted to break this snare, my only choice was to abandon everything and keep fleeing. That, too, would be a blow against me.
Li Chen pondered in silence, his face utterly expressionless.
The vixen Hu Xi came in from outside and reported, "Your Grace, the mountain boar spirit you wanted is here."
Behind her followed an enormous mountain boar more than ten feet long, gray-black all over and seemingly cast from iron. It was a pig demon nature spirit from the wild jungle.
This mountain boar spirit clearly had late Qi Refining cultivation and had awakened its intelligence. Grunting and snorting, it lay prostrate in the cave to pay its respects to Hu Ze, a duke of the demon kingdom.
Li Chen smiled in approval. "What a sturdy big fellow. Today, you are destined for a fortunate encounter."
As he spoke, an azure glow gathered