"Fellow Daoist Ye, what are you doing here?"
Peng Ji looked at Ye Feibai with a peculiar expression, a smile that was not quite a smile.
"Nothing. Just wandering around." Secretly alarmed, Ye Feibai tried to leave.
"Now, now, don't be in such a hurry." Peng Ji reached out to stop him. "You've been visiting quite a few sensitive locations in the city lately, Fellow Daoist Ye. That hardly looks like aimless wandering."
"You've been following me?" Ye Feibai's expression froze, then darkened.
Yet those words also puzzled him. Before coming here, he had taken great care to maintain his cover. Even a thorough investigation of the places he visited and the routes he took would only suggest that he was making ordinary purchases of consumable supplies.
What made them so certain that something was wrong with him?
Suspecting that Peng Ji might be bluffing, Ye Feibai feigned anger. "Get out of my way. I'm going back."
After all, Peng Ji had no real evidence. His only suspicious act had been sneaking into the inn this time to tamper with the belongings those rogue cultivators carried.
"Oh, you think I'm bluffing and still hope to fool your way through? Take a look at this." Peng Ji opened his hand, revealing something.
At the sight of it, Ye Feibai's expression changed again. He immediately realized that he had indeed been exposed.
They were none other than the Void Larvae he had repeatedly used to communicate with the outside world these past days!
Fortunately, Peng Ji held only three of them, while Ye Feibai had released fifteen larvae during this period. The more crucial messages had indeed gotten through.
"I don't understand what you mean, Fellow Daoist Peng. Why do you have the leisure to stand here trading riddles with me? If