For several days in a row, all remained calm inside and outside the Fang Residence.
Fang Qianyuan had not let down his guard, but under these circumstances, he could hardly keep his nerves stretched taut all day, frightening himself into seeing enemies in every blade of grass and tree.
Thus, he continued doing whatever he ought to do, relaxed and carefree, with nothing weighing on his mind. Without betraying any sign of it, however, he still inspected everything around him each day, hoping to uncover a thread of evidence.
To his surprise, the other party never appeared again.
Am I being overly suspicious, or have they also noticed something and taken precautions?
Fang Qianyuan pondered inwardly.
He could not determine how they concealed themselves, and did not even know whether they truly existed. This put him at an enormous disadvantage.
"The open guards and hidden sentries have both been reinforced considerably. He really is on guard against us. We just don't know how he discovered us..."
Outside the Fang Residence, in the woods, Zuo Da and Zuo Er conversed quietly within a shadow-shrouded Lesser Grotto-Heaven that resembled a folded pocket of another dimension.
"But we'll be fine as long as we don't go out. Since we don't know how he investigates, we should assume we're being watched at all times, wherever we are. We must act carefully!"
"As long as we don't expose a weakness ourselves, there's nothing he can do to us!"
Zuo Da and Zuo Er did not realize that, by sheer accident, they had countered the investigative method of Past Scene Retrospection. Fang Qianyuan had only discovered their movements through a Time Dao sensing method. Once they became more vigilant, that sensing method became useless.
If he could not detect them in the present, it was even