Second-tier formation, realizing his mistake at death's door (two chapters in one, monthly votes requested)

These past few days.

Visitors had come in an endless stream, and Lin Changheng had mostly stayed home to entertain them. By evening, however, almost no one came to disturb him.

Cultivators naturally understood that much etiquette.

Lin remained intensely curious about the identity and intentions of Cui Jianshui next door, so he often let his Divine Sense spread outside.

And he really did discover something.

Occasionally, well past midnight, a black-clad, masked male cultivator slipped silently into Cui Jianshui's [Clear-Sound Cloud Abode], a blurred black shadow seemingly using some kind of [Invisibility Technique].

Moreover, he opened the restrictions himself and entered on his own.

That showed their relationship was far from ordinary.

Such trust suggested there was a fair chance they were Dao companions.

Previously, Lin Changheng had asked Deng Changsheng to investigate, but had obtained no information about "Gu Chang'an," as though the man did not exist.

Even then, he had suspected that this identity was most likely false, a disguise.

As for why someone would do that, Lin Changheng, a practitioner of the cautious path himself, could easily work it out:

Either they had secrets and wanted to conceal their movements, had enemies nearby and feared revenge, or had committed so many evil deeds that their identity could not bear the light of day.

Those were essentially the possibilities.

But as a Pill Master, what others did, what they had done, and who they were had nothing to do with him. He only needed to collect Spirit Stones and refine pills.

Their mistake was setting their sights on him.

They had even sent the [Musical Healer] Cui Jianshui to use a beauty trap, seduce him, and secretly plant a gu parasite.

Although Lin Changheng was sixty, he was not old and feeble. Naturally, he would not let