Yet he actually could not see through the old Daoist's true cultivation...
Lin Changheng felt a little relieved. Fortunately, he had entertained no ulterior motives. Otherwise, if they had fought, the old Daoist might have proved a formidable opponent.
But then he recalled what the old Daoist had just said. "To the west..."
At the far western end of the Azure Firmament Sect's territory lay Floating Life Immortal City.
Could some demon cultivators have fled into the immortal city?
Lin Changheng rested his chin on his hand and began pondering.
Suddenly, he remembered something else that had happened around the same time as the campaign to wipe out the demon cultivators...
Back when he lived in a cave residence by the immortal city's Outer Lake, a new neighbor had moved in next door around that very time. That neighbor never left home, yet one night, Lin Changheng had noticed them slipping away in secret...
"Surely not? Could it really be such a coincidence?"
The timing matched, and the other party's behavior had been rather strange. It was hard for Lin Changheng not to draw a connection.
Only now was he certain that he had been right not to follow rashly that night, because one false core demon cultivator still survived among that group.
And back then, without the strength accumulated over the past ten years, he certainly would have been no match for a false core cultivator.
"Forget it."
Lin Changheng abandoned his plans to seize the vajra bodhi wood outright.
He also felt that moving away had been absolutely the right decision, timed to perfection.
Otherwise, with such a mysterious person-or rather, a demon cultivator-hiding beside him, trouble would have come sooner or later.
Once dragged into that whirlpool, he would have been in serious trouble.
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