Like a petty thief, Shi Chun slipped quietly around the shelves. He found an opening, predicted the newcomer's route, and lay briefly in wait, finally catching a glimpse of the visitor's face through a gap beside a bookshelf.
He would have been better off not looking. The moment he glimpsed those Blood Eyes, his nerves pulled taut to their limit. He immediately guessed that this was a demonic cultivator from Wu Shanshan's branch of Forgetting Passion Valley.
The last shred of hope in his heart was utterly extinguished.
He had been tense before, but he had still thought there might be another explanation, that he might be overthinking things. Yet the sight of those Blood Eyes confirmed beyond doubt that this person had come for him.
He also understood why the visitor had suddenly appeared here. The battle he had fought to escape earlier must have drawn this pursuer after him.
After learning of Wu Shanshan's tracking method back then, he had paid a tremendous price to hunt her down. He had even publicly exposed his secret possession of a Fifth-Rank Immobilizing Talisman, sparing no expense to cut off her pursuit.
Now he was seeing that technique again, and this demonic visitor's cultivation was nowhere near comparable to Wu Shanshan's. The Demonic Essence clearly surpassed the Earth Immortal level he had seen before. That told him all he needed to know about the visitor's cultivation. He could never resolve this as he had when killing Wu Shanshan.
Precisely because he had experienced the terror of Wu Shanshan's tracking technique, he realized that this time, he might truly be doomed.
His mind was already racing through fallback plans, considering how he could negotiate cooperation if caught, and how he could persuade the other party. After all, staying alive came first.
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