They had already noticed someone watching them earlier.
He had judged it to be a Yin Spirit, but Luo Xianshen had used a Yang Spirit Ritual Artifact and a talisman to confirm there was no Yin energy.
Then Old Gong had come out of the room and immediately begun sensing their surroundings, after which Luo Bin had started analyzing Bai Xian's location.
With one thing happening after another, the matter of someone watching them had been pushed out of their minds.
Once they had located Bai Xian, everyone-Old Gong, Luo Xianshen, Si Yan, and Bai Xianming-had instantly focused on her, paying even less attention to those earlier details.
Naturally, to them, a life was at stake.
In Luo Bin's eyes, that mattered most as well.
But when he put the entire sequence of events and every detail together...
What had all those eerie faceless people been doing?
They had been watching Bai Xian!
As they watched her, they spoke in Xu Lu's voice and Bai Xiaoshan's voice.
They took people's places. It was replacement, but also imitation!
Why were the details so convincing?
Through constant observation, they dissected every movement and every word of the people they watched, analyzing them layer by layer until they could replace them!
"Where?" Sweat broke out on Bai Xianming's forehead.
An elder who was a Real Person should not have shown such emotion or lost his composure so easily.
It was because Bai Xianming had not detected anyone watching them at all.
Luo Bin could sense it.
So could Luo Xianshen.
Yet Bai Xianming could not, and neither could Si Yan. That was the strangest part.
Something beyond even a Real Person's grasp was not merely strange. It was uncanny and inexplicable.
Luo Xianshen moved!
He was so fast that he practically left an