Xu Qingtong came outside the hall, only to find that a man about his own age had already entered the formation and was looking at him with a broad smile!
"Who are you, and how did you come to be here?" Xu Qingtong felt that the man before him, though seemingly harmless to man and beast, was actually extremely dangerous.
"I was just about to ask you the same thing!" the man said.
"This is the Immortal Lord's Villa. How did you get in?"
"Oh! So you know this is the Immortal Lord's Residence!" the man said with keen interest.
"If you have something to say, brother, say it plainly. There's no need for all this mysterious posturing!"
"I am Profound Immortal Hong Chen, seventh disciple of Immortal Lord Cangwu! You may call me Hong Chenxian! On my master's orders, I came to inspect the Immortal Lord's Palace and see what scoundrel had broken in!"
At this, Xu Qingtong thought, Things have gone rotten! He had run into someone else's home to ply a thief's empty-handed craft, only to be caught red-handed! Even with mouths all over his body, he could never explain this away!
"So you're Hong Chenxian. Forgive my lack of courtesy! I stumbled in here by accident. Now I want to leave, but I can't get out!"
"Oh? You want to leave after taking things? That's not how this works!" Hong Chenxian said with a smile.
"You misunderstand, Fellow Daoist Hong! I entered this place by accident, but I can't get out. I haven't taken so much as a needle or a thread from here!" Xu Qingtong argued.
"Really? Then open your Storage Ring and let me look!" Hong Chenxian did not believe Xu Qingtong's nonsense.
Xu Qingtong's expression changed at once. Shaking his head, he said,