"Eh? Maybe... I really had wronged him after all!" Xiao Hua thought. He sat cross-legged and calmly cultivated the Nameless Incantation. Yet as he entered meditation and reflected every movement around him within his mind, he suddenly discovered that about ten feet beneath the ground before his cave, there seemed to be... fluctuations of spiritual energy. Those fluctuations gradually moved farther away... "Ah? That bastard..." Xiao Hua opened his eyes, immediately understanding. He had Earth Evasion Talismans; naturally, the other man could have them too. Yan Liwei was certainly escaping underground into the distance!
Xiao Hua thought for a moment, then left his cave and walked to the entrance of Cai Zhuoxia's cave. He called softly, "Fellow Daoist Cai..."
Before long, Cai Zhuoxia answered from within, "Fellow Daoist Xiao? You... need something?"
Cai Zhuoxia looked rather dejected, her eyes slightly red. She did not look as though she had been cultivating at all! Xiao Hua was startled, but immediately pretended he had seen nothing and said quietly, "Fellow Daoist Cai, Fellow Daoist Yan... isn't in his cave!"
"If he isn't, then he isn't. What does that have to do with anything?" Cai Zhuoxia had thought Xiao Hua would bring important news, and a trace of displeasure appeared on her face when she heard this.
"It's like this, Fellow Daoist Cai. The last time you changed direction, Fellow Daoist Yan went out once. I happened to see him, but... when I followed him, I found nothing, so I didn't mention it to you. But you just changed direction again, and Fellow Daoist Yan actually went out again. I think there must be something fishy going on!"
"Ah? Really?" Hearing that Xiao Hua had seen Yan Liwei leave twice in succession, and both times had been after she changed direction, Cai Zhuoxia