"Someone has their eye on me."
Back in his cave abode, in the quiet chamber, Dongguan said this to himself.
Encountering theft on the streets was quite common.
However, his Dongguan Dao specialized in perception, and he vaguely sensed something incongruous about the other party.
It was as though the thief had deliberately alerted him.
Logically, judging by how quickly the thief had slipped away, he should have been a habitual thief, not someone who would make such a basic mistake.
More importantly, that incongruity seemed filled with an aura that was not his own.
And that aura seemed to match a certain patch of shadow nearby.
Dongguan himself had not initially noticed anyone in that shadow. Only later had he realized that someone seemed to have their eye on him.
"What is his objective?"
Dongguan had captured the auras of those cultivators, including the thief and the unknown being in the shadows, but he knew little about them.
His original plan had been to go hunting once he had spent all his Hunyuan crystals. The city's so-called connections had little to do with him.
But once caught up in worldly affairs, one could not always act as one pleased. He wanted to stay out of it, yet someone had set their sights on him.
"It's only ten thousand Hunyuan crystals, isn't it?" He felt he should still purchase that intelligence on all the God Emperors in Dragon Sleep City.
Although the information about them might not necessarily be true, it would at least allow him to identify them. Then, once he actually encountered them, he would certainly be able to pin down their identities.
After comprehending the internal branch of his Great Dao, Dongguan had sought out Luo Feng to test it. Luo Feng had tried to blur his