Led by the personal guard, Gu Chenfeng walked toward the forward army camp.
Once he had gone some distance, he sensed a concealed yet powerful ripple of divine sense behind him quietly withdraw.
"Phew...!"
Gu Chenfeng secretly let out a long breath. Cold sweat had even seeped down his back.
His brief, seemingly harmonious encounter with Cao Meng had put Gu Chenfeng under immense pressure, no less than a trial of life and death.
The moment he stepped into that tent, Gu Chenfeng had noticed the powerful experts secretly guarding the surroundings.
After entering Cao Meng's tent, his keen spiritual perception, granted by the Heaven-Opening Creation Art, had also allowed him to vaguely sense something.
An extremely powerful being inside the tent was watching him from the shadows.
Despite Gu Chenfeng's True Saint cultivation, he could sense that if this person wanted to kill him, it would probably be as easy as crushing an ant.
That feeling sent fear through his heart and a chill down his spine.
But Gu Chenfeng knew he could not show the slightest sign of anything amiss. He forced himself to remain composed, struck up a conversation through Cao Meng's puppet, then spouted nonsense about art and took out an album of erotic paintings.
Everything had been to dispel the other party's wariness and make his disguise more natural.
During their subsequent conversation, he heard Cao Meng take the initiative to ask about Marquis Yu.
Added to that was what he had previously learned from Chen Bo: the Feather Transformation Marquisate had not been completely destroyed.
If a suitable successor appeared bearing Marquis Yu's Command, he would have a chance to become the new Marquis Yu.
As the saying went, "The speaker meant nothing by it, but the listener took it to heart."
Gu Chenfeng's