Chu Ge froze at what he heard. "There really was someone?"
"There really was. Just now. He'd only been gone a moment when you two happened to arrive."
Little Flame carefully recounted what had happened earlier. Chu Ge and Qiu Wuji exchanged looks, neither having expected such a coincidence.
One had left just as the others arrived, almost as if they had arranged it.
Come to think of it, Qiu Wuji and Yan Qianlie had encountered this person one after the other within two days, yet there had been no sign of him in all those years before. In other words, he seemed to have only recently begun operating on a large scale. Had he only recently gained a slight grasp of some bug that let him "obtain Heavenly Dao permissions"?
As luck would have it, this coincided with Chu Ge venturing into this world. Their confrontation would take place inside the book, allowing him to investigate in person instead of racking his brains outside over who it could be.
If he hadn't come in for a look around, how could he have stumbled across something so interesting?
"To be fair," Little Flame said with a smile, folding his little arms, "you know yourself that if Qiu Wuji and I could see through the illusion, other powerful cultivators will follow, one after another. Unless you kill every cultivator who reaches the Tribulation Transcendence level, this will never end."
"Don't go egging me on." Chu Ge shot him a sidelong glance. "First, there's something you should know... it's not that others started awakening one after another after you and Qiu Qiu did. Based on my analysis, this person awakened before you."
Little Flame froze, then flew into a rage. "Not only was I slower than this woman, I was slower than