In fact, Yue Wen was right beside him.
It looked as though "Senior Huang" had suddenly vanished as he walked, but Yue Wen had actually used a corner as cover to activate the Trace-Hiding Art immediately, then stood flat against the wall, disappearing from everyone's sight.
With their cultivation, they probably could not see through his disguise.
He had no choice but to make a quick escape. After all, he had already displayed cultivation far above theirs and fabricated an unfathomable identity. If he obediently walked all the way back to River City with them, he would surely give himself away along the way.
So Yue Wen could only leave alone.
Besides, only this would make the Azure Dragon Society seem even more mysterious and powerful, its members appearing and disappearing without a trace.
Yue Wen guessed that after returning, the Taiji Eight Desolations Sect would certainly investigate the Azure Dragon Society, only to find no trace of it.
They would believe that the mysterious person who had knocked Huang Qiuzi and Chen Xuanchao unconscious with the Azure Dragon Claw at Hidden Dragon Pool, and he who had slain the jiangshi king with Azure Dragon Breath today, were both members of the Azure Dragon Society.
That way, their inability to uncover the Azure Dragon Society would not mean the organization did not exist, only that its activities in River City were exceptionally well concealed.
Then they would intensify their efforts.
The Taiji Eight Desolations Sect and the Hu Family would waste a great deal of time and energy investigating the Azure Dragon Society, overlooking many other details instead. They would be even less likely to focus on "Yue Wen," a minor independent cultivator who was merely somewhat talented and handsome.
However, after activating the Trace-Hiding Art, Yue Wen did not