Chongyangzi's brows furrowed again when he heard this, and he said somewhat displeasedly.
"He only returned ten or twenty days ago, and he has already gone into seclusion?"
Shangguan Tianque's heart skipped a beat. The other party knew so clearly—they had done their homework before coming!
He immediately began thinking rapidly about how he could probe the other party's true intentions.
Just then, the young woman beside Chongyangzi spoke, though she was addressing Chongyangzi.
"Uncle, you always speak like that. It is frightening. I thought you had come to settle some score with them!
Fellow Daoists, we came to find Li Yan and Mu Guyue. I only parted ways with them a while ago, and they said they would return here.
I came back from the Heavenly Demon Grassland with them. If the two of them are here, once you tell them this, they will understand the reason."
This young woman was precisely Tinglan, who had not been separated from Li Yan and the others for long. This time, however, she had come together with Chongyangzi.
In the first half of her words, Tinglan had still been expressing her displeasure toward Chongyangzi. But after turning her face toward Shangguan Tianque and the others, she hurriedly explained herself.
Upon hearing this, Shangguan Tianque and the others immediately exchanged glances. Their expressions were plainly somewhat stunned. This woman was actually one of those who had escaped danger from the Heavenly Demon Grassland alongside Li Yan and the others.
Logically speaking, not many people should have known of this matter. Moreover, when Li Yan had explained it back then, he had said there were only three of them in total who had escaped after surviving the danger, yet he had not mentioned who the other person was.
Furthermore, this woman had also mentioned