Ming Qi and Ming Yu had been about to ask Zuo Qiudan whether they ought to avoid suspicion. Zuo Qiudan was a Void Refinement Realm elder of the Pojun Sect; for someone to come directly to his door, the visitor's status should not have been low either.
Perhaps something urgent had happened within the sect, which was why they had come straight outside the cave residence. Yet the moment that voice entered their ears, it sounded astonishingly familiar.
"Senior!"
"It... it's Senior!"
The two women immediately saw a figure strolling into the cave residence. He was an old man dressed in green robes. Though he was no longer covered in the familiar gray garments, Ming Qi and Ming Yu recognized him at a glance.
The newcomer was precisely the mysterious old man who had once helped them and their clan. The instant the words left their mouths, they sprang to their feet, delight filling their faces.
Before coming here, they had intended to ask Zuo Qiudan whether he knew anything about that mysterious senior over the years. Yet they had never imagined that the mysterious old man would suddenly appear here.
In their subconscious minds, they had always believed this sect was connected only to Zuo Qiudan. They had never linked it to the mysterious old man.
This was where Zuo Qiudan's exceptional insight lay. When they had traveled together back then, he had noticed that the Phoenix Four Clans might not even know Li Yan's name and had even vaguely seemed to be probing him for information. From that, he had already thought of many possibilities.
Later, through his deliberate hints, even old monsters with the temperament of those from the Phoenix Four Clans had come to believe that the Pojun Sect was connected only to Zuo Qiudan, and