Sima Zimo was a demon who kept his word. He and Li Yan had come to know each other through a fight, and after completing their trade, they had even built a good relationship.
Sima Zimo had even revealed his name and the location of his trading house, inviting Li Yan to visit for a chat whenever he had time. Li Yan had also shared some true details about himself.
Now that he had suddenly encountered this demon on the Heavenly Demon Grassland, how should Li Yan handle their relationship? That was why he had not immediately acknowledged him.
Moreover, when the two sides first met, Li Jiuchen and Su Wenzhou had been confronting each other, while Sima Zimo and his companion claimed they had been traveling with others and stumbled upon the pair fighting.
If Li Yan revealed that he knew Sima Zimo, when he too had supposedly appeared there by coincidence, how could someone as calculating as Li Yan fail to anticipate what the Purple-Robed Youth and the Yellow-Robed Youth would think? They would surely believe Li Yan and the others intended to ambush them. Even if there had been no misunderstanding before, there would be one then!
Li Yan had intended to follow them and find an opportunity to secretly send Sima Zimo a voice transmission. Before he could communicate with him, however, an unexpected upheaval occurred, and everyone in that area was swept into the Prayer-Eerie Kui Buddha Beast's body.
Later, when Li Yan saw those five Void Refinement Realm cultivators again, anyone familiar with him would have found his behavior strange. He had not immediately used Soul Search on them and even seemed to hesitate. That was hardly his usual style.
The reason was that Li Yan suspected those five were Sima Zimo's juniors, making