Azurecloud Court.

Su Yi ordered, “Just now, Ge Qian followed you back, but that doesn’t matter. Tomorrow, just continue participating in the Orchid Terrace Dharma Assembly as if nothing happened.”

Yuan Heng hurriedly acknowledged his orders.

Meanwhile.

Ge Qian took a long detour, passing over a dozen streets. It was only after repeatedly confirming that no one was following him that he stopped beside a river flowing through the city.

He wiped the sweat from his brow and let out a breath of turbid air. Suddenly, he realized that something wasn’t quite right. “Geezer?”

No one responded.

“Say something, old man! Weren’t you the one who told me to follow Yuan Heng? What, are you going to play dead now that I’ve been exposed?” 

Ge Qian relentlessly mocked him, but against all expectations, the typically explosive, argumentative old-timer didn’t utter so much as a peep. This was out of character.

Ge Qian was now certain that something wasn’t right here.

After a lengthy silence, he said, “Old-timer, there’s a big problem with the Xuanwu True Essence Sutra you taught me, isn’t there?”

A sigh echoed through Ge Qian’s sea of consciousness....