‘It would be impossible for such an individual to exist!’
Zhang Zhongmou immediately denied this ridiculous line of thought.
If they stayed hidden within Zhang Mansion, then they had to be someone who was at a stage far ahead of him. Otherwise, it would not have been possible.
If they had to hide, they would have hidden inside a secret concealed space.
That idea seemed impossible since there was no change in the space at the moment of the explosion. Therefore, he quickly eliminated that possibility.
‘If not, the individual is far weaker than me. Did I completely overlook the person?’
Zhang Zhongmou dismissed that thought immediately.
If the individual lacked potential, where would the explosion have emerged from?
Based on the current situation, as well as the unusual circumstances, it seemed to him that the night invader was not someone at the Master Stage. Rather, it was someone who was a Sovereign.
Still deep in thought, he walked forward and turned a corner before coming face to face with a young man who had a panicked expression.
“Hm?”
Zhang Zhongmou stopped in his tracks.
Many people passed by the Hidden Scriptures Pavilion on a normal basis, so he did not usually pay much attention to them.
However, this young man had walked there with a very obvious intention. He was heading directly to the Hidden Scriptures Pavilion.
Zhang Zhongmou squinted his eyes and attempted to confirm his suspicions of this man.
‘Mid-stage of Origin Court…’
The more Zhang Zhongmou looked, the more he was suspicious of the individual.
‘The clothes he was wearing…’
‘Was it our own door guard?’
…
Watched, Passive Points +1.
Suspected, Passive Points +1
Suspected, Passive Points +1
“…”
It was nothing but a turn, but the notification bar in his mind immediately refreshed with multiple updated notices.
For someone who had not been noticed in his journey thus far, Xu Xiaoshou was caught off guard.
He had hoped that things would go the most ideal way for him and that the Hidden Scriptures Pavilion would have no guards. In the event that there were guards, he hoped they would have been pulled toward the explosion.
Though the idea was promising, the cold hard reality always turned it around.
Using his Perception to take a look, he could see an elder man levitating mid-air above the peak of the ancient pagoda.
Xu Xiaoshou’s heart almost stopped as he spotted the elder.
‘It seems like trouble always finds me in every corner.’
He thought about his current position. The other man had already spotted him and was keeping an eye on him. If he decided to turn back or retreat, he would have confirmed the man’s suspicions of him.
Xu Xiaoshou bravely stepped forward.
Pit!
Pat!
His footsteps sounded rushed yet helpless. He felt that he was walking deeper into a depth he could not recover from with every step
‘What a tide I am caught in.’
He sighed in his heart, but Xu Xiaoshou did not look up. He forced himself to remain collected as he ran to the entrance to the Hidden Scriptures Pavilion.
“Are you there, senior?”
He called out cautiously like an animal dipping its toes into the water and knocked on the door. “The family head is looking for you! It’s an emergency!”
There was no response from the other end.
The area ahead of him was in a state of tranquility. It was as if the ancient pagoda was devoid of any human presence.
Despite the empty and peaceful appearance…
Watched, Passive Points +1.
Xu Xiaoshou’s heart sank.
He could not see anyone with his naked eye, and he did not dare to activate his spiritual senses to observe the upper area of his surroundings.
His Perception had clearly identified that the old man located at the top had an abrupt change in expression after he called out his statement.
Xu Xiaoshou wondered if he had said something wrong.
Perhaps there was a problem or mistake in his sentence that raised the old man’s suspicions.
Xu Xiaoshou felt his heart miss the next beat. He had always been instinctively smooth with his words. To avoid addressing the individual the wrong way, he had adopted the neutral term “Senior.”