Jun Moxie’s body, concealed within the air, was violently shoved out by a surge of savage power, sent flying dozens of feet like a broken kite!

He couldn't help but inwardly gasp at the sheer force! Thank heavens he was invisible, or that single move would have surely exposed him. The Snake King truly deserved her reputation, standing shoulder-to-shoulder with the Eight Great Supremes!

For a long time, the Snake King Qianxun detected nothing unusual. She let out an astonished sound: “I distinctly felt someone trailing me from behind… How can there be no one? Was it truly just an illusion? That shouldn't be! How could I have an illusion?” She examined the area again with meticulous care, finally confirming that no one was following her. With a flicker of movement, she dropped to the ground. Still, there was no stirring in the undergrowth, yet she too was now invisible within it, quietly watching the path she had taken.

Her expression was one of profound confidence, utterly calm! She seemed capable of waiting there until the very ends of the earth! Anyone tracking her, finding her suddenly vanished, and seeing how much time had passed, would surely be unable to resist coming out to investigate!

But the moment they emerged, they would face the Snake King’s devastating attack!

The Snake King was confident she could force the tracker out!

Yet, waiting left and waiting right, she saw the red sun slowly begin its descent in the west, and still, there was not the slightest disturbance!

“Could my senses be wrong?” the Snake King Qianxun murmured in confusion to herself. An hour had already passed! If someone were truly tracking her, even if they possessed a level of power beyond that of the Supremes, they would have to reveal themselves by now to check the situation…

Alas, the Snake King did not know that the person she awaited was not far from her current position at all!

The generation’s Evil Sovereign, the King of Assassins—without a patience that far surpassed ordinary measure, he would have died eight hundred times over long ago! Not to mention that the Young Master was currently situated within the wondrous state of the Yin-Yang Evasion technique, placing him perfectly in the position of the enemy being clear while he remained hidden!

However, the thoughts currently occupying Young Master Jun Moxie were somewhat unorthodox.

He was watching the Snake King’s crouched figure with great interest, his heart marveling: This little backside is so pert, so firm. The feel must be first-rate. No, surely super first-rate. This Young Master really wants to give it a playful pat and a gentle squeeze. I wonder which one feels better—this, or the one belonging to that little brat…

After a lengthy silence, the Snake King, having found nothing, finally decided to give up. But she did not lower her guard in the slightest. Her body remained crouched, yet suddenly she began to retreat backward with astonishing speed, like a great fish gliding through tall grass. Then, without any discernible break in the environment, her head whipped around, and with a swoosh, she accelerated again. The grass parted without warning, and her figure vanished into the thicket!

In the early winter, the withered yellow grasses showed not a single stem disturbed by her passage!

Jun Moxie smiled faintly and continued to follow at an unhurried pace.

As for evasion techniques, you can evade men, you can evade beasts, but how can you evade a phantom? And right now, with the Yin-Yang Evasion technique fully operational, Jun Moxie’s movement wasn't just swift; he was an entity even more ethereal than a wraith!

Deeper into the forest they went. The Snake King Qianxun’s mental defenses remained perpetually strained, leaving her constantly suspicious. Along the way, she shifted direction nearly hundreds of times and transformed her movement techniques countlessly, yet she still could not shake that subtle sensation of being followed!

This feeling of helplessness nearly broke this Supreme Beast King of the Heavenly Punishment!

It was only due to the Beast Kings’ extraordinary perceptive abilities that they could sense the Young Master’s mysterious mode of tracking!

This was arguably what we commonly refer to as the instinct of wild beasts, or the sixth sense—intuition!

With the subtlety Jun Moxie achieved using the Yin-Yang Evasion now, if he were tracking a human expert purely in a surveillance capacity, the target might unknowingly lead him right into their own bedchamber before noticing anything! To use an analogy, if Jun Moxie had trailed the Great Supreme Ying Bokong, the Supreme would have, completely oblivious, ushered this uninvited guest straight into his lair!

That the Snake King Qianxun could detect this, and even clearly sense that she was being tracked, genuinely surprised Jun Moxie!

Finally, teetering on the edge of collapse, the Snake King let out a sharp cry and stepped onto the crown of a massive, ancient tree, calling out loudly: “May I ask which mighty expert is tracking me? What is your intention? I request you show yourself! If there is something you seek or inquire about, this humble lady can certainly consider it!”

The empty mountains were silent, offering no reply whatsoever.

The Snake King Qianxun was both angry and anxious. The next area was where she and her sister had prepared their resting place. If this mysterious tracker followed her all the way there, she would be bringing unending shame all the way back to the Heavenly Punishment Forest…

To bring an enemy right to the doorstep of the Eldest Sister while not even knowing who the pursuer was—what kind of failure was that!

Just then, a light, clear voice spoke: “Qianxun, what is it? Your thoughts seem so disordered. Are you certain someone is following you? Even if someone were trailing you, there is no need to be this panicked and flustered!” As this gentle voice sounded, an incomparably graceful figure clad in white, like a celestial fairy descending upon the mortal realm, suddenly appeared.

The very moment she materialized, this entire section of the forest seemed instantly suffused with an air of sacred purity. Even every single blade of grass and every tree appeared imbued with spiritual vitality!

Qianxun lightly drifted down from the treetop, her face etched with shame. She had not disguised herself today; it was the same elfin beauty she naturally possessed. Standing before the woman in white, Mei Xueyan, these two sister blossoms shone brilliantly together. While the white-clad Mei Xueyan exuded an air of noble majesty and peerless grace, the Snake King Qianxun appeared more playfully charming.

“Sister, you don't understand. I have constantly felt someone shadowing me. But throughout this entire journey, I changed methods hundreds of times, testing every secret art I know, yet that feeling persisted. Being tracked isn't the frightening part; it's not being able to locate them—that speaks to their superior skill. But the sheer, inexplicable terror of the unknown has nearly broken me. Even judging by Elder Sister’s divine abilities, if you had tracked me yourself, using your full strength, I am confident I could have discerned your whereabouts along the way. Judging by that standard… I myself am becoming uncertain now. Sister, do you think perhaps I have just been overly suspicious? Could there truly be such an unparalleled master, with such godlike abilities, existing between Heaven and Earth?” The usually serene Snake King Qianxun showed a genuine weariness in her expression, speaking with considerable hesitation.

“Silly sister. With your cultivation, you are considered among the top experts in the current world. Such indecision and suspicion should not be happening to you,” the maiden in white smiled slightly. “Since you feel someone is following you, then there absolutely is someone! That intuition is the innate supernatural talent of us Xuan Beasts. There is no doubt about that. It is likely just that this tracker possesses a higher level of skill. As the saying goes among humans: there is always someone better beyond the heavens, and beyond men, there are greater men. You are confident you could see through my tracking, but do you really believe there cannot be an existence in this world superior even to me?”

“Big Sister means… this person is a master among masters? Perhaps even superior to you?” The Snake King Qianxun’s eyes flashed with a sharp eagerness, ready to test the waters.

The white-robed maiden chuckled softly. “Whether they surpass me is still up for debate; perhaps it’s just a matter of specialized expertise. Let us go. Regardless of why this person is tracking you, since they are tracking, they must have a motive. They haven't shown themselves or made a move this entire time, so it’s unlikely they will appear soon. I trust that even if we completely ignore them, they will eventually jump out when the time is right. Come, tell me about the spoils of your trip—how did it go?”

Saying this, the white-robed maiden, seemingly unburdened by any worry, smiled lightly. With a slight turn of her gaze, she took the hand of the Snake King Qianxun, and like two young girls out for an outing, they walked a few steps before sitting down beneath a certain large tree.

Jun Moxie, the Young Master who was currently in a state of perfect invisibility, was secretly struggling internally.

He had originally been concealed about four or five zhang outside the Snake King’s previous position. But inexplicably, a supremely powerful pressure suddenly surged in his heart—a pressure so immense that even his repeatedly breakthrough-enhanced self could not resist it. It felt as though if he remained rooted there, overwhelming danger was imminent. His spirit truly felt severely compressed.

Jun Moxie never doubted his own instincts; this inexplicable conviction had saved the Evil Sovereign more than once. Therefore, the instant this sensation arose, he soundlessly attached himself to a large tree.

Yin-Yang Evasion, Wood Evasion technique.

The moment he merged himself with the massive trunk, the white-robed maiden suddenly appeared.

Then, whether intentionally or accidentally, the white-robed maiden pulled the Snake King Qianxun and sat down right at the base of the very tree he was clinging to.

This turn of events was truly… fortunate!

Jun Moxie, the Young Master, dared not move a single inch.

Even while enveloped in the Yin-Yang Evasion technique, he dared not make the slightest shift, because any movement would inevitably cause a ripple of vital energy. Even if the fluctuation was minute, given their proximity, these two women beneath the tree were clearly no ordinary individuals; discovery would be certain. He couldn't even switch cultivation states; dissolving entirely into the void required a split second of opportunity, and there was no such opening available now!

Furthermore, Jun Moxie couldn't be certain whether the white-robed woman pulling the Snake King Qianxun to sit beneath this tree was intentional or not. If it was intentional, Young Master Jun dared not move even less.

Fortunately, Young Master Jun’s reputation as the King of Assassins from his previous life was not earned lightly. Let alone lurking for a short while like this, he could easily lie in wait for three or five hours, or even three or five days! A truly excellent assassin was accustomed to patient waiting!

The white-robed woman’s eyes held deep contemplation. She trusted the Snake King’s feeling implicitly. With the Snake King’s level of cultivation, combined with the innate intuition of a Xuan Beast, any further baseless suspicion would simply be a joke.

If the feeling existed, then it existed!

No other reason could explain it.

Therefore, she was certain that someone was tracking them.

But what truly astonished her was that even she herself could not be certain if that person actually existed! Nor could she pinpoint the location of the pursuer.

This was why she suggested they remain static and observe.

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