The Reincarnation and Divine Peak master looked at the spot with the particular, slight annoyance of someone who has witnessed this behavior enough times to have stopped being surprised by it while retaining the specific, mild irritation of someone who found the behavior consistently inconsiderate regardless of how accustomed to it they had become.
"Don't mind him. That's just how he is, coming and going as he pleases."
Wang Chen registered the words with the peripheral quality of information that is being received but is not currently the primary focus — his attention on something else, the particular, faint quality of a gaze that had been present at the moment of the sect master's departure and had since withdrawn.
Someone had been watching him.
