He instinctively opened his mouth to protest, but swallowed the words before they could escape.
'This man is a Golden Core True Monarch. He must be here because a trace of aura leaked out when I was refining the Taiyin Immortal Golden Nature.'
'Or perhaps, True Monarch Qing Yuan has been secretly monitoring everyone since we left the Celestial Realm.'
'That bastard!'
'He doesn't even trust the Foundation Establishment Daoist Masters of his own Sect, using us as bait for his schemes.'
Xu Yunfan let out a soft breath.
'For a being of his stature to call me out, it couldn't be a mere guess.'
'It must have been some kind of irrefutable deduction or the result of a Secret Technique.'
More importantly, the fact that True Monarch Qing Yuan would appear in person to expose this secret made his objective blindingly obvious.
True or not, he had to confirm it for himself, and that process couldn't be stopped by mere words.
