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As Shang Wenyin stepped out of her house, the old man turned and pressed a finger to her brow.
A surge of spiritual power flowed in, and the passage to Shang Wenyin's Sea of Knowledge was immediately sealed.
Shang Wenyin was startled, she had intended to warn Lin Chen somehow, but now, she was completely out of options.
Shang Wenyin gritted her teeth and asked, "Uncle Zhao, did you discover me long ago?"
The old man smiled lightly and said, "Of course we did. However, I'm quite curious, since you had already concealed your identity, shut your Sea of Knowledge, and posed as an ordinary person, why didn't you leave?"
"Since you'd decided to leave, you certainly wouldn't want to return to the sect. You surely planned to leave Xinghe Island, but you stayed. So we surmised that you must be waiting for someone."
