Finally, and most importantly, she worried that if she ran off, Ji Yan wouldn't be able to find her.
After much deliberation, Shen Jiao abandoned the idea of running away.
She circled half of the villa, getting a basic understanding of its layout. Apart from noticing the odd number of soldiers, she found nothing strange and decided to return the way she came.
But on the way, they found a strange monk with a gourd hanging around his neck and carrying two large knives.
Shen Jiao instinctively felt that this person was not someone to be trifled with, so she held her breath and hid in the shadows.
The monk seemed to sense something, glanced in the direction where Shen Jiao was hiding, and stepped closer.
Shen Jiao: "!!!"
The monk strode forward, and just around the corner he could see Shen Jiao trying to disguise himself as a tree.
The enemy wielded two gleaming broadswords, and she felt incredibly insecure unarmed.
It was like playing a deadly game of hide-and-seek; if you were found, you would die. Shen Jiao's heart pounded wildly.
Just as she was hesitating whether to ask the monk to lend her a knife for the sake of fairness, someone suddenly shouted.
"Swordsman under the moon, I've been looking for you all this time. My master has important matters to discuss with you. Please come with me immediately."
The monk paused, then started walking back: "Let's go."
Swordsman Under the Moon?
Shen Jiao remembered this person. During the martial arts tournament, one of the four famous lone swordsmen in the martial arts world was the Moonlit Swordsman.
However, she wasn't interested in any of that at the time, and vaguely remembered that the Swordsman Under the Moon had suddenly had something to do and had to withdraw from the competition.
Now that he's here, the reason for his withdrawal from the competition is quite thought-provoking.
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