Peng Yuanjing only came out after confirming that all the Late-Stage Nascent Soul Cultivators of the Great Brightness Immortal Palace were within surveillance range. Besides the fact that Late-Stage Nascent Soul Cultivators have the power to directly kill him, the biggest reason is that only the Divine Sense of Late-Stage Nascent Soul Cultivators can spot flaws in his escape divine ability.
Upon realizing Zhouyang had Nascent Soul cultivation, Peng Yuanjing thought Zhouyang might have encountered some extraordinary fortune, perhaps possessing powerful artifacts like spirit talismans or thunder pearls.
Therefore, he was unwilling to engage Zhouyang in a confrontation in a calculated situation.
But he absolutely did not anticipate, nor could he have predicted, that Zhouyang, with merely First-Layer Nascent Soul cultivation, had already reached the level of Divine Sense corresponding to that of a Late-Stage Nascent Soul Cultivator.
