Inheritance Bearers Fight to the Death

"Look at you. You've had a comfortable time watching the show all along."

Jian Chen ignored him and kept his eyes on Chen Changqing.

"The Inheritance Token was never just a key. The true treasures of the Creation Heavenly Palace would only go to an inheritor."

Chen Changqing nodded.

"So you watched True Person Xuecang reach for it and didn't warn him?"

Jian Chen spoke calmly.

"What do I care whether he lives or dies?"

At those words, the faces of the few surviving cultivators nearby changed.

Fairy Cold Moon looked up at Jian Chen too.

True Person Xuecang had kept her pinned down for so long. If she had known there was a medicine guardian behind the Alchemy Furnace, she would never have fought to this point.

Jian Chen had known.

But he had said nothing.

Chen Changqing wasn't surprised.

In Jian Chen's place, he might not have warned them either.

It was just that Jian Chen could hold back better than he had expected.

The medicine guardian raised his head, and his dry voice sounded again.

"Have the inheritors arrived?"

Both tokens trembled at once.

Heat spread through Chen Changqing's palm. The token flew before him, its gray-gold patterns unfolding bit by bit.

The same happened on Jian Chen's side.

The medicine guardian looked at the two of them and paused.

"Come out."

As the words fell, space split open before Chen Changqing and Jian Chen.

They weren't being asked to walk through.

Space itself swallowed them.

Bai Wuya's expression changed. He had only just raised his spear when the medicine guardian looked at him.

Just one glance.

Bronze patterns lit beneath Bai Wuya's feet, pressing him back into place.

"Martial Uncle, don't move."

Chen Changqing's voice came from within the rift.

Bai Wuya stopped.

Rujie craned his