Chen Changqing did not answer the young woman's question.
He stood three paces away from her, his gaze falling directly on the copper-colored pendant hanging beneath her collarbone.
It was a bronze token a quarter the size of a palm, its edges covered in intricate cloud patterns. A dark patina coated its surface, making it clear that it had been worn against the skin for many years.
Inside his storage ring, the master token belonging to the Heaven-Treading Immortal Emperor was vibrating in a steady resonance.
The pull of bloodline between the two could not be false.
This was indeed one of the nine Legacy Tokens.
The four inheritors he had slain before had all appeared as prodigious powerhouses who dominated their own territories, with an endless array of techniques at their disposal. At the very least, each had cultivated the incomplete cultivation methods left behind by the Heaven-Treading Immortal Emperor.
Yet the girl before him had impure, unstable true essence, and even her meridians had cracked from forcibly activating a magical artifact. She was nothing more than a lowly independent cultivator at the early Golden Core stage.
This token had never been activated.
She did not even know the method for unlocking it and had merely hung it around her neck as an ordinary charm to ward off evil.
"Where did you get that token on your chest?"
Chen Changqing withdrew his force and spoke calmly.
The girl froze for a moment.
Instinctively, she covered her chest and gripped the bronze pendant.
The sight of this white-robed young man shattering eight Golden Core experts with a single palm strike still hovered before her eyes. Even the blood mist scattered across the ground had yet to disperse completely.
With power like that, crushing her to death would be scarcely more