Game Qualification

When Chang Nian and the other five returned to the Seventh Branch, Ji Li happened to be returning from the Tiannan Academy of Drama.

The two incidents had begun at the same time and ended at the same time.

Because of his parents' disappearance, Tong Guan could not fully trust Ji Li, and a barrier always remained between them in both words and actions.

Chang Nian, however, harbored no such feelings toward Ji Li. As a staff member, she naturally had to give him a full account of what had happened.

After all, targeting Tong Guan meant targeting the Seventh Branch.

And once she relayed Tong Guan's description of "that person" to Ji Li, everything became clear.

Someone who coveted the white candle and wielded soul-level power against Tong Guan—who else could it have been but Gu Xingjian?

What Ji Li had not expected was that, while meeting with him, the man had also been inside the World Heritage Museum.

The paper decoy sin object was a perfect match for Gu Xingjian.

A man who loved laying plans and schemes above all else had always been limited by his inability to be in two places at once. The paper decoy compensated perfectly for that weakness.

It allowed Gu Xingjian to carry out multiple schemes at once.

The events of that day offered a glimpse of precisely that.

He had kept Ji Li occupied at the Tiannan Academy of Drama while attempting to seize a sin object at the distant World Heritage Museum.

That in itself was nothing unusual.

What truly shocked Ji Li was the mysterious woman Chang Nian described.

An unfamiliar ability wielded by a living person, with silver ornaments as its outward manifestation.

Among all the people Ji Li had met, only she fit...

Miaojiang.

If there truly