He glanced at her, only to see her staring wide-eyed, her gaze shimmering with icy light. Her beautiful face was frozen in a daze, as if her soul had left her body. Her pale lips parted, as though she wanted to speak but stopped herself. Chen Tong chuckled. "What's wrong? Don't you recognize me?"
"No... I do!" Bing Lin turned her face away calmly. "What happened to you just now? How did your cultivation suddenly improve so much?"
The fact that Chen Tong's cultivation had just surged by twenty percent had left her unable to recover even now.
"It just came naturally." Chen Tong replied casually. He couldn't tell her the secret of the system. After all, even if he did, she wouldn't believe him.
With a thought, Chen Tong summoned a golden pill into his hand. It gleamed brightly and radiated immense power. "This is for you."
At the sight of the golden pill Chen Tong offered her, Bing Lin's brows twitched. Then her beautiful face filled with shock once again, no less than when she had seen Chen Tong's cultivation surge.
"Th-this can't be the legendary Nine-Revolving Golden Core, can it?" Bing Lin stared straight at Chen Tong, as if seeking confirmation.
"It is." Chen Tong wasn't surprised by her shock. Even Sages found the Nine-Revolving Golden Core hard to come by, let alone a Golden Immortal.
"I'd long heard that the Nine-Revolving Golden Core possessed the power to defy Heaven and reshape the world. If a mortal obtained even one, they could become an immortal on the spot. But this treasure is exceedingly rare. I'd only ever heard about it in legends. I never thought I'd see one today." As she spoke, Bing Lin returned it to Chen Tong's hand.
"You don't want it?" Chen Tong didn't