"Spare me, fellow Daoist. I have something good to offer you."
Just as Chen Lin was about to forcibly destroy the treasure's spirit, a disgruntled, aged voice rang out in his mind.
His expression froze.
Judging by its tone, the speaker did not seem to be an artifact spirit, so he paused.
"Who are you?"
Chen Lin used Soul Transmission.
"I am Sha Qingwu. Have you heard of me, fellow Daoist?"
"Sha Qingwu?"
The name sounded familiar to Chen Lin. After racking his memory, he suddenly looked astonished.
Then his expression turned suspicious.
"Utter nonsense," he said coldly. "Sha Qingwu already became an Eternal Star, and he's hanging beneath the Heaven-Connecting River right now. If you want to conceal your identity, at least choose a plausible one."
"You mean the Great Blue Planet, fellow Daoist?"
The aged voice answered immediately.
"That was indeed formed from my original body. But to evade the World-Destroying Talisman's pursuit, I had no choice but to separate my soul and hide part of it within this Star Toad. That was how I narrowly escaped disaster."
"Heh."
Chen Lin sneered.
"You gave yourself away before I even asked. Cultivators of the Void Realm named it the Great Blue Planet after Sha Qingwu died. If you were Sha Qingwu, how could you know that?"
"I'm not dead!"
The aged voice sounded utterly exasperated.
"Although I've hidden inside this damaged Star Toad treasure without ever showing myself to avoid discovery, that doesn't mean I know nothing. Quite the opposite. This treasure has passed through many hands, so I know more than anyone about events from the Primordial Era to the present."
Something stirred in Chen Lin's heart.
The reason he had held off was to pry some benefits out of the other party.
These ancient mighty figures clinging