Bai Xiaowen froze for a moment.
He knew there was something in the storage bracelet. After getting it, he had even taken out the two ordinary little wooden figurines inside and looked them over.
They were just wood carvings, not even low-grade spiritual materials, so Bai Xiaowen had assumed they were useless and had not examined them closely with the Eye of Evolution.
It turned out the spirit talisman was hidden inside a figurine's belly.
Bai Xiaowen asked, "Miss Chen, do you have a matching talisman that lets you pinpoint my location at any time?"
Chen Rong said, "I can't sense it from too far away. Within a hundred li, I can make out a vague direction, and the closer you are, the clearer the response from my talisman. I saw Tang Ren slip down the mountain and worried he meant you harm, so I followed him in secret."
"Did you already suspect Tang Ren back then?" Bai Xiaowen asked.
Chen Rong nodded. "At first, I thought he wanted revenge over a personal grudge. Then I found the Black Heaven Cult trying to intercept you. They clearly knew who had really turned the tide in Sword-Test Valley... That was when I began to suspect he was working with them. I couldn't be certain until we encountered those Black Heaven Cult division chiefs and he avoided fighting them."
So Chen Rong wasn't some naive innocent. She had the courage and cunning of a leader. No wonder she could become the next Sect Master of the Supreme Clarity Sect.
Chen Rong was decisive when it came to killing. She had slain the Black Heaven Cult's four remaining division chiefs, then killed Tang Ren here without hesitation.
But that was not what struck Bai Xiaowen. It was the deeper implication of the Mother-Child