Chen Changqing withdrew his gaze and began searching the crowd for someone else.
This person was quite important to him. That was...
Jian Chen.
That man had four Inheritance Tokens and had mentioned the Creation Heavenly Palace beforehand. By all rights, he should not have been absent.
Yet the cultivators before the hall were packed shoulder to shoulder. There were no shortage of experts, and more than a dozen sword cultivators, but Jian Chen was nowhere to be seen.
Chen Changqing frowned.
Had he run away?
No.
Jian Chen did not seem like someone who would retreat.
If he was not outside the gate, there were only two explanations.
One, he had already gone inside.
Two, he was hiding somewhere no one had noticed.
Chen Changqing swept his peripheral vision over the hall gates, the Stone Platform, the Broken Stele, and the Ruined Pillars.
The token within the Heaven-Stepping Ring gave no response.
Strange.
Back at the Medicine Garden, the two tokens had been able to draw each other from such a great distance. Now that they had reached the Creation Heavenly Palace, they were strangely silent.
That silence was all the more unsettling.
Bai Wuya asked, "Who are you looking for?"
"A sword cultivator."
"An enemy?"
"Not yet."
"And later?"
Chen Changqing said, "Hard to say."
Bai Wuya understood.
Hard to say usually meant that sooner or later, someone would be getting cut down.
At that moment, a crisp crack rang out before the hall gates.
The cracks in Cold Moon Fairy's Formation Disk widened.
Blood Sea True Person opened his eyes and drew his long blade.
Taiyin Heavenly Monarch and Kunyuan Heavenly Monarch stepped forward at the same time.
Separation Fire Heavenly Monarch had the hottest temper. He shouted directly, "The gate is opening. Whoever blocks the way