"Someone left a message for me at the tavern?"
Inside the inn, Li Su froze. He had not left Flower-Fruit Mountain—partly to consolidate his cultivation, and partly to wait and see. Since Shen Chen had been able to produce something like that to forge an oath, he clearly harbored an immense obsession with the talisman arts he had obtained at the Eastern Peak Great Emperor Palace. Under normal circumstances, he should not have broken his word. More likely, something had delayed him.
So Li Su intended to wait a little longer. If Shen Chen still had not come by the time he reached the consummate Heavenly Immortal realm, Li Su would leave.
It was not that someone had come looking for him, but that someone else had delivered a message for him?
"Yes."
"Oh? What does it say?"
Was he unable to come in person? Or did he intend to postpone their departure?
After thinking for a moment, Li Su said, "What is the message?"
Hongjin shook her head and handed him a jade talisman.
"This is...?"
"A secret talisman—a very special kind of talisman. It has a unique 'password,' and only the spiritual will of the person recognized by the secret talisman can open it. If the person is wrong, the talisman will destroy itself, and nothing can be obtained."
Curiosity appeared on Hongjin's face, and she could not help asking, "Your Highness, where did you meet this Shen Chen? He actually knows how to use this kind of talisman!"
"Oh? Is this talisman so rare?"
"It is not a matter of rarity. It has already been lost. It is a special communication talisman passed down from the ancient primordial world—and if one traces its history back, it predates the Investiture of the Gods."
"Passed down from the ancient